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106th YEAR

NO. 38

GREENVILLE, N.C.

TRUTH IN PREFERENCE TO FICTION

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 13,1987

32 PAGES

PRICE 25 CENTS

DONT SHOOT! - Maria Barnes, 10, dressed as a Zanys Winter Wonder Machine." The drama was pre-Valentine, braces for a shot from Cupid, portrayed by sented Thursday at the Farmville school and illustrated Reece Reid, 9. The H.B. Sugg School students were co- wintertime events. (Reflector Photo by Cliff Hollis) starring with other fourth graders in a play titled Dr.

School Board Orders New Attendance Plans

ByJANEWELBORN Reflector Stoff Writer The Pitt County Board of Education on Thursday asked the staff to prepare long-term and short-term proposals for school attendance areas that would provide an equal education for all students while racially balancing the schools, providing for a consistent organizational grade pattern, allowing for construction and avoiding a segregated inner-city system.

In response to a board directive at the Feb. 2 meeting, the county school staff prepared a report reviewing the above criteria for drawing attendance lines for the school system and the impact those criteria would have on the school system. After discuss

ing the report and reviewing the two alteitative attendance line proposals prepared for presentation at the Feb. 2 meeting but never addressed, board members asked that the staff prepare both a short-term and a long-term proposal combining the previous options and using the criteria as goals.

An overflow crowd of concerned citizens stood in the hall of the Pitt County offices during the meeting. The workshop session was for discussion by the board; there was no public participation at the meeting. No action can be taken at a workshop session.

According to the report prepared by the staff, there is an equitable education program for all students in

Citizens Panel Will Advise On Cable TV

ByDONREUTER Reflector Staff Writer Greenville city officials are hoping a newly formed Citizens Advisory Committee on Cable TV will give them insight into the needs of area subscribers before they negotiate a franchise renewal, according to City Manager Gail Meeks.

We have a 15-year franchise with Greenville Cable TV, which is set to expire in 1991, Ms. Meeks said. Its customary for a cable company to try to renew that franchise 24 to 36 months in advance.

Input for the nine-member committee, which held an organizational meeting Thursday night, will be helpful when the talks begin, according to Ms. Meeks.

We could be looking at beginning

as early as the fall of 1988, she said, and the purpose of the committee is

to help the city and the City Council negotiate a new franchise or recommend terms or forfeiture of the existing franchise.

Were hopinjg this committee can give us the citizens views on what theyre interested in in cable television.

City officials presented a six- to eight-month program of work for the committee and reviewed the history of the franchise with Greenville Cable TV at the meeting.

City Attorney Mac McCarley briefed committee members on cable regulations and the authority of local governments.

The committee also reviewed on a preliminary basis a summary of concerns and complaints submitted to the city on cable since January 1981,

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Howell Says Farewell

CHAPEL HILL - The University of North Carolina Board of Governors has established a system where fairness and common sense have prevailed, outgoing East Carolina University (Tiancellor Dr. John M. Howell told the board today.

All parts of the system have flourished and a statewide responsi

bility for educational opportunity for those who were capable of being educated and wanted to be educated has been discharged, Howell said in his final speech as ECU chancellor to the board of governors.

I urge you not only to keep it that way but to pass that tradition on to your successors. If you do, some

chancellor who is retiring in 3000 or 4000 could note that the University of North Carolina is among the oldest organizations in the world.

Howell, who is retiring and will be replaced by Dr. Richard R. Eakin on March 1, has served as ECU chancellor since 1982.

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the county. The report states that of the 19 honors courses listed, 18 will be offered at every high school, and that there is a college preparatory level of every course required for graduation offered at every high school.

Using the criteria of a consistent grade pattern for the school system, the report notes that the school system would consist of 18 elementary schools housing grades kindergarten through five; seven middle schools for grades six through eight, and five high schools with grades nine through 12. The grade distribution at many of the schools would be changed in order to provide a consistent grade pattern.

Racial balancing by grade level consistent with school system ratios would require additional busing. In the report, a chart depicting the systemwide black-white ratio by grade shows that in the 12th grade the distribution is 43.07 percent black students to 56.04 percent white students. In the first grade, 50.03 percent of the students are black and 49.07 percent of the students are white.

The number of students who must be moved to adjust the balance with a deviation of 1 percent would range from 18 students at E.B. Aycock Junior High School to 259 students at North Pitt High School, according to the report.

In order to get the racial balance equal with the school system, students would need to be moved, Superintendent Eddie West said. We would try to get students to the closest school to equal the racial balance. It would require some distance in some cases.

A deviation of 1 percent in the racial makeup of the school was used in the criteria. However, board members discussed the possibility of having a deviation of as much as 20 percent, which is legally possible.

The criteria have interlocking relationships and may work against each other. In order to make a consistent organizational pattern, for instance, racial balance would be affected and

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TEACHER OF THE YEAR - Lu.\nn Jordan, center, was named Pitt County Teacher of the Year Thursday. The 25-year-old teacher of the educably mentally retarded at Sam Bundy is pictured with Bundy Principal Edith

Warren and Pitt County Board of Education Chairman Mark Owens. Ms. Jbrdan was one of 23 nominees for the annual award. (Reflector Photo By Tommy Forrest)

Bundy Teacher Chosen Best In County For '87

ByJANEWELBORN Reflector Staff Writer LuAnn Jordan, a teacher for the educably mentally handicapped at Sam Bundy Primary School in Farmville, was named the Pitt County Teacher of the Year in ceremonies Thursday.

Ms. Jordan was one of 23 teachers one from each county school

nominated for the award. She will go on to district Teacher of the Year competition. She received a plaque and a $150 from the Pitt County Principals Organization. A plaque also will be placed in Bundy School.

Finalists were Ron Hochmuth, a social studies teacher at E.B. Aycock Junior High School, and Ted Haughton, a third grade teacher at

Third Street School. The finalists each were presented $25 by the principals'group.

The other nominees, all of whom were presented plaques, were: Betty Benfield, A.G. Cox School; Wanda Collins, Ayden Elementary School; Harry Jones Jr., Ayden Middle

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HELPING OUT - Members of the J.H. Rose High School Future Homemakers of America chapter prepared and served meals Thursday morning at the soup kitchen on Fifth Street in Greenville. The students

are, clockwise from left, Kim Bridges, Paula Edwards, James Jones and Nutricia Perkins. (Reflector Photo by (Tiff Hollis)

FHA Students Give Helping Hand

ByJANEWELBORN ( Reflector Staff Writer

Members of the Future Homemakers of America at J.H. Rose High School provided food for the needy in a Greenville soup kitchen Thursday, applying the skills they have learned in the classroom.

In honor of Vocational Education Week and Future Homemakers of America Week held Monday through today, the 125 FHA members at Rose prepared and served a meal at the soup kitchen on Fifth Street. The meal consisted of turkey and dressing, gravy, green beans, com muffins, corn pudding and pumpkin pie.

ten they go out this way they are showing their ability to do the things they learn in class, FHA adviser Marian Wilkes said.

Adviser Elaine Tschetter said, It is good for the students to know that they should give of themselves, reach out and help other people. Part of our purpose is to get our kids involved in the community.

Teacher Renetta Smith is also an adviser for the group.

The students in the organization discussed ideas for projects and decided on preparing food for the soup kitchen, the advisers said. They prepared the food in the classroom and then took the food to the site and served it. They purchased some of the food with FHA funds and some food was donated from the soup kitchen and other sources.

The theme for National FHA Week is America At Its Best: Future Homemakers of America . There are 11,500 FHA chapters nationally.

In celebration of FHA Week this year, the Rose group made a bulletin board, had speakers come into the classroom and sent goodies to teachers on Teacher Appreciation Day. All FHA members wore red and white, the organizations colors, to school today.

Students who are members of FHA presently are taking a home economics class or have previously had such a class. The Rose FHA chapter has been active for over 20 years, the advisers said.

In The Area

Thursday Thefts

Five thefts were reported to Greenville police Thursday.

Investigators said a 20-horsepower boat motor valued at $1,400 was taken from 1305 Kingsbrook Road in an incident reported at 9:10 a.m., while officer S.A. Person said gas heaters were taken from 512A and 512B Roosevelt Ave. in break-ins reported at 9:24 a.m.

Officer Alexander Batts said an equalizer valued at $250 was taken from a car parked at Overtons Sporting Goods on Red Banks Road in an incident that occurred on Wednesday but was not reported until 4:21 p.m. Thursday.

Officer C.A. Sharpe said 27 cassette tapes valued at $272 and a purse were taken from a car parked at The Plaza in an incident that occurred Wednesday but was not reported until 5 p.m. Thursday.

According to Officer C.M Credle, a radio valu^ at $200 and a box containing an estimated $500 worth of tools were taken from a vehicle parked at 1602 E. Wright Road in an incident reported at 5:29p.m.

Drug Arrest Made

Warren Creueling Wilkes II, 17, of 106B Baker St. was arrested on a drug charge by Greenville police Thursday.

Officer W.C. Widener said Wilkes was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia about 3:14 p.m. after officers found a bong, a roach clip and five pipes in Wilkes Baker Street home.

Robbery Charge

Greenville police said James Calvin Darden. 35, of 404 Paris Ave. was arrested on a charge of robbery with a dangerous weapon about 6:30 p.m. Thursday.

Officer M.A. Jordan said Darden was arrested in connection with an incident that occurred at the intersection of Fleming and Hudson streets. Jordan said Wilkes was charged with taking money - at gunpoint - from a man he had offered to sell a radio to Wednesday.

Jordan said Darden was also charged with resisting arrest and damage to personal property in connection with an incident that occurred when Darden was being taken into custody on the robbery charge.

School Field Trips

Several classes at Pactolus Elementary School recently took field trips to enhance their studies.

Paula Shannon's first- and second-grade classes visited the Eastern Regional Jetport at Stallings Field in Kinston in correlation with a unit on transportation.

The third grade classes of Sue Worthington and Donna Corey visited Sheppard Memorial Library and at-tenaed the East Carolina Playhouse presentation of Dragon Tale.

As part of their study of weather.

fourth-grade students visited meterologist Ben Pringle at WITN television station in Washington, N.C. Pringle explained weather for-casting instruments and conducted a tour of the broadcast studio.

Penguins Studied

A group of first- and second-grade students at Third Street School recently participated in a study of penguins.

The students involved in the Triad Enrichment Program researched all 18 species of penguins. They studied characteristics, habitat and the social structure of penguin colonies.

After six weeks of research, the Penguin Quiz Bowl was held in the assembly room. Anne Lees class won the event and received the Silver Penguin Award.

Scout Round Tables

The Pitt District Scout and Cub Scout Round Tables will hold their February meetings Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at Red Oak Christian Church.

The theme for the Scouts is The Place We Live, while the Cub theme is Tied Up in Knots.

The Scout-a-Rama, Scout leaders basic training, and other events and dates will be discussed.

Commission Meeting

The Pitt County Sediment Control Commission will meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the county office building, 1717 W. Fifth St.

Included on the agenda for consideration are erosion control plans for Northwoods, section I in Pactolus township, Greystone Mobile Home Park in Winterville township, and Falling Creek located in Chicod township.

Tax Assistance

The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program is offering free tax assistance to taxpayers who cannot afford professional help, the handicapped or elderly or those confused about filling out a tax return.

Help will be offered at two sites. One is sponsored by the Senior Citizen Center at 1717 W. Fifth St. from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. East Carolina University faculty and staff can receive help from the Accounting Society of ECU, located in Mendenhall Student Center Mondays and Wednesdays from 4 p.m. to6 p.m.

Those peeking assistance should bring pertinent tax documents such as W-2 forms, interest statements from banks, copies of their 1985 income tax returns and the tax package received in the mail.

Rose Booster Club

The J.H. Rose Sports Booster Club will meet in the school cafeteria Monday at7:30p.m.

Industries Group Re-Elects Horne

Charles Horne, former general manager of the Greenville Utilities Commission, was re-elected president of Greenville Industries at the groups annual meeting Thursday.

Other officers re-elected at the meeting include Bill Clark as vice president, Robert Wilkerson as secretary, Jim Sullivan as treasurer and W.H. Watson as general council.

In a report on Greenville Industries activities during the past year, stockholders attending the meeting were told that a road complete with base for future construction has been cut into the organizations 285-acre Hopkins Farm off the four-lane bypass between N.C. 11 and the Old Creek Ropad north of Greenville.

Maps of the land, outlining possible industrial sites to show prospective buyers, have also been made, stockholders were told.

John Chafee, director of the Pitt

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County Development Commission, reported on industrial prospects that are currently looking at Pitt County.

Greenville Industries, a for-profit corporation, was founded in the early 1950s with the intent to make land available for industry as a reasonable cost, Horne said this morning.

Greenville Industries purchased about 250 acres north of Greenville about 1960, Horne said, and sold the property to such firms as Empire Brushes Inc., Vermont American, Fieldcrest Mills and the Eastern Carolina Vocational Center.

The Hopkins Farm was purchased later and a portion of that property was sold to the Eaton Corp., now Yale Materials Handling Corp.

As we sold land, wed take that money and buy some more land (so Greenville Industries) would always have land available for industry. Were doing what we set out to do, Horne said.

PCMH Board

Nominees

Announced

The University of North Carolina Board of Governors today recommended three appointments to the Pitt County Memorial Hospital Board.

The three are Ray Rogers of New Bern, Robert Spivey of Windsor and Michael Mosley of Rocky Mount.

The Pitt County Board of Commissioners appoints hospital board members but historically has followed the recommendations of the UNC Board in appointing members from outside Pitt County. This item is not on the agenda for Mondays County Commissioners meeting, but i

FORENSICS WINNERS - Pamela Davis, left, coach of the East Caroliona University Forensks Team, congratulates team members who brought home several trophies from a recent debate tournament at UNC-Wilm-ington. Team members are, left to right, Anita Turlington

of Tarboro, Jason Manning of Williamston and Ron Kinglsey and Stacey Stroupe, both of Asheville. Also receiving recognition was team coach Janice Shreiber (not pictured), who was voted best interpretive event judge. (ECU News Bureau Photo By Tony Rumple)

B&E-Larceny Counts

Edward Russell McMillion, 18, of Route 1, Greenville, has been arrested by police in Greenville on breaking and entering a vehicle and larceny charges.

Officer C.A. Sharpe said McMillion was taken into custody about 7:30 p.m. Thursday in connection with the theft of 108 cassette tapes and three tape boxes from a car ^rked in a lot near Hooters Fine Foods and Spirits on Greenville Boulevard.

Sharpe said two tape boxes containing a total of 62 tapes were recovered about 1:45 a.m. Wednesday.

La Leche Meeting

The advantages of breastfeeding will be discuss^ during the evening La Leche League meeting on Monday at7:30p.m.

Women interested in breastfeeding may attend and carry their babies. A lending library is maintained by the group, with books on parenting, childbirth, nutrition, and breastfeeding.

For information, call Kathleen King, 746-4728, or Barbara Whitehead, 746-3412.

4-H Fashion Club

The 4-H Fashion Club met recently in the Pitt County office building to sew and stuff cloth hearts for Valentines Day.

The due date for fashion projects is April 23.

Alumni Gathering

The Eva J. Lewis Alumni Chapter of Elizabeth City State University will meet Saturday at 3 p.m. in Sycamore Hill First Baptist Church. Several university representatives will be guests at the meeting.

Committee Member

Atlas Wooten of Route 4, Greenville, has been reappointed to the Tobacco Advisory Committee of the American Farm Bureau Federation and will serve as chairman this year.

Wooten was nominated to the post by W.B. Jenkins, president of the North Carolina Farm Bureau. The committee will discuss issues and programs dealing with tobacco and make recommendations to the American Farm Bureau.

Dean's List Students P'** Commissioners

Hotline gets things done Write and tell us about the problem or issue into which you d like for Hotline to look. Enclose photostatic copies of any pertinent information. Our ad dress is The Daily Reflector, Box 1%7, Greenville, N C., 27835. Because of the large numbers received. Hotline cannot answer or publish every item we receive, but we deal with all of those for which we have staff time. Sames must be given, but only initials will be published.

SCRAPBOOKSSOUGHT Girl Scouts in Greenville started around 1920 and for years a number of scrapbooks were kept. These scrapbooks have now disappeared, but Mrs. Wyatt Brown, long active in Girl Scout leadership here, believes that someone may have one or more of them in their home. She would like to hear from anyone who has a Greenville scrapbook or from anyone who has newspaper clippings, photographs or anything that would be useful in compiling a new scrapbook to reflect about 67 years of Girl Scouting in Greenville. Anyone who can help is asked to call Mrs. Brown, 752-2801 or Mrs. B.B. Sugg, 756-3679.

Nine Pitt County students were recently named to the fall semester deans list at A&T State University Making the deans list were Derrick Lee Atkinson, Adrian S. Brew-ington, Gregory M. Brown, Patrice L. Ellis, Tony D. Foreman, Angela Laureen Ingram, James R. Tucker, Jamie Darnel Valentine and Laura Jeannet Williams.

Egg Advisory Post

David H. Smith of Route 2, Ayden, has been reappointed to the Egg Advisory Committee of the American Farm Bureau Federation.

Smith was nominated to the post by W.B. Jenkins, president of the North Carolina Farm Bureau. The committee will discuss issues and programs relating to eggs and will make recommendations to the American Farm Bureau.

GBA Denies Request

The Greenville Board of Adjustment has denied a request for a special use permit to allow the construction of multifamily dwellings at a land use intensity rating of 50 on the north side of Adams Boulevard adjacent to Jaycee Park.

The request, which was filed by Joseph D. Speight, was rejected at a ^cial call meeting of the panel 'niursday night.

The applicant had proposed locating 40 one- and two-bedroom apartments on 1.79 acres. The property is zoned for high density residential development.

In other business, board members continued a request by Charles D. Woodard for a special use permit allowing a care home on the north side of State Road 1134 about .66 miles west of N.C. 11 South until their Feb. 26 meeting.

The property is zoned residential/ agriculture.

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Saturday Luncheon Special

Fried Chicken

The Pitt County Board of Commissioners will meet Monday at 10 a.m. at the county office building, 1717 W. Fifth St.

Included on the agenda is a request by the Pitt-Greenville Chamber of Commerce for support of local legislation to implement a motel occupancy tax, the consideration of bids for a mental health detoxification building, a report on a study of space needs for county government, and consideration of appointments to the Mid-East Emergency Medical

Services Council and the Pitt County Memorial Hospital board of trustees.

Aerobics Workshop

An aerobics instructor certification workshop will be held May 9 at Caswell Center in Kinston.

The daylong session will include instruction in low impact aerobics, exercise physiology, injury prevention and treatment, and prenatal, children and senior citizen exercise.

To register contact Ava White, Caswell employee health coordinator, 2415 W. Vernon Ave., Kinston, 28501 (phone; 559-5207).

Post Office Closings

The Greenville Post Office and the East Carolina University Station will be closed Monday in observance of George Washingtons birthday.

No deliveries will be made by rural and city carriers and no window service will be provided. Mail will be placed in post office boxes and express and special delivery mail will be delivered.

A special 3 p.m. holiday collection will be made from all boxes with usual 5 p.m. collection times. This collection will be dispatched at 5:30 p.m.

The self-service postal unit in the lobby of the main post office has most postal supplies and permits the mailing of parcels, saia Charles Caulk, postmaster.

Girl Scout Week

Mayor Leslie H. Gamer has proclaimed March 8-14 as Girl Scoiit Week in Greenville.

acted on anyway if it is brought to the commissioners attention. Assistant County Manager John Bulow said.

Sixty percent of the boards membersnip is from inside Pitt County historically, two from each commissioner district, except Greenville, which has four and 40 percent from other eastern N.C. counties. This composition was developed when the affiliation agreement which makes Pitt Memorial the teaching hospital for the East Clarolina University School of Medicine was struck several years ago.

Consideration of local members of the trustee board is on the commissioners Monday agenda. These names have not been released.

Pageant Recruiting

Miss Wheelchair North Carolina Inc. is recmiting women age 21 or older who use wheelchairs for 50 percent of mobility for the 1987 Miss Wheelchair North Carolina pageant.

For more information, call Dolores Stroupe at 704-735-4710 or Odessa Crowe at 704-864-6622 after 5 p.m.

Delinquent Taxes

The city of Greenville will initiate public advertisement of delinquent taxes on March 9.

Separate listings on real and personal property taxes will be published in The Daily Reflector.

For persons with escrow accounts, mortgage companies may have failed to pay both real and personal taxes. If there is reasonable doubt, check with the city tax collection office to inquire about the status of tax payments.

Calling in advance will allow sufficient time to remove from the public advertisement the names of property owners who have reconciled their delinquent taxes.

Questions should be directed to the city tax collectors office. Municipal Building, 201W. Fifth St., or by telephone, 752-4137.

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Carolina East Mall The Plaza

In The Area German Freighter Braves High Seas

To Rescue 25 From Sinking Vessel

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DR. DENNIS CHESTNUT

Chapter President

Dr. Dennis Chestnut, assistant professor of psychology at East Carolina University, has assumed the presidency of the North Carolina the Association of Black serving a one-year

chapter o Psychologists, term.

Chestnut previously served as national treasurer, southern regional representative, chapter treasurer, and regional conference co-chairman. He is co-chairing two national committees: the Black Family Task Force and the Clinical Assessment Committee.

Other new officers are Dr. Les Brinson, chairman of psychology at N.C. Central University, vice president, and Dr. Theresa Hayes of the N.C. State University Student Health Services and Counseling Center, secretary.

Leaders' Conference

Nancy Allen and Cynthia Lilley of Grifton, and Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie Moore and Sallie Wilson from Ayden recently attended the Volunteer 4-H Leaders Association conference in Raleigh.

The theme of the conferene was Our Health To Better Living.

Festival Planned

The inaugural Black Arts Festival will be held Sunday at The Plaza from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. to celebrate Black History Month. The festival will include musical entertainment, arts, crafts, folk and creative dance.

Permit Issued

The Greenville Police Department has granted a solicitation permit to Piney Grove Free Will Baptist Church allowing the sale of doughnuts today, Saturday, Feb. 20 and Feb. 21 to raise money for the purchase of a van.

NEW YORK (AP) - A German freighter rescued 25 crew members from a merchant ship sinking fast in the Atlantic today, and three people were missing after their life boat capsized in the stormy sea, the Coast Guard said.

Four crew members stranded on the 387-foot Turkish merchant ship Bora Isik through the night were rescued by the freighter Colombo after earlier attempts had been delayed because of rough seas, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Matthew Pleasant.

The freighter had rescued 21 crew members before the effort was temporarily suspended.

Shes going down pretty much like a rock, Coast Guard Petty Officer Randy Midgett said earlier.

A C-130 rescue plane sent by the Coast Guard to search for the three missing men was expected to

arrive about 10 a.m. EST, Pleasant said. The 25 crew members safely aboard the German vessel were reported to be in good condition.

The Bora Isik, battling 25-foot waves and 40 mph winds, began issuing a distress call at 11 p.m. Thursday, informing the Coast Guard it was taking on 440 tons of water an hour and sinking fast, said Coast Guard Lt. J.G. Bryant of the operations center for the Atlantic Area.

The 580-foot Colombo, bound for the port of New York, reached the Bora Isik shortly before 2 a.m. The ships were 720 miles east of New York and 260 miles south of Sable Island near Novia Scotia.

Bryant said the Colombo began using two life boats and one life raft in the rescue.

One life vessel carrying seven crew members from the sinking ship collided with the Colombo and three crew members were lost. Pleasant said.

It took quite a rigorous effort for the Colombo to do what its done so far. The seas out there are very very rough, he said.

The Coast Guard had no information on what the vessels were carrying or why the Bora Isik was sinking.

Bryant credited the quick reaction of radio operators in the Boston area and Canada for helping with the rescue attempt.

Cwst Guard stations in Boston and several Canadian communications stations picked up the Bora Isiks distress signal and relayed it to the Coast Guards operations center for the Atlantic, he said.

The Bora Isik, which sailed from Istanbul, Turkey, was bound for Bridgeport, Conn. The Colombo was due to arrive in New York on Sunday.

Soviet Agents Again Use Fists To Break Up Street Protests

Board Orders Plans

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overcrowding would occur in some schools, the report said. Some schools would be underutilized and some would require additional mobile units.

After discussing the report on the suggested criteria for remrawing the attendance lines, the board members asked for an explanation of two alternative options which had been prepared by the school system staff earlier. A slide presentation was shown which reviews the initial staff recommendations on drawing attendance lines and discussed the alternative options developed after a public hearing.

In drawing the second set of attendance lines, the staff used the criteria of building capacity and usage, potential for growth, cost effectiveness, racial balance, transportation and extent of change.

Two options were developed, one of which included the construction of a second high school in the Greenville attendance area. Both J.H. Rose High School and Greenville Middle School would contain grades nine through 12 under the alternative proposal, and E.B. Aycock would house grades six through eight.

Within the next 10 years, the way the county is growing, there will be a need for another high school in the city attendance area. West said. There will be 1,800 students at :Rose.

: The option also calls for the Green-;ville area elementary schools to be reorganized to a kindergarten through fifth-grade configuration. !The school grade levels for the other

Boat Company : Funds Exhibit

; Grady-White Boats Inc. of Green-

ville has contributed $20,000 to fund a new shark exhibit at the North 'Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke :lsland.

: The donation, announced Thursday ;by the Office of Marine Affairs, is the first major corporate gift to the N.C. :Aquarium Society.

: The society is a non-profit group :organized to raise money to help .support exliibits and activities at the -th^ North Carolina aquariums, located at Roanoke Island, Pine Knoll Shores and Fort Fisher.

: Rhett White, director of the North ;Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke ;lsland, said work has already been started on the project, which is scheduled for completion by April 1.

The 3,000 gallon aquarium is in place and has been water tested, ^aid White. Renovations are under way on the exhibit gallery area and '^11 preliminary design work has been Completed for graphic and exhibit panels.

Dogs Revived

; VACAVILLE, Calif. (AP) -: Firefighters coping with a smoky pet shop blaze on Thursday pulled up to UO unconscious dogs into the street and revived them with oxygen, the [department said.

: It was the smoke that killed ;many, many birds, two other dogs and a cat, said fire Capt. Gary

Robinson.

* Robinson said investigators be-;lieved some kind of electrical pro-.blem ignited the fire before dawn at Pet Country.

attendance areas would vary.

Racial balance is substantially improved under the alternatives, with many students being transferred. The only way to get the racial balance is to bring students in from the suburte and change the configuration, West said. This proposal would racially balance GreenviUe on a 50-50 ratio.

According to the report, the alternative proposals would take 18 months to two years to implement and would cost approximately $4 million.

The staff will prepare the longterm and short-term proposals to be presented to the board next week.

West said that the attendance line issue must be resolved by March 15 in order to assign pupils for the coming school year.

It seems to me we must look at the long-term and short-term perspective, West said. Progress requires slow deliberate study. Rather than solve all the problems at once, we should solve them in stages.

West said things that can be immediately done will be considered short-term plans. Attacking the problem in stages reduces the amount of upheaval, he said.

The criteria presented today is a base to start from, said board member Frank Grooms. He said that a planned pattern will ensure that we are going in the right direction.

The board asked the staff to apply the recommended criteria where feasible.

A racial balance of 50-50 would be Utopia, said board member Anne

McGaughey. In some areas, 10 percent (deviation) would be hard to meet unless there is a lot of busing.... A 20 percent (deviation) would be feasible... more realistic and obtainable.

The board also discussed quality points assigned to grades on the high school level. The board requested additional information which will be )resented at the workshop session to )e held next week.

By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG Associated Press Writer

MOSCOW (AP) Security agents today punched protesters rallying for a fifth day to demand freedom mr a jailed Jewish activist. Dissident sources said four demonstrators including the activists son - were given jail terms.

The agents also punched Western reporters covering the protest and smashed their cameras. Police detained three American newsmen for more than two hours.

It was the second day authorities used force to break up the protests in Arbat Street in central Moscow. The action against the demonstrators came as the Soviets announced the mass release of dissidents.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady Gerasimov on Thursday blamed young right-wing vigilantes -called Lyubers after the Lyuberets neighborhood where they supposedly live - for violence during that days demonstration.

But during todays protest, as on Thursday, at least a half-dozen uniformed policemen stood by and did nothing to stop the violence. The men who broke up todays protest were highly organized, and afterward about two dozen of them piled into a police bus and drove off.

The protesters demand emigration rights and the release of Josef Begun, a Hebrew teacher who was sentenced in 1983 to seven years in prison for anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda.

Gerasimov said Thursday that Begun can apply for reconsideration of his case.

Speaking in a satellite interview with Britains ITN network, Gerasimov said that if Begun does so, I suspect that it will be reviewed favorably to him. So actually theres no need for any demonstration.

Gerasimov has said Begun was not among 140 dissidents being released early from jail because he declined to apply for a pardon. However, dissident sources said authorities, not prisoners, initiate the pardoning process.

Beguns son, Boris, who was wearing a blue-and-white stocking cap bearing the Star of David, was dragged away today by the plainclothes security agents before he could unfold a placard he was carrying.

Begun was taken to a nearby militia station along with Vladimir Pimonov, who shouted: Theyre

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Pinomovs wife, Lisa Petersen, who now is in Moscow, said her husband called her from a militia station to say he would be taken to a hospital. She did not know the extent of his injuries.

Another protester, Nastasha Bekman, was shoved off Arbat Street and dragged down a nearby alley in front of the Ministry of Culture. As uniformed policemen looked on, she was punched and kicked by the men in civilian clothes.

Western reporters who tried to film or photograph the scene were struck or shoved away by the plainclothes men.

No photographs, shouted one plainclothes agent as he slammed his nst into an Associated Press reporters camera. Agents also smashed cameras of the Cable News Network and French television crews.

Dissident sources said Boris Begun and two other protesters, Fyodr

Finkel and Galina Gerasimova, were ordered to appear at police headquarters on Wednesday to serve 15-oay jail terms, apparently for disturbing the peace.

Another protester, Mark Kurkov, was ordered to serve a 10-day term, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Such sentences, known as ad-minstrative punishment, can be handed out at militia stations without any court hearing.

Joseph Richey, cameraman for CBSs Moscow bureau, and his soundman, Armand Deus, were detained for more than two hours in a militia station after trying to film the protest.

Antero Pietila, correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, also was taken to the militia station near Arbat Street and held for 2% hours. At the station, authorities produced a Soviet citizen who, according to Pietila, claimed the reporter had thrown him to the

Josef Beguns wife, Nina, said by telephone that she and a friend went to the Central Telegraph Office early

today to send a telegram asking authorities to free her husband, but that a uniformed police officer grabbed the telegram form out of her hands.

She and her friend were driven to her apartment and were being held there under police guard, Mrs. Begun said.

The official news agency Tass today charged that the daily demonstrations were staged by Western reporters according to prearranged scenarios complete with stars, mass scenes and lyrical heroes.

Tass also announced the government was considering applications [or pardon from about 140 people jailed for alleged anti-Soviet activities. Gerasimov said Tuesday that 140 dissidents had been freed and the cases of another 140 were being reviewed, but it was not clear if Tass was referring to either of these groups.

Gerasimov, said those released early were sentenced under a law banning anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda.

Rowland Evans & Robert Novak EditorialsDeficiencies

Are 4,782 rural Pitt County homes substandard?

That is the finding of a housing needs survey which was accepted by the Pitt Cunty Board of Commissioners last week. The survey was funded by a $10,000 federal grant with the intent of examining existing housing conditions in the countys rural areas.

The report examines 13,285 dwellings units beyond the countys municipal limits, of which 8,780 are conventional housing and 4,505 are mobile or modular homes.

The report says 5,156 or 58 percent of the conventional homes were rated standard, 2,406 or 20 percent needed moderate repairs and 1,218 or 13 percent were deteriorated.

Of the mobile homes, 3,347, or 74 percent, were found to be standard and 1,158 were seen as substandard.

In many cases the deficiencies found are not major. For mobile homes substandard might involve the lack of adequate underpinning or steps. Moderate needs for conventional housing might mean need for moderate repairs to roofs, walls or foundations.

Nevertheless, it would seem from this survey that too many rural Pitt Countians are living in homes which are deficient in some way, and some are living in homes with major structural problems.

It is expected that the county will apply for a Community Development Block Grant to bring some of the substandard homes up to standard.

The county should do that and more. Some years back the municipalities of the county developed vigorous programs for bringing housing up to standard. They have been successful.

Rural citizens deserve adequate housing, too, and the county government should develop adequate sound housing ordinances which will assure that all Pitt County citizens, wherever they may live, will be in dwellings which meet contemporary housing standards.Solid Ground

Governor Jim Martins rejection of the plan to consolidate two N.C. high schools for the deaf and move them to Greensboro appears to be on good grounds if for no other reason than geographic.

The two institutions were wisely located at their inception. The Morganton school is centrally located to serve western N.C. patrons and the Wilson school serves needs in eastern North Carolina.

Both have a small horde of supporters made up of past and present faculty, families and graduates. Families have moved to Morganton and Wilson because of the presence of those existing schools. They want homes near their children attending those schools. Some have said they would be unwilling to make that kind of move to Greensboro.

Availability insofar as distance is concerned is important, especially when oiie considers the distance from the eastern edge of the state to its western line.

True, Greensboro represents a central location with its appropriately-named Central N.C. School for the Deaf, but its easy availability to needs in the west and east is marred by the mileage involved.

A task force which studied state needs in educating hearing-impaired Tar Heels proposed building a $7.3 million high school at Greensboro to serve the envisioned influx of students. The recommendation appears to be the fruit of that panels feeling pushed to make a recommendation for change and so they made one.

The group neglected to mention how that kind of investment was economically practical in light of the many millions of dollars already being considered for education ^nd existing needs of education across the state.

Some of those needs are very visible here at home in Pitt. The perennial question of how to pay for them all arises.

Coupled with that of future economic uncertainties and you have one more reason for saying Whoa! If upgrading is required at the schools in Wilson and Morganton, that action would be easier and less costly by dealing with existing facilities.

The governor was on good ground when he observed further study of the issue was not likely to be helpful and he didnt think it would do any good to keep the issue stirred up.

One might further say that it aint broke, dont fix

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Premature Front-Runner Strategy

WASHINGTON - George Bush will skip the first Republican presidential cattle show and gain special status for the second, suggesting a premature front-runners strategy.

What makes the vice presidents pass of the first affair remarkable is that it hapi^ns to be the years most encompassing conservative event, the annual CPAC meeting in Washington. His insistence on speaking separately at next month's regional party conference in critically important New Hampshire suggests failure to comprehend how shaky his lead has become.

The Bush camp seems complacent. Noting how tittle the Iran arms scandal has affected the vice president in national polls, his operatives compare the downbeat turbulence a year ago with todays calm. But amid the self-satisfaction, there seems no clear tactical line.

That is the conclusion drawn from the no-show decision at CPAC. Far from herding him into a cattle-show format, the sponsoring American Conservative Union (ACU) offered Bush the Friday night, Feb. 20, dinner speech (second billing only to President Reagan, speaking the night before). Bush said no, to that or any CPAC date.

'The Bush camp seems complacent. Noting how little the Iran arms scandal has affected the vice president in national polls, his operatives compare the downbeat turbulence a year ago with today's calm. But amid the self~satisfaction, there seems no clear tactical line.'

The two excuses variously given by Bush spokesmen lack credibility and do not support each other: firt, a schedule conflict; second, that he had attended the last five such right-wing festivals. Yeah, but nows the crunch, was the comment to the latter reason from a disappointed conservative Bushie, Rep. Bob Dornan of California, who won a commitment that the vice president will be at CPAC in 1988.

Do you really think the Iowa voters will worry whether he was at CPAC? Bush campaign manager Lee Atwater asked us. In fact, key Bush operatives privately share Dornans concern and puzzle about the decision no less than the congressman.

Republican insiders suggest the truth is that the vice president will have nothing to do with anything run by David Keene, the political consul

tant and current ACU head. Keene was political director of Bushs 1980 presidential bid, but now advises Sen. Robert J. Dole.

Yet, Keene had nothing whatever to do with the recent annual meeting of the National Religious Broadcasters, where Bush unexpectedly attacked fundamentalists who dictate their own interpretation of morality on the rest of society. National right-wing operatives who shrug off skipping CPAC were stunned - and offended by that performance.

Considering Bushs earlier progress with the religious right and the fact the conservative movements loyalty is yet to be won by anybody, Bushs conduct cannot be explained as a hard political strategy. Rather, efforts to stifle criticism from his moderate supporters that he is pandering to the right smack of the

premature front-runners attitude that often has characterized his campaign.

That attitude may explain insistence on special treatment from the Northeastern GOP conference at Nashua, N.H., March 13-14. When Bushs aides heard he would get five minutes along with the rest of the presidential herd, they demanded the Saturday noon speaking slot for him alone.

New Hampshire Republican State Chairman Elsie Vartanian hesitated, then sought guidance from political aides to Gov. John Sununu (a putative Bush backer). That settled it. Invitations to spend an evening with the next president were changed to a weekend. The old unsent invitations were consigned to a wood-burning stove, but at least one survives.

Thus, while Bush has the Saturday luncheon all to himself, Dole, Rep. Jack Kemp and other hopefuls will make do with the leaving: a minute or so speaking Friday night plus an assignment on Saturday panels.

Actually, Bush is barely a front-runner. He has fallen further behind Dole in Iowa polls, signaling an extended fight for the nomination.

James Kilpatrick

Freedom And Student Editors

WASHINGTON - The student editors liked the feature on teen-age pregnancy. They thought it was hot stuff. The high school principal didnt like the piece at all. He thought it was too revealing. So the principal killed the story and the student editors sued. Whos right?

The U.S. Supreme Court last month agreed to have the last word on the question. The case is Hazelwood School District v. Cathy Kuhlmeier, et al. No. 86-836, and some of us who have been both student editors and real-world editors will look forward to having the argument settled.

These were the facts: Hazelwood East High School in St. Louis has a school-sponsored newspaper called Spectrum. The paper appears nine or 10 times during the school year. It is written as class project by students enrolled in Journalism II. The journalism teacher appoints the editors, selects letters to the editor, makes assignments, and generally supervises the choice and display of stories. The teacher customarily checks with the principal before publication of each issue. Except for minor income from the sale of individual copies, Spectrums expenses are paid from public funds.

Early in May 1983, Hazelwoods incumbent teacher of journalism re

signed to go into private business. He left behind an almost completed issue of Spectrum that was to include two articles in particular. One article provided personal accounts by three students who had become pregnant; the story gave details of their sex lives and dealt with the use or nonuse of contraceptives. A second story dealt with a students personal experience with her parents divorce.

Howard Emerson, retained as a journalism instructor to complete the school year, had doubts about the stories. He took galley proofs to Robert Reynolds, Hazelwoods principal. Reynolds thought the story about the pregnant girls, even though their names had b^n changed to a fictitious Terri, Patti and Julie, was too revealing. Only eight to 10 girls at Hazelwood were generally known to be pregnant, and Reynolds felt the subjects might be identified. Reynolds also objected to the piece on divorce: It was entirely one-sided; it failed to give the parents a fair shake; and it too amounted to an invasion of privacy.

Reynolds thus ordered the stories killed. The effect was to kill two entire pages of what had been scheduled as a six-page issue. The disappointed student editors subsequently brought suit in U.S. District Court

seeking a declaratory judgment that their constitutional rights had been violated. They also sought nominal damages for their pain and suffering.

District Judge John F. Nangle ruled against the student editors and in favor of the school authorities. He concluded that Spectrum was a part of the course in journalism; as such it was as much subject to official supervision as a textbook. The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, voting 2-1, reversed his decision. The appellate court found that the newspaper was a conduit for student opinions. It was in effect a public forum. Citing other cases on student rights, the court held that student newspapers may be restricted only when (1) publication might result in tort liability for the school or (2) publication might result in material and substantial interference with school work or discipline. Neither of these reasons, said the court, justified Reynolds censorship.

This is the legal reasoning: The 14th Amendment says that no state may deny liberty to its citizens. These editors were citizens of Missouri. The school is an agency of the state. Freedom of press is a con

stitutional liberty. Therefore the principal of Hazelwood High School may not constitutionally restrict what students write and publish in a state-sponsored newspaper.

This is my own opinion: Horsefeathers! The real world is different. In a real, grown-up world an editor is subject to a publisher, and if the publisher says Kill the piece, thats it, sweetheart, the piece is killed. The right of a free press attaches to the guy who owns one. Students do not own a school paper. They have invested not one dime in its production. They are here today and gone tomorrow. In a real sense they are both irresponsible and unaccountable. If their notions of journalism result in a libel suit, they do not pay the costs. If a scandalous story costs a college the benefaction of a bluenosed alumnus, no skin off their backs.

I would give student publications a great deal of freedom. Fledglings must try their wings. But to accord students virtually absolute freedom of press is to let the animals run the zoo.

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Strength For Today

When St. Paul was a prisoner in Rome, he was constantly attended by a soldier and since the custom is those days was to chain a guard and his prisoner together, the great apostle and the soldier in the emperors service were probably linked together in this fashion.

Of course, a number of soldiers would stand watch by turns. We wonder what must have been their reaction and whether any of the group realized that his pris

oner would go down in history as one of the greatest men of all time. Was any one of the guards converted to the Christian faith? Perhaps most regarded Paul as a tiresome fanatic.

Were there any who listened to him, felt the hand of God on their hearts and realized how meaningless there lives were? We know that there were many soldiers in the early church. What a privilege it would be to know God through the Apostle Paul!

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Condos Bum

SPRING LAKE, N.C. (AP) - Two condominium buildings under con-truction were destroyed and a third was heavily damaged when a fire broke out Tnursday night.

No one was injured seriously in the fire, which began about 5:40 p.m. at the Lake Hurst Condominium Complex located off N.C. 210 north. The blaze was brought under control a little more than an hour later.

The two-story buildines, which were in the final stages of construction, house eight units each.

Sentence

HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) A wheelchair-bound Henderson County man, paralyzed from the waist down 13 years ago when he was shot in the back with a .38-caIiber pistol, was sentenced to five years in prison for inflicting an almost identical wound on a Fletcher man.

Brady Briggs Jr., 50, pleaded guilty in Superior Court Wednesday to assault with a deadly weapon irulic-ting serious injury.

The plea stemmed from the shooting of William Richard Matthews, 28. At Wednesdays hearing, Briggs admitted to shooting Matthews in the back on Feb. 21,1986.

The beginning of Briggs five-year sentence was delayed until Feb. 20 so the Department of Corrections can arrange transport to the wheelchair prison unit in Raleigh, officials said.

Drinkers

ELON COLLEGE, N.C. (AP) -The Soviet Union is drinking itself to death, says Dr. Vladimir Treml, who says alcohol abuse has reached a crisis level in his native country.

Treml, a Duke University economics professor, spoke Wednesday during Elon Colleges week-long symposium on U.S-Soviet relations.

The country leads the world in annual consumption of hard liquor, mostly vodka. And Treml saidf the drinking has an impact on levels of violence, child and wife abuse, crime, divorce rates, accidents, fatalities, lowered productivity and other social ills.

In the late 70s, an average of 60,000 Soviets a year died of acute alcoholism or fatal alcohol poisoning. The average for the United States is between 400 and 600 deaths a year.

Fifth Man

RALEIGH (AP)- A fifth man indicted on federal charges of conspiring to obtain weapons and explosives stolen from a National Guard armory is in custody, U.S. Attorney Sam Cur-rin said Thursday.

Robert E. Jackson was the last of the defendants to be arrested. He was picked up Wednesday in Midwest City, Okla., by Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents, Currin said.

The U.S. Justice Department said Jackson was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and the White Patriot Party-

The indictments stemmed from an alleged plot that included an attempt to blow up the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., and to kill center director Morris Dees, Currin said.

Jackson will be returned to North Carolina for trial March 9, Currin said.

Whiteville Fire

WHITEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - A fire in the downtown business district Thursday heavily damaged two department stores and caus^ smoke damage to three others.

No injuries were reported from the fire.

The fire broke out shortly before 4 p.m. in Leinwands Department Store, and spread next door to J.S. Manns Department Store. Three other stores in the same block - the Style Shop, Kramers and Colliers Jewelers Inc. - sustained heavy smoke damage.

Firefighters battled the blaze for nearly four hours before it was finally under control. .

Impaired

GREENSBORO (AP) - An off-duty Guilford County sheriffs deputy killed in an five-vehicle wreck had a blood-alcohol content almost twice the legal intoxication level, a state medical examiner said Thursday.

Toxicology tests performed on Lt. Richard A. Weaver showed he had a .19 blood alcohol level, said Dr. Robert Thompson, associate chief of the medical examiners office in Chapel Hill.

A driver with a blood-alcohol content of .10 is considered legally impaired under state law.

Thompson said Weaver, 39, died of a tom aorta because of chest trauma received in the wreck. Weaver, who had worked for the sheriffs department since 1971, had never been arrested for driving while impaired, said Maj. Ed Pons.

The wreck is being investigated by' the Greensboro Police Department.

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Thursday. The paratroopers were participating in a joint U.S.-Honduran maneuver to test their alert readiness. (APLaserphoto) _

Bragg Troopers Conduct Test Of Alert Readiness

PALMEROLA AIR BASE. Honduras (AP) - More than 300 U.S. Army airborne troops parachuted today into Honduras, about 75 miles from the Nicaraguan border, to begin a high-readiness alert exercise.

The paratroopers are part of a 750-member task force of the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, N.C. They are beginning two weeks of traini ig that Pentagon officials

said would help demonstrate U.S. military capability to swiftly challenge Soviet, Cuban or Nicaraguan threats in the region.

The parachute jump over the La Paz drop zone in central Honduras south of the Palmerola Air Base was witnessed by a special pool of journalists convened by ttie Defense Department in Wasmngton on Wednesday evening. The pool system was

formed following protests by news organizations that the Pentagon had shut out reporters and photographers during the United States October 1983 invasion of Grenada.

The training exercise was intended primarily to benefit the U.S. forces, although some Honduran forces also were participating, military officials said.

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RALEIGH lAP) - Legislative leaders say they have not yet reached a consensus with Gov. Jim Martin on a package of emergency measures that would spend about $29 million to reduce crowding in the state prison svstem.

He (Martini would like an agreement and I'm sure there will be one eventually, but we don't have one yet," state Sen. David Parnell, D-Robeson. said Thursday after a closed-door meeting between Martin, other state officials and legislative leaders.

Budget Director C.C. Cameron said Martin will forward the proposals to House Speaker Liston Ramsey and Lt. Gov. Bob Jordan, possibly as early as today. Officials say the emergency legislation is needed to ward off a federal takeover of the prison system.

The idea was to get together and ... try to iron out all the differences so we could send clean bills that would really trot once they get to the Legislature, " Cameron said.

Neither Jordan nor Ramsey was available for comment after the meeting. Rep. Anne Barnes. D-Orange. and Parnell, co-chairmen of a legislative study panel that has developed proposals for relieving the problem, declined substantive comment on the Martin plan, saying they wanted to study it.

Among the items in the Martin package are a ceiling of 18,000 on the prison population, which the administration says is some 4,500 above the maximum capacity under federal standards that recommend 50 square feet per inmate.

The legislative study panel also has endorsed the ceiling proposal.

Martin also is recommending measures to cut red tape in the spending of $14 million appropriated last year for construction of space for 900 beds in six institutions.

It's No. Three

NEW YORK (AP) - Hardees Food Systems Inc. says it has climbed into the Big Three in the fast-food business by giving customers what they want - a bigger burger.

Executives from the Rocky Mount, N.C.-based restaurant chain made that case at a news conference Thursday in New York where they displayed their latest television commercials. They also cited new statistics that indicate Hardees has by at least one measure share of customers moved ahead of Wendys International Inc., the nations third largest fast-food company.

The industry leader is McDonalds Corp., based in Oak Brook, III., and Miami-based Burger King Corp. is second.

Hardees, which had more than 2.700 restaurants worldwide at the end of 1986, said it has been spending as much as $50 million a year on advertising and could bo(t that figure to $70 million this year.

In its two latest commercials, which began airing in selected markets last month, Hardees takes a humorous jab at the competition.

In a commercial called Disguise, an announcer says, When you take away all the toppings some burger places are making such a fuss about these days, it has to make you wonder.

While the announcer is talking, a hamburger with the works is methodically stripped of each topping until nothing is left but a thin hamburger patty.

Is there a reason why they arent making a fuss about their burgers? the announcer says.

A side view is then shown of a thick

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Hardees hamburger, and the announcer concludes. You see, unlike the other places, we have nothing to hide.

In the second commercial called Magician, a man wearing a ceremonial robe and crown unveils a bigger burger to great fanfare.

But the announcer notes some companies have more recently started making their hanburgers smaller.

Well, while theyre trying to decide just how their burgers should be, you might decide to come to Har(iees, the announcer said.

Both ads carry the tag line, Hardees. Were out to win you over.

Gary Langstaff, chief marketing officer for Hardees, said the commercials are more overtly comep-titive than we would like to be in the long run.

But he said the company is hoping they will give the company a competitive edge in an increasingly competitive inciustry.

On that score, the company cited a new Consumer Restaurant Eating Share Trends report that said Hardees had 9.1 percent of the customer traffic at fast-food outlets last year, edging Wendys 9.0 percent.

In Dublin, Ohio, Wendys spokesman Paul Raab said, I dont think the statistics that Hardees is presenting are truly indicative of who is No. 3 and who is No. 4.

He said the same report indicates Wendys captured 10.^ percent of the dollar share of the market last year to 8.12 percent for Hardees.

You can put dollars in the bank, but you cant put traffic in there, he said.

HOWSWEH IT IS!

ByF. ALAN BOYCE Associated Press Writer RALEIGH (AP) - A legislative study commission is needed to determine what, if any, reforms are needed in the way North Carolina judges are chosen, Lt. Gov. Bob Jordan says.

Jordan Thursday announced his support for a 20-member commission on merit selection of judges.

He said Democrats have long been interested in changing the way judges are chosen, but also referred to Republican campaigns last November. The GOP-backed Citizens for a Conservative Court attacked the personal views of Democratic candidates on such issues as the death penalty, although the Judicial Code of Ethics bars candidates from addressing political issues. A Democratic committee launched replies.

The fiovemors negative tactics may well have heightened our interest, Jordan said. I think the negative committee that was established was formed out of his office. That sort of created an atmosphere last fall that was different.

Jordan said he would like to improve the process, but he and Sen. Charles Hipps, D-Haywood, who filed the bill for introduction, said they were not proposing any specific changes.

The purpose of the study is to build enough support for a proposal to get the two-thirds House and Senate votes needed for a constitutional amendment, Hipps said.

Supporters of merit selection say removing politics from the judicial arena will result in a more independent and effective system. But Jordan said there are strong objections.

There are people even in the legal profession that think that a judge not having to stand election isnt quite as in tune as he should be, he said. *... Theres a lot of people in the general public that say any time you take their opportumty to vote away, its wrong. So I would say there are more places you can find opposition than there are that you can find support. A lot of the socalled merit plans do not work because you are simply moving the politics from one area to another area, added Hipps.

Jordan and Hipps emphasized that the study was backed by the govern-

Appointee To Stay

WILMINGTON (AP) - A former Wilmington bank manager who is now the director of the state Division of Economic Opportunity has been indicted by a fecferal grand jury on four counts of bank fraud, but state officials say there are no plans to remove him from office.

James Forte was one of seven people, including several former bank employees and a former Wilmington minister, indicted Tuesday.

Forte, a former Wilmington branch manager with Wachovia Bank and Trust Co., was appointed to the Martin administration in April 1985, shortly after he left Wachovia, said Don Follmer, a spokesman for the state Department of Natural Resources and Community Development.

Follmer said Forte was hired as deputy director of the Division of Economic Opportunity and promoted to director last August.

Follmer, who said state laws prevent him from discussing personnel matters in detail, described Forte as well-qualified.

I assume he will stay on, Follmer said. He hasnt been convicted of anything and were operating on that.

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Hipps denied that a merit selection process would weaken the Democratic party by helping Republicans get elected.

If people realize we are trying to do the right thing for the right reasons and use the right kinds of policies, the Democratic Partys going to be strengthened by it, not weakened, he said.

The commission could report back as early as 1988. Then, if a bill is approved, the public would have to back a statewide referendum before any change could become law.

In other legislative action:

The state would refuse to fund more than 100 public school systems one per county under a bill filed for introduction by Rep. Jim Craven, R-Moore.

Its equal distribution of the tax dollar, Craven said. We have 140 school systems now and that reduces the amount of money that goes to some schools that really need it.

School merger historically has been a hot issue in counties with multiple systems. Critics charge that some opponents of merger are

motivated by a desire to avoid racial integration. ^ ^

Craven said a number of local officials were asking their legislators to introduce bills that would deal with multiple-system problems in their counties. He said a statewide approach would be better.

House Speaker Liston Ramsey said he had not formed an opinion on Cravens bill, but added that a reduction in the number of school systems probably was inevitable.

I dont see anything wrong with having more than one per county if the county commissioners want to pay for it, he said. Right now, with 140 systems, it means 40 extra superintendents, support personnel and so on.

Rep. Jim Craven, R-Moore, filed for introduction a bill that would require all North Carolina youngsters to attend school until graduation or age 18.

Right now, a person who turns 16 can say Tm not going back to school and theres nothing anyone can do, Craven said. With the dropout problem as bad as it is, we need to do this.

Eight states require school attendance until age 18, he said.

Martin Defends Political Aide

By JOHN FLESHER Associated Press Writer

RALEIGH (AP) - Gov. Jim Martin says having a staff member to (leal largely with political matters frees him and other top administration officials to make state business their primary concern.

In his weekly news conference Thursday, Martin defended his special assistant and counsel, Alan Pugh, who has drawn fire for making telephone calls on state time to seek support from Republican state employees for state GOP Chairman Jack Hawke.

Pugh generally is referred to as the Martin administrations political director. He serves as a liaison between the governor and his political supporter across the state, taking their suggestions for policy and appointments, Martin said.

Carter Wrenn, executive director of the National Congressional Club, complained this week that Pugh was telephoning state workers to solicit support tor Hawke.

Hawke, whom Martin recommended for the post, was elected interim chairman by the state GOP Executive Committee last week. But the Congressional Gub is waging a campaign to replace Hawke with Barry McCarty, a professor at a fundamentalist college in Elizabeth City, at the partys convention in May.

There are so many calls that come in from people that have to be responded to, Martin said. And rather than just have them distract ail our people in state government, I think its a better organizational plan to have Mr. Pugh do that.

Former Gov. Jim Hunt had a system under which anyone wanting a political appointment had to confer with a key - a local Hunt supporter who advised him on patronage matters. But Martin said he preferred his own system.

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Martin Wants Less Red Tape For Landfills

By JOHN FLESHER Associated Press Writer

RALEIGH (AP) - Making groundwater pollution standards more realistic and shortening the process of approving landfill permits will help local governments deal with solid-waste disposal problems, Gov. Jim Martin says.

Theres a growing concern ... that our permitting process can create lengthy delays, Martin said in a news conference Thursday.

Local governments have warned that if existing landfills run out of space before others are approved, waste is going to just get discarded along the roadsides, he added.

Martin said at his weekly news conference he had directed the state Environmental Management Commission to drop what he called an unrealistic rule that bars virtually any groundwater contamination even miniscule levels that do not endanger human health.

He also said he had established an inter-agency task force to speed up the process of reviewing landfill construction applications.

A third step Martin said he is propping is to make a $60 million revolving loan fund for water and sewer system improvements available for solid-waste landfill construction.

The moves, Martin said, are attempts to further what he called occasionally conflicting goals: effective waste disposal and safeguarding groundwater quality. We ought to achieve both of these goals. We figure weve got to have a better mechanism for dealing with them, Martin said.

The governor conceded that landfills are not a long-range solution to the waste management problem, and said new technology such as conservation, incineration and composting eventually should replace them. Landfills present a threat to our ^ound and surface water quality and rob us of land, he said.

Martin said he had directed state agencies to develop a plan for phasing out landfills by the year 2000. In the meantime, he said, state government should help counties by streamlining the process of issuing landfill permits.

A major problem, he said, is the zero standard, under which virtually any contaminant not covered by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations is barred from state drinking water supplies.

Technology has advanced to the point that scientists can detect pollution in such small amounts that in almost all circumstances it has no significance to any biological system, Martin said.

Forcing industry or local governments to remove every trace of such chemicals or other contaminants imposes an unnecessary and unaffordable cost, he said.

So Im trying to turn us away from that zero standard - not to expose you to danger, but to have a safety level that is well below danger thresholds, he said. Im talking about maintaining a realistic, rational level.

Martin said the task force, which will use personnel from the state Department of Human Resources and the Department of Natural Resources and Community Development, will try to quicken the permitting process.

DHR already has reduced the time for reviewing the typical application from nine months to three months since the Legislature appropriated funds for additional staff last year, Martin said.

In the past eight months, the department has reduced an application backlog by 50 percent, approving 22 applications and rejecting seven. Still pending are seven proposals to expand landfills and seven applications for new ones.

The task force will meet with local officials at the site of a proposed landfill, tell the officials what data is needed, and meet when the application is submitted, Martin said. He said he hoped one or two meetings would be sufficient to process most applications.

Martin said his proposal to bring solid-waste landfills under his revolving loan program would help local governments pay for top-quality facilities that would comply with groundwater rules.

He insisted that the loan program would be better than the grants that the Legislature approved for water-sewer upgrading in 1985-87. The Legislature required that the money be distributed on a per capita basis, meaning that much of it went to urban counties that needed it less than small, rural counties.

ABA Board Opposes Outlawing Tobacco Product Advertising

By RICHARD CARELLI Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) - American Bar Association leaders oppt^e outlawing tobacco product advertising but predict a spirited debate before the lawyer group adopts an official policy on the proposed ban.

The ABAs board of governors, meeting at the 330,000-lawyer groups convention, voted Thursday to oppose a pro-ban effort by the New York and Maryland state bar associations.

The 32-member board wants the ABAs policy-making House of Delegates, which convenes here next week, to refuse putting the ABAs

support behind an ad ban being studied by Congress.

I think the proposal is an inappropriate assault on the First Amendment, board member Howard Vogel of Knoxville, Tenn., said.

The Constitutions First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech.

But backers of the proposal, calling tobacco use the greatest present threat to the national health, say a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision makes clear that such a ban would be constitutional.

Horace Kornegay, the retired chairman of the Tobacco Institute and now a Greensboro, N.C., lawyer.

left Thursday to lobby against the proposal.

Its just one more problem to deal with, Kornegay said. This resolution just adds fuel to the flames that are already burning brightly out there.

Kornegay and others have spent two months preparing for the showdown. He has several file folders packed with materials he has sent to delegates, including the six from North Carolina.

I feel very comfortable that it will not pass, Kornegay told the Greensboro News & Recwd.

They are going to look at the constitutionality of it, Kornegay

Philip Morris To Buy More Leaf

predicted. Most of them are inclined to be fairly objective about matters like this when considering what this would do to the First Amendment.

It doesnt take but one person with one match to sometime start a conflagration if;, you dont get the bucket brigade out in a hurry, he said. The bucket brigade is mustered. We are dipping, passing and throwing.

The ABA, which lobbies Congress with considerable success, itself has been subjected to heavy lobbying on whether the tobacco industry should be forced to stop spending $2 billion a

^ Health organizations are leading the pnhban forces. The tobacco in-dustiys lobbying effort has been aided groups such as the American Newsjpaper Publishers Association, which is concerned about

By The Associated Press Tobacco interests are welcoming Philip Morris USAs announcement that it plans to increase its purchases of domestic leaf to help the troubled industry.

Ernest P. Quinby, the companys director of communications, said Thursday the plan was prompted by the U.S. Department of Agricultures 1987 production quotas for flue-cured and burley tobacco, which are down

from last years levels by 3 percent and 6 percent, respectively.

The tobacco state congressional delegations have done a good job of pointing out the woes of tobacco farmers, and were gladly responding, Quinby said Thursday.

Virginias two Republican senators, John Warner and Paul Tri-ble, said the 1987 quota for flue-cured and burley tobacco will need to be in

creased to meet the new demand created by the Philip Morris decision.

Philip Morris decision to increase its 1987 tobacco purchases by an estimated 30 million pounds, which is over and above its already increased buying commitment, will go a long way in ensuring the financial security of the small family tobacco farmer, Warner and Trible said in a joint statement.

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Friday, February 13,1987Reagan Proposes Catastrophic Benefits For Elderly

By JERRY ESTILL Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagans proposal to provide the elderly with Medicare protection against massive hospital ana doctor bills is being greeted as a welcome but limited step by health care activists in Congress.

While the plan embraced Thursday by Reagan also outlines potential approaches for improving health insurance for Americans under 65, as well as long-term nursing home care, the immediate focus is on acute care for Medicare beneficiaries.

Under the proposal, Medicare recipients could insure themselves against more than $2,000 a year in out-of-pocket hospital and doctor bills by paying an additional $4.92 a month under the Part B coverage that now costs $17.90 monthly.

Part B generally covers doctor bills and is voluntary, although about 98 percent of the elderly take the coverage. Part A of Medicare pays hospital bills and is financed through Social Security tax deductions.

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By MATT YANCEY AP Labor Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - After backpedaling through the early 1980s with rapidly declining memberships, wage concessions and other lost benefits, American unions may be on the verge of a resurgence.

Union membership in terms of hard numbers is still falling, according to soon-to-be-published data from the government, but the losses in 1986 are a tiny fraction of what they were the previous six years, and the number of women carrying union cards rose by 70,000 last year.

In addition. Labor Department statistics show that union members last year enjoyed more than twice the average wage gains of their nonunion counterparts in absolute dollars.

As a result, the pay gap between union and non-union workers widened from $108 a week in 1985 to an averag $119 per week in 1986.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics figures, which were obtained by The Associated Press, showed the weekly wage earnings of union members rose $21 to an average $444 last year, compared with average py increase of $10 for non-union workers, raising their earnings to an average $325 per week.

All is not rosy, however, for the American labor movement. Unions share of the rapidly expanding job market continues to erode, and outside experts are skeptical that organized labor will ever regain the clout it enjoyed immediately after World War II and through the early 1950s.

There is going to continue to be an organized labor movement, said Richard Belous, a labor market analyst for the Conference Board, a New York-based business research house.

The interesting thing will be to see if they can reverse the numbers, Belous said. Its going to be extremely difficult for unions to get back up to the point where they again represent 25 percent of the work force.

Unions share of the U.S. labor force peaked at 35.5 percent in 1945 at the end of World War II. It held fairly close at that level until 1954, when it began declining, according to government data.

By 1978, only 23 percent of American workers belonged to unions. That figure rose slightly, to 24.1 percent in 1979 when membership peaked at 21 million in the United States, but it has been declining ever since.

While the U.S. economy put 4.7 million more Americans to work in 1986, compared with the year average for 1985, the number of workers who maintain union memberships fell by

21.000 to 1,975,000, dropping organized labors share of the work force from 18 percent to 17.5 percent.

Compared with membership declines of 344,000 in 1985 and 377,000 in 1984, the relatively small dip this year is seen as evidence that a focused effort by unions in trying to organize professional, other white-collar workers and women is beginning to pay off.

We really havent had enough time to see if those strategies are go-ing to work, said Charles McDonald, director of organizing for the 12.8-million-member AFL-CIO.

The Labor Department data, however, indicate the turning point has arrived for so-called pink-collar workers. Union membersnip among women rose by 70,000 in 1986 to

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Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., chairman of the House Commerce health subcommittee, said the presidents move was an important first step, but noted the plan does not offer a specific solution to paying for long-term nursing home care.

Now we in the Congress will have to make the hard decisions about whether this limited proposal is an adequate response or whether we can do more to assist Americans who are severely ill, Waxman said in a statement.

Rep. Edward R. Roybal, D-Calif., chairman of the House Select Committee on Aging, said the plan falls short of the presidents promise for a broad, national solution for uninsured and underinsured people and predicted Congress would go beyond the Reagan proposal.

Sen. David Durenberger of Minnesota, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee's health subcommittee, praised Reagans decision and said. "It is unconscionable that we have let senior citizens and the disabled impoverish themselves at the very time they are

the sickest, under the most stress and have huge medical bills.

Durenberger called the increase in the monthly premium modest and said the most serious criticism that can be offered of this proposal is that it is far too little.

Eighty-seven-year-old Rep. Claude Pepper, D-Fla., complained the plan was not a giant step, but rather the step of a dwarf, timid about going forward.

Reagan overruled conservative opposition within his administration to recommend the Bowen plan, which already has received wide bipartisan support in Congress.

I think there is a very good chance of legislation, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said. There will be a lively debate but I expect legislation to pass, and I think the Reagan plan will the basis for that legislation.

Conservatives led by Attorney General Edwin Meese III and the budget director. James A. Miller, had fought against the plan as it was being developed, arguing that it relied too much on the government and not enough on the health industry.

Reagan revealed his decision to adopt the Bowen pro

posal in a speech to junior high school students.

With the protection that this plan would provide, senior citizens will now be safe from the worst fear of old age - having their life savings taken away to pay the costs for an acute care due to a catastrophic illness, he said

Of the 30 million older Americans covered by Medicare, only 1.4 million people have medical expenses costing more than $2,000 a year, Bowen said.

But it is a big worry to all of the people, Bowen said The older people worry about two things: their health and their finances and which one is going to run out first

He said many had written to him saying, For $5 a month - I would be glad to pay that just so I don't worry.

Under the current Medicare hospital insurance pro gram, only the second through 60th days of a hospital stay are fully paid.

Fitzwater said the expanded program would pay for itself through the higher premiums, which would be in dexed to medical inflation as would the $2,000 annual cap

The total cost to the government would be nothing." Bowen said.

f Three Top Stock-Traders Accused In Insiders Probe

MONEY STOLEN Seven-year-old Ronnie DeSillers talks with his mother, Maria, earlier this month in Miami. Ronnie, who needs a liver transplant, received a phone call from President Reagan on Wednesday. A few hours later, thieves broke into his school and stole |4,(NM) classmates had collected to help pay for his operation. (AP Laserphoto)

By DAVID A. VISE and MICHAEL SCHR.AGE

L.A. Times-Washington Post News Service

Three of Wall Streets top stock traders were arrested Thursday and charged with engaging in a multimillion-dollar illegal trading scheme involving Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Kidder, Peabody & Co.

Bringing two of the nation's most irestigious investment banking lirms into the middle of the Ivan F. Boesky insider trading scandal, federal prosecutors accused the top traders at Goldman and Kidder of swapping secrets about corporate takeovers.

Robert M. Freeman, a 44-year-old Goldman partner who heads the firms arbitrage trading. Richard B. Wigton. a 52-year-old Kidder vice president who directs that firms arbitrage desk, and Timothy L. Tabor, a 33-year-old former arbitrage trader at Kidder, were charged with violating federal securities laws by trading stocks on the basis of confidential information.

U.S. marshals arrested Freeman and Wigton at the Goldman and Kidder offices near Wall Street and picked up Tabor at his apartment.

After the arrests, federal investigators appeared at Goldman, Sachs and Kidder to collect trading records and other documents. Wall Street sources said.

Reagan Call, Theft Of Funds Brings Support For Youngster

By DONALD W. SWINTON Associated Press Writer MIAMI (AP) - A call from President Reagan and the theft of $4,000 collectea by Ronnie DeSillers schoolmates brought an outpouring of sympathy and donations today for the 7-year-old who needs $162,000 for a liver transplant.

By early today, more than 1,300 leople had paid $10 each to attend a )enefit for the boy at a Miami Beach nightclub.

Every major television station is here right now and some companies have announced major pledges tonight, Stan Saruski, assistant promotions director for WPOW radio, said Thursday. "I think we could raise $50.000 to $60,000.Charlotte Grows

CHARLO'TTE (AP) - Charlottes economy grew in 1986, including an* 81 percent increase in new jobs, according to statistics released by the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce Thursday.

More than 9,000 new jobs were created by 621 new or expanded businesses that were added to Mecklenburg County in 1986. The additional employment brought to CharlotteMecklenburgs unemployment rate to 3.4 percent in December 1986, below the national average of 6.67 percent.

Radio stations plan to accept pledges all week and members of the Metro-Dade police SWAT team will solicit contributions for Ronnie, who doctors say has six to 18 months to live without a transplant for his deteriorating liver.

On Wednesday, the first-grader got a call from Reagan at Miami Childrens Hospital. The president promised a donation and urged him to.keep the faith.

A few hours later, police learned that thieves broke into the boys Fort Lauderdale school overnight and stole $4,000 his schoolmates raised by donating lunch money and holding bake sales and other activities.

Im sorry that this is the lesson my children in this school have learned after a lot of hard work and all the money theyve collected. said Elaine Patterson, principal of St. Anthonys School. "Who would come and do such a thing*? Its a sickness.

The stolen money was part of $89,000 raised so far for Ronnie, who needs $162,000 to get onto a waiting list for a transplant at Pittsburghs Childrens Hospital. Final costs could be more than $300,000.

The thief entered the accounting office where the money was stored by breaking a window, police said.

At the White House, presidential spokesman Albert Brashear said; Were shocked. I cant believe it. Ronnie was ecstatic about the presidents call, said his mother. Maria. He wanted to speak to Reagan

because they share a name and the experience of spending a lot of time in hospitals, she said.

He said to the president he was not feeling well, and the president asked him why, and he told him that he did not have enough money to go to Pittsburgh to get bis operation. Ms. DeSillers said.

Ronnie ended by thanking the president for calling, and then handed the phone to his mother.

He (Reagan) said not to feel alone, that there were a lot of people praying, Ms. DeSillers said. He said,Keep up the faith.

A student-faculty volleyball game at St. Anthonys School raised $500 Thursday and arrangements were being made to install 20 telephone lines at friends and relatives homes to help Ronnies family take pledges.

Neighbors, friends, even people I dont Know are answering telephones, Manuella Marchante, his grandmother, said Thursday night.

Wigtons attorney, Stanley Arkin. said his client denies the charges. A spokesman for Goldman said that based on an internal review, We have no reason to believe that there has been any wrongdoing by Freeman. Tabor could not be reached for comment.

The allegations Thursday were the most significant actions since stock speculator Ivan F. Boesky paid the government $100 million in November to settle charges that he used confidential information to make illegal stock trading profits. Boesky, who has agreed to plead guilty to one felony count, is cooperating with investigators.

The arrests were made on the basis of information provided by an informant identified in court documents only as CS-1. Sources said the informant was not Boesky.

The complaints said CS-1 - which stands for Confidential Source 1 participated in the scheme while he was employed at Kidder, is cooperating with the probe and has agreed to plead guilty to two criminal felony counts. CS-1 also has provided the government with extensive in-.formation about illegal insider trading that was not disclosed Thursday, the complaints said.

High-ranking Walt Street executives said they have been informed that the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. attorneys office in New York are examining Freemans ties to Martin A. Siegel, the codirector of Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc.s merger department. Before joining Drexel last year, Siegel was a top dealmaker at Kidder. Siegel has been subpoenaed by the government and has been reported to be cooperating with the probe.

The arrests of the three men Thursday surprised many Wall Street observers, who considered it an unusually harsh way to proceed in a white-collar crime case. Most of the other defendants in the earlier in

sider trading cases were telephoned and asked to turn themselves in.

Ira Lee Sorkin, the former head of the SECs New York office, said indi viduals generally are arrested in such matters if "they are about to flee the jurisdiction. You arrest people if they are in the act of committing a crime. Or you arrest people to throw the fear of God into them.

Freeman and Wigton are senior executives at investment banking firms that are leaders in arranging corporate mergers. Freeman is one of Wall Streets best known and most respected arbitrageurs. Arbitrageurs try to make money by buying the stocks of companies that are involved in mergers. These stocks typically increase after takeover bids are announced. Goldmans arbitrage desk takes some of the big gest trading positions on the Street.

Tabor had left Kidder and had since worked as an arbitrageur at Chemical Bank and Merrill Lynch.

He recently resigned from Merrill, which issued a statement noting that the charges involve activities that took place before Tabor joined the firm.

Freeman, Wigton and Tabor did not enter pleas in court Thursday and were released after posting bond.

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Court Upholds Pennzoil's Claim Against Texaco

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A Texas apj^als court Thursday trimmed $2 billion from the record $10.53 billion damage award against Texaco but upheld the basic 1985 jury verdict that Texaco had wrongfully interfered with Pennzoils plan to merge with Getty Oil three years ago.

The unanimous ruling by the special three-judge appeals panel was not considered a surprise, but Texaco attacked it as absurd, appalling and outrageous and

reiterated that it would appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary.

Details of the 162-page opinion were not immediately available, but court officials said that the original jury verdict was upheld in all

respects except the $3 billion portion of the award specifed as punitive

damages. The appeals court said $1 billion was punishment enough.

The loss of $2 billion, however, would be offset by accrued interest, which, since the jury verdict 15 months ago, has raised the total owed Pennzoil to about $12.2 billion, said

Pennzoil attorney Joseph Jaman of Houston. Thursdays opinion reduces that figure to $10.2 billion.

Weve picked up another billion and a half m interest while they were appealing it, said Jamail. Despite Thursdays action, Were almost back to the original verdict .

Texaco stepped in and acquired Getty Oil after Getty and Pennzoil had struck a supposed deal to merge, and Pennzoil sued for damages. The resulting verdict was the biggest in U.S. history and threatened Texacos survival.

The legal dispute centers on

whether Pennzoil and Getty had a binding contract to merge and what Texaco knew about that when it entered the picture. Texacos major claim in its appeal is that the Texas

lower court misapplied New York contract law and left the jury little

choice but to find as it did.

Jamail boasted that the appeals court rebuffed Texaco at every turn and that every position Pennzoil took in the trial has been affirmed. Texaco, meanwhile, took little comfort in the reduction of the punitive damages.

The courts reduction of the unlawful and outrageous punitive damage award cannot be allowed to mask the absurdity of todays basic ruling, Texacos new chief executive, James W. Kinnear, said in a lengthy statement. It is appalling that the ... decision today continues to misapply the law of New York on the basic issues of contract formation and illegal interference,

nears recent promotion to the top post at Texaco might improve the chances for an out-of-court settlement.

Jamail said flatly that nothing is going on on that front.

The sharp words reflect the hard feelings that have characterized the case ever since the jury verdict, but there has been speculation that Kin-

An important side issue - whether Texaco should be required to post a $12 billion bond while it appeals the jury verdict - was argued last month before the U.S. Supreme Court and a decision is expected this summer. A federal court in White Plains, N.Y., last year held that Texaco had to put up only $1 billion.Senator Wants Delay In Proposed FmHA Credit Changes

WASHINGTON (AP) - Proposed Farmers Home Administration credit rule changes should be delayed because they are too complex and will make it tougher to get loans, the Senate Agriculture Committee chairman says.

Farmers would have to hire a Wall Street attorney to decipher these rules, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., told a news conference Thursday.

Leahy made public a letter he sent to Agriculture Secretary Richard

Mother Wins Klan Damages

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) The mother of a black teen-ager murdered by two Ku Klux Klansmen has been awarded $7 million in damages, a verdict her lawyer says may put the nations largest Klan group out of business.

The all-white jury deliberated about 4'2 hours Thursday before returning the award against the United Klans of America Inc. and six past or present members, including the two sent to prison for the slaying.

U.S. District Judge Alex T. Howard Jr., who presided over the three-day trial, will hold a hearing within 90 days to determine the assets of the United Klans, which has about 2,500 members and operates in the Southeast.

I hope the jurys decision will put it out ot business, said Morris Dees, a lawyer for the family of 19-year-old Michael Donald, who was beaten and strangled in 1981 and whose body was left dangling from a tree.

Irwin Suall, a Klan expert with the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith in New York City, said the verdict could ruin United Klans and make it less attractive to potential members than rival Klan groups such as the Birmingham-based Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

The United Klans is the largest and most secretive of several rival Klan organizations, he said.

Suall said United Klans already is so finacially pressed that it can no longer pay'the salary of Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton, who had to go back to work as a car salesman. Im just glad justice was done, said Beulah Mae Donald. Money dont mean a thing to me. It wont bring my child back. But Im glad they caught the guilty and brought them to court.

Steps will be taken to gain title of a spacious office building occupied by the United Klans in Tuscaloosa, said Dees, who valued the building at about $100,000.

"We will take appropriate action to do something with it for the benefit of people good things instead of bad things, Dees said, adding that the verdict was the first damage award against the United Klans for the actions of its members.

John Mays, an attorney for the United Klans, argued the corporation is a political organization that could not be held accountable for the murder. He said he had not decided whether to appeal.

Bill Stanton, director of Klan-watch, an arm of the Southern Poverty Law Center, praised the award.

"Victims of Klan violence now have a precedent to seek damages from the corporate Klan behind the perpetrators of these kinds of violent acts. he said.

Henry Francis Hays, 32, received the death sentence in 1984 for the slaying. Klansman James "Tiger Knowles. 24. was sentenced to life in )rison after pleading guilty to vio-ating Donald s civil rights.

Knowles testified during Hays trial that Donald was abducted at random from a Mobile street and killed to show Klan strength in Alabama, According to testimony, the local Klan was angered by an unrelated trial in which a black was accused of murdering a white police officer in Birmingham.

The other defendants in the lawsuit were Bennie Jack Hays, a Klan officer and father of Henry Francis Hays, and former Klansmen Thad-deus Betancourt, Frank Cox and William OConnor.

At a news conference, Mrs. Donald said she had forgiven Knowles, "1 have no hatred in my heart, she said.

Lyng, asking for a 60-day extension of the public comment period that is part of federal rulemaking.

The period for the Farmers Home proposal ends Tuesday and the new rules are set to go into effect in March.

The proposal could seriously restrict the availability of credit to farmers and ranchers and have a major impact on credit institutions and on rural communities, Leahys letter said.

Leahy, whose panel just completed

hearings in the Midwest at which farmers vented frustration at tight credit, said the agencys announcement of the proposed changes explained them in terms of journals that are not usually available in farm towns.

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Nebraska and my Vermont, he said.

The administrations proposal would make numerous changes. Among other things, they would allow the agency to write off bad debt in one year instead of the current five.

They also would eliminate red tape involved in loan decisions.

Under the changes, the agency would give first priority to current borrowers in making loans. Farmers who currently are not Farmers

Home borrowers would have to get to the back of the line, said Ron Ence, associate administrator of Farmers Home.

Were not going to be able to make loans to everyone, he said.

He said funds are limited and the agency feels it must give preference to current borrowers because "we have an investment in them.

He said farmers will be far better off knowing quickly whether they will get a loan than hoping for weeks only to have their hopes dashed. He ac

knowledged that the rules as published in the Federal Register are complicated but said they are "no more complicated than othier federal regulations.

The period set aside for public comment on the rules expires Tuesday and. with no delays, they would go into effect .30 days thereafter. But Ence said the agency is considering Leahys request and expects to receive a similar one from the House of Representatives. ,

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Friday. February 13,1987State, Military Disagree Over Contra Progress

By GEORGE GEDDA Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State George P. Shultz is calling for continued U.S. assistance to the Nicaraguan rebels, but the nations leading military man says American patience with the Contras may be running out.

Hours before Shultz delivered a ringing defense of U.S. policy toward Central America during a speech in New Orleans, Adm. William Crowe, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the American people will not support the rebels indefinitely unless they have some battlefield successes.

Youve got to have some kind of success or youre not going to get a continuing commitment," Crowe told reporters Thursday. "I dont think theres any question about that. And I dont know of anybody who would ask

the American indefinitely wii

le to go on and on it progress.

White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, asked for reaction to Crowes linking of future aid to battlefield success, said the U.S. commitment to the rebels is fixed and is steadfast... I dont know that I can address their tactics, but our suppjort is not conditioned on any specific strategy or tactic.

Shultz, speaking to the American Bar Association in New Orleans, said the rebels cannot succeed without U.S. support and said that support should not be undercut by the scandal over U.S. arms sales to Iran and the diversion of profits to the Contras.

It would be immoral to abandon them,he said

On Capitol Hill, opponents of Con

tra aid say the controversy, coupled with internal squabbling in the rebels ranks, has enhanced their chances to defeat an expected $105 million aid request for fiscal year 1988.

In an effort to patch up the latest internal problem with the rebels. Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams met Thursday with rebel leader Arturo Cruz apparently to persuade him not to resign from the rebel umbrella group United Nicaraguan Opposition.

There were also reports that Abrams met with Adolfo Calero, an UNO chieftain with whom Cruz has had frequent clashes.

Meanwhile, Alfonso Robelo, another of the top rebel leaders, demanded Caleros resignation, along with that of eight other rebel

figures, The Washington Post reported today.

In other developments:

The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. David Boren, D-Okla., said his panel would proceed slowly on confirmation for Robert Gates, Reagans nominee to replace the ailing William Casey as CIA director. Gates is likely to face intense questioning about tne agencys role in the Iran-Contra arms deal.

-Vice President George Bush, in an appearance in Lansing, Mich., for the first time acknowledged that he had voiced some reservations in the administrations inner councils about the Iran arms sale. He did not elaborate.

-NBC-TV reported today that former CIA Director William Casey sent a memorandum last November to Lt. Col. Oliver North, then a ^Na

tional Security Council aide, arguing that the congressional ban on military aid to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua was unconstitutional.

The network, quoting unidentified congressional sources, said Casey also urged North, already under investigation for his role in the Iran arms deals, to hang in there. Caseys memo did not reveal whether he knew that North was involved in a plan to divert cash from the Iran arms sales to the Contras, NBC said. The alleged diversion plan was revealed last Nov. 25 by Attorney General Edwin Meese.

Irans official news agency reported that Hashemi Rafsanjani, speaker of the Iranian parliament, said former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane offered during a secret visit last year to trade himself for American hostages in

Bush Slips Away From White House Stance On Iran

By DAVID ESPO \ssocis1t0fl I^ress Writer

, WASHINGTON (AP) Vice President George Bush is taking his first step toward political independence from President Reagan, disclosing that he privately expressed certain reservations about the administrations Iran policy.

Looking ahead to the 1988 presidential race. Bush said he doesnt intend to jump away from the president as he begins his own White House quest. At a news conference Thursday in Lansing, Mich., however, he added that there might be a little bit of friction, might be a little contradiction.

But I think the president would understand it, he said.

The American people every eight years are entitled to expect change, said Bush, who has served as Reagans unflinching defender for six years.

Bush fielded questions during a two-day Midwestern trip during which he also conceded the Iran-Contra controversy is hampering his still unannounced presidential campaign. Bush returned to Washington on Thursday afternoon after a stop in Springfield, 111., and arranged a trip to Cincinnati today.

Bush is expected to make a formal announcement of his presidential candidacy next fall, but intends to step up the ice of his political travel in the next several weeks. He will visit seven cities in Iowa on March 5-6, touring the state that holds the first presidential caucuses of the election year next February.

The vice presidents statement that the Iran-Contra controversy has hurt him politically coincides with public opinion polls showing him losing strength in recent months.

What is happening is not that he is losing support, but people are saying, We want to wait before deciding whether to support him, said one aide, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Bushs comments n Iran marked his first expression of dissatisfaction with any element of the presidents Iran policy and amounted to a violation of his own oft-cited rule of never disclosing what he tells the president in private.

Previously he had defended the arms sale to Iran as an attempt to establish ties with moderates in Tehran, although he said in a speech last December that mistakes were made in implementing the policy.

But at his news conference, he said, The key players around there (in the White House) know that I expressed certain reservations on certain aspects. He refused to provide specifics.

Bush also said he could not recall when he first learned of the decision to sell arms to Iran secretly, and refused to say what action he took after being informed by Israeli Amiran Nir last summer that the United States was dealing with radicals and not moderates inside the Iranian regime.

Bush conceded the perception exists that the United States swapped arms for hostages, but said he was not personally ready to make that judgment. If the various investigations under way prove that was the case, he said, I would be the first to say that is wrong.

As for the effect the controversy has had on his own political standing. Bush said, If Im going to take the credit for the good things (accomplished by the Reagan administration)... then Ive got to be man enough to take the associa-tional guilt.

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Calif. The Blue Angel pilot ejected safely seconds before the jet smashed onto the tracks. (AP Laserphoto)

U.S. May Investigate 74 Suspected As Nazis

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Departments Nazi-hunting section says it may investigate a list of 74 suspected war criminals who came to the United States after serving in military units that killed tens of thousands of Jews.

The list was assembled by the Simon Wiesenthal Center of Los Angeles from a variety of sources, including archives in the Soviet Union. The names on it are of former Lithuanian and Latvian soldiers assigned to Nazi SS-controlled units which killed Eastern European Jews during World War II.

Surging Energy Costs Pace Rise In Wholesale Prices

By TDM RAl M AP Economics Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Wholesale

rices, on the heels of their best year-y performance since 1949, rose 0.6 percent in January as energy prices surged, the government reported today.

The overall gain was the sharpest since November 1985. Energy prices have not risen so steeply since 1979.

Gasoline prices rose 18.0 percent in January as home heating oil costs gained 15.7 percent and natural gas prices advanced 4.2 percent.

Economists suggested the energy price increases would have been even higher had it not been for a milder-than-usual winter and noted that prices had begun edging up in December.

Food prices last month fell 1.9 percent, the second straight dip. Excluding food and energy, wholesale

prices were up 0.5 percent in January.

Last months overall increase in the Labor Departments Producer Price Index would be equivalent to an annual inflation rate of 7.7 percent if maintained for 12 consecutive months.

That compares to a drop in wholesale prices of 2.5 percent for all of 1986. Wholesale prices in December, however, had fallen 0.1 percent.

It was the collapse of energy prices in early 1986 that sent the full-year index tumbling for the first time since 1963. Indeed, only in 1949 did prices fall at a faster clip, 4.6 percent.

Now, it is largely because of the rebound in energy prices that economists are predicting moderately rising prices for the forseeable future.

Analysts also point to declines in

the value of the dollar against other major currencies in forecasting that prices of industrial products will rise in the months to come. In January, heavy machinery and other capital equipment ros 0.2 percent, double Decembers 0.1 percent.

I think were at the beginning of a substantial increase of inflation, said Michael K. Evans, president of a private economic forecasting service. I think weve pretty much run out of our luck.

In December, gasoline prices had risen 2.6 percent; home heating oil costs had been up 5.1 percent and natural gas prices had fallen 7.8 percent.

Lawyers for the center submitted the list to the Justice Departments Office of Special Investigations.

The office will review the names, and some of them may already be the subject of OSI inquiries, Neal Sher, the offices director, said Thursday.

Sher said there will be a thorough review of whatever new leads are contained in the groups list of names. This could lead to in-depth investigations and denaturalization and deportation proceedings, Sher said.

The units these men belonged to were part of Hitlers Final Solution, which was more successful in Lithuania and Latvia than anywhere else. Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Wiesenthal Center, told a news conference.

Hier acknowledged that some of the 74 likely have died and that others may no longer be in the United States. But he said many are still alive and living here, in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles.

Hier also urged Attorney General Edwin Meese III to move swiftly to deport to the Soviet Union Karl Lin-nas, an accused Nazi collaborator whose U.S. citizenship was revoked in 1981.

Hier said failing to take action against Linnas would send a signal to other Nazi war criminals that they can use delaying tactics to fight deportation proceedings. Justice Department spokesman Terry Eastland said Meese has the matter under review.

In 1985, Pitt Countys average weekly manufacturing wage was $332.98.

Of 225,000 Jews living in Lithuania at the beginning of World War II, only 2,000 to 3,000 were alive in 1945, said Hier.

In Latvia, there were only a few hundred survivors out of a Jewish population of 95,000 at the beginning of the war, he said. The men on the list of 74 names served in units which played the primary role in exterminations of the civilian population of those regions, said Hier.

Lebanon. White House spokesman Fitzwater said he knew nothing about the reported offer.

-ABC News reported Thursday night that conservative fund-raiser Carl Channell was instrumental in a fund-raising project for the Contras called Toys. The report said that former White House aide Lt. Col. Oliver L. North, fired for his role in the purported diversion of Iran arms sales profits to the Contras, discussed rebel needs with Channells contributors. Jane McLaughlin, a former Channell associate, told ABC she understood we were working directly on behalf of the president and his policy in Central America, via Col. Oliver North. .

-The Washington Post reported today that Reagans hand-picked commission investigating the Iran-Contra affair has received a new file of computer messages, sent within the National Security Council.

-Printouts of the NSC computer messages between North and the CIA station chief in Costa Rica indicate that the NSC was overseeing private efforts to supply the Contras and suggested that they may need to cover their tracks, according to unnamed congressional investigators cited in todays editions of the New York Daily News.

Canadian External Affairs Minister Joe Clark said the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is investigating the role of a Trans World Arms of Montreal company in an arms shipment that may have been diverted from Guatemala to the Contras.

-Two associates of North -businessman Albert A. Hakim and retired Air Froce Maj. Gen. Richard V. Secord - shipped 358 tons of arms, including Communist Bloc assault rifles, to a Pentagon warehouse in the United States, possibly for later shipment to the Contras, the Los Angeles Times reported today. The newspaper said it had not been determined whether the materiel ever reached the Contras.

Crowe, the nations top-ranking military officer, said he was uncertain whether the Contras could achieve a military victory over the leftist Sandinista government, but Shultz expressed confidence in the rebels prospects.

We shou d read again the history of our own fight for independence, Shultz said. Those on the side of liberty and human dignity are on the side of history .

The Sandinista government maintains that the Contras inability to control any Nicaraguan territory after five years of struggle demonstrates their ineffectiveness and lack of popular support.

Both the Reagan administration and rebel leaders have said recently that the prospects for the Contras have improved since U.S. military aid was resumed last fall.

Calero, leader of the main insurgent force, said last week 6,000 Contras have re-infiltrated Nicaragua over the past two months and that 15,000 will have crossed the border by spring.

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