Centre Daily Times from State College, Pennsylvania • 1

I't" VvJ -I A nice June day high 78 A-2 Drought steals farm income Yanks fire Billy Martin again The Associated Press 1 Ron Bracken: Steinbrenner stains Yankee reputation D-1 MORE INSIDE Governors refuse to tap By GEORGE GUNSET and TERRY ATLAS Chicago Tribune CHICAGO Governors of farm states were warned yesterday that the continuing Midwestern drought could prove the final blow for as many as 15 percent of the nation's fanners already in financial trouble Agriculture and weather experts told the 10 governors meeting in Chicago that big increases in crop prices spurred by the drought are tion Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng told the governors that it's too early to measure losses we will do what is needed to minimize the severity of the damage" Lyng said the federal government's response would include expansion of existing crop insurance and disaster loan programs He also cited the creation of task forces in Congress and in the administration to respond to drought Please see DROUGHT page A-8 NEW YORK Billy Martin was fired as manager of the New York Yankees yesterday ending his fifth term as manager of the club He was replaced by Lou Piniella who resigned May 29 as Yankees general manager The Yankees had lost four in a row going into last game against Cleveland and had just returned from a 2-7 road trip falling into second place in the American League East 2 Mi games behind Detroit Pineilla managed the Yankees the past two seasons but was moved to general manager this year after Martin was given the job The managerial change is the 15th for Yankees since George Steinbrenner bought control of the team in 1973 Martin was offered reassignment to another unspecified job but it was not immediately known whether he would accept it masking deeper financial problems that could drive some farmers out of business this year or next The governors met to formulate an agriculture relief program to present to the Reagan administra- BILLY MARTIN five-time Yankee manager Alleged dumping sites to be tested By BARBARA BRUEGGEBORS Times County Editor After touring more than a half-dozen alleged hazardous waste dump sites in Snow Shoe and Bum-side townships yesterday state Department of Environmental Resources officials have decided to order in-depth tests at each location next step will be to put together plans of how and what samples will be done at each Dick Bittle manager of regional solid waste bureau said at the completion of the tour last night going to be a long drawn-out process There are a tot of sites and a lot of sampling to be The sites all on property owned by the strip mining firm of RS Carlin Inc came under DER investigation for possible hazardous waste pollution last month after former Carlin employees told township supervisors they hauled industrial waste from two central Pennsylvania chemical plants to the coal strippings in the 1960s and early 1970s The chemical waste allegedly came from the Nease Chemical Co now Ruetgers-Nease of Dale Summit in College Township and from American Aniline later known as American Color and Chemical Co of Lock Haven Besides the Carlin statements about their role in the dumping correspondence on file with Williamsport regional office indicates that in 1970-71 Nease hauled more than 800000 gallons of industrial waste water and sludge to Carlin property for dumping The former Carlin employees came toward with their information shortly after Attwoods Inc a Miami-based solid waste management firm announced plans to establish a lined landfill on 800 acres of previously strip-mined land being purchased from Carlin Carlin who has made no comment other than to say through his Plus see WASTE page A-8 GOOD MORNING By Laurie Fedon Orphaned birds get good care Beverly friends call her The Bird Woman For two weeks been raising a baby grackle She called after reading about the State College woman wanting advice on caring for two abandoned baby robins When the baby grackle fell from his nest which was too high for Beverly or the grackle to reach she brought him into her Valley View home safe from the neighborhood cats For the first week she fed him raw hamburger and water from a dropper Then after reading an article in paper she switched to a mixture of one tablespoon each of wheat germ turkey starter and canned puppy food with a hardboiled egg yolk Beverly feeds the orphan every hour from 6 am until 9 pm when she tucks him to sleep under the blanket in his cardboard box a cute little she said really getting CAUTION: 'Hie current hot spell should remind us of a much hotter place we might wind up in unless we walk the straight and narrow warns Ida Dunne of State College SPEAKING OF HOT: Don Knisely of Continental Courts Belief onte RD 1 tells us he stopped at a Riverside Market the other day for a dozen eggs By the time he got home he had a dozen baby chicks SPEAKING OF DRY: OK folks got water restrictions in place all over the county so why are the two fountains in front of the Centre County Courthouse in Belle-fonte running? a reader asks MILESTONES: LOUISE TICE of Centre Crest Belief onte is 76 today CAROLYN HUNT of Belief onte turns 75 today ORPHA and WILLIAM McCOOL of Aa-ronsburg are celebrating their 49th wedding anniversary ALMANAC: 25 years ago (June 24 19a) Cadets from State College Civil Air Patrol 1303 participated in a ranger mission in the Black Moshannon area They were 'Larry Baker John Garner Ralph Keck Bill Long Bill Miller John Moore Martin Olsen Dick Olsen Bob Savio Ken Wernham and Phil Zimmerman MIRROR MIRROR: If we could see ourselves as others see us never speak to them again Doug Rice BACK IN CUSTODY: Convicted murderer Jon Yount center (with beard) is directed to a waiting car after arriving on a flight at University Park Airport yesterday Yount who escaped from the state prison at Rockview two years ago was apprehended last week in Idaho after a viewer of the NBC-TV show tipped off police OPERATE! Escaped murderer returned to prison solemnly past the crowd of about 20 people that had gathered to see them return Yount faces escape charges while Brodbeck faces charges of escape criminal conspiracy hindering the apprehension and prosecution of a fugitive and aiding in the consummation of a crime Both waived extradition last Thursday Yount was taken from the airport to the State Correctional Institution at Rockview and will be arraigned later state police said Brodbeck was arraigned before District Justice Robert May in Bellefonte and taken to Centre County prison The couple was captured after a Please see YOUNT page A-8 By BRAD GIBSON For the Times Escorted by Centre County law enforcement officers Jon Yount convicted murderer and Rockview state prison escapee returned to Centre County at 10:30 am yesterday Yount 50 formerly of DuBois Clearfield County was apprehended last week in Coeur d'Alene Idaho 45 miles east of Spokane Wash Also taken into custody was Diane Brodbeck 45 of York County who police believe helped Yount escape When Brodbeck was escorted off the commuter plane at University Park Airport she had a small smile on her face Yount looked COT pnoto DIANE BRODBECK wearing light sweater returns to Centre County under a police escort Army memo cites ties to contractor INSIDE contractors whose files were searched and seized last week by the FBI The Justice Department is investigating allegedly illegal sales of secret Pentagon information to consultants who then turned it over to defense contractors Prosecutor Henry Hudson told members of Congress on Wednesday he is looking into 75 to 100 contracts worth of billions of The draft memo was prepared for Lt Gen Louis Wagner Jr then deputy chief of staff for research and now com manding general of the Army Materiel Command Wagner could not be reached for comment but Maj Phillip Soucy an Army spokesman cautioned that the memo was neither signed nor dated don't know what status it Soucy said go through a lot of drafts here Until it's signed it has no author and no official However Soucy acknowledged that the Please see DEFENSE page A-8 his appropriations aide Bert on Otto closely allied with Another Army document referred to a relationship between Mr Otto and Litton Chappell a Democrat from northeastern Florida received at least 56500 in campaign contributions from Litton during the last four years according to Federal Election Commission records Litton Data Systems in Van Nuys Calif which makes the artillery firing system was one of the major defense By AARON EPSTEIN Knight-Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON A Florida congressman under scrutiny in the nationwide Pentagon bribery case was criticized in a 1985 Army draft memo for having a favoring a Litton Industries artillery computer system that the Pentagon wanted to scrap The memo said that Rep Bill Chappell Jr chairman of the House subcommittee that handles defense appropriations and Economic forecast coming up TV movie writers reject offer Kirgo said no new talks had been The Associated Press UMsItUrMuik Paresnt change in Grass NafonU Produa tow piswour quart adjured torasaionW changes and rtawi 15 Stocks slip 191 points S-7 10 the first quarter It said the gross national product the broadest measure of the economy grew at a 36 percent annual rate during the first three months of the year because of an export boom and a surge in capital spending The latest GNP figure was down slightly from the government's estimate a month ago of 39 percent growth Sprinkel said the government expected the expansion to slow somewhat in the latter port of 1988 Please see iNP page A-8 Chicago Tribune WASHINGTON The economy is growing much faster than the White House anticipated just six months ago the Reagan administration said yesterday but the additional tax revenue generated by the growth probably won't result in a lower budget deficit In its revision of the economic forecast for the midyear budget review the administration projected that the economy would grow at an inflation-adjusted rate of 3 percent for 1988 That is about in line with the estimates of most WEST HOLLYWOOD Calif The Writers Guild of America said yesterday that it voted 3-1 against producers' latest offer in its 4-month-oid strike threatening thousands of jobs and throwing television production into turmoil The vote was 2789 to 933 or 749 percent in favor of rejection and 251 percent in favor of acceptance remain ready willing and able to conclude negotia-t ions "union President George Kirgo said calling the vote a affirmation that the leadership of the Guild has the support of the scheduled Writers opposing rejection of the proposed contract had conceded they would lose but hoped to get enough votes to convince union negotiators to end the strike quickly Ballots were cast during an often tumultuous membership meeting Wednesday night in Los Angeles and another gathering in New York A spokesman for the Writers Coalition a union anti-strike group that includes some of Hollywood's top writer-producers had said that Please see WRITERS page A-8 private economists but higher than the 24 percent projection the White House made last December rosy forecast wasn't rosy said Beryl Sprinkel chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers as he released the administration's revised forecast Earlier yesterday the Commerce Department released its revision of economic growth lor Knqht-Rddw Grsphcs Nrawfc.