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3 1 ks U3TH YEAR, NO. 65 PROVO, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1986 $6.00 A MONTH PRICE 75 CENTS 01 Court allows SIB if Vl -t il 1 1 tTV: v4 ill Iff I 4 X- By ASSOCIATED PRESS Soviet and American arms control negotiators were back at work today in Geneva, trying to iron out the fine details of areas President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev did come to terms with in Iceland. The meeting comes on the heels of a statement from Gorbachev Tuesday night in which he took a tough stand on Reagan's "Star Wars" program, formerly known as the Strategic Defense Initiative. In a televised report to the Soviet people, he said the United States wanted to "bleed the Soviet Union white economically" through an expensive arms race in space. Gorbachev called the projected Star Wars anti-missile shield "nothing but a trick" by Reagan to gain military advantage over the Soviets.

He said he had asked the president "why do you need it?" since all nuclear weapons would be eliminated over 10 years under Reagan's own cutback proposals. President Reagan gave his answer at a White House meeting with congressional leaders. "SDI is America's insurance policy that the Soviet Union will keep its commitments," he said. liilllPIlllii Volley ore selling fesJ stool train DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) -The United Steelworkers union has vowed to appeal an injunction that enabled USX Corp.

to move a 98-car shipment of steel from its Fairless Works plant, which has been idled by a labor dispute. Flatcars carrying 8,000 tons of hot-rolled coils left under guard by police and Conrail on Tuesday, hours after a judge issued the injunction limiting picketing by steel workers who had been blocking the train since Oct. 2. USX spokesman Norm Wesley said an additional 800 tons of steel pipe would move out before this afternoon, leaving about tons of semi-finished steel at the plant. "We'll go to appeal and if that doesn't work, we might lock them up real tight," said Al Lupini, president of USW Local 4889.

USX Corp. went to court after more than 500 idled steel workers earlier this month stood on the tracks and prevented locomotives from picking up steel produced before the labor dispute began July 30. Bucks County Judge Kenneth Biehn on Tuesday allowed only 30 pickets near the plant gate, ordered them to remain 100 feet from the tracks and said only one picket could approach the train to ask the operator to honor the picket line. Viir lW i Geneva Day 76 Lynn Williams says USW will "wait and see" on Carl Icahn's takeover offer, USX plants ship steel from closed plants, No new contract talks scheduled. Shipments of coil steel are leaving Geneva Works despite the work stoppage.

USW members say shipping of Geneva steel is defrayal' Recalling his description of Reykjavik as a base camp leading to a summit, Reagan told officials of the State Department and the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency that "there exists the opportunity to plant a permanent flag of peace at that summit, and I call on the Soviets not to miss this opportunity." In Geneva, U.S. negotiator Max Kampelman told reporters before the negotiating session began today that his negotiating team did not have new instructions but that he hoped the Soviets would. The State Department said new instructions would be drafted for the team. Kampelman said it was "an important step" that Reagan and Gorbachev tentatively agreed before the summit collapsed to eliminate all European-based medium-range missiles.

"It's in our interest, and in the interest of the peoples of Europe that we begin to formalize" the leaders' agreement, said Kampelman. "We're ready to sit down now, take the agreements that were made, communicate them into practical language, and try to formalize as much of this as we can," he said. has been fluctuating between 9 and 10 percent on FHA since the first of the year, and conventional financing has been running in line with FHA," Despite the pace of home sales picking up, however, there are still a lot of homes on the market. Wheeler said this is because of the large inventory built up earlier in the year. The multiple listings book contained 600-700 offerings in; April, she said.

The desire to own a home, a shorter wait in having mortgages approved and the certainty that homeownership is remaining the same under the tax reform package, all contributed to the upswing in sales this year, Wheeler said. She said a family can often make payments on a $50,000 home about as easy as renting a place. The upswing in Utah County's real estate business follows a national trend. The annual pace of existing single-family home sales jumped 7.0 percent from July to August and reached the highest level this decade, according to the National Association of Realtors. at hospital spokesman said the victim was believed to be a Utah Power Light employee who had been working near 400 N.

and Interstate 15. in the upper 60s to near 70. See page 6 for more weather information. find it all Opinions 1 Sports 9-13 Television Today 16-18 Utah-Regional 5 Weather 6 Grande Western, "It's really a facility that nobody wants to use. "Just about anything at the station that can be is dilapidated.

It's not in the Denver-Rio Grande tradition. We run a better operation than that to have an eye-sore like this on our property," he said. Denver-Rio Grande stopped using the station shortly after the Thistle mud slide, Wait said. A 30-by-40-foot section of the building has been leased to Amtrak for use in its passenger service to Provo. The rest has been boarded up for two or three years, he said.

During the last couple of years, however, both Grande (See TRAIN, Page 3) By J.J. JACKSON Herald Staff Writer Utah County homes are selling faster, and more cheaply this year than in 1985. The 1,138 Utah County homes sold so far this year through multiple listing have had an average value of $65,247. In 1985 at this time, by comparison, there were 973 homes sold at an average of $68,072, Broken down into per -day figures, the county is averaging four sales a day for the year. The rate was at 3.6 in June, but shot up to 6.1 in July and has remained above the year's average.

The two-week period ending Oct. 10 averaged 4.9 sales through multiple listings. Mary Wheeler, president-elect of the Utah County Board of Realtors, said the summer months traditionally pull in higher sales than other months. She credited low interest rates with keeping the pace of home sales faster than it was last year. 'interest rates have been more than favorable," Wheeler said.

"It SMI Shock victim At presstime, Provo paramedics were treating the victim of an electric shock and transporting him to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center. A Provo Fire Department 1 Company spokesman Jack Bol-low said, "I'm not aware of the specifics, but I am a'ware that the union agreed to our shipping steel. "I am not aware of any restrictions on those agreements." Local 2701 union official Ken Buys, who is responsible for maintaining a tally on shipments at Geneva, said, "trains leave Tuesdays and Fridays and the company does inform us of each train. "So far we have counted a total of about 46,000 tons of coil or other steel leaving the plant." Local 2701 vice president Kay Mitani said that other USW locals outside Utah have been helping Geneva workers by trying to stop steel shipments to the POSCO facility. It used to get most of its steel from Geneva works.

He also said that USW workers at USX warehouses have also tried to impede steel shipments. Gardner said that POSCO is beginning to feel a pinch in its steel supplies. By PATRICK CHRISTIAN Herald Staff Writer United steelworkers say they feel betrayed again. Every Tuesday and Friday trains pull out from Geneva steel works where 1,900 workers have been idle since Aug. 1 because of a labor dispute between USX Corp.

and the United Steelworkers Union. USW Local 2701 President George Gardner says there's often steel in the box cars, probably going to some customer, but he said the picketers at the plant who are protesting what they call a lockout and the company terms a strike, so far have not tried to stop the trains. Such protests have occurred at other USX facilities. Steelworkers at the USX Fair-less Works in Pennsylvania had been blocking a 98-car train since Oct. 2, but that train left Tuesday after a judge issued an injunction.

About 30 steelworkers and police watched from about -100 feet United Steelworkers members should be stripped of unemployment benefits granted in a 76-day-old work stoppage. Attorneys for the union oppose the change. Meanwhile, the United Steelworkers union is not endorsing or opposing Carl C. Icahn's proposal buy the oil and steelmaking giant USX according to as the flatcars headed for the POSCO finishing facility in Pittsburg, jointly owned by USX and a Korean firm unaffected by the labor dispute. In the past, the POSCO facility has received the lion's share of its coil steel from Geneva works.

Gardner said that Utah USW members have not tried to stop trains because they are afraid that Utah officials might interpret such a move as a "strike action." He said Local 2701 had verbally agreed with Geneva officials to allow some steel to be shipped, but said they had been "betrayed." "They told us that they had 10,000 tons in the yard that was already destined to go to customers and we agreed not to try to stop that steel," said Gardner. The local union president also said that the company agreed not to ship steel by truck. But Gardner said trucks have been used and the agreed-upon 10,000 tons has been exceeded. USW President Lynn Williams. "We haven't been either putting up balloons of celebration or weeping copious tears," Williams said.

"We're not in the business of picking among corporate raiders, encouraging raiders or anything like that." Icahn recently told USX that as an alternative to possibly restructuring the company to enhance its Pennsylvania hearing on benefits starts Sunny and warm It should be a clear night in Central Utah with lows in the mid to upper 30s. Thursday will be sunny and warmer with highs Where to Amusements 14 Classified Ads 30-35 Comics 28 Crossword 28 National, International 23-29 Obituaries 4 DixRGW pulls out from Provo depot stock price, the company should agree to have its stock sold to him at a nremium for $31 Der agree iu nave us siuin sum iu him at a premium for $31 per chfira nr nlmnct hillinn ms, in an interview Monday with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, declined to say whether any union representative had talked with Icahn's group about settling a contract dispute- i SU OUf a I'huMl PITTSBURGH (AP) The United Steelworkers union is fighting arguments that workers in Pennsylvania be stripped of unemployment benefits, and taking a neutral stand on a proposed takeover of USX by Carl C. Icahn. A state unemployment compensation referee today began hearing USX arguments that The dilapidated train to i I -tin 1 By LISA MOTE Herald Staff Writer Built in 1910, the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company train station in Provo is the senior citizen among buildings in the arta a dinosaur from the heyday of railroads. Soon, however, the station will leave its historic home on 600 S.

200 West, Provo, because of its dilapidated condition which is attributed to age and vandalism, according to train and city officials. "It's become a dinosaur without a home," said Steven W. Wait, superintendent for Denver and Rio station in south Provo will be abandoned as a working depot and sold or torn down..