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Sports Selinsgrove track teams win 1. r-t Business Organic farm attracting new interest Page E1 Lifestyles Our readers 'build' their dream house Page B1 u' I Valley 550 learn fine art of wine tasting 1' Page A5 4 i 1 1 Shamokin relays Page CI TT "SUNDAY April ,1 7, 1994 56 pages, 5 sections 7-day home delivery $2.25 LVII, No. 107 (3 Sunbury, Pennsylvania Wanted: Abandoned town, coal mines and extras By Kim Douglass Staff reporter mine scenes and spots to shoot all our outdoor mountain scenes," Boardman said. "It's a Pennsylvania film and I want to find out what people in the Pennsylvania area know." The fictitious abandoned town of Fulney once had about 1,000 inhabitants, Board-man said, and he's hoping more people living near such towns will send him photographs of the sites. One possible site is the Eckley Mining Village near Hazelton.

"The problem with Eckley is that it's too well kept, though there are some very attractive locations in it such as the buildings See MOVIE, Page A7 mining country on Snow Mountain. Hoping to get his life together, he prepares to write a book about an abandoned town. His research leads him to some sensitive information about why the town of Fulney and its coal mine were abandoned. Most of the movie's major roles have been cast, and several locations have been set. But Boardman said he is on the lookout for both movie extras and possible sites to use as the featured abandoned town.

He's counting on residents of the Central Susquehanna Valley to give him suggestions. "I'm still looking for an old, abandoned town, a mine entrance, a mine for interior wanna, Northumberland and Schuylkill counties will be featured, Boardman said. The courthouse in the heart of Sunbury, which Boardman calls "one of the most attractive I've seen," is on his list of possible film sites. "I've looked at courthouses all over the state, and (Northumberland County's) is really the one I like the best," Boardman said. "Snow Mountain," written by Boardman in 1986, is a romantic mystery about an unhappy college English professor from a metropolitan area who is having an affair with one of his students.

He leaves on a sabbatical for a year and leases some land in remote Northumberland County Courthouse "British let Don't be surprised if the Northumberland County Courthouse shows up on the silver screen later this year. Krist Boardman of Crystal Communications Inc. is producing a feature motion picture, "Snow Mountain," that will be filmed this summer, largely in Pennsylvania's coal counties. The $1 million film is scheduled for release in late fall. Caves, mountains and abandoned buildings throughout Carbon, Luzerne, Lacka- Campos death probed Autopsy ordered in Bloomsburg over Bosnia Muslim town appears on verge of falling SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) A British warplane was shot down Saturday on a NATO mission over the Muslim town -of Gorazde.

The U.N.-declared safe area appeared on the verge of falling to Bosnia Serb forces that were reported to have closed within one-third of a mile of the town center. 11C jpliWl, vv uu fj ii identify Serb tanks shelling Go i YT" f' 1 vi 1 Vf -1 i 7 lV ,7 fj HA-: 'v' I -Y'- 0 ii Pi ByTomNlnestlne Staff reporter BLOOMSBURG Town police and Bloomsburg University officials are awaiting the results of an autopsy to determine the death Saturday of a 21-year-old student. Terry Linn of Camp Hill, a junior accounting major, was pronounced dead at 2:26 a.m. at Bloomsburg Hospital. Linn, a member of Delta Chi fraternity, was brought to the hospital about 2 a.m.

by other fraternity brothers, according to town police and university officials, who are conducting separate investigations into the death. At a news conference Saturday morning, university President Curtis English would not speculate on what may have caused Linn's death. He said the death," while being considered questionable, was not believed to have been related to any fraternity hazing. English said Linn had completed his pledging last week. razde, ejected after the plane was struck by a surface-to-air missile, U.N.

spokesman Maj. Rob Annink said. The pilot, who landed in Muslim-held area just outside Gorazde, suffered minor Gorazde is the last major target standing in the way of Serb control of the Drina River valley. 1 injuries and was rescued an hour later by government forces. The loss of the British jet and the town's desperate plight highlighted the world community's Linn transferred to Bloomsburg University 6 seeming inability to stop the Serbs.

The United Nations declared Gorazde a "safe area" for Muslims last year, but the Serbs have continued their siege with little retaliation from the NATO forces that were supposed to ensure protection. As Serb tanks were reported l3U miles from the town center and advancing Saturday, the Bosnian Serb commander, Gen. Ratko Mladic, predicted Gorazde would be captured. Late Saturday, Sarajevo radio reported Serb forces to the south were within a third of a mile of downtown and lV4 miles on the eastern and northern front. Howeverthe chairman ofthe Bosnian 'Serb self-appointed assembly in Pale, Momcilo Krajisnik, told Belgrade raditf that no Serbian forces had advanced Saturday on Gorazde.

Bosnian Serbs also denied shooting down the plane, and Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic denied Serbian forces had entered the town. Diplomatic maneuvering intensifiedRussian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev made a hasty trip to Serb-led Yugoslavia to talk to Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Russian special envoy Vitaly Churkin met with Krajisnik. Maj. Dacre Holloway, another U.N. spokesman, said Churkin, the U.N.

chief for former Yugoslavia Yasushi Akashi and Bosnian Serb representatives would meet Sunday morning in Pale, a Serb stronghold just outside Sarajevo. It was unclear whether Bosnian government representatives would also attend. Gorazde, surrounded almost since the beginning of the war in April 1992, is one of three Muslim enclaves in eastern Bosnia. It is the last major target standing in the way of Serb control of the Drina River valley and of Serb links across a swath of territory along the eastern and southern border of Bosnia. from Harrisburg Community College at the beginning of the semester.

Police Chief Larry Smith said the hospital alerted police, who notified university officials. When asked about the possibility that the death may have been caused' by excessive drinking, English declined comment, saying he preferred to await the coroner's report, which could be released ttiis week. He did say that Linn was probably not fully conscious when he arrived at the hospital. English said the death was an isolated incident on a safe and secure campus. 'Jennie Carpenter, vice president for student life, said the fraternity has had minor violations of school policy in the past.

Residents of the fraternity house at 114 North St. declined comment, referring questions to university officials. At Luzerne Hall, where Linn lived, several students said they had not heard of Linn's death. One student said Linn was attending a "Hell Night" party at the fraternity Friday night. He said it is a rite of passage for those who have pledged a fraternity and includes excessive drinking.

One student said he was under orders from a university dean not to discuss Linn's death. it Daily Hem photo by John Ervin TROUT FISHING: Joe Gutelius of Lewlsburg Introduces his 5-year-old son, Matthew, to the Joys of trout fishing Saturday, the first day of Pennsylvania's five-month trout season. They were fishing In Buffalo Creek near Mifflinburg. Read more about the season opener on Page C2. Adults, kids alike go buggy over insects and Ben.

4. to the fair, and the high 'I Insect Fair attracts more than 600 -7 By Kim Douglass Staff reporter Port Trevorton showed off a few of his 80,000 butterflies. A collector since 1960, he says his is the largest collection in the state. Jim Boop of Laurelton raises bees as a hobby, and his observation hive had lots of visitors trying to guess which was the queen bee. Various local businesses were 6n sell insect-jewelry, honey cakes and educational books.

A crafts corner gave children an opportunity to create their favorite bugs using "clay, beads and pipe cleaners. Zaid's promotional campaign in area schools enticed hundreds of chil dren and their parents; Donna Eberhart of Lewisburg brought her two children, Stacy, 10, point for them, she said, was the petting zoo. When four-inchr turquoise-colored tomato horn worm crawled up Stacy's hand, she said it "really tickles." Donna Christianson of Troxelville teaches two of her three children at homeland said she came to the fair to learn something new to teach "I know all the home schoolers were pretty excited about this," she said. "It gives us a chance to pick up some new materials." Christianson's daughter, Tenaya, 8, just hoped she got a chance to see, some of her favorite insects grasshoppers. ever dreamed it would with an entomological event.

"We needed to come up with some fund-raising projects, and this was mine," said Farida Zaid, the center's president. "My daughter and I had seen one down in State College, and I loved it. It puts you in a different world for a while." Different world is right. Unless you happen to live with tarantulas the size of your palm. Or eight-inch millipedes that wiggle when they're touched.

Nine displays from area insect specialists helped visitors learn about their favorite creatures. Entomologist Thomas Manley of LEWISBURG Do insects bug you? there's one thing Saturday's Insect Fair proved, lots of folks in the Central Susquehanna Valley find the crawling, slithering, sliding and flying critters fascinating. More than 600 people turned out for the all-day event at the Lewisburg Community Center. The event was held to benefit the North Fifth Street center, and at $1 a person, the center raised more than it iBrf Daily Item photo by Martha Miller Brandan of Bill and Kathy Geise of New Berlin, checks out the insect library at Insect Fair Saturday in.