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Trooper Charles Zukowski, who is heading the investigation for the state police, said he hopes to get a good photo of the suspect from one of the cameras. According to Shaffer, more than $90,000 was taken in a 1976 robbery from this branch of the Millersburg- (Dally Item Margie ChamtMit) Diane Schaffner, an employee of the Dalmatia branch of Mid Penn Bank, emerges from the building more than four hours after a 1:42 p.m. robbery in which a suspect got away with an estimated $25,000. Bank employees were questioned inside the bank by state police and FBI agents. Senate passes clean air bill Bush calls it 'historic vote debate By John Lucie and Anthony Esposito staff reporters DALMATIA An armed man who held up a Palmatia bank Tuesday af-, ternoon may not be able to spend much of the estimated $25,000 he escaped with.

As the bandit left the Mid Penn Bank, magnetically triggered dye packets included with the money exploded, police and witnesses said. The bright red dye, traces of which were found on the bank parking lot, should have stained the money, the man and the car, police said. Bank president Eugene Shaffer said he doubted whether the suspect, who is still at large, would be able to spend any of the tainted money. "I don't know what he's going to get out of this except. hopefully, some (pris-.

on) Shaffer declined to say how much money is missing, but investigators today said about $25,000 was stolen. The branch bank had more-cash than usual Tuesday to pay Social Security checks. Once inside the bank, the robber fired three shots; said state police at Stonington, who added that the. five bank employees and three customers inside' the building were not injured, but the shots disabled one of three video surveillance cameras. shifts to House American people want action.

They demand action," Mitchell said. The lopsided Senate voted capped weeks of jockeying-among senators over the legislation, which was a compromise with the White House. Senators from the Northeast and California sought to toughen auto pollution controls but failed in narrow votes. Several attempts to cushion the Midwest from the high cost of acid rain controls also failed, as did an effort to help coal miners who could lose their jobs under new pollution requirements. Many senators expressed concern over the bill's cost, estimated at about $21 billion a year when it takes full effect toward the end of the decade.

Heddings told the court that he has known Byers for several years, that they socialized and that he lived at Byers home from April 1987 to March 1988. Heddings said that both he and Byers used cocaine at that time and that Byers was selling the drug to others. Byers bought the cocaine from -Marks, Heddings testified. Heddings testified that Byers told Heddings to move out after he was called by the state police for questioning about Byers. "He told me to mind my own business," Heddings said today.

Hummel testified Tuesday that Marks owed him about $3,000 for drug dealing. Rather than collect that money from Marks, Hummel said, he decided to try and get money directly By H.Josef Hebert Associated Press writer WASHINGTON The debate over tougher air pollution controls shifts to the House with Senate approval of a sweeping clean air bill imposing new emission curbs on automobiles, facto- i i i nes aim eieciriu power piaius. The Senate voted 89-11 late Tuesday to approve a far-reaching bill aimed at reducing urban smog, toxic industrial chemical releases and acid rain pollution. The House Energy and Commerce Committee was working behind closed doors today on the House version of the bill. A final committee vote is expected by the end of the week.

35 Cents dyed red CLOSED SAUK flCSSMY 3 without being shot," said James E. Clough, 66, of Dalmatia RD1. "You never know what those guys are going to do. They get trigger happy. I couldn't believe it.

I was stunned. Shaffer, the bank president, said he viewed a videotape of the robbery which showed a slim, 5-foot, 10-inch (Continued on Page 16) Drugged driving bill OK'd By Michael Blood Associated Press writer HARRISBURG A Senate-passed bill calls for a system to determine whether a driver is under the influence of drugs, but the state attprney general said the proposal might weaken prosecutions. legislation is part of a three-bill package intended to toughen state penalties for drinking, drug use and driving. Although breath and other tests are used widely by police for detecting alcohol in the bloodstream, no similar system exists for drugs. A driver is considered intoxicated if the blood-alcohol content reaches 0.1 percent.

Under the bill, the Departments of Health and Transportation would be required to set standards similar to the 0.1 measure for cocaine, marijuana and other drugs. "We need to set standards," said Sen. Tim Shaffer, R-Butler, who sponsored the bill. Under state law, a motorist can be -convicted of driving under the influ- -ence of drugs providing that authorities prove, the driver used drugs "to a degree that renders the person incapable of safe driving." To do that, a prosecutor typically would need a blood or urine test and -then use an expert witness to discuss how the drug, at the level in the bloodstream, would affect the driver. Testimony also could be submitted on a driver's control on the road or behavior.

Census forms to be hand-delivered in Valley Page 9 "We're getting them back by the mailbag. it's pretty widespread across the country, rural and urban areas. I think we've gotten back about all we're going to get," said Judith Petty, chief of the census processing staff in Jeffersonville, Ind. The Jeffersonville' office is the clearinghouse for all undelivered census forms. Ms.

Petty said each bag must be sorted by hand and the forms redistributed to district offices so they can be delivered by census workers. "I've got about 30,000 forms to hand-deliver," said Don Leadill, manager of the Census Bureau's Peoria office. The Postal Service checked the Continued from Page 16) rttiTvV based Mid Penn Bank. Tuesday's robbery began at 1:42 p.m. and was over in only a few minutes, said investigators.

A customer who walked into the bank during the robbery said he feared for his life. "I was lucky to get out of there (AP) the witness stand Tuesday, Hummel told the story of Wolfe's struggle for life while Byers' defense attorney, Michael J. Rudinski, pointed out inconsistencies in various statements Hum-' mel made to police and in court Pulling himself close to the microphone on the witness stand and folding his hands in front of him, Hummel de- scribed how he and co-defendants con- fronted and beat Wolfe. Hummel told jurors that he was inhaling cocaine, drinking beer and smoking marijuana as he waited' alone in a car for his meeting with Wolfe and Byers at the boat-launch site. Several minutes later, two cars pulled off Route 405 and drove back the paved lane leading to the boat-launching rarnp.

(Continued on Page 16 Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, right, speaks to reporters after the Senate approved clean air legislation. With him are Sen. Robert Dole, left, and Sen. John Chafee, Witness: Murder victim denied owing drug money President Bush called the Senate action "a historic vote" that will "affect generations to come as we work to build a cleaner, safer America." The last time either the Senate or House approved changes in federal clean air laws was 1977 despite growing concern in recent years about dirty air. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, who unsuccessfully sought over the past decade to change federal clean air laws, called the Senate bill "a tremendous victory" and a-sigmficant improvement over current air, pollution requirements.

"We can no longer delay. The Wolfe of owine a drue debt. He had some trust in what Byers said, however, because Byers had been dealing drugs with Hummel's friend, Steven Marks of Sunbury, Hummel said. He told jurors that he then decided to trust Byers' word and continue pressing Wolfe for the money-' "(Wolfe) was in a fearful state of shock," Hummel told the Centre County jury hearing the case against Byers. Wolfe, whose vision was impaired by the blindfold during the' beating, asked, are you and why are you doing this to me?" Hummel testified.

Prosecutors continued to press their case against Byers this morning, with testimony from Terry Heddings, who lived with Byers for a time. Jamming to continue 1 .5 million households By David HilUard staff reporter SUNBURY Rickey D. Wolfe, standing blindfolded and handcuffed the night he was beaten to death, denied owing drug money to Mark A. By-ers, according to a witness who testified during Byers' trial in Northumberland County Court on Tuesday. Byers, 35, of Watsontown RD2, is on trial as an alleged accomplice in the Dec.

11, 1986, kidnapping and murder of Wolfe, 30, of Mifflinburg. Robert Hummel of Sunbury, who admitted hitting Wolfe that night and who later pleaded guilty to third-degree murder, testified that Wolfe's statements made Hummel wonder if Byers might have falsely accused. U.S. classified 6.7 million secrets in '89 WASHINGTON (AP) The government says it is finally getting a handle on how many secrets it creates each year. Its best guess is that the "top secret," "secret" and "confidential" stamps were wielded 6,796.501 times in the fiscal year that ended last Sept.

30. That was a 35 percent decrease from the year before, but the gains are somewhat illusory. "It appears that this unprecedented drop is primarily the result of more accurate counting, rather than an actual tremendous decrease in classification activity," said Steven Garfinkel, who has spent the, last seven years trying to get the government to produce fewer secrets and count them more accurately. from those who owed Marks. Among them was Byers.

Byers, in turn, told him that Wolfe owed him drug money, Hummel said. Under Hummel's direction, Byers allegedly kidnapped Wolfe along Route 405, near Housel's Run Road south of Milton, police said. Byers drove the victim to the boat launch site, about two miles south of Montandon, but did not participate in the beating and demands for money, Hummel testified. Wolfe's body was found the next morning face down at a boat-launch area, just off Route 405. The pathologist testified earlier that Wolfe died from severe head injuries and strangulation.

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Details ob Page 3 didn't get census forms BvBiUVoerin Associated Press writer EORIA, 111. Some 1.5 million households nationwide received no census forms because the Census Bureau failed to print post office box numbers on the mailings, officials said. Each form will have to be delivered by census workers to the homes, instead of to the boxes, before the census can be completed, Gail Kreme-nec, spokeswoman for the regional census office in the Chicago suburb of Westchester, said Tuesday. Officials were unable to estimate the cost of the foul-up but said they don't expect any significant delay in completing the 1990 census. About 106 million forms were mailed nationwide in the last week of March.

But forms destined for people who have their mail sent to box numbers went out without the numbers, and the Postal Service was unable to deliver them, census officials said. Cuban President Fidel Castro said Cuba will continue to iam TV Marti, the television signal beamed at Cuba by the United States. He said during a Tuesday news conference In Havana thai the broadcast is illegal..