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Below. DOW RISES 1.93 NOON STOCKS, 6A Brainer Gazette 25C A Gannett newspaper January 3, 1983 DSlDD o)KrD EOu JMBtful? Iff Its- JfVC fa JS5? i 1 1 I I I MONDAY EVENING Volcano erupts in Hawaii park VOLCANO, Hawaii A volcano erupted in a remote area of Volcanoes National Park early today, and scientists said the eruption was going strong, spewing lava in fountains up to 200 feet. The eruption began just after midnight in Napau Crater in Kilauea Volcano, said scientists at the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Observatory. The lava fountains had started to diminish slightly six and a half hours after later, but were still going strong, said Reggie Okamura, scientist in charge of the observatory. The volcano was sending up lava fountains as high as 200 feet from five vents along an eight-kilometer chain in the crater on the volcano's east rift zone, Okamura said.

New Years deaths lowest WASHINGTON Fewer Americans died in traffic accidents over New Year's than during any holiday weekend since 1949, and officials said the reasons included a crackdown on drunken drivers, more use of seat belts, and less travel because of the recession. The 268 fatalities from 6 p.m. Thursday to midnight Sunday lowered the previous record of 269 for a New Year's weekend in 1949. The Memorial Day observance that year that took 253 lives stands as the all-time low for any weekend holiday on record. Last ear there were 342 deaths over New Year's and for the recent Chistmas three-day observance there were 345 deaths.

Oldest Catholic dies BEAVERTON, Ore. Retired Archbishop Edward Howard, the world's oldest Roman Catholic prelate, died Sunday night at the age of 105. Howard, who headed the Roman Catholic Church in western Oregon for 40 years, died at a Maryville Nursing Home, where he had lived the past several years. He served as head of the Portland By JACK McFARREN CARSON CITY Under icy blue skies, Richard Bryan became the 25th governor of Nevada today. Bryan called on Nevadans for "a spirit of commitment to the best we can accomplish," as he and other constitutional officers were inaugurated in ceremonies on the steps of the State Capitol Building.

In a 10-minute speech laced with quotes from Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Washington Irving and former Gov. Mike O'Callaghan, Bryan said the challenges facing the Silver State are "considerable" and "sobering." But he also said Nevadans "have every reason to be optimistic about the future." Noting the circumstances of 1864, "when Nevada's future was heavily clouded by war," the severe mining strike of 1890 and the depression of the 1920s, Bryan said he was not suggesting "this is such a dark hour in Nevada's history. "It is, however, a time for joining together, for resolving to be resourceful, for looking to a future that will be built on an even more stable foundation and for a spirit of commitment to the best we can accomplish." Nevada Supreme Court Chief Justice Noel Manoukian delivered the oath of office to Bryan, whose wife, Bonnie, held the Bible. He then swore in Lt. Gov.

Bob Cashell, Attorney General Brian McKay, Secretary of State William Swackhamer, Treasurer Patty Cafferata, Controller Darrel Daines and fellow Supreme Court Justices E.M. "Al" Gunderson and Thomas Steffen. Despite temperatures hovering in the mid-30's, Bryan spurned a topcoat as he delivered his address. "We're all in this together," the new governor told a crowd of about 1,000. "Whether rural or urban Nevadans, northern or southern, black or white, native or newcomer, we all share the burden of making Nevada better.

"To the extent that Nevada prospers, we all prosper." Getting the unemployed back to work, guaranteeing the dignity and financial security of senior citizens, and putting Pleas see BRYAN, back pags i 1 II "it 1 ij 1 PHOTO BY MARK CROSSE is sworn into office on the Nevada Supreme INAUGURATION: Nevada Gov. Richard Bryan, with hand on Bible, the Capitol steps this morning by Noel Manoukian, chief justice of Court. Bryan's wife, Bonnie, looks on. 98th Congress convenes; O'Neill re-elected Cry' Jf hand of O'Neill and other Democratic leaders in controlling floor action. And Republicans, who are in the minority, may be powerless to stop them.

The new Congress includes 81 freshman House members 57 Democrats and 24 Republicans. There are also five new members of the Senate: Democrats Jeff Binga-man of New Mexico and Frank R. Lauten-berg of New Jersey; and Republicans Hecht, Paul S. Trible of Virginia and Pete Wilson of California. Overall, Democrats made a net gain of 26 seats in last November's congressional elections, for an expanded majority of 269-165, while Republicans retained their 54-46 edge in the Senate.

Congress is not expected to get down to legislative work until after the president's Jan. 25 State of the Union address. The Senate just planned a one-day organizational session, but the House planned to meet through the week on the series of Pleas see CONGRESS, back page nominated for the No. 1 House job by fellow Republicans. Michel will continue to serve as House Minority Leader, a job he has had for two years.

The outcome of the vote, which traditionally breaks down along party lines and which requires each member to stand up and declare his choice openly, had been expected. Other congressional leaderhip posts have already been filled. Members of Congress elected last November including 80 new members of the House and five new senators were sworn in today in the opening cermonies. Sen. Chic Hecht and U.S.

Reps. Barbara Vucanovich and Harry Reid, all elected in Nevada in November, were among those sworn in. Then the House headed for what was shaping up as the first partisan brawl of the 98th Congress as the House took up a package of rules changes pushed by Democrats. The changes would greatly stengthen the WASHINGTON (AP) Rep. Thomas P.

O'Neill was re-elected -today on a straight 260-154 party-line vote to a new two-year term as speaker of the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives. His election came as the 98th Congress, with Republicans retaining control of the Senate and an expanded Democratic majority in the House, convenved for the first time. At the same time, backers of the failed Equal Rights Amendment re-introduced the measure as the first piece of legislation of the new Congress and vowed to start from scratch their effort to make it part of the Constitution. The new ERA which must pass both chambers of Congress by a two-thirds majority before it could be again offered to states for ratification had 214 House co-sponsors. O'Neill, the top-ranking elected Democrat in the national government, has served in the post since 1977.

He beat out Rep. Robert Michel, THOMAS "TIP" O'NEILL JR. Re-elected Speaker of the House Reagan faces tough budget decisions archdiocese from 1926 to 1966, and since 1924 had met privately with every pope except for John Paul I and John Paul II. When John Paul II visited the United States in 1979, he telephoned Howard. Reagan names MX panel WASHINGTON President Reagan today named a panel of 11 defense experts to advise him on a basing system for the MX nuclear missile and recommend improvements in the nation's strategic forces.

The panel includes former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, a retired four-star general; former Carter administration Defense Secretary Harold Brown; Texas Gov. William Clements, a former deputy secretary of defense, and onetime CIA director Richard Helms. Reagan conferred with the bipartisan commission on strategic forces during its organizational meeting in the Cabinet Room at the White House. Inflation index changed WASHINGTON Consumers likely will see a higher inflation rate this year simply because of adjustments th government is making in how it computes the cost of owning a home, economists say.

The homeownership costs, which include house prices and mortgage rates, have long been criticized for distorting the real rate of inflation, analysts say. As a result, the Labor Department is changing the way it records those costs in its widely used Consumer Price Index. The change goes into effect with the January report for the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers. FROM GAZETTE WIRE SERVICES With the 1984 election campaign looming, he said, "1983 becomes a very critical year for him (Reagan) and the administration." Speakes, discussing Reagan's refusal to consider the "selective" tax increases advanced by Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan, said, "He feels like he's making progress with his program." In his budget meetings with members of Congress, Reagan will come face-to-face with the altered political picture on Capitol Hill.

He will be working with a House in which the Democrats have increased their majority by 26 seats. Until he had to face the deficit problem, Reagan was described by a senior aide as PImm sm REAGAN, back page Congress. Tonight, he will host a dinner for them. White House aides acknowledged that 1983 is a crucial year for the president. With his economic program failing to show signs of the success he hoped it would achieve, the president will come under even greater pressure than he did in 1982 to prove that his program of tax and budget cuts is indeed working.

Unemployment rose from 8.5 percent last January to 10.8 percent in November. But inflation dropped to 4.5 percent, down from 8.9 percent in 1981. "We're entering the toughest year of the Reagan presidency," said David R. Gergen, the president's assistant for communications. "The glamour has worn off and we're into the hard slugging." WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan, entering what one aide called the "toughest year" of his presidency, is facing a week of decisions that will shape the next budget and play a role in the course of the nation's recovery.

The president's actions could also affect his prospects for re-election in 1984. Larry Speakes, the deputy White House press secretary, said Reagan has not made any "final decisions" about his new spending plan. The president is going to meet with "budget people and members of Congress" this week, Speakes said. The first meetings were scheduled for today when Reagan planned a conference with congressional leaders returning to Washington for the opening of the 98th Air pollution alert looms by midweek By PATRICK O'DRISCOLL The thickening smog hanging over the Truckee Meadows today could mark the beginning of a midweek air pollution alert, a Washoe County air quality official said this morning. "We're going to have some bad times until Wednesday night," said Dell Tredin-nick, air quality coordinator for the Regional Administrative Planning Agency.

Weak breezes could clear out some of the accumulated airborne muck by Thursday, but "it doesn't look that strong," Tredinnick added. "We could have some real bad air by Saturday morning." Invisible carbon monoxide from the exhaust pipes of morning commuter cars combined with acrid wood smoke and dust particles from city streets to create today's smog. A common winter atmospheric condition known as an air inversion warmer upper air traps colder, dirtier lower air near the valley floor is making it worse. Brian Wright, air quality coordinator for the Washoe County District Health Department, said the condition would likely push the Reno area's combined pollution index, a daily smog reading, into the "heavy" stage by later today. "We're really generating (smog) today Floodwaters lead Reagan to pledge aid pocket-sized CB walkie-talkie squawked with voices from Civil Defense, police.

Red Cross and other emergency channels. Despite all the activity, he sounded grim. "I'd say the crisis won't be over for several days," he said. "I won't feel real good about it until the water is down off the sandbags." According to Rawls, volunteers are "walking the levees 24 hours a day" and sandbags are at hand for use "wherever they're needed." Damage in the Monroe area is estimated at $81 million from flooding caused by the more than 18 inches of rain that began at Christmas. commissions in other states, surveyed the scene around him Sunday night several hours after Reagan left.

Scores of residents, most dressed in boots or rubberized waders, stood by their bouses near Mel's Diner, on the northwest perimeter of the city, where Salvation Army workers were passing out hot chocolate, fried chicken, beer, and steaming chili to volunteer drivers. Rawls, one of the many working around the clock, saw sandbags being loaded into National Guard trucks, Salvation Army employees heating food and mud-splattered workers warming their hands over a fire in an empty 55-galkxi drum. "I think the water for all practical purposes has stopped rising," he said as his MONROE, La. (AP) As President Reagan returned to the warslth of the White House, hundreds of people in this saturated city went back to the chilly work of reinforcing levees and loading sandbags to protect their flood-threatened property. Reagan made a m-hour stop to this northeastern Louisiana city Sunday en route to Washington after a six-day California vacation.

He spent several minutes shoveling sand into burlap bags that would be used to hold back the brimming Ouachita River, and before he left he promised to funnel federal aid to the area. Arlan Rawls, president of the Ouachita Parish Police Jury, equivalent to county Health 3D Horoscope 7C Nation 3.4A Nevada 1 2.8C Otuanes2C Sports 1-4B TVIog4D Washington 3.4A Weather 8A World 2A INSIDE Business 5.6A Gassted ads 2-6C Comes 7C Crossword 7C Dear Abby3D Econate7A Entertainment 240 Focus 1D PImm SMOQ, back Copynght. 1983 Re to Newspapers, Inc..