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11 The one newspaper in ihe world most interested in this community 25 Cents McComb, Monday, Jan. 9, 1989 99th Year No. 228 1 section, 10 pages Reagan's final budget targets federal deficit 3C5 0 '0 4, if' a Engines blamed in crash KEGWORTH, England (AP) A brand-new Boeing 737 crashed along a highway after both of its engines apparently failed, officials said today. At least 43 people were killed and 83 injured. "So far the evidence, although by ino means conclusive, is consistent with the right engine having stopped before impact and there are also signs of fire in the left engine," Transport Minister Paul Channon said in an interview on British Broadcasting Corp.

television. The chances of both engines failing at once are about 10 million to one, aviation experts said. INVESTIGATORS recovered the flight recorders from the wreckage, hoping they might shed light on what caused the accident. Firefighters pumped foam onto the crumpled jet to prevent seeping aviation fuel from catching fire. The Belfast-bound British Midland Airways jet carrying 126 people broke into three pieces on the edge of Britain's main north-south highway, the Ml, in central England on Sunday night.

The twin-engine Boeing 737-400 narrowly missed the small town of Kegworth and plowed into an embankment just a few hundred 'yards short of the runway as the pilot struggled to make an emergency landing at East Midland Airport, 100 miles north of London. British Midland Airways said sabotage was not suspected in the crash, which came less than three weeks after a bomb blew apart Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish village of Lockerbie, killing all 259 people on board and 11 on the ground. William Tench, retired head of Britain's Air Accident Investigation Board, said the odds against both engines failing on a Boeing 737 were 10 million to one. "I WOULD look for some mm-- WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan today sent Congress a $1.15 trillion farewell budget that attacked his biggest economic failure, the federal deficit, by offering up again some of his cherished ideas about reducing the size of government. The president's ninth and final spending plan out of balance like all of his others is largely an academic exercise, certain to be overhauled to reflect the priorities of a Democratic-controlled Congress and an incoming president, George Bush, after his inauguration Jan.

20. If Reagan's ideas were adopted in their entirety, the deficit would fall to $92.5 billion in the 1990 fiscal year, lower than at any time in his presidency. "THIS BUDGET shows that a gradual elimination of the deficit is possible without raising taxes," Reagan said in his budget message. "It can be done in a reasonable, responsible way with discipline and fairness. New taxes are not required." In his proposals for the fiscal year that starts Oct.

1, 1989, Reagan advocated terminating a total of 82 government programs, slashing spending on farm programs by $9.7 billion and trimming the growth in Medicare and Medicaid, the giant health programs, by about $5 billion. The Pentagon's budget, on the other hand, would be increased by $16.4 billion. The budget would provide increased spending for two of the government's most pressing new problems, bailing out hundreds of insolvent savings and loan institutions and cleaning up contaminated nuclear weapons plants. AIDS research and space exploration would also receive increases. WHILE REAGAN was presenting his budget only 11 days before leaving office, many of its broad outlines were expected to be adopted by Bush, who has said he will unveil his own proposals to a special joint session of Congress soon after taking office.

In two key respects, the two budgets will be alike. Both men pledged to cut the deficit, which is projected to climb this year to $161.5 billion, without resorting to new taxes and without touching Social Security. But Bush is expected to seek a smaller increase in defense spending while allocating more money in such areas as child care, cleaning up the environment and housing the homeless. Skeptical Democrats believe Bush will find it impossible to fulfill all his campaign promises for higher spending while relying on a "flexible freeze" on other government programs to eliminate the budget deficit without resorting to new taxes. "President Reagan's final budget is really irrelevant at this point," Rep.

William Gray, former chairman of the House Budget Committee, said today on "CBS This Morning." "It is a farewell gesture that every president is required to do. It only becomes relevant if George Bush today, tomorrow or this week says, 'that's my I don't expect him to do that." Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, called Reagan's proposal "amiable fiction." 1 REAGAN WILL leave office with a budget that proposes collecting $1,059 trillion in revenues and spending $1,152 trillion, leaving a budget deficit of $92.5 billion. (See Reagan, Page 10) AP Laserphoto Rescue workers scramble to pull survivors from plane wreckage Latest count shows 83 survived crash of brand-new Boeing 737 that effect, so we braced our heads and about five seconds afterward we were down on the ground with a crash," McCrea said from his bed at the Derby Royal Infirmary in nearby Nottingham. Belfast lawyer Mary McHugh, 26, another survivor, said: "I thought we were all going to get burned alive. I just thought: 'That's it, I'm I was terrified of burning to death." At least four British Army soldiers serving in the troubled Northern Ireland province were killed.

The Royal Ulster Constabulary, the Northern Ireland police force, said "several" of its officers were on board. inadvertent technical mistake such as something incorrect being done to the engines during turnaround, either inadvertently or deliberately," Tench said. British Midland said the jet was delivered just 12 weeks ago and had flown less than 500 hours. It grounded its other 737-400 for inspection. Pilot Kevin Hunt, a 25-year veteran, was among the badly injured survivors cut from the wreckage.

The last survivor, a woman, was pulled from a tangle of metal and crushed seats more than seven hours after the crash. The plane's two giant wings, heavily loaded with fuel, remained virtually intact. The severed tail section of Flight BD92 loomed from woodland alongside the highway, surrounded by wreckage from the severed center and nose sections. "It makes you wonder how anybody walked from it," said Leicestershire county Chief Fire Officer Barry Pearson. American investigators from Boeing and General Electric which helped make the plane's new CFM-56 engines, were to join British investigators at the crash site.

Survivor John McCrea said passengers were being served dinner when the plane got into trouble soon after takeoff from London's Heathrow Airport. "THE CAPTAIN said 'prepare for emergency landing' or something to Constable will continue duties A Lawrence County constable said today that he and a fellow constable will continue to handle their duties despite a state law that forbids them from being paid until they complete training requirements set out in the Constable Training Act of 1986. James H. Ard and Gary S. Boutwell, the two Lawrence County constables, were among area constables listed in Friday's Enterprise-Journal as having failed to complete the course.

Ard, who said he was speaking on behalf of himself and Boutwell, told the Enterprise-Journal both of them planned to complete the requirements soon. Meanwhile, he said, they both will continue to serve legal papers as needed despite the fact they won't be paid for it. Ard said he enrolled in the course last year but had to drop out because of a knee injury. He said Boutwell could not attend last year because of a heart attack. THE CONSTABLE CRITICIZED the 1986 legislation, saying the course is too rigid and includes training constables can't legally use in the performance of their duties, including radar detection and certain tests on driving under the influence suspects.

His main complaint, however, was that constables are required to complete the nine-week course, which he described as almost like military boot camp, without compensation. He explained that a constable's primary source of income is for serving legal papers and that no provision is made to pay him while he's in school. Most deputy sheriffs and policemen are paid their salaries while they undergo such training, according to Ard. Highlights- 12-year-old raped; suspecf in cusfody A 19-year-old South Pike High School student was arrested early this morning in connection with the Sunday night rape of a 12-year-old girl. Kessie Dale Jones, 19, of Route 2, Magnolia, was being held in the Pike County Jail on $20,000 bond, Sheriff Robert "Tot" Lawson reported.

Lawson said Jones is charged with capital rape. The girl, a resident of the Sherman community in Amite County between Magnolia and Liberty, was found on the property of Sherman Missionary Baptist Church on Hamp Lea Road. The girl's family reported her missing at 8:34 p.m. Sunday, according to a spokesman for the Amite County Sheriff's Department. A deputy was sent to the girl's home and was given a description by family members, who told him they thought the girl had run away from home, and may have been with Jones.

The deputy contacted the Pike County Sheriff's Department, met one of their officers and went to talk to the subject, who said that his sister had taken the girl home. Deputies went back to the girl's home and then later talked with the suspect again, leading them to search around the girl's Sherman community home. She was found near a trailer located behind her house. "She was in pretty bad shape," Lawson said. "She was found lying behind a trailer, wrapped up in a coat.

She might have been in trouble had she had to lay there all night." AP Laserphoto Illinois National Guardsmen on patrol in Allendale after devastating tornado hit Residents in three-state area Court to review abortion appeal P'ck UP Pleces after twisters ALLENDALE, 111. (AP) Simpson County Judge-Executive said Allendale reside said Allendale resident Linda Griesemer. "Houses are flattened, windows blowed out, roofs gone." A DAMAGE estimate was not yet available, Loeffler said. Gov. James R.

Thompson toured Allendale and flew over the other affected areas. He said he planned to declare Allendale a state disaster area. "It's a mess. It's awful," Thompson said. The tornado "not only took out a third of the homes, it took out almost the entire downtown and all the public facilities." In Mill Shoals, two or three mobile homes were overturned and a few homes and farm buildings were damaged.

In Albion, five buildings were damaged but there were no injuries, said Mayor Earl Bailey. In Indiana, a twister came within a mile of Vincennes Lincoln High School, where 2,500 people were watching a junior varsity basketball game when the storm knocked the school's power out. Ken Harper in Kentucky. The National Guard was sent to the tornado-ravaged areas of Illinois and Kentucky to help with the cleanup and to prevent looting. Loeffler said the tornado cut through a 10-square-block area of Allendale, destroying 53 homes and nine businesses, as well as the post office, fire station, city hall and a school.

On Sunday, the National Guard and other emergency workers cleared trees and power lines that had been knocked down and other rubble from streets, but hadn't made much headway on houses, said Gen. Donald Lynn. Police said people whose homes were destroyed were staying with friends or relatives in town, and about a dozen were taken to shelters. Shocked officials and residents of this town of 600 assessed the damage Sunday. "It's a mess is all you can say," Residents of three states today struggled to recover from tornadoes that destroyed a third of the buildings in this southeastern Illinois town and injured more than four dozen people.

"It looks like this place has been bombed," Mayor Jack Loeffler said Sunday from an emergency command post in a bank. Twisters hit the Illinois towns of Mill Shoals, Albion and Allendale on Saturday afternoon before moving into Indiana and touching down near Vincennes. Late Saturday, a tornado cut a two-mile path through the southern Kentucky community of Franklin. Fifty people were injured in Illinois, and 22 remained hospitalized Sunday. The.

three people injured in Indiana were released from hospitals by Sunday no injuries were reported in Kentucky. "AFTER SEEING everything that's happened, we were pretty lucky no folks were hurt," said WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court, acting in an appeal urging reversal of its landmark 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide, today agreed to review a Missouri law regulating abortions. The justices said they will study a federal appeals court ruling that struck down key provisions of the state law. Even before today's action in the appeal filed by Missouri officials, the case had become the most-watched battleground in the continuing political war over abortion. Justice Department lawyers also are urging the high court to use the case as a means of undoing its 1973 ruling, called Roe vs.

Wade. But nothing in the brief order issued today suggested that the justices will reconsider Roe vs. Wade. The court's eventual decision, expected by July, could resolve the Missouri controversy without significantly changing the 1973 decision or other past rulings on abortion. The 8th U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals last July 13 struck down, among other aspects of the Missouri abortion law, these five provisions: A ban on using public hospitals or other government-run facilities for abortions not necessary to save a woman's life. A ban prohibiting any public employee from performing or assisting an abortion. (See Court, Page 10) Opinions 2 Sports 4-5 State 3 Stocks 9 TV log 9 Weather 10 Calendar 3 Classified 8-9 Comics 6 Crossword 6 Nation 3 Obituaries 10 4.