European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes july 1985 California must destroy 10 million melons los Angeles Apall watermelons in California stores As Many As 10 million melons will be destroyed because the crop contains a pesticide linked to ill Nesses of at least 108 people in four states and authorities All products at the retail level will be said Jan Wessel of the state department of food and agriculture after officials reached the decision in an Emer gency meeting late the department also plans to inspect and Sample the rest of californian Watermelon which totals about 30 million and will use stickers to Mark the melons free of the we Sci said a formal order would be is sued to wholesalers and retailers monday to destroy their she also urged Consumers to throw away any watermelons they have already the crop this season is estimated at 30 million she one third of these Are already in the Chain of Dis Tribu and will be a lot of the crop has been said the departments Deputy George we have no idea How Many were consumed prior to july Gomes said officials Are unable to assign a Dollar estimate to the the held inspections will be carried out by personnel of the county agricultural shipments of untainted watermelons were expected to re sume officials Farmers blamed misrepresentation of the pesticide for the but the manufacturer of Union Carbide said it must have been misused by the four Kern county whose Fields were named by state health officials As sources of bad said they used the product More than four years ago while growing they said labels on the pesticide guaranteed that it would leave the soil within 100 Days after a Union Carbide spokeswoman defended the and a state agricultural official said she doubts that Aldi carb could remain in soil More than a accused nazi asks court to drop extradition order Cincinnati up1 a Federal appeals court was asked monday to Over turn an extradition order for John dem identified by world War ii death Camp survivors As guard Ivan the Terri the 6th circuit court of which heard the Appeal by Demjan Juks Mark is not expected to Rule for several District judge Frank Battisti or dered an autoworkers in Cleveland after arriving in the United states in extradited to Israel three months ago to stand trial for Oconnor told the court that Demjan Juk would not get a fair trial in it would be impossible for Demjan Juk to be exonerated Over he death Camp survivors identified dem Manjuk in court As a guard known As Ivan the terrible and blamed him for helping kill jews in the Gas Chambers of the Treblinka concentration Camp in Oconnor said a nazi identification card witnesses used to identify Demjan Juk was forged by the and alleged collaboration Between the soviet Kab and the Justice department to have Demjan Juk extradited to this is a question of National said we have Al Lowed the Wolf inside the i want to expose the corruption in this Demjan Juk remains in prison in pending his the appeals court two weeks ago upheld a Battisti order that Demjan Juk be Oconnor has also asked the court to reconsider that if it does he plans to make an Appeal to the supreme Schroeder takes 50mile Van ride a artificial heart recipient William whose mobility and speech Are rapidly took another Van ride into his Home state during the a Hospital spokeswoman said Schroeder went for a drive in said Donna Hazle of Humana Hospital no Date has been set for his release from the but the discussions Are the 53yearold Retiree from Jasper was discharged april 6 and permitted to move into an apartment across the he was readmitted to Audubon after suffering a May 6 which left him unable to speak and with partial the longest living human recipient of a mechanical is now walking in the Halls with Hazle told the tube feedings have been implant surgeon William Devries believes schroeders speech is better than it was prior to his moving to the apartment in she Schroeder received his jarvik7 heart in a 25 Hazle said schroeders Only peer at a Murray is steadily re covering from surgery and postoperative he went for a walk in the with Hazle he has consistently been off the Respirator for nearly four there Are rare times when he uses it for a few the retired Louisville autoworkers received his artificial heart 17 and is still in the coronary care it is unlikely that the residues would persist from one growing season to the much less for four or five said Lori assistant director of the department of food and Over the William spokes Man for the department of health serv said 70 California illnesses appeared to be linked to Aldi carb another 200 illnesses in 23 California counties were under he at least 38 cases of Aldi carb poisoning have been reported in Alaska and British Aldi carb poisoning causes Nau abdominal muscle profuse sweating and blurred i in severe doctors it can also cause difficulty in breathing and interrupt the hearts state authorities in Oregon and Washington also have ordered the recall of thousands of with voluntary recalls under Way in British Columbia and Aldi carb tests on Watermelon samples in Washington and British Columbia proved officials Aldi carb is sold by Union Carbide exclusively under the Brand name no one had any idea that the chemical would stay in the soil this said water Melon grower Don who owns one of the targeted Kern county i used Temsik five years ago on a Corner of land a few acres that was at that time used for said another of the growers whose Fields have been identified As now it the Field is used for and that where the tests came out Union Carbide spokeswoman Mary Anne in a Telephone interview from North accused the California Melon growers of a flagrant misapplication of this soil and Laboratory tests conducted in California show the pesticide does degrade within 100 Days after application to and it is highly unlikely that it would still be in the soil four years she said a photo Horoho the Buck stops Here Steve Cherrell of be Cherrell was taking part in conies an unwilling aerialist when a the Novice Saddle bronc Riding Cham bucking Bronco named Santa Claus Pion ship which was an event at the shows an a Jolly attitude and flips his annual Rodeo in fan wants reagans face on Rushmore country and from prolife organizations in new York and up Rush More is a Dandy says Jack Van but he believes that it would be a lot Dander with Ronald reagans face among the images of great american presi Vanschoick is waging a Campaign from his Sturgis Home to make reagans image a permanent fixture on the famous South Dakota its a Dandy National he but it would be a lot Dander if Ron Ald Reagan was up is so serious about the idea that he placed Worth of classified ads in the newspaper Usa today to see if other people feel the same the feeler Drew enough tentative responses to encourage a continuing Cam he Ive gotten 25 or 30 letters and about in so he but this thing is just beginning to i if i can collect 20 million Sig natures by the end of the we can get the right people in Congress to pay some serious an insurance said he has received favourable letters from sever Al Young Republican clubs around the but not everyone agrees that Reagan should join George Abraham Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt in the Black in one letter writer offered a sub Stantial donation if Vanschoick would agree to have reagans likeness carved on Volcan wracked Helens in Washington state describing himself As a patriotic world War ii said he would Welcome signatures from both Politi Cal