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1 The Salina Journal Saturday, July 23, 1983 Page 5 Artillery shells batter Beirut; Habib resigns as envoy BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) Artillery shells battered Beirut airport Friday, touching off battles around the capital in a day of factional duels that killed 14 people and wounded 37 others, including three American servicemen. In Washington, President Reagan announced after talks with Lebanese President Amin Gemayel that Philip Habib had resigned as his Middle East envoy and will be replaced by deputy national security affairs adviser Robert McFarlane. The shelling, the first at the airport since the Israeli siege of Beirut last summer closed it down for four months, sent screaming passengers fleeing for cover in the terminal. The clashes quickly spread through the capital, killing at least 14 people, including a Lebanese soldier in an attack on the army headquarters at suburban Yarze, and wounding 37 others, official Beirut Radio said. A brief cease-fire was shattered when three shells hit the industrial Beirut suburb of Mkales.

Two people were wounded late in the day when three shells hit the port of Jounieh, 12 miles north of Beirut. Beirut residents hauled mattresses to sleep in basement shelters in anticipation of a long weekend of battles. The Habib announcement at the White House came after Reagan assured Gemayel U.S. efforts to achieve the withdrawal of foreign forces from Lebanon remained alive, saying "Lebanon can count on our support." Habib, a career foreign service officer, has felt his usefulness as mediator had come to an end because of Syria's opposition to him. He also wanted to return to private life in California.

Syria has blocked the agreement arranged by Secretary of State George Shultz for a withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon. Syrian and Israeli troops are digging In for an indefinite occupation or possible partition of Lebanon. At Beirut International Airport, the Lebanese army moved in tanks and reinforcements after the barrage. Airport director Edmond Ghossan said one person was killed in the midmorning shelling and police said at least seven others were wounded. No commercial aircraft was hit, but a Lebanese army helicopter was damaged.

The airport was closed after an estimated six to eight shells struck near the terminal, which officials said was filled with more than 1,000 people. The airport was reopened to traffic four hours later. The U.S. Marines in Lebanon's multinational peace-keeping force are as-, signed to aid airport security. Duty officer Charles Howe said the Marine base a mile north of the airport was not hit but the Marines were placed on alert.

One Marine was hit by shrapnel in the left shoulder blade, another in the hand and an American sailor suffered minor glass cuts in the shelling. A spokesman described their injuries as minor. The three wounded Americans were identified as Lance Cpl. Morris C. Dorsey 20, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

and Lance Cpl. Donald A. Locke, 20, of Gulfport, both of the U.S. Marines. The third was Petty Officer 1st Class Kenneth W.

Densmore, 30, of Alexander City, of the U.S. Navy. All their injuries were reported as minor. "We were in the parking lot when the sounds came and the bombs started scattering all around the place," said Shoghig Lajinian, 18, who was accompanying her sister to the airport for a flight. "Everyone was crying and shouting, the usual kinds of things in Lebanon," she said.

The hills overlooking the airport, which runs along the Mediterranean Sea, have been the scene of repeated clashes between Druze and Christian Phalange militiamen. State-run Beirut radio and the rightist Christian radio said the artillery duel that broke out Friday intensified in the afternoon and shells fell on the U.S. Marines survey damage in Beirut following an outburst of artillery fire Friday. Lebanese Defense Ministry compound, wounding several people. Eleven Israeli soldiers also were wounded Friday by a roadside bomb explosion as they patrolled near the Lebanese city of Aley on the Beirut- Damascus highway, the Israeli tary said.

None of the injuries was reported serious. East Coast air crashes claim rescuers search for half dozen victims By United Press International Four people were killed and the fate of six others was unknown Friday in aircraft crashes in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvpnia. A New York City police helicopter and a Wall Street commuter seaplane collided over the Brooklyn waterfront, killing both officers aboard the chopper. The seaplane sank and people trapped inside were presumed dead. Two other people were rescued from the plane in the choppy waters of New York Harbor and were in stable condition at a hospital.

In another crash Friday, a small helicopter crashed in Canton, in northeastern Pennsylvania, lulling the two people aboard and scattering wreckage over a two-acre area. The identities of the victims, both believed to be Pennsylvanians, were not being released pending notificaton of their families. The cause of the crash was unknown. In Bridgeton, N.J., rescue workers Friday were trying to free the wreckage of a single-engine plane submerged up to its tail in mud after it crashed into a marsh with four people aboard about 30 miles south of Philadelphia. "We're trying to get a helicopter in there to pull it up out of the mud by its tail section," said a state trooper.

The fatally injured police officers in the New York collision were identified as James Rowley, 39, a veteran pilot, and Charles Trojahn, 27, a mechanic recently assigned to the aviation unit. Coast Guard and police boats and divers searched for the sunken seaplane in 45 feet of water. Officials from both agencies said it was doubtful the two people trapped inside were alive. The search was hampered by swift moving currents in the channel, authorities said. The plane, on a regular commuter flight from Highland, N.J., to Wall Street, was coming in for a landing about 8:40 a.m.

when it hit the Bell Ranger jet helicopter 600 feet over the Brooklyn waterfront, authorities said. "I was walking down President Street toward Columbia and I seen smoke coming out from the back of the plane," said John Marino, a salesman at the nearby Sokol Furniture and Carpet Corp. "I seen it descending. I knew it was out of control. I said, 'God, I hope it don't hit any It was descending faster and faster.

The plane was about 100 or 150 feet up in the air," Marino said. The plane that crashed in New Jersey had taken off from Millville Airport at 8:32 p.m. Thursday and was bo- pund for Woodbridge, but turned back when it encountered bad weather over the Delaware Bay, officials said. It was last heard from near Dover, Del. An unidentified crabber found the plane buried up to its tail in 12 feet of mud Friday morning and notified police, officials said.

Hijacker jailed without bond MIAMI (UPI) A Cuban refugee who was overpowered by two passengers when he tried to hijack a Northwest Orient Airlines' jet was ordered held without bond Friday and told he would be given a psychiatric examination. U.S. District Judge Peter Nimkoff ordered the mental test for Rudolpho Bueno Cruz, 42, after hearing testimony Cruz had a history of suicide attempts and had been accused of molesting a 16-year-old girl. Cruz had attempted to take over a Tampa-to-Miami flight Thursday afternoon by threatening a stewardess with a knife. Passengers Dewey Parker, 45, and Blake Bell, 29, jumped him, wrestled him to the floor and took the knife away from him.

The jet turned back before reaching Cuba and landed safely at Miami. Had it been successful, it would have been the ninth hijacking to Havana since May 1. Samantha Red carpet welcome given Soviet traveler AUGUSTA, Maine (UPI) Samantha Smith, the 11-year-old junior diplomat who toured the Soviet Union for two weeks, arrived home Friday to a hero's welcome with a red carpet, roses and a limousine ride to her house. "I'm happy to be getting home to regular things," said Samantha, as she was handed a bouquet of specially ordered "Samantha" roses and a dozen balloons with "Welcome Home Samantha" written on them. About 350 well-wishers met Samantha at the Augusta State Airport.

They cheered as she stepped from the airplane, wearing a green-striped shirt and purple pants. She appeared tired from her long trip and slightly confused amid the crush of the crowd, which included dozens of news reporters and cameramen who jostled each other trying to get the best shots. After a quick greeting from hometown officials, Samantha was put into a black and maroon Rolls Royce and whisked home for a private party. Along the route she passed numerous banners proclaiming, "Welcome Back Samantha." Friday's editions of the Kennebec Journal, her hometown newspaper, carried a large green headline across the top of the front page proclaiming, "Welcome Home, Samantha!" Samantha returned to "a room full of letters" from people who read of her journey to Russia, which began with a letter to Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov asking whether his country intended to use nuclear weapons.

Most of the letters praised her for taking the trip and wished her luck. CLOSED FOR MOVING SATURDAY, JULY 23RD. We will re-open at our regular hours MONDAY, JULY 25TH, Please Excuse Our Mess. Although We'll Be Open For Business Monday We'll Be A Little Unorganized For A Few Days. Please Be Patient With Us.

Sat. South 9th at Saturn Avenue 827-4467 Or Call Toll Free From Anywhere In Serving Salina And Central Kansas Since 1947" Polish regime frees Solidarity activists WARSAW, Poland (UPI) The Polish government opened its post-martial law era Friday by freeing dozens of Solidarity activists who left jails near the northern city of Gdansk "beaming with optimism," church spokesmen said. The releases came hours after 585 days of martial law ended at midnight Thursday and a new amnesty program for political prisoners, a key part of the communist regime's plan to end the official emergency, took effect. "They seemed to be beaming with optimism," said the Rev. Henryk Jankowski, founder of a prisoners' aid center in Gdansk and a friend of Lech Walesa, leader of the outlawed Solidarity trade union.

"A group of about 30 people, both men and women, have already arrived," Jankowski said in a telephone interview from the Baltic port city. Officials had not expected any releases before today. Prison spokesmen could not be reached for comment because Friday was Poland's national holiday, the 39th anniversary of socialist rule. However, neither the holiday nor the end of martial law prompted much public celebration because many emergen- cy restrictions, clamping down on workers and activists, were written into law to remain in effect at least through 1985. According to Justice Ministry officials, 650 people were in prisons and temporary detention centers in connection with martial-law offenses.

About 60 were serving sentences for crimes too serious to be considered for amnesty under terms of the decree signed by Polish leader Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski. Attempts to overthrow the socialist state an accusation against 12 of the jailed dissidents or organizing strikes during martial law at militarized factories were among the charges that disqualified prisoners from pardon. All other cases are supposed to be considered by a panel of jurists. The government decree obliged Justice Ministry officials to complete their study of all prisoners' records within 30 days.

Around Poland, prisoners' relatives waited eagerly for news of their loved ones. The wife of Bronislaw Geremefc, formerly one of Walesa's top advisers, said she was confident her husband would be released. bTATEMENT QFCONDITION FIRST BANK and TRUST CO. of Salina in the State of Kansas and Domestic Subsidiaries at the close of business on June 30, 1983 DIRECTORS ROY ALLEN Retired Beech of Salina CHARLES H. CARROLL, JR.

Downtown News, Inc. DON DIECKHOFF Waddell Cadillac Olds F.E. FRANK Frank Construction, Inc. JAMES P. AAIZE Attorney.

Clark, Mite Linvllle Chartered C.L. OLSON DVM ROBERT PICKRELL Royal Tire Inc. C.A. ROMEISER Investments ARGEL WEEKS Weeks, Inc. DAN WEST West Ltd.

FRANK E. WHITHAM Farmer Stockman R.H. ZIMMERMAN President ASSETS Cosh and duo from depository U.S. Treasury securities Obligation! of other U.S. Government agencies and Obligations of States and political subdivisions in the United States All other oer a.

Loans. Tola! (excluding unearned income) b. Less: allowance for possible loan lostet c. Loons. Net Lease financing receivable 22,137,000.00 87,000,00 Lease financing receivables Bank premises, furniture and fixtures, and other assets representing bank promises promses Real estate owned other than bank pre All other assets TOTAL ASSETS LIABILITIES 1.704.000.00 9.932,000.00 2.345.000.00 577.000.00 15.000.00 22.050.000.00 39.000.00 619.000.00 571.000.00 34.055.000.00 4.988,000.00 21.097.000.00 13.000.00 4.745.000.00 131.000.00 30.974.000.00 240,000.00 370.000.00 OFFICERS FRANK E.

WHITHAM Chairman R.H. ZIMMERMAN President JEFFREY F. WHITHAM Executive Vice-President THOMAS J. RUNYON Sr. Vice President-Administration CALVIN K.

BOYCE Vice President STEVEN MICHEL Vice President Cashier GLENN ETHRIDGE Trust Officer WAYNE OWEN Personal Loan Officer MARVA LEE DOUD Asst. Cashier Operations MARJORIE LINDSTROM Auditor Oemond deposits ol Individuals, partnerships, and corporations Time ond savings deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations Deposits ol United States Government Deposits ol Slates and political subdivisions in the United Stales Certified and officers' checks Total Deposits o. Total demand deposits 5,173.000.00 b. Total lime ond savings deposits 25,801,000.00 Federal lunds purchased and securities sold under agreements to repurchase Interest-bearing demand noles (nale balances) Issued to the US Treasury and other liabilities for borrowed money All other liabilities TOTAL LIABILITIES (excluding subordinated notes and debenlures) EQUITY CAPITAL Common Stock a. No shares authorized 46,135 b.

No. shares outstanding 41,135 (par value) Surplus Undivided profits and reserve for contingencies and other capital TOTAL EQUITY CAPITAL TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY CAPITAL MEMORANDA Amounts outstanding as of report date a. Standby letters of credit, lotal 436,000.00 b. Time certificates of deposit in denominations ot $100,000 or more 5,523,000.00 Average for 30 calendar days (or calendar monlh) ending with report date o. Total deposits 31.568,000.00 the undersigned officer do hereby declare that this Report of Condition (including the supporting schedules) is true to the best ot my knowledge ond belief.

Steven Michel. Vice President-Cashier We. the undersigned directors, attest the correctness of this Report of Condition (including the supporting schedules) and declare that it has been examined by us and to I ho best ot our knowledge and belief has been prepared in conlormance with the instructions and is Irue ana correct. Dan L. West C.t.

OUon Argel State of Kansas, County of Saline, ss. Sworn to ond subscribed before me this 14lh day ot July, 1983, and I hereby certify thai I am not an officer or director ol this bank. Norma J. Friend. Notary Public My commltiicm expires July 5, 1987 411.000.00 739,000.00 1.021.000.00 2.171.000.00 34.055,000.00 "Growing With Salina" BflflK CO.

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