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wl I MKrOjgTi wBl W'" liw 1 hKwWiblioi Sentinel photo by Bruce arrin By BRUCE ARRIN Sentinel Staff MADISON Cutting a symbolic made of supercalendered paper Gov Joseph Brennan Sunday officially opened North largest supercalendered paper mill facility here The mill facility is owned by Madison Paper In dustries a partnership of Myllykoski Oy of inland the largest producer of supercalendered pa per and The New York Times Co More than 1500 people attended the dedication ceremony including employees of the expanded mill complex and their families retired employees leading residents of Madison and the surrounding area local and state officials suppliers to the mill and the contractors and engineers engaged in its construction I cut this ribbon Madison Maine becomes the supercalendered paper capital of North Ameri Brennan said He was joined on the platform at the dedication ceremonies by Jack Chinn president and chief executive officer of MPI Walter Mattson presi dent and chief operating officer of the New York Times Co and Carl Bjomberg president of Mylly koski Oy Groundbreaking ceremonies for the new Mad ison mill facility which houses PM No 3 its highly automated papermaking machine were held in March 1980 Construction was substantially com pleted in November 1981 several months ahead of schedule The mill has been producing supercalen dered paper for several weeks following trial runs and a period ceremonies included tours of the mill speeches of welcome by Chinn Bjomberg and Mat tson and refreshments and gifts for all guests It was the beginning of a program that will continue through Wednesday More on MADISON Page 12 Colorado pounded by 137 mph wind Colo because power lines were lying across the roadway The high winds which warmed Denver from 22 degrees at 1 am to 56 degrees at 4:30 am also flipped over four single engine planes at Boulder Airport and left one Boulder County widespread damage in the cities of Boulder and Loveland Similar winds were gusting to 100 mph in neighboring Wyoming Power was out in most of Boulder a city of 75000 residents about 20 miles northwest of Denver where some build ings under construction were demo lished roofs walls and windows were tom from shopping centers and streets were blocked by debris In Loveland 60 miles north of Denv er two small mobile homes were knocked several yards off their founda tions and three others along with two traditional houses were seriously dam aged About 25 people had to spend the night at homes according to Larimer County Sheriff Sgt Pat McCosh Officials closed a 30 mile section of US Highway 287 north of Longmont Jet recovery foiled by cold: Page 12 Sentinel photo by David Learning ierce winds whipped across Central Maine Sunday producing a motorist on the Knox Ridge Road in Knox has to get out and dig wind chill temperatures of in Portland and 65 in Caribou Here after bogging down in a 3 foot drift blown away roofs off windows out said Beverly Crosky of the Boulder po lice department lot of streets are blocked by debris and wires down Great big pieces of roofing and sides of houses are blown up against other Boulder County Sgt Jim Smith said of the malls and shopping centers here have been hit winds howled out of the canyons on the with businesses losing roof and most of eastern slopes of the Rockies with de their big plate glass windows structive hurricane force causing More on COLD Page 12 By DAVID LANGORD Associated Press Writer Powerful Chinook winds gusting to 137 mph Sunday wrecked homes and businesses in Colorado while persistent Siberian cold dropped temperatures to all time lows in some Midwestern cit ies The death toll reached 263 in more than a week of harsh winter weather called the coldest of the century No se rious injuries were reported from Colo high winds The beer city of Milwaukee at 26 de grees below zero suffered its coldest day since the weather service started keeping records 111 years ago as tem peratures fell below zero from Dixie to New England and across the Midwest The mercury dipped to 22 below at Akron Ohio breaking the all time re cord of minus 21 set in 1963 Thousands of people were without power and many highways were impas sable across the Midwest Many people spent the night in emergency shelters The mercury hit 5 below zero in Washington for the coldest day in the captal in 48 years hampering efforts to salvage the wreckage of an Air lorida jetliner that crashed into the ice bound Potomac River Divers pulled 30 bodies from the river Satur day It was so cold in Embarrass Minn nlnr KrnVn of AA Hcl grees below zero and the local weather deputy with minor injuries watcher could only estimate the tern wjjpn the windshield of his car blew out perature at minus 52 International got power outages buildings alls Minn had an official reading of under construction that are completely klAum nmnii rrrtcr rrf unnrtAiiic nuf 45 below zero Chicago wnere it was 23 below Mayor Jane Byrne ordered the city parks department to open all fieldhouses as emergency shelters In New York City where it was a rel atively mild 1 below city officials got 2300 complaints Sunday morning from apartment dwellers with no heat But in the West nature turned on a ciant blow dryer as 'warm Chinook I I 4 I UK aOTOW Ghana coup Student from Waterville had a front row seat By STEPHEN RILEY Sentinel Staff To most people the New Eve coup in Ghana was just a story on the front page of the morning pa per but to David Brancacclo of Wa terville it was a real life experience Brancaccio 21 was attending the Univesity of Ghana in Accra the ca pital of Ghana when the coup broke out He was taking a year abroad from Wesleyan University where he is an African studieshistory major when the overthrow disrupted his plans According to Brancaccio confu the start of the coup He had just re turned to Ghana from a 3000 kllo meter trip through the neighboring countries of Upper Volta Mall and Togo 12 hours before the coup oc curred When he returned to Accra he stayed at a house in the center of the city which turned out to be by the locus of the fight which would break out later that night At the start no one really knew what was going on There were va rious rumors circulating in the capi tal but none could be substantiated Brancaccio heard gun Inrlrrt tha niffht hilt diemiQCid it as New celebrating The houseboy was so unim pressed with the gunfire that by the third time he heard shooting he de cided it was another coup and went to bed know exactly what was going Brancaccio said He stayed in his house and not to be for the next few days However he take several walks around the area which not have been too but allowed him to see several gun battles The fighting was not house nut Detween various tac tions of the army Because of the no one was awarepf what was going on qust stayed to the side and tried to stay out of the he said fights were usually between armored cars which would pull to within a few hundred feet of each other and exchange automatic weapons fire I see any bodies drop though felt no personal danger It was more of a general annoyance at hav ing to deal with it I was more afraid of a stray bullet than anything This is not the first coup that More on GHANA Page 12 David Brancaccio: He not to be Sentinel photo by David Learning City closes Chez following arson By BRIGITTE RAQUET Sentinel Staff 21st case of arson since last March did minor damage to The Chez one of the night spots But the place was closed until further notice because of safety vio lations discovered According to Waterville ire Chief red Brown the two alarm blaze which was first reported at 6:45 am consisted of three fires set in different areas of the building which monopolizes two street cor ners The Water Street dancing and drinking spot connects to a house on Sherwin Street fires were set outside the house on Sherwin And a third one was going in one of the doorways in side the Chez Someone had also poured gasoline on the stairs leading up from The Chez to the apartments but that fire had burned itself Chief Brown said The chief said that he blamed the for the arsons that have plagued the city since March 4 1981 people just keep getting into the act I say the per son who set the fire at The Chez was necessarily the same person respon sible for those other he said The last suspicious fire in Water ville occurred Dec 4 at the old Myr Ue Street School Last month Deputy ire Marshal Ronald Evans who has led the arson probe re vealed that as of Dec 4 28 Water ville fires since March 4 1981 had been labeled suspicious and 20 of those were laid to arson At the time of Sunday fire five tenants were living in apartments above The Chez and the band playing there was staying in the Sherwin Street house No one was injured in the fire which was under control by 8 am and out by 10:17 am fire officials reported The second alarm was called at 7:02 am when the interior fire was noticed wind factor was unreal or awhile we were afraid of losing ev erything But the fire Chief Brownsaid After the secondzdarm Engine 2 joined Engines 1 and 3 Ladder 1 and Rescue at the scene with Winslow standing by to help if necessary The fire damage was mostly cos metic but Building Inspector red Prescott has declared The Chez fit to red Karter of airfield Center who owns the building and has been running The Chez since 1972 ex More on IRE Page 12 0.