Indiana Gazette from Indiana, Pennsylvania • 26

Boge 26 Thursday, May 1, 1986 The Indiana Gazette PLAYGROUND IMPROVEMENTS The Clymer Betterment Association recently donated a new playground building to Clymer Borough. The 40-foot by 70-foot steel structure was built in 1982. A plaque noting the donation will be installed on the building. Holding the plaque are, at right, Pete Benamate, president of the Greater Clymer Community Association, and Paul DeBalla, chairman of playgrounds of Clymer Borough. Also pictured are, from left to right, Albert Petroff, a member of the cummunity association, and Dave Stiles, treasurer of the community association.

(Gazette photo by Bechtel) Officials say Soviet disaster won't affect U.S. industry PITTSBURGH (AP) The Soviet nuclear power plant disaster will have mostly psychological effects on the U.S. nuclear industry because the economics of commercial atomic power have already slowed business to a standstill. industry officials say. "It's academic domestically and that's pretty much the situation worldwide," said Bob McCoy, electric industry analyst for Kidder Peabody.

The business side of nuclear power is primarily now service and reloading fuel. So what's happening in Russia is having no impact on anybody's current McCoy said Wednesday. Excess electric generating capacity and the high cost of building nuclear power plants have dried up orders in the United States and slowed worldwide activity to a trickle, said Bertram Wolfe, general manager of nuclear technology for General Electric the second-largest U.S. reactor manufacturer behind Westinghouse Electric Corp. "We felt the utilities wouldn't be ordering plants for anywhere from Jurors can't be dis disqualified for race (AP) Civil rights groups are hailing as a breakthrough in eliminating racial bias in the courtroom a Supreme Court ruling that bars prosecutors from ever disqualifying potential jurors because of race.

By a 7-2 vote Wednesday, the justices strictly limited the use by prosecutors of peremptory, or automatic challenges, to shape a jury to their liking. decision was a rebuff to the Reagan administration, which defended the of such challenges in a Kentucky case. Steve Ralston of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund said the ruling "will go far in finally eliminating all discriminatory practices and insuring that jufries are truly representative of their communities." 'He added: "'The misuse of peremptories has become the standard method for excluding blacks from jury service. The problem is nationwide in scope, with cases involving the issue arising in New York, California, Illinois and Massachusetts as well as in the South." Farmer, an Atlanta defense lawyer, said the decision "will mean people have an opportunity to have a fairer jury and it will mean that racial discrimination is one step closer toward being eliminated in the Justice Thurgood Marshall, the high court's only black member. called the decision "a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries." The prosecution and defense are allowed a number of peremptory chal- lenges in criminal cases that permit them to disqualify without giving a 'reason potential jurors.

Under this ruling, the prosecution would have to show that its decision to exclude a potential juror was not racially motivated. The court said excluding potential jurors from any criminal trial because of their race violates the equal-protection rights of defendants and of those people excluded. In a separate decision, the court said murder defendants facing a possible death sentence must be allowed to ask potential jurors about their racial views if the killing was interracial. The juror-exclusion case revises a 1965 high court ruling that barred systematic exclusion of black prospective jurors, but denied defendants the right to attack as racially discriminatory a prosecutor's use of individual peremptory challenges. The 1965 ruling placed "a crippling burden of proof' on defendants in -challenging prosecutors' tactics, Justice Lewis F.

Powell said Wednesday for the court. The court threw out James Kirkland Batson's conviction on charges of -degree burglary and receiving stolen property stemming from the theft of two purses in Jefferson County. Ky. Batson, who is black, was convicted by an all-white jury after four blacks among the people called as potential jurors were disqualified by a state prosecutor using his peremptory challenges. Wednesday's decision said prosecutors now must show "that permissible racially neutral selection criteria and procedures have produced" all-white or predominantly white juries.

"The harm from discriminatory jury selection extends beyond that inflicted on the defendant and the excluded juror to touch the entire community," Powell said. "Selection procedures that purposefully exclude black persons from juries undermine public confidence in the fairness of our system of justice." The Reagan administration sided with Kentucky prosecutors in urging that prosecutors be allowed broad discretion in use of peremptory challenges. A prosecutor's use of the automatic challenge to eliminate a black person from the jury does not on its face violate the defendant's rights, the administration said. Nothing in Wednesday's decision bars defense lawyers from using their peremptory challenges to exclude potential jurors based on their race, because equal-protection guarantees protect individuals in this case, defendants not the government. Besides Powell and Marshall, the majority included Justices William J.

Brennan, Byron R. White, Harry A. Blackmun, John Paul Stevens and Sandra Day O'Connor. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and William H.

Rehnquist dissented. The court also voted 7-2 to throw out the death sentence of convicted Virginia murderer Willie Lloyd Turner, who is black, for the 1978 killing of W. Jack Smith a white jewelry store owner in Franklin, Va. White, writing the court's main opinion in the case, said, "A capital defendant accused of an interracial crime is entitled to have prospective jurors informed of the race of the victim and questioned on the issue of racial bias." White said trial judges have the authority to choose the number and form of such questions, including whether potential jurors should be questioned as a group or individually. In a third ruling Wednesday, the court unanimously refused to reinstate an invalidated Illinois law regulating abortions, deciding that the case was not properly before it.

Comet leaves sparkling memento WASHINGTON (AP). Halley's Comet, which disappointed many viewers when it passed near the planet this winter, will be making some amends this weekend by' offering a meteor shower as a parting memento. As the Earth passes through the comet's path, people will be able to a flurry of what are popularly called shooting stars. The comet recently orbited the sun and is now heading out towards the far reaches of the solar system, said astronomers at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington.

In its travels, the comet leaves behind smail bits of debris, most no larger than a grain of sand, and these produce the meteor showers, observatory spokeswoman Gail S. Cleere explained. Although popularly called shoot- Revenuesharing bill sent to House HARRISBURG (AP) A bill that would earmark $125 million in state tax revenues to partially offset any cuts in federal revenue-sharing funds to municipalities has won approval from the House Urban Affairs Committee. The committee on Wednesday approved the measure and sent it to the full House for consideration. Provisions in the legislation would -only be used if the federal government eliminates or reduces its revenue-sharing program, a topic of debate in Congress.

The state money would be used to cover about 57 percent of the amount lost if the entire federal program were cut, according to Rep. Peter Daley, D-Washington, who sponsored the measure. The state funds would come from revenues generated by the personal income tax and from a real estate tax on public utility companies. Daley said the funds would not necessitate a tax increase. The revenue-sharing proposal would help local governments maintain funding for such things as water and sewer systems and street construction despite expected reductions in the amount of federal dollars, said Daley.

"Local municipalities are on the brink of financial disaster" and wouldn't be able to absorb the total Hoss of federal dollars, he said. five to 10 years, fundamentally not in the foreseeable future. So I don't think it's going to have a near-term impact on any of the companies," Wolfe said. The last nuclear power plant order was placed in the United States in 1978 by Commonwealth Edison for two units, still to be built in Carroll County, Ill. The last order on which construction has begun dates to 1973, according to the Atomic Industry Forum, an industry organization.

More than 100 orders have been canceled since the early 1970s. The head of commercial power for Westinghouse said the Soviet disaster clearly heightened anxiety over the safety of reactors everywhere. "The anti-nukes are coming out with the without making the between Soviet nuclear power standards and the higher safety standards, in the United States, Moore, Westinghouse general manager of commercial nuclear power. "It's going to take some time before all that settles down," he said. "It's something we're going to have to wrestle with.

But since nobody is sitting down with me to talk about ordering plants I don't see any impact on our technology." There are 97 commercial nuclear reactors in operation in the United States, with four others licensed to operate at 5 percent power or less for shakedowns, said Ellen Werther of the Atomic Industry Forum. Outside the United States, an estimated 245 commercial reactors are operating, and 136 are under construction. a business like this. what is under way will remain in place. Those that are planned are on the drawing boards.

I don't think there will be any modification in design, and that's on a worldwide said Paul Whelan, electrical industry analyst for the Wall Street firm Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse and the French and Japanese associates licensed to use its designs have 164 reactors operating or under construction, said company spokesman Robert Henderson. General Electric of Fairfield, and its licensed associates have 100 units operating or being built. said GE spokesman David Crowley. GE received its last order in 1975, he said.

Moore said he expects U.S. utilities to begin ordering nuclear units in the near future. I remain convinced utilities have to come up with generation and nuclear has to be a viable option," he said. "I don't agree with any of that," McCoy said. "Because of the cost of nuclear plants and the long construction time and because of the uncertainty about the licensing process, it didn't look like utilities in the U.S.

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It will begin on Saturday, but the best viewing will be in the early morning hours of Sunday and Mon- day, said LeRoy Doggett of the Naval Observatory's Almanac Office, who keeps track of astronomical phenomena. showers are not absolutely predictable," however, as they can vary somewhat in intensity from year to year, he noted. At the peak of the display, about 20 meteors can be expected to occur per hour, said Cleere. Shooting stars can appear anywhere in the sky. The early hours of Sunday and Monday should be good for viewing meteors because the moon will not rise until later in the morning (3:38 a.m.

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