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Page tue Vv The Indiana Gazette Thursday, October 22, 1987 Page 2 11 Indiana County Coroner Thomas Streams and a member of the Indiana University of Pennsylvania campus police look into the stairwell where the body of Jack Davis was found. (Gaiette photos by Peel) Defective Sgt. Anthony D. Antohk heads up a ream comprising Indiana Borough police, Indiana University of Pennsylvania campus police and Indiana firemen that searched the grounds near Weyandt Hall where the body of Jack Davis was found Wednesday night. Student's Reagan warns against despondency government regulation of financial markets and federally insured bank deposits.

Hoover was criticized sharply for refusing to take action following the crash of Oct. 29, 1929, relying instead on exhortations to keep up private spending. Reagan, in recent days, also has been criticized by some for not taking some dramatic action, such as going on television with a major address designed to calm people's fears or taking further steps to curb the deficit. Late Tuesday, he announced that administration officials and congressional leaders would begin a round of budget talks. Monday's record-breaking 508-point slide in the Dow Jones industrial stock average "some kind of a correction" was going pretty far even for htm.

It was a little like Hoover, addressing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on May 1, 1930, five months after the market crash that ushered in the Great Depression, and saying, "I am convinced we have now passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover." On the other hand, Reagan said on Tuesday that if people put off purchases "because they feared hard times, yes, that could bring on a recession." Or, in other words, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," as FDR said in his 1933 inaugural address. The contrast mirrors a split between Reagan's view of Roosevelt, whom he admires, and Roosevelt's works, which he has spent much of his political life inveighing against and seeking to undo. FDR was Reagan's first political idol and, even after switching from the Democratic to the Republican party, he has continued to quote the 32nd president frequently and in glowing terms. Like Roosevelt, the president has used his mastery as a communicator to build a personal following lhat has given him record victories at the polling booths.

WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan, warning of fear while he stresses the strength of the economy, sometimes sounds like Herbert Hoover and sometimes like Franklin D. Roosevelt as he copes with the worst economic news of his administration. In a brief question-and-answer session with reporters Wednesday, Reagan said, "If the market continues today as it did yesterday, I think it's a revelation that what we were seeing was some kind of a correction." Reagan always has a tendency to look on the bright side of things, and in fact the market was sharply up again on Wednesday, but calling In his policy views, however, he sounds more like Hoover, the last president before Roosevelt's New Deal vastly expanded the role of the federal government in the economy. In fact, at the 1980 Democratic National Convention, Sen. Edward M.

Kennedy, said that in 1976 Reagan had declared that "fascism was really the basis of the New Deal." Reagan did not dispute that Kennedy had quoted him accurately The New Deal reforms of which he was speaking include many Mi at are now credited with insulating the economy as a whole from the effects of stack market fluctuations such things as unemployment insurance, Girl survives plane crash that killsthree death accidental Continued from Page 1 School Street. Brennan said he could not locate Davis alter he had checked with a friend at Elkin Hall to see if Davis could spend the night there. Brennan said Davis was last seen prior to 2 a.m. Saturday morning. Antolik said Davis' step-brother, Tom Lynch.

31, of Pittsburgh, called police at 1: 10 p.m. Wednesday and requested that a search be initiated. At 9:30 p.m. a party of approximately SO persons, made up of members of various fraternities, IUP students, members of the Davis-Lynch family and friends from the Pittsburgh and Penn Hills area, met at the IUP fieldhouse parking lot. "We also had about seven officers from the borough and campus police," said Antolik.

"We split into four groups and at about 10:10 the body was found in the stairwell at Weyandt Hall." The 12-foot stairwell is in the middle of the building off a courtyard area lhat lias a fountain. The stairwell is seldom used, according to an IUP spokesman. A grid search of the entire area was conducted by borough and campus police with an assist from Indiana firemen. Slate police from the Records and Identification Unit at Troop A Headquarters in. Greensburg were summoned to investigate before the body was removed from the scene.

Davis was the son of Mrs. Elaine Lynch of 102 Mahoning Drive, Penn Hills, and Jack Davis of Miilvale. He was a member of the Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity and was residing at 1243 Oakland Ave. He lived at that address with four other IUP students, Scott Batlaglini, 20, of Marion Center; Kevin Bere-zansky, 20, Armagh; Tom Romeo, 19, Clyde; and Chuck Skibo, Robinson. Senate puts off debate WALTON, Ore.

(AP) A whimpering J-year-old was found buckled in her seat, shielded by a body, in the wreckage of small plane that crashed in heavy fog, killing her father, grandmother and another adult, officials said. The girl, Aubrey Hoist, was in serious condition at Sacred Heart Hospital in Eugene with broken arms, spinal bruises and possible internal injuries after the Cessna 180 went down in heavily wooded coastal mountains Wednesday. Lane County Sheriff Dave Burks called the child's survival "a small miracle." Killed were her father, the pilot, Carson Hoist, 32; his mother, Anna "Effie" Hoist, 63, both of Oak-ridge, and Darlinda Sue Taylor, 27, of Aguila, whose relationship to the others was not immediately known. Jerry Eames of the Oregon Aeronautics Division in Salem said the plane left Oakridge at 9 a.m. for Florence.

A search began after it failed to arrive as scheduled. Authorities picked up a signal from an emergency locator transmitter on the downed plane, and a search helicopter found the wreckage about 4 p.m., said Sue Cole, spokeswoman for the sheriffs department. Burks said the plane had struck a tree atop a ridge and came to rest on its right side. The child was found buckled in on the left side and one of the adults was shielding her, officials said: Rescuers said the girl talked about her pets and about "Mom" and "Dad," and winced without crying as paramedics tried to determine the extent of her injuries. It took rescuers nearly an hour to carry her up a steep slope to a road about 600 yards from the crash site, 25 miles west of Eugene.

She was taken by helicopter to the hospital. Three-year-uld Aubrey Hatst is remwva from rhe wreckage of a plane that crashed Wednes day, killing three. Hoist is seen here being covered by Eugene Fire Department paramedic larry Shock before being leaded onto the helicopter that airlifted her to Sacred Heart Hospital in Eugene. (AP laserphoto) Estranged, but not divorced (j HARRISBUKG (AP The winning number Wednesday in the Pennsylvania Daily Number was PHILADELPHIA (AP) The estranged wife of a co-winner of the $46 million North American record lottery prize believes she's entitled to some of the money, according to a published report. The Philadelphia Inquirer, in an interview with Pauline Woomer, reported the woman believes she should get half of Donald R.

Woomer's share of the jackpot. "Yes, since I'm his wife, I do. I think I'll benefit from it," Mrs. Woomer said in the story published Wednesday. "It's supposed to be a 50-50 deal." "I'm going lo call a lawyer," she said in (he telephone interview, "as soon as I hang up." Donald Woomer and Linda Despot, 37, of Hollidaysburg, Blair County, received their first of 26 annual payments of $1.4 million.

Woomer, 55, is separated but not divorced from his wife. The jackpot was the largest ever North America. The world's largest, about $100 million, is offered in Spain, according to lottery officials. John McClintock, a spokesman for (he couple, said Woomer's lawyer told him the prize wasn't "earnings that were experienced during the marriage." He said Woomer "certainly feels the majority of his share is his and his alone." "Their feeling now is this is not joint marital property," said McClintock. "They haven't lived to- gether for several years, and it is not something she wduM have a stake in." But it appeared there probably would be a settlement sometime after Woomer and Despot return from a short trip.

"We are going to make a settlement of some kind," he said. Pauline Woomer hasn't spoken with her husband since he won the jackpot but their children Donald 32, and Vicki Cassarly. 29, were in touch with him and he "indicated he would share" his wealth. "We're friends. We're not cat-and-dog or anything like that," she said.

"We get along." The family still has a local business and the Woomers jointly own a Hollidaysburg home, she told the paper. Woomer has said a divorce would be forthcoming and he and Despot plan to marry. HARR1SBURG (AP) Two Super 7 players will share a jackpot worth at least $2 million for picking seven of the II winning numbers drawn Wednesday night, a lottery official said. Lottery director Jim Scroggins said 43 players picked six of the winning numbers for 1,484 picked five numbers for and picked foar numbers for S7 each. Friday's Lotto wil be worth at least $1 million, Scroggins said.

The winning numbers Wednesday in the Pennsylvania Super 7 same were 03, 04, 10, 24, 2S, 44, 48, 60. 69 70 and 79. Continued from Page 1 veto such a bill, but added they weren't sure. Should Reagan veto the measure, the closeness of Wednesday's 54-44 Senate vote makes it unlikely Democrats could muster the two-thirds margin needed to enact it over the president's objections. The Senate initially voted 51-47 to kill the legislation, a vote that brought harsh criticism from Byrd.

"1 think the Senate looks simply terrible," he said. "We can continue to duck the issue, we can continue to pull our hair, we can continue to castigate the president, or we can step up lo our responsibilities. This resolution is a pragmatic way lo express our will. Missile slams into oil terminal Continued from Page I shipping sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity. A convoy of U.S.-scorted Kuwaiti ships was at the other end of the gulf, hundreds of miles away.

Al-Sabah said in an interview with the Kuwaiti agency that the country's forces on Failaka island "saw the missile, which is a Silkworm, as it was being launched from Iranian-occupied Icrritory in the northern parts of Iraq's Faw peninusla. "Kuwait is in the process of adopting measures lo deal with this type of missiles." he said wilbnul elaborating. He did not explain if Kuwaiti forces tried to sbool down the Stocks stumble in early going Continued Tram Page 1 The renewed stock plunge indicated persistent nervousness among investors about the health of the world economy following the panic that began Monday and erased more than SI trillion worth of stock value in 24 hours. Analysts said many investors likely were waiting to hear President Reagan's comments on the economy at his news conference tonight. Fear about the consequences of America's enormous trade gap, budget deficit and long-term debt is widely considered to be a key element in the market crisis.

In Tokyo, the 225-share Nikkei stock average was up nearly 730 points at midday but relinquished ground to close up 457.03 points at 24,404.45. One day earlier, the average had a record single-day gain of more than 2,000 points. The Dow Jones industrial average ended Wednesday more than halfway back from Monday's historic 508 point collapse, and the value of all U.S. stocks rose 5183 billion. The index of blue-chip stocks achieved a second consecutive record point gain as it climbed 186.84 points to 2,027.85.

The index had risen 102.27 points in the previous session. The Dow industrials' plunge Monday wiped out 22.6 percent of the index's value a bigger oneway decline than during the Crash of 1929. Whopping hikes proposed NEW YORK ,9:30 (API Continued from Page 1 $1,675 instead of $425; breweries, $4,525 instead of Sunday sales permit for beer or liquor. $875 instead of $200; and winery licenses, The board suggested that any increase be phased in over a five-year period and that new license classes be created: They would include special licenses for night clubs, cabarets and wine-only permits for restaurants. myself, don't particularly like increasing licensing fees, but we're mandated by law to submit this tc the Legislature," said LCB chairman Daniel Pennick.

He questioned state police projections that $13.3 million was needed for liquor enforcement, a task transferred from the LCB to the state police under the new law. The figure is $5.4 million more than what the LCB had expected to spend had it retained enforcement duties, the report said. Pennick also suggested the Legislature consider retaining for the state S5 million in fees that are now refunded to municipalities. Mario Mele, lone Republican on the board, said it was missing "a great opportunity to come up with alternatives." Mele urged that the LCB work harder to gain discounts on its purchases and that the additional revenue could offset some of the proposed fee increases. Last Ch 35 3I i nx.

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