Show 4 - TCIISHT: Sea Ue red showers Lows 30s and 40s TOMORROW: Slight chance of showers Page2A FORT MAY GO TARK FINALLY MANAGERS TO U OF U MAKES MARK TO GO Plan to give part of Fort Douglas to school UNIAs Runnin’ Rebels Top managers to three of four insolvent S&Ls take home NCAA championship Page IB unveiled Page IB have resigned Page ID j 'ANOAKO EXAMINER -- OGDEN UTAH oviefls SERVING NORTHERN UTAH SINCE 1888 50 CENTS debate Lithuanian rhetoric toned down MOSCOW (AP) — Soviet lawmakers heatedly debated a bill on secession today and leaders in Lithuania and Moscow struck a conciliatory tone on the Baltic republic’s independence drive Some deputies to the Supreme Soviet legislature found the bill too harsh while others thought the conditions it set were not demanding enough the official Soviet news agency Tass said The bill was approved by the Soviet of Nationalities one of two houses of the parliament Tass said without giving a vote epunt It was sent on to the second chamber the Soviet of the Union for possible consideration today An amendment approved by the Soviet of Nationalities re- quires any republic leaving the union to pay the costs of citizens who want to resettle back in the Soviet Union Lithuania has a large Russian minority President Mikhail S Gorbachev’s top deputy spoke of “friendly ties” with Lithuania and said the Kremlin does not question its right to secede — as long as it adheres to the constitution The comments by Anatoly I Lukyanov chairman of the Supreme Soviet parliament came as Lithuanian leaders sought a compromise that would allow them to start talks with Moscow without giving in to demands by Gorbachev that they first repeal (heir March 1 1 declaration of independence On Monday Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis said his republic intends to move toward independence gradually and through negotiations The statement marked something of a retreat from the recalcitrance that had characterized the Baltic state’s three-wee- k drive for divorce The secession bill would revote in a referquire a endum of any republic wishing to leave the Soviet Union A five-yetransition period would follow during which the republic and the Kremlin would divide up economic resources and settle any disputes In addition Moscow would have final say over terms of separation - two-thir- ds ar Soviet arrives for talks WASHINGTON (AP) — Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A Shevardnadze arrives today to face close questioning on the independence crisis in Lithuania from President Bush and Secretary of State James A Baker III Baker and Shevardnadze also are likely to discuss — and perhaps announce — a date for the next summit meeting between Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev The summit is tentatively planned to be held in Washington during the second half of June Meanwhile Lithuania’s chief diplomat in the United States said at a news conference that he would meet Shevardnadze any time during his US visit-But Stasys Lozoraitis Jr questioned whether Gorbachev is calling the shots in Lithuania See SOVIET on 2A Poland’s Foreign Ministry said the Soviet government today closed the only border crossing between Poland and Lithuania but there was no immediate comment by government officials Kremlin strong-ar- m tactics aimed at forcing the Lithuanians to back down have included sending armored vehicles through Vilnius to rattle the populace demanding citizens turn in their firearms and rounding up at least 23 Lithuanians who deserted the Red Army following the independence declaration Soviet officials say that if Lithuania or any other republic wants to secede it needs to follow the law Tamra Schenk’s kindergarten class at Uintah Elementary listens intently to By scon Standard-Examine- haunted-bar- n HARRIS Scary stories will come to an end r A landmark of the South h area’s rural atmosphere must be moved or torn down to make way for progress Steven and Camille Cain own the property where the threatened old bam is located and mey’re in the process of develtract that suroping the rounds the bam They will subdivide and sell the land as 10 home sites Steven Cain said The barn at 2200 Combe Road was built in April 1930 by John Combe who operated a dairy out of the bam George Combe a cousin later ran the dairy relatives of the original owner said “The bam is too interesting to tear down but it can’t stay in the way of progress or what someone wants to do to their land either" said Cory Combe another cousin of John Combe He said he originally was in- - SC Ogden-Uinta- Robert Pope'&tandard'Fxamifter stories By SCOTT HARRIS Standard-Examine- S' Vv v 14-ac- re r For 20 years Kathryn Halverson has been telling schoolchildren that the big red barn on Combe Road is haunted In Tamra Schenk’s kindergar- ten class at Uintah Elementary where Halverson is an aide haunted-bar- n stories were told again Friday And the students responded with interest many saying “It’s next to my house" Halverson said her stories JPL Bam was built 60 years ago by Combe Road terested in seeing the barn moved onto his father’s property adjacent to where the bam is now but he decided against it because of the costs involved in moving such a large structure “It’s becoming less and less likely the bam will be moved because the cost is prohibitive” Combe said He estimated that moving the See BARN on 2A probably do reinforce the idea kids in the Uintah area have that the bam is haunted Even though many who heard her stories Friday said her stories were “fake” and asked if they were real most said they would never go into that “scary old bam” See STORY on 2A Pentagon reveals Stealth fighter cost: $626 billion WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon releasing figures for its super-secrStealth fighter jet program said today it cost $626 billion to aird build the dark craft The plane which was used in combat as a “giant stun grenade” during the Panama invasion cost $1062 million each the Defense Department said By making Stealth information public Pentagon officials hope to increase support for the military’s “black budget” programs those that are kept tightly-held secrets by military and long-classifi- ed et delta-winge- Official name: Built by: Lockheed Total ordered: 59 Total cost: $826 billion Assigned: 4450th Tactical Group Support: 2650 men and women - Corp First flight: 1981 Cost: $1062 million APStandard-Examine- r graphic ed congressional leaders Many in Congress expressed “sticker shock” when the high-cofigures of $530 million per plane for the 2 Stealth bomber were released last year In light of that pressure has built for the release of information about other st B-- high-co- and st highly-classifie- d programs The packet distributed to reporters today included a series of photographs of the plane showing its angled exterior and slim profile in flight and on the runway The Air Force said the plane’s mission “is fo attack high priority targets anywhere in the world The F- -l 17A is designed to penetrate dense threat environments and hit targets with pinpoint ac- curacy” The statement also disclosed that there are approximately 2650 military men and women assigned to support the planes “Most live within the greater Las Vegas community” and commute to and from the Tonopah Test Range the statement said Although the plane reportedly has been operational since 1983 the Pentagon refused to even acknowledge that it existed until Conoco to buy homes set up compensation fund PONCA CITY Okla (AP) — Conoco Inc in one of the biggest settlements of its kind has agreed to pay $23 million to buy 400 homes and compensate families who say its refinery is giving them cancer and other illnesses Under the settlement an- nounced Monday with families who had sued the company for allegedly contaminating the air and water Conoco would buy the properties for about $18 million and establish a $5 million compensation fund Homeowner Mike Gallagher said his family was ready to move “The sooner the better Now we can go to the other side of 1 town No more nosebleeds No more headaches We can live g with air” he said Under the settlement Conoco a subsidiary of the Du Pont Co admits no liability “I would put that as one of the largest relocation settlements in the country” Conoco attorney Mark Zehler said Two comparable cases involved government money: the evacuation of homes built atop tons of chemical waste at Love Canal in Niagara Falls NY and the virtual abandonment in 1982 of Times Beach Mo which was tainted by dioxin The Love Canal buyout in 1978 involved about $19 million good-smellin- ( to purchase 232 homes In Times Beach about $33 million was spent to buy 393 properties Homeowners in the Circle Drive area of Ponca City had complained since 1987 that groundwater laced with hydrocarg bons including banzene seeped into their basecancer-causin- ments and threatened their health Some residents camped out at the state Capitol for weeks in 1988 to get the state to buy their houses The protesters said heavy rain two years earlier had unleashed sludge-tha- t toxic reddish-orang- e bubbled up from cracks in sidewalks and black slime that oozed into their basements 1 Conoco said then the sludge of iron ore and the state Health Department and federal Environmental Protection Agency agreed there was no health hazard But residents said they had suffered an inordinate rate of cancer deaths and other ailments Gallagher said his wife mi scar- ried twice Another baby was' born three months premature and weighed 2 pounds 2 ounces He lived a week Gallagher said '“People ask why wejlidn’t leave" he said “We couldn’t afwas the result ford it” Refinery for these residents for Ponca City and for Conoco” “The situation has caused dissension in our community for too long — it’s time to put it behind us” he said Anna Sue Rafferty who spoke on behalf of tb£plaintiffc declined to fix blame “To Conoco and Du Pont we say ‘thank you’ in coming forth with this settlement” Rafferty said “I’d just like to say none of us is happy to be leaving our home No one intended to get rich” manager Dennis Parker said Conoco settled “because it is the right thing to do — A hearing on the settlement is set for June 5 in federal court in Oklahoma City November 1988 The Air Force used the super-secrplane in combat for the first time during the invasion of Panama last Dec 20 using the et aircraft to drop 2000-poun- d bombs on a field outside the barracks where the Panamanian Defense Forces 6th and 7th infantry companies were housed Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams said the was used to “disorient stun and confuse" the PDF so it could not react to the US paratroopers dropping onto the nearby Rio Hato airfield fighter-bomb- er |