European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 2, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes May economic Index shows March drop Washington up the govern ments Index of leading economic indicators dropped percent in a sign the limping Economy is not about to regain the Commerce department said the Index was one of three negative re ports issued within a Short time tuesday that confirmed badly bruised Industrial Economy took some More lumps and that american from Farmers to were hard hit by import com the reports on the slowing Economy arrived just As president Reagan was leaving for the Bonn economic where Sev eral of his counterparts will be Able to say their economies Are finally Matching or exceeding erosion of big ticket items the department said All factory orders dropped percent in the eighth decline in 12 and the erosion was most severe for big ticket items like machinery and these durable goods orders dropped 3 cancelling the months percent increase in nondurable the third report issued by the depart on merchandise Trade showed Why Industry is of the Bil lion Trade deficit for billion of the red Ink was in manufactured goods bought from foreign the surplus generated by farm exports was Only million for the half that of the billion Trade deficit for nearly the same As in was even More serious considering that the nation Cut Back its purchases of imported Oil by slowdown will continue the decline in the leading indicators corroborates other evidence that the eco nomic slowdown will continue in the Sec Ond economist Jerry of the National association of Man fac the report on factory orders also showed manufacturing inventories up percent in Given the combined Impact of inventories and the growth rate in the Sec Ond Quarter May be Only in the Range of 2 percent to 3 Jasinowski he forgot to Duck a Mallard with an Arrow in its body takes off in a Milwaukee trying to remove the the Duck has been spotted several Park to elude Wisconsin humane society rescuers who were times in the apparently not bothered by the ears to science for a Roach approach Boston a when a patient walked into the emergency room with a cockroach in each doctors knew they had a Uncein lifetime Chance to Settle one of the uncertainties of medical Sci we recognized immediately that Fate had granted us the Opportunity for an elegant comparative therapeutic they wrote in a letter in thursdays new England journal of the proper Way to remove a cockroach from someones it has been the subject of the time honoured method is to drop some Mineral Oil in the then try to pull the Little Critter a competing technology is to squirt the Bug with an the doctors did a comparative expert in one ear went some Mineral the cockroach succumbed after a valiant but futile but its removal required much dexterity on the part of the House they in the other they sprayed some the response was they the Roach exited the canal at a convulsive rate of Speed and attempted to escape across the a flee footed in Tern promptly applied an equally time tested remedy and killed the using the simple crush the Experiment was conducted by Kevin Otoole and Rick Martinez at Charity Hospital in new Maine firefighters hem in flames on wildlife Refuge Maine up firefight aided by helicopters dropping wednesday battled a Forest fire fuelled by dry conditions and stiff that scorched 800 acres of the Moosehorn National wildlife Forest service officials completed a fire line around the the 25footwide bulldozed strip would provide a line the fire would be unable to jump officials plumes of smoke rising More than feet could be seen from the air by pilots flying As far As 60 Miles away from the Washington county wildlife preserve in the easternmost portion of near the Ca Nadian were been dumping water via four helicopters and using a fixed Wing aircraft since 6 Oclock said Dick Dyer of the conservation we expect 15mph no rain and Clearing All those things you want on the but not the five Forest service aircraft dumped As much As 250 Gallons at a time on hot hoping to stunt the fast moving the fire was not expected to be brought completely under control until Early thurs the Blaze was first reported tuesday of by it had charred More than 500 although forestry officials said they had begun slowing the Prog Ress of the the Moosehorn National wildlife ref Uge spans the fire was contained in a wilderness area that had been managed for Woodcock Hay Fon leaves Hospital Tor first time a artificial heart patient Murray Haydon has taken his first trip outside Humana Hospital Audubon since his jarvik7 implant More than two months spending about 15 minutes on a second floor Bob director of Public relations for Humana said Haydon enjoyed the summer like weather while a portable Power unit operated his mechanical on Haydon took a wheelchair ride through the Halls of the temporarily leaving the confines of the Cor Onar care unit where he has been since March Irvine the worlds second artificial heart recipe William has been moved completely outside the Hospital to a nearby and he has been Able to visit his doctors Homes and go during the Brief Haydon did not require the help of a Irvine doctors have been gradually weaning him from the Respirator to which he bad been attached almost constantly since he developed breathing who underwent the implant operation still requires the help of the Respirator part of each and the slow recovery of his lungs has Dis appointed his William who performed the implant has said Haydon lungs were damaged by frequent blood transfusions he was Given before a March 2 operation to Stop internal Trees that had suffered heavy infestation by the Spruce Bud worm disease and sparse springtime Rains left plentiful supplies of dry material to fuel the weve always been concerned about fire getting in said Kenneth Bureau of forestry the fire was first reported within the Federal wildlife and it rapidly spread Southeast into Forest land owned by Cham Pion International the fire consumed Well Over 100 acres in the first Stratton message by Graham to travel the heavens London up evangelist Billy Graham will literally communicate through the heavens when his Mission meetings this summer in Are transmitted by satellite across the British organizers they said grahams message will hit 50 locations simultaneously in what will be Britain largest inter Church activity Mission a three year program devised to stimulate evangelistic spirit in England has funded the satellite