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Page Two Tyrone Daily Herald, Saturday, White House a group ot high school students Friday. "We're a little ahead of schedule on recovery." "The best Christmas gift this country can receive is the thought of people going back to work," said presidential spokesman Larry Speakes, who gave a two-word answer when asked what caused the decline: "Ronald Reagan." The drop in the unemployment rate "points toward economic good times in 1984," said GOP national Chairman Prank Fahrenkopf. The AFL-C10 also said it welcomed the news, but was more skeptical about the strength of the economy. Federation spokesman Dale Larson noted the total work force has declined over the last quarter with no improvement in the participation rate. "This indicates a continuing weakness in the economy that casts doubt on the strength of the recovery," he said.

Jerry Jasinowski, economist for the National Association of Manufacturers, attributed the sharp downward trend to the rapid growth of the gross national product of about 7 percent in the fourth quarter and a sharper-than- expected rebound in manufacturing jobs. "At the same time," he said, "it may be that unemployment is somewhat understated because of unusually low increases in the labor force, sampling errors and problems of seasonal adjustment." The seasonally adjusted rate has now dropped almost a full percentage point in two months, from 9.3 percent in September, and is the lowest since November 1981 when it stood at 8.3 percent. An alternative rate that includes 1.7 million members of the military as part of the work force declined 0.5 of a percentage point to 8.2 percent in November. Total civilian employment measured by the household survey jumped 740,000 to 102.7 million in November after showing little change in October. The number of unemployed people dropped by 520,000 to 9.4 million.

It is now nearly 2.7 million below the recession high. The most sizeable drop involved unemployed teenagers, down 1.7 percentage points to 19.9 percent, in a category that has shown little recovery until recent months. The rate for adult men fell from 8.2 percent to 7.8 percent. The number of newly unemployed persons those joblesss for less than five weeks fell sharply for the second straight month, and there was a large drop among those who were permanently separated from their positions. Lottery Number HARRISBURG (UPI) The winning number selected in Friday's Pennsylvania Daily Lottery game was 792.

The winning Lotto numbers were 0818-03-30-10-24. The alternate number was 09. Five Die said. "It was a very intense, very hot fire," Barron said, "and it destroyed most of the remains." Gallitzin Fire Chief Richard McCaa said firefighters had believed the house was vacant until a neighbor told them otherwise as they prepared to leave the scene after several hours. "The place was fully engulfed when we got there," McCaa said.

"We were led to believe there were no occupants in the structure and decided to go back when things got better." He said the intensity of the heat kept firefighters away from the house for several hours. "There was so much debris out there that we figured to let the fire run its course," he said. "Finding those bodies that's the nasty part of this business." McCaa said crews had arrived at the burning house shortly after 6 a.m. Thursday. "The fire was visible from the firehouse four miles away," he said.

"By the time we got there, there wasn't a whole lot that could be done." PUC Asked and the days before holidays and requires utilities to provide written notice at least 48 hours before a scheduled service termination, she said. Ms. Taliaferro called on utilities to "do their utmost to help resolve 'these difficult human problems" and said the committee's proposal would be considered by the Bureau of Consumer Services. "We have been able to get people turned on if you raise enough of a stink," said Barney Ousler, another member of the Mon Valley committee. "But most people are isolated and alone and don't know how to get started." The PUC's toll-free hot line for individuals who have not been able to arrange payments with their utility is 800-692-7380.

Individuals also may call the Consumer Services Bureau directly in Pittsburgh or Harrisburg if they are unable to get through on the hot line, Ms. Taliaferro said. Unemployment, Reagan Says Pennsylvania's increase ran counter to the national unemployment figure, which dropped from 8.8 percent to 8A percent last month. Among the 10 largest states, Pennsylvania had the thir- dhighest jobless trailing Michigan, with 11.9 percent unemployment, and Ohio, with 10.8 percent. In New Jersey, the unemployment rate increased from 6.8 percent in October to 6.9 percent last month, a hike that was not statistically significant, Paisner said.

The number of people with jobs climbed from 3,396,000 to 3,422,000 while those unemployed went from 247,000 to 252,000, he said. mm MONUMENTS A Member Of The Barree Guild Purchase A Lasting Remembrance For Someone You Loved All Sizes, Shapes, and Colors Available Cemetery Lettering Contact Owner 805 Jefferson Ave. Phune: 684-0532 Sales Manager loe Chille I5HI Sliee! Hlioiie. B84 1U02 ff'Tfj 'jf 4 J. has its hands full with leftist guerrillas.

"The democratic government, beset by thousands of guerrillas on the left, would have a lot better chance of apprehending these death squads and handling the extreme rightists if they were not beset by the guerrillas." Salvadoran "death squads," believed to be drawn from the ranks of the military, have been blamed for the murders of some 5,000 persons in the past year. A senior American official said later, "I don't think the president in any way was trying to change our position to violence on the left and on the right." As for the "death squads," the official said "these are 99 percent thugs." The bill Reagan vetoed Wednesday would have continued a 2-year-old requirement the administration certify every six months that the U.S.-backed Salvadoran government is making progress on human rights. Continued U.S. aid to El Salvador was contingent upon such certification. Reagan said the certification requirement would tell the Salvadoran right and left that "if they step up the violation of human rights that we can't certify, they from which ever side are helping to win their battle against the democratic government." The veto came as a surprise since the United States has stepped up its public criticism of the Salvadoran government because of the increase in political murders.

Our forefathers and mothers made the down payment on our freedom-it's up to us to keep up the payments. Some reformers have a two-fold la.sk: Tney must exhort the populace to follow their advice. while ignoring their example. It might to keep things in perspective by remembering that hard tune; will be Cove a four-bed house wrtere they are practically on While at Cove Forge, patients live in comfortably furnished two-bed rooms. Although there is a cleaning staff, patients are responsible for keeping their rooms neat.

Rooms on one side of the house are reserved for women patients, with men living In the other side. Men outnumber women in the program more than two to one, not because men have more trouble with drugs, but because women tend to hide the problem more effectively. "As a result of this," said our guide, "women are usually further along in the disease when they get here." Mornings at Cove Forge are spent in the classroom, where patients learn the nature of their disease and what they can do to combat It. Six counselors and a clinical p- sycologist director of therapy are in charge of the classes and therapy sessions. The nurses also lecture on the nature of drugs.

NEW DIRECTOR George Obermeier, who formerly directed the adolescent program, recently replaced Dr. Verrett as director of the facility when Verrett returned to private practice. "There are other ways to relax and feel better in our society, but drugs are the easy way out," said Obermeier, "and most of our patients have progressed from using drugs recreationally to habitual use and then to dependency. A person who is dependent on chemicals is not in control of his life and is suffering from a disease that is physical, psychological and spiritual." Each patient at Cove Forge is assigned to a counselor for individual and small group therapy. ACTIVITY PROGRAM All patients are also required to take part in an individualized daily physical activity program.

"We refer to it as DRAT (Daily Required Activity Time)," said Carol Mercer, Cove Forge physical education director. "It gives people another way to deal with stress and tension. Everybody gets together to do some stretching. Then they are divided into two groups, those over 25 and those under 25. We encourage them to choose an activity they will enjoy.

Some want a low energy activity like fishing. Others will prefer a high energy activity, tennis, for example." The physical education center at Cove Forge is a converted barn, which is equipped with a ping-pong table, weight lifting equipment and other facilities. Also available are tennis courts, an indoor swimming ppol and a stream for fishing. "We try to find out what each person would like to do and help him get started," said Mercer. "We.like them to choose something they can continue after they leave here, because changing the patterns of their lives is of utmost importance," A nutritional program is also incorporated into the recovery process, with well- balanced meals (containing no white sugar or white flour) served in an attractive dining room.

Food is available for snacks at any time of the day. REFERRED FOR RE.HAB Patients are referred to Cove Forge from the.Drug and Alcohol Clinic, the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, and, most often, by private industries Interested in the rehabilitation of their employees and their employees' families. The cost of a day at Cove Forge is $180, which means that the average stay costs somewhere between $5000 and $7000. The bill is paid by the patients themselves, by private insurance or by the rehabilitation office. "We do not, however, turn down people who need help," said Janice Leshinski.

"We search lot ways their stay can be financed." HALF-WAV HOUSES When a patient is discharged from Cove Forge, he is not abandoned. Most spend some time at a half-way house before returning to their homes. "In these houses they are in a drug-free environment with other recovering chemically- dependent people," said Leshinski. "They are confronted with some pressures, but not at (he level they left when they came to us. Their, cases are followed, and help is available from such groups as Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous." "Kids are mistaken when they expect to be approached by a.

weird-looking adult drug piisfter," said Obermeier. "Jt's their friends who offer drugs to school kids, and the marketing of alcohol is directly at young people. PANQSR.QVS PRACTICE "Who's in the beer commercials on TV? Athletes. They try to give a grown-up, macho, Joe Cool (mage to drinking. Kids think it's an adult thing to do.

And when Forge children have a drinking problem or a drug problem, they often try to hide It under the rug. It's a dangerous practice in a society where two-thirds of high school seniors drink to get drunk and where 15,000 die eyei'y year from overdose and accidents due directly to the abuse of drugs and "Drug use in the States is epidemic," he said, "and we urge anyone who needs help to contact us." For more information, contact the admission's office by calling 832-2131 or 944-4635 or write to Cove Forge Treatment Center, P.O. Box Williamsburg, Pa. 16693, Israeli Planes said the planes struck guerrilla headquarters and bases In the Bahameoun and Sofar areas of Lebanon, east of Beirut. "The headquarters and bases attacked this morning belonged to several terrorist organizations operating under Syrian inspiration," the command said.

"All planes returned safely to base and pilots reported accurate hits on targets." Reports by Lebanese military sources said the invading Israeli jets knocked out mobile Syrian radar and artillery deployed in the Sofar region. The same reports said the jets also knocked out Palestinan "targets" In the same area. State-run Beirut radio said the Israeli air strikes started at 8,05 a.m. and were continuing several minutes later. In Damascus, a Syrian military spokesman said the Israelis jets were after positions manned by the Druze militias of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party.

The Sofar region is in Syrian held territory along the highway. "Our air defenses confronted the enemy planes and forced them to flee to the occupied territories," the Syrian military spokesman said. Israeli warplanes last attacked in Lebanon Nov. 20, also in retaliation for guerrilla activity in south Lebanon and in response to the Nov. 4 suicide truck bombing of Israeli military headquarters in Tyre.

One Israeli warplane crashed in the Nov. 20 raid after being shot by Palestinian and Lebanese Druze Moslem militia gunners. Israeli officials. have pledged Israel would attack guerrillas in Lebanon at its own choosing as part of a policy of swift retaliation for guerrilla attacks. Israeli troops last week discovered and dismantled a roadside bomb near the south Lebanese port of Sidon, but no Israeli soldiers have been killed in Lebanon in the last two weeks.

The anti-Arafat guerrillas, perched on Mount Turbol and the hillside Beddawi refugee camp northeast of the port city, unleashed a three-hour bombardment on Arafat positions at the Tripoli port Friday night and early today, a witness said. The witness said Arafat's men replied to the "fierce hammering" by rebels using Soviet-made Grad rockets with artillery shells. Other witnesses in Tripoli said fighting with lighter weapons, such as rocket-propelled grenades and Kalashnikov rifles, also continued into the morning. It was the worst violation of the cease-fire arranged Nov. 25 by Syria and Saudi Arabia.

Shelling of the port Friday scuttled a secret International Red Cross plan to begin evacuating Arafat's wounded men by sea. Arafat has asked that a United Nations force supervise the withdrawal of his 5,000 to 6,000 fighters from the city, under siege for a month by Syrian-backed rebels demanding a more militant Palestine Liberation Organization. Around Beirut 42 miles to the south, little fighting was reported Friday but the population was on edge after the apparent deadlock in Gemayel's attempts to rid the country of foreign forces. The State Department said the United States was firmly behind the agreements negotiated last May by Secretary of State George Shultz that enable Israel to remain in Lebanon until Syria withdraws its forces. In Jerusalem, Shamir returned from his visit to the United States, saying he had won agreement to jointly oppose "Syrian aggression supported massively by th? Soviet Union." YOM must set your own in the race ot life-it's hard to caic, up once you fall, behind Screwdriver TAXtQAQ 'Some 53Y pur nation's tax load is staggering-but don't looH for it to fail down any time soon.

TAKIS SAVVY SupcefsfgJ don't haye it ftth WPW tp it. Parker, pilots John Young attd firewater Shaw, Owen Garfiott, Byron Llchtenberg and Ulf Merbold have been doing such a good job since liftoff Monday, officials were considering adding a day to the nine-day flight, postponing the landing at Edwards Air Force Base, from Wednesday to Thursday. A storm front reportedly headed in the direction of the landing, site, however, could threaten any plans to extend the expedition, flight director John Cox said. "It looks like no rain expected before Wednesday. We'll probably delay the decision as long as we can.

We won't commit to doing an extra day unless we know we've got another couple days of good weather." The crew aboard the $1 billion European-built orbiting science station attempted today to fire an inoperable electron beam accelerator that produced spectacular celestial fireworks Thursday and was to be used to create an artificial aurora. After following instructions from ground control without Weinberger Raps in the relatively short term." Andropov, who has not appeared in public for 106 days, is likely to be replaced if he is too ill to attend an important meeting of the Supreme Soviet, or parliament, later this month to explain his record over the past year and forecast developments for the Soviet Union next year, Soviet sources said. The official explanation for Andropov's absence is that he has a cold but Western diplomats say the problem is considerably more seribus. Weinberger, on a tour of European capitals prior to next week's meeting in Brussels of 'NATO defense ministers, said the future of the Western Alliance lay in new technological advances, including the modernization of conventional weaponry and the development of new antimissile defense systems. "The Reagan administration Is challenging conventional wisdom by saying it is not only deterrence that prevents wars," he said.

"We are looking at emerging technologies for strengthening our forward defenses and doing away with our insufficient depth." The defense secretary said the most urgent priority was to complete an anti-missile defense system before the Soviet Union could perfect such a system. "The most destabilizing thing for our defense would be if the Soviet Union developed this system before us," he said. If they did, they could resort to nuclear blackmail." Gemayel Ends set up a similar commission to work on details of strategic cooperation. Discussions also focused on ways the Lebanese government could extend its control over areas that are not occupied by any other forces, but Salem said a widening of the U.S. military role in Lebanon was not discussed.

President Reagan met with Secretary of State George Shultz, special Middle East envoy Donald Rumsfeld and members of the National Security Council on the Middle East Friday just before the president left for Camp David in the Maryland mountains for the weekend. At the Pentagon, Gemayel met Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Thayer and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, John Vessey, in a session lasting about 90 minutes. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was In Paris, Thayer reaffirmed administration pledges of continued "strong support" to Lebanon and discussed the continued buildup of the Lebanese armed forces and future U.S. security help. Kremlin Soys represent," the diplomat said.

Despite the Soviet warnings, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger predicted the Soviet Union would resume the suspended Geneva talks on medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe "in some months." Weinberger, addressing members of the Atlantic Institute in Paris, said the Soviets would return to the talks because they knew their initial objective of halting deployment of U.S. cruise and Pershing-2 missiles had failed. Reagan and NATO leaders also have said the NOV. 23 Soviet walkout from the negotiations was only temporary- Monday's news conference the first by the two officials since September's shooting of a Korean airliner by Soviet jets with the loss of 269 Uyes underscores $e'im- toe Kremlin is at- to break-up pj the results, Parker said, "We'll try again. I'll be here all day.

I've got ho place to go around and around and around." In one of the few lighter moments of the mission, the astronaut added, "I was thinking of going out to lunch. I had an Invitation so I was going to go out." 'Replied ground control: "If you, find a good place, you might, let us know for the future guys." 1 When his wife, Judy, sent her greetings from the Johnson Space Center, Parker beamed: "Gee, thanks a lot." In a later live telecast from orbit, Merbold floated toward the camera, waved and asked ground controllers to say hello to his wife, Birgit, who was watching her husband's maneuvers from the Marshall Space Center in Huntsville, Ala. New science reports from Spacelab included: through a Dutch X-ray spectrometer indicated never-before-seen elements in Cygnus X-2, a neutron star deep in that has a dying star called a white dwarf as an orbiting companion. astronauts created a new very porous type of aluminum strong but unusually light in what project scientists said was an indication of novel materials that can be made in weightless space. became the first person to observe Marangoni convection in phenomenon that uses surface tension to induce motion in a fluid even when there is no gravity.

During the weekend, the astronauts are to conduct materials science experiments, take high- resolUtion mapping photographs of Earth, measure the energy output of the sun and continue tests on the effects of weightlessness on the body and on plants. Salvadorcin Never before had a Salvadoran official so sharply condemned the activity of rightist death squads, which human rights groups say are run by active duty and retired military officers. Leftist guerrillas, meanwhile, accused President Reagan of giving "the green light to death squads" with his veto of a law that required certification of human rights progress in El 'Salvador for U.S. arms aid to continue. "The veto of Reagan toward the certification law not only gives the green light to death squads, but prepares the conditions for intervention, eliminating annoyances in Congress," rebel Radio Venceremossaid.

A U.S. official said the veto was in response to a recent American Embassy and State Department campaign that is pressuring El Salvador to take action against death squads run by present and former army officers. "What Reagan has done is tell the Salvadorans not to worry, they can still get the guns," the official said. Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas led a memorial mass Friday at Metropolitan Cathedral for three American nuns and a Catholic lay worker killed on Dec. 2,1980.

In his homily, Damas said the women did social work with refugees displaced by the 4-year-old civil war. "Why were they killed? Where is the subversiveness of their actions?" he said in apparent reference to charges that the women supported leftist guerrillas. Court Considering Baby Jane Doe Case NEW YORK (UPt) Two panels of judges, including the Supreme Court, have been asked to review cases concerning a severely handicapped infant known as Baby Jane Doe whose parents have blocked corrective surgery and whose condition is now complicated by p- neumonla. The lawyer for the baby parents Friday branded the Reagan administration attempt to get the infant's medical records an "Orwellian tragedy." A three-judge federal appeals panel reserved a decision on whether to grant Court Rules In Favor Of Pitt Asbestos Plant PITTSBURGH (UPI) A jury that found nine asbestos manufacturers liable for a Pittsburgh area man's illness should have been told about studies linking exposure to asbestos to the development of lung cancer, state Superior Court ruled Friday. The decision means a new trial to consider 1 the question of additional damages for the estate of Joseph Edward Martin of suburban Edgewood.

Attorneys representing Martin, who worked as an insulation applicator for 40 years, had tried to argue during his 1981 trial that studies showed that individuals who worked with the insulating substance showed a higher rate of lung cancer than normal. However, Common Pleas Judge Silvestri Silvestri refused to allow testimony about lung cancer because Martin, then 61 years old, was not suffering from the disease. A jury said nine asbestos manufacturers should pay Martin $67,000 in damages but the panel was not permitted to consider whether Martin was entitled to punitive damages. Punitive damages are awarded only when a jury or judge decides that a defendant should pay an additional sum as punishment or to deter "outrageous or reckless conduct." Nine months after the trial, Martin died of lung cancer and his attorney, Edward Beachler, said an autopsy revealed asbestos in Martin's lungs. Beachler said any money that might be awarded in a new trial would go to Martin's estate to cover medical and funeral bills and to his widow.

The attorney said the court's decision is significant because 'it means that manufacturers can be assessed for punitive damages more than once, even through a number of lawsuits may have resulted from the same activity. Those cited for liability in the Martin case are Johns- Manville Corp, Owens- Corning Fiberglas Eagle-Pitcher Industries Forty-Eight Insulations Celotex Keene Unarco Industries Combustion Engieering and Owens-Illinois Inc. The manufacturers were accused of not placing warning labels on their asbestos. NO WAY You'll never make a strong finish if you depend upon eilher strong drink or drugs the administration's request to have access to the Infant's hospital records. It was not known when the judges will make their ruling.

In Washington, the baby's former guardian, "pro life" activist attorney William Weber, filed'an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to overturn a state court ruling refusing to order corrective surgery for the infant. The child's parents have refused to consent to lifeprolonging surgery for their daughter, saying they do not want her to live a life of pain. The Reagan administration wants the baby's medical records to see if the hospital is discriminating against the 7week-old child because she is severely handicapped. The appeal was expedited when the infant's condition worsened over the Thanksgiving weekend, and court papers indicated Friday the child contracted pneumonia while 1 undergoing treatment at University Hospital at Stony Brook, N.Y.

Judge Ralph Winter, the senior judge on the federal appeals court, indicated the court intended to make its ruling regardless of what happens to the child. In an unprecedented action that was supported by right- tolife groups, the federal government sue'd the hospital for the medical records, but lost the case. It appealed to the higher court. By pursuing the case, the parents' attorney, James Reynolds said, "The government has made citizens unwilling participants in this Orwellian tragedy" referring to George Orwell's novel "1984" about a totalitarian society. Charles Cooper, who argued the government's case, said that unless the federal government could see the records, it would not be able to determine if the child was receiving proper medical treatment.

Baby Jane Doe, whose identity has been kept secret, was born Oct. 11 with an open spine, water on the brain and an abnormally large head. With surgery, doctors estimated she could live 20 years, although severely retarded, epileptic and paralyzed. Without surgery, the baby girl was expecled to live two years. DRUG STORE Open Sunday! Kopp's 1004Ponna.Ave.

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