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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
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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.
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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;
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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
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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-
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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. The building has a
wrecked an office of Saudi Arabi- travel agency on the ground floor.
an Airlines and "very seriously Police said it was not clear who
hurt" one person, probably a pass- planted the bombs or the motives
er-by. for them.
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