Reagan on Road to Recovery I They Set an Abandoned House Ablaze to Practice Their Firefighting Techniques
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24 - THE HERALD. Mon., March 30, 1981 X- News quirks ? /■' By United Press International A tou§h lesson COLLEGE GROVE, Tenn. (U PI) - Several volunteer firemen got a little more than they bargained for when Reagan on road to recovery i they set an abandoned house ablaze to practice their firefighting techniques. '1 The firemen set fire to the house Saturday so they could put it out for training. But high winds carried sparks Resumes his duties from the burning building to the vacant College Grove Presbyterian Church across the street and it also caught fire. Tuesday The church burned to the ground, despite the crew ’s ef from hospital room forts and the help of firemen from other nearby towns. March 31, 1981 The firemen, however, were able to prevent the blaze Manchester, Conn. WASHINGTON (U PI) - President from spreading to the nearby College Grove Elementary 25 Cents Reagan, making an "e x c e lle n t” Related stories and pic- - School gymnasium. recovery from a gunshot wound in tures on pages 3, 6, 8, 9, 12 \ “ They should be well-trained now,’ ’ said Alfred the chest, sat up in bed today, joked and 19. f T: Jaqueth, the school’s principal. with his doctors and nurses, brushed Serving the GreaterHrral) Manchester Area for Years his teeth and resumed his duties as lOO \ America’s chief executive. Reagan had a restless night during Courtly manners “ I am sure he can attend to the im which he slept little in the hospital's portant matters of government recovery room where he joked with D E N V E R (U P I) — TTie jurors listened intently to the today,” Dr. Dennis O’Leary said, his doctors and nurses. testimony, but suddenly the courtroom decorum was > J . k \ x reporting that Reagan signed the “ All of his vital signs are entirely shattered by a voice booming over the court’s public ad Dairy Price Support bill when it was normal,” O’Leary told reporters. He dress system. brought into his hospital room on his said Reagan would be in the hospital h “ Put your pedal to the metal,” said a man’s voice, ad breakfast tray. a week or two and added it would be ding several impolite expletives that caused some in the The doctor from George "probably a couple of months before jury to sit bolt upright. Washington University Medical he is totally back to riding horses." \ The public address system in Denver District cour Center said Reagan was in “ excep “ He is doing as well as any patient trooms is picking up and amplifying transmissions from tionally good condition” despite a who has had an operation on his citizen band radio operators and Judge Susan Barnes, restiess night during which he was chest could do," he said. whose court was recently interrupted by the “ pedal to the awake most of the time, joking with More seriously wounded- than m etal” transmission, is concerned about a loss of cour doctor and nurses. “ If I'd gotten this Reagan were Secret Service agent troom decorum. much attention in Hollywood, I Tim othy J. M cCarthy, 22, and District Judge Daniel Sparr said his courtroom PA would have stayed,” he was quoted Metropolitan policeman Thomas K system once reproduced the sound of someone saying: as telling them. Delahanty, 45, who were caught in “ Hi there. Soda Pop, this is Jack Leg.” Reagan's press secretary James between Reagan and the gunman One recent CB transmission came through so powerful y* Brady, believed to have been shot in The doctor said both were respon ly it blew a fuse in the building’s amplifier. the head by the same gunman who ding well to treatment and would When rescue .workers thought they heard a call for help while But it’s not all spicy language being broadcast in*ihe wounded the president outside a recover. / iV 'X V removing rubble of the collapsed Harbour Bay Condominium, courtrooms. Washington hotel Monday, was O’Leary said Reagan showed some Police radio messages occasionally come through as reported "m uch im proved,” but interest in what had happened and Saturday, Con Nowakowski, center, father of a worker presumed well, court officials say. Volunteer workers work at removing the last of the debris from the O’Leary would not speculate on was told he had been shot "by a trapped, held his daughter Ann Nowakowski, right, and cousin possible brain damage. collapsed Harbour Cay Condo that collapsed Friday. The only young man from a good fam ily.'' The Stephanie Rank. Darrell Nowakowski was one of two persons still “ We believe he is going to live, " doctor said Reagan's response was thing that was left from the five-story complex was the elevator missing. But after long minutes of silence, work continued at the Tasty buds said O’Leary who earlier said the 40- “ basically non-commital ' shaft. The last of the known missing was recovered Sunday after site of the five-story condo, which fell Friday during pouring of the year-old aide was fighting for his life Reagan was not told of Brady's noon. (DPI photo) concrete roof. (UPI photo) BOISE, Idaho (U PI) — The Idaho Potato Commission after undergoing five hours of sur condition and did not know anyone is sending a 50-pound box of spuds to each of the 52 gery to remove the fragmented else had been shot, he said Americans who had to eat a rice-saturated diet while small caliber bullet from his brain. ' The doctor said when Reagan being held hostage by Iranian militants. Reagan was shot by an agitated (walked into the hospital after the The baking potatoes will be hand-selected by the Idaho X young gunman who mingled with Shooting he did not realize he was Death toll 11 in collapse of condo Grower-Shipper’s Association and will be air-freighted photographers and reporters in a wounded, but thought he had bruised through FLAG , a group which relays messages to dreary rain outside the Washington or cracked a rib when he was shoved COCOA BEACH, Fla, (UPIl - officials said. on the job. The 11th victim , found Sunday, was hostage families to protect their privacy. Hilton hotel where the president had into his limousine by Secret Service Rescuers ended Ihe search for victims Heaps of rubble remained, but the A company spokesman said Univel will Darrell Nowakowski, 22, a window fitter Commission Executive Director Gordon Randall said just completed a speech. agents. early today in the rubhle of the five-story rescuers had removed floor slabs from the begin interviewing survivors of the acci whose parents live across the street from after he heard the Americans were fed mostly rice by John W. “ Jack " Hinckley Jr., 25, At the White House. Vice Presi Harbour Cay condominium with the final accordion-like collapse down to the dent today to try to put together a the wrecked building. Nowakowski had their Iranian captors, he thought, “ Idaho potatoes would of Evergreen, Colo, the son of an up dent George Bush took over the toll standing at 11 dead and 22 injured. ground floor of the structure. chronology of the accident. been on the job only two days. be the ideal way to recondition their taste buds.” per middle class “ Reagan conser president's schedule for the day. The search was discontinued when it Ed Ashley, chief investigator of the Inspectors of the federal Occupational vative,” was arraigned at midnight meeting with top Reagan aides was found all workers listed on the job had Florida Division of Professional Regula Safety and Health Administration have on charges of attempted assassina shortly after he arrived at 7:40 a m. been accounted lor. Officials said it was tion, said it the worst construction dis scheduled a meeting today with Univel of Nowakowski’s body was identified by a EQQlnQ OP DdrOPthOOCl tion of the president, and was held and later chairing the Cabinet the worst construction disaster in' aster in state history. ficials and are expected to ask the com cousin, Christopher Rank, His parents, ^ r- without bail today. Hinckley was meeting. But the vice president Florida's history. Rescue supervisors determined that all pany to hand over its log books and other Con and Carolyn Nowakowski, walked PROVO, Utah (U P I) — Students at Brigham Young identified as a former member of a worked in his own office, purposely Security guards and a lew workers were workers had been accounted for by records for the $1.5 million building. The arm-in-arm to the spot where their son’s University are dangling raw eggs from their wrists to neo-Nazi organizatfon who had un staying out of the Oval Office in a still at the site, readying loaned equip checking payroll sheets of Univel Inc. — log books list intervals between pouring crushed body lay. They were helped away learn how to cope with parenthood, but the lesson is dergone psychiatric treatment. He symbolic display of showing the ment for return to owners, Civil Defense the developer — and three subcontractors concrete slabs at the site. by friends. hampering their romantic activities. was arrest^ on a weapons charge president was still in charge. Professor Alvin Price requires the 750 students in his last October in Nashville where "T h e president rem ains the basic child development class to walk around for five President' Carter was attending a president," deputy press secretary days with an egg, placed in an envelope attached to their Agents tend to Presidential Press'Secretary Jartids-Brady'on The assailant is being held by police and agents In caippaign rally.