European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes january 1981 group urges closing of Oil firms tax loopholes lbs Iowa up Mem Bers of a consume labor coalition have called for an end to Oil company tax schemes they say allow Oil firms to bilk million a year from treasuries of the 50 much of the states economic problems can be directly attributed to the spiralling Price increases of increases which often Bear Little relationship to the real Cost of and distributing said skip a member of the Iowa Citize labor Energy at a news Laitner released a coalition study that indicated that Oil company tax avoidance schemes Cost Iowa Between million and million a Dan regional organizer from the National citizen Energy labor said tax avoidance by major Oil companies drains million a year from the coffers of the nations 50 seventeen billion dollars a year is going unreported Kaemmerer leaking Gas of diffs woman at drug rehab Center new York a one person died and More than 100 others became ill at a residential drug rehabilitation and fire officials said they suspected the cause was leaking Carbon monoxide a woman died before she could be re moved from the pro Mesa drug treat ment suffering from stomach vomiting and were rushed to nearby Hospi police said either Carbon monoxide or food poisoning could result in such sym but most of the evidence pointed to Carbon let someone special know you care with stars stripes 14 examples were sure you con do to mom dad Dawn Rover Earl you Light up my to it Best teacher in the whole world from the Grade at school get your message in before 9 mail to stars stripes attn Valentines apo09211 name Apo City message please print 20 words or less vanished actress May have hit on crime ring plans san Francisco up a part Lime actress missing since 9 May have stumbled on plans of an elaborate Gudrun Ning ring masterminded by a criminal Geni us just before she police said missing is Valerie a cocktail waitress and Par time Model and actress who dreamed of becoming a the alleged Mastermind and two other a convicts living in the same Rooming House As Mcdonald vanished at about the same and one has since been Sandra a san Francisco Pri vate investigator hired by Mcdonalds parents who live at an undisclosed location in thinks their could be in Mcdonald was last seen in san Francisco As she left her North Beach Rooming House with its assistant Michael Hen who promised her a part in a Dino Delaurentiis movie being police and Sutherland believe she May have stumbled on plans of an elaborate criminal ring supposedly being formed in her Rooming the ring was believed to be managed by John an sex convict with a Genius level in of Abbott was released from san Quentin prison on work furlough econ vices Hennessey and Philip turned up As assistants at the Rooming within a few Days of Mcdonalds Digap the three who knew each other at san also Abbott was stopped for speeding but the vehicle he was Riding in later was discovered to be documents found in the car were traced to an 21 Abbott and Hennessey turned up 24 in British As they were picking up their car from a transmission they were met by the Royal Canadian mounted police with questions about a local during a who shot a Constable in a was fatally Abbott was jailed on two counts of attempted Mur among the mens police found Mcdonalds vote registration card and unemployment Benefit cards As Well As 15 file folders similar to files found in a 14 raid on a san Francisco warehouse rented under Hennessey the files contained detailed plans for Rob Bery forays against several armoured car and against Safeway and the Hibernia there were also plans for two United parcel service robberies carried out last parts of the ups Drivers uniforms were found in the where police also discovered Cement bags with dried prompting their fears that Mcdonald might be police think among other people involved in the alleged ring they believe was masterminded by was Inez a German woman who disappeared in san Francisco after a new years eve party and was later found shot to on a piece of paper in her Wallet was Mcdonalds police said Abbotts wife told them her husband and friends hoped to raise Money to obtain automatic weapons that would be sold to righting groups in Al Salvador or to groups in the drug Trade in Bolivia and it works like said a Federal Law Man involved in the you convert Here into automatic Wear those same weapons Are Worth Mil lion in South so you Swap them for the theory continues with the Money multiplied 10 times the cocaine is brought to the United multiplying it Hennessey Hopes May have been expressed in a verse found in the it was believed written to Mcdonald and said ill play the hard Way As Long As i making Money and having a Little but id Trade it All for you to say i and wed steal away into the might Issue Alert about radioactive rings up the state health department May Issue a statewide Alert about radioactive Gold in rings because of 14 cases of Finger it was disclosed were considering calling a Cowkey spokeswoman Frances Tarpon its a very rare problem and we dont want to unduly alarm the Tarlton said the health department was still working on an information package that should be made Public sometime this William of the departments Bureau of said one Case has been reported in new York City and 13 others in Western parts of the the radioactive Gold in the rings was believed to have been used originally in a pro Cess in which hollowed out 24karat seeds were filter with radon Gas and implanted in patients to kill cancerous the treatment took place at new Yorks Sloan Kettering Center for cancer re search and buffaloes Roswell Park memorial the radioactive Gold is found in rings made Between 1937 and Obrien and most of the jewellers who sold the rings Are no longer in so it has been so far impossible to find out How the Gold was removed from the patients and sold to the although the problem was reported in medical journals As Early As the health department has been investigating it for Only three several Buffal area residents have had their jewelry tested by a Geiger counter in the lobby of a Buffalo television station that reported last week that a Tonawanda Man had to have his ring Finger amputated because of two rings belonging to a Buffalo woman and one owned by a Hamburg woman were taken saturday after indicating radioactive Obrien we would suggest to anyone who has a prolonged sensitivity of their ring Finger to also Contact a Tarlton adding that anyone having Gold rings suspected of being radioactive should also take them to their county health department for who said confiscated rings would be buried in a radioactive said that owners could not be compensated for their