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par in9 iii ew of seven metal trailers joined by walkways. Some of the charred remains of the structure still smoldered hours after the blaze. The fire was reported to authorities at 6:35 p.m., and more than 200 fire squad and rescue workers from 11 companies were called to the scene. The blaze was under control by 7:41 p.m., said Great Adventure topi? jrt Economic good times predicted through '85 Mason City-Clear Lake, Iowa EC For Mother v. HOT SPRINGS, Va.

(AP) The economy should continue to expand this year, top business executives predicted Friday, but a growing minority warned of a possible recession beginning in late 1985. However, Martin Feldstein, the chief White House economist, discounted these fears and said he saw nothing on the horizon to suggest a downturn is coming. The forecast of future economic growth was made at the spring meeting of the Business Council, whose members include the chief operating officers of America's largest companies. For the short term, the corporate executives saw little to be con Sixth District Democratic challenger Flannegan fights for farmer, small business Fields, Grinnell (at right), were among the guests honoring Good Shepherd residents. Mrs.

Clark also has daughters living in Florida and Westside, Iowa. Mother's Day is Sunday, May 13. (Staff photo by Jeff Heinz) Elma Faye Clark (seated) receives a corsage from three of her five daughters at the Mother's Day Tea at the Good Shepherd Center on Friday. Darlene Graves, Clear Lake (at left), Claretta Hovel, Plymouth (center) and Lola kiSSs 8 JACKSON, N.J. AP) Fire swept through the Haunted Castle attraction at the Six Flags Great Adventure amusement park in Jackson, N.J., on Friday evening, killing at least eight people and injuring seven others, police said.

"The fire spread so quickly because of the wind that apparently the victims had no time to escape," said police Capt. Samuel DePas-quale. The dead, burned beyond recognition, all were visitors to the 200-acre amusement park and were believed to be teen-agers, said Police Commissioner Richard Borys. "Right now we don't think there 1 are any more bodies, but we are investigating very carefully to be sure," DePasquale said. "The structure was pretty much destroyed so we have a lot of rubble to deal with." The bodies were removed and taken to the Ocean County Medical Examiner's Office, DePasquale said.

The search through the melted steel and charred wood continued late into the night, but officials don't expect to find any more dead, Borys said. "I don't think we'll be able to identify them by tomorrow (today)," Borys said. "It's going to be a slow task. We don't know if they were men or women that's how badly the bodies were burned." A hotline was set up to handle telephone calls from worried parents. All of the dead were found near the front of the attraction, he said.

Seven people were treated at Freehold Area Hospital for smoke inhalation and released, a nursing supervisor said. "We know of eight people so far that perished in the fire. We also know there were several injuries," said DePasquale. The Haunted Castle, a walkthrough amusement, is comprised vuMehj from less than four days to a high of more than two weeks. The variations on other operations was just as wide, according to the report.

In Mason City, the average cost for a heart attack patient at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital was $3,951 and $4,271 at North Iowa Medical Center. The average cost for a cataract patient was $1,154 at North Iowa Medical Center and $1,886 at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, for example. On the other hand, commissioners said they expected that health insurance companies would use the report to put pressure on high-cost hospitals to lower charges.

Iowa Blue Cross-Blue Shield is (Please turn to Page 2) we feel it has jeopardized his life more than a dozen times," said Noreen Gosch in a telephone interview from her home. "We would rather have them just back out." She said her husband, John, formally made the request Thursday night to the FBI in Washington. Herb Hawkins, special agent in charge of FBI operations in Iowa and Nebraska, said he had not heard of the request until being told of it by a reporter. But he said as far as he was concerned, the investigation would continue. "We have a missing child, the circumstances of which are still a mystery," he said in a telephone interview from his office in Omaha, Neb.

"We are operating under the assumption that foul play was involved. Based on that we are continuing on the case." Johnny Gosch, then age 12, disap- (Please turn to Page 2) Jersey spokeswoman Kathy Schoch. Flames were "leaping 100 feet in the air," said Jerry Wolkowitz, a park patron. "Thick black smoke was billowing up. You could see the huge flames." The cause of the fire was not known, but the Ocean County arson squad was investigating, Borys said.

cerned about. They predicted the economy would keep growing this year, but at a slightly lower rate than previously. They foresaw inflation remaining under control, and consumer spending, housing construction and auto sales staying strong. The executives said, though, that prospective federal budget' deficits approaching $200 billion annually threaten to drive up interest rates and bring the economic recovery crashing to a halt. Opel said that while the corporate economists predicted economic good times lasting through this year and most of 1985, a growing minority issued warning signals of problems looming in late 1985.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the last in a series of stories about challengers in the June 5 primary elections for the 6th District U.S. House of Representatives seat held by Democrat Berkley Bedell. The challengers are Michael Flannegan, Emmetsburg, on the Democratic ticket, and Darrel Rensink, Sioux Center, and Garry De Young, Spencer, on the Republican ticket. Michael Flannegan had 10 years in Congress to get a good farm program in place but hasn't done so. "I have felt for years Bedell is a truly corporate person.

He's a successful businessman, but he doesn't Flannegan (Please turn to Page 8) election runoff a "farce" and said it would not accept the results. Duarte said the attitude of d'Au-buisson's party, known as ARENA, "is helping the guerrillas cause trouble. First they said we were communists and now they say we're from the CIA." The guerrillas he referred to are leftist insurgents who for 4V2 years-have been fighting the U.S. -backed government for control of this Central American nation. "We have a free conscience that we won the elections cleanly without dirty tricks," said Ines Duarte de Navas, Duarte's daughter and private secretary.

"With God's help, my father can bring peace to the country." ws. 1 Bowa (hospital ciars vairy By Roger Munns Associated Press Writer DES MOINES (AP) Iowans pay radically different hospital costs for the same operations, according to a study released Friday. The report, compiled by the Iowa Health Data Commission, compares the cost of 25 common operations at all Iowa hospitals and state officials said they hoped the data will inspire competition among the hospitals. By Dick Sullivan News Editor EMMETSBURG Michael Flannegan says he fits the times to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The Emmetsburg businessman is taking on the incumbent 6th District U.S. Representative, Democrat Berkley Bedell, in the June 5 primary elections for the party nomination to run in November's general election. Not only does he fit the times, said the 41-year-old Emmetsburg native, "the district fits me right now. I know the problems here, in Mason City and in other communities in the district, and I know the problems farmers are facing. I can relate districtwide right now." Flannegan smiles easily, but there is deep concern behind the smiles.

"The farm program doesn't do what it should be doing," said Flannegan, in expressing some of the causes of his concern. "Rural communities are regressing and will continue until some positive steps are taken. Iowa has allowed itself to fall behind losing farms and farmers and losing people. I can relate to all these things and can represent this district well." Flannegan knows he faces a tough fight trying to win the party nomination against a 10-year incumbent. "Running against an incumbent is a most difficult thing," he said during an interview this week at his Emmetsburg home.

"It's saying that I disagree with him (Bedell) you're damn right 1 do!" For instance, he said Bedell has depending on equipment, building costs, salaries and other reasons, said Michael commissioner of the Iowa Department of Human Resources. "Some variations are natural, some are explainable," said Pawlewski. "Don't jump to conclusions." The report compares Medicare claims for 1982 for all 130 Iowa hospitals. It shows that the cost for a cataract operation varied from a low of under $1,200 up to about $2,600 and that the length of hospital stay averaged less than two days at one hospital to nearly five days at another. The average charge for treating a heart attack ranged from a low of $1,000 to a high of $7,000, with the average length of stay varying Minneapolis schools flunk 11 of kindorgartnors FBI to stay on Gosch case despite mother's opposition "We're putting the window sticker on hospitals," said Norman Pawlewski, Iowa health commissioner and chairman of the commission.

The report shows wide variation in costs for common operations but makes no effort to make overall cost comparison between hospitals, and commission members cautioned against trying to do so. The cost for treatment of a heart attack, for example, could change ninth grades in 1985 and in the fifth and seventh grades in 1986. A number of schools in Florida use similar tests, but at the kindergarten level the tests are a minor factor in advancement, according to Patricia Heldreth, coordinator for primary education in the Manatee County school system at (Please turn to Page 2) Inside the Globe Obituaries 2 Records 2, 3 Mason City 3 Letters to Our Readers 4 Sullivan column 4 Nation 5 FarmBusiness 6, 7 North Iowa 9 Religion 10, 11 Daydreams 12 Club Notes 12 At Wit's End 12 Clear Lake 13 Mini Page 14 Sports 15-17 Dear Abby 18 Outofdoors 19 Weather 20 Comics 22 RuraLife 23 The Big 24 Moderato candidate Duarte wins El Salvador MINNEAPOLIS (AP) School officials have flunked more than percent of this year's kindergart-ners and are requiring them to attend summer school before they can go on to first grade. The Minneapolis system is the first school district in the country to require competency tests for promotion to first grade, according to Chris Pipho, a spokesman for the Education Commission of the States in Denver who keeps track of competency testing nationwide. School officials based their decisions on a comprehensive test of children's skills, administered on individual basis, in addition to teachers' evaluations of classroom performance, social skills and attendance record.

School Superintendent Richard Green said he hopes half of the 340 pupils held back will make enough progress in summer school to advance to the first grade next fall. Those who don't will repeat kindergarten or be placed in a transitional program to receive special academic help, he said. School officials say the program, taking effect this year, is an effort to head off learning problems before they become serious. Similar tests, developed by the Minneapolis School District, will be implemented in the second and DES MOINES (AP) The mother of missing newspaper carrier Johnny Gosch Jr. says the FBI has "bungled" the case so badly it ought to drop its investigation, but an FBI spokesman said the agency would continue looking for the boy.

"It's not possible for an individual to just pull the FBI off of a federal investigation," said Ed Gooderman, special agent assigned to the agency's public affairs office in Washington, D.C. "We don't go to citizens as local authorities do, asking them to sign a complaint. When an allegation is made that a federal violation has been made, we go out and check the facts and then we take the facts to the U.S. Attorney's office," Gooderman said. Gooderman made the comments after Noreen Gosch publicly asked the FBI to end its investigation into the 20-month-long disappearance of her son, now 14 years old.

"They have bungled it so badly I 1 SAN SALVADOR, EI Salvador (AP) The official final results of El Salvador's presidential election gave moderate Jose Napoleon Duarte a clear victory over the ultra-right candidate, Roberto d'Aubuisson. The official results gave Duarte 752,625 votes, or 53.6 percent, and d'Aubuisson 651,741, or 46.4 percent. "I call on the people to help me destabilize that machinery they (the far right) have in place, which is based on the death squads and in destabilizing institutions," Duarte said in a telephone interview earlier in the day. D'Aubuisson's party, the Republican Nationalist Alliance, called the conduct of Sunday's presidential.