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AKOOSTOOff INSIDE i i Suspects held in Embassy bombing Page 23 2 4-5 24 10-13 17 32 Lottery No Magazine Ooituanes Spons Siate TV Schedule Amusements Ciass'tiea Ads Comics Eauona) Feature Page Financial Local News 6-3 2432 33 14-15 32 20 22 18-19 Former pitcher for UMO team gets his start with majors Page 10 ITC stands firm against potato tariff Pagei7 MAINE'S LARGEST DAILY Joe Johnson VOL 97-NO 48 BANGOR MAINE FRIDAY JULY 26 1985 34 PAGES-30 CENTS EPA may require catalytic converters for wood stoves Police kill 4 wound 16 in South Africa rioting France Denmark ask UN for sanctions "Wood smoke is one of the largest unregulated sources of pollution: it's killing a lot of people" said David Don-iger an attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council an environmental group that has been pressuring the EPA to regulate the stoves In addition the non-carcinogenic pollutants produced by the stoves can settle in the lungs and cause or aggravate several respiratory ailments Establishing the performance standards is the EPA's first step in drafting regulations governing the manufacture of wood stoves David Cohen an EPA spokesman said the agency hopes to issue proposed regulations by Jan 1 1987 If that "accelerated" schedule is kept new stoves not equipped with the pollution-reducing converters or that otherwise fail to meet new pollution limits could be banned from the market as early as two years from now Some states and a handful of communities in areas where wood burners have become particularly popular the Northeast Rocky Mountains and Northwest already have moved to reduce the often-visible and smelly accumulations of smoke that the stoves can produce Oregon already has established state limits on the pollution that new residential wood-burning stoves can emit Effective next June that standard is 6 grams of particulate matter per hour for catalyst-equipped stoves and 15 grams per hour for those not so equipped State officials in Oregon estimate its standards will cut pollution from the stoves by 50 percent Even tighter Oregon standards to be implimented in 1988 are expected to yeild an 80 percent reduction in pollution compared with WASHINGTON (AP) The government intends to place household wood stoves an ancient source of heat revived by high energy prices under new regulations because of the millions of tons of health-damaging pollutants they pour into the air The Environmental Protection Agency blaming the stoves for the failure of several areas of the nation to meet federal air quality limits said Thursday it plans to develop pollution-reducing performance standards for the units that could be issued within 18 months The new standards would effectively require any wood-burning stoves and fireplace inserts sold after a yet-to-be-established date to include catalytic converters similar to those on automobiles The converters costing $200 to $300 each can effectively reduce the pollution from wood burners by 50 to 80 percent by recycling and reburning the smoke the stoves produce "We estimate that residential wood stoves are exposing large numbers of people to pollutants which are harmful to human health" acting Assistant EPA Administrator Charles Elkins said Thursday in announcing the proposal Without controls Elkins said the stoves annually could be pouring 7 million tons of soot dirt and other particulate matters 19 million tons of carbon monoxide 159000 tons of hydrocarbons and 52000 tons of cancer-causing poly-cyclic organic compounds into the atmosphere by the year 2005 Some experts have estimated that the polycyclic compounds and other particulate products of incomplete combustion are causing 800 cancer cases a year nationwide EPA officials blame wood burning stoves for half of that pollution JOHANNESBURG South Africa (AP) Police said Thursday they killed four blacks and wounded 16 in a riot east of Johannesburg and soldiers shot dead another in a separate incident Unofficial reports said the police opened fire when mourners in a crowd of 4000 threw stones after a funeral for riot victims A 16-year-old girl was reported among the two men and two women killed in the riot in the black township of Daveyton when police opened fire with shotguns and rifles Her grandmother was quoted as say ing it was the first such funeral the girl had attended Funerals for riot victims are charged with emotion draw large crowds and frequently are flashpoints of violence National police headquarters said a soldier fired one rifle round and killed a 16-year-old youth after blacks stoned an army vehicle in eastern Cape Province France and Denmark asked the Security Council on Thursday for voluntary sanctions against South Africa to protest that nation's racial policies The draft resolution introduced by the two council members called for an end to new investment and participation in nuclear projects in South Africa and purchases of the nation's gold coins The resolution also called for the white-minority regime in South Africa to immediately lift the state of emergency it proclaimed in 36 districts French Ambassador Claude de Ke-moularia said the international community expects an effective and realistic reaction from the councir to the suffering in South Africa South Africa's ambassador Kurt Officially reported detentions in the first five days of this white-ruled nation's state of emergency rose to 795 But university professor David Webster a member of the Detainees Parents Support Committee said he believed nearly 1000 people have been seized Webster said the committee's information from around the country indicated police lists of detentions were late and incomplete He said many blacks knew relatives or friends were missing but were unable to obtain police confirmation that they had been detained He told reporters it was clear that police were "trying to crush" black township civic associations and youth groups that have led the black resistance by "taking everybody they know who belongs to these organizations by "rounding up rank-and-file members" Unofficial sources said scores of teen-agers were rounded up Thursday morning in Alexandra on the edge of Johannesburg Police said they could not immediately comment on the report but witnesses said they saw an unusually large number of police soldiers and armored cars in the township Michael Beea chairman of the township civic association estimated that more than 400 people had been detained in Alexandra alone He said some were children 8 to 12 years old whose apparent offense was singing freedom songs Reports from national police headquarters continued to show a decline in the violence that began 11 months ago over black opposition to apartheid the legalized race segregation imposed by See POLICE on Page 2 Von Schirnding said the internal situation in his country is not a matter for discussion in the Security Council "Nothing this council may say or plan will deter us from doing what we believe is in the best interests of all the peoples of South Africa" he said At least 15 blacks have been killed since a state of emergency took effect Sunday although police say violence is declining French action may speed up US measures WASHINGTON (AP) Amid signs of growing US disenchantment with the South African government congressional leaders said Thursday the French decision to impose sanctions against Pretoria should help speed tough American measures Both the White House and the State Department said the administration was "reviewing the situation" in the wake of the state of emergency in racially segregated South Africa but insisted this did not signal a retreat from the controversial US policy of "constructive engagement" However the statement that the situation is under review could be the first step if the-administration is considering a policy change Tpe administration's reaction to the French sanctions was negative State Department spokeman Charles Redman said the decision to halt all new investment could "undermine South Africa's economy and create ad- See ACTION on Page 2 conventional wood-burning stoves Communities such as Butte Mont and Aspen Colo have passed local ordinances limiting use of wood stoves during inversions and other weather conditions that tend to trap pollution in place Worried that more states and local governments will establish varied standards of their own manufacturers and distributors of the stoves have endorsed the adoption of a nationwide federal regulations by the EPA "We're already working with EPA on developing the standards" said Lori Engle a research assistant for the Wood Heating Alliance an industry trade organization representing 820 wood stove manufacturers distributors and retailers Controversy over church pastor puts Lee on the map Answers sought for dead trout Caught in national spotlight the remote town's residents express confusion fear and anger at lake By Tom Weber Of the NEWS Staff LEE Brightly colored posters hanging in the post office window announce that the circus is coming to Lee next month but the festive message already may have lost its appeal Confusion anger and fear suddenly prevail in this remote Maine town whose residents might once have welcomed a few frolicking clowns as a break in their quiet daily routine These are after all people who work in the woods at the mills and in the fields They "are people who tend to their ajrtnQ frnm neat wood-framed houses aliens 11U111 and whose teen-age chil- tVlP nntintl'l tar- dren sit along a stone wall UlC iiaiiuu lai on summer evenings and Cfpct PlHps Hp0 watch cars zip along Route gCOl ClLlCDUCg 6 Aside from the movies at anSWerS tO a thOU- Uncota Theater up the road amusement is not sand questions gonly sold fay the and aim television something odd has cameras at everything that moves been going on nere tnat tar surpasses the fascination a simple country circus might hold for the 700 people who call this place their By Gloria Flannery NEWS Presque Isle Bureau LIMESTONE State authorities awaited tests in Augusta Thursday in hopes of finding out what killed approximately 500 trout in Trafton Lake a recreation facility earlier this week The Trafton Lake recreation area in Limestone was closed Wednesday morning by the environmental health unit of the Department of Human Services after the discovery of more than 500 dead fish in the lake's inlet area Carl Allen an oil and hazardous material specialist with the Department of Environmental Protection in Presque Isle said Thursday that the Trafton Lake area would remain closed until a determination was made about what killed or is killing the fish "We suspect farm chemicals but we have no proof at this time" Allen said Allen said his agency was contacted Tuesday by Brian Carleton a warden with the Maine Inland Fish and Game Department after a report of a fish kill was issued by the Limestone Police Department Members of the DEP oil and hazardous material and water bureau groups and the Maine Pesticide Control Board conducted an investigation Tuesday night "We found dead fish in the pond above Trafton Lake and at the inlet to Trafton near the public beach where the inlet enters the lake and scattered in the main lake" Allen said The dead fish ranged in size from fingerlings to 6 to 8 inches in length See AUTHORITIES on Page 18 jjQI IB- Ml home These townspeople have been visited by a roving band of strangers: not tourists with canoes strapped to their car roofs but aliens from the nation's largest cities who chatter ceaselessly beg answers to a thousand questions and aim television cameras at everything that moves Nothing like this has ever happened in Lee Surely nothing ever again will be able to match it It all began because of a small dark-eyed man with a dimpled jaw who arrived in Lee three years ago to teach the Gospel He is known to his ardent followers simply as Pastor No other name is used because the word carries all the respect they feel for their Rev Daniel Dunphy the fundamentalist Christian minister of the Lee Baptist Church But Dunphy's austere methods of spreading the word of God and keeping his flock in the fold do not sit well with many of the townspeople By Monday night the national press had arrived in force to record the story of the controversial minister his dwindling but fervent congregation the violence that has erupted and the people who wish that he and all he stands for were gone forever from their once peaceful town See CITIZENS on Page 4 (NEWS Photo by Marc Blanchette) An Amish woman guides a horse-drawn wagon through the center of Lee Scond class postage paid at Bangor Main 0440) Publication number (USPS 041000) Bangor Drive-in's 'magic lantern' lights screen for last time Aroostook Edition Showers today and tonight Highs in 70s Lows in 60s Sunny Saturday Highs in 70s Details on Page 2 Rumors had circulated in Bangor that mechanical problems were forcing the closure but Clancy said that the demise of the Bangor Drive-in is consistent with the national trend in the development of multi-screen movie houses The Cinema Centers Corp is scheduled to open the new Bangor Mall Cinemas Friday evening Located on Stillwater Avenue the eight-screen complex will be Bangor's first multiscreen movie theater "The drive-in business is dying all over the country" said Clancy whose corporation manages 120 theaters "When you and I were young my friend they certainly had their day More than VCRs or anything we in the industry were never able to give the viewers the quality of presentation that people expect today One of the reasons that the Bangor 8 is going on line Friday is because the people of Bangor expect the kind of picture and sound quality that will be featured there It will be outstanding" See FINAL FILM on Page 3 By A Jay Higgins Of the NEWS Staff For 35 years the flickering light of the movie projector has played across the face of the Bangor Drive-in's giant screen On Tuesday evening the projectionist shut his "magic lantern" off for the last time after the conclusion of "Rambo: First Blood Part II" By noon Thursday every single automobile speaker had been removed from the parking lot Without fanfare or advance notice the Bangor Drive-In closed its gates to the young families and romantic couples who once flocked to outer Hammond Street for the shows that ran "from dusk until midnight" In a telephone interview from Boston Earl Clancy of Cinema Centers Corp acknowledged that his firm would no longer continue to lease the facility from Sidney Epstein a Bangor resident who has overseen operations at the drive-in since it opened on a nesday evening June 7 1950.