4—The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Sept. 28, 1982 state/nation/world Torrential rains ruin crops Raisin growers lose more than two scoops By JOHN RICE Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO Torrential rains brought to Califor nia by tropical storm Olivia wiped out much of the new U.S. raisin crop and struck hard at canning tomatoes, according to industry figures quoted yesterday. "It is a disaster. We are approaching a point now that Vie can expect total losses for a lot of individual growers," Fresno County farm adviser Peter Christensen said. 'There are going to be some huge losses." The unseasonal, harvest-time rains caught about 90 percent of the raisin harvest as the grapes were drying in the fields, Fresno County Agriculture Commissioner Cos mo Insalaco said. - Raisin growers had hoped for a bumper harvest of more Chan 260,000 tons following a relatively small harvest last year. Ron Kister, president of tie Raisin Bargaining Associa tion in Fresno, said it looked as if 70 percent to 75 percent of the raisin crop was in danger, although the exact extent of the damage would not be known for some time. He said only 25 percent to 30 percent of the crop is known to be safe. Kister said about 94,000 tons of raisins from previous Years' harvests were in reserve when the storms hit. Larry Wharton, vice president of Sun-Maid Growers of Funeral services held for 7 of 13 slain By 808 DVORCHAK Associated Press Writer WILKES-BARRE Seven of the 13 victims allegedly slain by prison guard George Banks were buried at two private services yesterday, as state officials revealed that Banks threatened to kill himself three weeks ago while on the job. "On Sept. 6, George Banks did say he would commit suicide," said Ken Robinson, spokesman for the state Bureau of Corrections during a news conference•in Harrisburg. "He was immediately relieved of duty and taken to Holy Spirit Hospi tal for review," Robinson said. Early Saturday morning, police say, Banks shot and killed 13 people and critically injured another while on a bloody rampage that took him to two residences and ended in a standoff with police at a vacant house. The victims included five of Banks' own children and the four % • \‘' Tonight W.C.BILLHICK BAND THE • (. S(IEGDD 101 Hiester St. Serving Pepsi• Cola LAW SCHOOL - SHOULD I APPLY? Talk with Admissions Director Ms. Sandra Weckesser of TEMPLE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL PLACE: 114 Burrowes Building TIME: 9:00-12:00 noon DATE: September 28, 1982 For an appointment, contact Linda Klinger at 863-7515, 107 Burrowes Building California estimated the raisin losses at $2OO million "We're talking hundreds of millions of dollars here, but I don't think anywhere near a billion" in overall farm losses, California Farm Bureau spokesman Clark Biggs said. Members of the Raisin Bargaining Association met Monday and withdrew its offer price of $1,195 a ton. Kister said the group would meet again Oct. 5 and might set a new price then. The sun and breezes needed to dry the crops came out Sunday and stayed yesterday, but the National Weather Service reported that raisin drying conditions in the Fresno area would be slow. The rains also threatened the canning tomatoes with rot and mold. California produces most of the nation's crop and about 20 percent of that was in the fields when the rains came. "We're going to lose a significant amount of that 20 percent," Biggs said, and the loss "is going to mean the prices at least stay up where they are." Figs, alfalfa hay, cotton and wine grapes also suffered damage, Insalaco said, although it ' was too early to determine how much. About half the state's wine grape crop had been harvest ed before the rain hit and most of the rest seemed to be free of the bunch rot and mold that growers had feared. women who gave birth to them. Robinson had said Saturday that Banks had a good work record and had no history of trouble on the job. Banks served prison time for at tempted robbery and escape, but was hired as a guard in 1980 at the state prison at Camp Hill and was assigned to tower duty. One person after another inter viewed over the weekend made ref erences to personal problems, including a child custody battle, that Banks said he could no longer handle. A close friend, Robert Brunson, who helped police negotiate Banks' surrender, had said the guard sought help at •one point, but couldn't get it. Robinson said Banks was re leased from Holy Spirit Hospital and was told to set up an appoint ment at a mental health center in Wilkes-Barre, where he lived. Banks made an appointment and Real Estate & Insurance Clubs Meet Tonite. TAU KAPPA EPSILON 346 E. Prospect Ave. ORGANIZATION & MEMBERSHIP MEETING Meet the Faculty Refreshments served called the prison Wednesday asking if he could return to work. "He was told he couldn't until he met the staff psychiatrist," Robin son said. "That meeting was sched uled for this (Monday) morning." Saturday, Banks was listed as being on vacation by Robinson, who also said he did not know of the suicide threat. The incident oc curred while Banks was in his as signed guard tower at the prison. He was armed at the time. Meanwhile, two services were held to bury seven of the victims. Four people killed in a mobile home in Jenkins Township were buried in nearby Swoyerstown fol lowing a 20-minute service at 2 P.m., attended by 75 family mem bers and friends. "There were a lot of people cry ing. A lot of them had tears in their eyes," said the Rev. Joseph Borda of the Christ Assembly Church. Buried were Alice Mazzillo, 47; CititititiCitiC4Cititit4 Tonight at the Drewery D. 1b). ROCKS Suzie Wong Egg Rolls Nightly 10-2 IC4CItIC4CICIC4C4CICICIC4C EMT BOSTON 11 STATE COLLIDE ITEI Boston . . , Tea Parties - . . . Paul Revere . . . The Commons . . . Fresh Seafood. Enjoy an old memory with a fresh seafood dinner at Great America Family Restaurant on North Atherton Street. Fresh seafood and old recipies from around this great country . . . served daily from 11:30. Come travel through our extensive menue featuring cooking from your favorite regions of America. The next best thing to being there is being here. We await the ple Featured this week . . Fresh Boston Scrod brow order and shrimp, clams fish combined in our spy New England Seafood Pie. next best thing to being t! 011 + J 14 • 1 her daughter, Sharon Mazzillo, 24; her grandson, Scott, 7, who hap pened to be visiting the trailer that night, and Kissmayu Banks, the 5- year-old son of Sharon Mazzillo. Also at 2 p.m., three other victims were interred at St. Mary's Ceme tery in Wilkes-Barre following Mass in the chapel, according to an offi cial who attended the service. Bur ied were Dorothy Lyons; her 11- year-old daughter by a previous husband, Nancy, and her 1-year-old son, Foraroude Banks. Services for five other victims, who will be buried at county ex pense, will be held in private at an unknown time. The funeral for Raymond Hall Jr., 24, will be held at 9:30 a.m. today. Hall died' of bullet wounds to the chest. A companion, James Olsen, 22, remained in critical but stable condition yesterday after he also was shot in the chest. No Cover! 1688 N. ATHERTO (next to the liquor store In the Village Square Shopping Center) 8.Y.0.8. Piens! Open 11:30am) A California Highway Patrolman attempts to cross flooding waters after opening one lane of highway, 395 outside of Big Pine, Calif. But the flood scene in Fresno was one of extensive crop damage. Fiscal year to begin Friday WASHINGTON (AP) The na- called "thrifty food plan" for food tion's 22 million food stamp recipients stamp recipients as part of President will get an average 8.5 percent bene- Reagan's first round of budget cuts. fit increase their first in two years The lawmakers also rejiggered the —on Friday as the government be- formula to hold down this year's gins a new fiscal year. increase in the $11.3 billion program. But the start of fiscal 1983 will also They ordered $548 million in savings usher in cutbacks and economy mea- including reduced payments to sures in other welfare programs and states with high error rates —in a bid Medicare, the health insurance pro- to keep the fiscal 1983 costs under $ll gram for 28 million elderly and dis- billion. abled Americans. As part of the $lOO billion tax boost Many adults seeking Aid to Fami- that Congress enacted in August, lies with Dependent Children will be Medicare is putting new limits on required to look for work first. hospital reimbursements. Medicare will no longer pay . for It also will pay radiologists and priyate rooms in hospitals or skilled pathologists only 80 percent of their nursing facilities, unless the patient's "reasonable" costs. condition requires seclusion. The Although these and other changes health insurance program will only in reimbursement rates are directed pay for semi-private rooms, saving at hospitals, physicians and other $54 million. health care providers, some advoca- Food stamp benefits have not risen cy groups fear the elderly will wind since 1980. The boost on Friday will up paying a larger share of their raise the average monthly benefits medical bills out of their own pockets. for a family of four by $2O from $233 to The tax bill also allows states to $253. charge adult Medicaid patients a Congress skipped last year's nor mal annual adjustment in the so- THE ORIGINAL 1 CLOTHES IN tiegilo PLAY CLOTHES SPORT ALL COTTON MICHAEL'S CLOTHING Co. MINI MALI. gentle% MINI MALI. iO V 47 238-4050 OPEN DAILY FROM 10-5 • _ et)." SUb it ierb OeizaVarial $1,1190 - 9 leack&viTil beer clipped. avid deep d ied. 2.25 1140 5 Al IWO *College Ave me WO *thin versify Drive 13ella(re Ave, 4 Westerly PBr - loday Shoppirici earf-trv-- small fee for all non-emergency serv ices. Conserve water. AP Laserphoto state news briefs Funding for two highways approved HARRISBURG (AP) The gram. The program is designed to U.S. Department of Transports- help both city areas meet federal tion has approved $B2 million in pollution standards. federal funding for two highway The federal fiscal year ends projects in Pennsylvania despite a Thursday, and the funds would judicial freeze, Gov. Dick Thorn- have reverted to the federal gov burgh announced yesterday. ernment for redistribution to other The money is for completion of a states. three-mile stretch of Interstate 95 But Department of Transporta in Philadelphia and reconstruction tion spokesman James McCarron of a 2 1 / 2 -mile section of the Penn- said the two projects are Lincoln Parkway in Pittsburgh. exempted from the judge's freeze. U.S. Dist. Judge Louis Bechtle McCarron says both state and froze the matching federal funds federal transportation depart last January because the state ments have determined that the I- Legislature refused to allocate 95 project around Philadelphia money • for a federally-mandated International Airport will improve auto emissions inspection pro- safety and reduce pollution. Volkswagen plant back in operation NEW STANTON (AP) —Volks- July 30. wagen of America yesterday be- The GTI Rabbit, a new car to be gan recalling some 3,800 made at the plant, is a limited production workers back to its volume vehicle with higher horse automobile assembly plant in power than the conventional mod- Westmoreland County. el, Bahn said. The factory in East Huntingdon So far this year, the plant has Townshiop was closed for eight only operated 18 weeks and has weeks to prepare fora changeover been shut for 20 weeks. "We've to the 1983 models and parts res- been down eight weeks in a row. It tocking, VW spokesman Chet was a model change and parts Bahn said. problem," Bahn said. "The other The plant will produce 650 VW shutdowns were an effort to help Rabbit and GTI models cars and the dealers reduce inventory." pickup trucks daily when it reach- The production force will even es full production after a training tually be reduced to correspond period, Bahn said. It was making with the lower daily production, about 724 cars a day when it closed Balm said. Governor avoids meeting with Ertel WILLIAMSPORT (AP) —Gov. Carey, a member of Thornburgh's Dick Thornburgh apparently went staff who had . already arrived at out of his way yesterday to avoid a the museum, got a telephone call. chance meeting with his Demo- She then announced that the gov cratic opponent Allen Ertel. ernor was running behind sched- The governor was scheduled to ule and would not stop. stop for a visit at the newly opened Carey also told Ertel that Thorn- Little League museum near here, burgh was coming in an official but he abruptly changed his plans capacity and didn't want to turn after learning that Ertel had his visit into a political event. showed up. If the governor planned an offi- According to a reporter for the cial visit, Ertel said, then he, as Williamsport Sun-Gazette, who the district's congressman, was was at the scene, a member of the present to officially welcome the governor's security detail radioed state's chief executive. to Thornburgh's car that Ertel Ertel said the governor seemed was present. to be running away instead of A short time later, Marcie running against his opponent. nation news briefs Government may help busing critics WASHINGTON (AP) The trict. Reagan administration said yes- "I have also emphasized, how terday it is considering going to ever, that our principal focus in court to help critics of several this area is on prospective relief; court-ordered school busing plans we do not intend to initiate efforts seek changes in them. to undo existing decrees. William Bradford Reynolds, as- "Where a school board seeks to sistant attorney general in charge modify a busing plan that is not of the Civil Rights Division of the working, and requests our sup- Justice Department, declined to port, we will of course give that identify the school districts. request serious consideration and "We have said all.along that the where appropriate we might well Justice Department is opposed to support modification in court." relying on mandatory busing as a For example, Reynolds said, the remedial technique to desegregate department recently filed papers public schools," Bradford said. in the sth U.S. Circuit Court of "That remedy has failed to work Appeals in a school busing case in in school district after school dis- East Baton Rouge, La. Senators may filibuster to block bill WASHINGTON (AP) Ten sen- ey to enforce inspection and main ators said yesterday they will at- tenance programs. tempt to block a pending The Senate version of the bill appropriations bill unless a con- contains no such amendment. The troversial amendment repealing conference committee is meeting automobile inspection and mainte- this week to resolve differences nance programs is removed. between the House and Senate Sen. Gary Hart, D-Colo., said versions. the senators would filibuster if The 10 senators said in a letter necessary to block the measure that the auto amendment could unless the auto amendment is re- prompt states to repeal inspection moved by a House-Senate confer- and maintenance programs • ence committee. The Senate Environment Com- The House voted 200-184 to tack mittee, which has jurisdiction the amendment onto a 1983 appro- over the Clean Air Act, has reject priations bill for the Environmen- ed attempts to make major tal Protection Agency. The changes in the auto pollution con provision bars use of federal mon- trot program. world news briefs Air France cancels Concorde flights PARIS (AP) Air France an- France's total Concorde service to nounced yesterday that its last seven round-trip flights a week round-trip Concorde flights be- between New York and Paris. tween Paris and Washington D.C. French Transportation Minister and Paris and Mexico City will Charles Fiterman had said last take place Oct. 29 and Oct. 31, week that Air France's Washing respectively. ton and Mexico City flights on the Concorde's two twice-a-week supersonic passenger jets would Washington and Mekico City nun, be eliminated sometime before the both with,stops in New York, have end of the year. He said the cost been flying at about 50 percent of cutting move would save the gov capacity, officials of the state- ernment $4.8 million in 1983. owned airline said. Air France is expected to lose The cancellation will trim Air about $25 million this year. Three bombs explode in Frankfurt FRANKFURT, West Germany The first bomb at 1:13 a.m. (8:13 (AP) Three bombs exploded in p.m. EDT), damaged the Iran Air Frankfurt early yesterday, cans- offices opposite the city's main ing serious injury to one person train station, police said. and damaging the offices of two Two minutes later, a second Middle East airlines. bomb rocked an apartment build- Police said the third blast, seve- ing near a main train station in the ral hours after the first two, east of the city. 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