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PAGE 2 CARNIVAL Sun and clouds PAGE 8 lUnniiiui Sin i 1 i nd 'in ijm iVd'94W SOMatervilleWinslow Mane (207) 873 3341 ftjaaaB8l RIDAY MAY 231997 1 01 Serving Waterville Winslow Oakland airfield Northern Kennebec and Waldo county communities Greater Shows is in Augusta this weekend What's Happening AIRORCE: emale bomber pilot gets a general discharge IN SMITHIELD: Police charge man with possession of marijuana PAGE 9 SOTBALL Madison halts Hall Dale rally to win 5 4 PAGE 21 WEmE Js OJT 2 face charges in thefts of autos By DOUG HARLOW Stalf Writer WATERVILLE Police say two men stole a pickup truck then two cars along a trail through five towns in two counties Before the day was over one of the stolen cars would crash into a utility pole and the men would be spending the night in separate county jails Winslow police Detective Gina Cabaniss said the spree began around midnight when bster McClure 30 and Yancis Raymond 22 both of Water Street Waterville allegedly took a 1985 Chevy pickup truck from Danielson Street in Winslow The detective said the men appar ently knew their prey and knew where he kept his truck keys Once in the truck McClure and Raymond allegedly made their way out of Kennebec County to the back roads of Somerset County ending up on the Baron Road in Embden they left the truck after it broke down or they ran out of Cabaniss said Thursday afternoon turning the story over to Lt William Crawford Jr of the Somerset County Department Crawford said he and deputy Tom found the abandoned truck near the home of step mother Loretta Raymond But the deputies soon found that a red Subaru being used by Mrs Raymond was missing from the drive way along with the contents of the Chevy truck Crawford said the men allegedly loaded tools a microwave oven and some clothes from the truck into the Subaru and sped off in the direction of Anson Madison and Norridgewock rolled the car on Martin Stream Road in Norridgewock totaled the Crawford said But just 50 feet from the wreckage of the Subaru was another car a 1989 Dodge Dynasty parked in a near by driveway In Waterville patrol officer Karen Pomerleau said the men allegedly found the keys to the Dynasty under Ihe seat and sped off with McClure (Seeding from facial injuries suffered in toe crash of the Subaru four door Dodge Dynasty was recovered this morning behind theChet Parec (nightclub) on Water Street" Pomerleau said notingWaterville Sgt Lee Gilbert inter viewed witnesses in the area of WiterStreet i The interviews led police toMcClure's apartment where they Please see CAR THETS Page 2 slnside Business Lottery? 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To vote call call 034 4967 in SkowheganNorridgewock or 877 0618 in Waterville and dial extension 8008 for yes or extension 8011 for no The results will be published on Page 2 in Saturday's Morning Sentinel Reducing the access rates will encourage competition among long distance carriers resulting in better deals for consumers the governor explained He estimated the eventu al rate reductions at between 50 and 70 percent longer will it cost more to call from Bangor to Portland Maine than to Portland Oregon" King said King and PUC Commissioner Please see PHONE Page 2 Long distance providers pirating your business By MECHELE COOPER Staff Writer SIDNEY Deregulation has brought many things to the telecom munications industry including a few hassles Patricia Steinmeyer a state employee said she received a $45 charge on her bill last March for a long distance calling service she never requested When she com plained about the billing she was passed from company to company girl said they had a record ing of me requesting plan' and asked if I wanted her to play it back for Steinmeyer said she came on the line again and said that not your voice on the slammed? If an Individual has been Soldano recom mends filing a written dispute with the ederal Communications Commission at 1919 Street NW Washington DC 20554 The CC's telephone numbers are 1 888 322 8255 and 1 888 225 5322 and I told her I had said Patricia Steinmeyer but not call plan" Please see SLAMMING Page 2 Pressure builds for report on mercury threat ISH ADVISORIES Mercury contamination has led Maine officials to warn citizens against eating too much lobster and some species of fish taken from lakes ponds and rivers Children under 8 and pregnant women are advised not to eat warm water species of fish (bass perch) and are urged not to eat more than one cold water species of fish (salmon trout) per month Adults are advised to eat no more than 2 3 warm water fish per month WASHINGTON A massive gov By II JOSE HEBERT on Thursday for the study which had Associated Press Writer been required by the 1990 Clean Air 1 Act1 They introduced a resolution tn the senate tor tne report unmeui ate' release to and ques i for the delay The study is seen by environmen I guiding document for future regula state governments Mercury often Is released into the air during combustion and settles in water where it becomes Jodged and accumulates tn fish States have grown increasingly worried about mercury contamination In recent years Advisories warning of possi ble high mercury levels in freshwa ter fish are currently in place in parts of 37 states Mercury can cause cancer repro Pkase see MERCURY Puge 2 eminent study suggesting that mer tinned the reasons rtirv noses a greater health threat The studvls see than previously thought has been talists and many state officials as a Mariv ramnleted for more UUU1 a yean prompting calls for its release yon of mercury by both federal and Six senators fonnall Environmental Protei Music tells story By DARLA PICKETT SudTWriter WATERVILLE She had been humming the tunes all morning haunting melodies created and sung by women to a Japanese prisoner of war camp to the eary 1940s Charlie Hartman of China Maine was remembering her rote to a cho rus production' of the orchestral scores for the first time store they were sung to the camp The music had been donated by a camp survivor to the Music library of Stanford University for its archives 39 years after the women's release It was treated with preserv atives and installed to a specially made airtight box Univtraity archivist comnii rioned the Peninsula Chorus to perform the orchestral HEAR IT To hear a selection from the actu al 1982 performance of Muse orxjiaS? 11 a Prison RH0MW Camp by the Peninsula a Women's Chorus cal the Morning Sentinel Phone Me line at 877 0618 in the Waterville area or 634 4967 in score so they would have an audio version as welL That was 15 years ago" says Hartman wbo said a recently released movie showing at Railroad Square Cinema beginning riday "Paradise tells the story about the women the concentration camp and the music When she heard about the movie Hartman said the memories of that first performance came flooding back "It was 1983 I was a member of the Peninsula Chorus in Palo Alto Calit" said Hartman who sings alto Helen Coljjn one of the 600 women and children to the humid and sti fling camp to southeast Sumatra at the rim of the South China Sea had managed to bring the music with her when they were released The survivor told of death and despair at the camp which made the music take on a ufe of its own fir Hartman and her fellow singers Cdijn told of women wbo risked their livre to compose from memory rehearse and perform music while fa Please set MUSIC 2 Ss pro ROM MMWeLL gf Charite Hartman of China shows a copy of the sheet muc sung by women fa a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War A.