Show The Vol76 No 185 16 Logan Utah pages 2 25 cents sections Tail section found may have caused JAL crash TOKYO (UPI) — A tanker crew in waters outside Tokyo today discovered a crucial tail section of a Japan Air lines jet that may have fallen from JAL Flight 123 before it crashed Four of the 524 people aboard were found alive Rescuers who found the survivors amid the smoking wreckage of the Boeing 747 jumbo jet on a remote mountainside earlier today feared the other 520 passengers and crew were killed making it the most deadly crash involving a single airplane in aviation history Six Americans were aboard JAL spokesman Masaru Watanabe said in an interview that part of the vertical stabiliser a rudder that provides essential directional control in the tail of a plane was found by a the crew of a construction tanker in Sagami Bay about 80 miles southeast of Tokyo It brae part of the distinctive JAL red crane logo he said The loss of the stabilizer could provide investigators with the cause of the disaster and coincided with reports that the pilot had trouble inntwJliB the prior to the crash The part was found on the flight path of the Osaka-boun- d airliner which had set out from on a southerly course over Sagami Bay Tokyo but then veered far to the north and west The tail section was found more than 100 miles from pli b rad J ustadH erald Journal pipe appears to have attacked the truck carrying it but fortunately the unusual accident this morning resulted in no injuries The truck was hauling the pipe to the Logan City hydroelectric plant under This Pipe problem 52000-poun- d construction in Logan Canyon when the unidentified driver apparently lost control of the vehicle west of the city on Valley View Highway (Utah 30) The driver's efforts to regain control of his vehicle apparently caused the pipe to roll off the trailer bed After the truck stopped facing in the opposite direction just off the highway the piperalled into the cab No further details were available at press time and the accident was still under investigation by the Utah highway Patrol the crash site “Without a vertical stabilizer you can’t control an aircraft" Watanabe said He said an intact vertical stabilizer is about 24 feet high 11 feet wide and 27 inches thick Watanabe said the part was being transported to Tokyo for examination by JAL engineers but Union Carbide INSTITUTE WVa (UPI) said it was “highly likely" the part belonged to criticized for in warning citizens of a delays Flight 123 He declined to speculate how the tail toxic gas leak considers the chemical that section could have been lost sickened 134 people more hazardous than it has A Japanese military spokesman earlier said stated an internal document revealed search teams had recovered 52 bodies from the publicly A 1983 company memo released in densely wooded mountainside 60 miles Washington shows that Union Carbide places northwest of Tokyo where the plane crashed the chemical aldicarb oxime in Class 4 the Monday night includes that methyl isocyanate or Authorities at first feared all aboard' were category MIC lhe pbison that escaped last December dead but Nagano police said rescue teams from a Carbide plant in Bhopal India killing an dropped in by helicopter found two women and estimated 2500 people two girls alive in the wreckage 17 hours after of Class 4 is the most toxic of four Chemical ‘more dangerous’ than reported - -- the crash chemicals categories survivors had been sitting in the rear Senate Democratic leader Robert Byrd of the plane There were reports from the scene public safety “our paramount concern’ calling of more survivors being found but police could demanded a full accounting of the pesticide leak See CRASH on page 2 and planned to bring federal officials to the All four Institute plant today to question Carbide officials Carbide officials have referred to aldicarb oxime as an eye and nose irritant since it leaked from the pesticide plant Sunday in a yellow cloud of gas and rolled through four cities The Carbide document indicates the company is misleading the public about its dangers said who released the Jlep Henry Waxman Nov 28 1983 memo Monday “The fact that Carbide has internal documents that indicate the chemical is of a serious nature but publicly of a less serious nature that’s even more unsettling" an aide to Waxman said An independent consultant on chemical health and safety said the dangers of aldicarb oxime have not been fully disclosed by the company “In my opinion aldicarb is worse than MIC in terms of toxicity Aldicarb is nasty" Dr Jay Young said Young said it takes 70 times as much methyl isocyanate as aldicarb to kill an experimental rat in a laboratory “If there had been more leaked there certainly would have been some deaths" Young said by telephone from Washington “In terms of what it wUl do to you with increasing amounts it causes nausea vomiting weakness tightness of the chest difficulty m breathing vision problems poor muscular coordination twitching convulsions coma and death" he said Company spokesmen confirmed aldicarb oxime is rated in the same class of chemicals as MIC but declined comment Franklin needs help with indigent care commission told By Hilary G Israelsen staff writer PRESTON Idaho — Indigent health care topped rate of the longest agendas of the year for the Franklin County Commission in its regular monthly meeting Monday State representatives Robert Geddes and Myron Jams and Sen Reed Budge Springs met with commissioners to discuss the problems associated with health care of county indigents According to Franklin County Clerk Corrie da Keller indigent health care involves care of people who are county residents or people who are passing through the county and are injured white they are there Keller said that indigent care hasn’t been a problem until recently Last year according to Keller the county was involved in two claims from the University of Utah Medical Center involving illegal aliens who were living in the county Shannon Snow indigent service director for the county said counties need a break According to Snow Utah has much better indigent health care policies that involve the state much more than the counties She suggested the legislators look at Utah’s policies Commissioner Jack Moser said “There is something amiss when there are no guidelines or restrictions to the medical treatment these people receive they just get the red-carp- et treatment" Mumford the assistant prosecuting attorney for Franklin County called the county “an insurance company without the benefit of a Ron deductible" Budge representing Caribou County said the problem lies in the definition of an indigent “There is no good definition for an indigent" “I don’t know how you are going to address the problem I think the responsibility should stay with the county if you send it to the state you have no control” Geddes stated that the first move in solving the problem is to define the bounds of the county's obligation According to Keller the county spent $143000 this year and will spend $270000 next year on indigent care he said See FRANKLIN on page2 Hatch urges local task force to ‘raise Cain9 in Washington By Kristi Glissmeyer staff writer Sen Orrin Hatch encouraged members of a Cache and Rich County task force Monday to “raise Cain" in Washington concerning issues affecting local levels of government newly-organize- d “Staffs back there members of the National Association of Counties are extra liberal They represent big cities and make y decisions because we don’t raise said during an Hatch Cain" enough informal discussion Monday evening at the Logan City Council Chambers with commission members mayors and citizens from big-cit- ah Sen Orrin Hatch was in town Monday to speak with a newly formed task force towns in Cache and Rich counties Small-tow- n opinions and issues need to be heard in Washington Hatch said Hatch staff members have organized Utah's 29 counties into 14 individual task force units in order to “reach out to community members" he said and to enhance the senator's ability to represent Utah by establishing better communication with local leaders The meetings are held mainly to hear local concerns Hatch said as he opened discussion to about 30 community leaders Monday Two of the most widely discussed issues were the plight of state and national farmers and the problems of higher city and county insurance rates “What bothers me” said Newton Mayor Max Christiansen “is when the president of the United States gets out his pen acts like he is still a movie star and says 'Make my day!' so he can write the farmers off” Christiansen continued “It bothers me when the governor of this state says farmers deserve just what they got and in the very next sentence say there needs to be something done about the prison facilities Don't those prisoners deserve what they got?" Hatch told Christiansen that massive subsidies mean massive taxes “We don't want subsidies” Christiansen governsaid “We don't want this ment set up here by where rich people play us sll as slaves “I'm sick of people who subsidize tobacco one-wor- ld See HATCH on page 2 a Inside Ufeother today Some say he called everybody Bill because he owed all his friends money Others insist it Nevada has asked a federal appeals court to overturn DOE rules used to deny the state $14 million for independent studies l of a proposed 4 nuclear dump site was because he couldn't see past the end of his cap But 4 they all agreed on one thing high-leve- f |