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14 ELKO DAILY FREE PRESS, Elko, Nevada Tuesday, April 2, 1996 Wire fiPH-s summary: Death toll raised from ferry si iildiig i in. in iiiiii iiiji i i h.ii inn ii. i i iii.im bii i iiii.i,iiiiL.iiiinnn MMi i mmww 1Am' VB ,7 i -f PORT AU PRINCE! Haiti (AP) More than 100 people drowned when a ferry sank in the Caribbean Sea. the U.N. mission said today.

Reports yesterday of the accident near an isolated southwest town had conflicting reports on the number of dead. One survivor reported 15 people drowned: a legislator from the area said 200 people died. U.N. spokesman Eric Fait said today that 16 bodies washed up on the beach at Tiburon. a remote southwestern village, and 88 more bodies were counted floating in the sea.

About 150 people bought tickets for the trip, and only three survivors have been identified. Fait said. The 50-foot Aviron I struck rocks shortly after it set off Thursday morning from Les Irois. on Haiti's southwest peninsula. 215 miles west of the capital.

Porffcu Prince. It sank olT the town of Tiburon. 12 miles soth of Les Irois. Fait said. The boat was scheduled to reach southern Les ('ayes on Friday afternoon, but sank in such an isolated area that it took days for the news to reach the capital.

Economic indicators NEW YORK (AP) An important gauge of future economic activity registered its sharpest gain in 20 years February mostly because of the return of workers socked in by the January blizzard. The Index of Leading Economic indicators climbed 1.3 percent from its depressed levels the month before. The Conference Board, a business research organization, released the numbers Tuesday. Also Tuesday, the government said economic growth late last year was even slower than previously estimated. The gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of just 05 percent during the last three months of 1995.

down from an earlier estimate of 0.9 percent, the Commerce Department said. For all of last year, the GDP the total output of goods and services in the United States grew just 2 percent. That's the smallest annual ad- (Addla HardingFree Press) State BLM Director Ann Morgan, above, took time this morning during a break in a workshop at the Elko Convention Center on ecological risk assessment of open pit mines to visit with Tom Leshendok, left, deputy state director of the BLM for mineral resources, and Glenn Miller, a Sierra Club member and a professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. BLM director lacks off risk assessment seminar vance since the economy shrank 1 percent during a recession in 1991. Whitewater trial LITTLE ROCK.

Ark. (AP) A smalltime banker testified today that he met in the mid 1980s with then-Gov. Bill Clinton and James McDougal about making a covert $150,000 loan to Clinton David Hale said that he and the others agreed that Hale's lending company would make the loan to McDougal's wife. Susan, but that the money would in reality go to Clinton. Hale testified that Clinton said.

"My name can't show up on this" and McDougal responded. "I've already taken care of that." Hale said he was not told at that point what the money would be used for. It wasn't immediately clear from Hale's testimony whether the loan was actually made. There was a break in the proceedings before Hale reached that point. Hale is the government's star wit ness in the fraud trial of the McDoug-als and Gov.

Jim Guy Tucker. The McDougals were Clinton's partners in the Whitewater real estate development. The case was brought by the Whitewater prosecutor. Ilosnia search VLASENICA, Bosnia Herzegovina Today's Extra Solar energy has come a long way since the early 1980s when the government subsidized homeowners building envelope houses or putting water heaters on their roofs. The latest advancement, in which photovoltaic cells are used to generate electricity, is described in today's E.rtra feature.

Also in this week's edition are stories on when to keep sick kids at home, planning a cruise vaca tion, and calculating income tax on your home computer. made last month in San Francisco, where a federal appeals court ruled against Washington state's assisted suicide ban. ruling that mentally competent, terminally ill adults have a constitutional right to die. Today's 36-page opinion came in a case brought by three doctors who had sought to speed the deaths of three terminally ill patients. The patients have since died.

The lawsuit contended that patients have a constitutional right in some instances to doctor-assisted suicide. The appeals court said that New York could continue to create laws to define the conditions under which suicide can be assisted. But it said. "It is well settled that the state must not infringe fundamental liberty interests unless the infringement is narrowly tailored to serve a compelling state interest." A ban of all physician-assisted suicides, it said, "is not rationally related to any legitimate state interest." Carla A. Kerr, a lawyer for the three doctors, called Tuesday's ruling "a tremendous victory for people who desire the right to die with dignity." "Obviously, we're ecstatic." she ging deeper under the water table," Stubbs said later.

He also noted that the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection is beginning to emphasize a regulation that would allow for risk assessment. Doug Zimmerman of the state environmental division said this regulation is the Nevada administrative code stating that "bodies of water which are the result of mine pits penetrating the water table must not create an impoundment which can degrade ground waters of the state" or have an adverse effect on the health of humans, animals and birds. Patrick Maley, environmental manager for the Twin Creeks Mine and a spokesman for the Nevada Mining Association, said it was time to bring risk assessments "out of the black box" and use the process when needed. Elko District BLM Director Helen Hankins reported that the large turnout includes representatives of nearly all the mines in Nevada and representatives of federal and state agencies, consulting firms arid the Nevada Mining Association. Winnemucca.

Morgan said in a break in the morning session that these risk assessments have been used only in the last year so the workshop is providing "an opportunity to step back and look" at the process. A smaller workshop to develop a state BLM policy on the use of risk assessment is planned following the risk assessment seminar. The BLM wants to hear what those attending the Elko workshop have to say before looking at possible policy, Morgan said. "We're trying to get all the input up front." Stubbs explained during the break that risk assessment is the "process of defining risks to the ecosystem associated with man's action" by using completed studies and applying them to mine impacts. Risk assessments have been done for years by the U.S.

Department of Energy, the Defense Department and the Environmental Protection Agency, for example, but are new to mining studies of pit lake quality, he explained. "Mines are getting bigger and dig Assisted suicide By Adella Harding "Just as mining technology is evolving and improving, we need to improve environmental assessments" of mining impacts. U.S. Bureau of Land Management State Director Ann Morgan said today at the opening session of a two-dav workshop in Elko. She spoke to roughly 175 people gathered at the Elko Convention Cen ter for a two-day workshop on ecological risk assessment, something new to the Nevada mining industry.

"The public needs to understand why we're doing it and what the re suits mean," Morgan said of risk assessment. Risk assessment has so far been used to estimate the quality of pit lake water and its impact on wildlife up to 330 years into the future. An environmental impact statement on Round Mountain Mine was the first to include an ecological risk assessment. "The risk assessment really helped us to permit the project. It's not a way to delay the EIS process," said Christopher Stubbs of the Battle Mountain BLM office.

He was the BLM's project coordi nator for the recent Round Mountain EIS. The mine in Nye County just received Morgan's approvaTlast month for its expansion project. The risk assessment showed that pit lake water quality would not have a serious impact on wildlife and birds. Stubbs said the risk assessment process also has been used in the final phase of an EIS for Cortez Joint Venture's Pipeline Project in Crescent Valley and in the EIS process for two Santa Fe Pacific Gold Corp. projects Mule Canyon in Crescent Valley and Twin Creeks nearer to rejected in New York Elko woman charged (AP) War crimes experts began today to investigate the thawing fields of eastern Bosnia, believed to contain the remains of thousands of Muslims allegedly massacred by Serb fighters.

U.S. forces are to protect the investigators in Serb-controlled areas from Srebrenica to Zvornik, where experts from the international tribunal for former Yugoslavia are seeking evidence of wartime atrocities. The fields around the destroyed town of Srebrenica have come to symbolize the horror of Bosnia's war. Authorities believe the spring thaw may yield proof that up to 7.000 Muslims were killed there by Serb fighters that captured the area in July. Cliicken exports WASHINGTON (AP) Three senior House Republicans are urging the Clinton administration to turn, over documents relating to President Clinton's efforts to restore chicken exports to Russia, a key issue in his home state.

In a letter to Clinton Monday, the three Republican House members said they were concerned the president was allowing domestic politics to enter into international relations. The letter came days after media reports of a conversation between Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin in which the two leaders promised to support each other politically. Clinton had asked Yeltsin for help on a poultry dispute over a Rus sian ban on U.S. chicken imports. Arkansas.

Clinton's home state, produces 40 percent of America's chickens and is a major importer to Russia. "In recent days there have been a number of press reports suggesting that you and Russian President Boris Yeltsin may have reached a deal to support one another's re-election bids." Reps. Benjamin Gilman. N.Y.. Henry Hyde.

111., and William ('linger, Pa wrote to Clinton. Gilman is chairman of the House International Relations Committee. said. There was no immediate comment from the office of state Attorney General Dennis V'acco. which defended the state laws.

One of the doctors bringing the suit. Timothy Quill, helped write guidelines for doctor-assisted suicide that were published in the New England Journal of Medicine along with a story about a patient who killed herself using barbiturates he had prescribed. The case was presented to a grand jury in New York but he was not indicted. Rulings by the 2nd Circuit have direct effect in New York. Vermont and Connecticut.

The March 6 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the first federal appeals court ruling on the issue, affected nine Western states. "Many terminally ill patients who wish to die with dignity are forced to resort to gruesome alternatives because of. the unavailability of physician assistance," the March ruling said. Washington state officials have said they would appeal to the U.S.

Supreme Court if they can't get the appeals court to reconsider. That state's assisted suicide ban dates to 1854. storm that dropped 2.5 inches ol snow containing .52 of an inch of moisture. Other storms dropped another four inches of snow, beating the average by .7 of an inch. So far this season, Elko has seen 67.5 inches of snow, 32 inches more than normal.

The average temperature for March was 38.8, 1.2 degrees above normal. The high for the month was a 68 on the 21st; the low was 10 degrees on the first Precipitation data from the stations reporting in so far includes 1.85 inches in Spring Creek, 1.6 at Tuscar-ora, 1.48 at Jiggs, t.44 at Wildhorse, 1.03 in Wells, .93 at Beowawe, .85 at Deeth and .78 in Montello. Elsewhere in the state, March ranged from about average to far wetter than normal, with Reno's 1.63 inches more than twice its 0.71 of an inch average for the month. March left 2.44 inches at Carson City and 2.42 inches at Virginia City. On the lower end of the scale, Las Vegas received just 0.1 of an inch last month, leaving it 0.32 of an inch shy of average.

Temperatures ranged from 20 degrees below zero in the northeast to the low 90s along the Colorado River and near Lake Mead. Reno's average of 42 degrees was just 0.7 of a degree below normal, while despite some chilly mornings, Las Vegas was 22 degrees above normal at 59.7 for the month. ban with her baby's death Duis Bolinger funeral services on Thursday Samara Rae Anthony. 23, was ar rested Saturday on charges of child abuse in connection with the Dec. 6 death of her 2-month-old son.

Devin Alan Anthony died of acute pneumonia, according to a recently received autopsy report. Samara Anthony of 915 Metzler Ranch in Starr Valley hunting, decided to move to Elko County and purchased land from Claude Gerber, where he built his "Hole-in-the-Mountain" home. Survivors include a sister, Alberta Bolinger of St. Louis, Mo. He was preceded in death by his father, George Albert Bolinger in 1924, his mother, Hannah Duis Bolinger in 1926, and a sister, Lois Bolinger Huxel in 1987.

In his memory, contributions are suggested to the Elko County Library. March precipitation Funeral services for Duis Bolinger, 87, who died yesterday at Elko General Hospital, will be conducted at 10 a.m. Thursday at Burns Funeral Chapel. Grant Gerber will officiate, with burial in the Elko cemetery. He was born Nov.

30, 1908, in Illinois and was reared in Missouri. He earned a Civil Engineering degree from University of Missouri-Columbia in 1930. He worked for the Public Service Co. of Illinois and later, as a 1st helped build an Army camp in Oregon in 1936. He went back to school and earned a Master's degree from Oregon State University in 1938, and attended Stanford in pursuit of a Ph.D.

He entered the Army in 1941 and was discharged in 1946. He completed his work at Stanford in 1950 and served as an assistant professor of physics at Oregon State, later becoming an associate professor. He later spent time at Kasekart University in Thailand, where he wrote a physics textbook. He lived in Carson City for 10 years, and after coming to the Gerber NEW YORK (AP) A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down the state's ban on doctor-assisted suicide, saying physicians may prescribe drugs so that mentally competent dying patients can end their lives. The 2nd U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan reversed a 1994 ruling by a judge who had refused to strike down two state laws banning physician-assisted suicide. The ruling was similar to one Weather National Weather Service Lingering showers will continue over the eastern part of the state. High pressure will briefly build into the region before the next weather disturbance brings clouds and the chance of showers to northern Nevada on Wednesday. High pressure will then build over the Great Basin resulting in dry and warmer weather later in the week. Forecast for Elko and vicinity Tonight, partly cloudy.

Lows in the mid 20s. Light wind. Wednesday, increasing clouds with a slight chance of afternoon showers. Highs 55 to 60. Chance of measurable precipitation, less than 20 percent Wednesday.

Extended forecast Thursday, dry. Lows mid 20s to mid 30s. Highs mid 50s to mid 60s. Friday and Saturday, dry and warmer. Lows upper 20s to upper 30s.

Highs in the 60s northeast and east central and in the upper 60s to mid 70s elsewhere. Elko's low tonight, 26; high tomorrow, 57. Battle Mountain's low tonight, 29; high tomorrow, 61. Jackpot temperatures, 2755. Yesterday's high, today's low and precipitation for the 24-hour period ending at midnight: HighLow (Precip) WTLpHOlisjg 4r2yc23) WINN ELKO, RENO 597 29 (.05) 47WIM) AUSTIN MM tonopXh 67737 CD SIX: 747 50" BOISE: 607 43" (.1 VEGAS 83 55 FRISCO: 60 52" Elko statistics Record High: 79, '66; Low: Mo.

Pep: SI In. I Water Yean 8.03 in. Tomorrow: Sunrise, 523; Sunset, 1.09 NDOT road conditions 7384888 falls just shy of mark Christina Boyd dies in Reno at age of 89 Drive No. 12 was charged with abuse or neglect of a child with substantial bodily harm, according to court records. Anthony, an unemployed film developer, was released on $5,000 bond later that same day, records said.

At the child's first checkup, a doctor at the Elko Clinic warned Anthony about the child's lack of weight gain. The baby had gained only a few ounces since his birth weight of 6 pounds 8 ounces. Anthony told police the child had trouble keeping down his formula until a recent change in brands, but the child often refused to eat anyway. Anthony called 911 the morning of Dec. 6 because she tried to wake the child and found him "blue and not breathing," records state.

Elko County Coroner Bill Webb originally suspected sudden infant death syndrome, but ordered an autopsy. In addition to the pneumonia, the autopsy reported the child was severely underweight, probably frm poor nutrition, and suffered from a severe diaper rash. Anthony was ordered to appear in Justice Court May 10. 1924, when she and her brother moved to Nevada. She graduated from high school in Elko in 1928.

She taught school for several years at the Boyd School near Elburz. She married Andrew M. Boyd on June 16. 1935, in Winnemucca, then lived the rest of her life on the Boyd Ranch near Halleck. She enjoyed crocheting, knitting and collecting and polishing rocks.

She was also a noted seamstress and gave away many afghans and made dresses for her daughter and nieces. She was known as an excellent cook and often invited visitors to stay for a meal. Survivors include her husband, Andrew M. Boyd: sons. Jack L.

Boyd and Andrew G. Boyd; a daughter. Elizabeth Wines; brother. Kenneth Elliott of Rapid City, S.D.; and four grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m.

Thursday at Burns Funeral Chapel, with Grant Gerber officiating. Burial will be in the family plot of the Elko cemetery. In her memory, contributions are suggested to the Northeastern Nevada Museum. 1515 Idaho Street in Elko, or the charity of the donor's choice. Christopher Webb service on Thursday Elko March precipitation fell a hair shy of the average for the month.

But coming on the heels of three extra-wet months and followed by last- night's storm that delivered three quarters of the April precipitation on the first day of the month, the slightly dry March doesn't do much to slow down a wet water year. March precipitation totalled .88 of an inch .08 of an inch short of average pushing the year-to-date total, as of March 31, to 7.41 inches. That's 1.81 inches above normal for the water year that started Oct. 1, the National Weather Service reported. Most of the March moisture came early in the month in a wet snow Dow Jones (AP) Closing Dow-Jones averages for Tuesday.

April 2. Open High Low Close 30 Ind 5653.98 5706.72 5597.26 5671.68 20 Tra 2160.39 2180.61 2146.50 2171.35 15 Ml 214.43 215.27 21227 213.81 65 Stk 183026 1846.25 1814.01 1835.90 stock Chg 33.96 12.18 027 Indus 34.937,300 Tran 5.016,600 Utils 11,459,300 65 Stk 51.413,200 Big Board volume at 4 p.m. EST totaled 406.6 million shares, against 390.24 million last session. Christina A. Boyd, longtime Elko County resident, died Sunday at the Reno Rehab Hospital at the age of 89.

She was born July 7. 1906, in Lew-iston, Wyo. Her parents died when she was a child and she lived in Illinois with an aunt and uncle until member of the Wells All-Stars; karate, earning a green belt; roping at rodeos; and music. Survivors include his father, Patrick A. Webb; mother, Roberta Webb, and brother, Patrick C.

Webb, all of Wells; sister, Jackie Sue Mann of Gig Harbor, grandmothers, Mary Jane Brankamp of Wells and Marie Meyers of Santa Maria, an aunt, Kitty Ledham, and an uncle, Mel Webb, both of Las Vegas. In his memory, contributions are suggested to the City of Wells Cooperative Baseball Diamonds, P.O. Box 366, Wells 89835. A memorial service for Christo pher Robert Webb, 17, who died yesterday in an automobile accident north of Wells, will be conducted at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Wells Presbyterian Church, The Rev.

Joy Gartman will officiate. Cremation, will be at Sunset Crematory, under the direction of Burns Funeral Home. He was born Sept. 19, 1978, in Las Vegas and had lived in Wells for the past six years, coming from Kim-berly, Idaho, where he had lived for nine years. He had been a junior at Wells High School and had enjoyed working on cars; baseball, where he was a.