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Weather Chance of rain; high near 80 Food Sports Fresh peaches nestled Women's league crowns in egg-custard pie. summer basketball Classified Comics Page 1B champions. Page 1C Editorial Entertainment. Lebanon Daily Food Page 6A Index Obituaries TV Sports Weather Newg Wednesday, August Grateful to be alive, shooting victim battles back NO SIMPLE TASK ORS 39 ger said yesterday. "I was old enough to know what I was seeing wasn't real, but I couldn't tell.

To me, it was there. I was hallucinating." The terror of morphine-induced visions has subsided since July 3, the night a bullet in the chest left Jeremy paralyzed from chest down. But memories of the shooting that day remain crystal clear. After weeks of rehabilitation at Hershey Medical Center, Jeremy returned to his Lebanon home this week. Yesterday, Jeremy took the time to reflect on how his life has changed.

He says that through it all, he is grateful for the love and support of family and friends. And he's grateful to be alive. Jeremy had spent July 3 with three friends at a remote hunting cabin near Pine Creek in Tioga County. Later that night, he remembers dozing on a couch in the cabin, and waking up when he heard two companions, Scott Gryzbowski and Dustin Hammer, getting into what has been described as a "joking-type argument." But Gryzbowski had a rifle in his hand. Jeremy remembers looking up and seeing Hammer rip the clip from the gun.

Still, one round remained in the chamber of the rifle. And an instant later, a bullet ripped into Jeremy's chest. "There was no pain," he says of those first few moments. "My ears were ringing, but my body went into shock. I tried to get up, but I couldn't Jim Zengerle Lebanon Daily News Rescuers work to free the driver of a car that smashed head-on into a tree along Jonestown Road east of Gravel Hill Road just before daybreak today.

The driver, a woman, was extricated from the mangled wreckage after about 30 minutes and was flown by Life Lion helicopter to Hershey Medical Center. State police were still investigating the crash in East Hanover Township at press time and could not provide the woman's name or other details. reAfter town ob- Town tries humiliation on slumlords rds WILKINSBURG (AP) A community's lat- Chuang and Mow Chu Chuang of Monroeville, est urban renewal strategy amounts to a scar- weren't happy they were scolded publicly. But let letter for negligent landlords. they said the notoriety won't do any good I beOfficials in the Pittsburgh suburb of Wilkins- cause they are not to blame for the rotted colburg are planting signs that read "slum prop- umns, sagging porches and broken windows to publicly embarrass property owners into "It's use," Ming Chia Chuang said.

"Anyerty" in front of dilapidated buildings, an effort on the eight unit structure. making needed repairs. time I want to fix anything, a week later it's The campaign began Monday, when the first broken again." sign was installed in front of a four-story A neighbor across the street, Jim Ratajeski, apartment building that has been vacant for said he has complained repeatedly about the three years. The sign reads: property. "Slum property! The owner of this property: "At one time, this used to be beautiful.

Now (insert name, address and phone number) is you wouldn't even let your pet rat go in there," in violation of borough law and chooses not to Ratajeski said. bring this property into compliance thereby Wilkinsburg borrowed the idea from Syrasignificantly contributing to the blight in this cuse, N.Y., which started erecting similar neighborhood." signs in May. The owners of the building, Ming Chia "It's been extremely successful," Syracuse Hersheypark's coming attraction first of its kind for Pennsylvania By HOWARD KOLUS Staff Writer HERSHEY The Wildcat's getting a bear of a big brother. Hersheypark's Wildcat, opened the in wooden roller coaster will be joined next year by 1996, inverted steel coaster in which an from open seats atriders dangle tached to a track above them, zipping along the ground up to 100 with their feet pointed toward below. in an open ski lift "It's like being hour," said Jeff at 60 miles per Budgeon, Hersheypark's engineering.

director of Park planning officials and announced yesterday named "The Great that construction of the begin in October after new coaster, Bear," will LON DAILY 6 45807 00000 8 50 CENTS By LAURA RITTER Staff Writer NORTH LEBANON Eyes stared at him, gleaming in the space above his hospital bed. As he glanced away, he thought he saw a rifle. He panicked, pleading with others in the room to put it away before someone got hurt. "Little kids are scared of monsters," 16-year-old Jeremy Hollin- Gunman kills judge, troopers By RANDI GOLDBERG Associated Press Writer COLEBROOK, N.H. When Judge Vickie Bunnell saw the armed man who pulled up in a patrol car was not an officer, she ran out the back of her office.

She knew him she had filed a restraining order against him, even described him as a "time bomb." Bunnell ran through the office of The News and Sentinel, screaming, "It's Drega! He's got a gun!" said Kenn Stransky, a reporter who knew the 44-year-old lawyer and part-time judge. "He shot her in the back. She died instantly," Stransky said. Carl Drega, 67, also killed two state troopers and a newspaper editor who struggled with him yesterday, then wounded four other officers before he was killed in a 45-minute gun battle with police. The rural quiet of this northern New Hampshire town of 2,400 began disintegrating about 2:45 p.m.

when two state troopers stopped Drega's red pickup for a traffic violation outside a supermarket. Within minutes, state troopers Scott Phillips, 32, of Colebrook, and Leslie Lord, 45, of Pittsburg, were dead. Drega, wearing a bulletproof vest, shot them both with an assault rifle. He hopped into a police cruiser for the short drive to the building that housed the weekly newspaper and Bunnell's law office. Bunnell's troubles with Drega dated to at least 1991, when, as a selectwoman in Drega's town of Columbia, she had him moved in handcuffs from the hall over a zoning dispute.

one confrontation, Bunnell tained a restraining order Drega, Stransky said. "She said he was a time bomb," he said. Dennis Joos, 51, the paper's editor, was shot dead when he tried intervene as Drega chased after Bunnell, who had fled into the parking lot. Drega then jumped back into the stolen cruiser and raced across the Connecticut River into Bloomfield, where witnesses saw him open fire on New Hampshire Fish and Game Officer Wayne Saunders, striking him in the arm. Saunders' badge stopped the other bullet.

(See GUNMAN, page 6A) move." Within seconds, Hammer took off seeking help, Jeremy recalled. He could hear the truck leaving as his friend rushed to find a pay phone. Though the cabin is on a dirt road in an isolated area, paramedics were on the scene in six minutes. (See SHOOTING, page 6A) Train takes dive 4 cars in river; no one injured From Staff and Wire Reports ROCKVILLE Train cars loaded with coal plunged into the Susquehanna River last night when portions of what is believed to be the world's longest stonearch bridge collapsed. The accident stalled dozens of trains overnight, including traffic through the Lebanon Valley; major railroad routes in Pennsylvania remained shut down this morning.

No one was injured when a section of the stone-arch Rockville bridge crumbled at about 8:30 p.m., sending four CSX cars and 400 tons of coal into 6 feet of water, according to George Drees, assistant chief of the Susquehanna Township fire department. "It's going to be a two-day operation, at least, to get it cleaned up," Drees said. "It's not a case where the bridge is severed or that support arches are gone," said Conrail spokesman Bob Libkind. "That structure was built for the ages and still is." A section of the bridge called the spandrall wall let loose, undermining one set of rails that cross the span and dumping four loaded coal cars bound for a Delaware power plant into the river. News photos show that portions of the stone wall dropped from the bridge.

The engines and remaining cars of the 82-car train stayed on the bridge, said Conrail spokesman Tom Streicher. The accident on the Conrailowned line effectively shut down all rail traffic traveling through Harrisburg. Amtrak trains use the bridge four times a day, including a train headed from Pittsburgh to New York that used the span at 6:30 p.m., said spokesman Bill Pedroza. Libkind said structural engineers inspected the damaged bridge overnight and gave the goahead to reopen one of several sets of tracks that cross the bridge. "They determined that it was safe to use one of the tracks," (See BRIDGE, page 6A) Mayor Roy Bernardi said.

"It's very interesting what a little bit of shame will do." Syracuse said the program has not been challenged in court. Wilkinsburg officials said signs are placed on borough-owned rights of ways next to the curb and are worded to avoid a defamation lawsuit, borough Manager John Marquart said. The Chuangs were chosen as the first example because the borough has cited them repeatedly, most recently about a month ago, said fire Chief Owen McAfee. Ming Chia Chuang said he can't afford the $90,000 he believes it would take to comply with the law. Councilwoman Michele Scott called such property a "cancer." She said the Chuangs should tear down the building so new housing can be built.

the park closes. The coaster, the most costly of any new Hersheypark attraction, will be the first of its kind in a Pennsylvania amusement park and brings the number of Hersheypark roller coasters to six, according to Franklin Shearer, Hersheypark's general manager. Shearer said the park will have more roller coasters than any park in the commonwealth when the Great Bear opens for business next May. It starts with a 90-foot lift near the station in the Minetown section of the park close to the Kissing Tower. Tracks run for 2,800 feet, covering about six acres.

Shearer said visitors have asked for additional coasters, and the $13-million Great Bear may well be the most thrilling yet. "We've been listening to what our guests want, and it's worked out before," Shearer said. The coaster features seven A drop of 124 feet as the ride shoots down to Comet Hollow; A 360-degree loop, that rushes riders 110 feet the air; A trip along Spring Creek; An Immelmann, a loop in which direction is reversed; A barrel roll which results in a moment of weightlessness; Two more barrel loops; Two S-turns to complete the experience. The ride's station is currently a catering area and was formerly a stop for the old sky ride. The Great Bear weaves over tracks of another coaster, the SooperdooperLooper, and a water ride, the Coal Cracker.

The ride takes about three minutes to complete. Passengers sit four abreast, strapped to their open chairs, with eight sections per unit. Two trains run at the same time, allowing 1,300 riders to take the trip in an hour, according to Budgeon. It travels at speeds of up to 58 miles per hour, and no one less than four feet tall will be allowed on board, Budgeon said. (See PARK'S, page 6A) Herco Photo An artist superimposed a drawing of The Great Bear onto an aerial photo of Hersheypark to come up with this conception of what the amusement park will look like next year..