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1 nneniis Oil LOIIG, LoriEsor.iE nonp The Amerks tonight play the first of 12 road games in the next 28 days, an ordeal that will test what kind of team they are. story on Page id Dnnn SKIES Fon PLAUETAnmns Falling attendance at the Strasenburgh Planetarium, left, and at other planetariums across the country, has staff members Worried. Story on Page 1C BSE! mat MB 01 I I II ROCHESTER, NEW YORK TUESDAY. JANUARY 25, 1983 25 CENTS may bring blimp back into U.S. government officials A cloudy times the volume of a Goodyear blimp.

An aluminum superstructure the size of a small bridge attaches the bag to four old Navy helicopters. "It will fly," Piasecki said of the craft, built largely from spare parts. Others are not so sure. There are those highly critical of the federal government for having given Piasecki $10.7 million to build a fanciful dirigible, which the United States Forest Service hopes will be useful in lifting 25-ton loads of timber from remote forests without scarring the landscape with roads. srf Right handy The third hand on the clock belongs opening to adjust one of four clocks Congregational Church in Windham, Helistat but some to atop A recent General Accounting Office report charges that the project is far behind schedule and estimates its final cost at $31.7 million, compared with an original estimate of $6.7 millioa But the corpulent, somewhat comic-looking craft has some friends in high places.

When Rep. Sidney R. Yates, the chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee on the Interior, tried to cut the craft's 1983 budget, he was overridden. "We still believe it is a good idea," said David Jolly, deputy director of timber management for the Forest Service. United Press International By William E.

Geist New York Times LAKEHURST, NJ. A corrugated cocoon dominates the windswept flats of the Naval Air Engineering Center here. Inside, a colossal creature grows, one that is to emerge this summer, signaling what some people hope will be an important step in the rebirth of lighter-than-air transportation. Called the Helistat, this brainchild of the aviation pioneer Frank N. Piasecki is concocted of a used 343-foot-long, one-million-cubic-foot Dacron bag about five A revised Indian policy Reagan plan encourages move to self-sufficiency By Helen Thomas United Press International WASHINGTON President Reagan yesterday outlined a comprehensive policy to encourage self-government among Indian tribes and create a "favorable environment" to make reservations more economically self-sufficient.

The announcement came less than a week after Interior Secretary James Watt angered Indian leaders by calling federal reservations "an example of the failures of socialism." Indian reaction to Reagan's announcement was mixed. Some agreed with the proposal, but at least one Indian leader rejected it, saying Reagan "ought to take a course in Indian policy." Reagan said the principle of self-government was set forth in a 1975 law and was a "good starting point," but since then "there has been more rhetoric than action." "Instead of fostering and encouraging self-government, federal policies have by and large inhibited the political and economic development of the tribes," Reagan said. Reagan proposed the federal government move away from its "surrogate role" regarding Indian tribes and that the tribes reduce their dependence on federal money but be eligible for block grants for social services. There are about 1.4 million Indians living on reservations. He also called for greater involvement of private industry in developing the economies of the Indian lands, and said both the TURN TO PAGE 3A Reagan faces feisty Congress in talk tonight By Nancy J- Schwerzler Baltimore Sun WASHINGTON President Reagan will offer his assessment of the State of the Union today before a Congress that has already begun to chart its own course on the nation's budget and economic problems.

The 98th Congress reconvenes today amid signs that even if the White House and Capitol Hill agree that the economy is beginning to improve, there will be major disagreements over how to direct the recovery. Reagan's address, to be televised tonight at 9, is expected to set the tone for his detailed budget presentation next week. But BAD NEWS FOR REAGAN IN POLLS 3A as major features of the budget plan were disclosed during the last few weeks, congressional reaction has ranged from lukewarm to hostile, even among Republicans. If the president has been listening to these rumblings, his message may sound a TURN TO PAGE 3A GOLD CHANCE OF SNOW DETAILS ON PAGE 2A TODAY Discover discoverer, win yourself $1,000 Democrat and Chronicle An Ohio man, determined to make a wave in historical circles, id offering a $1,000 prize to anyone who Van identify the frontiersman who discovered Lake Erie. Ted Wakefield, a retired utility and banking executive from the iakeshore city of Vermilion, is sponsoring Le Prix de Lac Erie (The Prize of Lake Erie) in an effort to disprove historians who credit Frenchman Adrien Joliet with discovering the lake in 1669.

Wakefield, an early American history buff, has spent the last 15 years trying to establish who, not counting native Americans, beat Joliet to the discovery. Wakefield said a French map drawn in 1650 19 years before Joliet shows the lakes Erie, Huron and Ontario. But after researching the nation's largest record of Great Lakes history at the Center for Archival Collections at Bowling Green State University and traveling to Paris to look through centuries-old records there, he has been unable to discover the discoverer. Billing it as a "good historial Wakefield has written to historians at colleges and universities across the country, encouraging them to enter the contest. If no one is able to win the prize by the end of this year, the money will go to the archive at Bowling Green, Wakefield said.

Chief shoots dispatcher Associated Press BROOKLYN, IH The police chief shot and killed an armed dispatcher early yesterday after a quarrel in the police station "over past differences," authorities said. Chief Eugene Douglas was not immediately charged and was free pending an investigation, officials said. He wasn't suspended. The dispatcher was identified as Reginald Adams, 29. Seaman spots dying satellite United Press International While radar trackers waited anxiously for the crippled nuclear-powered Soviet spy satellite to crash to Earth, the skipper of a Japanese cargo ship reported sighting fiery pieces of the craft plunging into the Indian Ofcean early yesterday.

kunimasa Gohara, captain of the Sho-shun Maru, said told the Japanese Kyodo news service that the satellite descended about 300 miles from the ship. Quints' home is safe Associated Press BERNARDS TOWNSHIP, N.J. An agreement with the bank will allow the Kienast quintuplets to stay in their home, which had been threatened with foreclosure, their parents said An auction had been scheduled on Valentine's Day, nine days before the children's 13th birthday. Job hoax draws hundreds United Press International' MILWAUKEE Hundreds of people showed up at an engineering company yesterday to answer a bogus classified ad for 10 jobs. "It's a cruel hoax," said Frank Schoen-auer, president of Bevco Engineering Inc.

He said no jobs were available. Guard saves girl, is killed United Press International BROWNWOOD, Texas A school crossing guard shoved an elementary school student to safety yesterday and was struck by a car and died, police said. Robert Glenn Head, 72, of Bangs, had run after a 5-year-old girl who stepped in front of a car. QUOTE OF THE DAY 'There has been violence in the past when this group appeared in public' John Kraus, vice president of Genesee Management, which operates Marketplace mall, describing why officials of the mall refuse to host a TV appearance by the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Story on 1B.

INSIDE vogue as a workhorse, fear the idea won't fly Bustling about the hangar, Piasecki, 63, scoffed at the GAO report. He is said by many in the aviation industry to have a reputation second only to Igor Sikorsky as a pioneer of helicopter flight Piasecki contended that the Helistat was being built on a shoestring with surplus equipment some of it actually hidden here behind dummy walls by enthusiasts when the Navy airship program was phased out in 1960. Piasecki foresees a multitude of other uses for the airship, including military transport. C's No agreement on production; prices of oil, gas may dip New York Times, Associated Press and United Press International NEW YORK The collapse yesterday of the OPEC meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, has set the stage for a slight decline in oil prices and a further cutback in production by Saudi Arabia and its allies on the Arabian Peninsula, energy economists said. But a sharp drop in the price of oil from the current world average of about $33 for a 42-gallon barrel appeared unlikely at least for the present.

Meanwhile, the chief economist of the American Express International Bank in London told a news briefing that the fears of major international financial disruption from loan defaults triggered by lower oil prices had been "overdone." Stock prices plummeted after the meeting broke up, and analysts blamed investors' fears that the lack of agreement would send oil prices down more and put further pressure on heavily indebted oil-producing nations, especially Mexico and Venezuela. For consumers, each reduction of a dollar in the price of a barrel of crude oil brings down easoline and heating oil Drices about two cents, if the decline is passed along. Inflation would remain lower, too. Most businesses also would benefit from cheaper oil costs, especially industries in which oil plays a large part of the costs, such as transportation or the production of chemicals and plastics. A decline would hurt oil companies by making some production TURN TO PAGE 3A warns its steam customers: It's too expensive By Jackie Farnan Democrat and Chronicle Business Rochester Gas and Electric Corp.

says its steam system used for commercial heating and cooling and in manufacturing is too expensive to keep in operation. is telling customers to expect steam bills to increase by 26 percent a year through 1986. The utility is urging customers to install another energy source to heat their buildings and run assembly Jines. Twenty-six miles of underground pipes feed the 208 steam customers factories, stores and public buildings downtown and on the west side of the city from three generating stations. The city and county governments, Delco Products Division of General Motors Corp.

on the west side and Genesee Hospital are among biggest steam customers. TURN TO PAGE 3A been decided, said Judith Brown, UK spokeswoman. "Nothing is terrjbly specific at this point," she said yesterday Engberg said plans are being discussed "intensively." Both he and Brown said a decision should be made in six or eight weeks. Engberg said the Eastman School, which is a division of the University of Rochester, will use some of the new building as "quiet office space, as opposed to (music) rehearsal rooms." Most of the building's space would be rented commercially, Engberg said. He also said that an "outside party" is involved in the project.

The building would TURN TO PAGE 3A Steve Hill, who's reaching through the the Windham Center First about 15 miles east of Hartford. $4 billion TMI suit ends after 3-month trial; operator settles out of court for $37 million after a trial in the suit had gone on for almost three months. The companies were reported eager to bring the trial to an end because further disclosures could damage the future of the nuclear power industry in which both parties had a large stake. But a spokesman for GPU, Renee Leuch-ten, said the settlement with the manufacturer, the Babcock Wilcox would TURN TO PAGE 3A By David Bird New York Times NEW YORK The operator of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant agreed out of court yesterday to accept $37 million in settling its suit against the manufacturer of the disabled reactor. The operator, the General Public Utilities charged that it had suffered $4 billion in damages on March 28, 1979, in the worst accident in the history of commercial nuclear power.

The settlement was reached I i in 1 'J I Propoted tile of Um- jf jpEjj fewSl vk vritv ol Rochtr ol-1 7Vw 3 fcsasHt ic building I i iiJT- 1 i I UR, Eastman may build downtown Schools considering office building next to Eastman Theater By Steve Orr Democrat and Chronicle The Eastman School of Music and the University of Rochester are exploring a plan to construct a new office building adjacent to the Eastman Theater in downtown Rochester. The building would be four to five stories high and would be "consonant in its design" with the ornate Eastman Theater building, according to Jon Engberg, associate director of the Eastman School. It would be located on East Main Street at Swan Street in what now is a private parking lot Details of the plan, including the building's cost and method of financing, have not BRIDGE 5B 4A EDITORIALS BUSINESS 8D 4B HELP! COLUMNISTS 3C 4B MOVIES COMICS 5B' 5B PUZZLES CLASSIFIED 5C 10 SPORTS DEATHS 4C 2C TELEVISION Four news sections 151st year Published by Gannett Co. Inc. 4 5,.