European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 experts predict thousands of july 4 injuries Washington up More americans Are maimed by Independence Day fireworks each year than were wounded by British muskets and Cannon balls during the revolutionary and officials say this fourth of july will be just As Cherry bottle roman candles and sparklers will injure about people in thursdays Holiday that about More than were wounded in the Lightyear War with the children Are the most frequent victims of a recent medical Survey showed that a 10yearold boy setting off bottle rockets is the most Likely to be blinded or i cannot describe the tragic feeling when we have to remove eyes from children or adults and know the injury was said Sloan Wilson of the american Academy of All but 14 states allow personal use of and experts say a National ban is needed to Stop the blood the Federal consumer product safety commission in 1976 banned class b devices like Cherry bombs and m but class c fireworks like roman missile Type sparklers and smoke devices still arc Al the 1976 Bicentennial Celebration revived the nations interest in fireworks and since overt counter explosives have injured Between and americans each fourth of authorities one 10yearold boy suffered third degree Burns Over 25 percent of his body when he dropped a firecracker into a can of lantern a 7yearold girl playing with a Sparkler ignited her Nightgown and suffered Sec on degree fires sparked by Independence Day fireworks cause millions of dollars in property losses million in California alone in Lawrence who has served on Accident prevention task forces of the american Academy of is especially critical of he said most victims of fireworks Are children under 15 who dont read or cant understand the the nations As Well As the National society for the prevention of have campaigned for years to ban personal but bar Ger said they Are always Defeated by the fireworks the fireworks Industry says this is a patriotic Way to celebrate the fourth of he but we say that allowing the personal use of fireworks is too great a Price to people who sell fireworks have a different i Tell customers they have to use safety measures just like they would a bicycle or a said Judy co owner of Stowers fireworks in you can abuse fireworks Industry workers have also paid a heavy Price to allow americans to celebrate july 4th with a since at least 44 people have been killed in explosions at fireworks factories some of them last 21 workers died when an explosion levelled a fireworks Plant in Navy wants 29 warships distributed along Gulf coast by Norman Black Washington a the defense department on tuesday announced plans to spread 29 of the nations warships among nine Home ports on the Gulf sending the battleship Wisconsin and the training Carrier Lexington to Corpus and a planned new Flattop to Corpus Christi also would get three smaller warships under the making it the Clear Winner in the intensive Competition among Gulf cities for the Wisconsin and the Job Bonanza that often results from Home port the which would spread the ves Sels among nine Gulf now goes to Capitol if it would wrap up a massive planning operation to find Home ports for the largest warships in the Reagan administrations buildup to a 600 ship the announced by defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Navy Secretary John Lehman will be implemented late in this decade at the the Navy the Pentagon had announced plans for three of the four world War ii battleships it is sending the new Jersey to Long the Iowa to Staten and the mis Souri to san at that it also chose As Home port Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today july 1945 residents of Ger Many Large Industrial cities Are facing starvation next Allied military authorities 30 years ago today july 1955 Lyndon John was in serious condition from a heart attack that struck the Senate democratic Leader As he worked at a friends farm near 20 years ago today july 1965 in new Willie Mays and Joe Torre were named to the National leagues Allstar Power hitters Henry Ernie Richie Allen and Willie Stargell also were included in the 70 years ago today july 1975 defending Champion Jimmy Connors and Arthur Ashe won their semifinals in the Wimbledon Tennis championships in London and became the first americans to meet in the finals since for a 14th Flattop it will add to its current Fleet of 13 operational carriers plus the under reagans the Navy will eventually have 15 operational Weinberger said tuesday the Wisconsin the last of the four battleships com ing out of Mothballs would Call Corpus Christi he said a 15th Carrier would displace the Lexington at Penasco the Lexington would move from its current berth at Pensacola to Corpus probably in Weinberger the other winners in tuesdays Home port which began last year with 16 Gulf coast cities vying for the Are new Orleans Lake key and the latter had submitted a joint the Navy had announced in february six finalists for the Wisconsin Lake Corpus Christi and key West was described As in the running for smaller a seven applicants came away with some Navy vessels As did new Orleans and which had not been listed among Weinberger also announced assignment of a destroyer and mine sweeper to Corpus a mine warfare ship to two frigates and three mine sweepers to the Houston Galveston two mine warfare ships and an Oiler to Lake two fast sea lift ships to near new two two frigates and a mine sweeper to two cruisers and two destroyers to a mine warfare ship to a Landing Craft repair a Salvage ship and a Shore based Ocean surveillance ship support group to key a decision on the Wisconsin had been expected no later than but the announcement of Home ports for the other vessels came As a a Navy source said Lehman had the information he needed to make a decision and simply decided he wanted to get it All Over with at Gulf states and cities wooed the Navy with offers of millions of dollars Worth of Corpus Christi led the offering million in funding offsets to Cut construction clearly a dominant reason for Choos ing Corpus Christi for the Wisconsin was that the people of Corpus Christi voted to raise their own taxes by million to pay for the Phil r Corpus Christi mayor Luther Jones seventy three percent of the county voters turned out and said they wanted the Navy Here the Navy Doest want to go where its not wanted and Corpus Christi wanted the Gulf coast has been hard hit by a recession spawned by stagnation in the Oil As a result of the the Navy Esti it could construct All facilities needed for about Weinberger statement stressed the plans were contingent on environmental Impact findings and other but he said he had approved the Overall Navy plan and endorsed the idea of Dis Persing the ships around the Gulf coast area instead of concentrating them at one or two current Home port areas Are at or near capacity and prudent military planning dictates that the Navy disperse its in creased Weinberger the strategic along with the lowest possible Cost to the were the deter mining factors in the when president Reagan came into of fice in the Navy had 479 deployable the Navy expects to hit the 600 ship goal in fiscal remains of 13 recovered from Laos Washington a the remains of 13 american airmen killed in the crash of their air Force gunship in Laos More than 12 years ago have been recovered by a excavation team and returned to the United presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said the recovered last have been identified by the army identification Laboratory in and the families of the victims have been Noti the remains will be flown to Travis fab in California on Friday for burial the spokesman it is the first time the communist govern ment of Laos has cooperated in a joint re covery Effort leading to the return and identification of americans Long listed As missing in officials Are hopeful it will Lead to others in the mountainous nation bordering nearly 600 of the american servicemen still listed As missing in Southeast Asia Are believed to have died in Speakes and Richard a Mem Ber of the National Security Council said the ac130 gunship with 16 crewmen aboard was hit by antiaircraft fire 10 min utes after it took off from a Provin Cial capital on the Mekong River South of on the night of the plane remained airborne but leaked fuel for about 10 minutes before it burst into flames and the spokesmen two members of the Crew parachuted to safety and were picked up that Day by search Andrescu the body of a third was recovered the next Day and later the ac130 is a Lockheed Hercules cargo plane converted into a flying gun platform with rapid firing min guns Capa ble of laying Down a carpet of fire at rounds a it was used extensively against suspected enemy troop concentrations and Supply including the to Chi Minh Trail through Eastern Laos and Cambodia which served As North Viet name main infiltration route into South Childress said the site of the crash could not be pinpointed at the time but that negotiations with the laotian government began in 1982 and led to the successful joint expedition nearly three years Speakes said president Reagan plans to write the families to personally express his sympathy for the anguish of their Long or Deal during this period of we Hope this is the first of Many such excavations in and the president greatly appreciates the cooperation of the laotian the White House spokesman Pentagon spokesman Keith Schnei identified the All of them air Force As Paul of Thomas Hart of Orlan Harry of car Robert Liles of Shreve Francis of Delma of Anley of George of master James of master John winning of Grover Robert of Al Charles of Tuc Rollie of
