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2 Hazleton Standard-Speaker, Thursday, August 4, 1 988 1 Man kills 7 killed, 37 hurt in fiery pileup ALBANY, Ore. (AP) A fire set on a farm field to limit insects and plant disease blew out of control, blinding drivers on an interstate and triggering a fiery 23-vehicle pileup that killed seven people and injured 37. Wednesday afternoon's chain-reaction accident left a half-mile stretch of Interstate 5 littered with burned-out, twisted shells of cars and trucks. Some victims, including two infants, died trapped in their burning vehicles. 'We've got many people in the hospital," said state police Sgt.

Art Bobrowitz. "It's a mess." Four of the dead a man, a woman and the two infants were in a van; the other victims were an 8-year-old California boy and two women in other vehicles, said state police Lt. John Tichenor. The boy died when he was ejected from a vehicle and struck by another vehicle, and the family in the van was burned beyond recognition, said Trooper Jeff Howard. The others also died at the scene.

Identities of the victims were hearing for today at which the duration of the court's red light will be discussed. On Wednesday, he issued a temporary restraining order, which usually lasts no more than 10 days. On July 22, the financially reeling airline announced plans to lay off 12 percent of its 32,200 workers and eliminate 140 of its 1,225 daily nights. Eastern would end almost all operations at Kansas City, its main hub in the western Unit Judge bars Eastern's 4,000 layoffs backs trade bill would streamline the system under which the government imposes import curbs to protect American business and retaliate against trade violations. Provisions also include repeal of the 1980 windfall profits tax on oil industry earnings which has not produced any revenue since oil prices plunged three years ago.

The bill contains funds for retraining of those left jobless by foreign competition and a potential $2.5 billion in export subsidies for agricultural products. eat to persist into obituary i Frances Marie Kassick Frances Marie Kassick, 53, of Dayton, Ohio, died Wednesday at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Medical Center in Ohio. Born in Hazleton, she was a daughter of Catherine Brestowski and the late Andrew Brestowski. She was a member of St. Helen's Catholic Church, Dayton, Ohio.

Surviving in addition to her mother are her husband, Walter; son, Walter, Dayton, Ohio; daughters, Mrs. Patrick (Marie) Carrothers, Cincinnati, Ohio; Mrs. Timothy (Catherine) Knoll, Eaton, Ohio; Mrs. Charles (Rosemary) Dannin, Dayton, Jennifer Kassick, Dayton, Ohio; three grandchildren; sister, Irene Janeczk, Madison, Ohio; brothers, Andrew Brestowski, Madison, Ohio; Edward, Leo, Eugene, Robert and Jacob Brestowski, all of Hazleton, and several nieces and nephews. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m.

Saturday in St. Helen's Church in Dayton and interment will be in the Calvary Cemetery. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Tobias Funeral Home Beavercreek Chapel, 3970 Dayton-Xenia Road, Dayton, Ohio. Memorial contributions can be made to the American Lung Association.

Elmer L. Garber Elmer L. Garber, 77, of Grier City, died Tuesday in Coaldale Hospital. Born in Locust Valley, he was a son of the late Oliver and Kathryn (Gerber) Garber, and was a member of Christ Lutheran Church, Rush Township. He had been employed as a maintenance engineer at the Pennsylvania Power and Light Co.

for several years prior to his retirement. Surviving are his wife, the former Kathryn Reigel; and five sisters, Mrs. Edna Smith McCord, Wyoming; Mrs. Verna Irene Martin, Grier City; Mrs. Alverta Brennan, Mahanoy City; and Mrs.

Myrtle Burrell and Mrs. Violet Reed, both of Tamaqua. Funeral services will be held on Friday at 2 p.m. in the Lamar Christ Funeral Home, Hometown. Calling hours are this evening from 7 to 9.

Josephine Grohman Mrs. Josephine A. Grohman, 81, of 164 S. Cedar Hazleton, died this morning at 12:05 at the Hazleton General Hospital, following an illness of two months. Born in Freeland, she was a resident of Hazleton for most of her life, and was a member of St.

Gabriel's R.C. Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Paul, who died in 1967; one brother, John, and one grandson, Thomas. Surviving are three sons, James, Hazle Village; John, Trexlertown, and Joseph, R.D.I, Freeland; three sisters, Helen, Freeland; Agnes Sabo, Freeland, and Mrs. Anna Shelly, Upper Lehigh; three brothers, James, Freeland; Francis, Jeddo, and Austin, Sunbury; seven grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 9 a.m. from the Frank J. Bonin Funeral Home Second Street entrance, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 9:30 a.m. in St. Gabriel's Church.

Interment will be in the parish cemetery. Friends may call on Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. Death notice STURAK At Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, Wednesday, August 3, John Sturak, beloved husband of Anna (Delman) Sturak. Funeral Friday at 8:30 a.m. from the Frank J.

Bonin Funeral Home, Second Street entrance. Divine Liturgy with the Office of Christian Burial in Ss. Peter and Paul's Byzantine Catholic Church, Beaver Meadows at 9:00 a.m. Interment in the parish cemetery. Friends may call Thursday 7 to 9 p.m.

Card of Thanks if JEANETTE "JEAN" PANICO We wish to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to all our kind relatives, neighbors and friends who assisted and consoled us during the illness and death of my beloved sister and sister-in-law, Jeanette "Jean" Panico. Also, to the doctors, Rev. P. Lawrence Homer, the pallbearers, those who sent spiritual or floral bouquets, donors and drivers of cars and all others who assisted us in any other way. Mr.

and Mr. Leo Kublttky not released pending notification of relatives. The accident, which occurred about midway between Portland and Eugene, was touched off when black smoke from field burning wafted across the highway, Tichenor said. Grass-seed farmers in the Willamette Valley burn their fields after the summer harvest to limit diseases and insects. Seven trucks, including a tractor-trailer rig carrying wood chips, and 16 cars were involved, Sgt.

Brien Forrest said. Three of ed States, dramatically reduce service at its eastern hub of Philadelphia and eliminate flights to 14 cities. The airline would focus its service on the East Coast and Latin America. David Boies, an attorney for Eastern, said it would be "a prescription for disaster" for the airline to consider continuing its operations in Kansas City. Another Eastern lawyer, Michael Madigan, said Eastern lost $68 million in Kansas City last In a change in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the bill would make it easier for American executives to defend themselves against bribery charges arising from payments by their agents overseas to foreign officials.

The bill also would impose sanctions on Toshiba Corp. of Japan and Kongsberg Vaapen-fabrik of Norway and two of their subsidiaries for the subsidiaries' action in selling submarine-silencing equipment to the Soviet Union. Avoid long periods in the direct sun or unventilated rooms. Avoid vigorous activity. Wear light-colored, lightweight, loose-fitting clothing.

Wear a hat or other head covering when in the sun. Take frequent cool baths or showers. Dr. Philip Benyo, director of ambulatory care at Hazleton-St. Joseph, said the heat wave is affecting persons emotionally -causing depression as well as physical ailments.

"We are seeing symptoms of heat exhaustion throughout the satellites as well as at the Hazleton medical center," Benyo said. Such exhaustion, he said, is characterized by dehydration, feeling flushed and weak, and an inability to cool oneself off. "These patients, by and large, havs been kept out of the hospital by giving them intravenous fluids over several hours as outpatients," Benyo said. "There are, without question, several cases of the elderly, particularly those with heart and lung disorders and diabetics, who have been admitted and discharged with diagnoses of heat exhaustion." Benyo noted that emotional symptoms of 'cabin fever' also are often present. "If you can recall January and February 'cabin fever' caused by monotonous weather extremes endless snow, ice and cold the present problem is a summer cabin fever, an inability to go out because of endless heat and humidity," he said.

"People feel threatened by the weather. They can't go outdoors for a very long time. Their lifestyle is changed." Benyo said that summer cabin fever is unusual in the Hazleton area "because Hazleton summers usually last about two weeks and that's it." This summer's prolonged heat, the doctor said, has triggered depression in many people who are bored with one heat wave following another, with no end immediately in sight. "We've heard people say, 'I'd give anything now to rake leaves and shovel snow' just like in the middle of winter they said, 'I'd give anything for warmer Benyo recommends drinking plenty of liquids. "If patients with chronic diseases notice a change in their symptoms," he said, "they should contact their physician." Youth is no protection for the ravages of extreme heat, said Benyo.

Cautioning those training now Card Of Thanks MRS. MARY C.SUCHAJDA We wish to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to all our kind relatives, neighbors and friends who assisted and consoled us during the illness and death of my beloved mother ond mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary C. Suchajda. Also, to the pallbearers, those who sent spiritual or floral bouquets, donors and drivers of cars and all others who assisted us in any other way.

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Lazar wife, self NANTICOKE A Nanticoke man fatally shot his wife then himself on their eighth wedding anniversary Tuesday night in their Ross Street home, according to Luzerne County officials. Luzerne County Coroner Dr. George Hudock said Anthony Ho-jnowski, 33, fatally shot his wife, Diane, 33, in the face at close range with a magnum handgun sometime between 5 and 8 p.m..

He then apparently turned the gun on himself. They were pronounced dead on the scene at Police said they found Ho-jnowski in a guest room with the gun at his side. Mrs. Hojnowski's body was in the adjacent master bedroom. The couple was having marital problems, according to both neighbors and police.

However, authorities do not as yet have a motive for the murder-suicide. The Hojnowski's children, Aaron, 18 months, and Rachel, 4, were with Mrs. Hojnowski's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Mar-cinko of East Noble Street, Nanticoke, at the time of the shooting, according to police.

The bodies were removed from the house around 2 a.m. and taken to Mercy Hospital in Wilkes-Barre, where Hudock performed autopsies. Motorist drives car into porch WILKES-BARRE (AP) Mary Aiello was eating a peach and watching TV's "Divorce Court" when she found herself involved in a car crash. The car careened into the front of her house, destroying the porch and a neighbor's fence. "First I heard a horn blaring.

Then I heard a thud and said, 'Oh, that's my Ms. Aiello said after Wednesday's accident. "It happened so fast," said the driver, 53-year-old Michael Balla of Wilkes-Barre. "I went to stop for a stop sign, and something happened and I was going 50 miles an hour." Police said they were investigating what caused the crash. Aluminum siding and rain gutters on Ms.

Aiello's house were also damaged. She said she was unsure how much repairs would cost. Writers (Continued from page 1) ment. He said the writers failed to achieve one of their key aims, a substantial improvement in payment for reruns of television shows broadcast in foreign markets. However, guild leaders feared that prolonging the strike and longer could weaken the union, said Reisman, vice president of the West Coast guild unit.

The guild did win improvements in creative control over scripts and the re-acquisition of original screenplays, he said. "We wound up with an equation that was actually le's than most of us hoped for," Reisman said. "But it is the first improvement in 18 years." The settlement came after a collapse of talks last weekend produced two days of intense efforts by a variety of intermediaries. Contract issues were resolved during a 12-hour meeting between Walton and Counter. CBS could begin broadcasting new shows the third week of October, Kim LeMasters, president of CBS Entertainment, said shortly before announcement of the settlement.

ABC Entertainment President Brandon Stoddard said a contract would leave his network "able to premiere most of our fall schedule either before, after or combined with (the miniseries) 'War and Remembrance' in November." ABC already said it would delay its premieres until after NBC's combined fall schedule of the Summer Olympics and World Series had ended, but left in question when the new season would actually start. NBC had no immediate comment. In Memory Of MICHAEL T. BANYAS Who Passed Away August 4, 1987 He wished no one farewell Nor even a sad goodbye. He was gone before we knew it.

And only God knows why. Some may think we are not lonely, When at times they see us smile. Little do they know the heartache That we suffer all the while. We think of him in silence, No eyes may see us weep, Many a silent tear is shed. When others are asleep.

The brightest star could never shine. Like the shine upon his face. The greatest treasure in the world Could never take his place. Just a prayer to God above, Please give him our love. Always In our thoughts and prayart.

Sadly mlttfd by and Children the trucks and about half the cars caught fire, he said. The burning had been authorized on one field, but the flames accidentally spread to a field next to the highway, said Brian Fin-neran, a spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Quality smoke-management program. "We're very careful not to do any burning when the smoke will be blown toward 1-5," Finneran said. "There are whirlwinds that will take part of the fire and cause it to jump into a neighboring field. year and $33 million in the first three months of 1988.

In all, he said, the airline has lost more than $1 billion since 1980, including $194 million in 1987 and $31 million in the first quarter of this year. "We are continuing to suffer heavy financial losses and therefore we will give an appeal immediate and serious consideration," Eastern spokesman Robin Matell said when the session ended. Lawyers for the three unions representing Eastern employees, however, insisted that the cutbacks were just the latest in a series of efforts by the company to weaken labor by shrinking the airline. "They're engaged in a plan designed, if they don't get from labor what they want, the ultimate demise of Eastern," said Robert A. Burka, lawyer for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, representing baggage handlers and other ground workers.

The airline is engaged in contract talks with the machinists and with the Air Line Pilots Association and-has made it clear that it is seeking reductions in wages. weekend for fall sports, he noted that among persons being treated for exhaustion are young adults who overextended themselves. Benyo suggests that residents avoid going outdoors between 11 a.m and 2 p.m. when temperatures are hottest. "Do outdoor activities in the morning and early evening hours," he urges residents.

"And stay cool. Remember, Christmas is only four months away." first summer record this year was a demand for 4,738,000 kwh on July 11, according to Martha Herron, the utility's Hazleton area manager. Preliminary figures indicate that Tuesday's electricity demand on the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Interconnection, the power pool linking and 10 other regional utilities, was the highest ever. Customers of the member companies used 41,660,000 kwh between 4 and 5 p.m., breaking the old record of 41,369,000 set on July 11. Though electricity demand was high because of the continuing hot weather and the increased use of air-conditioning equipment, there was enough energy available to supply customer needs.

highest customer demand actually occurs during the winter. The overall record set on Jan. 5, 1988, was 5,596,000 kwh. The blend of heat, haziness and humidity also is producing pollen and allergic reactions. In addition, the Hazleton-St.

Joseph Medical Center reports scores of patients with headaches, runny nose, sneezing, itchy eyes, and periods of congestion and coughing. Benyo said many patients have been complaining of muscular, skeletal and back pains and headaches, "feeling like they have the flu without the fever." He attributes many of these problems to sleeping in a cool draft from fans or air-conditioners. Another cause, Benyo said, is stepping from an air-conditioned car into stifling outdoors temperatures in the 90s and then into an air-conditioned mall, then back into the torrid outdoors and into the air-conditioned car. This subjects the body to a constant barrage of hot-cold, cold-hot, hot-cold. The result can be pain, stiffness, joint aches, muscular aches, and a worsening of arthritis symptoms, the doctor said.

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SUBSCRIPTION BY MAIL Paid In Advance One year $94.00 Six months 48.00 Three months 25.00 One month 10.00 One week 2.50 WASHINGTON (AP) Eastern Airlines executives say they may appeal a federal judge's order temporarily blocking the carrier from slashing its operations and laying off 4,000 workers. In a ruling that put into disarray the company's plans to prune its operations Aug. 31, U.S. District Judge Barrington D. Parker agreed Wednesday to a request by Eastern's unions to block the cutbacks temporarily.

'He tentatively scheduled a leagan WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan is preparing to sign a landmark bill designed to reduce U.S. deficits in world trade, ending three years of skirmishing between the White House and Capitol Hill over the trade issue. "While this is still not perfect -no bill 1,128 pages in length ever is on balance it will strengthen America's international competitiveness," Reagan said Wednesday after the Senate approved the measure 85-11. Fifty Democrats joined 35 Republicans in voting for the bill while it was opposed by 10 Republicans and one Democrat retiring Sen. William Proxmire, who objected to changes in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Reagan had vetoed an earlier version of the trade bill on May 24 because it included a provision that companies give employees 60 days' notice of plant closings or major layoffs. That provision later was approved as a separate bill that Reagan reluctantly allowed earlier this week to become law. Major provisions of the new bill would authorize U.S. negotiators to reach agreements in the current Uruguay Round of international trade talks. They also Reagan KOs budget bill for defense WASHINGTON (AP) Congressional Democrats are charging that President Reagan vetoed the Pentagon budget bill in a "blatant, political" move to paint their party falsely as soft on defense and help Vice President George Bush win the presidency.

But Republicans vehemently denied the charge. Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, calling it "hogwash." Dole said Reagan's action was a fully justified "national security veto." Democrats, who control both the House and Senate, say they will try to draft a new Pentagon budget bill. They said they won't try to override the veto because that requires a two-thirds vote in each chamber. When the House and Senate approved the measure July 14, the votes went generally along party lines. Republicans agreed.

"We don't expect to see this veto overridden," said Sen. Pete Wilson, R-Calif. The veto message was read in the House on Wednesday evening and then sent to the Armed Services Committee on a 223-162 vote which split along party lines. That assures that there will be no vote in the near future on whether to override. Reagan disavowed any political motives.

"These are issues of national security and they must remain above partisan politics," he said. Card of Thanks LEWIS N. AVILLION To all the kind relatives, neighbors and friends who assisted and consoled us during the illness and death of my beloved husband, our father and grandfather, Lewis N. Avillion, we wish to express our sincere thonks and appreciation. Also, to the pallbearers, those who sent spiritual or floral bouquets, donors and drivers of cars and all others who assisted us in any other way.

Wife, Daughters and Grandchildren (Continued from page 1) haustion as temperatures remain in the 90s. Especially prone to the two conditions, Cox noted, are young people and young adults who overdo in intense heat and humidity. "In older patients," he said, "we see more of an aggravation or intensifying of their chronic problems, such as heart, lung and asthmatic attacks." Although both heat stroke and heat exhaustion are caused by continuing heat and some of their symptoms are similar, the two conditions are distinctly different and must be handled accordingly. Similar symptoms, the doctor said, include headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting and weakness. The remaining symptoms are so different as to be exactly opposite each other.

"Heat stroke, also called sunstroke, occurs in extreme heat and humidity when a person's internal thermostat fails and no perspiration is produced," Cox said. "The skin becomes red, hot and dry. The pulse is strong and pounding. Breathing becomes labored and noisy. And the body's temperature will soar to anywhere from 102 to 108 degrees." Heat exhaustion occurs, he said, when the body's circulatory system reaches a point where it cannot meet the increased demands of cooling the skin.

The victim goes into a mild state of shock. The skin becomes pale and cool with profuse sweating. Cox said there are few complications from heat exhaustion, and recovery is usually rapid after a brief rest away from the heat source. "Heat stroke, however, can cause internal bleeding, kidney failure and damage to the heart and liver. Prompt action must be taken the save the person's life," he said.

"A heat stroke victim should be immersed in ice cold water to rapidly cool the body. The sudden cold does not cause shock to a person in this situation." Treatment for heat exhaustion is much simpler. The victim sould be moved to a cool area and placed in a horizontal position with head lowered and legs raised. Cox suggests seven ways to cope with the prolonged heat Drink plenty of liquids, especially water and fruit juices. Avoid alcohol or drinks containing caffeine.

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