European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday september 29, 1977 spiders Don t Bug him Robert Adams 14, of Niagara Falls m.y., caught live tarantulas while vacationing in Chino Calif. He gave three away but keeps two As pets in an aquarium in his bedroom. The hairy Crea Tures Are not deadly poisonous but they can bite off a piece of human flesh quite easily. A photo $250,000 from Washington Texas Fown getting help to pay Gas Bill Washington a the Federal government tuesday put together a $250,000 package of Aid that Start natural Gas flowing again to Crystal City Tex. The Community services administration agreed to pay $160,000 of the approximately $750.000 that Crystal City owes to its natural Gas supplier Lovaca gather ing co., according to aides to sen Edward Kennedy a mass. A spokesman Tor Lovaca Simon Ben Field said the company would wait to hear directly from Cha before commenting on whether it would turn the Gas Back on. Naturally we re very glad to hear hat individual residents of Crystal City will be helped he said. They be sort of been caught in the crossfire. Well be Happy to talk with the Cha but until we hear from them it s pointless to speculate about the next Kennedy aide Jack Leslie said the Cha also will help the City negotiate a Settle ment of the remaining debt with the com Pany and Send from $50,000 to $100,000 Worth of immediate Aid to the Community to be used for such purposes As buying electric hot plates hot meals and butane and other alternate fuels. Lovaca Cut off the Gas to Crystal City last Friday after a two year Legal dispute Over a Price increase that boosted the City s Gas Cost from $0.36 per thousand cubic feet to $2.Crystal City a town of about 8,000, re fused to pay. The courts upheld Lovaca Sright to the higher charges and allowed the company to Cut off the City mayor Francisco Benavi Dez came to Washington last weekend look ing for help. He found none in the office of rep. Abraham Kazen d-Tex., and did not even get to meet with sen. Lloyd Bentsen d-Tex., who said he was too Busy with the natural Gas debate on the Senate floor. Both Kazen and Bentsen asked their staffs to Check with Federal agencies to see if any programs to Aid Crystal City were available. They found nothing. But Kennedy took a personal interest. On saturday he read news accounts of the Gas cutoff and had one article printed in the congressional record As an exam ple he said of what would happen if the Senate adopted Bentsen s plan to deregulate natural Gas prices. Prices have never been regulated in Texas. Stateside innocent plea planned in 1963 Alabama blast Birmingham Ala. A Robert , charged with the 1963 Church bombing that killed four Black girls will plead innocent his lawyer says. Chambliss 73, will enter the plea at his arraignment on four counts of first degree murder his attorney Art Hanes or. Said tuesday. No Date has been set for the arraign ment. Chambliss who was indicted monday by a Jefferson county grand jury was being held in jail pending a Bond hearing oct 6 the bombing sept. 15, 1963, killed four girls in a restroom and injured 19 others inthe Church. Gun firm laying off workers because of slump Ithaca . A the Ithaca gun co. Has announced that it is laying off employees because of a slump in the firearms firm which makes sporting fire arms said 75 of its 225 employees would be furloughed and would not be recalled until late company shut Down temporarily last december to reduce a Large inventory. A nationwide decline in the Sale of shot guns and Large bore rifles is responsible for the slow movement of the firm s products spokesman James Kristof said noting that the issuance of Hunting licenses is off 2 per cent nationwide. The whole Industry is Down he said. It s House wants saturday mail to be continued Washington up the House has voted 377 to 9 to Tell the . Postal service not to Cut out saturday mail deliveries. The measure which was sent to the Senate was in the form of a sense of Congress which carries no binding commission on postal service created earlier to study the nation s mail delivery system included in its report a recommendation to Cut mail deliveries Back to five Days a week. In another action the House approved by voice vote and sent to the Senate a Bill setting up a three member arbitration Board to Settle disputes Between the postal service and supervisors. Dentist must pay girl $6, ? 00 offer extraction St. Louis up a tooth extraction has proved painful for a St. Louis county dentist. Or. Leonard Rosen has been ordered to pay $6,100 in damages to Rebecca Harper. The girl was 9 years old when she went to Rosen in 1974 to have a tooth pulled. The girl became upset and tried to jump from the dentist s chair knocking Rosen s instruments to the floor. Rosen admitted slapping the girl to Calm her Down leaving a Bruise on her face. Testimony showed the tooth never was pulled but fell out after the slap. Flo. Water pollution traced to Industrial leak North Miami Beach Fla. Up the contamination of the water Supply serving 70,000 area residents last week at one Point thought to be the work of a Saboteur has been traced to Industrial leak age. Dade county s chief environmentalist Colin Morrissey said natural Gas and pesticides caused the contamination that led to a two Day shutdown of the system. Calling the twin contamination a Mil lion to one Chance Morrissey said invest the Areat gators Are concentrating nonindustrial Parks that surround the where the water Wells Are located. We believe a break in a Gas line or an other source of Industrial waste was the cause he two contaminants apparently sealed into two of several Wells that pro vide water for the area. Both the Wells have been shut Down while scientists run tests on the water and work to determine How they were contaminated. Unusual Appeal lands Job for woman Bellefonte a. A she did t qualify for employment Aid under any of the existing categories of underprivileged people so one Pennsylvania woman created a new class. She hopped into the Centre county training and employment Agency dressed in a Frog costume and told her stunned audience i Hope you Don t have your quota of frogs ploy worked. Pat Casher director of the building skills program for minorities and interviewed the unusual applicant and gave her a Job the woman was not identified. Dod will begin Mia Row reviews piously announced military reviews of the official status of 712 . Servicemen still listed As missing in action or As War prisoners in Southeast Asia. A Federal court order blocking the re views was lifted last week effective at 5 . Tuesday and a Pentagon spokesman said the reviews would begin immediately. Court challenges by families of those unaccounted for and government to Vestiga families of servicemen who Are Unac counted for or carried on the books As missing or War prisoners continue to re Washington a the Pentagon resume the military review said tuesday it is going ahead with its pre but officials of the National league of .,., a in. R to. 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