European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 sounded like a Tram a Betty Gosnell and her family consider themselves the rampaging winds that devastated Western Pennsylvania destroyed Only her her car and her husbands pickup i feel like everything been taken from but i thank the Good lord above were said who stood with curlers in her hair and tears in her we have a few of our there not in very Good but there still she at least five residents of Atlantic were killed and 40 injured in the said Terry Crawford county emergency management three of the dead were in the Pinedale trailer which was wiped off a Green Field just outside the Patch of woo Frame houses that comprise the the twister hit about preceded by Large Hail and blackened skies and a Roar described by Many As the sound of huge Post office levelled at antics longstanding feed Mill was As were the Pennsylvania dutch general a Gas and the year old Post office the winds reduced the Hamlet to rubble and fallen some of them with leaves stripped the winds stripped Spring wheat from the ground and left no building a Breeze that blew after the storm carried the Sweet smell of fresh Pine from splintered Trees mixed with the scent of old Wood newly sex the 41yearold Gosnell stood on the Concrete porch of her Home and took Stock of her life As a Bright Moon looked Down through a hazy sky on what was left of this Northwestern Pennsylvania Village of about 600 in the wreckage of her a Stop sign Post poked through the ceiling of the bedroom of her an exercise machine was thrown from his parents bedroom into his Sisters and Beer cans and pop cans and who knows what All were blown into the House through broken windows and missing if you didst go through it its hard to in said Sonny a tree trimmer for Pennsylvania Power what to do in Case of a Tornado in cities or towns d seek inside preferably in basement or steel framed or reinforced Concrete stay away from in office buildings d stand in Interior hallway or a lower preferably in in factories d move to sections of Plant offering greatest in accordance with Advance in Homes d Corner of basement toward Tornado usually offers greatest in Home without take cover under heavy furniture in Center of keep windows open to equalize pressure in but stay away from in schools d special alarm system should be designated to indicate Tornado is backup alarm should be planned for use if electrical Power n children on playground or other outdoor areas should be escorted to d children in portable or temporary classroom buildings should be escorted to sturdier buildings or to predetermined culverts or and instructed to he face hands Over most Tornado deaths Are caused by head p after children Are assembled in basements or Interior they should be instructed to respond to commands to assume protective facing Interior when danger is in open country d move away from Tornado path at right if there is no time to he Flat in a ditch or in a car q get out of car and seek Chicago i the Gosnell said they were sitting in their living room with an insurance agent signing a policy for health coverage when the sky blackened and much of Atlantic was lifted from the Fertile farm country of East fallow Field a lot of people said they heard the but i was so scared i said it sounded like a huge engined train said then you heard things around you snap it sounded like Popcorn the the son and the insurance agent Lay to Gether on the unable at first to reach the basement because of the Glass shards whipping through the wearing a sleeveless shirt and a baseball said he built his one Story Frame Home 16 years with insurance he Hopes to the Yard looks like its been he if you Haven been through its hard to in where at least nine people were Railroad conductor Frank was digging through the ruins of his the Tornado blew his garage across the Twenty nine years Worth of life is i cant find half my he the Tornado Cut a Swath about three blocks wide and five blocks Long through the Erie county damaging about 200 35 trailers and 15 Commer Cial Many of them flattened or blown off their bark peeled off Trees Trees were stripped of limbs and leaves in some bark was peeled off by the High i would say half the town is said assistant fire chief Roger added firefighter Fred Kiedaisch whole roofs just there was debris 100 feet in the air even outboard nine deaths were and police led dogs through gutted Homes in the search for More police roped off Albion on saturday afternoon to keep out both sightseers and Albion police chief John Sawdy said traffic jams had impeded cleanup of foot tickler Given threatened with firing for refusal a a Man who broke into a House last year to tickle a sleeping 15yearold girls feet has been sentenced to three months in jail and or dered to undergo psychiatric Richard of Roslyn Heights was also placed on five years probation by Nassau county judge Marie Santagata at the Hunter pleaded guilty april 10 to at tempted admitting he climbed through an unlocked window at a neigh Bors House on May and sneaked into Ora Ostas bedroom As she Hunter tickled Ostas feet until she saw him and said de a spokesman for the Nassau county District at he fled with one of her Santagata asked Hunter Why he broke into the to tickle Hunter did you take anything Santagata i stole he the son of a Baptist minister in was slightly acquainted with the Ostad said detective Jerry when police went to Hunters Long is land Home to arrest him last june they found a closet full of no Matching Wom ens Wright embalmer wont touch aids victims Chicago a a funeral Home worker says he wont embalm aids victims despite a warning from his employer that the next refusal will get him i dont think you should be fired for trying to protect your said Carl a 38yearold embalmer from sub Urban if you prick yourself with a Needle and the disease gets in your bang you got a thereto five year incubation you go Home and kiss your wife and and they got said Chu who is married with two a spokesman at the Center for disease control in Atlanta said Friday there is no significant risk to morticians handling aids several studies indicate the disease is not passed through nonsexual family no doctor or nurse who has treated aids has Ever come Down with health and human services Secretary Margaret heckler said last at least 34 doctors and Hospital workers have been Cut or stuck with aids contaminated Needles or lab equipment in the past two years a recent study More than people in the United states have been stricken with or acquired immune deficiency in the past four about half of the Vic Tims have died of the which involves a breakdown of the body ability to fight Chutro received a letter tuesday from Bla Elamb funeral Homes his employer for the past three we deem it your responsibility As an embalmer to provide for preparation of any deceased individual regardless of cause or Mode of the letter subsequent refusal will result in your imme Diate Richard president of Blake said thursday night there Are risks that Are part of any and that embalmers have had to Deal with other contagious diseases through the the philosophy of our firm since it was founded nearly 105 years ago has been that our Only Mission is to serve the when someone employees of the firm have a duty to the family of the deceased without any preconceived As Long As it is ethical and within health Lamb said funeral Home officials had gone to authorities to determine appropriate procedures for the preparation of suspected aids he said the Chicago Board of health has issued guidelines calling for the wearing of disposable goggles and health officials in Massachusetts said last month that they had received complaints that some aids victims have been refused burial and the state ordered funeral Homes to accept victims at the cd in spokesman Charles Fallis said the facility Hospital infection unit was conducting a followup study on healthcare workers who believe they May have been exposed to aids through accidental Needle pricks and other so far none of them have developed and symptoms of Fallis said in a phone interview its very unlikely that aids can be transmitted in this and theres no significant risk to he Lamb said his company also checked with pathologists at six local hospitals and their unanimous response was that with proper there should be no prob Lem at Farrakhan returns with million loan from khad Afy Chicago a Louis Leader of the nation of returned from a tour of North Africa and the mid East saturday and said he has received a million interest free loan from libyan Leader Moa mar Farrakhan said the Money would be used to stimulate Blac owned businesses through his newly formed or people organized working together for economic the Black religious Leader was greeted at Ohare International Airport by about 100 of his he told reporters at a Brief Airport news conference that he envisions a Black front of All Black groups an islamic front of All islamic the loan from Farrakhan might be the first of Many infusions of mid dle Eastern Oil Money into the american Black Community in an attempt to increase the ability of Black people to help them when Farrakhan first announced the loan agreement May he said he was Tak ing the libyan Money in lieu of the military Aid khad Afy once offered to Supply to american in a television message transmitted by satellite to a nation of islam meeting the libyan strongman urged Black servicemen in the United states to leave the armed forces and establish their own military in the khad Afy offered eco nomic and military Aid to help Blacks resist their racist a Day Farrakhan said he had rejected the idea of military saying Blacks should first work toward acquiring political Power through economic devel rather than armed