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bucks, berks and Montgomery Counties 350 NO. 37,190 TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1994 ft I i Gun buy-backs move to U.Perk area pageB1 MORNING CMJL Tornado victim's bond lands 50 miles away PAGE B1 1994 Ttw Morning Call, Inc. All rights reserved I iiin-n --i fa i- rmr- A Forecast: Chance of thunderstorms today, tomorrow. Highs to day, tomorrow 88, I i I a to t' lows tonight tomorrow 70. PAGE B2 3 mi is i Colo.

Silver Bullets pull 5,600 to Reading The Colorado Silver Bullets women's baseball team, crowd sweethearts wherever they play, attracted more than 5,600 people to Reading to watch them play. PAGE C1 v. A i QoiwasDin) White House hopes threat enough change government a The Dow rose 33.67 yesterday, to 3798.17, extending Friday's and Thursday's advances. means specifically, because we want the pressure here to work," United Nations Ambassador Madeleine Albright said yesterday. She added, in an ABC interview! "There is real value in some doubt in their minds about the timing, but no doubts in their minds about the resolve to solve this situation." State Department spokesman Michael McCurry said the U.N.

ac- JOHN F. SIMITZ The Morning Call Hess's main store at 9th and Hamilton streets will be sold to Bon-Ton Stores. PAGE B9 IK E1R JL Manufacturing activity hits six-year high A key barometer of manufacturing activity edged up to its highest level in six years, but other economic indicators, including income growth, were weaker than expected. PAGE B9 By ALLISON SALERNO Of The Morning Call "The blood will flow. I know I am going to die.

Frantz Robert Monde Haitian official By RITA BEAMISH Of The Associated Press WASHINGTON Given a U.N. green light to invade Haiti, the Clinton administration expressed hope yesterday the threat alone will drive out the country's military leaders. A decision on invasion is unlikely for at least a few weeks, an official said. The United States will use the time to tap other countries to participate in a potential invasion and in any post-invasion peacekeeping force. The Clinton administration is also trying to overcome congressional opposition.

As the United Nations offered its blessing Sunday for a military action to oust the coup leaders it authorized "all necessary means" U.S. Marines who have been waiting off Haiti's coast went to Puerto Rico to practice amphibious landings. But a State Department official, speaking qn condition of anonymity, said a decision on invading is still a few weeks off. Publicly, U.S. officials are refraining from a timetable, insisting only that the Haitian military relinquish power soon and permit the return of elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

"We have not set a deadline because we believe that they are now going to have to get this message. We have not said what 'soon' Deal to split, sell chain Flagship store to become part of Bon-Ton Next year, the Hess's store name will disappear. Financially troubled Hess's Department Stores said yesterday it will sell its 30-store chain to two separate buyers. The Bon-Ton Stores and the May and be out of business by winter. Hess's said it signed a definitive agreement Sunday to sell 20 stores, including four in the Lehigh Valley, as well as its Whitehall distribution center, to The Bon-Ton Stores Inc.

of York, York County, for $60 million. All those stores are expected to remain open. 1 "For the foreseeable future it's business as usual," Pa. senators reach out to voters on health care Live via satellite, Pennsylvania's two senators, Arlen Specter and Harris Wofford, reached out yesterday to constituents and voters on health-care reform. PAGE A3 tion puts Haiti's rulers "on notice of what action the world community is prepared to take." He also branded illegal the declaration of a state of siege by "the illegal government" in Haiti, saying the Haitian constitution man dates only the National Assembly can take that action.

In a radio and television address yesterday, Haiti's de facto president, Emile Jonassaint, declared the state of siege and began preparing the population for "the battle of Haiti." Please See HAITI Page A2 Please See HESS'S Page A8 WHO'S BUYING WHICH STORES U.N. official predicts better days for Rwanda The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees visited crowded Rwandan refugee camps yesterday and predicted "things are bad but they're going to get better." PAGE A3 N.Y. --I Hess's Department Stores of Allentown has announced letters of intent have been signed to sell the 30-store Hess's chain to May Dept. Stores Co.

and the Bon-Ton Stores Inc. Here are the buyers and the stores. Bon-Ton Inc. May Co. Federal agents guarding abortion clinics, doctors By MICHAEL J.

SNIFFEN Of The Associated Press hr --Kin5, Vs N.C. Stores stir some memories Hess's history B4 By JOHN P. MARTIN Of The Morning Call Hess's brought Kurt Zwikl and The Rifleman together. Zwikl was a child; his father, Bill, the chain's photography director. And The Rifleman was Chuck Connors, one of the television celebrities Max Hess Jr.

used to parade through his Al-lentown store and the one who fronted a camera with a young boy named Kurt three decades ago. Hess used the stars to lure wide-eyed children and their parents on a Saturday to gawk, to snap a photo and he hoped to shop. For the lucky ones, the trip might include a lunch in the store's Patio Restaurant, the final brick in building a memorable afternoon. Hess's was Allentown's premier store on its premier street. And when word came yester- Please See AREA Page A8 TENN.

GA, Stores to be bought by Bon-Ton Inc. WASHINGTON Federal marshals were stationed yesterday outside dozens of abortion clinics around the nation and guarded some abortion doctors in an effort to head off further violence by ami -abortion protesters. "We're trying to take all prudent steps, using all the federal tools, including the clinic access legislation, to appropriately address an issue of deep concern to this nation," Attorney General Janet Reno said. Violence at clinics "has now occurred twice in one city," Reno told reporters before meeting law enforcement executives. "It is a problem throughout the nation," She was referring to the killing in Pensacola, of Dr.

David Gunn as he arrived to work at an abortion clinic in March 1993 and the killing there last Friday of Dr. John B. Britton and his escort, James H. Barrett, as they arrived at another abortion clinic. Defenders of abortion rights, including two dozen who picketed the Justice Department renewed pressure yesterday for an aggressive federal investigation of links between those three killings and other clinic worker shootings they believe are the work of a Stores to be bought by May Co.

NEW YORK Utica Elmira Kingston Schenectady PENNSYLVANIA Scranton Williamsport Wilkes-Barre Harrisburg (2) Altoona Berks couple enjoys tracking kestrels For Bob and Sue Robertson of Albany Township in rural Berks County, tracking kestrels. North America's smallest falcons, is a labor of love. PAGE D1 Richland Mall Doylestown Trexler Mall Stroud Mall Pottstown Schuylkill Mall Lebanon Chambersburg Johnstown State College Uniontown Washington NEW JERSEY Phillipsburg W. VIRGINIA Fairmont Martinsburg GEORGIA Rome PENNSYLVANIA Hamilton Mall Westgate Mall South Mall Palmer Park Mall Please See CLINICS Page A2 LARRY PRINTZThe Morning Call NationalWorld Section A LocalBusiness Section Section Sports BALANCE OVERDUE The costly problem of wcollected bell Section A.M. Magazine Bridge Business Classified Comics Comment Deaths D2 Dining B9 Letters C6 Lottery D4 Movies A7 People B8.C6 Television D6 A6 A2 D6 A2 D2 IPiroSblems mnsEdle Berks bail! ryBes Last of three parts County leader in collecting forfeits Call InfoTel 24-hour information hotline.

Call 821-8300 Full category listing now in TV Channel Choices missioner for 18 years. "If we don't hold people accountable the standard for the bail bondsman becomes what can I get away with," Carabello said. County commissioners urged the solicitor's office, which handles collections, to make agents pay the full amount of a fugitive's bail in drug cases and not to settle for less than the bail originally set by a district justice. The county could settle for lower bail payments in non-drug cases. Please See BERKS Page A4 NEWS WATCH By DEBBIE GARLICKI Of The Morning Call In the late 1980s, vice officers in Reading were not a happy lot.

Suspected drug dealers, many of them illegal aliens, were arrested and back on the streets when bail agents wrote their bails. The suspects were leaving for Lancaster, Allentown, New York or their native countries. They were-. n't coming back. reneging on their promise to pay forfeited bail to the county.

Berks officials listened, and the county became the front-runner among area counties in collecting money from bail agents and others when defendants didn't show up for court. Bail means nothing without standards that require agents to honor their obligations and pay, preferably the total amount of bail, said Anthony J. Carabello, a com "I was irate as hell," said former Reading police Chief Rodney E. Steffy. "The 1 men go out, risk their lives, make a good case, and then the guy.

bails out. Next thing you know, he's sunning himself in the Dominican Republic." Steffy alerted the district attorney, the president judge, the solicitor's office and county commissioners about the large number of fugitives. He complained that agents were bailing out defendants, then For the latest summaries and updates of worldnational news, call AP Network News on Call InfoTel, categories 8694, 8698. Traveling to the Carribean? Call AAA Travel Specials 821-8300 Enter 1431 Protect Your Children Call LV Crime Stoppers Line 821-8300 Enter 2203 Breast Cancer Prevention Trial Call Health Tips Hotline 821-8300 Enter 7869 Capturing Golden Moments Call Marriage Family Line 82l-ft30Q Enter 4002 Your Personal Injury Claim Call Personal Injury Law Line 821-8300 Enter 842-5 Bankruptcy As Possibility Call Bankruptcy Legal Line 821-8300 Enter 8401.