European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page6 the stars and stripes april 1985 Happy to be alive a photo Elizabeth presents a Little along with slipped off and became caught underwater i the her Edward in an Hospi Woodman dived repeatedly and blew air into his daughters he made a dramatic underwater Rescue last they Mouth until he was Able to free she suffered a broken were Riding on a Houseboat in Lake Oroville when she Arm and cuts in the s officials blame use of cocaine for Silicon Valley production slump san up cocaine use has become so widespread among employees of the Silicon valleys High technology industries that some officials blame it for the slump in productivity and the loss of sales Worth millions of in Silicon deals Are sealed not with a hand shake but by passing around a bowl full of said san Jose police chief Joseph Kathleen a said she has treated 440 High tech workers for cocaine she said 15 percent of those patients were electronics executives from Silicon Mcnamara said company executives at first were sep tical about his warnings of widespread cocaine use in the electronics but they have now recognized the seriousness of the problem and Are taking Steps to get drugs out of the executive suites and production seventeen people arrested in february at magnetic peripherals of Santa Clara for Selling narcotics on the arrests followed an undercover police investigation assisted and financed by the 10 arrested for drug deals ten fac workers were arrested in san Jose last fall for alleged drug deals in a company parking san Jose police in March arrested a packaging executive for Stephen Gould for thefts of compact and powerful computer disk after police took pack aging consultant Rick baseman into they said they had found cocaine on his firms have invited police to carry out undercover operations in the last two resulted in arrests at about 45 fac a defense and ism both with major san Jose turned to drug screen ingot applicants As a Way to head off narcotics ism began its program last Germaine cum of said the company plans to Start screen ing this about 40 Small and medium sized High tech Compa Nies have signed up for an american electronics association drug seminar this spokeswoman Debi Nason although drug screening is a giant step such efforts should have begun five or six years according to Dick Hesenflow of special management a san Jose firm that helps electronics Compa Nies beat drug drug abuse costs Santa Clara county High tech companies million to million a year As a result of lost Hesenflow the loss of that kind of Money prompted companies to find a Way to combat Hesenflow Given the conditions that exist in some of these companies because of theres no Way that they can compete with foreign no one wants to buy bad Hesenflow Hesenflow believes the current semiconductor and computer sales slowdown was brought about partly by employees with drug problems who turn out inferior products that cannot compete with foreign made Compo one Santa Clara firm with employees and serious financial difficulties found 80 percent of the Inte grated circuits it produced were and the com Pany told Hesenflow that drug use among workers was the key he companies once wrote off drug problems As a Small problem in their according to Gene a special agent with the state Bureau of narcotics in but he it has become competitive in Sili con with profits getting much you have to look at drugs As a Cost of cocaine is King in Silicon said private Detec Tive Gary who is hired by about 20 firms a year to stateside East May be but West is not necessarily always West a West Virginia claims Ken Tucky started the hostilities by adopting a tourism slogan that proclaimed of a Little bit of a shameless said West Virginia treasurer James whose states unofficial slogan of almost heaven is derived from the 1971 John Denver song country Robert director of Kentucky department of travel picked up the saying he had Learned that Denver was referring to Western portions of Virginia not West police come up with that better Mousetrap Detroit a officers investigating the disappearance of drugs from the police departments evidence room lured the suspect with and the Crook was caught like a mouse in a trap we got him while he was on his Way to some said Ray Wilhelm of the Waterford township police marauding mice in the evidence room apparently have taken a liking to pot and nibbling through plastic and Manila envelopes to get at the Wilhelm Texas stations traffic plane hits 2 aboard Hurt Texas a a single engine plane that was monitoring traffic for radio stations crashed into an apartment injuring both men authorities the Cessna a struck a vacant apart ment in the second floor of the two Story Hollandale House about a mile South of the six flags Over Texas amusement Curtis Marvin of the suffered head and neck cuts and possible but was conscious and in fair said Carlene a spokeswoman for Arlington memorial the other Kelly Owen also of dal suffered two broken a broken Pelvis and a rup tured and was listed in fair she College course in clowning teaches the value of fun a you cant pass professor Bill Stephens course unless you Clown around in for the past five Stephens has taught the six noncredit be a Clown course at Valdosta state teaching students about stage presence and other basics of in the weekly classes the education professor tells his students to avoid human things like eat smoking or drinking in their acts and to refrain from embarrassing people in the you Are the you make fun of he you never Embarrass someone who there to see your began clowning in the 8th Grade and continued while attending Florida state hundreds of cattle die after eating Oak tree buds a hundreds of cattle that ate too Many Oak tree buds after a snowstorm covered their grazing Fields in the Sacramento Valley have and hundreds More Are ailing and May be authorities the livestock apparently were poisoned by the which contain tannic the acid can be fatal to Jack president of the Shasta county cattle mans estimates that the Oak Bud poisoning has killed cattle since ranchers first reported deaths and says another May each cow is Worth to free running dogs drawing complaints in los Angeles area los Angeles up unleashed dogs Are terror izing Park residents complained recently that dog owners Are disobeying the cites Leash Laws and letting their pets run especially in Laurel Canyon Parkin the Hollywood ills j11011 said he had spread tainted dog biscuits in the but the City scooped up the goodies and ran extensive chemical tests that showed the canine cookies were not laced with City councilman Joel whose District includes the is now demanding that officials actively enforce the Leash Law by passing out i v i 1