European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 21, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1977 the stars and stripes alaskan Oil blast cause is detailed Washington a Alaska Oil pipe line workers failed to follow procedures Ibey had practice Tor 10 leading to an explosion and fire that shut the pipeline this House investigators reported h thermae Interior committee investigators said the july i explosion that killed worker was caused by allowing Oil to go through a pumping unit thai was being re paired at the the Oil rushed through an unsecured Hatch into a pump where 11 Init the investigators Hie Interior department had found ear tier that human error caused the incident near Fairbanks and that the pipeline was not the department allowed flow through the 798mile pipeline to resume the Alyeska pipeline service co has prescribed detailed procedures to be Fol Lowed when maintenance is for approximately 10 maintenance technicians had been rehearsing and prac timing these procedures before the Oil began flowing june the report the maintenance procedures include written notification of the work to other workers and closing valves to keep Oil f ram altering the unit under notification was not and other pipeline workers allowed Oil to resume flowing through the unit under the report Timothy staff director of the panels subcommittee on said he had identified the persons responsible for the but he would not make Public their repairs 16 the pump station will Cost million to million and will take six months to a he investigators recommended that electronic sensors be installed to indicate automatically to pumping personnel when repairs Are being records indicate that the 11 much Mako bark proudly straddled by James George at is the if s the biggest largest Ever taken in the and its believed to be the second largest caught in the the West Pater track Driver caught the Poi my Mako 45 Miles soot of Long it lands Montauk photo stuntman performs Charity feat snakes liven 3day burial h j t in Fri Rrt Mcl Riann describing the scene at tha pump the investigators said about ran out of he building As the Stream Trail hit the building the Oil ricocheted off the Root and coded Down in a Fine Milt of vaporized hydrocarbons which quickly turned to heavy nun of atomized Oil throughout the within the column of Oil blew Oft several sections of the rip Ping out heating and a Lacondi cloning something then ignited the Oil and the main pump building of pump station i the report the report said a controller at the pipe tines Southern terminus of Valdez was talking by Telephone to a supervisor at the pump building at the time of the controller in Valdez reportedly heard the supervisor we have a weve had a hell of an explosion within eight minutes the flow of Oil through the entire pipeline was stopped House panel oks hike in wage rate Washington map legislation in creasing the hourly minimum wage to effective in january in increases each received Over whelming committee approval in the House on the House education and labor com Mittee passed the wage proposal 29 to it also scaled Down the controversial tip though not eliminating it altogether As restaurant unions had the Bill is expected to be taken up by the full House before the August the Senate is considering a similar the House Bill paralleled the Compro Mise agreed to by organized labor and president who initially were at loggerheads Over How much to increase the lower wage scale attempts to establish a lower wage scale for teenagers were Defeated by 21 mar under the tha minimum wage would go to an hour next to about an hour on and on after the wage floor would automatically be increased by a rate of 53 per cent of the average Blue Collar wage the committee scaled Down the tip credit Given hotels and restaurants whose bartenders and waitresses make at least a month in these work ers Are paid half the minimum wage with the expectation that tips will make up the Indianapolis a if foot Python colled around his stuntman ill shirk Rose Ashe faced from the grave monday where he spent three Days with snakes and spiders in order to raise Money for the when he shirk seemed to Beta a struggle with the which he said he had let out to Kinda mess with he was sweaty and dirty and kept is eyes closed at Torst because of Bright lights of a television news he was immediately White huh Telegram he had demanded As a condition too eng dug up from the grave in front of his radio when his goal was far from met to the original sunday noon of Turk refund to emerge until uie Fuu amount was gathered and unto presi Dent Carter gave symbolic support to his Charity he spent More than 79 hours in the asked what went wrong the he Man choked but he said his worst moment in the grave was when he reached his initial deadline and Learned the Charity goal had not been a Telegram arrived at Midat Lemoon that the while House would make a contribution toward a bus for retarded children and handicapped contributions from Indiana residents for the same Charity climbed to within of the goal set by shirk when been tired his coffin shirk had his four companions contained two tarantulas stuffed in his a Rattlesnake muzzled with a shoe lace and a used or a two treaties okd by Senate i want to be real honest 1 thought id gel the Python out and Inda mess with him Little and a of a sudden he got up around my neck Washington up the by a 950 tuesday ratified two treaties one relating to the peace and Security of the americas and a second providing or a prisoner Exchange arrangement with the Senate agreed to a series of Amend ments to the inter american treaty of reciprocal assistance that were proposed for ratification by the president Gerald it Ford in november one key change provides for lifting sanctions imposed against other countries by a simple majority vote rather than by the two thirds majority required or All other decisions under the the treaty also changes the coverage of time area for Mutual Security assistance by eliminating Greenland and a Large High seas area in the Northern the area would continue to include Canada and other land areas in and around Central and South America and the Caribbean As Well As several Hundred Miles off the coast of the the treaty with Canada relating to prison Exchange is similar to that signed with the mexican government and await ing Senate it would permit Ciui ens of either nation who had been convicted in the courts of the other country to serve their sentences in their Home july im7 Italy Premier Al me de Gasperi said in a speech to regional Congress that a third world War would mean tie definite destruction of Europe and pledged Italy to a mediators role be tween the East and july 1ss7 teamsters Union vice president James Haifa was acquitted by a Federal court jury of conspiring and bribing to Plant a spy within the Senate rackets july 1967 the caul in Church la Mexico called on mexican women i Baa Ibe miniskirt and launch crude no archbishop Jok Guariu Rivera warned that web clothing would Lead men to