Show Placement program Hay flown to By United Press International Two Air Force planes flew tons of free hay from Illinois to drought-parche- d South Carolina Saturday the heat wave roasted most of the Eastern half of the nation and thunderstorms in southwest New York sent waters surging over a dam and residents fleeing for higher grounds At least 21 people have died from the heat wave that stretched from the South and the Central Atlantic states into the Midwest Two planes each carrying 50 tons of hay donated by Illinois growers to help South Carolina farmers feed their cattle flew from 100 C-1- 41 farmers drought-stricke- n Springfield HL Saturday in a move ordered by President Reagan Friday “There’s something about tough times that bring people together" said South Carolina Gov Dick Riley “Farmers everywhere have had their share of bad times Them's is a bond from the land they work a bond that knows no state boundaries" Hours before the planes arrived dosens of farmers lined up with trucks and trailers to collect the hay at Donaldson Center air field in Greenville The hay was unloaded with forklifts and moved to another area of the runway for distribution CAck Riley brought the plight of the Southern farmers to public attention last week and Illinois Gov James Thompson volunteered to ship the hay which is selling for about 1200 a bale in South Carolina Reagan ordered the Air Force to make the shipments when officials realized it would take too long to send the hay by train e As the marked its 14th day more than a dozen record highs for the date were broke or tied Columbia SC hit 106 breaking a War I record of 102 set in 1913 record with Charlotte NC broke a century-ol- d 103 Augusta Ga and Charleston Greer and Columbia SC also reached 103 degrees Thompson rolled up his sleeves to help load the hay in the planes Saturday Two more planes were scheduled to fly hay to South Carolina next week and Illinois officials also hoped to load two trains with 820000 bales of hay headed for the East next week Missouri officials reported Hazel Hughes 54 of St Louis whose body temperature was 109 when she was found died Saturday the seventh d illnesses this city resident to die of summer The temperature hit 100 in St Louis 80-c- ar heat-wav- pre-Wor-ld heat-relate- Saturday Kremlin fires officials MOSCOW Kremlin - Drenched Kids in Mendon ran through the valley's largest sprinkler Saturday during Mendon's Pioneer Day celebration Heather Reynolds (above) daughter of Jim and Mary Ann Brown of Mendon was lust one of the children who got the worst of it as the Mendon firemen hose them down The water spray was one of a variety of activities in Mendon which included foot races carnival games a baby show and fireworks The - The Chernobyl nuclear accident “gross breaches" of regulations fired four senior energy officials Saturday and said those responsible for the disaster would face criminal j- - 8 (UPI) blaming the on two-da- y celebration kicked off the July 24 holiday activities in Cache Valley charges A report on a government inquiry into the disaster placed the direct financial losses at 328 billion raised the death toll from 28 to 28 and said “several hundred thousand" people had been given medical checkups The ruling Politburo meeting in a special session was told in the report that 203 people had been found with radiation sickness and 30 remained hi the hospital “It was established that the accident had been caused by a series of gross breaches of the reactor operations regulations by workers of the atomic power station” said the report The explosion came during with experiments turbogenerator while the a ill-fat- ed No 4 reactor had been taken said Jeff AllredHerald Journal Nixon returns to US from Moscow NEW YORK (UPI) Former President Richard Nixon returned to the United States from Moscow Saturday without public comment after a weeklong visit He planned to brief President Reagan on his nearly two hours of private talks with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev who had not been in the Soviet Union since he was forced to resign in the 1974 before shortly Watergate scandal arrived at Kennedy International Airport aboard Air France flight 77 from Paris at 2:35 New school pm EDT said Lt Bernard Iannucci of the Port Authority police He was cleared by US Customs agents aboard the plane and escorted by police left in a limousine that was pulled up aong side the ramp and avoided waiting reporters iannucci said While in the Soviet Union Nixon stayed at an official guest house on the Lenin Hills overlooking Moscow Neither the Nixon party nor the Soviets released details of their discussions saying only that for the night it The explanation came almost three months after the April 26 explosion and fire at the 4000-megawa- Chernobyl tt nuclear power plant in the Ukraine The report said the staff of the meeting on Friday had covered the power station was poorly relations prepared for the experiments John Taylor an aide to Nixon said they had agreed and had not received the neceswith the White House before the trip that they would sary clearance from higher officials not publicly discuss the meetings in Moscow “We told President Reagan and the White House “Finally proper supervision before we left there would be no news conference was not organized when those while we were in Moscow" Taylor said Instead he experiments were carried out said there would be a “private discussion” between Nixon and Reagan on his return See KREMLIN on page 2 Nixon-Gorbach- ev US-Sovi- et program aims to ‘bridge the gap’ By Diane Browning children staff writer When Mount Logan Middle School sent some of its students back to school this summer the students didn’t go alone Their parents went too In a program initiated this summer 58 students at the middle school who had been identified as needing some additional help were placed into a pilot program The program not only provides additional academic help but also encourages the development of good communication and study skills Unlike traditional summer school programs where students attend classes much like they would during the regular school year the middle school program requires parent participation in the learning process While the students attend morning sessions for six weeks the parents attend weekly evening session where staff from Utah State University provide workshops in parenting and building effective study habits in their off-li-ne According to Debbie Peterson son Shane is whose completing the summer school the program has “been a blessing" Not only is she watching her son become more interested in school but the structure of the program which ‘Parents are teaching their children whether they realize it or not What they do affects their (child fs) behavior The exciting thing about this program is that you have the schools and parents emphasizes parent-chil- d com- munication has brought her much closer to her son she said Richard Jensen personnel director for Logan City schools wrote and procured funding for the program from the Utah Board of Juvenile Justice and the State Youth Board “There has been some discussion around the country of a disquieting movement in education” Jensen said “With the increase in graduation requirements some (people) feel there could be an increase in the (school) dropout rate “That this (the change in graduation requirements) could be counterproductive to the bottom third of the student population” working in partnership to help the kids — Richard Young Shane Peterson i |