European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 8, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes july tiny Massachusetts town raises its voice no of 37 air Force communication towers Hawley not until a few weeks this tiny town in the Berkshire Hills was Best known for being the Only settlement in Massachusetts without a Post office or traffic among fishermen and it was also celebrated for an for ested Ridge that is officially designated one of the states 10 most Beautiful but on May 40 of Hawleys 285 Resi dents received letters from the air Force about a Public meeting the next the gathering was to discuss a defense depart ment plan to build a million communication Complex with 31 some As tall As the statue of in the Middle of Hawleys Scenic opposition to the plan was quickly or Silvio whose District includes stood in a potato Field and told several Hundred local people Friday that he thought he had stopped the an air Force said no decision has been state Jonathan Healy like Many people in this Rural part of Northwestern a Farmer called this a David versus Goliath people Here Are Good rocked they would love to help out the govern Healy said last but the pro Cess the government is using to acquire the land is so arrogant and and their real purpose so that people feel like its George the residents of Hawley and the adjoin ing Village of Ashfield were told they had Only two weeks to convey any objections to the if the owners whose land the air Force wanted chose not to the air Force could use its right to take their prop erty for they were like their forebears two centuries ago who objected to the Kings tax on the residents of Hawley and Ashfield Organ they formed a committee they called save the held packed meetings in the 137yearold congregational Church and wrote to their a Republican who is the ranking minority member of the House appropriations which will pass judgment on Money for the said Friday the air Force has not yet agreed to terminate the but i can Tell you that the project has about the same Chance of coming to Hawley As i do quitting my Job rep resenting this District anytime there is no Chance of Conte said he has received assurances from members of the appropriations and armed services committees that they would vote to Block the As far Asim he its Back to the How much longer till dinner a photo two Young cattle egrets in Oklahoma expect others to Rustle up the food and not just when their Mother feeds her As Dine on the insects which cattle scare up As they walk through drawing Board on this but Philip a spokesman at Westover near said he has received no word from the Pentagon about a change in representative Conte is in the political Weber we will just continue with the project As it is Laid out right that Means studying the towers Poten tial Impact on the he air Force engineers Are to Complete their report by he and he expects a final decision from the undersecretary of the air Force Early next the site in Hawley was Weber because of its which gives the antennas a 360degree sweep because it is away from a Large town that would inter Fere with transmissions and because it is near other which will hide the towers and not make an but Harry chief landscape architect for the has drawn up mock photographs of what the area would look like with the 300foot towers and says they would be visible for dozens of it will ruin what this whole area is he one of the last near Wil dearness Sites in Earl an architect originally from new now lives in Hawley and Heads save the he noted that half of the 600 acres the air Force wants is a open Field that has been laboriously cleared of stones Over the centuries and supplies 10 percent of the states this int just some Pope its valuable he also expressed concern that the microwave Tower May Emit radiation so Strong that it could Burn the grass and sterilize the Farmers William a specialist on nuclear weapons at the Institute for policy studies in said that there is nothing threatening about the but that they would be a waste of the project is part of the governments Effort to build a radio network for communication in the event of nuclear be cause Washington has come to recognize that communication by satellite is vulnerable in a nuclear he but the whole thing is Arkin if the United states is not going to be the towers Are redux if we Are the soviet Union has enough warheads to strike every facility in the Many times according to the towers in Haw Ley would serve 22 Federal government including the defense depart the state the Cia and the veterans woman killed by elephant while trying to climb on it new a a 47 year old woman who tried to climb on an elephant in a shopping mall parking lot was killed Early saturday when the animal threw her to the pavement and trampled Joan Scovell of new London was at tempting to climb on top of Freda at about 4 when the elephant grabbed her with her trunk and threw the woman police it All started because she wanted to see the elephants she wanted to ride the Al said Daniel who was to marry Scovell in two Sorel said he and his Fiancee had been drinking Friday night when they drove into the new London mall parking lot and went to the compound where nine elephants owned by the Clyde Beatty Ole Cir Cus were chained by the feet to we drove and she went right Over to this Sorel she walked and i dont go in there they might not be but she went police chief Donald Sloan said Scovell May have been repeatedly thrown or trampled by the elephant because her body was Sloan said the circus has been ordered to place Security personnel with the elephants 24 hours a Day until they or the Cir Cus will be Ned assistant manager of the Cir said that there were no animal trainers in the elephant compound at the time of the but that the trainers were sleeping in circus trailers bordering each end of the roped we cant watch them every Potter we try to have someone Here at All but in this Case we peo ple were in the trailers right but i guess they didst hear Mastodon like Skeleton found by woman a Midge Dickin son knew she had something out of the Ordi nary when she found an enormous Jawbone sticking out of the red Clay of a water pipe Trench in her a Glass pro state College archaeology professor said she May have found the re Mains of a Young a 10foottall compiled by the new York times fiction 1skeleton Crew by Stephen King Hunt for red october by Tom Clancy cider House rules by John Irving 4jubal Sackett by Louis Lamour the dream by Barbara Taylor Bradford Catskill Eagle by Robert Parker 7chapterhouse Dune by Frank Herbert 04f tomorrow comes by Sidney Sheldon 9thinner by Richard Bachman outside by Herman Wouk paperback fiction full Circle by Danielle steel and ladies of the club by Helen Hooven Santmyer Haj by Leon urls by Core Vidal six by Cuve Cussler wheel of Fortune by Susan Howatch witches of Eastwick by John Updike Miracle by Irving Wallace 9tender is the storm by Johanna Lundsey 10switch by William Bayer paperback nonfiction Road less travelled by Scott Peck search of excellence by Thomas Peters and Robert Waterman by Jack Olsen great thoughts compiled by Gilbert Seldes 5penguin dreams and stranger things by Berke breathed of the far Side by Gary Larson 7jhe Silver palate Good times Cook Book by Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins with Sarah Leah Chase 8eat to win by Robert Haas 9more singlets by Rich Hall and friends manager by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson shaggy beast resembling an elephant that roamed Southern new Jersey years when it was More like Arctic by the end of the Dickinson had collected a pair of Teeth the size of Zippo lighters and thigh Bones too Large to interest the neighbourhood Robert a professor of history and archaeology at Glassboro said the size of the the alignment of the Teeth on the 16inch surviving Section of jaw and the tusks suggest they Are from a Young Dickinson said she will leave the balance of the excavation to researchers from the new Jersey state museum in which has expressed an interest in acquiring the Shirley assistant curator of Sci said the museums two other Masto Don skeletons on exhibit Are from Northern new
