September 17, 1984 Page 2
NATION AND WORLD
KANSAN
General Motors and UAW work toward agreement
DETROIT — Bargaining for the United Auto Workers and General Motors Corp. worked into the evening yesterday amid indications a settlement was within reach that would avoid the full impact of the strike at a dozen GM plants nationwide.
The union announced that Local 645 at GM's Van Nuys, Calif. plant had reached agreement on a local contract covering workers and that the strike there would work.
The plant was one of 13 plants originally picked by the union in its selective strike strategy. Walkouts are continuing at the remaining 12 GM plants, the UAW said.
Three girls die in Bronx fire
NEW YORK — Fire raged through a Bronx apartment yesterday, killing three of four pre-school girls whose parents were out doing laundry.
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Neighbor Marcello Acosta, 16, smelled smoke and kicked down the apartment firefighters said. He found one of the girls locked in a hallway and rushed her from the building.
Police said Norman Johnston, 31, and Shirley Williams, 32, left their four daughters alone to take the family's clothes to a neighborhood laundry.
This queen hides no skeletons
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Sharelle Wells of Utah, who won the 1985 Miss America crown on national television Saturday night, said that she had never posed nude, had never had cosmetic surgery and did not believe in drinking, drugs or premarital sex.
Wells, a 20-year-old, strawberry blonde Storm from Salt Lake City, also said she was sick with Lyme disease.
that came as welcome news to pageant officials, who hoped the selection of a taint free queen would end the controversy. In 1944, a court ordered the execution of the 1944 winner, Varsanna Williams.
Solo balloonist mav set record
BEDFORD. Mass. — Balloonist Joe Kittinger, making record time, rode a fast-moving weather system over the ocean yesterday in his quest to complete the first solo trans-Atlantic balloon crossing.
Flight spokesman Jim Mitchell said at 8 p.m. the helium filled balloon was last reported 428 miles southwest of Shannon, Ireland, drifting at 66 mph at an altitude of 10,000 feet.
LONDON — The Prince of Wales waves as he leaves St. baby, who was born Saturday, is to be christened Henry Marry's hospital with the Princess and their new son. The Charles Albert David.
Britain's newest heir to be named Henry
By United Press International
LONDON — Prince Charles and Princess Diana will name their second son Prince Henry, but he'll be just plain Harry at home, Buckingham Palace officials announced yesterday less than 24 hours after the baby was born.
As Britain's newest prince made his first public appearance, the announcement of his name took the country by surprise — it is usually seven days before royal babies are born.
Many outside the hospital were not so wild about the name Harry, although it is hard to say.
“It’s a commoner’s name,” said one woman as Princess Diana and her blue-eyed
Harry went home just 22 hours after the birth.
The 6-pound, 18-ounce boy will be chris-
tened Henry Charles Albert David a
bishop of New York.
The name Henry was the choice of the parents, he said "They both like it and they'll call him Harry."
Prince Henry is third in line to the throne after Prince Charles and Prince William. He will probably be christened in Buckingham Palace.
Many people, including London book makers, thought the infant would be called George in memory of his great-grandfather Charles, one of Prince Charles' favorite monograms.
But the name Henry is written in royal tradition through centuries of British history
The first King Henry reigned in the 12th century and was the son of William the Conqueror Thomas Beckett was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral on the orders of Henry II, and Henry V was immortalized by William Shakespeare for his victory over the French at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.
King Henry VIII, who broke with Catholicism in the 16th century, is probably the most famous monarch in British history.
Explaining the baby prince's other names, Buckingham Palace said Charles was selected because it is both a royal name and one connected with the Spencer family of Princess Diana Albert was the name of Queen Victoria's husband.
David was the name of Queen Mother Elizabeth's brother, the late David Bowes Lyon, the spokesman said.
Soviets hold U.S. vessel, officials say
By United Press International
JUNEAU. Alaska — While friends and relatives prayed yesterday for the well-being of five crewmen of an U.S. supply boat detained by Soviet authorities in remote Arctic waters, the State Department pressed Moscow for their return home.
The 120-foot motor vessel Freida K out of Homer, Alaska, was believed taken to a Russian port somewhere on the Chukotkis Peninsula. 50 miles across the Bering Strait from Alaska, U.S. officials said.
It was reported missing Friday and the State Department confirmed Saturday it had been detained by the Soviet Union in the middle of last week, although U.S. officials said no reason was given for the detainment.
Communist Party Central Committee adviser Stanslav Menshikov, interviewed yesterday on ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley," said he could not confirm the Soviets were holding the crew but added that his government had little interest in detaining him he called "fisherman."
He said the only reason they might be held was if they had fished too close to a military installation. The U.S. State Department also had little information.
Experts familiar with the routes in the area said that ships could get off track but that they seldom did.
U. S. officials, however, stressed it was not clear if the Freida K. had strayed into Soviet territory. The boat was apparently returning from a voyage supplying water and fuel to seismic research vessels doing oil exploration work in U.S. waters of the Chukchi
The five seamen are all from Homer, a seaport town 389 miles southeast of Nome.
Ken Halpin Jr., 23, whose brother Mark Halpin, 19, was one of the seamen missing, said. "We're getting a lot of calls, a lot of calls. Pretty much everybody in town knows these guys and they call to say they are praying for them and they are concerned."
Terry Thoms, the father of brothers Tab Thoms, the vessel's skipper, and Tate Thoms, a crewman, said yesterday. "My brother's upbeat. I always knew they were safe."
The Coast Guard identified a fourth crewman as Robert Miller, a deckhand, age unknown, and relatives disclosed the name of the fifth man as Charlie Burrall, 29, the cook
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