European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse New freeze wave sets april chills Orchards april 1985 the stars and stripes Page 6 by the associated press thermometers Sank to record lows wednesday across the Eastern third of the nation with Frost All the Way South into and Apple and peach crops in new Jersey and West Virginia were nipped in the record or record tying lows for the Date were reported from 36 from Boston 26 South to 37 and the National weather service for some cities it was the cold est for any april Day on in the appalachian Moun chilled Down to 3 15 degrees below the record for the Date set in 1900 and a record for the month since record keeping began in it was the coldest spot in the 48 contiguous other records were tied or mostly in the teens and in Mary new new North car Rhode and in new the nations fifth largest peach two Days of Frost killed up to 75 percent of the growers re ported it looks pretty it looks you cant Tell percentage but its not too said Hank an owner of Glossy fruit where losses amount to maybe 75 percent or but Les agricultural agent for Camden said there could still be a Good peach crop if at least 25 percent of the blossoms the Atlantic City Airport at had a record 20 degrees Early the weather service readings below 27 degrees can damage peach and losses increase drastically when the Mercury drops below officials Lilly director of the National peach Council in said Pennsylvania and South Carolina had already lost about half of their crop to cold during the and Georgia reported damage to up to 60 percent of its the nations largest peach producer at about 440 million pounds an should be Able to meet All Market she a significant portion of West Virginias Apple crop probably was wiped a West Virginia University agriculture specialist said we Haven had a Chance to inspect the but i think we can safely assume we have significant Bud damage because of the Low said a fruit specialist at Wyvus experimental swedish Diplomat honoured a Tholo new York mayor de Koch holds aloft a sign tuesday after naming first Avenue in Manhattan Between 42nd and 49th streets Raoul Wallenberg the renaming honors the swedish Diplomat who saved thousands of jews during the Wallenberg vanished into soviet protective custody in 1945 and spent the rest of his life in russian jails according to some he died in Vietnam Era Soldier protester still bitter Tow Kansas a a Soldier who protested the Vietnam War in the 1960s and was a fugitive for 16 years said wednesday after his release from an army stockade that he is still convinced the War was i didst feel they had a right to make us go to another country and Keith Mather said during an Airport interview in route to his Home in half Moon i didst see How i was defending this country by going just because they were in a Jam Over they didst need a lot of High school kids to go Over there and fix them he said protests by himself and other military men who left their units helped unite the protest movement within the army with civilians opposed to the who will be reunited with his two children and plans to marry his said he would oppose military intervention in latin very few times have the poor people fought a struggle against something that was he our going to their country like that is its play ing Mather was released from the stockade at fort Riley on monday after Secretary of the army John Marsh approved his Appeal for the action Cut two months from the balance of Mathers prison he was arrested 17 years ago with sever Al other military men after they chained themselves to clergymen during a worship who never served in was absent without leave when he was transferred to another unit bound for Viet while he was at the Presidio in san he staged a protest in which 27 men refused to fall in for roil Call and Sang protest songs after another inmate was killed by a prison whose sentence originally called for four years of hard escaped in from a san Francisco military Stock Ade and fled to where he worked As a a Carpenter and construction he built his own House in British he said he decided to escape because he Felt he would be Given additional time for being a ringleader of the he returned to san in 1980 and was arrested in december when he lost his Drivers License at a service station and police discovered he was wanted by the Mather said wednesday he is bitter that the army continued to press the Case against he said he should have been granted amnesty during president Fords clemency reviews in Mather said he Rinsei what he called unjust treatment it Pron ers and the concentration earn1 Atmo sphere of military Jbv Kaikis he said he will to help justly incarcerated have Bavm Long prison senanes for minor my ordeal dealings is the and he a a former doctoral student who has shown no remorse for killing a Stanford University professor with a Hammer was ordered wednesday to remain in prison until his Lightyear term is completed in Theodore Streleski Michael said the decision by the Board of prison terms to revoke Streleski March 8 parole was a foregone convicted of killing Karel Del Leuw in has refused to Promise he would not return to Stanford and kill others after his he had been scheduled for release March but was returned to prison pending wednesdays hearing after he refused to sign papers placing conditions on his it was the third time Streleski had refused parole conditions and returned to Streleski will be eligible for release with out conditions on when he completes the Lightyear term for his second degree murder at a prison three depart ment of corrections officers testified that Streleski refused to accept parole such As a ban on travel to the Stanford univer sity Streleski read a 20rninute statement reviewing Legal details of his when Streleski is he plans to live in the san Francisco area and find a Job in Mcgowan one of the conditions Streleski rejected would have required him to live in Orange about 400 Miles South of had spent 19 years As a graduate student seeking a doctorate in mathematics and blamed Del Ccu for pre venting him from receiving the in an interview last year before his first scheduled Streleski told a reporter he did not regret the that it was unlikely he would kill again after his release from but that he make any i dont want to do anything that says i didst mean i meant Streleski i am absolutely noncommittal on whether i will go Back to Stanford and kill april 1945 b last i Avo armies speculated of 1955 Bijj Coit h strokes Over pen Hopan a Vii r 70 Snead was i v 20 ago today april a jordanian Airliner a Allied in flames into a i Miles West of killing All 54 including 47 Belgium pilgrims id a dubious to years ago foday april 1975 Portugal major political parties in Lisbon formally abandoned any Hope for a prompt return to civilian control when they signed a draft Constitution yielding essential Powers to the
