Concord Monitor from Concord, New Hampshire • 18

CONCORD MON I TOR Wednesday January 9 1915 IHodel May Be Ghanging Jobs Weather Administration sources asking not to be identified said White House Counselor Edwin Meese III is the primary advocate of using departure to ask Congress to merge the Energy and Interior departments into a new CabineMeveTDepartment of Energy and Natural Resources Hodel confirmed that several reorganization ideas are being discussed but said none of the talks have taken place my I "Many people are taking this opportunity to think about various he said nobody has come up with a proposal that has gained aqy momentum presently There has not ben an organized assessment of the -V 7" i have a he (Reagan) where I If Hodel does not move Asrtstant Interior Secretary Robert Bmadbent a Nevada rancher would probably be named to succeed Clark said one weO-in-formed official who moke on the condition he not be identified Meanwhile other adminstration officials confirmed that Reagan has given the Interior and Defense departments until Feb to prepare plans for conaoll-dating the chief water resources agencies Ed Dale a spokesman for Budget Director David Stockman said merging the Army dorp of Engineers with Interior's Bureau of Reclamation would save nearly 950 million he added not have a preference I am happy Daftoiancy in tamp this month 1 Wamwat day this month 36 (2 C) 2nd Coidast day this month 1 (-17 Ci Oth Comparative temperatures: iSghaat yesterday 60 (16 C) 1030 Lowaot today -22 (-30 01942 Bagrat Days yaatarday 51 haadng Total prodp yaatarday 12 Total prodp Ms month 67 Dffictoncy of prsdp this month J07 Sunriao tomorrow 7:17 am Sunaat tomonow 4:30 pm Length of dey 9 horn 13 minute Phaaaof moon hat on tha 13th -Portsmouth tidao tomonow High 1:00 am 1:06 pm Low 6:68 am The Forecast Mostly sunny and ufndy this afternoon highs in tha middto tssnw Clsar and cold tonight km around -0 (-20 Cl Moody sunny and oold tomorrow with atomy dimintohing wrinda highs in the tower 20s Nitoftwartarty winds this aftamoon 15 to 30 mph (24 to 48 kph) and gusty with a bittar cold wind cNI factor WMarty winds to-night 10 to 20 mph (16 to 32 kphiv Local Data Highaat tamp yaatarday 21 (-6 C) Lowast tamp this morning 6 (-14 Cl Maan tamp yaatarday 14j-10 C) Normal maan tamp 20 (-7 C) WASHINGTON AP) Energy Secretary Donald Hodel has been chosen to succeed Wiliam Clark as secretary of the Interior an administration source Mid today The source who demanded anonymity said he expected the White House to announce the choice tomar-tow Earlier other ration officials had said there would be no announcement today Last night Hodd himself branded as reports of his selection to succeed Clark: far as I know President Reagan has made no Hodd said -1a! JVf -Sfe 1 Clark announced last week that he intends to re-: signintwoorthreemonths talked to people and they say they know going on but I find out that they Hodd said last night president has not talked to me ami 1 don't believe a decision is going to be made or announced until the president has talked with He added that he expects it will be few before any decisions are made Certain officials in the White House used Clark's resignation to revive 1900 campaign promise to abolish the Energy Department a move that was overwhelmingly rejected by congressional lead-' ers two years ago when the administration proposed folding it into the Commerce Department Interior officials said last month that they had buried the idea But it was revived by Reagan last week after Clark-who with Defense Secretary Cup- er Weinberger opposed the merger announced Ms intention to resign several officials said The corps and the bureau both build dams and other water projects but with different emphases The bureau operates in the 17 westernmost states with While Hodel said it is not nature to move Cabinet officials around without consulting them first he did not rule out his possible return to the Interior Department where he was undersecretary to James Watt before taking his current job Energy Department officials said last week that Hodel a former head of the Bonneville Power Administration prefers dealing with energy issues to Interior matters such as grazing rights would never say anything that would sound like I was demeaning another lob" Hodel said might end up in that job and would not like having to graze on those words Irrigation as Its top priority while the corps builds pro-jects nationwide that are aimed more towa Argument Case Begins i si i i I 'Jit -J1- i Rrefighters had difficulty with the By ADOLPHE BERNOTAS Associated Prem Writer OSSIPEE Three adults knew that their landlord had a heart condition and they caused his death by provoking an argument over rent the prosecutor charged tody In an unprecedented trial under New negligent homicide law Carroll County Attorney William Paine accused the three of arguing to death Donald Dodier 56 who had had a quadruple heart bypass operation "The death was caused by distress because of the confrontation and action of these Paine told the jury in his opening statement Defenae lawyer Harvey Garod maintained that Dodier had set a trap preventing the defendants accen bum a shed they wanted to remove he could give them a piece of his He said Dodier tried to run over Per ley Ryder's wife Lynda and that WINDOW- (Continued From Psgel) in the other section of the jail which bouses people who have already been convicted at least every three hours Jail officials have covered the window through which the men escaped with plywood but they have not installed the window again because officials are still examining it to try to figure out how the men escaped The door to the cell hu been lockeawith a double bolt to prevent other inmates bom en- teringtnecell Potter said William Walsh the chief architect from Anderson-Nicholi Co Inc the Concord architectural and engineering firm that designed and supervised construction of the jafl was expected to examine the window today The jail does not have ban on the outside Instead it has windows with panes only six Inches wida an opening mat is too small for a person to squeeze through Potter said However Struburger and Levesque were able to make an opening more than a foot wide and 3 or 3 feet nigh by pushing the window frame partway out of the wall Potter sakL They pushed out the window by loosening the rubber seal around it and breaking through the steel strapping connecting the window to the wall he said The Merrimack County sheriffs office which is investigating the escape: said the records show that the last head count before the two men were discovered missing wu taken eight hours before Both men had been seen in the day room a common area at about 8 pm 1 Fire Kills At Least 25 control and CHANNEL 21- (CoatiaucdFmmPtgel) the community ln- The company also said it planned no changes in personnel at the Ration One of its first acts however was to fire six people including the general manager and most of the news department Salters who is the second Flatley executive put in charge of the station said he did not know why his predecessor fired those employees Nor would Salters elaborate on what flaws the company detected in the local news He said only a Concord-based station in the capital dty we could involve much more state Robert Joyce program director for Channel 21 said the station will resume local news later this month It will be less than before: five-minute summaries in place of what once was a half-hour of local news mixed in with a half-hour of national news from the Cable News Network But Joyce said the station would return to a longer news program within the year Skip Simms the former general manager said extensive local news is expensive and not really necessary to the success of the station programming and communty involvement he said news is not the only vehicle through which you can serve your community -Salters said that when Flatley took over advertising too exciting either" and the station was losing money By attracting new viewers ana increasing the amount of advertising he said the station should turn profit in two years This is ambitious by the standards of the industry where it is expected that a new station will take five years to break even "We believed the potential for the station was phenomenal" Salters said also realized It would take a commitment from the company to improve the production and to improve the programming a financial commitment" Salters was vague about how the company would do this He would not say how much the company planned to Invert in the station nor in what areas He did say however that the company would the staff after hiring a new station manager And if the company's plans work he Mid it will eventually double the number of employees -Twenty-seven people now work at Channel 21 Salters insisted that cutting back the local news was not an effort to uve money- we recognized the need for an infusion of capital and be trying to save minor dollars on payroll when trying to build the he Mid Joyce Mid the station was considering adding local programs other than news The station now broadcasts only one local show a weekly public affairs forum called FYI New Hampshire It recently suspended a local entertain ment show it produced weekly Joyce said other changes programs would involve shifting existing shows into different time slots "Obviously attempting to do what any television Station would do put together a schedule that hu more audience acceptability" he said The firings came as a surprise to the emptoyeu who lost their Jobs In addition to the station manager four of seven members of the news staff and one of the station's two directors were fired Jeff Flint a producer Mid that hearing the Flatley people talk about their goals for the station gave the employees nope we had heard wm that they were going to beef up the news department he uid The people who were fired said they were told their dismissal had nothing to do with their performance really did have a good news said Robert DiPietro a reporter They also uid the management seemed confused and uncertain about the station's future seem they had a dear idu of what they were going to said Tha National Waathar Service broad- cm mw vmvmram unmnduhv at 16240 on tha high fraquancy FM 1 bond from Concord and that there la no evidence that the defendants were negligent and thus caused death Ferfey Ryder 38 Lynda Ryder 33 and Darnel Moody 19 all of Osahiee are charged with negligent homicide in dreth' Paine said the prosecution will try to prove they knew Dodier had a coronary condition when they got into an argument with trim last July William Dimfey chief justice of the state Superior Court is presiding over the case which has drawn national attention because of the unusual application of the negligent homicide charge The charge usuilly is applied in cases involving traffic fatalities Yesterday Paine said he plans to call abbut 30 witnesses and could be finished with the prosecution by the end of the week or on Monday The trial is expected to last about two weeks After two days of questions lawyers selected 13 Jurors ana three alternates on the night of the escape Potter said They were discovered mining during a head count at about 11 :15 pm he said The night the two men escaped bom cell a piece of paper covered the window in the Cell door Potter said should have been after finding the window papered over that night rater said guard mqr have thought someone wm Althoughit is against the rales inmates sometimes paper over their windows to keep out the light from a central room when they are trying to Steqi he said Inmates are reprimanded for papering over their windows he Hid The slit windows have been a provn security feature through msiqr years of use at 300 or 300 jails in the country cording to Paid Silver who specializes in jail construction for a New York architectural firm The Gruzen Partnership Silver served a consultant to Anderson-Nichols on the design of the jail a very common Silver is a standard in the Mid The county commissioners inspected the window on Friday and are considering ways to make the windows more secure rater said One option they are considering is whether putting one or two bars over the windows would prevent the windows from being pushed out he said They are also considering attaching security alarms to the windows All of the approximately 90 windows at the jail are slit windows like the ooe Strasburger and Levesque escaped through Potter Hid The tail hu 72 of the windows in cells he Mid Police Log BOW The home of Michael Seraid of Allen Road wu burglarized yesterday for the second time Someone broke Into the Serard home November 5 tak-InOuch the same items aceonfing to SgMobert graves of the Bow police burglary occurred sometime between 7 am and 3:30 pm when Serard returned from work and found a door had been kicked In Missing were a television set video cassette recorder stereo system and a microwave The home is located in a remote area Graves said the police have no leads but that the two burglaries showed the same methods of operation He asked that residents notify him if they ssw anything unusual in the Alla Road area yesterday BOW The Bow police this morning arrested Robert Wilson 24 of Concord for burglary and other offenses after a stakeout at the Breakaway Truck Stop on Route 3A The business had fort about 91000 la the last month to internal pilferage said Sgt Robert Graves It notified the police Sunday and Graves watched the office early this morning from nearby room Graves said be allegedly saw WDaon enter brio a secured office and Mace a nwney bag into his pocket He then placed Wilson under arrest Graves said Wilson worked at the track stop a gas attendant on the I pm toSrm shift Wilson wu charged with burglary a Qa The police also charged lh theft Last week 9100 wusto- him with I to puree Graves ald was also charged with poo-session of a controlled drug Wilson wu released this morning on penonal recognizance ball A Feb 4 has been set at Concord Dte- navigation TELEVISION Continued Frian Page 1) face a financial imperative: The news must make money is very said David Zamichow the head of Channel 9 In Manchester can buy a program and send it out for a certain amount but to do news right you need a fairly large staff And in order to support a staff you need income and to have income you need viewers The traditional strategy for building UHF independent station is build and audience first and then develop news Channel 50 tried the Lannin Mamed the failure on his youth and the stubbornness He Mid it is hard for a new station to draw viewers away feom the news show accustomed to watching Channel new strategy running situation comedy opposite the Bdkton news is an example of what television people call Like the counterpuncfa in boxing it is a favorite tactic of small stations The idea is to attract viewers by offering something completely different bom everyone else Channel 50 uses the principle In broadcasting its late evening news Other stations broadcasts news at 11 fim but Channel 50 does it an hour ear-ier It hopes to attract commuters who want to go to bed early Channel 9 is New Hampshire's oldest and largest television station and the only one on the VHF hand There are all advantages Still it has touble competing for viewers in its own back yard Drawing bom the ratings of AC Nielsen Co David Zamichow said that in Hillsboro County five Boston stations attract more viewers than Channel 9 That figure includes all programs Looking at news alone he said the station does better A quarter of the people watching the evening news In the county are tuned to Channel 9 Zamichow Mid Boston stations can range wider for their news They ere able to gather stories that are more dramatic and photogenic than say increases in local parking fees truth of the matter is" Zamichow Hid hard to make local news Karen Creighton is the manager of Channel 31 a small station in Hanover and White River Junction Vt The station is an NBC affiliate which gives it an advantage over independent stations like channels 21 and 50 Creighton said he does not feel overshadowed by the Boston stations is difficult to she said it's important for us to tell (viewers) that we do get out there that we do cover news that's important to them can look down the road and see us expanding our news coverage and our local programs That's where the future of local television Milton Alvarez a director who lives in Hillsboro Simms wu fired by a vice president of the compamr Flatley called Mm a week later and offered him Ma old job back he said felt they had not given me an opportunity to do the things at the station I would have liked to have Simms uid But by then he had agreed to work for a station in Cadillac Mich David Elton the man who fired Simms worked at the station when the Flatley company took over but has since been replaced Simms said the station wm doing well overall More than 100000 viewers a week watched its programs Simms said which is not a lot for a commercial television station but which Simms said wu for a station so new Advertising was beginning to pick up too he said think many of the changes are related to what they feel is necessary for the station to become profitable in the quickest period of he said are they are going about that not that dear on chewing tobacco Demands that Imported tobacco meet US standards for pesticides and chemicals used In Its production A proposal to end the federal price support program for tobacco farmers Hearings on Defense Department policies that the activists say encourage men and women in the military to smoke at a far higher rate than their d- 1 vil Ian counterparts The six -point agenda wu outlined yesterday by the Coalition on Smoking or Health an organization led by the American Lung Association the American Heart Association -'i- I -V-s? rt i'i ji blaze In France Marie-Therese Mille a 75-year-old blind woman who has spent the last 21 years at Grandvilliers said she struggled with her neighbor to escape i fire heard shouting and my neighbor tried to help me out but he couldn't um lie imll ehw tairl (tnioii Ium wiflH walk welL' she said two men helped us out They did a wonderful job" Officials said 196 people normally were sheltered in the hospice which contains a hospital and a residence fur the aged and sick of modest income Many patients were evacuated immediately to hospitals in the area Witnesses said families of some of the residents evacuated their relatives themselves adding to the difficulty in detemyning the number of victims The Rev Pierre Mabillotte who often worked at the hospital and helped in the rescue told reporters that 11 coffins containing the bodies of victims ware in the town hall's reception room i President Francois Mitterrand arrived and Frenqh government spokesman Georgina Dufoix said 26 people were killed Gendarmerie officials said there were 25 known dead and one person missing and that 20 of the bodies had been identified Another major fire broke out today in Troyes a city 95 miles southwest of Paris destroying part of a downtown neighborhood near the city hall Officials said' about 150 firefighters fought the blaze in a snowstorm and sub-zero temperatures No injuries were reported think we have controlled Jt then it starts up somewhere said one fireman freezes as fast as you proceed' said another The fire was believed to have started in a clothing store hut the cause was not immediately known was reached so no legal precedent exists for other state workers to make similar claims But Richard Deynard Northeastern nivenity law professor and ueaiiient of GASP Group Against Smoking Pollution) uid (state officials) like it or not they have set a precedent establishes that there is common law right to a safe workplace free from tobacco smoke" he uid Lee filed suit in January 1963 alter complaining of dizziness and' watery eyes She argued that the state should provide a healthful smoke-free environment in which to work Judith Caron a co-worker who said she was addicted to smoking intervened in the case Allenstown Fire Appears To Be Work Of Arsonist At Hospice GRAXDVILLIERS France (APi Fire burned through one wing of a home for the aged and bedridden before dawn today killing at least 26 people and forcing the evacuation of scores of patients in one of the worst cold waves to hit France in decades Police said one person was missing A hundred firefighters rushed to the Hospice of Grandvilliers from neighboring Beauvais Formerie and Crevedoeur working to extinguish the blaze and rescue the elderly and infirm from their blazing rooms Townspeople ran to the aid of patients stumbling about the grounds in sub-zero darkness and ambulances and firet rucks took many to Beauvais and to surrounding hospitals France and the rest of Europe have been gripped by record-shattering cold since the weekend Temperatures hovered around minus-four degrees in this townof 3000 people about GO miles north of Paris Fire officials speculated that the blaze may have been caused by a short circuit caused by a rupture in the water pipes but no official cause was immediately established The frigid temperatures have caused many problems with electricity and water over the past five days A priest from a neighboring village said he had been told that some patients as old as 87 refused to leave their beds when the fire broke out second floor collapsed onto the first It was said the priest who asked that his name not be used 1 o'clock they woke me up screaming got to get out You've got to get recounted -Elia Haudiquer who will be 89 next month tried to get dressed I was trembling I looked out and saw the roof burning all Haudiquer who had spent the last 10 years at the hospice was one of three people taken to the town rectory during the evacuation ALLENSTOWN -A fire this monring in a vacant building on Granite Street behind the Family Bank appears to have been set said chief Roger Le-tendre of the Allenstown fire department The fire which wu noticed at about 8:46 this morning took firefighters about 15 minutes to get under control The building a twortory houM with an attic owned by rlourde Sand and Gravel company Three trucks from Allenstown and one from Pembroke responded to the fire No one was injured Letendre said he could not estimate the amount of damage at this time In a cbm of the locked roan Ellen Morrison returned home from work Monday to find that the 9200 in rent money she had hidden under a radio in the bedroom of her apartment at 7 Concord St wu cone Nothing else wm taken and Morrison said that no one she knew of had a key to the apartment but her and her sister In a similar burglary the previous Friday Morrison told police that 960 wu taken from her sister's bedroom In both caies the front and rear doors to the apartment were found to be locked The rear door however opens onto a common hallway and is secured by a lock police say would not difficult to open usin a credit In another burglary two as yet ua- hai identified boys are suRMctod of having kicked in the kitchen door of Concord Police director Leo home at 121 Portsmouth SL to steal valuables timatWi to be worth 9679 Among the items taken In the burglary yesterday afternoon were a silver-plated serving set a camera and Degreenla's FJL ring The burglars emptied out (be contents of the trash can and made off with the valuables hi a brawn paper garbage bag A neighbor reported seeing two unfamiliar boys leave house with the bag Fingerprints were found and taken Non-Smoker Wins Smoke-Free Office Anti-Smokers Set Their Goals BOSTON i AP) State officials have agreed to provide a separate office with a separate ventilation system to non-smokers in a welfare office where one worker sued the state claiming hat her pHrorkers' smoking made her ill la return Marie Lee an emplovee of the state Department of Public Wel fare agreed yesterday to drop her suit which wu filed in Suffolk Superior Court two years ago The agreement pertains only to the welfare department's new offices in Attleboro where 40 employees work and will be tried on an experimental basis but anti-smokers see it as a major breakthrough for their cause The lawyer representing the state in the case Mid no formal legal settlement WASHINGTON (AP) Anti-smoking activists dismissed as of Carrie tor the tobacco lobby uy they have a hill list of proposals for Congress to make smoking more expensive and leu attractive A coalition of health organizations said yesterday their program for the year Includes: and possibly legislation on cigarette advertising and Its appeals to youth Proposals to double the cigarette excise tax to 32-cents per pack Extension of cigarette taxes and advertising restrictions to snuff and.