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Show TX ? I- - V 4 Friday, Seotember is. msa The Dally Herald, Prove, Utah National A; gpir(D0; - i LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) A printing plant worker who shot 20 workers had pledged to get even tatter being let go for mental disability last year, but his warnings went unheeded, employees at the plant say. Joseph T. Wesbecker, armed with several semiautomatic weapons, went from floor to floor shooting former at the Standard JGravure Corp., killing seven and wounding pe-Thursd- 13 ay Sixth Street before taking his own morning. UK aiyy Wesbecker, a pressman: was placed on permanent (Usability leave last year because of Rental illness, police said, i "He carried a big grudge because bf that," said George Oswine, a former "He said before he left he would get even. I rememJ ber that." Oswine said Wesbecker had begun collecting guns since his leave. Inother former pressman Joe White, said Wesbecker's talk centered on guns and Soldier of I GUARD - COURIER-JOURNA- LOBBY - The Sen(AP) ate's vote to halt smoking on all airline flights leaves tobacco JgLS interests and advocates of the ban jockeying over how severe the final version of the restrictions will be. The Senate decided by voice vote to. forbid cigarette smoking on all domestic airline routes after routing an effort by tobacco industry supporters to block the provision. . JCarlier, the Senate sent President Bush a separate measure containing $225 million to begin construction of the government's latest boon for,.' Texas, the $5 billion super inducting supercollider. Final passage of the $11.9 billion transportation bill for fiscal 1990 containing the smoking restrictions was. held up by a dispute over unrelated anti drug spending. put when that comes, the next negostep will be for Senate-Hous- e tiators to write compromise legislation'' that can be sent to President Bush. The House last month approved a milder version of the ban which would permanently bar smoking on flights of two hours or shorter. Lobbyist Jo Ellen Deutsch of the Association of Flight Attendants, one of several airline unions working for the total ban, said lobbyists were trying to discern the leanings of lawmakers who will negotiate on the measure. -- ,"You can bet the ones who are jjnsiire or leaning the other way will, be hearing from us over the ilWASHINGTON , j HOUSE - ts cite health concerns, but they don't want to lose a national symbol of an environmental disaster, an activist said. ' Eleven years after officials evacuated hundreds of families from the Niagara Falls neighborhood when chemicals from a dump seeped into homes, state health officials say people can move back into the area after years of cleanup. Resettlement opponents, however, t question whether the neighborhood (9 Sfe. Hundreds of environmentalists and religious activists plan to attend a rally in Albany tonight in hopes of persuading Gov. Mario Cuomo to stop the planned resettlement. J Lois Gibbs, the former Love Canal homemaker who became well-knoin the environmental moveSr, ment after leading her former neighbors in a fight for federal assistance, said she also doesn't jwant to lose Love Canal's symbolic Value. "By making it habitable, it steals frway the symbol from the people," Gibbs said in an interview this week. "Love Canal is a symbol for ' problems across the country." S STANDARD ySBOUNDFLOOB N.C. (AP) - Jim man at PTL estified that the evangelist gave g lis TV viewers phony Igures and knew that $265,000 in :hurch funds went to Jessica Hahn is hush money. Richard Dortch, PTL's former ixecutive vice president, told U.S. District Court jurors in Batter's fraud and conspiracy trial Thursday that the ministry kept two sets bf fund-raisifigures a secret one With- - the actual numbers and a phony one with lower numbers that Batter read to TV viewers. d fund-raisin- ng L'No one understands this plan SH 7TLj-- L BASEMENT 'leased from The Courier-Journ- R00M HMIL-RIMnPRV m IJ S I i i 7 Two other wounded people had; been removed by medics before; Wesbecker also had voluntarily police arrived, and another victim-wa; I on the street outside. spent time in mental institutions, John Former Tingle; of Lt. commander Jeff said Moody, said he greeted Wesbecker as he the police homicide division. Wesbecker entered the building at saw him coming around a corner! in! the basement carrying an 8:30 a.m. EDT and took the eleva. . assault rifle. tor to the third floor. He quoted Wesbecker as saying,. "He just came off the elevator, "I told them I'd be back. Getaway: " shooting," said Kathy Wilkins, an from me." ; Wesbecker! assistant buyer. "The elevator and Tingle obliged doors opened and he started proceeded up the stairs to the first! OF VICTIMS Wounded Fatally Wounded Died later at hospital LOCATION "T" 9 ,AK-4- floor. Courlar-Journ- al 7; ; : CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -S- alvagers expect to stay offshore until winter recovering gold worth as much as $1 billion from a steamship that sank 132 years ago, an expedition spokesman te ing. 1 vote ThursIn the showdown senators forced a halt to deday, lawmaklaying tactics ers had hoped would lead to looser restrictions. "We didn't undertake that vote in the belief we could defeat" the proposed ban, Sen. Wendell Ford, who fought the proposal, conceded. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who sponsored the ban proposal and who cited health concerns about lingering cigarette smoke in airline cabins, said, "The American people are overwhelmingly in support of this suspension of smoking 77-2- D-K- airliners." The Senate version would extend the ban to all U.S. routes 95 days after the bill becomes law. Current restrictions prohibit smoking on four-fiftflights of two hours or less and will of all routes otherwise expire next April. Passengers caught smoking would be subject to $1,000 fines and people found to have disabled smoke detectors in aircraft restrooms would face penalties of up to $2,000. "Anywhere I go in the country ... regardless of what people are fighting, they refer to the damage created by that particular facility as Love Canal," said Gibbs, who now works for the Virginia-base- d Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste. She is an organizer for today's rally. ; Last fall, Dr. David Axelrod, the state health commissioner, ruled of the Love Canal that two-thir-ds neighborhood was suitable for resettlement after years of work to contain or treat the toxic contamination from the dump site. Resettlement of the homes is scheduled for next year. Occidental Chemical Corp., owner of the former Hooker Chemical and Plastic Co. which used Love Canal as a waste dump, acknowledges that 20,000 tons of chemical wastes were dumped there in the 1940s and 1950s. The dump was covered and. the District bought the land and built a school and playground there. Developers built hundreds of homes nearby during the 1960s. Foul odors and oozing chemicals were the first signs for residents that something was wrong. really but me," Dortch Bakker telling him. ' Salvagers recovering sunken gold next few days," she said. Spokesman Gary Miller of the cigarette industry's trade group, the Tobacco Institute, said his side had not given up hope of toning down the restrictions. "It's not the law yet," he said: "It's our positive outlook that less extreme legislation will be the result" of the House-Senabargain- Niagara Falls School union local. Frazier said Wesbecker had become more upset recently because he thought his disability benefits were about to be cut off . Relatives told police that Wesbecker was a manic depressive who had attempted suicide three times. Two receptionists apparently! were the first to be hit. Both were wounded; one later died. Police found four other victims Ion j the third floor, where the executive; offices and bindary are located, I Wesbecker went from there down' to the basement, where five victims were found, then up to the ground, floor, where six victims and the; ; gunman were discovered. Wesbecker was face down irr a; pool of blood on the floor of s Barbara Barry and Stava Durbln, Loulsvllla on A FLOOR n. Armory Place fund-raisin- right-han- SI Tl UJUCI TUNNEL Aide testifies that Jim Bakker used phony i g numbers, knew of Hahn payoff fetter's GRAVURE PRESS ROOM' j ! CHARLOTTE, LJ ROTOGRAVURE PROCESSING Environmentalists: Resettlement Wf Love Canal threatens symbol Oppo-jtenALBANY, N.Y. (AP) of the planned resettlement of the Love Canal neighborhood most- - PRESSROOM y- Fencing begins over final shape of smoking ban 3'U ELEVATOR FROM SIXTH STREET This diagram shows at pokoe found when trtey entered Standard Gravure, where gunman Joseph T. Wesbecker, 47, had opened fire. The disgruntled former employee was armed with an AK-4- 7 assault rifle and a vast arsenal of other weapons. He shot 20 people, killing seven of them, and then took his own life. Two of the wounded had already been removed by medical personnel and another wounded person was found on Broadway. COURIER-JOURNA- Fortune magazine. White, whose brother Lloyd was killed in the rampage, said Wesbecker thought of himself as a soldier. "This guy's been talking about this for a year," White said. "I guess nobody believed him," said Dan Frazier, president of the recalled Later, Dortch testified that Bakker personally approved paying Hahn to keep her quiet about their 1980 sexual encounter in a Florida hotel room. Bakker resigned from PTL in March 1987 as the encounter was about to be made public. said. Workers recently have begun raising gold bars and coins aboard the SS Central America, a steamer that was paddle-whetraveling from Panama to New York on Sept. 12, 1857, when it sank during a hurricane. ' The wreck, about 200 miles off the coast in 8,000 feet of water, , claimed 425 lives; 153 people survived. The golden booty includes fortunes made during the California Gold Rush, said historian Judy Conrad of the Columbus America Discovery Group, which located the wreck three years ago. The group has 106 investors, mostly from Ohio. Barry Schatz, a project director for the expedition, called it the largest American treasure trove ever. "It sure beats working for a living," he quipped via telephone Thursday from aboard the recovery ship Arctic Discoverer, which has been at the salvage site since July. "What was really fun was putting together the project. It's kind of scary to think beyond that." The Central America was carrying a regular monthly shipment of gold from the San Francisco Mint to New York banks via the Isthmus of Panama. The estimated three tons of gold would be valued at up to $450 million in today's prices. In addition, riches belonging to passengers returning East after making their fortunes in California appear to have been aboard AP Laserphoto the ship, Schatz said. billion-dolla- r of estimate is Thousands "That gold coins photographed from the robot vehicle Nemo, controlled by a ship above, wej-probably the most frequently discovered on the ocean floor from the wreckage of the SS Central America. heard figure on the treasure's $15,000 have been recovered, said value," said shipwreck expert E. lumbus America group south. equipped with video cameras. So far, about 500 pounds of gold Lee Spence of Sullivan's Island. Pamela Adkins, a spokeswoman Gold bars, one weighing 62 for the expedition. Historians originally believed has been recovered from the site, pounds, rare 'double eagle" coins The expedition, which sailed out the ship sank off North Carolina, Schatz said. The gold is being valued at up to $20,000 each, and of Wilmington, N.C, in July wjll but research, based largely on brought to the surface by an gold coins made by private California mints and valued at up to stay at the site until winter. newspaper accounts, led the Co- - underwater recovery vehicle el , Jsi vs -- ship-to-sho- re e Reagan leaves hospital; meets with Yeltsin ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) -FPresident Reagan will return to his California home a week after undergoing successful surgery to remove fluid from his skull. "He feels great," Reagan spokesman Mark Weinberg said Thursday. "His stamina's good." Reagan, 78, and his wife, Nancy, were to fly to Los Angeles this morning and return to their home near the city, Weinberg said. ormer Reagan has been recuperating since last Friday, when Mayo Clinic doctors drained fluid that had built up on his brain after he was thrown from a horse on July 4. Reagan met Thursday with Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole and Soviet parliament member Boris Yeltsin. "It seemed as if he feels pretty good," Yeltsin said after the meeting. "We've never had a personal meeting before." The Yeltsin was in Minneapolis for a private dinner Wednesday with business leaders. He said he squeezed the Reagan visit into his week-lon- g tour of the United States "simply as a sign of respect for him and an opportunity to wish him a rapid recovery." Yeltsin brought Reagan a bouquet of red roses and, according to Weinberg, told him: "You gave the start to the very perceptible warm ing of relations between the twrj countries. Your contribution to. this; was enormous. You were very wise courageous and tactful in the waj you went about it. I am -- very; ! grateful to you for this." Dumped as Communist P?rtyi chief in Moscow in 1987 after crijtisizing some of Soviet leader Mikhaif Gorbachev's policies, Yeltsin wast overwhelmingly elected to parJia- ment this year. - Miners probably lived only seconds after blast By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press Writer Federal SULLIVAN, Ky. (AP) mine safety officials were meeting with executives of the company that owns the Williams Station Mine when an explosion and fire there killed 10 miners, an official said. The Mine Safety and Health Administration had been investigating safety procedures at the mine for two or three weeks prior to the blast, said Kathy Snyder, of the MSHA's nearby Madisonville office. It was not known if the investigation had any bearing on Wednesday's methane gas explosion, about 1,000 feet underground in the Pyro Mining Co.'s mine at nearby Wheat-crof-t. - worst mine It was the nation's disaster in five years. One miner said he and Dortch, 57, was indicted with had feared a methane gas Batter, and last month pleaded guilty to four counts of fraud and explosion for some time. The miner conspiracy in a plea bargain in spoke on condition his name not be exchange for his testimony against Batter. He was sentenced to eight years in prison and fined $200,000. pastel y3 used. "It could have been worse," he "I expected it to be worse. said. It's the company's fault. It's the men's fault. It's everybody's involvement." "We all had the same thought on our minds," he said. "Somebody is going to drop the ball. We're just thankful it's horrible, it's awful that it was just 10 men. "We aU thought that when it wiped out, it was going to be all of William Station," said the miner. Ed Caiman, a spokesman for Pyro, said the company would have no comment until an investigation expected to take several weeks is completed. "We want to find out what happened so we can take steps to make sure it doesn't happen again," said Frank O'Gorman, an MSHA spokesman in Arlington, Va. Autopsies on nine of 10 miners killed in the explosion indicated they "lived minutes at the maximum, probably more like seconds," before succumbing to superheated gases and carbon monoxide that were products of the blast, the state medical examiner said Thursday. Nine miners died at the scene of smoke inhalation and the 10th miner died a short time later at a hospital of carbon monoxide inhalation, Dr. George Nichols said at a news conference. Nichols said there was no evidence of any disabling injuries to anyone else at the mine, which employs 367 workers on three shifts. 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