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Few places in the world
honor the onion as much as
Berne, Switzerland. Since
1405 an annual festival has
been held for the onion on the
fourth Monday in November.
public works projects.
Estimated savings were not
available for the measures
involving the post office and
public works projects.
Roberta, Rhode Island’s at-
torney general. “The word is
obviously out that there are a
lot of trees they can dump
behind in Maine, Vermont and
New Hampshire.’’
The central figure in the
operation appears to be the
gypsy or independent trucker
SAN PEDRO, Calif. (AP) -
Now is the time of an annual
miracle, the migration of the
gray whales, a sight to behold.
John and Muriel Olguin
behold the great creatures
flopping and blowing in the
morning mist from their
bedroom, high above the blue
Pacific, without even lifting
their heads from their pillows.
If the weather is fair, they
likely will rise early and get in
their boat and go out for a
closer look.
If the weather is foul, the
likelihood is even greater.
“We love the elements,"
John said. “We like to feel the
wind and the rain and ex-
perience the moods of the day.
The best way to do that is in a
small, open boat close to the
water.”
The Olguin’s vessel is a 15-
foot rowboat, the Pico Maru.
In it, they have rowed to all
the coastal islands, 25-, 35-, 50-
mile trips. They have rowed
300 miles down the Californian
and Mexican coasts. They
have rowed the length of the
Virgin Islands, the Greek
Islands, islands off Alaska and
Canada, the Fiji Islands, the
Windward and the Leeward
Islands. They sleep and eat
“I hope you get a lot of
publicity,” said the driver of
an empty school bus that
pulled up alongside the
Bakers.
“God bless you,” a woman
called from her front yard.
“It’s been beautiful all along
the way,” said Baker, 54, a
Mercer County labor official.
“We haven’t had a negative
remark yet."
The group expects to reach
Scranton on Saturday to join a
St. Patrick’s Day parade and
then continue on to the
Metrinko home in suburban
Olyphant.
The Metrinkos haven’t
heard from their son, a 33-
year-old State Department
official, since he telephoned on
the couple’s anniversary last
Oct. 19.
“We’re quite delighted,”
Metrinko said of the march.
The Metrinkos talk every
night with Flynn, who calls
them with a daily progress
report. When the walk is over,
they’ll receive a lantern that
was lit at the memorial flame
in Hermitage.
“I’m amazed that no one
else is doing anything,” said
Flynn. “Here we are — just
six people on the side of the
road.”
who hauls cargo on a one-time
or freelance basis.
“It’s clear to us that the
shipping is being arranged by
people with organized crime
involvement,” Roberts says.
"Everything runs too
smoothly for it to be anyone
else and our intelligence
nature and the sea.
They grew up together on
the California shore, swim-
ming and sailing as sun-
bronzed children. After World
War II, they rediscovered
each other, remembered their
childhood fun and shared
dreams, and were married.
Since then, they have ob-
served a yearly ritual.
“We take a month off and go
adventuring,” Muriel said.
"As each of our three children
arrived, they went along too.
They are all grown now, so it’s
back to just the two of us.”
John added: “After a trip to
Puget Sound, a month of living
outdoors, we came home and
unpacked. Muriel said, ‘John,
let’s move our bed outside
tonight. I don’t like the idea of
sleepingindoors.’
“So we did. That was 17
years ago and we have never
moved it back inside. If it
rains, we have a tarp.
"Wouldn’t you like to fall
asleep looking at stars and
wake up listening to the oceans
and watching whales play?
Try it. Muriel and I wouldn’t
live any other way.”
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -
With the aid and precision of
organized crime, authorities
say, gypsy truckers are
hauling toxic chemicals from
factories to toe itod Atiantir
and Western states and
illegally dumping the
hazardous waste in the woods
and farmland of northern New
England.
Law enforcement officials,
citing lack of laws, shortage of
trained investigators and
bureaucratic apathy, say
there is little they can do to
stop the clandestine influx
which has risen as states
tighten their restrictions on
the legal dumping of hazar-
dous wastes.
Their trucks loaded with
rusting, often leaky drums of
solvents, cyanide solutions,
pesticides and adds, toe
truckers operate with ap-
parent impunity.
Phony company names,
false shipping manifests,
midnight rendezvous with
guides snd large cash
payments describe an
operation that state and
federal officals in New
Efland say they are pain-
fully aware of.
“At tones, toe interstates
tarn into raceways with trucks
from New Jersey, New York,
Pennsylvania and other
Southern states hauling
hazardous waste into northern
New England,” says Dennis
WAYLAND HONOREE—Mr». Terry (Mary Jaeque) Northup,
second from right, a native of Stephenville, was among the more
than 49 students at Wayland Baptist College honored during
annual Recognition Day activities held recently at the Plainview
campus. A 1963 graduate of Stephenville High, Mrs. Northup
received the Teacher Education Award recognizing the top WBC
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Br’er Rabbit could have told
congressional budget cutters
about the frustrations of
wrestling with tar babies.
But after days of becoming
increasingly entangled in
issues as sticky as the baby
fashioned of tar that gave the
rabbit in the folk tale such
problems, it looks like they’re
figuring it out themselves.
Some congressional sources
say the budget cutters have
reached tentative agreements
on some $17 billion in cuts and
a $4 billion increase in tax
revenues for the upcoming
fiscal year. But others say the
decisions aren’t that solid and
that the final mixture — and
the overall savings — could
change.
There is no guarantee, of
course, that any of the
estimated 40 or so proposals
under consideration will be
adopted. The panel of ad-
ministration economists and
congressional leaders is only
trying to decide which are
most feasible.
And unlike the briar patch
detested so lovingly by Br’er
Rabbit in the series of
allegorical stories written by
Joel Chandler Harris, the
thicket of special interests
awaiting the proposed cuts is
The sources say tax
revenues could be raised by
withholding federal taxes on
interest and dividends and by
changing the way cor-
porations pay their taxes.
The arrests came after they
shouted down a speech at
Northeast Louisiana
University by Fereydoun
Hoveyda, ambassador to the
United Nations under since
the deposed shah.
“They don’t even know why
they have been arrested, what
are the exact charges,” Agah
said
"And some of the treatment
they have received. I
characterize it as really being
cruel. They haven’t done
anything.”
OUTLET OUTLOOK
NEW YORK CAP ) - Audio
electronics manufacturers are
expanding their dealer net-
works to include major depart-
ment stores and appliance
retailers.
“Manufacturers are ex-
panding the consumer audio
market by bringing stereo
products to high-traffic loca-
tions," says Harry Elias of US
JVC Corp., a producer of stereo
products.
Sources also say new con-
trols could be placed on credit
as well as part of that overall
effort. '
Carter met with his
economic advisers Wed-
nesday and a White House
official indicated some final
decisions on budget cuts were
made.
DUBLIN PLAY-The Junior dam of Dublin High School
presented their productioo of “Brother Goose,” a comedy in three
acta on Thursday night. The cast Included, Sammy Taylor fend
Dorothy Maaaarello, pictured above, along with Stacy Yates,
Robert Pettijohn, Terri Bradley, Laurie Manfotis, Wanda Keith,
Christi Hudson, Callie Ethridge, Cyndi Yates, Kathy Jeter and
Terry Templeton. Karen Keith and Travis Barnes, junior spon-
sors directed the play. (E-T Staff Photo)
confirms it. These people
aren’t going to hire major
trucking firms to Illegally
carry illegal cargo for illegal
dumping.”
The drivers are getting paid
two to three tones the normal
rate because the cargo is
dangerous and there’s a i
demand. The word is that a
nine-hour run from
Wilmington, Del., to Maine
will pay 12,200 while a short
hop from New York to Ver-
mont brings WOO.
Federal and state officials
agree that environmental
experts who can spot -j
hazardous waste aren’t skilled
in police work, while police
can’t tell whether truckers are
hauling the goods listed on
manifests.
The UJ. Department of
Transportation has 30 in-
vestigators from New York to
Maine to examine trucks, but
regional director Gary Curtis
says there are several hun-
dred thousand trucks on the
highways "and even if we find
something, we’re not always
sure what it is.”
More recently, the U.S.
Environmental Protection
Agency announced new rules
designed to control the
disposal of an estimated 57
million tons of hazardous
waste produced each year by
some 750,000 companies. The
agency estimated 90 percent
of such wastes are now
mishandled.
However, it is not until
October that rules designed to
curb so-called midnight
dumping take effect. They
require hazardous waste
producers to keep records of
shipments to disposal sites
and obtain confirmation from
dump operators that the
wastes have been received.
The EPA must be notified if
the confirmation is not
received.
'Wrongly jailed' students
may threaten hostages
MONROE, La. (AP) -
Charging that the Iranians
jailed here were arrested
without just cause and are
being treated cruelly, an
Iranian diplomat says he
cannot rule out some impact
on the American hostages in
Tehran.
All Asghar Agah, charge
d'affaires of the Iranian
Embassy in Washington,
visited the students in their
cells for five hours Wed-
nesday.
“What I have seen today
here certainly is not what I
was expecting ...our students
certainly have suffered the
past seven days tremen-
dously,” Agah said.
While he would not say if the
jailing would influence
negotiations for the release of
the American hostages, he
aboard the Pico Maru.
Their preferred craft has
not always, however, been a
rowboat.
Only since John and Muriel
entered their 50s — he is 59,
she 57 — have they decided a
rowboat would be a prudent
choice for their sea jopmeys.
Before that they used a canoe.
“There is nothing rash or
foolish about it if you know
what you’re doing,” John said.
“The main thing is not to fight
the elements, just go with
them and enjoy them. It isn’t
always so important to go
where you set out to go. Just
go. The rest is adventure.”
One dark night,’rowing to
San Miguel Island off
California, they were caught
in a sudden storm. The wind
whistled at 35 knots. Waves
reached 14 feet, angry and
mean.
"John threw out a sea an-
chor and steadied us with the
oars,” Muriel recalled. “I '
curled up in a wool blanket
and slept.”
John Olguin is associate
director of the Cabrillo Marine
Museum in San Pedro. Muriel
is an artist and art teacher.
Both, though, admit to a more
primal calling: The magic of
The budget cutters still have
not resolved another tough
issue — whether to make cuts
in defense spending. Carter
wants to increase defense
spending to show the Russians
he’s serious about their in-
cursion into Afghanistan.
Carter wants to balance the
fiscal 1981 budget, now ex-
pected to be about $20 billion
to $25 billion in the red, as part
of his fight against spiraling
inflation.
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Pam Bayer, one of two
lawyers representing the
prisoners, visited the
hospitalized students and said
they were kept in shackles.
“It seems extremely un-
necessary, especially with
three armed policemen at the
door to the hospital,” she said.
hostages, the walkers had
reached Berwick in Columbia
County, with a little more than
40 miles to go.
Jim Bigler’s 20-year-old
brother, George, says he
doesn’t expect the march to
affect the fate of the hostages,
but he hopes it will focus
peoples’ feelings.
“I think that’s the problem
with the American people.
They don’t know the families
and they don’t know how to
show their feelings. This way,
someone can just beep his
horn and feel he’s giving us
support,” Bigler said.
Baker said he hopes the
walk will impress Iranian
diplomats in the United
States. “We have to do
something to make them see
we are united,” he said.
The six take turns walking
in pairs while the others ride
in a car and a van ahead of
them. Motels along the way
give them free room and
board and they usually eat
lunch as guests of local of-
ficials in the small towns they
passthrough.
Among the people who have ’
taken them in are the parents
of baseball pitcher Sparkle
Lyle, a former New York
Yankee now with the Texas
Rangers. They live in
Reynoldsville.
People constantly ask
questions or invite them into
their homes and wish them
luck. Occasionally, some join
the march.
couldn’t rule
possibility.
“I don’t know. It might. The
situation is so delicate, you
can make all kinds of
speculation,” be said. “Let’s
not talk about that.”
Of the 48 Iranians arrested
Thursday, 41 remain in jail in
the seventh day of a hunger
strike, three were hospitalized
and four had been released on
bond.
on its way to Scranton to visit
the family of Michael
Metrinko, one of the 50
American hostages in Iran.
“We came to like this family
very much,” said Bigler, 31.
“We wanted to do something
to show there are a lot of
people who support them, who
want the exact same thing
they do and who are praying
forthem.”
Bigler is grounds
superintendent of Hillcrest
Cemetery in Hermitage. That
is where the marchers met the
Metrinkos, who attended a
Feb. 11 ceremony in which 100
American flags were raised,
one for each of the 100 days the
hostages had been held then.
Harry Metrinko also lit a
memorial flame for his son
that will burn until he comes
home. A new flag has raised
each additional day the
hostages have been held.
"They’re < extraordinary
people....They have no anger
for the Iranian people,” said
Tom Flynn, 41, who owns the
cemetery and who organized
the cross-state march.
Joe and Janice Baker are
also making the trek, which
started in 3-degree weather
March 1.
"Every couple of cars blow
their horns,” Baker said
during a recent roadside in-
terview. “We find that the
further we go, the more people
know about us.”
By Wednesday, the 130th
day of captivity for the
student to that field ef study. Standing with her are (from left)
Renee Lair of Roswell, N.M., Rick Reimer of Winnipeg, Canada,
and Gary Chase of Levelland, Texas. Mrs. Northup is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O.H. Sloter of 521 N. Columbia in
Stephenville. Her grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. C.R. Conley of
555 North Race Street.
Honeymooning couple plans walk
proclaiming freedom to hostages
BERWICK, Pa. (AP)-For
their honeymoon, Jim and
Debbie Bigler donned white
helmets proclaiming “Free
the Hostages” and set out on a
300-mile walk across Penn-
sylvania.
The Biglers and four
companions have been turning
heads and hearing a lot of horn
honking on the hilly route
from Hermitage, Pa., to
Scranton.
That’s fine with them. At-
tention is what they want.
4the tiny caravan —
carrying the flags of the
United States and Canada — is
far from a friendly en-
vironment.
Murmurs of unrest already
are being beard. Women,
blacks and Hispanics
threatened Wednesday to take
their anger to the voting
booths if Carter’s budget-
cutting digs into programs for
the poor and disadvantaged.
Congressional sources, all of
whom asked to go nameless,
cite the following as among
items that could find their way
into the final package:
-Cutting $1-7 billion from
the $6.9 billion in revenue
sharing funds to the states.
—Changing cost of living
adjustments for federal
retirees from twice a year to
once a year, aUNfRI more than
$2 billion.
—Delaying anti-inflation aid
to cities, saving about $1
billion.
—Eliminating Saturday
deliveries of mail.
—Cutting highway ex-
penditures by $450 million.
—Reducing federal travel
- allowances by $2 billion. .
—Reducing aid to education
as much as $1.6 billion.
-Cutting funding for the
Energy Department by more
than $1 billion.
—Cutting Economic
Development Administration
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