The Dispatch from Moline, Illinois • 1

Are YOU ready for Christmas? TGIF a. I' Woman bitten by AIDS victim still healthy, now a new mom By LARRY DOYLE "KC- thoht she iu dead the day aa mieT- jpsuSC, is being cited by medical authorities as example that AIDS not transmitted through uhva, but ate admiu she Rill lean eventually developing evidence of Infectioa by tbe deadly virus -That 1 what I have to Lve wit every day." she said ia a telephone interview. "I doat want to be the font." Dr. Joha Dnimroood. aa Atlanta internist who reported MJlert case ia a letter to today Journal of the American Medical Association, said be is fairly confident Mtfler was not infected by the bite.

(Please tee AIDS, pat 2) SPECIAL HOLIDAY FOOD GUIDE COMING SUNDAY Jocao Wronn Pbyoif will bring back memories Sports BAILY BISPATCH 3 PAlES MOLINE, ILLINOIS 25 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1986 Record layoffs hit Midwei i 'J '7 f-t Vs- 'V' I K- DETROIT General Motors Corp. announced Thursday the biggest wave of permanent plant closings in Its history, saying the closure of nine plants and partial shutdown of two others Is the "first phase" of the company's consolidation program. About 29,000 workers, including 17, 450 In Michigan, will lose their jobs at the affected plants. Included are 3, 000 salaried workers. The closings, which will occur by 1990, are in four states Michigan, Missouri, Ohio and Illinois and include some of GM's oldest assembly and stamping plants.

GM Chairman Roger Smith said the company continues to look for further consolidations, and announcements of other closings may follow. GM officials refused to identify other facilities under scrutiny, but GM has said in recent months it is evaluating its Fisher Guide parts plants and foundry operations. The United Auto Workers is known to be concerned about jobs at GM parts plants, which are likely to be hard hit by the assembly-plant closings. GM has 223 plants in 22 countries, Including 149 plants in the United States and Canada, with 600,000 employees. Worldwide, the company has 762.500 employees.

The world's largest automaker, which earned 1264 million in the third quarter but lost 338 million in its car and truck business during that period, already has announced other cost-cutting moves, such as a 21 percent reduction in its while-collar work force by 1990. The company is struggling to rein in its costs and boost profit margins and productivity. The plant closings will save $500 million a year, and will benefit "all who have a stake in the continued well-being" by improving GM's competitiveness, company officials said. General Motors' decision is an overdue move that will enable the company to cut costs and excess production capacity and improve its competitive position. Wall Street auto analysts said Thursday.

"In 1986, (GM) management is addressing problems that have been around for many, many years," said Maryann Keller, vice president of the New York investment firm of Fur-man Sell Mager Diets Birney Inc. "GM's costs are too high, and its market share is declining," Keller said. "Doing something to Improve capacity utilization is part of the recovery process. The decision should have been made years ago." But Keller said the plant closings will not help the nation's leading automaker unless "the cars that GM's producing are more attractive to customers affordable, desirable, high-quality cars. Isnt that what we're really talking about?" Analyst Ann Knight, of Paine Web- (Please see GM, page 2) Fire struck a second time at Rock Island's Rodmaa Hoase la four months, finishing off the vacant ceaUry-old home named for the Rock bland Arsenal's first commander.

Fire shot through the windows and flames wrapped around the arched entryway of the mansion, named for the Rock Island Arsenal's first commander, Gen. Thomas J. Rodman. The first fire at the mansion, on Aug. 23, did about $50,000 damage to the home's roof and second floor, but the first floor was spared.

The fire displaced two women who were living in the home and buying it on contract from owner Tony Kelly of Evanston. (Please see RODMAN, page 2) Flames wrack Rodman House second time out of the house an hour later when the attic collapsed. The fire burned past dawn, and four fire companies continued pouring water on the house through most of this morning. Rock Island firefighter Lt Dan Dear-doff said only stonework from the foundation and the chimney may be salvageable. Firefighters, responding to a 2:19 a.m.

emergency call, arrived at 2:22 a.m. to find the upper floor and roof in flames. By KEVIN JEFFRIES Firefighters say vandals started the second fire in three months this morning at the 133-year-old Rodman House in Rock Island, which burned out of control for at least five hours. Only scorched beams, a stone chimney and parts of interior walls remained today at the unoccupied two-story mansion at 2S32 8'A Rock Island. No one was injured.

Firefighters arrived on the scene shortly before 2:30 a.m. and were forced Danes: U.S. sold Iran weapons in deal to free three hostages of the union, said U.S. weapons, spare parts and ammunition apparently were shipped to Israel from the United States for further shipment to Iran. "It appears that the shipments this year have been carried out on the orders of the United States to win the release of hostages in Lebanon," Berlau said.

"There is no doubt at all that the Israeli authorities per se have been involved in these shipments." He suggested the shipments were ransom for hostages released in the past 14 months the Rev. Benjamin Weir, the Rev. Lawrence Jenco and David Jacobsen. Jacobsen was freed Sunday. A sailor from the Danish freighter Mono said his ship A Danish sailors' union said it has evidence that the United States may have channeled thousands of tons of U.S.

weapons and military spare parts to Iran through Israel in a secret deal to buy freedom for American hostages in Lebanon. The New York Times and Washington Post, in reports in today's editions, quoted U.S. sources as saying such shipments have been going on for nearly a year and a half. The Danish Sailors Union told United Press International in Copenhagen Thursday that Israeli weapons dealers shipped at least 3,600 tons of U.S.-made military hardware to Iran. Henrik Berlau, deputy chairman Richard and Judith Neyens recently sold their Bettendorf home and have paid a $15,000 deposit oa legal fees mounting following Richard Neyens' convic-tloa for defrauding Deere Co.

Neighbors buy home of Deere scam leader Proposed GM Plant Closings GM's plan to close 1 1 by the end of the decade would idle 29,000 workers. A location oi plants (some cities have more than one plan!) East Moline wants out of sludge rule By STEVE LILLYBECK IS! By PATRICK SE1TZ TmiCHIGAN vf CANADA. WISCONSIN (: A fin! J-f. Detroit Chtcaao A- vv DA -Willow Springs 1 1 A. 1 1 OHIO ILLINOIS INDIANA 1 Springfield I indues Mmon rJcincimati-vl W.VA.

7 St. Louis I I rJ KENTUCKY recorder's office. A investigator in the Deere scam case, who did not wish to be identified, speculated that the house was sold to friends in order to keep Neyens' finances "liquid." Judith Neyans was ordered by federal authorities Aug. 22 to pay for her husband's legal bills. In the same court action, a conspiracy charge in the steel-buying scam was dismissed against her.

Mrs. Neyans recently made payment on a $15,000 court deposit for the legal fees. Federal officials could have foreclosed on the Neyens' residence if she had not made the deadline for payment Richard Neyens pleaded guilty Aug. 11 to six federal charges in U.S. District Court for the steel-buying scam that reportedly cost Deere and Company $1.1 million from 1979 to 1981 Before he was indicted, Richard Neyens placed his home and other assets in a trust under his wife's name.

Since he had no access to those funds, (Please see NEYENS, page 2) The Bettendorf home of Richard Neyens, who masterminded the steel-buying scam against Deere has been sold for $140,000 to his next-door neighbor. The "For Sale" sign is still up in front of 5039 Norwood Drive, but Richard and his wife Judith still live there while Mr. Neyens awaits sentencing. The new owners are Anthony P. and Susan M.

Blackwell of 5037 Norwood Drive. Mrs. Blackwell refused to comment on the purchase of the house Thursday night News concerning why she and her husband bought the home and where the Neyens family will live are personal matters, she said. "I really don't think that is any of your business," she said. Mr.

Blackwell is general sales manager at Keady-Dawson Cadillac Pontiac Isuzu which operates in Davenport and Bettendorf. The home was sold on Oct 14, according to documents filed in the Scott County Officials from East Moline and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency met this morning in Springfield to find an environmentally safe way to dispose of sludge removed from city drinking water drawn from the Mississippi River. East Moline officials will request a variance to an EPA regulation requiring them to dispose of sludge removed from drinking water. East Moline is presently pumping that sludge into a creek which runs between the sewage treatment plant and the Deere Harvester Works. Eventually, that sludge runs to the river.

East Moline attorney Bill Pnares said city officials will request a variance allowing them to pump the sludge directly into the river. If the EPA denies that request Phares said the city will be forced to build sludge settling ponds to collect the mud before hauling it away for eventual (Please see SLUDGE, page 5) Tonight Windy, warm and mild with a 70 percent chance of showers and possible thunderstorms. Lows ia the low 50s. Sooth to southwest winds, 15 to 30 mph. Saturday: Cloudy and continuing windy, with a 30 percent chance of showers during the morning.

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