Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 312, Greencastle, Putnam County, 17 August 1985 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, Saturday, August 17,1985

Danny spawns deadly tornadoes

By The Associated Press The last gasp of Danny proved more deadly than its full hurricane force, spawning more than two dozen tornadoes that authorities said killed two people, injured 20 and demolished scores of houses and buildings before drenching the South today with heavy rain. “Trees were popping and wires were coming down everywhere,” said W. A. Connell, an employee of Parrish, Ala., who was driving down Main Street when the tornado struck Friday. “There were drums and garbage cans and all kinds of debris flying around me. Then the wind slung me around in the road.” Danny, which caused little damage as it swept across Louisiana as a hurricane on Thursday, was reduced to a surface lowpressure area centered over south-central

Some things never change, even in an era of computer chips and other sophisticated technology. Joshua Niles, 10, does the riding while Dave Cresenzo, 13, supplies the power as the two Greensburg, Pa., boys test their homemade racer. (AP Laserphoto)

AIDS victim's mom: Judge lacked courage

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The mother of a 13-year-old AIDS victim accused a federal judge of “copping out” by declining to decide whether the boy should be allowed back in school. “I think it’s ridiculous that the judge didn’t have the courage to rule. He wanted to shove the decision on someone else,” said Jeanne White of Kokomo. Following a hearing Friday, U.S. District Judge James E. Noland said that Mrs. White and her son Ryan must go through school channels to fight a ruling barring him from fall classes before a court can consider his case. Ryan, a hemophiliac who contracted acquired immune deficiency syndrome through a blood transfusion, has been out of school since last December. Dressed in a striped shirt and jeans, Ryan sat with his mother and their lawyers as Noland announced his ruling. “I felt he was copping out. I don’t think he wanted to be put on the spot,” she said. Mrs. White said the appeals process would be a slow one, adding, “I don’t think it looks like he’s going to be able to be in school by the first of September.” Although Ryan’s physicians and state Health Commissioner Woodrow Myers say

Cleveland officials hunt AIDS carrier

CLEVELAND (AP) The city health commissioner says she has been unable to locate an AIDS victim allegedly shipped from Indianapolis by a municipal judge. “We really tried everything we can other than calling everyone in northeast Ohio with that name,” Dr. V. Diana Richardson said Friday. “We’re trying to provide a service to him not incriminate or indict him,” she said. “He’s already been incriminated.” Ms. Richardson said she wanted to find Fabian K. Bridges to offer him treatment and counseling for his Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Citing driver’s license information, she said Bridges’ last known Ohio address was in Madison Township, near Dayton, but that police there were unable to locate him.

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Tennessee early today, moving slowly northeast and carrying heavy rain, the National Weather Service said. Twenty-four tornadoes were sighted or appeared on radar Friday in nine north Alabama counties and several in Tennessee, authorities said The twisters caused heavy damage and two deaths in Alabama and roared across Tennessee, causing widespread damage but no serious injuries. One death and several injuries were reported before Danny was downgraded Thursday from hurricane status. Thunderstorms and drenching rain stretched today across Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, northwest Georgia and the southern Appalachians. The storm dumped up to 5 inches of rain on some parts of Mississippi and touched

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The virus believed to cause AIDS has been found in the teardrops of at least one patient with the disease, a finding which scientists said Friday was not surprising because some levels of the virus appear to be in all the bodily fluids of victims. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health said they found low levels of the AIDS virus, called HTLVIII, in the tears of one AIDS patient and possibly in those of three others. Scientists say it is unlikely that tears could be a route for transmitting

he is capable of attending school, James O Smith, superintendent of the Western School Corp. near Kokomo, has refused to allow the boy to enroll. Smith said he fears that Ryan’s condition could harm other students. AIDS robs the body of its ability to fight infections. Scientists say it can be spread

Indianapolis Municipal Judge John Downer on Wednesday gave Bridges S2O for bus fare to Cleveland rather than sentence him and risk exposing jail workers and police to AIDS. Bridges, 30, had been accused of stealing a bicvcle. A hospital in Houston confirmed Bridges was diagnosed as having AIDS in April 1984, according to Marion County, Ind., Sheriff’s Deputy Terry A. Dale. Deputy Marion County Prosecutor Don M. Bailey said Bridges had maintained an Indianapolis address but told a jailer Tuesday he was from Cleveland. Ms. Richardson said she believed the release of Bridges’ name violated his rights and said the judge should not have “kicked him out of town.” Bridges was arrested Tuesday at an In-

New housing starts down 2.4 per cent

c. 1985 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK Construction of new housing, an important indicator of future economic activity, fell a surprising 2.4 percent in July, the Commerce Department reported Friday. The drop last month in what are known as housing starts the beginning of construction on new single or multifamily dwellings added to the evidence that the economy is not rebounding from the disappointing first six months of the year The Commerce Department reported that, in July, new housing was started at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.65 million units. The decline from June defied many predictions that there would be only a slight dip. The steady tall in interest rates in recent months had been expected to buoy the housing sector.

Virus found in teardrops

off flooding along the Tangipahoa River in southeastern Louisiana. In Parrish, a town of 1,500 about 40 miles west of Birmingham, Carolyn Gavitt watched helplessly from her house as a twister demolished the trailer across the street where her mother, Margaret Hartley, 66, was killed Friday. “I saw it take the trailer,” she said. “I had just called her to tell her to come over here.” In the rural Cullman County community of Gold Ridge, Myrtle Barnett, about 60, died of an apparent heart attack as she and relatives huddled in a storm cellar for protection from a tornado, Sheriff Wendell Roden said. Most of the damage occurred in Jasper, Parrish and Gold Ridge, said Gloria Mosley, a spokeswoman for the Alabama

acquired immune deficiency syndrome. However, a spokesman for the U.S. Public Health Service said the agency has not addressed what precautions should be taken with tears because the findings are new. Government sources said public health officials are considering recommendations to add eye examination precautions to the list of guidelines for dealing with patients with AIDS-related conditions. These could include minimizing contact with tears of patients, wearing rubber gloves when examining their eyes and sterilizing instruments, they said

by sexual contact, contaminated needles and blood transfusions, but not by casual contact. Ryan and his mother filed suit against the school officials, claiming they illegally discriminated against Ryan as a handicapped person and denied him equal protection under the law.

dianapolis clinic, where authorities said he was being treated for AIDS. Two witnesses told police they saw a man wheel a bicycle out of the clinic and hide it across the street in some bushes, said Sgt. Ronald B. Turner, security supervisor at Wishard Memorial Hospital. Turner said that during questioning by police, the man admitted the theft and told him he had AIDS. Betty B. Hopper, a spokeswoman for the federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, said there are no guidelines for jail personnel on handling prisoners with AIDS. Judge Downer was reportedly out of the country and unavailable for comment. Cleveland City Council President George L. Forbes, meanwhile, has asked the mayor of Indianapolis to explain why

“This was unambiguously weaker than what we and everyone else had expected,” said Thomas A. Lawler, a senior economist at the Federal National Mortgage Association in Washington. “It is telling us that builders aren’t selling as many housing units as they expected, and so they aren’t building that many. That will affect future economic activity.” According to the Commerce Department, the region hit hardest by the drop in housing activity was the Northeast; housing starts there tumbled 31 percent. By contrast, housing starts in the Northeast were very strong in the first half of the year The latest economic statistics reinforced recent news on industrial output, unemployment, auto sales, retail sales and business inventories, all of which have suggested that the economy remains

Emergency Management Agency in Montgomery. Twenty injuries were reported, she said. Tornadoes damaged houses, barns and other buildings in rural Limestone, Morgan and Madison counties. Power outages were widespread as winds cut down utility poles and snapped trees. The killer tornado that first hit Parrish ripped off the roof of the post office, tore away a church steeple, collapsed the walls of a car wash and an auto parts store and damaged 11 houses. Nearby Jasper, a county seat of about 12,000 people, was hit by a tornado minutes later, damaging five homes and a coal industry supply warehouse. In central Tennessee, several twisters touched down in Giles County, causing an estimated $500,000 in damage.

At Friday’s hearing, lawyers for the school district argued that Noland didn’t have legal authority to decide the case because the Whites hadn’t exhausted their administrative remedies under a federal law governing handicapped children’s access to education. David R. Day of Indianapolis, the school district’s lawyer, said the procedure spelled out in the law starts with a case conference involving parents, school officials and experts. The recommendation from the case conference is subject to review by the school superintendent, then by a hearing officer appointed by the State of Education and finally by the Indiana State Board of Special Education. The average appeal takes four months, Day said, and in the meantime, Ryan could be educated at home. But Charles Vaughan of Lafayette, the Whites' lawyer, insisted that the case could drag on interminably. “In an AIDS case we cannot toy with time. Time is of the essence like in no other case in the world,” he argued. Vaughan said he would be futile to take the case through the school appeals process because of the predictable outcome against Ryan.

the AIDS suspect was sent to Cleveland. Forbes sent the letter Friday to Indianapolis Mayor William Hudnut, who was out of town and unavailable for comment. Mayor George V. Voinovich was also out of town Friday and unavailable for comment. Forbes told Hudnut that Downer was correct in not wanting to spread the disease, but said the judge should have informed Cleveland officials of the man’s condition and arrival. “Due to the danger of transmitting the disease to other cell mates, the judge showed great compassion and courtesy for the prisoners located in your Marion County Jail. However, he did not show the same courtesy to the people of the city of Cleveland,” Forbes said.

sluggish. Credit market analysts said the housing figures contributed to Friday’s rally in bond prices. “The housing start number is just the latest evidence that things are not going to pick up in the second half the way people had hoped,” said David Wyss, an economist at Data Resources Inc., a forecasting concern. The 2.4 percent overall drop for July followed a weak increase of 0.8 percent in June and a sharp 13 percent decline in May. It also represented a 14.5 percent decline from the peak level of new housing activity this year, during April Starts for multifamily homes fell 7.7 percent in July, while single-family housing starts rose 1.1 percent. The typical 30-year mortgage now carries an average fixed interest rate of just over 12 percent.

Madonna, Penn tie knot

MALIBU, Calif. (AP) Rock singer Madonna and actor Sean Penn were married Friday, as news helicopters and celebrity-laden limousines converged on the sunny oceanside bluff where the wedding took place. Among the estimated 200 to 300 guests attending the wedding at the multimillion-dollar Point Dume house were actresses Diane Keaton, Candy Clark and Rosanna Arquette, who costarred with Madonna in the film “Desperately Seeking Susan.” Also on hand were singer and actress Cher, who arrived sporting purple hair, actor Martin Sheen, teen-age hearthrobs Rob Lowe and David Keith and artist Andy Warhol.

South African peace chance 'virtually nil'

c. 1985 N.Y. Times News Service JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - In a stinging reply to President P.W. Botha’s speech on Thursday, Bishop Desmond M. Tutu said on Friday that the prospects for peaceful change in South Africa were “virtually nil” and that the nation was “on the brink of a catastrophe.” Tutu made the assessment, his gloomiest yet, in reaction to what he, many other blacks, and other opponents of the government’s racial policies here viewed as a dismaying lack of significant changes offered in Botha’s address in Durban. Critics said that instead of offering major concessions, Botha simply reiterated existing policy and provided only vague hints about the possible relaxation of some of the building blocks of apartheid. The police, meanwhile, said there was a marked decrease in violence on Friday in black townships around the country. By early evening, they reported only isolated incidents of stone throwing, few arrests, minor injuries, and no deaths. The report contrasted with the daily convulsions of unrest and killings that have plagued this country for nearly a year, increasing after a state of emergency was imposed last month in 36 magisterial areas. More than 620 people have been killed in the violence. In the small township of Duncan Village near East London in the eastern Cape, 19 people have reportedly been killed and 138 wounded since unrest erupted there last weekend, a death toll that is much higher than previous police estimates. In other developments, the authorities imposed a 10 p.m.-to-4 a m. curfew on eastern Cape townships and in Soweto, the vast black township outside Johannesburg. At a news conference on Friday at an Anglican church, Tutu, the first black bishop of Johannesburg and the winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, said he was “quite devastated” by Botha’s speech, although he doubted that blacks had expected much from it. The bishop said he might have to reconsider the 18-to-24-month timetable that he had put forth for calling for punitive sanctions against the government. He said that he had devised the schedule at a time when events appeared to be moving in a direction that might “make it sensible for us to wait.” But if he deems it necessary to revise the time frame, he said, he will call for immediate sanctions despite any consequences. “I am not easily despondent,” he told reporters. “Sometimes people even think that I am too facile an optimist. I think that the chances of peaceful change in South Africa are virtually nil. “I don’t say that lightly,” he continued. “I love this land, but I believe that we are on the brink of a catastrophe.” He referred to an incident this month in which he negotiated with white police of-

Car-haulers end strike

WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 20,000 striking Teamster car-haulers and yard workers will go back to work Sunday, even though their votes on a propoeed three-year contract renewal will not be counted until around midSeptember, the union announced Friday. The 18-member general executive board of the Teamsters, its top governing body, gave rare authorization to termination of a strike before approval of a proposed contract, union spokesman Tim O’Neill said. He said picket lines around automotive car-hauling terminals will come down at noon Sunday local time and that the drivers, maintenance and

Many guests were surprised at the 100 or so photographers and reporters and eight media helicopters covering the home. “I thought this was a secret,” said one man, stepping from a black Mercedes at the home of a Chicago attorney 35 miles west of downtown Los Angeles. A line of limousines and fancy cars stretched three blocks up the street, with surfers as well as guests caught in the traffic jam. All that could be seen behind 15 security guards and a 10-foot wood-and-steel fence was a concrete driveway shrouded by pepper trees and strung with gold garlands, and the top of a large while tent.

ficers to avert a confrontation after the South African army threw a cordon of armored cars, mounted troops, and foot soldiers around the funeral of a black protestor. “I’ve never felt so scared before as on that occasion,” Tutu said. “Short of a miracle, short of a decisive intervention by the international community, we are for the birds.” In hard-hitting remarks against Botha and Western leaders who have sought to bring about political change here through diplomacy, the bishop said that Botha was not interested in peaceful negotiations but intended to “bludgeon blacks into total submission” with the nation’s military strength. He said Botha would be supported by President Reagan, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Great Britain, and Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany, “because they have made it quite clear that blacks in their view are expendable.” The three leaders have tried to persuade the government here through diplomatic pressure, rather than formal sanctions, to end apartheid. On the issue of Nelson Mandela, the jailed leader of the outlawed African National Congress, Tutu said some of the statements Botha had made about Mandela were “almost unforgivable.” He said he included Botha’s comparing him to Rudolph Hess, the Nazi war criminal, in a meeting this week with Rep. Stephen J. Solarz, D-N.Y. Botha Thursday night repeated his offer to release Mandela only if he renounced violence. He also quoted from the transcripts of the trial more than two decades ago that put Mandela behind bars for life, referring to descriptions of him as a man bent on “acts of violence and destruction.” Tutu recalled that Botha was once a member of the Ossewabrandwag, an organization of Afrikaners who supported the cause of Nazi Germany during World War II and one that, in the bishop’s words, was guilty of “acts of violence and sabotage.” “It is galling to have to be told by people like himself with that kind of history about patriotism when they seek to sell our country down the drain just for political expediency,” he said, adding that the African National Congress had sought to use peaceful means to change the unjust structures of apartheid before it waS banned. Tutu recalled how Botha had rejected a call in July for urgent talks with him aimed at defusing the nation’s crisis and, by doing so, had “snubbed” a man who had fought against the tide of escalating violence in the hope of bringing about peaceful change. The bishop’s position as a spokesman for South African’s black majority has been under attack by township activists who see violence as the only means of denting white-minority control.

warehouse workers will be instructed to go back on duty pending the outcome of the mail ballot referendum. Negotiators for the Teamsters and the automotive transport industry reached agreement here Wednesday on a tentative three-year pact to settle the strike, which began July 26 That pact was approved Friday by 91 of 92 union local leaders assembled to decide whether to recommend its ratification by the rank and file, O’Neill said O’Neill said the ballots will be mailed out to the rank and file next Thursday and that the members will be asked to return them by Sept 12