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12 ELKO DAILY FREE PRESS, Elko, Nevada Friday, May 29, 1992 Wire netrs summary: 2.4 GDP grew at clip in first quarter I rVr. r- WASHINGTON (AP) The economy from January to March grew at the fastest pace since the early months of the Bush administration but the rebound remained lackluster by historical standards. The gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic health, grew at a 2.4 percent annual rate, adjusted for seasonal variations and inflation, the Commerce Department said today. A month earlier it had estimated growth in the nation's output of goods and services at a somewhat smaller 2 percent rate. In an accompanying report, the department said after-tax corporate profits surged at an 8 percent annual rate in the first quarter, the biggest gain in four years.

Also, bank officers told the Federal Reserve that loan demand is picking up from consumers and small and medium-sized businesses. "The GDP report is good news, i 'i (Associated Prwsl Union members from the Communications Workers of America and IBEW rallied outside the offices in downtown Boston today. The workers are demanding higher wages and better job security. Their contract expires at midnight tomorrow. union contract set to expire tomorrow political work as part of their official duties; the use of government equipment for campaign work is also banned.

The newly issued subpoenas went to three employees of the House post office, a contract agency of the U.S. Postal Service. They include Griff Williams, the son of Rep. Pat Williams, who formerly worked as a courier. Also subpoenaed were James Jenkins, who also acted as a courier, and Kimberly Scrogum, an aide to the post office's chief of staff, Joanna O'Rourke who is now on medical leave.

The subpoenas ask all three to appear before the grand jury Tuesday. Williams and Jenkins also were told to bring documents and keys relating to boxes at two U.S. post offices in Washington D.C. "obtained on behalf of lawmakers or their political committees from 1985 through 1992. Balanced budget WASHINGTON (AP) House Democratic leaders, hoping to stave off a more severe "balanced budget" amendment to the Constitution, have proposed an alternate version that exempts the Social Security program from any benefit cuts.

But conservatives at the reins of the balanced-budget bandwagon say that won't fly. Neither proposal would guarantee truly balanced federal budgets. Even the stricter proposal would allow exemptions by three-fifths votes of the House and Senate, and Congress and the president would still be free to employ accounting gimmicks, as they have in the past under statutory constraints, to claim compliance. Earth Summit WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush, ending a debate about what portion of the Earth Summit he will attend in Rio de Janeiro, has decided to go for the closing part with other world leaders, his chief of staff said today. Bush will depart Washington on June 11 and leave the environmental conference on the night of June 12 or the morning of June 13, said Samuel K.

Skinner. further demonstrating the return to a pattern of more solid economic growth since the start of the year," said Michael Boskin, President Bush's chief economic adviser. House Post Office WASHINGTON (AP) A federal grand jury investigating the House Post Office is probing a possible arrangement in which employees were used as couriers to deliver campaign contributions to congressional offices, according to congressional sources and information in three new subpoenas. The sources said that congressional investigators working independently have received testimony along the same lines, but haven't reached any conclusions about wrongdoing. Both federal law and House rules restrict the receipt of campaign contributions in government offices.

In addition, employees are barred from would not make sense. In other business, the commission: Approved a plan by the City of Elko to rezone more than eight acres off old Highway 40 west of town, next to Canyon Construction, from agricultural residential to light industrial. Assistant City Manager Michael Klein told the board the city had some people interested in renting the property. Approved Frank Arregui's request to rezone about five acres off Last Chance Road from open space to general industrial. Arregui wants to sell the property to AAA Drilling, said Duane Merrill of High Desert Engineering.

Approved a right-of-way request from Wells Rural Electric Company on property by Tabor Creek. The company wants to construct a distribution powerline. Unregistered cars may be hit with fee said also would work with temporary employment agencies to recruit and train workers, if necessary. Linnen said another wage offer was being made today as well as proposals for other benefits, but he did not elaborate. Miller said the union also disagreed with an earlier proposal that would require pensioners to pay a portion of their health insurance premiums.

Currently, both active and retired workers get full Carlin's blood drive ends with 194 pints WASHINGTON (AP) The nation's largest long-distance telephone company says management will step into union jobs to prevent disruption of phone service if workers go on strike when their contract expires Saturday night. American Telephone and Telegraph negotiators were trying today to settle on a new, three-year contract with its 125,000 employees represented by the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Members of both unions authorized their negotiators to call a strike if agreement couldn't be reached by 11:59 p.m. Saturday when the contract expires. "Nobody ever wants to strike," said CWA spokesman Jeff Miller.

But he said the union was dissatisfied with the company's response to concerns about job losses, wages and pensions. The company's offer of an 8 percent wage increase over three years was not accepted by union negotiators earlier this week. Contract talks only affect operations within this country. Service in other countries would not be affected if workers strike. Company spokesman Herb Linnen said 95 percent of domestic and international long-distance calls are dialed directly, but an extended walkout could lead to problems getting calls in and out of the United States.

If workers do strike, Linnen said, the company's contingency plan, under development since last summer, would use all active and retired management to cover union jobs. He Afghanistan president survives rocket attack KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) A rocket slammed into a Kabul airport runway today as a plane carrying interim President Sibghatullah Mojad-didi and 69 other people taxied in after landing. No one was seriously hurt, airport officials said. The co-pilot on the flight from Pakistan was cut in the arm by shrapnel that pierced the cockpit window, officials said. Two other rockets, fired from north of the airport, missed.

No one claimed responsibility for the late-afternoon attack. Suspicions centered on radical Muslim fundamentalist guerrillas, camped outside Kabul. Passengers said they heard whistling noises and then saw flashes of blinding light as the rocket smashed into the runway. An ashen-faced Mo-jaddidi emerged later with the rest company paid health insurance. When negotiations opened March 30, the unions made clear that their chief concern was job security because has said it intends to eliminate thousands of unionized positions in favor of automation.

The contract covers long-distance operators, technicians who install communications equipment and circuits for long-distance service, customer and account representatives and more than 30,000 people in 18 plants across the country. The last three-day drive, in September, collected 173 pints. Tom Choi, director of community relations for United Blood Services' Reno office, said this week UBS has been getting roughly 600 units of blood a year from Carlin. "They have a great turnout" And UBS honored Heath this winter as "coordinator of the year" for his volunteer efforts in Carlin for the blood drive, Choi said. The non-profit United Blood Services provides blood to all the hospitals in Nevada with the exception of Elko General Hospital, which uses supplies from Intermountain Health Care of Salt Lake City, Choi said.

Both UBS and IHC belong to the national blood clearinghouse, he added. "This has been coming for a long time. With or without Perot we're getting there. And in some. ways we're the poorer for it," Hess said.

"I think he may lose something by doing it that way. He might have learned some things if he had gone out, shook hands and met a lot of people. You can't do that sitting in a studio and talking to another studio," he said. Still, "I don't doubt that other people will pick up on this because it can be very efficient," Hess said. Perot today was certified for the general election ballot in Idaho, bringing to 10 the number of states where he has won a ballot slot He is also on the ballot in Tennessee, Utah, Delaware, Maine, Kentucky, Wyoming, Texas, Florida and New Jersey.

Marina to be with her daughter While living on a ranch at Pigeon Springs, the family had its own school, with a teacher provided by the state, due to the number of children in the family. Survivors include eight of her 14 children, Penny Sheen, Mary Borland, Dwain Penrod and Robert Penrod Jr. of Elko, Harold Penrod of Reno, Jessie Baker of Marina, Nancy Shobar of Santa Maria, and Bernice Kazmerak of Oxnard, 30 grandchildren; and 40 greatgrandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband in 1967. Cremation was in Marina.

A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday, June 28, at Calvary Baptist Church in Elko. In her memory, contributions are suggested to Dr. George Manilla's Cancer Research Fund, care or Elko General Hospital. Ross Perot campaign Carlin's three-day blood drive that ended yesterday brought in a record 194 pints, but fell short of its 250-pint goal.

Blood drive coordinator Bob Heath said today the final tally was "quite a bit short of the goal," but "we're all happy everything went smoothly." He said 211 potential donors showed up for the drive, but some couldn't give blood for health reasons. The United Blood Services (UBS) drive, sponsored by Carlin Volunteer Fire Department and Ambulance Service, had fewer walk-ins this time, Heath said. Most donors had appointments. Carlin's previous drive, in January, took in 180 pints in two days, far more than the 120 pints expected. plete with traditional red, white and blue campaign images, Squires said Perot plans to shun the variety of photo opportunities that candidates have subjected themselves to in the past.

"No flag factories and no tank driving," he said. "Dukakis in the tank with the helmet on was not Dukakis and it backfired on him. It was an exaggerated image," Squires said of 1988 Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis, who once posed in a tank and helmet. "Perot will never do anything that goofy." Satellite appearances are nothing new in politics. Brookings Institution analyst Stephen Hess recalls helping President Eisenhower set up longdistance public campaign calls.

But substituting television for travel is a new twist, analysts agree. tries first satellite rally Saying they had spent enough time trying to come up with a definition for a classic car, Elko County Planning Commission members have decided it may be better to charge some owners of unregistered cars rather than try to regulate them. Under a plan proposed by member Wayne Marteney, planners will look into charging individuals who have more than two unregistered cars. Board members did not make a determination Wednesday on how much to charge, but voted to have Chris Johnson, board chairman, look into it further. Johnson said he probably would contact Elko Deputy District Attorney Mike Memeo for a legal opinion.

And board members said they wanted Elko County Commissioners to pass an ordinance requiring the fee, so that violators could be issued tickets instead of coming before them. Planners have spent time at a number of meetings trying to come up with a definition for a classic car. They hoped the definition would make it easier to enforce county zoning ordinances. Last year, when members were investigating complaints of zoning violations, some people who were accused of keeping junk cars told the board they were owners of antiques and should not be forced to remove their vehicles. Marteney said a person who owns a number of junk cars probably would not be willing to fork out $25 to $50 apiece to keep them.

"I can't think of any other way. It's clear cut, there it is," he said. Planners were not sure whether someone who kept his unregistered vehicle in an enclosure would be charged or whether the plan would be effective in all zoning areas. Some members said trying to make such an ordinance effective for ranchers who live miles away from anyone else Weather Elko, Spring Creek and vicinity: Tonight, partly cloudy during the evening, then mostly clear, lows near 40. Tomorrow and Sunday, mostly clear, highs near 80, lows around 40.

Elko's low tonight, 40; high tomorrow, 80; low tomorrow night, 40. For northeastern Nevada: Tonight, partly cloudy during the evening, then mostly clear, lows in the upper 30s to lower 40s. Tomorrow and Sunday, mostly clear, highs in upper 70s to middle 80s; lows, upper 30s to middle 40s. Battle Mountain's low tonight, 42; high tomorrow, 84; low tomorrow night, 42. Jackpot temperatures, 417841.

Extended outlook for northeastern Nevada for Monday and Tuesday: Mostly clear, isolated afternoon thunderstorms possible, highs in the 80s, lows in the 40s. Weather at Elko for the 24 hour period ending at 11 a.m.: HighLow (Precip) WILDHORSE TTHSr ELKO 77748 WINN WW RENO 887 51 ELY 71V AUSTIN 7r4T TONOPAH SI.C: 81V 62- BOISE: 83V 52' (T) VEGAS FRISCO: 747 SV Elko statistics Record High: 91, '68; Low: 26', '89 Mo. Prp: .40 in. Water Year S.60 in. Tomorrow: Sunrise, 515; Sunset, 8:07 Recycling company targets Mining Expo of his entourage.

"The incident was serious. the president was not hurt," Mojad-didi's son, Zahibullah said. He blamed fundamentalist rebels. The plane was bringing Mojaddidi and his entourage from a three-day visit to Pakistan, the staging area for Muslim rebels in their 14-year struggle against Communist rule in Afghanistan. It was Mojaddidi's first visit outside Afghanistan since he was sworn in as president of the interim Islamic government that replaced President Najibullah on April 28.

Mojaddidi had gone to thank the Pakistani government for helping to channel billions of dollars in weapons, ammunition and other assistance from the United states, Saudi Arabia and other sympathetic states. signs indicating polystyrene or aluminum will be placed among the exhibits at the Elko Convention Center during the Expo. Vector estimates that 30 percent to 40 percent of the waste generated during the event will be recycled. The Expo is slated to open June 11. Water wagon out of control before death Marvin Ratliff was driving a 10,000 gallon "water wagon" when he was killed Wednesday morning at Barrick Goldstrike, Barrick's Chuck Geary reports.

Geary said Ratliff was going down a grade when he somehow lost control of the wagon in rough terrain. Ratliff, 48, was killed when he either jumped or was thrown from the vehicle, Geary said, and it ran over him at 8:05 a.m. Wednesday. Ratliff was an employee of Ruby Dome which has a contract for stripping topsoil from above ore deposits at Goldstrike, Geary said, adding the accident still is under investigation by the Mine Safety and Health Administration. High Desert Engineering New location 640 Idaho St.

Effective June 1, 1992 ORLANDO, Florida (AP) Undeclared presidential candidate Ross Perot cast aside traditional in-the-fiesh campaigning Friday for a satellite rally that was beamed to supporters in six states. The rally, a miniature, old-fashioned political convention with a Dixieland band and placard-waving supporters, drew about 5,000 people from all over Florida. Crowds at other sites in Ohio, Alabama, Kansas, Wyoming and Idaho joined in by satellite. Disabled Vietnam Veteran Carlos Romero said he has voted in the past several Florida elections but never pulled a lever for a presidential candidate. He came about 200 miles from Miami to see Perot.

"He was loyal to us when we were in Vietnam," Romero said. "This country needs loyalty." Satellite appearances will be a centerpiece of Perot's still-not-official independent campaign for president, organizers said. Perot plans to rely on "electronic town hall meetings" to address voters. Rather than jet several cities in one day, Perot will use television links to make appearances across the country, said spokesman James Squires. "This is a practical way of campaigning, I hope," Squires said.

"That's the old way go five different places and spend all that time going and no time there." "I don't think it's innovative or strategic or anything other than practical," he said. Spokesman Sharon Holman said the campaign had no idea what the six-city rally would cost Although the Orlando rally was re Brebeau Kennels will be starting a new session of obedience classes June 2, 1992. For more information, call 738-2108. Katherine Penrod dies in California at age 93 Among the firsts for this year's Elko Mining Expo will be a recycling program conducted by Vector Engineering Inc. of Carson City.

Materials targeted for recycling are aluminum, polystyrene and cardboard. Recyclable materials collected will be shipped out of state to recycling facilities. The program will be funded and coordinated by Vector Engineering with support from Elko Sanitation Company, Gundle Corporation, Ser-rot Corporation and the Mining Record. Main target of the program will be polystyrene coffee cups. Once collected, the cups will be baled and shipped to Hayward, where they will be processed at one of the National Polystyrene Recycling Company's plants.

The product of polystyrene recycling is resin pellets, which are used to manufacture building insulation, speed bumps, picnic equipment and other products. Containers marked with recycling Dow Jones (AP) Closing DowJones stock averages for Friday, May 29. Open High Low Close Hi 30 Ind 3405.69 3433.95 3384.17 3396.88 1.55 Z0 Tra 1349.40 1379.48 1345.48 1370.14 2.42 IS t'U 214.38 215.51 212it 213.45 115 SS Slk 1193.98 1208.44 1187.05 1197.09 4.72 Indus 20,765,100 Tran 4,344,200 Utils 2,819,400 65 Stk 27,928,700 Big Board volume at 4 p.m. EST totaled 202.73 million shares, against 195.23 million last session. Katherine Dorothy Penrod, a former resident of Elko, died Monday in Marina, at age 93, according to information received here.

She was born Sept 15, 1898, in El Paso, Texas. She moved to Watts, where her family operated a grocery store, in the early 1900s. After marrying Robert Penrod she moved to Nevada in 1939 and lived in Hawthorne, Mina, Goldfield, Pigeon Springs and Virginia City. She moved to Elko in 1968 and lived here until 1975 when she moved to NOTICE In order to maintain the lawn at Burns Memorial Garden, please remove flowers by Monday, June 1. ORIGINAL.