Banner Graphic, Volume 16, Number 240, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 May 1986 — Page 2

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Band nets $40,000 for Liberty trip CORYDON, Ind. (AP) Seven months of bake sales and other fund raisers paid off for the North Harrison High School band when the group finally made the $40,000 needed to attend this summer’s 100th birthday party for the Statue of Liberty. The students, who sold more than $20,000 worth of chocolate during the effort, say they’re ready to take a break from salesmanship. “I hope I never see another piece of chocolate,” said senior trumpet player Roxanne Gettelfinger. A golf tournament in New Salisbury that raised $1,300 recently put the group over the top, ensuring that they’ll be able to make the July 4 celebration in New York. Miss Gettelfinger said she never doubted the 115-member group would make the trip. “This band is very dedicated in wha t we do, ” she added. “I’m glad we’re all squared away,” added percussionist Jamie Back, also a senior. “It’s been hard, but I have to give the credit to the band boosters.” The boosters, most of them parents of band members, spared no imagination when it came to moneyraising ideas. Their most successful single event was a professional wrestling match, which raised $2,200 and featured Dutch Mantell, the Fantastics and the Mod Squad. Now, its up to the band, which is practicing three times a week to polish up their songs and step high. They’ll be in New York July 2-5, will march in a parade in Montclair, N.J., and will perform at various locations in Manhattan. They will also compete in some marching band contests. “I’m happy,” said trumpet player Bruce Troncin. “It’s great that we’re going and I feel privileged to go.”

Psychologists offer to help Wyoming town School closed as police pursue bomb probe

COKEVILLE, Wyo. (AP) Psychologists who helped traumatized survivors after the 1984 massacre near San Diego have offered to come to this isolated town to help its children deal with the horror of a hostage crisis that left two extortionists dead. The Cokeville Elementary School principal told churchgoers Sunday that the school would be closed this week and that psychologists and social workers would meet today to discuss how to help the 150 schoolchildren and adults who were held in a classroom when a homemade gasoline bomb exploded Friday. The explosion started a fire that forced many to flee in panic. Seventy-nine people were hurt during the takeover. Principal Max Excell said among those offering aid were psychologists who worked with survivors and relatives of those killed in the massacre at a McDonald’s restaurant in San Ysidro, Calif., that left 21 dead. Also as part of the therapy, groups of children who were involved are being taken back to the classroom.

$25 million is 1992 goal

University of Indianapolis eyes funds

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The University of Indianapolis formerly Indiana Central University will seek to raise $25 million to increase the school’s endowment, establish new scholarships and teaching positions and build a new fine arts center. University President Gene E. Sease an-

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Soviets reject reparations for nuclear accident damage

MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Union rejected West Germany’s call for reparations for the nuclear accident in the Ukraine, and a Soviet official indicated for the first time that fallout from the disaster had spread from the Black Sea to the Baltic. On Sunday, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda published letters from readers offering shelter, mones and free labor to aid victims of the April 26 accident at the Chernobyl atomic power plant. Dr. Robert Gale, who was brought to the Soviet Union to treat radiation cases, has said 13 people died after the explosion and fire in the plant’s No. 4 reactor, and

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Authorities, meantime, continued to delve into the background and motives of David and Doris Young, who were demanding S3OO million ransom when the bomb exploded accidentally. The couple, who lived in this tiny southwestern Wyoming ranching community seven years ago, apparently selected Cokeville, a community of 550 people, to press their demands because it has a high percentage of Mormons and because it is isolated, officials said. The couple figured that if the government wouldn’t meet their demands, the Mormon church might have done so, said Excell. While no information was forthcoming from autopsies performed on the couple, Excell said the bomb, which exploded when Mrs. Young apparently released the trigger accidentally, only partially detonated. “There were seven blasting caps that didn’t go off,” said the principal, who acted as an intermediary between authorities and the Youngs. “They (the caps) were attached to powder that would have exploded like a grain elevator,” said Ex-

nounced the name change and fund drive at commencement ceremonies over the weekend, saying the drive should reach its goal by 1992. “I want to have it all in place for our 90th birthday,” the school president added at Saturday’s graduation. Sease and Mayor William H. Hudnut said the name change, approved by the school’s board of trustees, takes effect immediately. “I hold in my hand a certificate signed by the secretary of state as of yesterday that our name shall henceforth be the

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official Soviet media have reported that 92,000 people were evacuated from a “danger zone” within 18 miles of the power station. The nuclear accident, termed the worst in history by officials of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, spewed radioactivity over much of Europe and triggered restrictions in some nations on the sale of milk, vegetables and other foodstuffs. On Sunday, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl suggested the Kremlin compensate his country for damage caused by the accident. Kohl also criticized Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev for waiting until Wednesday to speak

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University of Indianapolis,” Sease said, adding that the board of trustees favored the name change to help avoid confusion with other sch jls using the word “central.” Hudnut said Indianapolis residents have looked forward to a university named after the city for years. “Now here we have the prospect of an independent, private, already established university located in the heart of this great city, renaming itself the university of Indianapolis and I think that’s good news,” the mayor said.

publicly about Chernobyl. Gorbachev, in his televised address, accused the West of conducting a “highly immoral campaign” to score political points over the disaster. West Germany plans a major compensation program for farmers and dairymen who lost sales because of tight restrictions imposed over the concern of radiation contamination. The Agriculture Ministry estimates the program will cost more than S9O million, and national leaders have come under pressure to seek compensation from Moscow. However, the official Soviet news agency Tass dismissed Kohl’s remarks, made

cell, who spoke to the congregation at the Cokeville Mormon meeting house. However, Lincoln County investigator Earl Carroll said it was not known how much more serious the explosion could have been. After the bomb exploded Young shot himself in the head, but possibly not until he had shot his wife. Investigators initially said Mrs. Young was killed instantly by the explosion, which occurred after Young passed a shopping cart filled with jugs of gasoline to his wife and went to the bathroom. But on Sunday, sheriff’s investigator Ron Hartley confirmed that agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms speculated that Young shot his wife, citing the fact that part of her skull had been blown off, an injury the bomb was unlikely to have caused. One of the 79 hurt, music teacher John Miller, who was shot in the shoulder while trying to flee, was released from an Idaho hospital Saturday. Nine people remained hospitalized Sunday in Idaho and Utah, one in critical but stable condition and another serious-

Indiana Central was founded in 1902 by the United Brethren Church. There had been discussion for years about whether Indiana UniversityPurdue University at Indianapolis should become the University of Indianapolis, but Hudnut said there were many who felt the linkage with Purdue and IU was beneficial. Students from the current graduating class received diplomas saying “Indiana Central,” but Sease said they could receive University of Indianapolis diplomas if they wanted.

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to a Munich gathering of Germans who fled Czechoslovakia after World War 11, as “totally unfounded (attempt) for a ‘compensation for the material damage’ allegedly caused” by Chernobyl. “They in Bonn have, apparently, forgotten their irredeemable debt to the Soviet people for the grief, murder, destruction and suffering caused by German Nazism to the U.S.S.R., to every Soviet family,” Tass said. In Bonn, Soviet Ambassador Yuli Kvitsinsky said in a letter to Interior Minister Friedrich Zimmermann that radioactivity from the plant accident had spread from the Black Sea to the Baltic. Kvitsinsky, in the first public com-

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Court's decision seen as blow to affirmative action

WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court, in a blow to affirmative action in the American workplace, today struck down a plan aimed at protecting the jobs of black school teachers in Jackson, Mich., at the expense of whites with more seniority. The 5-to-4 ruling said the affirmative action plan violated the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection for all under the laws. But the ruling was based on narrow grounds. The court still has two other major affirmative action cases under consideration, with decisions expected by July. „ r justices agreed,that the Jackson, Mich., plan for laying off teachers was

Doctors amputate legs of mountain survivor

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Doctors say it was “either amputation or his life,” and so they decided to amputate the lower portions of the legs of Giles Thompson, one of the survivors of the climb up Mount Hood that claimed nine lives. Thompson, 16, lost both legs below the knees in a one-hour operation Sunday night. He and 16-year-old Brinton Clark were the only two to survive after eight people were rescued Thursday from a snow cave on the mountainside. “It was a difficult decision to make but it was either amputation or his life,” said Dr. Leo Marx, a member of the medical team treating Thompson. The Longview, Wash., teen-ager was returned to the coronary care unit of the Providence Medical center after surgery, where doctors said he was showing signs of improvement, according to spokeswoman Barbara Hood. “His arms and legs look good at this time and his family is with him,” Ms. Hood said. Ms. Hood said the doctors did not mention whether they were still considering amputating part of one of Thompson’s arms that had suffered muscle damage. Dr. Peter Fisher described Thompson’s condition before the surgery Sunday night as “stable-ish with short periods of worsening” and he cautioned the boy is “not out of the woods.”

ments by a Soviet official on the spread of fallout inside the Soviet Union, said higher than normal radiation levels had been measured in Tallinn, Vilnius, Odessa and Sochi, but that radioactivity there had fallen “practically” back to normal. The government newspaper Izvestia reported on Sunday that firefighter Nikolai I. Titenok died of massive doses of radiation received while battling the reactor fire. Ten other victims have been identified by name in previous newspaper articles, but it remains unclear how many people have died.

not based on convincing evidence of prior discrimination by the school board. Justice Lewis F. Powell, in an opinion for the four, said, “This court never has held that societal discrimination alone is sufficient to justify a racial classification. Rather, the court has insisted upon some showing of prior discrimination by the governmental unit involved before allowing limited use of racial classifications in order to remedy such discrimination.” Powell was joined by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and Justices William H. Rehnquist and Sandra Day O’Connor. Justice Byron R. White provided the fifth vote to strike down the Jackson affirmative action plan. But he wrote a separate opinion explaining his reasons.

He said Thompson also was suffering from lung infection and had excess fluid buildup in the lungs. He also said he remained sedated to ease pain and to keep him from thrashing. About 30 percent of the muscle tissue in each of Thompson’s legs below the knees already had been surgically removed because it was dead from lack of blood circulation due to extended exposure to the cold, Fisher said. Meanwhile, the condition of Miss Clark continued to improve. Spokesman Lori Callister at Emanuel Hospital said late Sunday that the Portlane teen-ager remained in critical condition but was making steady progress. “The doctors now say she is alert and oriented and just lightly sedated,” Ms. Callister said. Miss Clark was unable to speak because of tubes in her throat but she was communicating with nurses and her parents by using an alphabet board, Ms. Callister said. Four other teen-agers and two adults found in the snow cave with Thompson and Miss Clark died Thursday. In addition, the bodies of three teen-agers were found on the mountainside Wednesday, one of them only a few feet from the cave. All were members of a party from Oregon Episcopal School in Portland who set out to scale the 11,235-foot peak Monday in an annual hike. •

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