The Kansas City Times from Kansas City, Missouri • 95

SPORTS STYLE Battered Buckner 100 again Partly cloudy tonight low of 76 Is the Weather Data Inc forecast Mostly sunny Friday Starbeam been even hotter west of here la Garden CUty Kan for Instance It was 106 Wednesday Well its old name Now Wilted Lettuce Kan Sundae best The Kansas City Museum is serving turn-of-the-century drugstore treats Page ID The Royals designs ted hitter has played with pain since 1975 Page IB THE KANSAS CITY STAR Thursday evening June 23 1988 Main Edition 44 pages 35c City Hot dry weather refuses to budge Navy official cooperating in probe Defense contract investigators say others follow suit SnsH Roofer David Lockwood attaches cedar shake shingles to a house under The temperature was expected to reach 101 today but the heat been the main problem for roofers this year The roofing industry has been slow beca use of a lack of rain (staff photo by Dan Seifert) construction at 13515 56th Terrace in Shawnee as he starts his workday at 6 a when the temperature was 77 degrees at Downtown Airport today By The Associated Press A high Navy official whose phone was tapped in the massive Pentagon bribery probe has begun cooperating with prosecutors and a Justice Department source said today others in the Pentagon are following his lead James Gaines a deputy assistant secretary of the Navy whose office was searched last week has begun telling prosecutors what he knows sources said One Justice Department official said today: has been some interest shown on the part of some individuals in cooperating with the He said some information already been Other sources said the interest was coming from persons who are working in the Pentagon At the White House President Reagan told reporters he has arranged for a report on the status of the investigation but did not say how soon he expects to receive it Responding to a question as he posed for pictures with visiting Australian Prime Minister Robert Hawke Reagan i said: am asking and have they are coming over to give me a full He said the report would deal with the question of are we now and how much do we know The Los Angeles Times reported today that investigators believe Gaines was a supplier of Pentagon documents to Mel-vyn Paisley a defense consultant who had been assistant secretary of the Navy and boss until April 1987 The Los Angeles Times reported Paisley allegedly arranged an elaborate scheme under which high-level Pentagon officials smuggled classified documents out of the Pentagon and allowed him to copy them with the aid of his wife The article said Paisley allegedly passed the sensitive information to McDonnell Douglas Corp which had I retained him as a consultant shortly after he left his Pentagon post One source told the newspaper that Paisley received from the company Victor Cohen another Pentagon official whose office was searched is negotiating with the government on whether to follow Gaines' path sources said In other developments: The Baltimore Sun reported today the investigation has spread to two dozen Pentagon employees and about 60 companies It said bribes ranging up to $50000 had been paid to some government employees for sensitive contract information and proprietary industry data Joan Galvin 28 an aide to Rep Andy Ireland Republican of Florida was relieved Wednesday of handling military issues for the congressman because she is the daughter of William Galvin a defense consultant who is a principal in the investigation Roads and roofers among sufferers Bottlenecks on rivers a big concern By The Associated Press On Wednesday the Coast Guard atop one another or burst upward There have been at least five blowups this week on Missouri state highways in the Kansas City area Schwartze said sure had other small ones that we he said the temperature stays up there going to continue to have them The high Friday should be in the mid-90s according to the National Weather Service WeatherData Inc however is predicting a high Friday of 100 under for the first time limited the number of barges towboats could push in a major stretch of the Mississippi The limits were sought by barge companies that wanted to prevent towboat operators from running their loads aground got to be a doomsday point out there somewhere Right now I know anybody that talked to who can give me any idea where that said Brig Gen Thomas Sands president of the Mississippi River By Eric Adler staff writer Exploding highways are just another hazard of the current heat happens when we start getting near the 100 degree said Roger Schwartze district maintenance traffic engineer for the Missouri Highway and Transportation Department concrete pavement starts to expand from the heat And when it expands it has to go Slabs of concrete can shatter pop Crews were dredging the drought shrunken Mississippi River around the clock to free hundreds of backed-up barges while a few sprinkles Wednesday succeeded only in frustrating farmers the searing heat had the situation has become very very serious as our crops begin to said Dale Cochran Iowa secretary of agriculture the next 10 days if we get rain we could lose 50 percent of our corn crop See Roads pg 10 A col 2 See Rivers pg 10 A col 1 Navigation takes a back seat to the birds The drought Blood supplies dwindle Page 6A Fireworks displays may be suspended Page 11 A Governors make some suggestions Page 11 A Can Congress help? Business Page 1C Wheat moisture is at a record low Business Page 1C species list The plover a plump bird the size of a robin is considered threatened The birds have been protected since 1985 Each May the shore birds settle into Missouri River sandbars for three months to lay eggs The birds scoop holes in sand near the river and line the nests with tiny pebbles said Kay Getting a corps ranger at the dam you looking you notice Getting said The low river levels this year ex- See Birds pg 11 A col 1 the federally protected piping plover and interior least tern The nests will wash away if more water is released So far the birds are winning guess got conflicting interests said Chet Worm chief of reservoir operations for the corps you forget the river has all kinds of users not just people attorneys tell us the Endangered Species law takes precedence over the obligation to maintain The tern which looks like a small killdeer is on the endangered By Randell Beck staff writer A flourishing flock of 160 birds has stalled government efforts to replenish the drought-depleted Missouri River Since last week the Army Corps of Engineers has sought to increase the flow of water from the Gavins Point Dam on the South Dakota and Nebraska border 300 miles northwest of Kansas City But standing in the way on downriver sandbars are the delicate nests of Quinn pleads not guilty Sheriff charged with rights violation Channel 62 fined for indecency violation FCC spokesman said Commission Chairman Dennis Patrick and member James Quello supported the fine Patricia Diaz-Dennis opposed it Patrick said: respecting the First Amendement rights of all citizens we have taken clear and decisive action to enforce the statutory ban on broadcast obscenity and to further restrict the broadcast of indecent material so as to put parents in a better position to control their access to this type of Media Central Inc of Chattanooga Tenn The violation occurred May 26 1987 when the independent station broadcast a 1980 film with scenes of a bare-breasted woman seducing a teen-age boy The FCC outlaws TV or radio broadcasts of obscene material Indecent material however may be broadcast between midnight and 6 a when children are unlikely to be in the audience The commission voted unanimously in Washington that the material was indecent but split 2-1 over the fine an By Barry Garron The Star 1 TV-radio critic KZKC Channel 62 was fined $2000 today by the Federal Communications Commission for violating commission rules on indecency Channel 62 is the first television station ever to be punished for an indecent broadcast The $2000 fine was the biggest allowed under FCC rules but the commission also could have revoked the license of the owner appearance Quinn waived his right to trial before a federal district judge and asked that his case be heard by a jury before a federal magistrate Federal misdemeanor charges like those against Quinn usually are tried by a magistrate although a defendant has a right to trial before a federal district judge The prosecution estimated the trial would last four days A trial date was not set although Rushfelt said he hoped By Lori Shein staff writer Wyandotte County Sheriff John Quinn pleaded innocent today to charges that he violated a former jail constitutional rights by interfering with his medical treatment Quinn 65 who is seeking his third term as sheriff entered a plea during his arraignment before US Magistrate Gerald Rushfelt in federal court in Kansas City Kan Quinn declined comment after his See Fine pg 10 A col 4 See Quinn pg 10 A col 4 INDEX Inside Guilty in cocaine case A jury convicts three KC men of drug conspiracy and one of trying murder an informant Page 4 A Separate and unequal? Missouri discriminates by providing shorter school hours to handicapped children a group contends Page 2 A Summer camp Summer camps and other activities are available for children with physical mental or emotional disabilities For information call: 421-4980 Jerry Heaster excise the losers from the savings and loan system Business Page 1C Not happy About 80 consumers have complained to the Kansas attorney general about Country Parks resorts Business Page 1C Barry Garron "Try to continues the soft and easy trend at CBS News Style PagffD At Your Service 5 BridgeCrossword SC BusinessFinancial 1-3C Comics 5D Deaths 10A Editorials 8A Movies 4D News Briefs 6D RadioTV 2D Sports 1-5B Leading editorial The MedAssist proposal would provide a backup for Missourians without medical insurance Page 8 A Murder probe Autopsies show three Grandview residents died of blows to their heads Page 3 A Conviction A man has been convicted of second-degree murder in his girlfriend's death Page 4 A Hot spot Royals Manager John Wathan shrugs off the second-gpessers Page IB Vol 108 No 236 3.