Japanese Jumbo Jet Down, 524 Aboard
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Birch Hill captures JSBL championship, 1B Mostly sunny Highs in the upper 80s Tonight will be fair The Register Complete lorecast/Pift 2A TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1985 25 CENTS INSIDE Japanese jumbo jet SPORTS down, 524 aboard The Associated Press Japan Air Crash KITA-AKAMURA, Japan - A Japanese jumbo jet packed with 524 people crashed In rugged mountains of central Japan yester- day. Police said at least (our people survived, but It was be- lieved the worst single-plane crash in history. Television networks showed pic- tures of a young girl and an older woman on stretchers, battered and bandaged. One network, Fuji Tele- vision, identified them as Mrs. Hlroko Yoshizaki, 35, and her daughter, Mlchiko Yoshizaki, 8. It said the other survivors were a man and a woman, both uniden- tified. Nagano prefectural (state) police also were quoted as saying at least four people survived. Three dozen helicopter-borne troops made a rope descent into steep, thickly forested mountain country this morning to reach the ASSOCIATED PRESS wreckage of the Japan Air Lines JAPAN AIR CRASH — Graphic shows the intended route of the Boeing 747. Japan Air Lines jumbo jet that crashed on a domestic flight The jetliner crashed on a domestic flight from Tokyo to yesterday in mountainous country after reporting that it had Osaka. The pilot, Masami problems with a cabin door and was going to make an emergency Takahama, 49, had reported a door landing. flOO TO COURT — Former Tulane was broken, that he was fighting basketball player John "Hot Rod" for control and would try an passenger list. They were ident- 6:54 p.m. (5:54 a.m. EDT), on the Williams walks to court with his emergency landing. ified as Edward Anderson, be- north side of Mount Ogura. a 8,929- attorney in New Orleans yesterday Hiroshi Ochiai, a Self Defense lieved to be 48, and Michael foot peak about 50 miles from Williams is charged with two counts THE REGISTER/CAROLINE E. COUIQ Force spokesman, earlier said Hanson, 40, both employees of Yokota and 70 miles northwest of of sports bribery and three counts of SUNNY WEATHER - Emily Burns, 4, Rumson, gives Dana initial reports from the crash site, Stearns Catalytic Co., of Denver, Tokyo. conspiracy to commit sports bribery Haug, also 4, a push at Marine Park, Red Bank. The two are at about 9,000 feet, indicated no Colo. Neil McLagan, a Stearns The site is in a remote area in part of the Day Care Center affiliated with Riverview Medical survivors among the 509 passen- vice president, confirmed a range known as the Japan Alps. 3B Center. gers and 15 crew members aboard. Anderson and Hanson were on the The only roads in the region follow JAL spokesman Geoffrey Tudor airplane river valleys that cut through said two Americans were on the The jetliner crashed at about Set CRASH, Page 2A LOCAL Project snagged Plans to rebuild the Keansburg Pier reach a stumbling block at the state Teachers want school shut: 'Cancer risk' Department of Environmental Protection. At a board meeting July 31, Panos revealed that the MRTA, tke board and M The Register administrators had been privately discuss- ABERDEEN - The Matawan Regional ing the alleged cancer risk for more than a Teachers Association may seek legal action year. to force administrators and the Board of At least 25 teachers in the district have WORLD Education to clow Strathmore Elementary contracted cancer in the past 20 years — 22 School by Sept. 1 of them taught at the Strathmore School at one time or another, Panos said at that Anti-apartheid Marie Panos, association president, is meeting. Prime Minister Shimon Peres meets calling for drastic measures — she claims Irving Hurwitz, board president, yester- with a black South African leader and the school's teachers and students have been day declined comment on Panos' threat, but pledges to use Israel's connections expofed to a high risk of cancer. said neither the board nor Panos are with the white-ruled government to Panos has asked the board and adminis- knowledgable on whether a study should be urge an end to apartheid. trators to shut down Strathmore School, taken. He said he personally does not know transfer students and staff to the now-closed of any evidence that warrants a study 7A Cambridge Park Elementary School, and However, Dr Kenneth Hall, district see that the district gets a commitment superintendent, said he is to meet with THE REGISTER/JEFF CHASIN from the state Department of Health that an officials from the health department by the HEALTH RISK CHARGED — The Matawan Regional Teachers Association STATE environmental study of the school will be end of this week to discuss the matter contends the teachers and students at Strathmore Elementary School in Aberdeen conducted. See SCHOOL. Page 2A have been exposed to a high risk of cancer. New evidence A historian says he has discovered a document that will help New Jersey officials in their lawsuit seeking to Two patrolmen deliver Tower project looms wrest sovereignty over Liberty and Ellis islands away from New York. M a premature baby girl over Chapel Hill area didn't have to do much. "The baby If shot out. It Just exploded, ' Pierce said that except for the LIFESTYLE The Register Murdoch said. Mrs. Rivera noted If ITEnUNK SlUCKMK height, the tower's design is Some like it hot MIDDLETOWN - Amy Rivera that the whole thing happened so The Register identical to the ball-shaped tower was only six months pregnant quickly, she felt no labor pains. MIDDLETOWN - A 154-foot on stilts off Route 36 near Even in the late afternoon, It was still when she fell on her bed on July Lang said he caught the baby and tall water tower rising on the Hartshome Woods. Both can hold sweltering Sunday, but that didn't 22, lay back and knew her baby wrapped It In a towel. Chapel Hill skyline isn't exactly 300,000 gallons of water, but the affect the turnout at the Rhapsody on was coming. They pinched the newborn to what residents of that neigh- Chapel illl tower will be almost the Navesink cocktail party at the Her husband, Joseph, was fran- start her breathing — "and then borhood want to see, but the twice i i tall, he said. home of John and Mary Tsaklris. In tic. He called the police, and when we both breathed a sigh of relief," company that wants to build it Pier.e said the company looked fact, the party to benefit the Pollak two patrol can pulled up their Murdoch said After that, be and says it would be there for their for other sites, but found that the Psychiatric Clinic at Monmouth driveway at the Thousand Oaks Lang "cleaned the baby up a bit." own good. Chapel Hill site, on a tract now Medical Center was a huge success, apartment complex, "he ran out Later, a county paramedic unit Monmouth consolidated Water owned by Walter Anderson, was according to Pollak Auxiliary the door and yelled the baby was arrived and cut the baby's um- Company plans to build the tower the only reasonable location for President Stella Farrell of Deal. coming," according to police. bilical cord, police said. on a hill off Monmouth Avenue the tower. Moments later, Atlantic High- Mr. Rivera was awed by the because Chapel Hill homes and He said if the tower were 11A lands Patrolman Brian Lang police officers' work. "They acted fire hydrants don't get enough shorter, the water pressure to the caught the 2 lb. 10W oz. baby girl like they were doing it twice a day water pressure, according to Wil- surrounding area would not be as she was born, and Middletown for all their lives. They were so liam Pierce, assistant manager of enough. Patrolman Daniel Murdoch III cool about It," he said. the water company. At first Anderson did not want to cleared the newbom's nose and But Murdoch and Lang both said A number of residents are sell his land, but he changed his mouth with his mouth. Melinda wat their first. Murdoch preparing to lobby against the mind after water company of- INDEX Now, weeks later, the said he learned how to deliver proposal at a Board of Adjustment ficials explained their view of the premature baby, Melinda Rivera, babies at the Monmouth County meeting Monday, according to need for a tank, Pierce said. He la lying In an intensive care Police Academy, which offered Elizabeth Scudder, Browns Dock noted that the water company has nursery at Monmouth Medical police trainees one week of first DAY'S WORK — Patrolmen Road. But because so many hear- a contract with Anderson to buy BRIDGE II Center, and according to her aid training. Daniel Murdoch, above, and ings are scheduled for Monday, the the land, which is contingent on BUSINESS H nurse, the It doing well. Her He said he remembered his Brian Lang delivered Melinda tower issue will almost definitely Monmouth Consolidated getting all CLASSIFIED N condition it stable. training when be attended Mrs. Rivera at her parents' home. be postponed until the board's the approvals it needs to build the COMICS M Murdoch said he did not have an Rivera. "It was amazing. It ran September meeting or a special tower. CROSSWORD 71 aspirator — a syringe with a right through my head," he said. Lang called for first aid help while meeting in coming weeks, accord- Water company officials also ENTERTAINMENT 71 rubber bulb on the end used to Murdoch has been a policeman for Murdoch stayed with his wife.