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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 04, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday june 4, 1980independent not Well known loaded Cannon is found on Carter s route fort Wayne ind. A a Home made Cannon loaded for firing was found along the route president Carter look to visit National Urban league president  non Jordan at Parkview memorial Hospital state police said monday. State police spokesman Glenn Weber said troopers were checking the presidential route sunday when sgt. Bob Burns found several men in a Yard with a homemade  owner of the Cannon Jerry Spears 36, of fort Wayne told Burns he was unaware the president would be Riding past the site in less than an  five foot Cannon had just been fired at a stump and was loaded with Black pow Der and a Concrete filled juice can for a second firing when Burns stopped at 3 . The Cannon was unloaded and wheeled into a barn. A trooper was stationed there with it until after Carter left fort Wayne Weber  charges were filed in the matter. Ozark resumes service wifi some tickets half Price St. Louis up Ozark air lines resumed service monday on most of it flights and marked the event with half Price Nickels on selected flights. The airline which said service will begin immediately of 74 percent of its nights had been paralysed for 26 Days by an aircraft mechanics strike. The airline s flights had been grounded since May 6, when the 700-member air Craft mechanics fraternal association went on strike to protest stalled contract  strike ended May 24, when the Union ratified a new three year contract with the  discount fares Are available on any flight to or from several cities including Dallas fort Worth Houston fort Lauderdale Tampa Orlando Kansas City mo., Nashville Louisville Milwaukee new Orleans and  serves 57 cities in 20 states mostly in the Midwest. Mercedes opens diesel truck Plant in Virginia Hampton a. Up Mercedes Benz opened a truck factory in the United states monday and company officials said they Are confident their diesel engine will attract customers turned off by Gas powered american  of the West German firm said they anticipate rising sales while american manufacturers including Ford s truck Plant in nearby Norfolk stagger through declining  think the diesel will continue to draw said Don Mcmillen a spokesman at the $8.3 million Plant located on a 45-acre tract in Hampton s Copeland Industrial Park. Production is scheduled to begin Early next week at the Plant which now has 70 employees and will focus primarily on medium size  the end of this year the company anticipates building 500 trucks per month and having a work Force of about 1 70 people. Two added to Detroit lady killers victim list Detroit a homicide detectives have widened the lady killers murder probe adding two names to the list of Vic Tims and reporting monday that As Many As five men May be responsible for the slam is of 13 women in Detroit in the past year. The most recent victim Linda Montiro 27, was found strangled about 4 . Sat urday in the driveway beside her  hours earlier and less than to mites away a 7-Ycar-Oid boy found the Washington a by the end of 1982 More than half the Lervick stations in the country will be Selling gasoline by the liter the executive director of the . Met Ric Board predicted  an update on metric conversions the Board released a report showing that currently 8,000 stations nationwide have switched from the traditional gallon measurement to liners. That represents 5 per Lake Michigan fish deaths Puzzle officials traverse City. Mich. Up stale officials Are working frantically to find out Why hundreds of thousands of fish Carter should debate poll Hicls new York a americans Don t think John Anderson has much of a Chanceton win the presidency but they say presi Dent Carter should debate him along with gop challenger Ronald Reagan an associated press Abc news poll says. Body of Rosemary Frazier 28, who had been raped and strangled. Detroit police say the person who killed Monteiro probably was not the same one who killed Frazier. Monteiro was not sexually assaulted police said. They were two of 11 women victims this year and included in the investigation. Over the weekend police sifted through files of unsolved homicides and added the names of Cynthia Henry and Peggy Ann Pochmara. Ash from St. Helens has circled the Globe Vancouver Wash. A the Ash from the May 17 big Volcano eruption of mount is Helens in Washington has travelled around the world and is Back Over North America a meteorologist said  Ash is Over the Aleutian islands in Alaska possibly up to the North pole and then extending South through Canada said Roland Droxler of the air resources Laboratory of the National oceanic and atmospheric administration in Silver Spring my. The Ash is in the upper troposphere about 18,000 to 36,000 feet up. It s probably in very Low Levels and you could t see  Draxler said. However it May be measurable with scientific  Gas sales by the liter predicted by 1982 cent of the nation s 173,000 service stations. Or. Malcolm e. 9 Hagan the Board s executive director said a year ago virtually no gasoline stations sold by the tiler and in october the figure was Only 600. He said one thing speeding up conversion is the growing number of states outlawing half pricing a system Many nations turned to when Gas went Over is a gallon and their pumps did t Register the higher prices. Inmate hero did t live to hear Praise Clute Texas a for a Little while David Gale Herndon was a hero. Herndon was almost assured of a second stretch in prison but he was a hero just the same for keeping a fellow City jail inmate from hanging  Herndon will never hear the Praise never read the glowing accounts of his deed. Something City police can Only guess at happened in the Cellblock monday after the teen Ager Herndon saved was rushed to the  they returned police found Hern Don dead hanging from Blanket strips tied to his cell bars. He was 22. It. David Kirk recalling the Rescue said monday he rushed into the jail when Horn Don began raising a ruckus because an in mate in a nearby cell was trying to hang  hollered and i went in there and Cut the Man Down before it was too late Kirk  said the younger inmate was rushed la a nearby Hospital and by the time he was returned to his cell Herndon was dead. He Herndon apparently Cut his Blan Ket into strips and tied them to the top bars in the cell then jumped off his bunk said Kirk. When i talked to him he was really concerned about the other Man. He was not depressed or anything. He even offered to talk to the Man and help him. He was responsible for saving another Man s life. It u really weird Kirk said. Herndon a resident of nearby Freeport was jailed saturday for assaulting a police officer. Kirk said. He already was on parole from the Texas department of corrections on an assault conviction and there was a Good Chance he was going Back Kirk said. His Fiancee came in to visit him and she did t have any idea what happened. We had to Tell her Kirk said. She told me he told her he was not going Back to the Penitentiary. Nationally televised debates might help solve one of the biggest problems of Ander son s Independent candidacy less than half of those polled said hey know enough about the Illinois congressman to have an opinion about  a Abc news poll is based on Tele phone interviews conducted with 1,615 adults across the country last wednesday and  major stumbling Block to a successful Anderson Independent candidacy is the perception that he can t become  candidates of the democratic or re publican parties have won the presidency since the mid-19th Century. As of now five months before the Gen eral election Only 18 percent of the pub Lic agrees that Anderson has a Good Chance to win the White House. Seventy three per cent disagreed and 9 percent were not sure. If people thought Anderson could win his chances for doing so would improve. Nearly a Quarter of the Public said they would be More Likely to vote for Anderson if they thought he had a Chance to win. Fifty seven percent said it would make no differ ence and 9 percent said they would be leu Likely to vote for him. Eleven percent were not sure. As the presidential election Campaign heats up the Public perception of Anderson can certainly change. One Way such changes could occur would be nationally televised debates involving Carter Reagan and Anderson. Reagan and Anderson have agreed to such confrontations but president Carter emphasized Over the weekend that he would not participate in any debate with Ander son. The Public disagrees with Carter s Deci Sion the a Abc news poll says. Only 36 percent of those questioned approved of Carter s refusal to debate Ander son. Fifty three percent disapproved and ii percent were not sure. Anderson wants a debate and it is easy to see Why from the poll results not Many know about him. Fifty seven percent of in Public said they do not know enough abort Anderson to have an opinion about vim. Only 43 percent said they had read or heard enough about the Illinois congressman. To. Microwave Tower tilts after explosion Ozark to. A authorities Sty a deliberate detonation of dynamite probably caused an explosion that caused an uncompleted microwave relay Tower to tilt it was t destroyed Deputy Mil Keithley of the Christian county sheriffs department said of the Tilting 300-foot Tele phone relay Structure. If a Strong wind came up it could go  German sub sunk in 42 of be explored off . Mile stretch of the Lake Michigan Shore. Shoreline residents Are using rakes shovels and wheelbarrows to Clear their own Are dying in Lake Michigan. Property but no official cleanup Effort has the huge Quantity of dead fish is creating been initiated. Stifling gov. William g. Milliken ordered the investigation after massive numbers of ale wives and smelt began piling up along a 30 one state biologist said the fish deaths Are the worst in the great lakes since a huge Alewife kill 13 years ago. Officials said the 1967 fish deaths resulted in a loss of More than $55 million in tourist Revenue. Morehead City. . Up Navy divers Are preparing to enter the wreckage of a German world War ii sub Marine where they expect to find live Torpe does and the remains of 11 German sailors. The submarine was sunk by coast guard depth charges on May 9, 1942, and lies in 110 feet of water about 2j Miles South of Morehead City. It. Cmdr. Jess rank a Navy spokesman in Norfolk va., said divers Are nearly Fin Ishad with a Survey of the sea Bottom around the sub. When the Survey u completed divers will enter the vessel. Sen. Lowell Weicker. R-conn., a diving enthusiast asked the Navy to study the wreck because of possible danger from . The West German government Bowerts was reluctant to allow the Survey until receiving assurances the remains or any Tail ors found in the wreckage would be prop Erly buried. The Navy will certainly take into pm Side ration the fact it is a German sub us there u obviously some sensitivity re said. The hoist a Salvage and Rescue ship t Rived at the wreckage of the u-352 a week to conduct the study. Renk said the diving work would Proba Bly continue for a couple of   
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