European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1977 the stars and stripes Page 5 weathermen to Cut aircraft accidents by Howard Benedict Washington a  should be stationed at the nations 20 air traffic control centers to reduce an alarming increase in storm related air Craft the outgoing chairman of the National transportation safely Board said the air controller docs not and should not the understanding to be both a weather forecaster and a traffic Webster Todd told a news severe weather information is Avail and it should be Analysed and relayed quickly to we need a 24hour watch at the control centers by qualified net to Rol Ogbu who can read out his own Best audience comedian red Skellon laughs at one at his jokes during a Seattle interview peppered with Wisecrack and one the Mearold entertainer mused that be went into people1 now when be appears live on they Are in my dying a photo Todd urged the transportation and com departments to put aside differences and approve a proposal to base meteorologists at the he released copies of a letter which the safely Board is sending to 42 recommending measures to Cut Down the possibility of accidents caused by severe especially during Airport a the letter said that from 1372 through there were nine scheduled air Carrier accidents during thunderstorms in the Ter Minal resulting in 261 from 1964 through there were Only two such we thaw Todd said current thunderstorm information is available from m National weather service radar but that it is being used primarily for preflight plan the Pilot often is forced to depend solely on his own radar to deter mine thunderstorm severity and Todd because Ofa heavy cockpit and the inherent limitations of tha aircraft he is unable to assess accurately the hazardous characteristics of who leaves office 1 to make Way for a curler administration said meteorologists have been stationed at the Kansas City control Center for several months and that the Federal aviation administration ready  pm Lon of the program to the Todd said the Commerce which would provide the earlier had turned Down such a although the departments National oceanic and atmospheric administration since has asked thai it be fire fighters Are sued for million Ohio fourteen per sons whose properly was damaged by tire during the 89hour strike by Daylon fire men earlier this month have filed a fz2 Mil lion class lawsuit against the City and the tire fighters the action was file Din Montgomery pleas court by Richard an attorney representing the Plain named defendants in the which seeks in compensatory damages and a million in punitive were the City of the International association of fire City manager James mayor James the City commission and members o the phantom a group of strikers who volunteered during the tragedy Philadelphia Puli Norman Gardner and his family had Only about 100 Miles to go to Complete their bicycle journey from their Home in lathe Atlantic never finished the he unexpectedly died of heart failure As his wife and their three children Rode Down a Hill la nearby Coventry he had no said Bis Penelou from her Brothers Home in nearby where she grew we put our wheels in the and two Days from today we had hoped to put our wheels in the she we almost made some Day my Chil Dren and i arc going to come Back and finish Gardner said the family travelled about Miles since they started j Une it was a glorious Gardner we touched a lot of Good people along the we wanted to give a present to our Chil Dren three months of ourselves As Well As something we wanted to do something As n family before our children outgrew we didst know that it  be they who be Gardner said she thought her was one of the Young est people to Bike across the her daughter and son withstood the trip and their but with the flu in Wyoming was the Only Case o ill Ness on the Good she we had three months together As a and that More than most people 1 think when i look till be an of time Omar chief of the veterans re turned to Germany after two Yean on the array transport the War time  of the both array group said he expected to return u Day with the army taut declined to Tay what Pott hot Frank Snart has Unareed that Milch recording Bead of Columbia admitted under oath recently Bat he took More than from writers whose the beatles Brian was round dead at us borne la he had not been Well for Reagan wont support Carter canal agreement new York a to Nat who argued against the relinquishing control of the Panama canal during his Campaign last Ymir for the said he is opposed to the canal treaty recently negotiated by the Carter adminis the proposed treaty would eliminate the rights of sovereignly we acquired in the original Che former California governor said in remarks for the National convention of the Young americans for without these we must ask what is to prevent a panamanian regime die Day from simply nationalizing the canal and demanding our immediate withdrawal us companion treaties negotiated be tween the and Panama Call for the to turn Over the canal and the zone to Panama by tue year but they give the responsibility for military Security of the waterway and guarantee that the canal be administered As a Neutral Territo Reagan expressed his opposition in excerpted remarks released just hours after he met privately with the two Carter administration officials who negotiated the proposed special ambassadors sol Unowitz and Ellsworth the presidents decision to Send his two ambassadors to meet with a major figure among american conserva apparently reflects the Tough fight that he expects Over ratification of the treaty against heavily organized conservative ratification would re quire approval by two thirds of the members of the former president Gerald Ford and former Secretary of state Henry Kissinger said two weeks after briefings by the that they support the new reagans support would have improved chances for ratification in he Uno Wellz the intent of the briefing was not to persuade Reagan to support the but to be sure that in his own he took All the Ete Meks into after that a Nofiu said of Reagan he has pretty firm but were optimistic that he will consider the full Range of our Reagan noted in his state ment that he had warned last year that turning Over the canal to Panama could threaten our Security and that of the entire he added will turning Over the canal be seen by others As yet another sign of americas longing to withdraw inward will 11 create a vacuum in the Caribbean which Fidel Castro and his the soviet will seek to exploit How hard Reagan with Campaign against the proposed treaty remains in he said that the should exam Ine alternative courses of action which Benefit All the users of thei canal and which recognize the aspirations of the Panama Nian who Are our friends a Large scale canal modernization pro Gram is one course of others should be examined in the weeks ahead and 1 shall have More to say about them a they