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WEDNESDAY, March 23,1994 Magic: Lakers name Johnson new coach TODAY I B1 FOUNDED 1844 LOGANSPORT, INDIANA VOL. 150 NO. 70 Embarrassing: Pacers score all-time low in loss. Page B1 Outside Gobi: Cloudy, 60 percent chance of rain tonight. Low 50.

Turning colder Thursday. High in low 60s early, then falling. Digest Walter Lantz Dies: Walter Lantz is dead at 93, the taunting "Heh-heh-heh-HEHH- HH-heh" laugh of his most famous creation, that pesky redhead Woody Woodpecker, still ringing in Lantz, who made more than 800 cartoons, including 200 starring Woody Woodpecker, died on Tuesday. See story, page A10 Plane downed about 150 miles away Crash In Siberia: A Russian jetliner plunged into a remote forest in Siberia today and exploded in flames, killing all 75 people aboard. The State Emergency Committee said the Airbus A-3'10 exploded and burned after crashing in the Altai Mountains near Mezh- durechensk, some 2,000 miles east of Moscow near the Mongolian border.

Rescue workers found no survivors, the committee said. The 63 passengers on the plane, en route to Hong Kong, included 23 foreigners, mainly from Hong Kong and Taiwan, the committee said. Airline officials also said there were passengers from the U.S., Britain, India and Canada. Index Advice Opinion Area A3 Business.A8 Sports ClassifiedBS State A7 TV A10 Lifestyle Weather Nation B8 Emergency Response Plan Questioned -t -w-i TI A y-w X-V-FI Four County Landfill neighbors not.convinced IDEH wooing on one Fulton County's health officer recommends a multi-county mock disaster drill as precaution By DAVE KITCHELL Pharos-Tribune Staff LEITERS FORD What would happen if there was an explosion or fire at the Four County Landfill? That's a question local residents and consultants debated for more than an hour Tuesday night. Representatives from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management and consultants from Conostoga-Rovers Associates of Chicago heard concerns from local residents at an informational meeting on the cleanup of the closed hazardous waste landfill.

Although a handful of local residents agreed IDEM reports indicate state officials are listening to their concerns about the planned cleanup of the landfill on Ind. 17, they said IDEM and consultants haven't addressed a safety plan for response to emergencies at the landfill. Residents said the fire chief of the Culver Fire Department has indicated he won't respond to a fire at the landfill and firefighters from the local Aubbeenaubbee Township Volunteer Fire Department have said they also have reserva- tions about responding. Dr. Joe Richardson, Fulton County's health officer, suggested that emergency response officials from Fulton, Pulaski, Marshall and Starke counties combine their efforts in a mock disaster drill to rehearse what pose Pollution (STOP).

Warner and Clegg said they had spoken with officials from 10 to 15 emergency response agencies in the county. Clark said he had spoken with the heads of five of the agencies Tuesday afternoon, and none of them had indicated they had been ter. Richardson said it's difficult to agencies from several counties together, but if a major disaster occurred at the landfill, support from surrounding counties would be needed. Consultants Steve Warner and Bruce Clegg unveiled a plan for emergency response, but that plan came under fke from Don Clark, president of Supporters To Op- Andy South Korean Army Put On Alert u.ii: Fnprpv Asencv fullv inspec North Korean ambassador warns of war if U.S. sends in Patriot defense missiles and holds joint military exercises with South Korea SEOUL, South Korea (AP) South Korea's 650,000 soldiers went on heightened alert today amid an escalating crisis over the rival North's nuclear program.

The military, which faces North Korea's larger army across the world's most heavily armed border, was ordered to cancel leaves and keep commanders at their posts. Land, sea and air patrols were stepped up, officials said. While the militaries of both Koreas are frequently put on some degree of alert, today's order took on special significance as Woman Found Face Down In Lake Shafer MONTICELLO Authorities are investigating the death of a Monticello woman who was found face down in Lake Shafer Tuesday. Frances P. Hermann, 82, 5.3E near Lake Shafer, was found at 4:47 p.m.

by a friend, Joann Jamrose, 48, Rt. 5, Monticello, on a pier near the victim's home. Hermann's lower torso was still on the pier, but her upper torso was in the water. After being removed from the water, Hermann was transported to White County Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead at 5:45 p.m. It's unknown whether Hermann drowned or died of other causes.

See LAKE, Page A2 the North becomes increasingly belligerent over accusations it is developing nuclear weapons. In Beijing, North Korea's ambassador ominously referred to the Korean War in warning the United States not to send missiles to South Korea and not to go ahead with planned joint military exercises. "The American side should not forget the historical experience from the Korean War of the 1950s and should use it as a lesson," said the ambassador, Chu Chang Jun. When the North Koreans want to deliver a message to the outside world, they often do so through their embassy in Beijing. About 54,000 American soldiers were killed in the Korean War, which lasted from The North, which says its nuclear programs are for peaceful purposes, refused to let a team from the Vienna-based Interna- torts in a mocK flisasier onii lo icuciisc wuai steps should be taken if there is a major disas- contacted by consultants about the plan.

tn hrinff Although Clegg and Warner said they would be willing to present phone records indicating they had talked to local emergency response personnel, Clark said he has learned from his own conversations that they haven't met with the people in charge of the agencies involved. See PLAN, Page A2 New Bids For IBP Project Received Utility board considering requests by two companies to clean sludge from lagoons By JOHN CHASE Pharos-Tribune Staff The second time around the bid was about half as much. For the second meeting in a row, the Logansport Utility Service Board received bids for cleaning up the lagoons and sludge at the former Wilson Foods plant. But Tuesday one of the bids was closer to the estimated cost. The board received only one bid two weeks ago and it was roughly twice as much as Logansport Municipal Utilities Superintendent Klaus Hemberger anticipated $1.2 million.

Because of that, the board took the matter under advisement and then had a re-bid Tuesday. The board got the same bid from the same company Metropolitan Environmental Services, of Celina, Ohio again Tuesday, but it also got a bid from Waste Management, of Logansport. Waste Management bid $661,961, which is much closer to the $500,000 estimate Hemberser was given. The project is part of the incentive package the city reached with Iowa Beef Products (IBP), the plant's new owner. A third bid was also submitted by B.

W. Karle, of Crawfordsville, but it did not include a bid bond, so it was not accepted. "A bid bond insures that the company will do the job at the cost they said," explained USB Chairman Jim Bishop. "A company can start on a job and then figure it's going to lose money on it so they stop. A bid bond guarantees that we won't get stuck holding the bag." Although Waste Management bid was in the board's range, at the request of Hemberger, the board decided to take the bids under See UTILITY, Page A2 Wild Fire Logansport Fire Department personnel were called at 2:45 p.m.

Tuesday to contain a large fire in a cornfield near several homes along Cass County Road 450 near 275 N. Firefighters from New Waverly and Twelve Mile were also called to assist. Logansport Fire Chief Joe Casalini said the fire likely started from blowing debris from a trash fire and quickly spread due to gusting winds. Casalini said it is not unusual for firefighters to be called to intentionally set grass fires that get out of control. He estimated that three to five fires are set each day in the spring to burn off debris in fence rows and ditches.

tional Atomic Energy Agency fully inspect its nuclear sites during a visit from March 1 through March 15. The decision prompted a new round of brinkmanship with the United States. On Monday, North Korea threatened to pull out of the main international nuclear controls treaty. The United States confirmed Tuesday that it had approved the shipment of Patriot missiles and an air-defense battalion to South Korea. The Patriots would be shipped in April, Defense Minister Rhee Byoung-tae said today.

The United States also has agreed to joint military exercises which had been put on hold in an attempt to coax the North into negotiations. Discussion was under way to See ALERT, Page A2 Arnold.