The Ithaca Journal from Ithaca, New York • 1

4T 3 yjg; i AHIIIE C. HILEY valios SQARID 11212 III APRIL, 1 0A Realtor says market in Tompkins hasn't been this good in a decade AI3KI1TY ATTACKS, 1 0B More than 7 million people suffer from these unpredictable ailments CLEIVISfIS FALLS win short, Boston ace pitcher loses first game of year after 14 straight wins IVOl'JS TEI2 CROUD T-DUHG, 3A Harper Valley PTA singer tells audience about her God ID The Ithaca Tonight: Clear Low: 45 Friday: Sunny High: 75 IOURNAL Thursday July 3, 1986 35 CENTS QjJ A GANNETT NEWSPAPER TELEPHONE: 272-2321 ITHACA, KEW YCHX II A Ithaca Gum reflects offer 1 1 4 a tional repair and parts shop in Ithaca. Ithaca Gun is scheduled to close this afternoon because of a lack of product liability insurance. The firm is working on a plan to join with several arms manufacturers to buy a group insurance plan. Ithaca Gun officials said they hoped reopen the plant within a month.

They said the comapny has $2 million in back orders and is paying its bills. California Union Insurance Co. of Los Angeles canceled Ithaca Gun's liability insurance, effective Wednesday, with no warning, Ithaca Gun's vice president John Pitzer said. Ithaca Gun had been paying quarterly premiums of $25,000 he said. But the company was unable to obtain alternative insurance at any price.

When the company defaulted on $5.5 million in loans arranged by Citizens Savings Bank and guaranteed 90 percent by the Farmers Home Administration last August, it filed for protection from its creditors. and keep it in the city. Mossberg's attorneys said in a letter to the court that it would pay $1.35 million for the all of the property and most of Ithaca Gun's assets. Attorneys for Mossberg could not be reached this morning for comment. The letter from Remington did not dislcose a bid price.

Attorneys for Remington could not be reached this morning. In rejecting the Unifast bid, Ithaca Gun's attorneys said that they had learned that "Unifast is not desirous of going forward with its contractual obligations, nor is it desirous of maintaining all or any part of the Ithaca Gun Co. operations in Ithaca." Unifast executives did not return phone calls requesting comment on the situation. Remington's attorneys said in a letter to the court that Remington would use Remington parts in Ithaca shotguns and would create a na By TIMOTHY DOUGHERTY and HELEN MUNDELL Journal Staff Attorneys for financially strapped Ithaca Gun Co. have rejected a bid by a Long Island manufacturer, Unifast Manufacturing because, they have learned that the proposed buyer does not intend to keep the operation in Ithaca.

As a result, the lawyers have asked the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for additional time to find new buyers, court papers in Albany indicate. A hearing on the request is scheduled for July 24. Ithaca Gun Co. last August filed for protection from its creditors, claiming $8 million in debts.

It was the second time im seven years that the firm sought bankruptcy court protection. The court papers indicate that two firms Mossberg a gun manufacturer in North Haven, and Remington Arms Co. Inc. of Ilion have made bids to buy Ithaca Gun DREW PERINEJournal Staff REPAIR WORK: Ithaca Gun service department technician Roy Brown checks the action on a shotgun Wednesday. Gutenberger will light first flare Friday night By PAYNE PETERSON FX 'i if is I Jlr 'A 1 Fireworks at Taughannock tonight; Schoellkopf collection falls short, "We're expecting a lot of Statues of Liberty," Lawrence said.

Winners in each category under 5 years of age, 6 to 8 years, and 9 to 12 years will receive an "Ithaca is Gorges" T-shirt. All entrants will win a small prize, Lawrence said. The Innkeepers' Association, in conjunction with New York Board Sailing on East Shore Drive, will sponsor a windsurfing regatta from noon to 3 p.m. Friday. The sail-boards should be easily visible from Stewart Park.

"That should be really colorful," Lawrence said. Ithaca Congressman Matt McHugh is expected to join the events at the park. Friday's schedule for McHugh indicates that he will eat at the chicken barbecue and will join flare-lighting ceremony. Various games and contests sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce begin at 1 p.m. Lawrence said there would be volleyball games, a pie-eating contest, a Frisbee toss.

See FLARE, 2A Journal Staff Some 5,000 flares are expected to light up the southern end of Cayuga Lake Friday evening in the 26th annual flare ceremony sponsored by the Women's Community Building. Ithaca Mayor John C. Gutenberger is scheduled to light the first one at dusk, which he says will be at 9 p.m. But the mayor-expects someone else to teat him to the punch. "It always happens," Gutenberger said.

Earlier in the day an array of events are planned at Ithaca's Stewart Park. The festivities begin at 10 a.m. with a flea market and craft show on the grass near the park's large pavilion, said Jane Lawrence, a spokeswoman for the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce. The market and show will continue until 6 p.m. Friday.

Also at 10 a.m., the chamber's chicken barbecue will start. Carry-out orders will be available until 6 p.m., and sit-down chicken dinners will be offered beginning at noon. The chamber's bicycle parade for youngsters begins at 11 a.m. near the large pavilion. There are three categories, and all competitors are expected to decorate their bikes with a Fourth of July theme.

1 tt i The Associated Press SEARCH: Rescuers look for missing residents after tornado struck Jacksonville, N.C., Wednesday night. 3 die as tornado hits mobile home park Statue's new look to get official unveiling tonight Naval Regional Medical Center at Camp Lejeune, she said. A 14-year-old boy was transferred to a hospital in New Bern with spinal injuries and was in "supercritical" condition, she said. The National Weather Service in Wilmington said the report of a tornado was not confirmed, adding that the damage could have been caused by high winds. But Tim Benson, who lives across the street, said: "It was a twister, I can tell you.

I saw it. I looked outside and all of the sudden the wind started kicking up. It sounded like a small train." Police Chief Roger Halbert estimated the damage at $200,000. p.m., authorities said. Hundreds of rescuers lifted one demolished trailer so a woman and infant could be removed.

"There was a big gush of wind that picked up my trailer and crushed it like it was a matchbox," said Fred Senay, who suffered three broken ribs, a broken leg and back injuries. Authorities declined to identify the dead, but Doris Martin, a spokeswoman at Onslow Memorial Hospital, said they were a month-old infant, a 4-year-old girl and a woman. Six people were treated at Onslow Memorial, and one of them was admitted with minor injuries, Martin said. One person was treated and released from the JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) An apparent tornado flattened four homes in a mobile home park outside of town, killing three people including a 1 -month-old infant and injuring eight other people, authorities said.

The storm system Wednesday also brought winds up to 70 mph in other parts of the Carolinas and in Georgia. A man in Nebraska died after walking through a flooded area, and the search continued Wednesday for a 9-year-old boy feared drowned in a rain-swollen creek in West Virginia. The storm hit the Triangle Trailer Park, which is near Camp Lejeune and was home to many Marines, about 9:30 One last-minute glitch threatened the much-publicized fireworks extravaganza. Lawyers for the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation worked frantically Wednesday to iron out final details of insurance coverage for Friday's display. "I'm confident we will have it," Wolper said during a news conference.

"I can't believe fireworks wouldn't take place in this country on July 4 because of an insurance problem." Officials expect 6 million to 13 million tourists will jam New York City for the weekend bash. Gannett News Service NEW YORK The harbor is packed. Millions are headed into the city. The Lady is ready. Tonight, the 151-foot statue in New York Harbor, the embodiment of the American spirit of liberty, takes her bow as the nation watches.

It's the Statue of Liberty's 100th birthday celebration, and she has a $70 million new look for it. The unveiling kicks off a four-day, nationwide celebration. The man behind the glitzy New York bash Liberty Weekend producer David Wolper -turned aside criticism Wednesday that the statue's rebirth has been over-commercialized. "I never mind a review after the show is over," he said. "I resent a review before the show has begun." President Reagan before a live TV audience officially unveils the statue at 9:30 p.m.

EDT. He will push a single button, which will bathe the statue in brilliant light. Meese calls rulings defeat for administration The rulings also can be applied to affir ney General Edwin Meese said after the A.M. Journal Friday The Ithaca Journal will publish a morning edition Friday in observance of the Fourth of July. If you do not receive your home-delivered copy, call the Circulation Department at 272-2329 by 10 a.m.

WASHINGTON (AP) The Reagan administration is conceding defeat at least for now in its five-year crusade to break the Supreme Court's embrace of an expansive view of affirmative action. "There is no question that the court did not agree with the position advanced by the administration that they ruled against us in both of these cases," Attor mative action programs for women. Julius Levonne Chambers, chief lawyer for the Legal Defense and Educational Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said the court "has given new faith to minorities and other disadvantaged groups. Blacks, See MEESE, 2A court announced two decisions Wednesday that gave the civil rights movement its most sweeping victory of the 1980s. The justices said preferential treatment of blacks and other minorities in the American work place does not have to be limited as the administration urged to actual victims of discrimination.

INSIDE NATION and WORLD ALSO In the NATION No jail, but no celebration by Sanctuary activists, 7A Study finds poor health habits increasing in U.S., 7A ALSO In the STATE Legislators near recess, fail to agree on drug bill, 8A Ann Landers, 8B Business, 10A Classified, 4B-7B Comics, 9B Crossword, 7B Editorials, 9A Features, 10B Local and Regional, 3A-5A Sports, 1B-4B Theater, 8B iimnmriir- Unemployment rate fell to 7.1 in June WASHINGTON (AP) The nation's unemployment rate dropped to 7.1 percent in June, erasing the big gain of the month before, the government reported today. Civilian unemployment fell by 111,000 people, cutting the total number of Americans out of work to 8.44 million last month, the Labor Department said. The department's monthly household survey showed civilian employment totaling 109,673,000, an increase of 563,000 jobs from May. The labor force, those with jobs or looking for work, grew by to 118,116,000. police station, in Cape Town station as minor and said the two officers were only slightly hurt.

The bureau also reported that the burned bodies of three black men had been found, raising the official unrest death toll since June 12 to 97. Fourteen other unrest deaths have been reported by authorities in two homelands. Pope urges Colombian youths to avoid 'sorry vices', 6A Chilean civic leaders face charges for rote in strike, 6A Bomb damages hurts 2 officers JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) A bomb believed to have been planted in a flower box exploded today at a police station in Cape Town, damaging the building and injuring two police officers, authorities said. It was the 1 1th bombing in South Africa since a state of emergency was declared June 12, and the first to strike a security force target. Three people have been killed and about 100 injured in the blasts.

The Bureau for Information described the damage to the police WINNERS LOCAL OBITUARIES Alfred W. Comfort Roy Edward Lasher James P. Murphy Lawrence G. Robinson Page 5A. Lotto 48: 17,21,29,37,41,46 Supplementary Number: 48 Daily Number: 828 Win Four: 6565 Tomorrow: A profile of the local-AFS program The Associated Press REPRIEVE: Convicted killer-Theodore Bundy won a stay of execution Wednesday.

Story, Page 7A..