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ELKO DAILY FREE PRESS, Elko, Nevada Monday, August 5, 1996 Wire news summary: Searchers recover TWA cockpit, pilot EAST MORICHES. N.Y. (AP) Investigators looking for clues to the TWA Flight 800 disaster worked to untangle a ton of twisted metal, gauges and spaghetti-like wires today that were once part of the plane's cockpit. Nineteen days after the crash, the examination of the demolished cockpit held out the prospect of advancing an investigation that so far has been unable to explain why the jet blew up in flight. killing all 230 aboard.

Investigators from the FBI, the National Transportation Safety Board, TWA and Boeing examined the wreckage at a hangar on Long Island where pieces of the plane are being collected. Investigators have made clear that unraveling the mystery will be a long and difficult task. While they suspect a bomb destroyed the plane. they have not ruled out a catastrophic mechanical failure or the possibility that the jumbo jet was hit by a missile. At the crash site 10 miles off Long Island.

Navy salvage ships muscled more wreckage to the surface in hopes of finding some of the 36 missing bodies trapped beneath it. Remote-controlled video cameras scanned debris. and divers rigged debris so it could be lifted. Olympic bombing ATLANTA (AP) With the Olympics behind them. authorities are focusing on the unfinished business of solving the bomb blast that marred RTC requests plans for gas tax increase Regional Transportation Commission will hold a workshop to determine how city and county entities will spend a proposed five-cents per gallon gasoline tax increase at a 9 a.m.

Wednesday meeting in Room 106 of the Elko County Courthouse. Each entity is being asked to bring a street improvement and development plan so that RTC can determine how the additional money would be allocated. The RTC will then make a recommendation to Elko County Commissioners, who must give their approval to raise the gas tax to the legal maximum. County commissioners were requested by Elko city councilmen to raise the gas tax to help the city maintain its streets. The city council also will request the Games.

Richard Jewell. the security guard who has become the focus of the investigation in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing, has reportedly enlisted the help of a criminal lawyer: Jewell left his apartment Sunday with his lawyer. Watson Bryant. but it was not clear where they went. CNN reported that Jewell met with prominent Atlanta criminal defense attorney, Jack Martin.

Bryant. Jewell's attorney since he was identified as a suspect in the July 27 bombing, didn't return repeated telephone calls Sunday. But he told CNN that Martin will help advise Jewell. Bryant said Jewell has been cooperating with investigators. "giving them whatever the hell they want so they'll get out of our lives." But Bryant balked at allowing the FBI to make a voice recording of Jewell, saying he needed more information.

Investigators have a tape recording of the unidentified man who called 911 warning of a bomb in Centennial Olympic Park. Meanwhile. a shooting that killed an Indiana National Guardsman in Atlanta to provide security at the Olympics and wounded another may be gang related. police said today. Police worked from a sketchy description as they tried to track down a gunman they said jumped from behind some bushes and began firing at the two early Sunday in this Atlanta suburb.

Both guardsmen were wearing civilian clothing. Economic indicators Economic indicators NEW YORK (AP)- An index of future economic activity rose in June to the highest level ever, slightly exceeding market forecasts and following a spate of numbers suggesting economic growth has been cooling off. Author predicts bad fires unless feds change policy By Adella Harding Federal actions limiting grazing and closing forest roads coupled with firefighting policies will lead to "catastrophic fires before things get sorted out." predicted Don Bowman of Fallon. who wrote a book about public lands issues. "Timber is being locked up and Weather National Weather Service A low pressure area and cool front will move across northern Nevada this evening and tonight from the Pacific Northwest.

Very little moisture is associated with the system and the main effects on the weather will be lots of wind and slightly warmer temperatures before the front moves through. Behind the front on Tuesday cooler temperatures can be expected along with much lighter winds. High pressure is forecast to rebuild over the Great Basin beginning late Tuesday bringing a return to warmer summerlike weather by late in the week. Forecast for Elko and vicinity Tonight, mostly clear and cool. Low in the mid 30s.

West winds 15-30 mph shifting northwest and diminishing to 5-15 mph during the evening. Tuesday, sunny and a little cooler. High in the upper 70s. Extended forecast Wednesday, no precipitation. Lows in the 40s to lower 50s.

Cooler with highs upper 70s to mid 80s. Thursday and Friday, no precipitation. Lows mid 40s to mid 50s. Warmer with highs mid 80s to mid 90s. Elko's low tonight, 35; high tomorrow, 78.

Battle Mountain's low tonight, 43; high tomorrow, 83. Jackpot temperatures, Weekend statistics: Saturday high 77; Saturday precipitation Sunday low 36. Yesterday's high, today's low and precipitation for the 24-hour period ending at midnight: (Precip) WILDHORSE WINN ELKO ELY RENO AUSTIN TONOPAH SLC: BOISE: VEGAS FRISCO: Elko statistics Record High: "78; Low: '96 Mo. Pep: 0 in. Water Year: 11.28 in.

Tomorrow: Sunrise, Sunset, 7:54 NDOT road conditions 738-8888 4268 Future arena: Front-end loader op- roller build hockey arena that the city council decided erator Lindsey Op- to at its June 11 meeting. Public Works Di- penhein dumped gravel into a drainage channel rector Charles Williams said Grindstone for shovel operator Dave Sam to spread Friday at to begin pouring concrete for the $78,000 Riverview Park on Front Street. The two Grinds- this week. tone Inc. employees were working on the future Head shooting inquest finds justified homicide By Steve Sexton A one-man.

two-woman jury of inquest ruled today the June 22 shooting death of Bart Allen Head by three Elko police officers was justified homicide. The three jurors. who were picked from an Elko Justice Court panel. deliberated less than 15 minutes after hearing about two hours of testimony. Head.

24. was killed when officers responded to a 10:25 a.m. sexual assault call in the 500 block of South Seventh Street. A 14-year-old reported to police she was raped and held at knifepoint but escaped when her mother. who was still being held by Head, kicked Head in the stomach.

Officers entered the home and found Head holding a 12-inch kitchen knife. Officers shot Head five times when he lunged at one of the officers who was backed in a corner. The mother of the girl testified by telephone that she awoke about 8 a.m.. entered her daughter's bedroom and was grabbed from behind by Head. "He grabbed me from behind and started punching me in the face." the woman said.

"Then he threw me down on a chair and tied me up." The woman testified she was then thrown on the bed with her daughter and raped. She also testified that Head hollowed out a small carrot from their kitchen and smoked marijuana while holding them captive. Eventually the woman was able to free her hands and feet. which were bound at the end of the bed by a belt, and punched Head. "I came up and punched him in the face and then I kicked him across the The daughter escaped and ran to a neighbor's home.

still bound by her hands and feet. and with a cloth bandage wrapped around her mouth as a gag. After the escape. Head "told me that was very clever. but that it was the stupidest mistake I'd ever made." the woman testified.

Head then began saying he knew the police would be showing up soon. "He was babbling on about not wanting to go back to prison." she said. "He said he would cut his own throat and that I would have the satisfaction of seeing him Head did cut his throat but not deeply, she said. The woman testified she heard police enter her home. searching the rest of the house before encountering Head in the doorway to her bedroom.

"They (the asked him numerous times to put the knife down, 10 to 15 times," she said. "They were saying other things. like the guns were loaded, the safety was off and all they had to do was touch the trigger, trying to persuade him to put down the The woman said she could see Head moving around strangely and then lunge at police. Elko Police Sgt. James Ruble.

a 26-year law enforcement veteran, testified Head had made two halfhearted swipes at officers with the knife and he was warning the other officers, Cpl. William Howard and Officer Vic Luna, they were letting Head get too close to them. On Head's third swipe with the knife, which Ruble described as a much harder attempt to injure the officer, all three officers began firing. "We're trained to shoot until we get the job done," Ruble said when asked how many times officers are instructed to fire when the need arises. Elko County District Attorney Gary Woodbury also called the other two officers but only asked them if Ruble's version differed greatly from what they recalled.

Luna testified that he remembered Head from a previous encounter while Luna served on the Elko County Sheriff's Department. Luna also recalled that Head's mother had asked for extra patrols when Head had escaped from the Nevada Youth Training Center. Woodbury also introduced evidence from Head's autopsy and crime laboratory reports that showed alcohol, methamphetamine and marijuana in Head's system when he died. "I think this was an example of a spectacular performance by the cops, holding back so much, and their willingness to give this guy a break," Woodbury said at the conclusion of the inquest. "I think the mother should be commended for her courage to kick when she did examples of courage from both the cops and the mother." Clinton signs new law aimed at Iran, Libya WASHINGTON (AP) Amid new concerns about terrorism.

President Clinton signed a bill today to punish foreign businesses that invest in Iran Libya. He urged America's allies to join him but said the United States will go it alone if they don't. "We do not always agree." Clinton said. taking note of allies' complaints that the United States is interfering in international trade. "I hope and expect that before long our allies will come around." The French government lost no time in attacking the new law.

Even before Clinton signed it. Yves Doutriaux. a French Foreign Ministry spokesman in Paris. said the measure will "create a particularly dangerous precedent for the security and development of commerce." Doutriaux said France would work with the European Union to protect any French companies from being hurt by the law. In signing the measure in an Oval Office ceremony and again in a speech at George Washington University, Clinton said Iran and Libya are "two of the most dangerous supporters of terrorism in the Addressing the objections allies, the president advised.

"You can't do business with people by day who are killing your people by night." He said that regardless of the response of allies "the United States has to County commissioners face marathon meeting Elko County Commissioners can expect marathon sessions in their two-day meeting Wednesday and Thursday with a 17-page agenda, which includes several items relating to the county's planning and zoning ordinances and public works policies. The meetings begin at 1:30 p.m. in Elko City Council chambers. However, commissioners will move over to the Elko County Courthouse at 7 p.m. Wednesday to confirm the Elko County Planning Commission's decision to rezone areas near Ryndon from open space to agriculturalresidential.

The decisions were appealed to intends arena from the RTC Wednesday authorization to use RTC funds to construct the Ruby View extension that would connect Ruby View Drive to Interstate 80's Exit 303. Any remaining funds from the construction would then be used for the reconstruction of Wilson Avenue between Lamoille Road (south Ninth Street) and South Fifth Street. Another request by city councilors is for matching funds. not to exceed $30.000. for a regional traffic engineering plan including the city and surrounding area.

RTC commissioners also will discuss the Nevada Department of Transportation's proposed projects for fiscal years 1997-1999 and NDOT's long-range list of projects for Elko County and the incorporated cities of Elko County. left to burn." he told the Elko Chamber of Commerce's High Noon luncheon Friday. where he also quoted from a 1907 document outlining U.S. Forest Service policy at that time. "National forests are made for and owned by the people.

They should also be managed by the people. They are made. not to give the officers in charge of them a chance to work out theories. but to give the people who use them, and those who are affected by their use. a chance to work out their own best profit." the 1907 policy states.

The policy also states that people should take an active part in the management of the forests. and the officers should act as their agents. "There must be hearty cooperation from everyone." the document states. The 1907 policy also states that "timber is there to be used, now and in the future." and "prospecting and mining are absolutely unchecked. The resources of the national forests must be used and the country opened up.

Therefore. the more mining and prospecting. the better." Nowadays, "the service can't seem to please anybody." Bowman told the audience at the Stockmen's Motor Hotel. His book. The Battle of Jefferson Canyon and Other Skirmishes in the War on the West.

covers events leading to Nye County Commissioner Richard Carver's confrontation with the forest service over a road in Jefferson Canyon on July 4. 1994. Nye County took the forest service to task when the agency tried to close the road. and that action added spark to the public lands debate and led to Nye filing suit against the federal government. In an update on that suit.

Bowman reported that the forest service and Record cold Elko has set low-temperature records for the past two mornings and the National Weather Service is predicting another cool night. The low of 37 this morning broke the record of 38 degrees, set in 1956. Yesterday morning, the temperature went down to 36 degrees, beating the old record of 37, also established in 1956. The low tomorrow morning is forecast as 35. with warmer temperatures later in the week.

Dow Jones (AP) Closing Dow-Jones stock averages for Monday, Aug. 5. Open High Low Close Chg 30 Ind 5676.13 5719.04 5639.14 5674.28 5.55 20 Trn 2048.49 2081.59 2043.35 2068.47 15 Utl 211.85 213.81 211.01 212.62 0.70 65 Stk 1806.11 1824.48 1796.92 1811.48 3.89 Indus 22,673,200 Tran 4,266,800 Utils 3,343,600 65 Stk 30.283,600 Big Board volume at 4 p.m. EST totaled 303.77 million shares, against, 442.07 million last session. Nye County are in negotiations.

but he doesn't expect Nye County to give up on roads. Nye maintains roads on public lands are county roads. U.S. District Court Judge Lloyd George ruled in March that the federal government owns and has the power to manage public lands in Nye County. The judge, however.

endorsed the concept of "shared management," according to a March news release issued by Nye County District Attorney Robert Beckett. "There's been talk that Nye County sold out, but that was never proven to me." Bowman said. Bowman told the chamber audience Nye County didn't have much of a chance with its lawsuit without the support of Nevada Attorney General Frankie Sue del Papa. Bowman also criticized Nevada legislators for not attending the Western States Summit in Casper, in June while other states were well represented. D.

Nelson dies in Idaho at age of 24 Derrick Alan Nelson, 24, of Elko, died Saturday in an automobile accident near Jerome. Idaho. He had been visiting his parents. He was born Dec. 17, 1971, in Spokane, and came to Elko with his family in 1980 from Idaho.

He attended schools here and had graduated from Elko High School in 1990. He was a cabinet maker and installer. Survivors include his parents, George and Judy Nelson of Wendell, Idaho: brother, Scott Nelson of Elko; sisters, Wendy Nelson of Wendell and Nikki Vejnar of Salt Lake City; maternal grandparents, Ed and Beverly Greenland of Brookings, and his fiancee, Monica Wright of Elko. A memorial service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Burns Funeral Chapel.

Dan Rodriguez of the Jehovah Witnesses in Wendell will officiate. act." The measure requires the president to impose sanctions on foreign firms that invest $40 million or more in a year in the energy sectors of Iran and Libya. The United States already is under fire from Canada. Mexico and other allies for a measure Clinton signed into law that penalizes foreign businesses that invest in property the Cuban government confiscated from current American citizens. The Iran-Libya measure has been attacked by the European Union which calls the bill unacceptable.

Clinton was joined in the Oval Office by relatives of victims of the 1988 downing of Pan Am Flight 103. Also present were Secretary of State Warren Christopher. Attorney General Janet Reno and Clinton's national security adviser. Anthony Lake. As the bill moved through Congress, lawmakers cited the case of Pan Am 103.

as well as the explosion of TWA Flight 800. where a bomb is suspected. Libya and Iran are on the State Department list of nations supporting terrorism and the United States bans trade with both. Clinton said the bill today "will help deny those countries the money they need to finance international terrorism." The United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions against Libya after it was implicated in the Pan Am 103 explosion. Clinton said the measure would heighten pressure on Libya to extradite the suspects in that case.

The legislation requires the president to impose two or more of six possible sanctions against foreign companies or individuals that invest $40 million in a year in Iranian or Libyan energy development. U.S. companies are already barred from any trade with the two nations. The six possible sanctions the president could impose are: denying Export-Import Bank loans, denying export licenses. barring U.S.

banks from making loans of more than $10 million a year to sanctioned parties. Victor Welsch dies at home here at 87 the county commissioners, but the appellant later withdrew the appeals. Commissioners will open their Thursday meeting as the Board of County Highway Commissioners to meet with representatives of AUR Resources Inc. to discuss maintenance and repair on Gold Creek Road. County commissioners also are scheduled to hear a report on the county's public defender's office, especially relating to the appointment of private attorneys to.

represent juvenile offenders, which resulted in a severe budget overrun. Victor H. Welsch, a resident of Elko for the past seven years, died Saturday at his home here at age 87. He was born Oct. 10, 1908, in Tarentum, and was reared Western Pennsylvania.

He worked in brick yards and coal mines until 1951, when he moved west to work with Gulf Oil Exploration Company. While with Gulf, he lived in Nevada, Utah, Montana and Wyoming, living in Elko in 1953-54. When the exploration company disbanded, he remained in Casper, and worked for 10 years as a security guard for Kmart. He returned to Elko in 1989, due to his wife's failing health and in recent years, became known for his gardening work at Red's Ranch in Lamoille. Survivors include a son, Richard Welsch of Elko; daughter, Jean Campbell of Chino Hills, six grandsons, three granddaughters, 20 great-grandchildren; and one great- great He was preceded in death by his wife, Gean in 1992 and a daughter, Maxine in 1979.

Funeral services will be conducted at 10. a.m. Wednesday at Burns Funeral Chapel. Bishop Joe Dewey of the Spring Creek LDS 1st Ward will officiate. Burial will be in Burns Memorial Gardens.

Visitation will be during normal business hours tomorrow at Burns Funeral Home. Pallbearers will be grandchildren, Nickolas, Tim and Curtis Welsch, Dennis and Kenneth Brannon, Stanley, Yurchick and Courtney Welch and Jim Wallock and Dallas Gerber. Honorary pallbearers will be sonin-law Chuck Campbell, grandsons, Marty Svoda and Paul Randas and Harry Fritz, Mike Waldok and Gaylen Adams. In his memory, contributions are suggested to the Spring Creek LDS 1st Ward Fast Offerings, which benefits needy people..