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1 SrWalIJ vtSfWHtwii New Directions program for young single adults Yankees' Mattingly is American League MVP Thursday Page 6-A Page 1-B 1 000 III PRICE 25C A Multimedia Newspaper VOL. 85 NO. 1 Member of Associated Press MOUNTAIN HOME. ARKANSAS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 1985 County declared disaster area Mi -J; i 4i if injuries or fatalities there.

Cleaning up Cleanup work continued in Mountain Home Wednesday. Power was still out in an area on Highway 5 South, but Arkansas Power and Light expected to have full power restored by Wednesday night. As area residents picked up the pieces, assistance was quick in coming. A Mennonite disaster team arrived in Mountain Home Wednesday to help in the cleanup and Guy King and Sons Sand and Gravel Company offered its dump trucks to help haul away debris. The Red Cross, working out of an office in the Baxter County Sheriff's Department, reported receiving more offers of helo than requests for assistance.

According to Dr. James Lowe, vice-chairman of the local unit, many residents of the community were opening their homes to people whose homes were damaged or destroyed by the tornado. However, he said they were beginning to get requests for assistance in locating housing. While many people were providing help to those hit by the tornado, others were causing problems. No looting had been reported, but police said spectators were getting in the way of cleanup operations as they ventured through the areas of the city where the twister struck.

They asked that people stay out of the disaster areas until the cleanup is finished. 4 J' v( j7) iv 1 1 ve Two more summits vn VV By THOMAS GARRETT Associate Editor Gov. Bill Clinton, after seeing the site where one woman died in Marion County during Monday night's tornado, signed a disaster declaration Wednesday afternoon making more than $200,000 in disaster relief available for nine counties, including Baxter and Marion. In a brief ceremony at the Marion County courthouse in Yellville, Clinton said the funds would first go to aid human needs, such as shelter, clothing and food, then would be used for public needs, such as repairs at the school and fairgrounds hit by the tornado in Mountain Home. The assistance will be in the form of grants for indiviuals, according to the governor.

Disaster assistance offices will be open in Mountain Home and Yellville from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. Friday. In Mountain Home the office will be at the National Guard Armory and at Yellville the office will be at the Church of the Rock on the square. A total of $220,000 was made available to provide disaster assistance in Baxter, Marion, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson, Logan, Madison and Washington counties, Damage estimates for Baxter and Marion counties totaled approximately $7 to $8 million.

The money come from the $2 million state disaster assistance fund, which Clinton said was established because Arkansas is the "most tornado-prone state in America." The governor said it did not appear the areas hit by the storm would be eligible for federal disaster aid because there was not enough uninsured losses. He said the state would try to assist businesses which were hit by trying to make Small Business Administration assistance available. 'Heart-breaking' Clinton, wearing jeans and a black jacket, arrived in Marion County accompanied by two helicopter loads of press. He went to the site where Linda Gilley, 45, was killed at her home about six miles south of Yellville on Highway 14. She was one of three women killed in Marion County, the only site of fatalities in Monday's storm.

There, the governor met Mike Gilley, the woman's nephew. Gil-ley told Clinton he and his wife were inside the mobile home hen the tornado struck. He said they were headed out the door when the next thing they knew they were in the front yard. The mobile home was destroyed and part of its frame hung high in a tree. "It's unbelievable," said Clinton afterwards, "when you think about everybody sitting around calmly and peacefully in a mobile home, and there's the frame of it wrapped around that tree like it was rubber." The governor called the scene "pretty heart-breaking." It was fourth tornado site Clinton had visited during his terms as governor.

He said he'd visited Camden, Hamburg and Fisher when they were struck by twisters. On the way back to Yellville, Clinton stopped a short distance from the Gilley home to pay his condolences to Fred Burrow, the son of Blanche Rheva Burrow who also died in the tornado. Damage estimates Baxter and Marion counties were among the hardest hit by the storm. Jack Dubose, deputy director of the Office of Emergency Services said property damage in Baxter County, where no serious injuries were reported, was $2.8 million in private losses and about $1 million in public damages, including the Mountain Home Junior High School and kindergarten and the Baxter County Fairgrounds. County Judge Joe Dil-lard, who accompanied the OES on an air tour over the stricken areas, said the damage estimates also would include $2.45 million for businesses, $705,000 for mobile homes and about $100,000 for barns, out-buildings and other According to Dubose, 143 houses were struck with 14 listed as being destroyed and 25 mobile homes, seven businesses and three churches also were hit.

Marion County Judge Berry Burleson said the figures for his county included 21 homes destroyed, four homes with major damage and two with minor, six mobile homes destroyed and four turkey barns. However, he said the numbers may increase because more damages were being found in rural areas. Dubose said the damage across the state, while not as severe as that caused by the December 1982 tornadoes and floods, was probably the worst in the last three years. He was particularly surprised at the amount of damage in Baxter County and the lack of any serious 'I 7. I Gov.

Bill Clinton surveyed the devastation in Marion County yesterday, including the scene south of Yellville were Linda Gilley was killed by the tornado that destroyed much of Marion and Baxter County Monday night. The governor signed a disas-tor declaration, earmarking $200,000 in disastor relief for the nine counties hit by the storm. BulletinGarrett Thursday. Reagan's chief adviser on arms control, Paul Nitze, was among those who worked into the evening an indication that the summit's most contentious issue remained unresolved as the leaders adjourned for dinner. Whether any significant agreement was forged was anyone's guess.

White House spokesman Larry Speakes declined to comment, adhering to the news blackout established during Tuesday's first summit session. Speakes promised a briefing following the ceremony set for 10 a.m. Geneva time (4 a.m. EST) and said it would be clear to observers then whether the summit could be considered as success. A State Department negotiator, Raymond Benson, said the two sides had approved cultural exchange provisions that call for exchange of students, performing arts groups, exhibitions and sports teams, but it was not known whether a document would be signed before the delegations leave Geneva.

The Soviets had sought a final ceremony for weeks, but there was no word on Reagan's acceptance until almost midnight Wednesday, Geneva time. Speakes refused to say whether a joint statement or communique would be issued or whether the leaders would sign specific agreements. He said neither Reagan nor Gorbachev would take questions, but the Soviets indicated Gorbachev would hold a news conference after the ceremony had ended. The ceremony was to be Reagan's final event in Geneva before leaving to brief NATO leaders in Brussels en route to Washington and a speech to a joint meeting of Congress. Wednesday night's dinner was to have been a social affair, but like the formal negotiating sessions, the agenda didn't hold.

The leaders, sitting with their advisers before a roaring fire in the fireplace, went over the final recommendations of experts who had been told to keep working after the formal talks ended Wednesday afternoon in an effort to wrap up the details that had been agreed upon in general terms. "The atmosphere at the dinner (See SUMMIT on Page 2-A) By MICHAEL PUTZEL AP White House Correspondent GENEVA (AP) President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev concluded their extraordinary personal summit Wednesday, claiming "broad areas of agreement." U.S. officials said the two leaders reached an understanding that they will hold two more summits, one in the United States and the other in the Soviet Union. "The news is so good that we're going to hold it for tomorrow." Reagan teased reporters after the formal talks had ended. A joint farewell ceremony was hastily scheduled for Thursday morning.

But U.S. officials, talking on condition they not be identified; said the two leaders would announce at a joint ceremony before leaving Geneva on Thursday that Gorbachev will visit the United States next year and Reagan will go to the Soviet Union in 1987. Specific locations and plans for the back-to-back follow-up summit conferences are still to be worked out, the sources said. The quick succession of three superpower summit meetings, after a lapse of more than six years, recalled the pace of summit diplomacy in the 1970s. There were U.S.-Soviet summit meetings in 1972, 1973 and two in 1974.

President Ford and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev met in Helsinki in 1975 while attending a 35-nation conference on East-West tensions. The Associated Press learned that Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze would participate in a document-signing ceremony during Thursday's joint appearance. A U.S.

source indicated that there would be a joint statement to provide impetus on arms control but that the leaders would issue no specific guidelines to help negotiators break the current impasse. Gorbachev said only, "I hope there will be," when asked if any joint agreements would be signed. A State Department negotiator, Raymond Benson, said the two sides had approved cultural exchange provisions that call for exchange of students, performing arts groups, exhibitions and sports teams. The official who spoke on condition of anonymity said the agreement would be signed Recordertreasurer pay still issue in Lakeview X-? 4 "reward for a job well done," Lee said. He said Nov.

12 he is not pleased with the way the office procedures at the city office are being handled. In a telephone interview with the Bulletin last week, Zimmerman said the Lakeview city ordinance which established the $200 would have to be checked to determine if it was called an honorarium or a salary. According to Hermann, there is not any city ordinance concerning the job description or the payment for the recordertreasurer. The $200 per month was established about two years ago in a motion passed by the council, he said. Tanner told the council she had called the municipal league concerning the two matters voted on in the Nov.

12 meeting and a representative told her neither of the motions passed because there was not a two-thirds majority vote. The Lakeview council consists of six positions but only five are currently being filled. Tanner said, therefore, it takes four favorable votes to make a two-thirds majority vote, according to the municipal league. Lee, Alderman Gerald Keegan and council member Valentine Fa-bricius voted in favor of suspending Tanner's $200 while council (See LAKEVIEW on Page 2-A) By MAR VON JOHANSEN Staff Writer In a special meeting Wednesday night, the Lakeview City Council discussed the legality of the vote Nov. 12 to suspend the $200 per month paid to city Recorder-Treasurer Barbara Tanner and whether or not the three votes in favor of the motion were enough to pass it.

Mayor William Hermann read a letter from Don Zimmerman of the Arkansas Municipal League which stated Arkansas Constitutional Admendment No. 56 provides that "the compensation of municipal officers and officials shall be fixed by the governing body of the municipality." The letter also stated, "If it is the intent of your city council to compensate the recordertreasurer on a basis other than a salary', i.e.. honorarium, it would be my opinion that the requirment of Arkansas state statute would not apply." Arkansas statute states the salary for an elected official can be increased but not decreased during the term for which the official has been elected or appointed, Zimmerman said in. the letter. Tanner has three more years to serve.

In the Nov. 12 meeting, Lee said the $200 is an "honorarium" not a salary. Honorarium is defined as a Insurance company team visiting tornado victims Inside antiques in the house but was able to save about 90 percent of them. Gustav Lehr, chairman of the board for Shelter, estimated the damage to Shelter's customers in the area to be $500,000 at least He said this is a low estimate. "It will probably be closer to $1 million," he added.

People who are insured by Shelter should call the company's claim office in Springdale (1-800-632-1328 toll free) or their local agent to report storm losses, company officials said. Shelter assigns a special team to any area where severe storms have produced unusually heavy claims, officials said. The claims are handled on the basis of urgency. Shelter is headquartered in Columbia. Mo.

A five-member team from Shelter Insurance Co. arrived in Mountain Home Wednesday to assess the damage from Monday's tornado. Four more people are expected to arrive. John Lenox, vice president of claims, said, "Our goal is to have all the claims, as nearly as possible, handled by Thanksgiving Day." He added this does not mean all the houses will be rebuilt but a claims person will have visited the victims. Wednesday afternoon the team visited the Micheal Marinelli residence at 1021 Ramona Street.

The bedroom roof was taken off Mari-nelli's home and part of the living room roof collapsed. There was ater damage in the basement. Marinelli said he had numerous Editorials 4-A Legal Notices 7-A Obituaries 6-A Sports 1-2-B Weather 2-A Ann Landers 4-B At Home 3-B Business News 7-A Classified 6-6 Comics 4-B TODAY'S WEATHER: becoming mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of light rain. Continued cool with a high in the mid 40s. East ind at 10 to 15 mph.

Shelter Insurance Co. sent a five-member team to Mountain Home Wednesday to assess damage. Gustav Lehr (left), chairman of the board for Shelter. Lewis Barnes (center), local agent, and Micheal Marinelli. home owner, check the damage in the bedroom.

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