Show "I16 13 Hostages Escape as Gunman Gives In COLUMBIA Miik (APj — Thirteen people escaped unharmed from a Mississippi Farm Bureau office 9 where an armed man took hostage and held police at bay for more than eight hours before surrendering Wednesday Authorities said a former employee of the Marion County Farm Bureau M L Shaw allegedly walked into the Board of Directors meeting Tuesday night brandishing a pistol and two rifles and demanding seven years’ back pay “Although 1 knew the man when somebody has a gun and two cans of gasoline you don't know him” said CHICAGO (AP) — Warren Casey - five-gallo- of 'Grease’ Dies Co-Auth- or ’ suit against the company in federal court Chitum said Shaw wanted to talk to Farm Bureau President Hugh Arant but Arant was at a meeting in Aberdeen Mississippi Pittman said the gunman also demanded to see three other people whom the mayor refused to identify He said they were brought to Columbia from various places around the state Pittman identified them as people Shaw “had a personal bone to pick with ’’ A police SWAT team waited outside and hundreds of spectators showed up to watch the election-nigh- t ordeal unfold in the small Mississippi town a few miles north of the Louisiana border At about 3 30 am officers surrounded Shaw as he walked to a car outside the yellow brick building and left to meet Arant at a secret location Sgt Chuck Pierpont said Sheriff Webbie McKenzie said Shaw would be taken later to the State Hospital at Whitfield Pittman said that when the incident began about 50 people were playing bingo in a hall two doors down from the Farm Bureau office in downtown Columbia They were evacuated safely he said Mayor Steve Pittman Shaw 63 released eight hostages about 2 30 am Pittman said One man escaped out a back door soon after Shaw walked into the meeting and four others were released shortly afterward because of age or health problems Pittman said By 3 a m Police Chief Joe Sanders and the Revs Russell Bush and J Roy McComb had persuaded Shaw to give up his guns and both cans of gasoline Farm Bureau official Gary Chitum said Shaw was a manager at the insurance firm who was fired and had recently lost an of the hit musical "Grease" has died following a battle with AIDS He was 53 Casey died Tuesday at St Joseph’s Hospital He had been ill with ac- quired immune deficiency syndrome since February but continued composing music his companion Burt s Cohen told the Chicago “He will be remembered for his gift of humor his talent as a lyricist and author and his generosity of spirit" Cohen said Casey was best known as a collabo- Sun-Time- rator with Jim Jacobs of Chicago on “Grease" a joyous look at high school in the 1950s that went to Broadway and then became a movie Among its stars was actor John Travolta native of Yonkers N Y Casey earned a degree in fine arts at Syracuse University and later taught in New York high schools He came to Chicago in the 1960s and met Jacobs while acting w ith the Chicago Stage Guild Survivors include his mother and two brothers Funeral arrangements were pending A Crime and the US home 1987 24 percent ol all American households were touched by crime down (rom 32 percent in 1975 In US HOUSEHOLDS TOUCHED BY CRIME In percent ol loldl The Salt Iake Tribune Thursday November 1 9H8 A9 i Teams Finds Jet’s Wreck On Alaska Mountainside KODIAK Alaska (LTD — Searchers woiking in dense fog Wednesday located what they believed to be the jet wreckage of an Air Force fighter that was last seen Tuesday disappearing into the clouds with a large boom The wreckage and the remains of the pilot the plane's sole occupant were found at the 2200 foot level of 5 2488-foo- t Barometer Mountain said Sgt David llaulbrook of Klmen-dor- f Air Force Base in Anchorage was based until it left where the Tuesday for a base at King Salmon in southwest Alaska A 90 person ground search party from the Coast Guard the Air Force the Navy the Alaska State Troopers and a Kodiak mountain rescue team spread out over rugged terrain in awful weather Wednesday because t the cloud ceiling prevented an air search Coast Guard Lt Tom Saint said But 10 of the searchers a Navy and Air Force rescue unit dropped at the peak by a helicopter found the wreckage as they worked their way down the mountain llaulbrook said “There was only 50 feet visibility" he said “Considering how big that 700-foo- mountain is and how small that air“ plane is they were lucky to find it Officials were working to confirm that the wreckage was that of the llaulbrook said The missing pilot's identity was withheld 5 Cruise Ship Docks Following Fire MIAMI (UPI) — The cruise ship Song of America arrived in Cozumel Mexico Wednesday after one of four trigmain engines malfunctioned gering a shipboard fire a spokesman for Royal Caribbean Cruise Line said The engine room fire was quickly contained and there were no reports of injuries among the 1366 passengers or 500 crew said Rich Steck a spokesman for the 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