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Ami Urx intr bid Fahlk of i Rozij Cloud i jul attn of Frony win in o Ursoi Artri the held Jurf Rumen Cermint Mart a Juci k inf Crft a l Mil 46 35 16 3 u 40 71 leg it to no 66 i pal w.dkll.1 a still Fallsi Khong Chi am Thailand a four americans sailed into laotian Waters Friday and floated Dollar Bills stamped with a j2.4 million Reward offer for missing . Service them  was the second attempt during the week by americans seeking information on mias. Thai Navy boats waved the second group Back to Shore and retrieved the Money but the americans said they threw it Back into the Mekong River. ,. The americans tossed scaled plastic envelopes containing about 11,000 into the River after their two rented fishing boats moved about 220 Yards into laotian Waters. The Mekong forms a Boundary Between Laos and Thailand and flows to Cambodia and  also stuffed . And soviet currency into a toy boat guided by Remote control toward Laos. We Are really encouraged. We had a great Day said Bruce Adams of Laramie Wyo. Adams and the other three belong to a private lobbying group called the National steering committee for american War veterans. They believe americans taken prisoner during the Indochina War Are still held in communist Laos Cambodia and  three governments deny holding americans. Adams is convinced that his brother Stephen remains Cap Tive in Laos. He was reported missing 22 years ago. Laotian authorities captured two other members of the group on oct. 2 after they sailed into the same general area tossed the same Reward offers into the nver then apparently landed at a laotian Village. The . Embassy in Vientiane the capital of Laos said it has received no response to its inquiry about the two Ameri cans Donna Long of Jacksonville ., and James Copp of Hampstead  Rep. Frank Mccloskey d-ind., was quoted by the Linton ind daily citizen As saying Friday that the state department told him the two Are held in a compound in Vientiane the state department is confident they will be out in a Short time Mccloskey was quoted As saying. I m very optimistic they will be released in a Short Lime. On Friday the thai Navy boat asked the americans to Stop tossing the packets waved them Back to thai shores then began retrieving the Money. To won t work. It s incredibly stupid one thai officer told  Navy boat then escorted Ted Sampley the group Leader to a Navy station where he was told that inc group s actions were not allowed. An officer returned 90 packets of Dollar Bills to Sampley and the former Green Beret from Kinston ., said he would have to toss them Back into the River. So we tossed them into the River from the thai Side and All the kids enjoyed plunging into the Mekong to gel them. Sam Pley  Hampton of Winter Haven fla., handed out balloons and Reward suckers to youngsters. Hampton was a Nusic during the Vietnam War. The other member of the group William Sullivan of Jacksonville  Was in the Marine corps during the  s2.4 million is being offered to any laotian cambodian or vietnamese who bring out an american prisoner of War. The Money was pledged by 21 . Congressmen and citizens. About 58,000 americans died before . Forces withdrew from the Vietnam War in 1973, and the . Government still lists 2,393 americans As mining in action in Vietnam Laos and Cambodia. Thai Navy officials said the group s entry into laotian Walen could jeopardize thai laotian relations. The . Government also has criticized the Reward offer As an impediment to official contacts with the indic House governments to account for the missing . 4 killed in fire explosion at Illinois ammunition Plant european Watne ii Imam Cermin hmm. To a 40 46 my 904 a n w 4 a h t Oregon electric Coop to buy from Bonneville Baker Ore. Dpi Oregon s first new electric cooperative in 25 years has concluded an agreement to Purchase the bulk of its Power from the Bonneville Power administration. The Oregon Trail electric Consumers cooperative and spa administrator James Jura announced thai contracts were being worked out for Long term Power supplies. Oregon Trail last week became the Firtl Rural electric cooperative to begin operation in the mate in a Quarter Cen Tury when it acquired the Eastern Oregon properties of up National corp. Of san Francisco for so  million. Ottawa 111. A Hying bullets forced firefighters to Lake cover when an ammunition manufacturing company caught fire and exploded Friday killing four people. Investigators from the state fire marshal s office and the Federal Bureau of alcohol. Tobacco and firearms worked saturday to determine what caused the tire and explosions at the Buffalo Rock shooters Supply seven Miles West of Ottawa in North Central Illinois. The company makes ammunition and Sells weapons to police departments around the country authorities said. I be seen explosions before but Noth ing like this. It was just so massive la Salic county Coroner Marion Osborne said. It was a big Ball of fire with a couple of explosions. There were a Tot of bullets flying said Vince Del lord fire chief of Laplatte town about four Miles East of the factory. Dilore said workers at the company were believed to have been making bul lets when the first explosion hit about 11 30 . In the main building which also housed the company s general offices and gun shop. Fire investigators suspect a spark ignited Gunpowder. It started in the main building where they make ammunition and sell guns deplore said. A place like that with All that Black powder just the dust if you get a spark in there that s All it s going to take. They had cases and cases and cases of All kinds of ammunition All kinds of  bullets were whizzing through the air when firefighters arrived at the Complex which also included three ammunition and gun storage buildings act torn said. It s not As dangerous As if it was shot out of a gun itself the fire chief said. It gets a Little scary when you get a big explosion. We started putting it out until we were told there was Black powder in there and then i evacuated All of the men  he said the 40 firefighters retreated about a half mile from the Complex for 45 minutes and then resumed battling the Blaze. The four victims were company owner Roger Fulmar 53, of Ottawa his stepdaughter Palti Smith 32, of Ulica Pamela Ellsworth 26, of we Dron and Ronca seamen 31, of Ottawa. They were identified through dental records Osborne said. Abc flagship goes off air new York a Friday was the last Day on the air for radio station in by for g2 years the flagship of the Abc radio net work that was Home to Jack Benny Bob Hope Fred Allen and the Abc symphony conducted by Arturo Toscani. Its spot at �60 on the am dial a dear Channel signal that could be picked up in As Many As 35 Stales at night is going loan All sports station. In by was descended from the station that was the first to broadcast a world series the first to run a com Mercial the first with a coast Uko Asi Hookup and the first to broadcast a National political convention. The end of an Era came As a result of he s6 billion Deal in 1985 in which general electric co. Bought Ria corp., abcs Parent company. A Federal communications commission regulation prevents a new owner from keeping both a to and radio station in the same Market so be decided to Tell its new radio property and keep the More profitable in by to. In by said goodbye with a 90 minute retrospective program Fri Day featuring clips from programs with Benny Hope alien and others. Nasa Pilot ejects survives Jet crash Boron. Calif. Cap a Nasa Pilot ejected safely from his 15 million Jet shortly before it crashed into the Mojave desert during a research flight. Pilot Stephen Ishmael 39, of Palm Date was examined by a flight surgeon after the Accident Friday and was in Good condition said Nancy Lovato spokeswoman for the National aeronautics and space administration s Dryden flight research facility at Edwards fab. He was out waving before the Heli copter picked him up she said. Nasa spokesman Ralph Jackson said there were no reports of any injuries on the ground. The Jet went Down about three Miles Northeast of Boron at 1 1 30 was piloting 1 8 Chase plane which was Mcdonnell . Ishmael Douglas a following another a 1 8 on a research flight when he experienced problems with the air plane s control system Lov Ato said. The Navy uses similar f-18 jets As fighter attack aircraft but Nasa u tiling modified Fa-18s, reproduction Proto types of the f-18, Tii m High Angle of attack program aimed at designing highly Maneu Scrable jets Lovato said. Ishmael is chief Pilot of Nasa s pro Gram to research the x-29, an experimental aircraft that uses Forward swept wings composite structural materials and High technology flight control for increased Maneule ability. Nasa will Convene an Accident Board to investigate the crash Jackson said