European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                March 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 downed electrical line kills 7 in Florida a seven including three Small were electrocuted in their car saturday As they tried to flee from a downed Power police a Bernard had alerted the seven after a Power line fell in front of their Mobile Home before causing a Small said Carolyn a spokeswoman for the Palm Beach county sheriffs de shortly Nelson the seven left the Home and tried to flee the area in a nearby but As they were the rear passenger door of that car struck another automobile on which the Power line had she that caused the Nelson Jeanne another spokeswoman for the sheriffs said it was unclear whether the seven knew there was a live wire they were probably aware of the fire but it was dark and they probably didst know anything about the Peeples they knew about the live then get Ting in a car was clearly the most dangerous thing they could have pronounced dead at the according to were Bernice 44 James 23 Bernett 21 san Tresa Renett 4 Irving Fulks 2 Gail Danielle 7 and Irving Robert authorities said Bernett Fulks was the Mother of the children and Robert was her the bodies were taken to the Palm Beach county medi Cal examiners office for one of the trailers James Troy survived the Accident because he failed to Wake up in time to evacuate with the said Edna a runner said she accompanied Fulks Joanne who lives to identify the and Joanne Are both shaken up pretty but there going to make it through this she James Troy Fulks said he didst learn of the Accident until Rescue Crews appeared on the the people from the ambulance came and got me i didst know anybody was dead until they told he Florida Power Light spokesman Charlie Scheer said it was not immediately known Why the Power line had we have a team of investigators trying to piece together the he weve had some bad weather in the past few Days but nothing that i know of last Scheer said the two Metal cars acted As conductors of the electric official charges Faa lbs reports Washington a the Fri is investigating allegations that Federal aviation administration officials suppressed significant portions of a report about safety violations at Continental Accord ing to a broadcast lbs news reported that the Leader of the Faa inspection team charged that references to major problems with Continentals Pilot checkout and training procedure were deleted from the draft inspection re port by officials at the Faas los Angeles regional i consider these changes an impropriety and a lbs quoted Harry the inspection team As writing in a 5 letter to transportation Secretary Elizabeth he said the changes showed a Lack of integrity and the abuse of it shows either a Lack of understanding of Federal aviation regulations or a disregard for Langdon there was no Dennis Feld a spokesman for the Federal aviation Feldman said unsubstantiated statements and emotional language were the Only elements left out of a final report on safety inspections of Continental airlines last according to a number of shortcomings were noted in the final report and Continental took corrective he said the document retained the initial inspection teams findings of facts and said the teams conclusions were acted upon properly by the Continental officials told lbs their air line is As Safe As any other Carrier and said the allegations were on Fri Day a Continental airlines clerk in Houston said company Public relations officials were not available for total inspectors in thousands total in thousands 1980 81 82 83 84 includes commercial air 81 82 83 84 carriers and general aviation carriers Chicago Tribune Chart source Federal aviation administration the network said Lang dons team concluded that Continental does in our Opin presently meet certification the Faa inspectors also criticized their Bosses at the los Angeles saying they were remiss in condoning the Situa Tion at lbs according to the Langdon teams three pages of violations and criticism were compressed into three quarters of a Page in the final report and the significant violations were the Faa last year conducted an Indus try wide inspection of including at the urging of the air line pilots which Long has complained of alleged safety violations at con the Faa has said it is keeping particularly close watch on that Faa administrator Donald Engen said last week that his Agency has begun a new investigation into Continentals but he insisted the which began March was the airline went into bankruptcy in 1983 and three of its unions went on including several Hundred replacement pilots were sparking a Long running controversy with the pilots 25 years stealing lunch meat Houston up a three time con vict who repeatedly refused a plea bargain offer of a year in jail was sentenced to 25 years in prison for stealing lunch meat from a Groc Ery since prosecutors repeatedly had offered Jesse Ware the Chance to plead guilty to a Misdemeanour and be sentenced to one year in the county the assistant District Yardley had he taken the Ware would have been released from jail immediately be cause the time he spent waiting for trial would have counted toward his he forced us to try the Kennedy he forced us to Send him to the Penitentiary for 25 we gave him every Opportunity in the world to stay out of the Penitentiary this defense attorney Ron Hayes said he tried to reason with Ware 1  get  i did everything i possibly Hayes i i i did everything that was humanly he fought the system and the state contended that on May Ware took six packages of Ham valued at each from a Houston grocery store workers chased and he hit one of them with his turning the shoplifting charge into a Rob Bery Kennedy because of wares prior the minimum sentence for robbery was 25 years and the maximum sentence was Ware contended the crime was a not a and he wanted his Day in Hayes theres a lot of anger and frustration inside of 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