European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes june Amish helping Tornado victims rebuild a a week after killer tornadoes destroyed houses and hundreds of Amish volunteers from at least three states streamed into this tiny town saturday to help townspeople elsewhere in Western hundreds of other volunteers helped communities struggling with the devastation wrought by a series of tornadoes on May 31 that claimed 88 lives in Ohio and travelling in horse drawn As Well As vans and on flatbed up to 800 Amish women and children arrived in Atlantic at Daybreak to help with the Long process of cleaning up and starting we  do without said Amelia whose husband is an Amish a Hundred feet from the troyes More than 30 Amish men worked to rebuild a barn destroyed in the May 31 Only the sounds of Chain saws and Ham mers could be heard As the nearly All of them wearing Blue suspenders and Straw finished building the Block quite a mess i want told to its quite a we wanted to help clean explained a Young bearded Amish shoving his hands inside a Nail Pouch around his the who declined to give his said he travelled from about 22 Miles to the Troyer farm with 25 other Amish men Early i never saw them the troyes be he people around Here didst know we were another Amish Eli of it Doest matter whether youre Amish or i feel sorry for Yoder had arrived saturday morning with eight including his in a Van whose Driver they hired because the Amish dont drive motorized vehicles the Amish worked alongside English their term for those who Are not Amish hoisting beams onto show Eling debris onto wagons and burning splintered Trees and everybody is sticking regard less of what nationality they people arc and that the Way they Amish volunteers help replace the roof of a Home damaged by last weeks tornadoes in a photo said Pat an american red Cross worker from Miami who was flown in to supervise the command Center in everybody dont just give the Amish no a Middle age Amish woman said As she watched about a dozen men hammering on the roof of her new the unidentified wearing a Long dark Blue dress and White said there was no time to hold organizational meetings after the twisters killing five injuring dozens and destroying 86 Homes in Atlantic Gertrude a Volunteer from near by Greenville who issued Security passes to enter said Amish and some Menno nites began arriving in the Rural Community As Early As thursday from Eastern Pennsyl Ohio and new York she estimated that As Many As 800 were in the area a figure supported by National guardsmen who patrolled the area to keep out sightseers and about 300 people live in at least a third of them sometimes called Pennsylvania they Are Mem Bers of a strict sect of mennonites founded in the 17th although the Amish Are sharing meals prepared by area families and organizations and Are accepting they say they have no intention of accepting government assistance for rebuilding their farther to the South in Butler hundreds of volunteers helped to remove demolished fallen Trees and its kind of chaos around but people Are continuing to come and were trying to get them out and Evans fire chief Jim Daugherty he estimated at least 500 people turned including Church boy scouts and More than 100 employees of Duquesne Light in Middlesex also in Butler emergency management director John Auberzine Sicy said 200 to 250 peo ple were aiding in the disaster assistance centers opened in Mckean and Northumberland counties where Tornado victims could find help from government one american Home in four touched by crime in 84 Washington up one in every four households was victimized by crime last the government reported but the Good news is that fewer Homes were touched by crime in 1984 than in any year since it began keeping the Justice department report also noted that avoiding crime is relatively simple move to the where figures show relatively few households Are touched by on the positive in 1984 fewer american households Felt the effects of criminal victimization than in any of the previous nine during which statistics have been Steven Schle director of the Bureau of Justice crime continues to be a serious he All in an estimated million households had items stolen or had peo ple living in them who were victims of assault or motor vehicle that translates to 26 percent of the nations Down from per cent touched by crime in in there has been a steady drop in the num Ber of households affected by crime since during that larceny has dropped 26 burglary 29 motor vehicle theft by 22 percent and crimes of violence like robbery and assault by 15 Between 1975 and the decline in crime was since 1982 the de Cline has been the statistics thanks primarily to a drop in Bur Glary and the country is the Best place to avoid at least for those playing the Sta because throughout the 10 years statistics have been gathered on the prob Lem of households touched by those most Likely to be victimized Are High income households in Central cities and Black last year about three in every 10 of such households were touched by households in Central cities were the most vulnerable to crime and households in Rural areas the least the report Black households were hard hit be cause Blacks were twice As Likely As Whites to be victims of Wel Todo households were More Likely to be victims of although their vulnerability has also dropped from Best Sellers reaction to new Coke mostly negative Atlanta up the coca cola has received Telephone Calls and most of them since it announced five weeks ago it was changing the taste of the worlds leading soft the Clear majority of those Calls Are people expressing said Brian president of coca cola borne say its terrific but the majority Are expressing but Dyson said in a weekend interview the negative response was less than anticipated and that 90 percent of the people calling on the company Tollfree hotline were 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