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it iX 4 4 012 4 i jib -i. III OA hjf Once-aling SJ-cpard Nlos reports increacing saies i. 1 Big Red hockey team sips to 3rd, v. hcct Cnmson in playoffs 12B Public will have a chance to decide on new town Tuesday How you cook the fish you've got depends on what fish you've got 4 rAl The Ithaca Tonight: Increasing clouds Low: 10 Tuesday: Cloudy High: 35 Hotline: 1-900-370-8728 Monday February 26, 1990 TELEPHONE: 272-2321 LUL. ITHACA, KEW YORK 70 cows dead, 4 barns destroyed in fire A GANNETT KEWSPAPER fire investigation, including a possible cause.

Investigators from the fire and police departments worked throughout the weekend to try to determine the cause of the fire, Fire Chief Edward Olmstead said Sunday night. Many parts of the country have begun using the popular 911 emergency call service. Tompkins County officials have been considering the possibility of installing it here, See BLAZE, 6A By RUSS MAINES caused a slight delay in response to the fire. Two children died in the fire at 204 Hook Place, while three other children escaped from the burning house. The children were alone in the house when the fire started Friday afternoon.

Their mother, Susan Backus, was visiting friends nearby and Estes was at work. Fire officials this morning refused to release any details on the covered the fire burning at the Squaw Hollow Dairy Farm, about 1,000 feet from the home. The Bauchles own the structures and their son, Dennis Bauchle, rents them. Firefighters from Trumansburg, Ovid, Newfield, Enfield and Mecklenburg responded to the blaze and were still there this morning, fire control dispatchers said. See COWS, 6A Journal Staff ULYSSES About 70 dairy cows were killed in a fire late Sunday night that destroyed four barns at a dairy farm on 554 Dubois Road, one of the owners said this morning.

Fern Bauchle said her 60-year-old husband, Robert Bauchle, was awakened last night at 11:41 by their barking poodle, Benji, who had apparently dis Cross-country living 35 CENTS By RUSS MA1NES Journal Staff One of the children who survived the fatal West Hill fire Friday first called 911, an emergency number, hot knowing that the service isn't available in the Ithaca area, the child's father said this morning. "We need a 911 line in this town," Steven Estes, the father, said. Est es refused to disclose the name of the surviving child who called the number, which he said Some at IC want new name By FRANK BENSON Journal Staff How about the Ithaca College Cayugans? Or the IC Lakers? Perhaps the Thunderbolts? It could happen if a newly formed group on the South Hill has its way. 4 They're called "The Commit- Bomber tee to Rename the 'Bombers and they've made it clear they think the school should change the nickname used by its sports teams. "It just makes sense," said the committee's leader, Lee Bailey, an Ithaca College professor in the philosophy-religion department.

"I know there's mixed reaction among the students right now but when you stop and think about it, it makes sense to change it." Bailey and five other committee members recently drafted a letter and submitted it to The Ithacan (the school's weekly student newspaper), The Ithaca Journal and IC athletic director Bob Deming. "While a Bomber might have been a heroic figure in World War II, subsequent history has shifted the implication of the Bomber See NAME, 2A Tokyo stocks take second worst fall TOKYO (AP) The Tokyo Stock Exchange's main index suffered its second largest oneday fall today, and analysts said stock, bond and yen prices were driving each other down vicious cycle. The dollar closed sharply higher. The 225-share Nikkei Stock Average plunged 1,569.10 points, or 4.5 percent, closing at 33,321.87, its lowest level since 33.309.71 last July 5- Today's plunge was second only to the 3,836.48 on Oct. 20, 1937.

NATION and WORLD Chamorro elected in Nicaragua Voters oust Ortega MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) Opposition leader Violeta Barrios de Chamorro defeated President Daniel Ortega in a stunning rebuke to the leftist Sandinistas and their 10-year-old revolution, election returns showed today. ii a "peaceful ballot- Chamorro ing the freest elections in Nicara-guan history was closely scrutinized by thousands of international observers and, with most of the vote in, Chamorro was winning nearly 55 percent. Ortega, 44, stopped short of formally conceding, but said said in a television appearance: "These numbers and these percentages form a tendency that cannot be ignored." He said the precincts that had not yet reported held 50 percent of the vote, but admitted a Sandinista victory would "break mathematical rules." "I want to tell all Nicaraguans and all the nations of the world, that the president of Nicaragua, and the government, will respect and accept the popular mandate," Ortega added. The Sandinista leader had branded Chamorro, the 60-year-old publisher of the opposition newspaper La Prensa, an instrument of U.S. policy and had hoped to capitalize on Nicaraguan pride at standing up to the colossus of the North.

But the voters rejected Ortega's one-party rule, which led to economic decline that the Sandinistas blamed on the U.S. -supported Contra insurgency and a U.S. trade embargo. Flanked by top aides and his common-law wife, who looked pale and shaken, Ortega told Nicaraguans he was proud, in any case, that the Sandinistas had brought a democratic election to Nicaragua. The Supreme Electoral Council said that with about 60 percent of See NICARAGUA, 6A INSIDE Classified, 6B-9B Editorials, 10A Local and Regional, Features, 12B Sports, 1B-6B 3A-5A WINNERS Lotto 54: 5, 15, 31, 33, 38, 54 Supplementary Number: 16 No winners.

Jackpot is $6,000,000 Daily Number: Saturday 716 Daily Number: Sunday 215 Win Four: Saturday 3416 Win Four: Sunday 8839 Keno: Saturday 1, 5, 8, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 25, 46, 51, 54, 55, 61, 63,66, 69, 76 Keno: Sunday 15, 20, 23, 24, 25, 27, 31, 32, 43, 48, 52, 54, 55, 61, 62, 66, 67, 70, 72, 77 SNOWSCAPE: Marilyn Frost of Ithaca cross-country skis through a snow covered, field behind Cayuga Nature Center Sunday afternoon after a weekend snowstorm blanketed the Ithaca area. Frost and her husband: Mike, and the couple's two daughters, Katherine, 9, and Susanne, 6, were participating in the nature center's Family Fun in the Snow program on Sunday. DAVID GREWEWournal Staff to stay Winter returns: is expected low was reported at Binghamton on Sunday, when the temperature dropped to minus 1 breaking the 1964 mark. Here, the coldest it got was minus 2 degrees this morning, but it would have to have dropped seven more degrees to break the record of minus 8 set in 1963, according to the Cornell University Weather Station on Game Farm Road. The weekend also saw 7.7 inches of snow pile up here.

This brand of winter is expected to continue at least through the workweek, although er at times than it has been. police said. Around the state, blowing snow was being blamed for a massive chain-reaction pileup on the Adirondack Northway near Saratoga Springs. Police said 11 people suffered minor injuries and were taken to two area hospitals' after the accident, which occurred around 3 p.m. Sunday.

At least 44 vehicles were involved in the mile-long pileup Sunday, which closed all three southbound lanes of the Northway Forecasters said temperatures dropped as low as 25 below zero this morning in some parts of the Adirondack Mountains. A record From Staff and Wire Reports Winter has bounced back and is expected to hang around a bit. Following some uncharacteristically warm weather last week, temperatures dropped during the weekend as snow fell all over the state causing accidents and massive pileups. Locally, snow caused numerous minor accidents, a Tompkins County Fire Control dispatcher said this morning. "There was quite a bit of smashing and crashing, mostly fender benders," he said.

"Some people simply refuse to slow down." Most local roads were passable this morning, Poor weather delays launch of space shuttle for fifth time New unrest kills nine in province of Natal JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) Clashes in southeastern Natal province left at least nine people dead, authorities said today, despite a plea by Nelson Mandela for warring black factions to throw their weapons into the sea. The anti-apartheid leader on Sunday also urged President F.W. de Klerk to fire his defense minister and suspend the law and order minister. "Even now as we stand together on the threshold of a new South Africa, Natal is in flames," Mandela told an estimated 100,000 people who filled three adjacent soccer fields Sunday in Natal's coastal city of Durban. ALSO in the WORLD Father to reclaim child, 12A 100,000 rally in Moscow, Lithuanians eject 12A ALSO in the STATE Study: Law fosters bias, 11A Fire code enforcement hit, 11A DEATH NOTICES Samantha Nichole Backes Blake A.

F. R. Estes Dedra Lee Ryerson Amy Nicole Thurston Page 4A Tomorrow: The Our Town section takes a look at the region CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Poor weather forced the launch of shuttle Atlantis' secret military mission to be scrubbed today for the fifth time, the most delays since the doomed Challenger. NASA set the next, attempt for early Wednesday.

Peekaboo clouds and erratic winds tantalized NASA with possible launch opportunities for almost two hours early today and officials kept Atlantis and its five-man crew poised and ready for any momentary break in the weather. But the break never came. 1 At 2:32 a.m. launch director Robert Sieck abandoned the launch attempt and said NASA would not try again until early Wednesday. "We're just in kind of a stalemate because of the weather," said Tom Strange, an Air Force weather forecaster.

He said there was only a 20 percent chance of favorable weather on Wednesday and a 40 percent chance on Thursday. Insurance probe asked, 7A Smokers try to cope, 8A ALL IN THE FAMILY: Malcolm Forbes Jr. succeeds his father as boss of the publishing empire. Story, 11 A..