Banner Graphic, Volume 16, Number 143, Greencastle, Putnam County, 28 January 1986 — Page 2

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Florida braces for subzero wind chills

'Monster' storm batters East

By SCOTT WILLIAMS Associated Press Writer A killer freeze threatened Florida citrus groves and Georgia onions today after “one monster of a storm” delivered heavy snow and freezing rain that blacked out more than 100,000 people from the Northeast to the Deep South. The storm was blamed for at least nine deaths from New York to Alabama on Monday, when the weather forced schools to close in at least 12 states and sent dozens of homeless people to Alabama shelters. While much of the East shivered, parts of the West and even New England basked in record high temperatures. The temperature early today at Lewistown, Mont., was 45 degrees, warmer than the 42 recorded in Miami. The 33-degree reading in Portland, Maine, topped the 30 degrees in Orlando, Fla. The temperature in New York City’s Central Park dropped from 33 degrees at 9 p.m. Monday to 15 degrees at 4 a.m. John F. Kennedy International Airport was closed for just over 1% hours and some flights were diverted because of poor visibility and high winds, authorities said.

Eastern pilots to decide on strike Feb. 25

c. 1986 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON The union for Eastern Airlines pilots, searching for a way out of a bargaining deadlock, announced Monday that it would conduct a referendum among its 4,300 members on whether to strike Feb. 25. “We do not want to strike, and we’re doing everything in our power to avoid a strike,” said Larry Schulte, chairman of the executive council of the Eastern Airlines pilots group, at a news conference Monday. “However, we have to prepare for the possibility of a strike. ” The Eastern pilots group is a division of the Air Line Pilots Association. Voting on the strike referendum, the first for the Eastern pilots group, will be conducted later this week, a spokesman for the union said. Negotiations between Eastern and union representatives broke down Sunday night after the company raegffi a proposal for binding arbiti»iiQp^|Bßl|p^MP6lors, determining “ that had

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - L. Ron Hubbard, a science fiction writer whose oftenembattled Church of Scientology has grown to at least 2 million members during its three decades, has died at age 74, Scientology officials say. Hubbard, who had not been seen in public since 1960, died of a stroke Friday at his ranch near San Luis Obispo, Heber Jentzsch, president of the Church of Scientology International, said Monday night. Hubbard’s ashes were scattered at sea Sunday, after his body was examined by the San Luis Obispo County coroner’s office, Scientology officials said. Associated Press calls to the coroner’s office late Monday were answered by a tape recording. Hubbard’s eldest son, Ronald E. DeWolf, in a lawsuit filed in 1982, had claimed that Hubbard was either dead or mentally incompetent, but a judge ruled Hubbard was alive. Hubbard and his third and surviving wife, Mary Sue Hubbard, founded the Church of Scientology in 1954. Its philosophy is based on Hubbard’s 1948 book “Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health,” which has sold millions of copies. Through use of a so-called E-meter, somewhat like a lie detector, church mem-

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As subzero wind chills stretched from the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast, Florida’s citrus belt with two-thirds of the season’s grapefruit and orange crops still on the trees braced today for four to eight hours of deadly temperatures below 28 degrees and possible multimilliondollar losses. “Every degree and every hour is critical,” said Doug Boumique, head of the Indian River Citrus League in central Florida, where growers had been hit by killer freezes the past two winters. “About the only thing we can do now is

High Labor Costs For Eastern Airlines

Costs per seat mile, in terms of salary, wages, and benefits, Jan.- Sept. 1985, in cents per mile. Delta 3.44 cents Eastern 3.21 United 3.04 American 2.87 Piedmont 2.8 S Western 2.26 Southwest 1.74 Continental 1.33 People Express 0.68 reached an impasse, then declared a 30day cooling-off period. Under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, which governs negotiations at transportation companies, if an agreement has not been reached by the

bers undergo exercises and counseling to eliminate negative mental images and achieve a “clear state.” “It’s mental technology to improve communication, intelligence, and give people the ability to be happy human beings,” Ken Hoden, president of the Church of Scientology of Los Angeles, said last year. The group has claimed up to 6 million members worldwide since the height of the movement in the 19705. Defectors, however, have put the number at closer to 2 million. At its peak, it reportedly earned SIOO million a year. Hubbard, who was born in Tilden, Neb., and was raised in Helena, Mont., and Bremerton, Wash., did not control the organization and its corporations for the past few years, said Jentzsch. Scientology literature boasted that Hubbard was, “at various times, top sergeant in the Marines, radio crooner, newspaper reporter, gold miner in the West Indies and a movie director-explorer, having led a motion picture expedition into the South Seas aboard an ancient windjammer.” DeWolf, who had changed his name from L. Ron Hubbard Jr., derided those claims in 1982, saying “99 percent of what my father wrote about his past life was false.” From 1968 to 1975, Hubbard reportedly lived chiefly aboard a huge yacht, the

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pump the water (on the citrus) and hope for the best,” said Billy Bass, a state extension agent. The water forms an ice coating on the fruit that partially insulates it from the chill. A low below 30 degrees was possible as far south as Miami, which would be that city’s coldest in 45 years, the National Weather Service said. About one-fourth of the state’s $350 million tomato crop comes from around Miami. Elsewhere Monday, record highs were logged in Rapid City, S.D., where a 65degree reading was two above an 18%

Costs per seat mile, including other operating expenses, outside of labor, Jan.- Sept. 1985. in cents per mile. Piedmont 4.91 cents Eastern 4.74 Delta 4.70 United 4.63 American 4.51 Western 4.30 Continental 4.29 Southwest 3.85 People Express 3.46 end of the 30-day period, the union becomes free to strike and the airline becomes free to impose the permanent wage and work-rule concessions it has been seeking. In a drive to avoid default on its debt of

Apollo, drifting around the Mediterranean with a crew made up of members of the church’s elite corps, “Sea Org.” He also lived in Dunedin, Fla., and in California, on ranches near La Quinta and Hemet and at the resort of Gilman Hot Springs, according to court papers filed by DeWolf. Jentzsch said Hubbard had been a “very healthy man” in his final years, writing and composing music and pursuing photography. Court documents in a civil suit against the church revealed that the organization secretly teaches that Earth was called Teegeeach 75 million years ago and was among 90 planets ruled by Xemu, who spread his evil by thermonuclear bombs. Xemu, attempting to solve overpopulation, destroyed selected inhabitants of the planets and implanted seeds of aberrant behavior to affect future generations of mankind. Last summer, a circuit jury in Portland, Ore., awarded $39 million to a former member of the group who alleged she had been defrauded by its claims that it could improve her intelligence, eyesight and creativity. But after a week of protests by more than 1,000 Scientologists, including actor John Travolta, jazz musician Chick Corea

Speech taunts U.S., denies link to airport attacks

Khadafy: Libya stronger than the Sixth Fleet

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) Col. Moammar Khadafy denounced President Reagan as power-crazed and told thousands of Libyans and Eastern Europeans in a fiery speech that his countrymen are “stronger than the Sixth Fleet.” The Libyan leader, wearing a green jumpsuit over a plainly visible bullet-proof vest, claimed Monday in the speech at People’s Hall in Tripoli that the Reagan administration was plotting to assassinate him, and that the United States was “trying to take away our freedom as they tried in Vietnam, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Nicaragua.” He offered no evidence for either claim. Drawing cheers from the 3,000 Libyans and East Europeans, Khadafy said Reagan is “filthy ... maddened with power and nuclear weapons. ’ ’ “All people in all countries are supporting Libya against the imperialists. The Libyan people are stronger than the Sixth Fleet,” he said to the wild applause of the audience. Units of the U.S. Sixth Fleet, led by the aircraft carriers Coral Sea and Saratoga, began conducting maneuvers last week in the Mediterranean Sea off the

mark; Billings, Mont., 60; Caribou, Maine, 52; Los Angeles, 87; Riverside, Calif., 86; and 82 in Tucson and Yuma, Ariz. Thirty mph winds made it feel like 35 below zero at Huntsville, Ala., and 10 below at Mobile, on the Gulf Coast. Snow fell Monday from the upper Ohio Valley across most of the Appalachians to the Georgia coast, with scattered snowflakes and subzero wind chills reported in Jacksonville, Fla. Snow and record cold forced officials to close schools on Monday in parts of Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Michigan. The weekend snowfall total for parts of New York’s isolated Adirondack Mountains was nearly 4 feet, the weather service said. Warrensburg, near Lake George, got 44 inches of snow and forecasters said more was on the way. “This is one monster of a storm,” said weather service meteorologist Paul Greaves in Albany, N.Y. Subzero wind chills were expected overnight in southern and central Florida.

$2.5 billion, Eastern earlier this month cut the wages of its flight attendants by 20 percent and lengthened their work hours. The airline has also said it would lay off 1,010 of its 7,000 flight attendants by Feb. 5. Schulte said the union was not asking for higher benefits or pay, and expected to make concessions. The call for a strike vote, he said, was primarily an attempt to force “a change in management philosophies.” “Resources have been squandered, opportunities lost and the company put in a financial crisis because of a chronic and massive failure of management,” Schulte said. “As far as we’re concerned,” said Joseph Scott, an Eastern spokesman in Miami, “the call for a strike vote is a routine exercise that a union would normally undertake, and we attach no particular significance to it.” According to the pilots association, the average salary of an Eastern pilot is $83,000 a year, with senior captains often earning considerably more.

and singer Melanie, a judge dismissed the award and ordered a new trial, saying courts must pay closer attention to religous freedom. In 1980, the IRS challenged the group’s tax-exempt status in U.S. Tax Court in Los Angeles, saying the California branch owed $1.4 million in income taxes from 1970 through 1972. In 1984, the court decided against the Church of Scientology, ordering payment of back taxes and penalties. Hubbard left most of his “substantial” estate to Scientology, said Earle Cooley, the group’s chief counsel, without specifying an amount. No plans were announced for a memorial service. More lawyers REDDING, Calif. (AP) Law is a growing business. Since 1960, when there were 285,933 S radioing lawyers in the United States, le number has increased to 653,680, American. Bar Association figures show. The number of civil lawsuits has increased from 5 to 10 percent a year since the ’7os. And there is pressure for laws to limit some jury awards. The number of $1 million awards by juries has grown at a higher rate than the number of lawsuit, according to legal experts.

Libyan coast. Khadafy frequently interrupted his speech to lead the crowd in anti-American chants. “Down, down, U.S.A.!” he shouted, brandishing his fist over his head at every word. “Down, down, Reagan!” The United States has been at odds with Khadafy’s Libya for years, but the dispute has worsened since the Dec. 27 terrorist attacks at airports in Rome and Vienna. Twenty people, including five Americans and four terrorists, died in the attacks, which Reagan said were conducted by Palestinians trained in Libya terrorist camps and financed by the Libyan government. Reagan ordered the estimated 1,500 Americans in Libya, most of whom work for oil companies and their subsidiaries, to leave by Feb 1. Only a few Western Europeans and Americans were seen at Khadafy’s rally on Monday. Several Americans refused to give their names to a reporter and said they came out of curiosity. One oil field worker who said he was from California was

65% approval rating for Reagan surpasses FDR, Eisenhower marks

c. 1986 N.Y. Times News Service President Reagan continues to be extremely popular with the American public, according to the latest New York Times-CBS News Poll, but there is no clear evidence that he has yet achieved the ideological realignment he has long sought. Sixty-five percent, or about twothirds, of the 1,581 people interviewed said that they approved of the way Reagan was handling his job five full years after he took office. No president in the last half-century has demonstrated quite that much staying power; at comparable stages of their incumbencies, Dwight D. Eisenhower had 60 percent of the electorate with him and Franklin D. Roosevelt had about the same. On the eve of his State of the Union Message, which is to be delivered Tuesday, 39 percent of the public think most Americans are politically more conservative than they were five years ago, but 23 percent think they are more liberal. But on a range of ideological questions first asked about five years ago, no clear swing to the right has developed. The economy remains a major preoccupation of the public and a major source of Reagan’s strength. The telephone poll, which was carried out Jan. 19 through 23, found that 52 percent approve of his handling of the nation’s economy, as against 39 percent who do not, and that 39 percent consider their families’ financial situation better today than it was a year ago, as against 16 percent who consider themselves worse off. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus three percentage points. When asked what they thought was the biggest change in the United States in Reagan’s time in office, more people by far mentioned improvement in the economy than anything else. Reagan’s decision to meet in Geneva with Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, and the outcome of the meeting in late November appear to have had a considerable impact on Americans’ view of East-West relations. Just before the summit conference, only 32 percent of the respondents said they thought it would eventually produce “real arms control agreements.” But now, even after the immediate postconference glow of favorable news coverage has faded, 41 percent of those questioned express optimism that the ongoing process will ultimately succeed. The survey found that 53 percent of Americans think Reagan wants an arms control agreement badly enough to make real concessions to get it, that 37 percent think Gorbachev does, and that 28 percent think both of them do. In all three cases, the figures represent a considerably more optimistic view than that expressed to interviewers in early November

How the poll was taken

c. 1986 N.Y. Times News Service The latest New York Times-CBS News Poll was based on telephone interviews conducted Jan. 19 through 23 with 1,581 adults around the United States, excluding Alaska and Hawaii. The sample of telephone exchanges called was selected by a computer from a complete list of exchanges in the country. The exchanges were chosen so as to ensure that each region of the country was represented in proportion to its population. For each exchange, the telephone numbers were formed by random digits,

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PRESIDENT REAGAN Solid popularity before the meeting. But it is still the economy that has done the most to promote and maintain the president’s strong standing. Very few people cited foreign policy matters when asked what they viewed as the biggest change in the United States since 1981; moreover, only 25 percent of those interviewed think that the United States is more respected by other countries than it was five years ago, while 37 percent think that it is less respected. Reagan’s popularity extends across most segments of American society as he begins his sixth year in the Oval Office. He has the approval of more than half of the public in all age groups, in all regions, in cities, towns, suburbs and urban areas, of all religious groups, of both sexes, of all levels of education and of all shades of political philosophy, conservative, moderate and liberal. Only in a few groups has Reagan failed to persuade a clear majority that he is doing a good job. Fortyeight percent of the poorest people in the country, defined here as those with family incomes below $12,500 a year, give him their approval, with 37 percent Voicing disapproval. Likewise, slightly less than half of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents approve of Reagan’s performance in office. Among blacks, 49 percent disapproved of the president’s handling of his job, 37 percent approved. According to the survey, blacks plainly do not share the satisfied, optimistic outlook of most whites. Only 21 percent of blacks think the country is better off than it was five years ago, compared to 47 percent of whites; 49 percent of blacks think the country will be worse off in five years, compared to 28 percent of whites.

thus permitting access to both listed and unlisted residential numbers. The results have been weighted to take account of household size and number of residential telephones and to adjust for variations in the sample relating to region, race, sex, age and education. In theory, in 19 cases out of 20 the results based on such samples will differ by no more than three percentage points in either direction from what would have been obtained by interviewing all adult Americans.

asked if he would leave Libya by Feb. 1 as ordered by Reagan: The man he replied, “It’s illegal to stay, isn’t it?” In an interview on French television late Monday, Khadafy again denied any link with the airport attacks and said, “I challenge the United States to prove that those who carried them out started from Libya or were trained in Libya.” "There are no training camps in our country, the camps that you call terrorist camps,” he replied. Palestinian camps are not terrorist camps because it’s a people which defends its freedom.” “But if the Palestinian people asked Libya to open training camps, we would say yes, because the cause is legitimate,” he said. Earlier, Foreign Minister Ali Abdussalam Treiki told a news conference in Tripoli that Khadafy’s government wants a direct dialogue with the United States to resolve the dispute. Monday, Treiki sent a letter to U.N. SecretaryGeneral Javier Perez de Cuellar asking that measures be taken against U.S. “provocations” near the Libyan coast.