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MALWE'S LARGEST DAILY Inside Area Scouts conduct skills show at Caribou and Orono Page 21 Maine Lumberjacks to move become Bay State Bombardiers VC 94NO 258 BANCOR MAINE MONDAY MARCH 28 1983 36 PAGES 30 CENTS Holy Week opens with peace wish i 4 -a The Morse Covered Bridge destroyed by fire Saturday is shown in better days in the post card at left Below NEWS photographer Carroll Hall captured its destruction tv'v From the wire services Christian all ever the world gathered Sunday to celebrate the beginning of Holy Week More than 80000 Holy Year pUi uus greeted Pope John Paul 11 with prayers for peace In six language as be celebrated Palm Sunday Mass In St Peter Square A West German boy cradled a bleating Easter lamb In his arms while members of the crowd speaking in German English Portuguese Polish Arabic and Hausa a widely used African dialect asked for the blessing of world peace One Polish prayer was the whole world redeemed by Christ's blood so It Is preserved from the scourge of war and violence and blood Flanked by palms twisting around marble columns the pope said In his sermon: have just started the Holy Year of Redemption The liturgy Of Palm Sunday tells us how the glory of Christ has found Its beginning In the passion of Christ Two days earlier the Polish -born pontiff opened the Holy Year declared to commemorate the It5uth anniversary of the crucifixion of Jesus The last Holy Year was 175 and traditionally such celebration Years are held every ZS year Palm Sunday begins the Christian Holy Week which Includes Good Friday to mark the Crucifixion and culminates two days later with the Easter celebration of the Resurrection Roman Catholics around the world received palms at Mass on Sunday to commemorate Jesus' entry into Jerusalem over a road covered with palm fronds by bis believers In Jerusalem thousands of Christian pilgrims marked Palm Sunday and the start of the Holy Year of Redemption In a joyous procession In Jerusalem retracing the path of Christ's triumphant entry Into the city i Under the watchful eyes of Israeli soldiers carrying submachine guns several hundred Arab Christian boy and girl scouts in green and yellow uniforms led priests nuns and pilgrims from the Mount of Olives through the St Stephen Gate of the ancient walled city Thousands of pilgrims carrying palm fronds or large white trumpetUke Easter lillies and singing psalms slowly made their way through the twisting narrow streets to St Anne's Church which rests on the traditional birthplace of the Irgln Mary The procession took place in warm spring-like sunshine and several thousand spectators lined the hills along Its route Msgr Jaoomo BeltreitU the Latin Patriarch of the Holy Land celebrated a pontifical mass the Church of the Holy Sepulcher before the procession got under way Palm Sunday marks the beginning of the Holy Week for Christiana commemorating Jesus' entry to Jerusalem Set CHRISTIANS PagtS ta VV 4 Medical care everyone's right panel concludes Cause of bridge fire unknown Landmark's past baffles historians By Dick Shaw Of the NEWS StaH Writing an obituary for a landmark that had three birth dates Isn't easy Published literature on the Morse Covered Bridge tn Bangor has long baffled historians with conflicting construction dates one of many controversial points which dogged the landmark up to Its destruction by fire Saturday evening The first Morse Bridge was actually constructed In the fail of 1873 aome 1000 feet up the Kenduskeag Stream from Its most recent location A spring freshet In 1884 carried the bridge off Its abutments slamming ft onto the stream's western shore and Into oblivion It was reconstructed late In the year and waa the same bridge dismantled by the Maine State Highway Commission In 1962 and reassembled downstream three years later The second bridge painted a dark green was the one most older Bangor residents will See THREE on Page 2 By Nancy Rrmsru Of the NEWS Staff A steady stream of people Sunday paid their final respects to the smoldering charred remains of Bangor's historic covered bridge which was destroyed by fire on Saturday evening The cause of the fire at the Morse Covered Bridge remained undetermined Sunday had to be Assistant Fire Chief Bruce Kigas said Sunday afternoon Is no other reason for It to The bridge located behind the commercial development on Harlow Street linked a pathway which runs along the Kenduskeag Stream Police and fire Investigators Sunday took samples of wood and dirt at the scene for testing the assistant chief said They also are Interested In Information which any spectators to the start of the fire might have he said The bridge was Involved when we got Kigas said Saturday night at the scene wasn't anything that wasn't burning" The call saying the bndge was on fire came In WASHINGTON (API American society has an ethical obligation to provide an adequate level of medical care for all without Imposing excessive burdens a presidential ethics commission said on Sunday The commission said the federal government has the ultimate responsibility for insuring equitable access although private health care providers and Insurers charitable bodies and local and state governments also have a role The 223-page report Issued Sunday concluded that curbing Increases in health care emits need not be Incompatible with providing equitable access measures designed to contain health care costs that exacerbate existing Inequities or Impede the achievement of equity are unacceptable from a moral standpoint Morever they are unlikely by themselves to be successful since they will probably lead to a shift ing of costs to other entitles rather than to a reduction of total the commission said The report Access to Health is one of the last to be prepared by the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems In Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research The two-year-old commission is due to go out of business on Thursday The study examined the extent and Impact of governmental involvement In the health care system It also looked at the kinds of Inequities which been corrected by such programs However the study made no attempt to evaluate the health care programs now offered by the government or the private sector or any changes suggested by the Reagan administration or its predecessors In addition the panel refrained from advancing any program See MEDICAL on Page 2 shortly before 7 he said were only here two to three minutes when It collapsed" Kigas said There any way to save the bridge he said Firefighters concentrated on preventing grass fires at each end of the bridge from spreading to three ad scent pro- Kne tanka aome buildings and a wooded area said See CA USE on Page 2 Legislature to consider workers' compensation to OSHA is like fighting a tiger with a lobor represeototive EtOtere te The Maine Legislature Is expected to have Us first look this week st bill thst would substantially reform the compensation system tn Maine Sponsored by Home Speaker John Martin the bdl Is the result of several months of study of a controversial subject This Is the first of a three-part aeries looking st woken compensation By Allan Labncso NEWS Business Writer The air Is thick with fumes In the Portland terminal of a package delivery company It Is early morning and SC trucks are being loaded and started tor the rounds Upon demand of the local union a representative from OSHA arrives to lake sir quality measurements The results show the atmosphere at that hour Is highly polluted and probably the cause of headaches and illness experienced by employees The representative however stays the rest of an eight-hour day and divides the morning's result by eight The total analysts: no health hazard is present "Appealing to OSHA Is like fighting a tiger with broom To ensure proper working conditions we must have substantial compensation benefits" commented a labor representative Workers compensation has become one of the most hotly contested topics in business labor and legislative circles respectively? Controversy over the subject has been coming to a head In the last four years as companies have seen their compensation rates Increase by more than 21 percent annually since im The relative compensation rates have increased 336 percent from 1970 to ll most of that Increase coming tn the iaM lew years compensation system is extremely complex and not well concluded a report issued by House Speaker John Martin's Select Committee on workers Compensation Tomorrow: What are toe problems percent above the national average many of those injuries more severe than those experienced by their counterparts nationally Of course Maine tends to have a more dangerous work mix than most states the togging sawmill construction and paper industries being the most obvious examples Even taking that fact Into account however Maine has an injury rate 29 percent higher than the national aver- age the AFL-CIO claim cialms aside most business leaders recognise the need for compensation The question they ask is why does It cost logger 34 percent of payroll la Maine while New Hampshire and Vermont counterparts pay only 21 and 12 percent Simply put compensation it designed to provide a livelihood to the worker who has been injured on the job compensation costs vary according to the risk associated with the job A clerical worker earning 8100 In wages only costs the employer 25 cents in compensation payments while a person wielding a chain saw may cost the employer 134 for every 81 00 on the payroll compensation had Its Maine beginnings In ISIS when a system thst would replace wages and medical benefits without regard to fault was put in place Aa injured worker was guaranteed two-thfrds of his wage subject to certain maximum as stated by the law The system however has since into quagmire of technicalities legal pitfalls and abuses by both businesses and according te one account Literature published by the AFLrCIO claims Maine's wort -injury rate is 43 reft nr Stephen King horrifies crowd By Jasiww CWrrao Oi tbs NEWS Staff Speaking to packed ballroom toe Maine native read a gruesome exeecpf StockweB tickets for toe presentation told out ea Friday Funds from toe Penobscot edition from toe novel tentatively entitled and explained his use of Bangor Births and locales is the fictional wort The afternoon entertainment resem-Med a Boston Pops concert as aodt-eace members sipped wise sad listened to toe sounds of clarinetist Brad Terry and toe mends sf Jazz According te ergaalxer Lovera Author Stephen King guaranteed toe sale of el least ina copies of his latest novel set tn a fictional town renew-' Ming Bancor when he spoke on Sunday afternoon to horror fans at toe Bangor House during a special fundraising event tor toe Bangor Historical Society event win go to support toe historical society's museum toe Thomas A Kill house am root Street end its travel-tog exhibits tor schoolchildren Terry and his group played severed jazx numbers before and after King's talk Members of toe grmgi Included Stem Grover so drama Les Richards See JAZZ on Page a to- Mixed rain tlwef highs in 30 Details 34.