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Kennebec Journal from Augusta, Maine • 4

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AUGUST 24, 1987 AUGUSTA, MAINE KENNEBEC JOURNAL MAINEI KENNEBECI JOURNAL a MAINE NEWS IN BRIEF Maniac shirts to White House SKOWHEGAN (AP) A department store manager has presented Sen. George J. Mitchell with T-shirts bearing the slogan, "I'm a Maniac and Wicked for president and Mrs. Reagan and vice president George Bush. Reno Cyr, manager of the Mart store at Skowhegan, presented the shirts on Saturday, and Mitchell said he was pleased to be part of the promotion.

The T-shirts were produced by a small business in Waterville, and Mart stores in Maine sold about 9,000 of them this summer. Two shirts were presented to Gov. John R. McKernan and former Sen. Margaret Chase Smith last month as a symbol of Maine's entrepreneurial spirit.

McKernan told Cyr that small-business ventures needed to be encouraged. 6 arrested on cocaine charges TOPSHAM (AP) Six men who were arrested on cocaine charges at a Topsham apartment are to be arraigned Sept. 21 in District Court. Police entered Patrick Donovan's apartment at 1:30 a.m. Saturday "several packets" of cocaine that had been prepared for sale and were worth at least $2,000, said Cpl.

Steven Edmondson. Police also seized two shotguns and cash. Donovan, 27, was charged with possession of, and trafficking in, cocaine, said Edmondson. The other five, charged only with possession, were John Benoit, 21, Wendall Casler, 29, Thomas Baldwin, 24, all of Brunswick; Kirk Bouchard, 21, of Topsham; and Carmilito Tanael, 28, of South Harpswell. 1 dies in 3-car crash TRENTON (AP) A man was killed and four people were injured in a three-car accident on Route 3 this weekend, the Hancock County Sheriff's Department reported.

Killed was David Cyr, 20, of Orrington, who was driving north in a pickup Saturday when he collided head-on with a van driven by Kathlene Collins, 38, of Silver Spring, Md. The van slid sideways and struck another car, authorities said. Collins, her husband, John, and 7-year-old son Jay were taken to an Ellsworth hospital. The husband and son were treated and released; Mrs. Collins was transferred to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.

A passenger in Cyr's truck, Allen Doll, 35, of Brewer, was treated and released. The accident occurred shortly before 7 a.m. HELPING HAND Kennebec Journal ANDY MOLLOY Rick Palieri, right, blows through a horn pipe, while also balancing a wooden pipe played by Gienek Debski of Portland. Palieri, clad in traditional clothing, performs Polish folk music at the Slavophile Society barbecue in Dresden on Sunday. IP, unions preparing for long, bitter strike By DAVID S.

MARTIN Associated Press Writer LOCK HAVEN, Pa. By refusing to budge on major issues, the International Paper Co. and its striking union have girded themselves for a long and bitter standoff, according to market analysts. "The union had been giving concessions while the industry wasn't as strong as it is today," said Nicholas Tetrick, a market analyst for Standard Poor's. "Now the union has decided it's going to draw a line in the sand." The United Paperworkers International Union drew the line this spring when IP asked workers at four mills for wage concessions after recording substantial profits in 1986.

The outcome of this dispute will affect labor's ability to fight concession demands from other paper companies and in other industries, according to Robert R. Frase, executive assistant to UPIU president Wayne Glenn. By hiring replacements for the more than 3,400 idled union workers at mills in Pennsylvania, Maine, Alabama and Wisconsin, the company made the possibility of a quick settlement unlikely, Tetrick said. Frase said, "It's kind of like setting off an atom bomb for one little problem on a street corner." Central to the disagreement between IP and its union workers has been differing views on how the world's largest paper company has done in the marketplace. Officials at IP contend the company needs to cut wages to remain competitive.

One area where foreign competition has hurt has been the coated white paper market, said Bill Greener, director of corporate communications at International Paper. Foreign competition now captures between 12 percent and 14 percent of the market for the paper, used by magazines, Greener said. Two years ago, the share held by foreign companies was negligible, he said. "What's happening at International Paper is a sign of what's going on in the industry," said Evadna Lynn, a paper industry analyst for Merrill Lynch Capital Markets. "It's part of the whole effort to get labor costs in line with world labor costs, make the United State more Lynn said.

Frase said International Paper's 129 percent increase in profits in 1986, compared to the previous year, showed the company didn't need concessions. He added that the union had made concessions in the 1980s when the company wasn't doing as well. In 1986, IP recorded $305 million in profits on net sales of $5.5 billion, up from $133 million in profit on sales of $4.5 billion in 1985. But Lynn said IP still has at least one glaring economic weakness. IP had the lowest return on equity among paper companies, 9.7 percent through March this year, compared to 12:7 percent for the industry as a whole, she said.

Whether the strike backs down depends to a large degree on how well the replacements do, the analysts agree. But Tetrick and Lynn disagree on how well the replacements have done so far. Because of recent automation at the plant, Lynn said the replacements will be producing at capacity in two to three months, with only a Small seaplane crashes near Bingham pilot. The victims were taken to RedingtonFairview General Hospital in Skowhegan by Upper Kennebec Valley Ambulance. Both victims were released from the hospital later in the day.

Carl said the pilot left Saco for Moosehead Lake on Sunday morning, but made an unscheduled landing on Wyman Lake after encountering strong winds. At 5 p.m., Poirier attempted to take off from Wyman Lake for a return flight to Saco. Carl, a pilot himself, said UMaine campuses propose $100 million building plan ORONO (AP) Administrators at the seven campuses in the University of Maine System are writing requests for new academic buildings that could cost $100 million over the next five or six years. Campus presidents want classroom buildings, libraries, laboratories, and athletic facilities because overcrowded and inadequate facilities are hindering education, they say. The proposed construction would be the most ambitious building program since the seven campuses united as a a system in 1968.

College officials acknowledge that the cost of the plan may be difficult for legislators and voters to swallow, but they say it is long overdue. "We're well behind our competitors in standard kinds of said University of Maine President Dale W. Lick. At the Orono campus alone, there could be as much as $60 million in proposed construction. Lick wants a new building for the College of Business Administration, which now shares space with the College of Arts and Sciences.

Kennebec Now it's easier than ever to reach us. in-State WATS LINE Call 1-800- 537-5508 the call's free KENNEBECI JOURNAL a 274 Western Ave. Augusta slight decline in quality and minimal increase in cost. But Tetrick said the replacements were expensive to train and have produced much less volume and with less quality than the experienced workers. 'They're going to have to invest an awful lot of money to train new workers," Tetrick said.

"For a while, it's going to cost more to train the new workers than the wage concessions." Hiring replacement workers has driven another wedge between IP and union negotiators, Frase said. Union negotiators have said removal of the replacements has become their top demand, while the company has been adamant about keeping them. In Pennsylvania and Maine, union members' ability to withstand a long strike was bolstered by rulings they qualify for unemployment. Previously, they had received only $55 a week from the union's strike fund. Union officials said they hoped the addition of two mills to the strike rolls in the next month will give the union the clout it needs to end the strike and win its demands.

Frase said IP has demanded concessions on premium and holiday pay from 675 union workers at a mill in Pine Bluff, whose contract expires Sept. and from 500 hourly employees at a mill in Corinth, N.Y., whose contract expires Sept. 30. Frase said the union will have to hold together until the company backs down. "We may cave in tomorrow, or we may hold on for a year," he said.

"The people who are out have shown an amazing amount of solidarity." By PAMELA COOL Guy Gannett Service BINGHAM A small seaplane crashed into the woods shortly after takeoff from Wyman Lake Sunday afternoon, but the pilot and a passenger walked away from the crash apparently with minor injuries. Pilot Ted Poirier, 28, of Saco, suffered a gash over his left eye, and his passenger, Leslie Miller, 20, of Biddeford, complained of neck pain, according to Jim Carl, an eyewitness and friend of the He also wants additions to the library and the student union, and a new field house. University of Southern Maine President Patricia R. Plante says her school needs a $6 million addition to the library, which has doubled its collection in the past 20 years. the university's Fort Kent campus, President Barbara Leondar says new laboratories for the nursing program are needed because existing ones are obsolete.

The top priority at the Presque Isle campus is a library, addition estimated to cost million, and President James R. Roach also wants a new field house. "High schools in the area have better (physical education) facilities than we have," he said. Farmington campus President Roger G. Spear says his top priority is a physical that education facility from $3 million to $9 million.

University Chancellor Robert M. Woodbury said he hoped to have a clearer idea of how costly the construction plan might be when the board of trustees meets in September. But he said it would take considerably longer for a full analysis of the plans. Woodbury and trustees will review the proposals before determining which ones will be submitted to the Legislature and to voters for approval. The construction plan will accomanticipated enrollment increases in the 1990s, said Woodbury.

He said the influx of older students is not expected to drop, and demographers predict that the number- of traditional-age students will be on the rise again in six years. He said the state should not wait until then to take action. The university says few new facilities have been built at the campuses over the years because college officials failed to make a convincing case for capital construction needs, and voters have rejected three major bond issues since 1968. David Flanagan, chairman of the trustees' finance committee, sees a more receptive Legislature now, and he predicted that the university system would write a request for a bond issue for the second regular session of the 113th Legislature in 1988. The Jerry Remy Clinic of August 12 TO BE SHOWN Aug.

25 7:30 p.m. Thurs. Aug. 27 RED SA 7:30 p.m. Brought to you by watched the single-engine plane take off into the wind, and realized when it turned south it hadn't attained enough altitude.

He said the wings teetered from side to side, the plane disappeared from view into the hills, and he heard the crash. Carl said the wind coming down from the hills was strong and steady, and the pilot obviously had been struggling to get above the wind. Wyman Lake camp owner Gail Pierce said she, her husband and friends watched the takeoff from their camp and saw the plane bank low and head back down. She said it appeared for a time as though it might crash into the camp. The plane, identified by State Trooper John Poirier of Belgrade as a 1946 Taylor Craft, landed upside-down in a small recently-cut area full of brush surrounded by mature trees.

Poirier and State Trooper Dale Lancaster of Cornville responded to the scene. Bingham firefighters stood by in case of fire from the leaking fuel. "I didn't even know who was on board until the whole thing was over, said Roger Fulcher, a ramp attendant with General Aviation, which handles small private planes at the Bangor International Airport. Fulcher said the jet had experienced trouble twice, once when an engine apparently caught fire in mid and the crew extinguished it, and then when the landing gear malfunctioned as the refueling. The jet landed without incident, and the crew called mechanics in California, who promptly flew to Bangor to make repairs.

Hotel clerk Patty Minnehan said it was "pretty exciting" to see the actors, but she did not talk to them other than to sign them into their rooms. Each person took a separate room under the name of Warner Bros. Actors stop in Bangor to repair jet BANGOR (AP) Actors Clint their flight several hours later. pilot tried to land at Bangor for Eastwood, Sondra Locke, and Harrison Ford spent several hours in Bangor this weekend when their private jet developed trouble and was forced to land. The aircraft, the Gulfstream III, was en route from Paris to Burbank, when it landed 'Saturday afternoon.

The three actors spent the night at the Bangor Hilton Inn, and after repairs and refueling, resumed POLICE LOG GARDINER A Gardiner man escaped potentially serious injury Saturday night when he drove his car into a utility pole on Cherry Street, according to Gardiner police. John Elliott, 26, of -152 High Holborn suffered minor facial injuries at 7:05 p.m., when he crossed from Route 126 onto Cherry Street and veered into the pole, said Gardiner Police Officer Stanley Guilmette. Guilmette attributed the cause of the crash to alcohol and excessive speed. Elliott's car was destroyed in the crash, Guilmette said. Gardiner Fire Department Rescue personnel transported Elliot to Kennebec Valley Medical Center in Augusta, where he refused to be examined or treated, a spokeswoman said.

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