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THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN Dedicated to the I'pbuilding of Western Xorth Carolina Asheville. N.C. 28802, Tuesday, July 26. 1983 Final Edition 38 Pages 25 Cents 114th Year No. 207 Battleship Heads For Nicaragua APPMII Pennsylvania Lottery Winner Nicholas Jorich And His Wife Marvein 8.8 Million Jackpot the time to rest" on the island, where foreign ministers from Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Panama in January formed the Contadora group.

But Stone refused to comment on whether he had met with the Sal-vadoran leftists. The White House spokesman, Larry Speakes, said the Ranger maneuvers could help contribute to reduced tensions. But he did not say how this would take place. "We would hope any actions we take in Central America, on the diplomatic, the military front, the aid front, would contribute to a modification of behavior of the Nicaraguan government, which is causing the problems in Central America," said Speakes, the deputy White House press secretary. Speakes said that if the ships in the Ranger battle group encountered hostile fire, they were under standing orders to defend themselves.

Kissinger visited the White House in the morning, for the meeting with Reagan; Shultz; William P. Clark, the president's national security adviser, and Jeane Kirkpa trick, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who is serving as Reagan's representative to the commission. Later, at the State Department, where he has been assigned quarters on the first floor, the former secretary of state said that he had several times turned down requests that he head the special presidential commission. But, he said, "the president called me and said he had no second choice When the president calls you, you have no right to refuse." Creation of the commission has raised questions about whether Kissinger will take over a leading role in formulating Central American policy on a more short-term basis as well.

WASHINGTON (AP) Pentagon sources disclosed Monday that the battleship New Jersey will join the growing U.S. armadas off Nicara-guan shores. Meanwhile, Henry A. Kissinger checked in with President Reagan in his new role as head of a special commission on Central America, and said he may soon visit the region, including Nicaragua. Kissinger, at a State Department news conference following his meeting with Reagan, denied that he was usurping policy planning from Secretary of State George P.

Shultz. The former secretary said he and the 11 other members of the new panel would hold their first meeting the week of Aug. 9. Pentagon sources said that the battleship New Jersey cut short a Far Eastern cruise and headed across the Pacific to join the aircraft carrier Ranger and seven other vessels, which took up stations Monday off the west coast of Central America "to underscore U.S. support of friendly countries." Kissinger's 20-minute Oval Office meeting reflected a flurry of activity in recent days regarding the volatile region: Nicaragua's leftist government on Monday told the Organization of American States that it is ready to negotiate "an absolute end to the arms supply by any country to the forces in conflict in El Salvador," and also is willing to sign a non-aggression treaty with neighboring Honduras, a U.S.

ally. House Republican Leader Bob Michel said Reagan must do a better job of explaining U.S. policy in Central America to head off a public perception that the United States intends to intervene militarily in the region. Sources reported Pentagon suggestions that the number of U.S. military advisers in El Salvador now 55 be doubled.

The Pentagon announced that U.S. military forces will carry out joint exercises in Honduras, including the first Marine amphibious landing there. The aircraft carrier Coral Sea was reported in port in Naples, Italy, about to depart for the Caribbean Sea. It is likely to operate along Central America's eastern coast Sens. Jeff Bingaman, and Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, introduced legislation to cut off U.S.

assistance to anti-Sandinista rebels in Nicaragua. The measure also would call upon the administration to "indicate its willingness to cease the flow of arms into Central America if other arms-supplying nations agree to do likewise." U.S. special envoy Richard Stone flew to Caracas Monday night from Panama, where he spent the weekend on Contadora Island. There was speculation he had been trying to arrange a meeting with Salvado-ran leftist leaders. Stone made no arrival statement He is scheduled to meet Tuesday with President Luis Herrera Campins and reportedly will give him a letter from President Reagan.

Diplomatic sources told The Associated Press the letter answers one sent to Reagan by the Contadora group, which met in Cancun, Mexico, eight days ago. Stone already delivered a message from Reagan to the presidents of Mexico and Panama and the sources said Stone would go next to Colombia. The envoy arrived a few hours after the presidents of Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru signed an agreement here supporting the Contadora group's efforts to bring peace to Central America. In Panama City, a U.S. Embassy official said Stone "took advantage of HARRISBURG, Pa.

(AP) A retired steel worker collected the first installment of an $8.8 million jackpot in the Pennsylvania lottery Monday, the largest such prize in U.S. history, and said his wife now can quit her night job as a waitress. "For 36 years I was dreaming of this," said Nicholas Jorich, 59, of Swatara Township in suburban Harris-burg, who had the winning numbers in the Lotto drawing Friday. "My wife of 36 years has been a waitress working the all-night shift and she is well deserving of a beachfront house along the ocean." At a news conference, Gov. Dick Thornburgh presented Jorich with a check for $336,157.56, the first of 21 annual payments.

Jorich immediately passed it to his wife, Marvein. The retired line foreman at a Bethlehem Steel plant said he does not think the millions will change his life. "I was happy with my home life and we're just going to get more, that's all," said Jorich, who appeared shy as he answered reporters' questions. The couple said they have been playing Lotto for about 30 weeks, investing about $500 in the game. They learned of their fortune while spending the weekend in Rehoboth Beach, DeL Jorich discovered he had the winning six numbers on Saturday morning.

The couple placed the ticket in Mrs. Jorich's purse for safekeeping. "I made sure I took it with me wherever I went," Mrs. Jorich said Jorich said he has won lotteries before, most recently winning $11 in a Delaware game. He said he plans to continue playing the lotteries because, "I need pocket money." Mrs.

Jorich said they have no plans to give part of their winnings to charity. She said some of the money would go to their granddaughter, Michelle, who "gives us so much happiness." The jackpot will be awarded in 21 annual installments of $420,196.94, less 20 percent for federal tax withholding. The previous Lotto record was $5.6 million, won by Pascal Cervi of Aliquippa, on Dec. 17. Budget Office Sees Deficit Cuts Good Morning Forecast Partly cloudy Tuesday, clear Tuesday night.

Highs In mid-80s, lows near 60. Page 17. because it assumes congressional approval. And no one can be certain exactly what Congress will do," said Edwin L. Dale, assistant director for public affairs of the Office of Management and Budget.

Congress has adopted its own budget plan for 1984 which projects a deficit of $179.3 billion. That plan, which guides congressional spending and tax actions, calls for more money for domestic programs and less for defense than Reagan proposed. It also seeks $73 billion in tax increases over the next three years. In its budget review, the administration projects the deficits will decline from $170.2 billion in 1985 to $82.3 billion in 1988, which is less than the $184.6 billion and $102.4 billion, respectively, forecast in spring. Receipts are estimated at $599.9 billion this year, growing to $668.4 billion in 1984, $748.1 billion in 1985, $861.9 in 1986, $939.7 billion in 1987, and $1,041.4 billion in 1988.

reducing the deficits was purely real economic growth, almost all the deficit reduction takes place on the revenue side." With a healthier economy, the government is expecting to get more money in higher income and payroll taxes from the larger wages taxpayers likely will earn. It also will pay out less money for such social programs as unemployment compensation. A modest inflation rate also should help hold down costs in programs that provide automatic cost-of-living adjustments. Johnson also told reporters that "it's quite possible" the 5.5 percent annual growth rate the administration is projecting for the economy in 1983 "will be on the low side." He noted the estimate didn't take into account the latest figures showing the economy surged ahead at an annual rate of 8.7 percent in the April-June quarter, more than triple the 2.6 percent of the first three months of the year. An even healthier economy would mean still lower deficits, he said.

The administration had predicted, in its spring forecast, a 4.7 percent growth rate, up from the 3.1 percent originally expected in January. The administration's new economic forecast was released late last month. In its budget review, the administration said the deficit in the 1984 fiscal year, starting Oct. 1, would be $179.7 billion, which is $10.6 billion less than the amount estimated in its April forecast. The revision is due to an expected increase in revenues to the government of $14.7 billion and an increase in expenditures of $4.2 billion.

It should be noted the fresh deficit projections assume congressional adoption of the president's budget program presented in January, with modifications for changes already made. 'It cannot be a precise forecast WASHINGTON (AP) The economy's swift expansion will bring in more money to the government to help pare federal budget deficits to $179.7 billion next year and to $82.3 billion in 1988, the Reagan administration said Monday. Still, the deficit will reach a record $209.8 billion in this fiscal year, almost double the $110.6 billion of 1982, the administration said in its mid-session review of the 1984 budget. The review, prepared by the Office of Management and Budget, shows revenues for 1984 growing by $14.7 billion to $668.4 billion, from the $653.7 billion previously forecast in April. The pickup in revenues is even greater in later years, when the administration forecasts the government will gamer an additional $18.4 billion in both 1987 and 1988.

Manuel H. Johnson, assistant Treasury secretary for economic policy, said, "The major factor in World Israel Indicated Monday it will not delay the partial withdrawal of forces from central Lebanon. Page 14. National Police are investigating the deaths two nursing home residents in Philadelphia Page 21. Local No decision was reached Monday by a House subcommittee after its members heard arguments from both sides of U.S.

Rep. James McClure Clarke's contested election victory over Bill Hendon. Page 15. Index Faircloth Announces UNC-A May Get Master's Program Showers Help Ease Heat Wave By The Associated Press Dixie fried another day under a July heat wave that has killed 158 people nationwide, but thundershow-ers Monday eased the emergency in cities in the heartland where the elderly and poor were suffering. In St.

Louis, where 36 people had died in two weeks of stifling heat capped by five straight days above 100 degrees thunderstorms dropped 1.3 inches of rain early in the day and Mayor Vincent Schoemehl lifted a heat emergency which had been declared last Wednesday. Soothing showers also fell across southern Illinois and Indiana to Kentucky and northern Tennessee. "For the next couple of days it's going to be about 10 to 15 degrees cooler," said Dennis Slaughter, a forecaster in St. Peters, a suburb of St. Louis.

But across the Deep South and Southwest and even in the northern Plains the mercury climbed back into the 90s and topped the 100-degree mark in parts of Texas and Oklahoma. The current heat wave nationwide is the worst since 1980, when nearly 1,300 deaths were attributed to torrid temperatures. South Carolina climatologist John Purvis said the heat wave was the state's worst in three decades. "At the point we're at now, things are going to get bad fast if it doesn't rain," Purvis said. He said shallow wells may begin to dry out and corn, hay and some vegetables are withering.

In Columbia, S.C, it was 107 degrees on Sunday, which tied a 1954 record It was 103 in Savannah, Ga. But Hugh Crowther of the National Weather Services' Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, said the high pressure system responsible for the heat wave may be dissipating. "I'm really not in a position to say whether the worst is over," Crowther said, but the system "does appear to be weakening." There's been a heat wave, of sorts, at the South Pole, too. It is winter in Antarctica and the temperatures mostly have been normal for this time of year about 200 degrees chillier than those experienced in mid-America. But 20 Americans 18 men and two women on an Antarctican research project at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station reported to the National Science Foundation that the temperature hit 59.3 degrees below zero Fahrenheit on July 17, the NSF said Monday.

Just two days earlier, it had been closer to normal, 102.6 degrees below zero. 1 LAUCH FAIRCLOTH time at UNC-A, and to set up an $80,000 computer laboratory on campus. Raymond H. Dawson, UNC vice president of academic affairs, said a survey of Western North Carolina industries showed a "substantial amount of interest" in advanced education in industrial engineering. The program would culminate in the award of a master's degree in industrial engineering, which would take at least two years to earn, Dawson said.

He predicted, however, that many WNC engineers will take individual courses for professional advancement rather than for a degree. The master's degree would be awarded by N.C. State University, Dawson said. Except for the computer labora- Turn To Page 17 RALEIGH (AP) D.M. "Lauch" Faircloth became the fifth Democrat to enter the 1984 race for governor Monday, promising to seek higher pay and benefits for teachers while continuing to recruit new industry.

Faircloth, who resigned as state commerce secretary last month, said his business background would help bring jobs to North Carolina but denied that he should be seen as a business and industry favorite. "I was raised on a farm, I've worked in government," said Faircloth, a Clinton businessman who spearheaded Gov. Jim Hunt's industry recruitment drive during the six years he held the commerce post "It's inconceivable that I would be perceived as a business candidate." Faircloth sought to portray himself as a moderate who would repre- By RON DUBOIS Raleigh Bureau CHAPEL HILL The University of North Carolina at Asheville will begin offering a master's degree program in industrial engineering if a proposal by a budget panel of the University System is accepted by the Board of Governors. The UNC Committee on Budget and Finance voted unanimously Monday in favor of creation of the advanced engineering program, which would be affiliated with N.C. State University in Raleigh.

The UNC Board of Governors is expected to adopt that proposal at a meeting Friday. The budget panel proposed spending $170,000 to establish the program. The funds would be used to assign two N.C. State professors of industrial engineering to teach full sent "the almost forgotten people of North Carolina a vast middle ground that enables it to function. "They ask little from government only for recognition of their existence and independence, an opportunity to help themselves, and intelligent and practical use of the Turn To Page 17 Astrology 16 Business 18 Classified iilo Comics 16 Crossword 16 Dear Abby 2 Deaths 6 Editorials 4 Graham 16 Health 16 Markets 18-20 Movies 17 Sports 810 TV-Radio 14 2 Trapped Marine Eats Ants To Survive He also ate moss, but lost 75 of the and a T-shirt, Bell suffered a broken Memorial Hospital.

He was rescued Sunday after crawling to the top of the ravine, collapsing, and being spotted by hikers. "They told me their names," he said. "I forget them, but IH never forget their faces." The lance corporal was on leave from his job as a small arms repairman at Camp Pendleton north of San Diego. He fell in the Bear River Canyon, in a rugged area about 150 miles northeast of San Francisco, while hiking alone after breakfast June 15. Clad only in fatigue pants, boots SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif.

(AP) A Marine who fell into a deep ravine, then lost 75 pounds in almost five weeks before pulling himself to safety, said Monday that he got the idea of eating ants after they "crawled all over" him. "It was a while before I started eating ants," said 22-year-old Karl BelL whose only other sustenance was moss and water. "They didn't really taste that good." BelL who described himself as a "dumb jerk that got lost," was listed in good condition Monday at Barton 210 pounds he was carrying on his 6-foot-1 frame before the accident Vivid memories came from Bell's time as a restaurant worker in his home town of Battle Creek, Mich. "I thought about all the food," he said. Throughout his ordeal.

Bell said, he never lost hope. "I kept saying to myself I'd get out of there," he said "It made me think someone was on my side." right ankle and bruised ribs in the 30-foot fall Busters also formed on most of his exposed skin from sun which drove daytime temperatures into the 90s. Overnight lows dropped into the 40s, he said. From his hospital bed. Bell recalled that for the first few days, he didn't eat anything.

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