Star-Herald from Scottsbluff, Nebraska • 1

"ar He raid Scottsbluff Gering Nebraska September 12 1996 2 sections 50 cents tPride in the an handle THURSDAY 97th year No 64 SUNNY HIGH 76 IW 7 'X 1 i EMO :7 Iraq fires missiles at US planes AP Kurdish soldiers watch refugees flee toward Iran from Mawat in northern Iraq on Tuesday Kurds flee as Saddam flouts no fly zone SULAYMANIYAH Iraq (AP) While leaders of a defeated Kurdish faction sought refuge in Iran Sad dam Hussein fired a new challenge at the United States on Wednesday boldly targeting American war planes enforcing a fly A missile fired at two 16 jet fighters patrolling northern Iraq missed its target but brought Iraq and the United States closer to another showdown The United States responded by sending bombers and stealth fighters to the volatile region suggesting that a retaliatory strike was likely Refugees fleeing for safety in Iran and Turkey gath ered at borders though only a few were permitted to cross About 5000 Iraqis entered Iran at Bashmaq border guards said Wednesday and several thousand more were believed to have crossed else where Border guards and some refugees at Bashmaq said commanders of a vanquished Kurdish group were among those who fled Saddam vowed he would no longer honor the no fly zones last week after US forces blasted air defense sites in southern Iraq with cruise missiles The US strike was an attempt to curb an offensive by Iraq and Kurdish allies against an opposing Kur dish faction in northern Iraq The Saddam allied forces prevailed routing their foes in key cities and sending several thousand fleeing to Turkey and Iran In action Iraqi forces fired one missile at two 16s over northern Iraq the Pentagon said The Iraqi radars tracking the 16s were not kept on long enough for the jets to fire retaliatory radar seek ing missiles air defenses intercepted the enemy targets with anti aircraft guns and rockets and forced them to the official Iraqi News Agency said Wednesday Iraq has reported similar actions for several days but Wednesday was the first time the Americans con firmed coming under fire Initial reports said two Iraqi missiles were fired But a Pentagon official speaking on condition of anonymity later said only one missile was shot INSIDE: US beefs up air power in region: 5 A Midwest theater to end its run A Scottsbluff landmark since 1938 to show its final film today By STEVE HILL and RICK MYERS of the Star Herald Shirley Johns 1940 Shirley Johns went to see With the Wind" at the Egyptian Theater the first lo cal showing of a Technicolor 1 movie She and her classmates were let out of school to swoon over dashing Rhett Butler in the lush theater Today the curtains will close on the old theater With opening of Monument Mall 6 Cinema the grand old theater in downtown Scottsbluff appears doomed by the changing economic times really decide (to close it) until said Mitch Bryson dis trict manager for irst International Theatres of Prairie Village Kan own ers of 100 screens in Arkansas Kansas Nebraska South Dakota and Missouri Pam Vega manager of the Midwest Village Twin The atres and 6 Cinema said the theater often drew only two cus tomers a night a fig ure that just warrant remaining open But Johns remem bers the glory days of the theater back when there was an oraan down at the front of the theater and a man entertained the crowd before the 1 movies started have two daughters They sang are my during a talent contest down there and won third Johns said were so friend Pattie Howard remem bers the pool hall in the basement of the theater just another nice memory Howard said Ornate designs have for years attracted the attention of patrons at the Midwest Theater In downtown Scottsbluff which will close tonight gig i i Bp I WS iBBfcfiBjBBBBBBBBHBBHBBBMBI llw The3 AJSWP Bl ImBpWTURSli tl? 'aww ti'5 A Vi 54 1 EKM aWKft A rA Cw I ri jMBBMKil5z Photo by Rick Myers The theater originally built in 1938 burned down in 1944 It was refur bished and rechristened the Midwest Theater in 1945 Vega a lifelong resident of the area began working for Commonwealth The atres in 1979 and has seen the closure of the Bluffs Theater which has since become Robert Stephens clothing store and Terry Dnve In in Terrytown guess I might shed a few tears Thursday night but really it just means one less thing I have to worry Vega said Bryson said there are very few single screen auditoriums any more and that more screens means more choices area has missed a lot of Bryson said are a lot more movies available and now we will be able to pick up more major release But for some people the Midwest was more than a place to watch movies sister Doris Martin remem bers when the two as youngsters at tended their first movie alone The movie was White and the Seven were so scared of the wicked witch that we left early Our mom was really mad about Martin said Kelly Salazar thinks too many of the old downtown buildings are being re placed by sterile new facilities that have the same personality need to start moving back downtown I like all those beautiful old buildings down she said Sandy Schon who is working with Willa Rosman to prepare an application for participation in the Lied Main Street program said the theater might provide the perfect focus for community Doris Martin AH involvement let anybody tear it down That is a historical Schon said talked about the theater and could see it as a performing arts Schon said organizers would not know until the end of October if they are accepted into the Lied program and it would not be until at least the first of next year that any planning would take place the kind of thing you would never see said Nancy Haney who has been involved in numerous lo cal historical projects integrity is so good and the original neon and flash ing satellites are still Haney said the theater is recognized in the survey of historic build ings and is eligible for placement on the National Historic Register International needs to be aware of the status of the building Haney said keep losing these type of Coming attractions 4 The colorful Nile Theater mar quee may shine again Ek INSIDE: amily plans to re open Nile Theater In Mitchell: 2A irst showing at new mall the ater planned for riday: 2A 48 ederal Reserve bureaucrats make more than the chairman WASHINGTON (AP) At the ederal Reserve the chief of maintenance earns $163800 more than the secretary of state or the secretary of defense as well as the ed's own chairman And just a start Over the last three years the number of ed employees paid more than $125000 a year has more than doubled to 72 up from 35 in 1993 The House Banking top INSIDE Ann Landers 6A Businessmarkets 5B 6B Classified ads 6B 8B Comics 7A Obituaries 4B OpinionB Weather8A Democrat whose staff gathered the infor mation contends the pay levels are exor bitant in this era of government downsiz ing want to know why the ederal Re serve is building a bigger kingdom while the rest of the government is on the said Rep Hemy Gonzalez Ttexas a fre quent ed critic who released the data Wednesday The top salary is $174100 and a dozen ed employees earn it the data show The support services director earns $163800 a year to oversee maintenance mailroom procurement food and copy ser vices and security In comparison a Cabinet secretary earns $148400 and ederal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan makes $133600 Of the 72 most highly paid ed workers 48 earn more than Greenspan Greenspan defended the pay poli cies earlier this year after a government audit criticized the central spend ing habits Pnoio oy jerry Purvis 1 I MBBBMfc 1a tfcSSX Scottsbluff shopper Ben Gamboa looks over the milk section at Save oods Local milk prices are expected to gp up Local milk prices up but remain a bargain Some prices elsewhere more than $3 a gallon By JERRY PURVIS of the Star Herald Milk shortages around the country have been driving up supermarket prices and shoppers around the Pan handle are beginning to notice noticed that prices have gone up over the past few said Sandra Suhr of Minatare we buy a lot of Kevin Strong manager of Save in Scottsbluff said milk prices have been going up in small increases each month since about March have announced additional increases which should take effect he said The price of a gallon of wfiole milk in area supermarkets is about $260 com pared with $309 at Homeland super markets in Oklahoma Mayfield Dairy arms of Atlanta and eastern Tennessee recently announced price increases that will put the store price of its milk at over $3 a gallon Strong said local competition con tributes to lower milk prices along with a willingness of retailers to absorb some of the cost Ben Gamboa said also noticed a steady rise in milk prices over the last few months do most of our shopping here at Save but I guess prices are going up at other stores he said See Milk page 2A INSIDE: US beefs up air power in region: 5 A )3 i.