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Good afternoon Valley Montour County pushes for new Danville bridge Page 3 Lifestyles Actress finds auditioning has become her habit Page 12 Sports Braves favored in SVL softball Page 17 Advice 13 Obituaries 15 Susquehanna Valley 3 Classified 25 Opinion 14 Television 23 Comics 24 Pennsylvania 6 What's Going on Here 22 Lifestyles 12 Sports 17 WorldNation 7 "In on FRIDAY March 27, 1992 32 pages, 2 sections Pennsylvania 50 cents 7-day home delivery $2 if If L-U r. 4 1 1 Passer-by aids heart attack victim A witness gestures to an investigator following the Turbotville National Bank robbery Thursday. The photo was taken through the bank drive-in window after robs Turbotville haul GeiiimaE By Lance Helgeson Stuff reporter WINFIELD For Bill Hockenbcrry, it wasn't much of anything he was just lending a hand. But to a Winfield family, Hockenbcrry 's help was a lifesaver. "We would have buried my brother yesterday if it wouldn't have been for that driver of the pickup truck," said Annabelle Klinger, a sister of 74-year-old John Heint-zelman.

Last Thursday morning, Heintzel-man was plowing snow from a neighbor's driveway in Winfield when a heart attack struck. Hockenberry, a 41-year-old Mifflinburg RD3 resident, was on his way to work in Danville when he drove past. His first "I just did what I'd hope anybody would do." Bill Hockenberry, Alert motorist MHBhhbb thought was that someone had taken a break from plowing snow, leaving his greenish gray snowsuit draped over the tractor. Then he noticed it wasn't just a snowsuit, but a man. "Just by the way he was leaning, and the fact that he was an older man, I thought he was having a heart attack," Hockenberry said on Wednesday.

He pulled his truck to the roadside and ran back to the man. All the while, Hockenberry was worried. He didn't know any cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques and wondered how he'd be able to help the man. But by luck, or as Klinger called it divine providence, an ambulance from New Berlin Fire Company happened to pass by. Hockenberry flagged its driver and helped the ambulance crew put Heintzel-man on board.

On the way to Evangelical Community Hospital in Lewisburg, the ambulance crew had to stop. The crew gave Heintzclman's heart a jolt of electricity to jump-start it. "They had to bring him back to life on the ambulance." Klinger said. For the next three days, Heintzelman was unconscious on a hospital bed. But by Monday, his condition improved and doctors moved him from intensive care.

"I appreciate the driver's help very much," Heintzelman said yesterday. But the family wants to do more for the driver than offer words. Just what, Klinger said, hasn't been decided. "We want to properly thank him," she said. Meanwhile, Hockenbcrry doesn't think there's much to thank him for.

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The gunman then forced four tellers into the vault, where he took more money, McBride said. The vault, to the left of the bank counter, remained open. Bank employees determined this morning how much was taken, but officials refused to disclose the amount. As the robber was leaving, he sprayed an unknown substance from an aerosol can to keep employees from leaving, police said. Police are analyzing the substance, which appears to be tear gas, Cpl.

Gregory Hall said. The robber then fired 12 rounds at three surveillance cameras, hitting only one, according to Trooper Foster Watson. The bullets pierced the wall where the row of cameras are located. "He was not a very good shot," McBride See GUNMAN, Page 16 Rainfall brings hope drought may be over By Karen Blackledge Staff reporter State officials are cautiously optimistic that Thursday's rainfall may bring some sections of the Valley out of the drought. "The rain did a lot of good especially the nearly two inches from Thursday.

It will take about two weeks to determine how good it was until it percolates into the groundwater, reservoirs and dams." said spokeswoman Mary Ellen Fritz of the state Department of Environmental Resources. If the rain caused some minor flooding in scattered parts of the Valley, it also brought precipitation statistics up to nearly normal levels. The 1.97 inches of rainfall during the 24-hour period ending at 7 a.m. today brought March precipitation to 5.03 inches, according to the Selins-B See RAIN. Page 16 i i I i an armed robber fired a dozen shots undetermined amount of cash.

Bandit fires a By Bill Labovltz and Cecile Sorra Staff reporters TURBOTVILLE A gun-toting bandit herded Turbotville National Bank tellers into a vault and fired a dozen shots at bank cameras Thursday before making off with an amount of cash. No one was injured in the 1 p.m. holdup, but shaken bank employees were exposed to a substance, believed to be tear gas, that the unmasked gunman sprayed in the lobby before getting away. Police are checking into three to four descriptions of a possible get-away car, Trooper Robert McBride of state police at Milton said today. But investigators did not release any descriptions of the auto.

The bank's video cameras recorded the robbery the second in 17 years at the Route 54 bank, which re-opened today at 9 a.m., a half-hour later than usual. A Turbotville couple told police that a man, possibly the robber, had stopped to ask directions at their Broadway home. Police still don't know which direction the robber took. Witnesses described the bandit as a cleanshaven white man, 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet tall, 30 to 40 years old, wearing blue pants, a tie and a blue jacket. The man entered the bank through the front door and asked for a loan manager.

He walked to the back office to speak to a manager, then pulled out a 9mm semi-autQ-matic and ordered the manager to accompany him to the front of the building, McBride said. He quietly ordered the other tellers in turn to empty out their cash drawers and collected the money in a nylon bag. A customer entered the bank while the tellers were emptying the drawers, McBride said. "They were clearing out the cash drawers, but it was very low key," he added. "He wasn't aware (of the robbery) until he (the robber) came out and told him to hit the floor." metabolic rates, study suggests on television based on one episode of 'The Wonder he said.

Previous studies have linked TV to obesity. The reasons probably include lack of physical activity and the influence of food commercials as well as the apparent impact on metabolism, he said. Klesges. an associate professor of psychology at Memphis State University in Tennessee, and colleague Mary Lee Shelton reported the work Thursday at a meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. The study included 31 girls who had not reached puberty.

Their average age was about 10, and about half were obese. Klesges said he suspects the effect applies to boys too, and that he wants to look for it in adults. Researchers measured metabolic rates by monitoring how much oxygen the girls consumed and how much carbon dioxide they expelled. The girls were monitored as they lay still on a bed and as they watched television from bed. at Daily Item photo by John Ervin A state trooper gathers a shell casing as evidence following the armed robbery a lone bandit of an undisclosed amount of money Thursday.

TV can lower kids may spur obesity, By Malcolm Ritter Tht Associated Press NEW YORK Watching TV may promote obesity in children by making them burn fewer calories than they do even while lying in bed. a new study suggests. Obese girls showed an average reduction in metabolism of 16.5 percent when watching television compared to simply lying in bed. and girls of normal weight had a 12.5 percent reduction, the study found. The average drop of 14.5 percent is "quite a substantive difference," said researcher Robert Klesges.

The reason for the slowed metabolism is not known, but perhaps watching television produces a kind of deep relaxation experience" that causes it. said Klesges. He noted that the study used a non-violent TV show. "The Wonder and said the results might have been different with more action-oriented programs. "You can't generalize everything that's Photo by Tnc Associated Press DEFENSE CUTBACKS: Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen.

Colin Powell uses a chart to illustrate cutbacks in the National Guard and military reserve units. More than 140,000 Jobs will be eliminated. Story on Page 7 -v.