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Ohio 25 Cents inthemartet si Beacon Jou RNAL tract Hercules wins $30.7 million Army con Order may aid expansion plans By David Adams Beacon Journal staff writer us to maintain the level of production that we currently have in the current plant," he said. The contract is good news to area business leaders who support the company's plans to launch the biggest industrial expansion in Stark County since the Timken Co. opened the Faircrest steel miU in 1984. Hercules chairman Donald C. Stewart announced April 9 that he wanted to create up to 800 jobs for workers who See nERCLLES, page A5 The engines run on a variety of fuels.

Zembrzuski said he was optimistic the Army would extend the contract to include 5,000 more engines. "You can never be sure, but historically, they have (extended their contracts), and we certainly hope they will do it here," he said. Negotiations to secure the contract began in March, said U.S. Rep. Ralph Re-gula, R-Navarre.

Regula, who helped lobby for the contract, said the competition was fierce. While he would not reveal the names of the other companies competing for the contract, he did say that one is located outside Ohio. Regula said the contract also allows for the purchase of spare parts for the engines. Zembrzuski said the majority of the company's $100 million in annual business comes from military contracts. Engines built by Hercules power 47 percent of the Army's tactical vehicles, including jeeps, trucks and other non-combat vehicles.

"The impact will be that it will enable worth a possible $90 million. Company officials said the "very substantial" contract is one of the largest ever received by Hercules and may, with other future contracts, provide an impetus for expansion into an adjacent $20 million manufacturing plant currently owned by the Timken Co. The contract calls for Hercules to provide the 2,500 140-horsepower, 478-cubic-inch, six-cylinder engines to drive 2 14-ton trucks, said Eugene S. Zembrzuski, president of Hercules' Defense Products Group. Hercules Engines Inc.

of Canton announced Friday that the company has been awarded a $30.7 million contract to produce 2,500 engines for the U.S. Army. As part of the contract, the Army will have the option to buy an additional 5,000 engines, thus making the contract ilif ioy at force overcomes Iranians pushed rescue North balked, Secord says Kimt fir t- jr i rv i a a-. a- rv "St 4 A Washington The Iranians dislike the radical Lebanese who took American hostages and they offered to provide information for a U.S. raid to free the men, Richard V.

Secord said in a magazine interview released Friday. Secord, a retired Air Force major general who played a central role in the Iran-Contra case, oniu int. iu 1 one Corazon Aquino offers 'no terms' alio iuiu mui they did not completely control Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shi-ite umbrella group. Although the Iranians succeeded in securing free If '4" Secord Philippine rebels wound Aquino's son Ffom Beacon Journal wire services Manila, Philippines Loyal troops backed by helicopter gunships and low-level bombing seized strongholds of mutineers Friday to crush the bloodiest coup attempt yet against President Corazon Aquino. Her only son was wounded.

Reports reaching here from the central Philippine island of Cebu said a renegade brigadier general, Edgardo Abenina, who took complete control of the island had surrendered his command after releasing the Cebu City mayor, who had been under house arrest. Radio stations in Cebu, which were closed during the rebel military takeover, were back on the air today. Mutinous troops had padlocked government offices and arrested Chilian officials on the island during the rebellion. Government troops Friday night regained control of the sprawling Camp Aguinaldo complex in suburban Quezon City after a savage, daylong firefight during which the pro-Aquino forces used two World War II-vintage fighter planes to drop bombs on the rebel-held Armed Forces General Headquarters building. Military officials said about 350 rebel troops surrendered at See AQUINO'S, page A5 I I ft Gregorio Honasan lead uprising 11 LJJLmL dom for some hostages, they said "they had to pay off the Hezbollah" to achieve results, he said.

U.S. officials have said they believe the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's regime has leverage over the pro-Iranian groups holding the hostages. Secord, in an interview in the October edition of Playboy magazine, said Iranian officials also realized they would have benefited from a U.S. armed raid to free the hostages. "They would have made speeches about the Great Satan, gone to prayers and had a wonderful time.

At the same time, they could have rested assured that we had knocked off quite a few of those bastards that they couldn't stand either." Secord, who handled logistical details of the Iran-Contra affair for Lt. Col. Oliver North, the former National Security Council aide, said the idea of cooperation leading to a raid was brought up as recently as last fall in a meeting between Americans and an Iranian delegation with ties to Hashemi Rafsanjani, the speaker of Iran's parliament. But North and his superiors balked at the idea, Secord said, because cooperation with the Iranians was such a sensitive issue and because "they thought they could get immediate results by Sit SECORD, page A5 Benlgno Aquino in wounded twice Asaociatad Preaa Mutinous soldiers lie face down after their capture at a Quezon television station ovie director-actor John Huston dies By David Pyle Associated Press His daughter, Anjelica, won an Oscar for Prizzi's Honor, which Huston also directed. His 40 films encompassed the Tennessee Williams play Night of the Iguana and the elaborate musical Annie.

"If there's a pattern to my work it's that I haven't made any two pictures alike. I get bored too quickly," he once said. Huston, a longtime smoker who in later In a long and adventurous career, the stuff of movie legend, Huston caroused with Humphrey Bogart and Ernest Hemingway, broke his nose in a fistfight with Errol Flynn, directed Clark Gable in his last film and unwittingly led Katharine Hepburn into an elephant stampede. Huston won Academy Awards for writing and directing The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, in which his father, Walter, also won an Oscar for best supporting actor. years was tethered to an oxygen tank, died in his sleep at a home he was renting during the filming of Mr.

North, said Patty Raya, production coordinator for the movie. "We will miss him a great deal," Stephen Haft, one of the film's producers, said in a telephone interview from the home. Haft said Huston's longtime corn-See HOLLYWOOD, page A5 Middletown, R.I. John Huston, a restless talent who bucked Hollywood, drank hard and directed classic films including The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and The African Queen, died in his sleep Friday. At 81, he was on the location of yet another movie.

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CHUCKLE: Dogs in new housing developments are always barking up the wrong stump. mer when the Roger Berk family of Akron agreed to sell the stations to DKM Broadcasting of Atlanta. The Berks collected $59.9 million for WAKR, WONE and six other stations in Dayton, Denver and Dallas. Because the Berks retained possession of their television station WAKC-Ch. 23 and their TV productioncomputer software company Creative Technologies the Akron radio stations had to go house-hunting.

WAKRWONE vice president Fred Anthony did most of the looking and received attractive offers from a number of local communities before settling on a 12-year-old building owned by the Bernard Construction Co. at 1735 S. Hawkins Ave. within the Akron city limits. When you're driving south toward Akron on Interstate 77, it's the white building in the elbow of the big bend where the expressway turns east.

WONE's jocks have been broadcasting from the new location for almost a week. When Adam and Bob wind up their morning show at 10 a.m. Monday, WAKR will make its elec- Sce MOVING, page A5 Think back to the last time you helped a friend move. Remember which boxes everybody avoided? Bet you a slipped disk it was the ones filled with record albums. So how'd you like to move 30,000 records? That's just one of the nightmares that have haunted the folks at WAKR (1590-AM) and WONE (97.5-FM) since they received an eviction notice after 33 years at 853 Copley Road in Akron.

The bad news came last sum A 8eacon Journdi photoEd Suba Jr. These boxed record sets are for WAKRWONE's move.