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HiU Rd, fit 17011 nH Herald (USPS 645-800) Number 259 of Our 116th Year Saturday, June 1983 Per Copy Second Challenger Flight Underway ByALROSSlTERJR. push of three hydrogen- anrt ByALROSSlTERJR. UPI Science Editor CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) The shuttle Challenger, carrying a recc-rd fiveperson crew, rocketed towards space today on a six- day milestone mission to place the first American woman in orbit. The space machine blasted away from the oceanside launch pad on time at 7:33 a.m.

EOT and climbed into the partly cloudy sky atop a geyser of orange flame and white 1 smoke and steam. Robert Crippen, 45, and "Frederick Hauck, 42, were at the controls and Sally Ride, 32, was serving as flight engineer, sitting behind the pilots monitoring ascent procedures. John Fabian" 44, rode in a fourth seat oh the flight deck and Norman Thagard, 39, sat alone on Challenger's lower level. In 55 seconds, Challenger had climbed 5 miles high and was "looking good," said mission control in Houston. The Challenger shed its twin rockets as planned two minutes after launch.

The ship was 29 miles high' at the time. The climb into space proceeded smoothly, with the shuttle gaining speed rapidly from the 1.4-mlllion pound hydrogen fueled main engines. The main engines shut down as scheduled at 7:41 a.m. at an altitude of G9 miles. "Challenger has delivered to space the largest human cargo in the history of mankind four men, one woman," said John Mcleaish at mission control.

Challenger's twin maneuvering engines pushed the ship into a preliminary orbital path around the Earth .10 minutes after blastoff. It was the Challenger's second trip to space, ana the launch phase went smoothly. The astronauts boarded their ship two hours before launch. In the final minutes before blastoff, project officials wished the crew good luck and astronaut Steven Hawley, Ms. Ride's husband, said, "Sally, have a ball." It is a mission of firsts.

Not only is Ms. 'Ride the first American woman to fly into space, but it is the first flight of a five-person space crew, the first time a spaceship will land at its launch base and the first time a satellite is retrieved and returned to Earth. The main job is to launch two communications satellites for paying customers Telesat Canada and PERUMTEL, Indonesia's state-owned telecommunications company. The Canadian satellite, Anik, will go out late today and the In- donesian satellite, Palapa, is 'to be launched Monday. Both satellites will be propelled later by solid rocket motors toward hlgh stationary orbits.

The rockets are different from the unit that" failed to properly boost a satellite launched by Challenger last April. The crew commanded by Crippen, first man to fly a second time in a shuttle, will use the ship's 50-foot mechanical arm to launch a West German lest satellite Wednesday. They will let it fly free several hours, moVe Challenger 1,000 feet away and then return to grab it with the arm and bring it back to Earth. 16 Protesters Arrested: MX Test Successful VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (UPD- The MX missile, a weapon so far deployed only in political warfare under three presidents, lifted off with ah earth-shaking roar in what military officials called a "stupendous" inaugural test firing.

As the missile took off late Friday, a handful of Learning To Live With Acid Rain UNIVERSITY PARK Acid rain is a fact of life for most of the Northeastern United States including Pennsylvania. "Residents of Pennsylvania have an important stake in the outcome of the acid rain debate," according to James S. Shortle, assistant professdr of agricultural economics at Penn State. Dr. Shortle said that the state would benefit from acid rain controls.

"Pennsylvania has been characterized as being 'in the eye of the receiving on the average the most acidic rain in the nation," he said in the May issue of Farm Economics, the monthly economic newsletter of the College of Agriculture. Added controls will help clear the air, but Pennsylvania stands to lose substantially from a vigorous control program of industries important to the state's economy. Shortle said there is little doubt that the acid rain is falling. "Acid rain stems from a phenomenon more ac-. curately described as acid deposition," he explained.

Weather Warm with scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight and Sunday, some with heavy downpours. Low tonight 55-60. Highs Sunday from the mid 70s to low 80s. Extended Forecast Monday through Wednesday Seasonably warm with intervals of sunshine each day, A chance of brief thuder. storms Monday and Wednesday.

Lows from the mid 50s to mid 60s and highs from the mid 70s to mid 80s daily. "Ac'id-compounds and acid- producing substances are deposited, either wet or dry, from the atmosphere. "There, is little debate that this is occurring over broad regions of the United States. Wet acid deposition, or acid rain, is easiest to measure and rates in much of the eastern United States have rate of deposit in of those that would occur naturally. The highest average deposition rates are centered around eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania and northern Virginia, according to a recent publication by the Office of Technology Assessment.

In this and other areas average wet deposition rates are many times what scientiests would expect to occur in nature. Dry deposition averaged over the eastern states has been estimated by computer models to be about equal to wet deposition, or one-half total deposition. "Measurements of the acidity of precipitation in Pennsylvania indicate the state receives very acidic rain and perhaps more so on average than anywhere else in the country," Shortle said'. A major question facing federal lawmakers on Capitol Hill is whether- to strengthen regulation of air pollutants linked to acid rain. The act that largely governs federal air pollution control regulation Clean Air Act is being considered for reauthorization by Congress.

In tha process, scientists, environmentalists, and the Candian 'government are lobbying Congress to amend the act to provide for immediate and stringent measures to reduce emissions of air pollutants linked to acid rain primarily, nitrogen (Cont'don Page 2) News From Around Here PHILIPSBURG State Police are listing as 'suspicious' the death of a 17-year-old Maryland youth found shot in the chest by a ,22 caliber rifle. The body of Daniel Woltz, 17, Riverdale, was found in a rural area near Houtzdale Thursday night. Police said the shooting Is under investigation. HOLLIDAYSBURG -Construction could begin as early as September on the FAA Flight Center to be constructed at the Blair Airport at Martinsburg. Members of the Airport Authority, county officials, and representatives of other groups met yesterday to discuss financing of the project.

HOLLIDAYSBURG Edward H. Sipes III, of Altoona was convicted in Blair County Court of the July 1 bomb threat against the Conrail shops at Juniata. Sipes was arrested by police at a phone booth outside the Chestnut ave. after he phoned the threat to WFBG radio. ALTOONA Morley Cohn has been re-elected president of the Jewish Memorial Center at the annual joint Center-Federation Qf Jewish Philanthropied dinner held June 1.

Other officers include: first vice president Ronald Getz, second vice president Lester Weiss, treasurer Yale Schulman, and secretary Maxine Wetberg. HUNTINQDQN Dorothy L. Hershberger of tinsburg has been named director of alumni and Church relations at Juniata College. A 1950 Juniata (Cont'don Page 2) protesters who, had tried to halt the firing stood and cried outside the main gate of the huge Vandenberg air base. Earlier, 16 were arrested, including activist Daniel Ellsberg and several others who infiltrated the base.

"The missile covered a distance of approximately 4,100 nautical miles on its first flight to the Kwajalein Missile Test Range in the Pacific Ocean," an Air Force spokesman said. "The flight took approximately 30 minutes." Launch of the unarmed missile dubbed "Peacekeeper" by the Pentagon was delayed for several hours by fog, clouds and computer problems. When the 71-foot-long gray missile finally lifted off about 7:15 p.m. PST with a blast of smoke and flame, it produced an earth-shaking roar before climbing steadily and arcing slightly until it disappeared high in the sky over the central California coast. "We were just so pleased, everyone of us," a grinning Maj.

Gen. Jack Watkins, commanding officer of 'Vandenberg, told reporters minutes after the missile took off. "We wanted it to go off. We wanted it to go off well. "It was absolutely, stupendous." The launch, the first of 20 tests scheduled through 1987, was targeted to land near the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean, about 50 miles from the Kwajalein atoll.

Air Force Col. Thomas A. Massmann, MX flight test director, said. Since the MX was first proposed in 1971, it has generated intense debate over what its mission should be and (Cont'don Page2) At Miss Pa. Prelims: Chester, Clinton Co.

Entrants Take Honors ALTOONA, Pa. (UPI) Marianna Presto, Miss Chester County, received the talent award Friday for her contemporary ballet performance of "Maria" from the "West Side Story" during preliminary competititon in the Miss Pennsylvania Scholarship Pageant at the Jaffa Mosque. Cathy Elizabeth Mix, Miss Clinton County, received top honors in the swimsuit competition. Miss Presto, 18, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Felix Presto of Exton, is a former prima ballerina and a sophomore at West Chester Incredible Storm Rains Out Open PITTSBURGH (UPI) "Phenomenal" thunderstorms roared through western Pennsylvania Friday dumping one inch of rain in 15 minutes on one town and sending two men to the hospital after they were hit by lightning. The storms, setting a path that drenched some areas while leaving other adjacent areas untouched, passed through the region between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Friday. They were reported from Greene County in the south northward to Mercer County, officials said.

Hail ranging from "peasized" to "marble-sized" to "one inch" was reported in several areas, said Bill France, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Pittsburgh. "Our radar shows heavy rain," said France. "This time of year we get these heavy rains phenomenal they don't last too long." It took only fifteen minutes for an inch of rain to fall on Sharpsville, Mercer County. "We got a lot of rain but we didn't have any problems," said Paul Mehalko, of the Sharpsyille Fire Department. "There was thunder, hail and a hell of a lot of rain." He said there was no flooding.

"This Is the week they cleaned out the catch basins, so everybody lucked out," he said. Two spectators were struck by lightning on the Oakmont Country Club golf course during a violent thunderstorm that interrupted second-round play of the U.S. Open cham- (Cont'don Page 2) State College. She has six years of ballet training and 14 years of tap and jazz classes. Miss Mix, 25, the daughter of Mrs.

Thelma Mix of State college, is a senior at Penn State University where she is majoring in general arts and sciences. She is no stranger to the pagent, having represented Clinton County in the 1980 Miss Pennsylvania Pageant and been named the first runnerup. Laura Jean Brenner, Miss Bucks County, won the swimsuit competition Thursday night and Jennifer Eshelman, Miss Pocono, was the talent winner. final competition will be held tonight with the new Miss Pennsylvania going on to the Miss America Pageant in September. Twenty-two girls are competing for the state title.

The current Miss Pennsylvania, Laurie Hixeribaugh of Belle Vernon, and her three sisters performed a baton routine to "We are Family" Thursday and Friday nights at (Cont'don Page 2) Nicaraguan Ambassador Defends Aid From Cuba WASHINGTON (UPI) Nicaragua's new ambassador declares the leftist regime wants peace with the United States, but accepts Cuban support to oppose what he calls American-sponsored subversion to topple the Sandinista government. "What does the administration want, us to tie our hands and kill Ambassador' Antonio Jarquin Toledo said. "At least we have the right to sharpen our arrows." Jarquin did not specify the Cuban role In Nicaragua, but the administration has said thousands of Cuban military advisers are in the country to train its armed forces. "Our military policies in Nicaragua are totally defensive," the new ambassador said Friday at a news conference. "We are not a threat." But President Reagan has accused Nicaragua of supporting leftist guerrillas in El Salvador and exporting revolution in Central America with Soviet bloc arms.

(Cont'don Page 2) No Progress With Jaruzelski: Pope Honors Warsaw Jews WARSAW, Poland (UPI) Pope John Paul II, who returned to his homeland with a message of hope for those under Poland's martial law regime, today honored the Jewish heroes of.the Warsaw ghetto uprls- ingon the third day of his tour of Poland. Cries of "Long live the pope!" and "May you live 100 years!" rang out from a crowd of 20,000 people gathered around the monument, a short distance from the church residence where the pope spent the night. John Paul also visited the Pawlak prison museum in the Jewish ghetto district. He stood silently for a minute near a tree in the courtyard festooned with memorial plaques from relatives of the 100,000 either 'murdered at the site or deported to death camps from there. This spring marked the 40th anniversary of the uprising against Nazi troops by inhabitants of the Jewish during World War II.

The stark bronze and granite monument commemorates the heroes of those battles and the memory of more than 500,000 Jews from the ghetto who died in the war. The stop at the ghetto monument was not on John Paul's formal schedule. It was reportedly added to the itinerary at the pope's request. Although there was no advance announcement the pope would detour his motorcade, word spread rapidly through Warsaw and a large crowd assembled. John Paul rode through Warsaw's streets for the last time on this trip in his glassedin "popemobile," turning from side to side to bless the crowd.

He drove to a stadium where he left aboard a Soviet- made Mi-8 helicopter supplied by the Polish air force for the village of Niepokalanow, 23 miles west of Warsaw. John Paul planned to say prayers in the monastery room used by St. Maximilian Kolbe, who died at the Auschwitz concentration camp to save the live of Francizek Gajowniczek, expected to be present at today's ceremony. The pope earlier delivered a series of tough lectures against the martial law policies of Poland's communist regime and in a meeting with Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, the Polish premier, gained official sanction (Cont'don Page 2) Former Vietnamese Leader Sees Parallel In El Salvador SALVADOR, El Salvador (UPI) A former commander of the Vietnamese army sees a parallel between El Salvador and Vietnam and warns the Central American nation could fall to leftist guerrillas if the U.S.

Congress cuts aid. Nguyen Cao Ky, a former south Vietnamese prime minister, vice president and commander of the army at the height of the Indochina war, made his remarks in an interview with the Diaro de Hoy newspaper Friday. Ky, who lives in exile in California, visited El Salvador as a part of a Central American tour organized by Bo publisher of conservative Washington 1 Times, owned by businesses affiliated with the Unification Church. "President Reagan is convinced of the necessity to help El Salvador to find its liberty, but, he has problems with some liberal elements of the American Senate and Congress," Ky said. "Liberals put many obstacles" in the way of more aid for El Salvador, Ky said in apparent reference to conditions requiring Reagan to certify every 180 days that progress is being made in improving human rights conditions.

Asked if the tiny Central American naUon could become a "second Vietnam" without more U.S. aid, Ky said, "Yes, definitely." The Viet Cong guerrillas, aided by regular North Vietnamese army troops, toppled the South Vietnamese government in 1975 after U.S. aid was severely cut. North and South Vietnam later were, unified under a Marxist government. El Salvador's provisional president, Alvaro Magana, on a tour of Washington, warned Reagan that security in the Western hemisphere could be threatened if American aid became a "weak, vacillating commitment." Magana told the Organization of American States his government stands by its position that it has nothing to negotiate with leftist guerrillas who have battled the army for over three years.

Noting the "great problems" his country faces, the Salvadoran president also met with members of Congress to plead for more time to implement reforms and improve human rights. Congress has been reluctant to increase economic and military aid to El Salvador because of its poor human rights record. Government security forces and paramilitary "death squads" are blamed for most of the 40,000 political assassinations recorded since 1979. (Cont'donPage2) Psychiatrist Says Banks Knew He Was In Wrong Ha. (UPI) Although he suffers from a mental disease, George Banks understood his actions were wrong during a shooting spree that killed 13 people, a prosecution psychiatrist claims.

Dr. Park Dietz, a psychiatrist at the University of Virginia, took the witness stand Friday in Luzerne County Court and challenged the testimony of three defense psychiatrists who said Banks is legally insane. The trial of Banks, 40, a former prison guard, continues today before a jury of eight women and four men selected in Allegheny County. Banks allegedly killed 13 people and wounded another in a shooting rampage Sept. 25 in and near his Wilkes-Barre home and at a suburban trailer park.

The victims included five of his children and their four mothers. In rebuttal testimony, Dietz said Banks "understood the nature and quality of his acts and could distinguish right from wrong," the definition of sanity in Pennsylvania. Dietz, who reviewed records in the case and observed the defendant's testimony Thursday, agreed Banks suffers from the mental disease paranoia but refuted the other conclusions of defense psychiatrists. Dr. Michael Spodak had testified Banks showed his insanity when he shot two people, one fatally, outside his Wilkes-Barre home but left two others alive to become witnesses.

Spodak said a sane Stock Market Drops From All-Time Peak NEW YORK (UPII The stock market's record- shattering streak took a breather Friday, with the Dow Jones average falling from its alltime high but some other averages reaching new marks as Wall Street concluded one of 1983's best weeks. But the Federal Reserve's post-market report of a $5.6 billion increase in the nation's money supply caused bonds to fall late in the day and could trigger some profit taking next week, analysts said. The Dow Jones industrial average, down about 11 points in the final hour, gave up 6.11 to 1,242.19 after climbing 62.80 the previous six sessions to Thursday's record high of 1,248.30. Despite the setback, the Dow, an 11.02 winner Thursday, rose 46.08 points for the week, the best gain since it gained 46.63 the period ended April 15. The New York Stock Exchange index gained 0.07 to a record 98.00 and the price of an average share increased two cents.

Standard Poor's SOOstock index fell 0.01 to 169.13. Declines topped advances by a 9-7 margin. Big Board volume eased to 93.63 million shares from the 124.55 million traded Thursday, the busiest session in more than a month. A late rebound and a strong showing by oil and related issues shows "we still are in a bull market," according to Ralph Acampora, Peabody vice president. "This was a remarkably good day conisidering everything." Analysts said big traders were adjusting their portfolios the third quarter and that caused some distortions in market barometers.

A few cashed in on profits from the six-day surge. Investors were encouraged federal funds rates, which climbed to 9 percent earlier this week, eased to percent early Friday prior to the report of a larger-than- expected increase in the money supply. Henry Kaufman, Salomon Brothers economist, said fundamental forces probably (Cont'don Page 21 person would not have left witnesses. "Most murderers create witnesses," Dietz said. "That's how they get caught.

Shooting people with witnesses present may not be the smartest thing to do but that's not a basis for legal insanity." He also challenged Spodak's assertion that Banks demonstrated he was insane when, after the trailer park slayings, he shouted he would come back later and kill more people. Spodak said the statement was evidence Banks did not understand he had already committed several murders and would not have the chance to return. "You wouldn't say, 'I'll come back and kill the rest of if you didn't know you'd already killed somebody," Dietz said. In his testimony, the defendant admitted shooting the victims but claimed authorities have mounted a conspiracy against him. Banks, who introduced photographs of the victims in an attempt prove to his claim, alleged police inflicted the wounds that killed as many as nine victimsand mutilated their bodies to make the crimes appear more gruesome.

Although the defendant's court-appointed' attorneys objected, Luzerne County (Cont'don Page 2) THE FIRST OFFICIAL U.S. FLAG was decreed by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1777 after the Declaration of Independence was proudly proclaimed on July 4, 1776. The new flag was described this way: that "the Flag of the United States be 13 stripes alternated red and white, that the Union be 13 stars white in a blue field representing a new constellation." The transition from Continental Colors to the Stars and Stripes was not immediate, and in the interim, the legend of Betsy Ross came into credence. It seems more' likely, however, that Francis Hopkinson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, should be awarded the honor of designing the new flag in exchange for a quarter cask of wine. The Stars and Stripes is thought to have flown for the first time on July 4,1777 in Philadelphia.

AMERICA. THE CONTINENTAL COLORS, also known as the Grand Union Flag, illustrate the basic ambivalence of the rebel colonists. The British Union Jack combines with the field of alternating red and white stripes representing the thirteen colonies. This flag was preceded, in the early days of war with Britain, by a wide variety of flags with symbols ranging from pine trees to rattlesnakes. First used by Genera) Washington at the commissioning of the Continental Army in 1776, it was then endorsed as the national flag of the Continental Congress.

Although in battle the flag had drawbacks of being easily confused with British ensigns, it served a useful purpose in rallying the revolutionary colonist! in the War of Independence. -HONOR AMERICA,.