Banner Graphic, Volume 16, Number 141, Greencastle, Putnam County, 25 January 1986 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, January 25,1986

Month of tension around the Mediterranean

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No incidents, Pentagon says U.S., Libyan fighters cross paths

WASHINGTON (AP) - American and Libyan jets roared toward each other during the first day of naval exercises off the North African nation’s coast, a U.S. government official said, but the planes veered off without a confrontation. Pentagon sources Friday described the first day of operations by two American aircraft carriers as “without incident. ” But a senior administration official, also requesting anonymity, disclosed that warplanes from the two sides had crossed paths. The source said a group of four Libyan fighters had flown northward into the Mediterranean earlier in the day, apparently to observe the Navy force. A group of U.S. F-A-18 fighters, already flying, were directed toward the Libyans, the source continued. But as the Navy fighters moved within vision of the Soviet-made MiG-23’s and

Fellow teachers gather for McAuliffe sendoff

c. 1986 N.Y. Times News Service CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., - The flight of the first private citizen into space, scheduled to begin Sunday, has filled the Kennedy Space Center with crowds of teachers and tourists in what promises to be a public relations bonanza for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Christa McAuliffe, a 37-year-old high school teacher from New Hampshire who was chosen in a space agency competition among more than 11,000 teachers to be one of the space shuttle Challenger’s seven crew members, is set to begin her historic voyage Sunday at 9:36 a.m., equipment and weather permitting. NASA officials said Friday that there was a 30 percent chance of rain Sunday morning. Among the 2,500 guests invited by NASA to attend the liftoff are 112 teacher finalists from the shuttle competition, two from each state and territory, who are to fan out after the launching to spread the word

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MiG-25’s, the planes veered off and returned to Libya without making threatening moves. The source described the meeting as “a non-event.” Libyan leader Col. Moammar Khadafy branded the start of the Navy maneuvers an “aggressive provocation.” And Libya’s state-run radio said the “provocation ... will not go unanswered.” Pentagon sources, referring to Khadady’s remarks as “more rhetoric,” said late Friday the carriers Coral Sea and Saratoga would continue to conduct flight operations off the Libyan coast over the weekend as planned. “But we don’t expect any news, unless Khadafy does something stupid,” one source added. Administration officials had disclosed Thursday the carriers were steaming southward in the central Mediterranean

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about the excitement of space flight. “There’s nothing more thrilling than the space program,” said Lynne Haeffele, a teacher finalist, or “Space Ambassador," from Illinois. This week in Orlando, Fla., NASA held a three-day conference for the finalists to teach them about science and the nation’s fleet of four space shuttles. Talks and presentations included such topics as “Mapping Your Way to a Successful Space-Age Presentation” and “Space Shuttle: A Vehicle for Scientific Literacy.”

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for a week of flight operations off the Libyan coast. The officials described the exercise as a “show of resolve,” meant to demonstate the United States would not be deterred from using what it considers international airspace and waters. The United States has accused Libya of supporting a Palestinian terrorist group believed responsible for the Dec. 27 attacks on the airports in Rome and Vienna. As tensions in the region heightened and Khadafy moved his military forces to alert, the Saratoga joined the Coral Sea in the Mediterranean in an American show of force. Pentagon sources, meanwhile, stressed the Navy fighters had not flown Friday over the Gulf of Sidra, a large contested body of water that cuts into the coastline. Libya claims the gulf as part of its territorial waters. But in a prepared response to queries,

Sprinkler system a fake; heads just glued to ceiling

MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) - A contractor hired to install a fire sprinkler system in a school chapel merely glued sprinkler heads to the ceiling, according to state investigators. Dennis Frye, once the Monterey Peninsula’s largest contractor of fire sprinklers, faces the possible loss of his license when the Contractors’ State License Board holds an administrative hearing Tuesday. Frye’s company installed a system in the chapel at the private York School that consisted of sprinkler heads glued to the ceiling and not attached to water pipes, according to Monterey Fire Prevention Officer Steve Hart. “I’ve never seen anything like this” in 15 years on the job, said Larry McNeely, supervisor of the special investigations unit of the Contractors’ State License Board.

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the Defense Department refused to rule out such flights next week, noting the United States views the gulf as “international airspace over international waters.” The last time the United States and Libya engaged in combat was over the Gulf of Sidra, in 1981, when Navy fighters shot down two Libyan jets. Khadafy, responding to the start of the Navy exercise, told Western reporters he had ordered Libyan aircraft out over the Gulf “to defend Libya’s territorial waters” and ordered all military forces on “total alert.” But there was no outward sign of such a move among Libyan naval forces or among troops around Tripoli. Several Libyan warships and patrol boats and an outdated diesel submarine of the Libyan navy remained moored at the harbor.

Fire officials are trying to contact all individuals who have had sprinkler systems installed by Frye to determine if any other irregularities occurred, McNeely said. In the city of Monterey alone, that could total 75 buildings out of the 125 in which sprinkler systems have been installed since 1981, based on Hart’s estimate that Frye did 60 to 70 percent of all work in the city. In a separate action, Frye, now of Fair Oaks, already has been ordered to pay more than $450,000 to the city of Monterey because of fraudulent installation of water mains that serve fire hydrants on a municipal wharf. If Frye loses the state action, he could be ordered to pay restitution for the York School work and would be unable to work as a sprinkler system contractor in California.

Voyager 2 speeds toward 'B9 Neptune date

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) Voyager 2 capped an amazing, 8%-year journey Friday, sweeping within 50,679 miles of Uranus in a historic close encounter and snapping dozens of photographs of the giant planet’s lunar craters and multicolored dark rings. The unmanned spacecraft then hurtled on through the solar system, aiming toward a 1989 encounter with Neptune.

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House overrides veto; defeats bill to restrict smoking

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The Indiana House has voted in favor of overriding Gov. Robert D. Orr’s veto of a bill to allow police officers and firefighters to serve in elected municipal offices. The request by Rep. Richard 0. Regnier, R-Tipton, was approved 82-14 on Friday. “As a matter of policy, I believe it to be ill advised to allow executive branch employees at any level to serve in elective office while still maintaining their status as a governmental employee,” Orr said when he vetoed H.B. 1635 last year. “It is my view of our governmental system and the concept of separation of powers that such a duality of position is inappropriate and should not be encouraged, ’ ’he added. The House sent the matter to the Senate. The veto cannot be overridden unless both chambers give approval. County councils would have authority to impose a food and beverage tax for capital improvements under a bill that will be eligible for final passage in the House next week. House Bill 1130 originally sought permission for Allen County to impose a 1 percent food and beverage tax to fund expansion or remodeling of the Coliseum in Fort Wayne. However, the measure was amended on the House floor Friday to extend the authority to all counties. Rep. Jerry F. Bales, R-Bloomington, who proposed the amendment, said if statewide authority weren’t given now, lawmakers would have to continue dealing with individual county requests.' His amendment was approved 53-43. H.B. 1230, a similar tax measure for construction of a civic center in Delaware County, passed earlier without amendment. A bill that would make liability protection available and affordable to local governmental units cleared the House amendment stage unchanged Friday. H.E. 1255, sponsored by House Minority Leader Michael K. Phillips, D-Boonville, would ailow entities such as cities, towns, school corporations and special taxing districts to join a statewide liability insurance pool. The pool would be operated by a bipartisan risk management commission and chaired by the state insurance commissioner. Phillips has said many governmental units cannot get quotes on liabilty insurance rates and others cannot afford to renew their policies because of marked increases in commercial insurance premiums. A bill to restrict smoking in public buildings was killed during final action in the House on Friday. The vote was 51-49 against House Bill 1136, which would have given officials in charge of municipal or state buildings authority to restrict smoking to designated areas. Violators would have been charged with a Class C infraction, punishable by a fine of up to SSOO. Rep. Richard B. Wathen, RJeffersonville, who sponsored the bill, said non-smokers have suffered long enough from second-hand smoke and urged his

“We have reached the fruition of 4Vi years of hard work,” said Ellis Miner, deputy project scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “...It’s somewhat akin to the feeling a new mother has after carrying a child for nine months and finally holding it in her arms.” Project scientist Ed Stone announced the latest milestone in Voyager’s S6OO million trek from Earth and 4Vi-year jour-

Police chief suspended on marijuana charges

MARION, Ind. (AP) Marion Police Chief Lee Mauldon was suspended Friday for five days without pay after state police found 12Vi ounces of marijuana in the chief’s unattended cruiser two weeks ago, Mayor Gene Moore said. Moore said he suspended Mauldon because the chief had left the cruiser unlocked and unattended for several hours after it became stuck in snow on Jan. 10. Billy D. Pace, 30, of Marion, a friend of Mauldon who had been riding in the cruiser, has admitted to possessing the marijuana and said it apparently fell out of

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REP. DAN POOL No lottery pressure

Lottery backlash? INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The Indiana lawmaker whose committee controls a resolution on a state lottery saw legislation of his own defeated Friday. And there were suggestions the measure proposed by Rep. Dan L. Pool, R-Crawfordsville, was defeated because of Pool’s indications he will not hear the lottery resolution. “I don’t think the people here are of quite that quality,” Pool said Friday. “They have a little more intelligence.” House Bill 1007, which would have removed cigarettes from the Fair Trade Act, meaning they must sell at a uniform price, was defeated by a 6435 vote. Pool said he still has not made up his mind whether to hear the resolution to abolish the Indiana Constitution’s ban on lotteries. Pool is chairman of the Commerce Committee, whis is where the lottery bill will be sent when it arrives from the Senate, which has already approved the measure. Pool said he has had no pressure from other lawmakers to hear the lottery resolution.

colleagues to be “courageous and farsighted enough” to pass the measure. “There are 36 states that have adopted some form of smoking legislation. ... You should feel ashamed if you vote against it,” Wathen said. Rep. John W. Donaldson, R-Lebanon, who co-sponsored the bill, said: “Smoking is public health enemy No. 1. ... Tobacco smoke is the biggest preventable killer.” He asked that the bill be passed because “it might save a life. It could be yours, it could be mine.”

ney from Saturn which it explored in 1981 after flying past Jupiter in 1979. Voyager traveled on a curving, 3-billion-mile path to reach Uranus. “Just about two minutes ago, Voyager made its closest approach to Uranus, the first spacecraft to fly past the planet,” Stone said after the 9:59 a.m. encounter with the solar system’s third-largest planet, the seventh from the sun.

his pocket before the two left the car, said Grant County Prosecutor Stephen Johnson. Pace has been charged with possession of marijuana. The mayor said the marijuana was not a factor in the suspension of Mauldon. Johnson said Mauldon was giving Pace a ride home when the cruiser slid off a road into a snow-filled ditch. Before the cruiser was pulled from the snow the following morning, a state trooper making a routine check found the marijuana on the floor of the unlocked car.