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4 -J SPORTS i(P Top-seeded players are IPAH LIVING LOCAL Firefighters honor departed comrades Some 200 firefighters, their families and friends worshipped in the 110th Annual Memorial Service of the York City Fire Department Sunday. 3A The latest fad Is Just a variation on an old theme Garbage Pail Kids. Theres nothing cute about them. Who wants to cuddle Leaky Lindsay and her drippy (to put It nicely) nose? How about Shrunken Ed? Or Grim Jim? Even so, they're popular with the school-age set. IB icu 1 IMk Daily Recoindl 25C MONDAY York's first newspaper 171st Year, No.

100 York, Pennsylvania 0 jr ormer council chief Bentzel dies ran He loved two things. He loved his family at can. "He loved two things. He loved his family Very few people cared about the city as much as Jimmy. He was an exceptional public servant.

Mayor William Althaus and the City of York. Very few people cared about the city as much as Jimmy. He was an exceptional public servant. During his 10 years on council, Bentzel never missed a meeting. He always showed up early and stayed late, Althaus recalled.

Bentzel devotion to the city frequently put him in conflict with others in city government. We always worked under the assumption that each of us was man enough to agree to disagree, respectfully, said Councilman Donald Murphy, a Democrat who served with Bentzel for three years. "We were always able to talk about it. The disagreements didnt grow from politics, Murphy said. He was always wanting to do what was best for York, Murphy said.

Another story about Bentzels willingness to place community concern above politics came during former Mayor Elizabeth Marshalls tenure on council. In 1976, council was considering a $7 million bona issue. The money would have gone toward flood Please see BENTZEL on 8 A By MICHAEL ARGENTO Daily Record staff writer James S.A. Bentzel 11, a former president of York City Council and long-time activist in Democratic politics, died at 11:35 a.m. Sunday at York Hospital.

He was 65. Bentzel, the husband of Dorothy (Douglas) Bentzfcl, of 428 N. Pershing had been in poor health. The service will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the David E.

Small Funeral Home, Roosevelt and Madison avenues. Burial will be in Greenmount Cemetery. The viewing will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Bentzel led a varied public life.

After military service during World War II, he worked as a city police officer. Then, he served as sergeant-of-arms for the staffe General Assembly and chief postmaster for the state Senate. Later, he worked as chief regsitrar for York County. In 1974, he was elected to city council, serving the last seven years of his tenure as president. On March 1, 1985,.

Bentzel announced his retirement. 1 know my career in politics is coming to an end, and 1 feel sort of sad, Bentzel said at the time. Its been my life. I know nothing else. The day of his last city council meeting, Dec.

18, 1985, was proclaimed James S.A. Bentzel Day. My first devotion and love is the city of York, Bentzel said during the meeting. 1 was born here, lived here and I would hope to die here. News of Bentzels death saddened past and present city officials, who remembered Bentzel as a dedicated public servant.

He was, above all else, a man who loved the City of York, said Mayor William Althaus, a Republi Bentzd, 65, served 10 years on city councfl. Gireaft day for Walk America British tourist killed in apparent terrorist attack ir 'iy rael a month ago and was living in a rented apartment in Jerusalem with friends. Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir called the shooting the work of terrorists and pledged Israel will fight terrorism until we put an end to it. He said the attack was meant to frighten visitors and undermine tourism, an important source of income to Israel. Police sources said investigators were trying to determine if the attack was intended as retaliation against the British for allowing U.S.

warplanes to use English bases for the April 15 air raids on Libya. But Prime Minister Shimon Please see TERROR on 12A By ALLYN FISHER Associated Press writer JERUSALEM A 28-year-old British tourist was shot to death Sunday outside a Christian holy site and an Israeli leader denounced the murder as an attempt by terrorists to scare away vistors. It was the third shooting of a tourist in six weeks in predominantly Arab east Jerusalem. The two other victims survived. Jerusalem police spokesman Rafi Levy said Paul Appleby of Brison was shot once in the back of the head with a small caliber pistol near the Garden Tomb shrine, revered by some Protestants as the hilltop where Jesus was crucified and buried.

Levy said Appleby came to Is 4 3 rIS- 16- Cause was worth case of sore feet Daily Record staff writer Matt Schwartz walked in Sundays March of Dimes WalkAmerica. Here is his eyewitness report. By MATT SCHWARTZ Daily Record staff writer Its not a race, the loudspeaker said. Its not an endurance test. In truth, it was much more.

It was the March of Dimes WalkAmerica, and to the more than 1,000 participants it was what life is all about. Sacrificing your own for the common good. Striving to achieve in the face of incredible odds, then, just before failure, reaching deep down inside for that last little bit that separates us from animals the indomitable human spirit. Now that Ive sufficiently nauseated you, go stick your feet in a blender and youll know exactly how I felt after finishing the 25-kilometer walk. Dont get me wrong.

It was an experience and it was for a good cause. (Just keep telling yourself that, the man at the last checkpoint said). And I wasnt alone. More than 1,225 people preregistered, according to Jeff Gunnet, WalkAmerica chairman. An estimated 1,027 showed up, making this years event the big-gestyet.

Im delighted how the York community has responded to this years walk, Gunnet said last week. With the tremendous response perhaps Sunday we can turn parents and children dreams of a healthy life into reality. Early on Sunday, more than one of us was dreaming of something else. A hill! one woman said to Woman charged in jail escape remains at-large me 1 4 1 a Tf, I i mmm By MICHAEL ARGENTO Daily Record staff writer Its been more than three weeks since Diane Brodbeck, a Wellsville beautician and musician, allegedly helped Jon Yount, a convicted murderer, escape from Rockview state prison near State College. And Mrs.

Brodbecks husband, Chester, is worried about her. As far as Im concerned, she was kidnapped and is being held hostage, until I find out differently, Brodbeck said in an interview Sunday evening. Authorities believe differently. State police in State College have charged Mrs. Brodbeck, 43, with helping Yount escape.

They have circulated notices with Mrs. Brodbecks and Younts photos to police agencies throughout the country. Still, the search has been fruitless. 1 1 v-. Diane Brodbeck Allegedly helped killer escape We have absolutely nothing, Sgt.

Willard Olsen of the state police in State College said last week. There have been no Please see ESCAPE on 8 A Record photo by Dave Spelcher More than 1,000 folks participated in the March of Dimes WalkAmerica. Please see WALK on 6 A We interrupt this program for a viewer protest Horoscope 2B Letters 1 1 A Neighbors 38 Obituaries 10A Opinion 1 1 A Sports 1-6D Abby 2B Bridge 6B Business 1C Classified 31 1C Comics 5-6B Crossword 6B Television 4B Whats Happening 2B the hacker ended his own message or was forced off by HBO. Pritchard said HBO would have no comment on that. We have implemented some technical rem-edies, and were pursuing others, he said.

This represents a clear danger to every satellite user. Pritchard said action like Sunday mornings had been threatened in letters to HBO and in magazines read by dish owners. Wed been threatened for the Please see VIDEO on 6 A Pritchard said the hacker, apparently with the use of a satellite dish and a powerful transmitter, effectively replaced HBOs signal with his own. For some reason possibly because Captain Midnights signal was better-timed or more powerful HBOs satellite received the hackers signal instead of HBOs and beamed it down to HBOs earth relay stations. Sundays intrusion was immediately noticed at HBOs communications center in Hauppauge, N.Y., but it was not clear whether (Showtime-Movie Channel Beware.) Mahany said that at first the picture flipped back and forth between the message and the movie, making it seem like HBO was trying to get its signal back.

It looked like a fight for control of the microwave beam. The message appeared at 12:30 a.m. EST and remained on the air about five minutes. It was seen in the pastern two-thirds of the nation, which accounts for more than half of HBOs 14.6 million subscribing households. who said the cable system had received sabotage threats in recent months.

Pritchard said HBO planned to report the incident to the Federal Communications Commission. Its kind of like terrorism of the airwaves, said Greg Mahany, who was watching in Middletown, Ohio, when the message interrupted The Falcon and The Snowman. The message, printed in white letters on a color-bar test pattern background, read: Goodevening HBO from Captain Midnight. $12.95 a month? No way! By RICK HAMPSON Associated Press writer NEW YORK A video hacker calling himself Captain Midnight startled cable television viewers from Maine to the Plains early Sunday when he interrupted a movie on Home Box Office with a printed message protesting HBOs scrambling of its satellite-to-earth TV signals. Its a criminal, willful interference of a government-licensed satellite broadcast, fumed David Pritchard, an HBO vice president.

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