European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 mexican spiders drive Ford workers buggy Detroit a Black widow spi Ders have been Riding the rails and High ways from a plastics Plant in Mexico to a Ford Plant in Michigan where they pop out of parts on Assembly lines and scare at least two dozen of the poisonous spiders have been found since june 25 in dashboard parts sent to a Ford motor plastics Plant in company and United Auto workers Union officials said there has been no injury As a result of any of but it obviously is thoroughly Ford spokesman William Selover the sorting Racks holding the parts apparently have hollow tubing and the suspicion is that these spiders were hitch hiking in the he Black widows Are about the size of a grape and Are characterized by a red hourglass shape on their according to arachnid curator at the University of Michigan zoology museum in Ann the spiders bites usually Arent but symptoms in clude abdominal vomiting and if you Are bitten by a Black you will know Cameron youll be really for two Days and then till be the possibility is very Remote that a spider could make its Way into an Assem bled Ford spokesman Richard Judy the parts that were in the Racks where the spiders were found Are taken put one at a time and he the parts Are Small even before the com Pany began taking additional each one was inspected before being in Judy Fords efforts to Stop the unwanted immigrants have included ringing its car plastics Plant in with a 3footwide strip of fumigating Racks in Monterrey and hand inspecting the dashboard parts and torching the Racks to Burn out the obviously this is not the Ideal answer and were exploring ways of preventing the problem from the Selover the company now is dipping the parts Racks in insecticide before loading them on trucks and rail cars for Richard Law bargaining chair Man for local 892 at the Saline said the insecticide is not harmful to he four truckloads of Backplates a part attached to the rear of dashboards were shipped Back to Mexico to be Fumi but when they were returned to More spiders were Selover a Ford health and safety representative was dispatched to the mexican Plant and worked with Plant officials there to try to solve the the spider Issue has entered the collective bargaining process Between Ford and the the two were negotiating Over the re turn of backplate production to the Saline dropped in Michigan As a cos Cut Ting Graham Ford has agreed to that As part of the spider solution and production is expected to begin within 10 Selover tropical storm hits Florida with High winds fort a tropical storm first of the season to hit blustered ashore tuesday with 50 Mph winds and torrents of badly needed whipping up Beach eroding tides and Waves that crashed Over sea two resort Sanibel off fort Myers and Marco Southeast of were isolated from the Mainland for several hours tuesday morning when officials closed causeways because of flooding from rain and the roads were reopened when the water weve had some heavy flooding in its just been the constant said Marco Beach resort employee Arlene officials reported no injuries and Only minor property damage at the we didst advise or recommend any said John Wilson of the division of Public safety in fort we got we needed the our water table has been Way Way below the annual during the 24 hours ending at 5 Bob had dumped 11 inches of rain on Marco about 40 Miles South of fort inches on northeastern Naples and inches on fort All in Southwest said the National weather Florida rainfall has been far below average this and the drought was blamed for widespread grass and swamp fires that broke out across the state in the Brunt of the storms Power was in an area of heavy thunderstorms in squalls and Gusty winds South and East of its said National Hurricane Center director Neil weather on the Gulf coast began improving As the Center of the storm pushing the worst of the storm farther As of Midnight bobs broadening Center Hov ered along the Southeast coast Between West Palm Beach and Vero Beach near latitude degrees Longi tude degrees it was moving toward the East Northeast at about 10 Mph and was expected to continue in that direction As it moved off the Florida coast and Over the Atlantic the weather service bobs trek Over South Florida lashed the Miami fort Lauderdale area with nonstop heavy Thunder storms and at least two confirmed the confirmed in Northern Dade scattered tree limbs and broke some windows but otherwise Little a photo High winds whipped up by tropical storm Bob Batter a sea Wall protecting a restaurant in fort Myers damage was said forecaster Frank the weather service reported 2 to 4 inches of rain in most parts of Dade and Broward counties during the 24 hours ending at 5 Gale and thunderstorm warnings were posted along the storms predicted path in Palm Beach and Okeechobee counties and in Broward and Mon Roe seas were predicted As High As 10 feet and tides were expected to Rise about 2 feet above while the storm was unlikely to make landfall in Flor Ida it could intensify Over the warm Atlantic Ocean and return to Shore farther Hurricane Center fore Caster Gil Clark tides of 3 to 5 feet above Normal were forecast and tides feet above Normal were reported at Charlotte forecasters also were keeping track of a weather disturbance in the Atlantic about Miles East of the Windward the system was moving West at 15 Mph but devel if will be slow to the Hurricane Center a convict fights ban on Law practice up a Vietnam War protester convicted of helping blow up a University of Wisconsin research Center 15 years ago and killing a researcher is fighting a ban against his practising Law in David Sylvan served three years in went to Law school and then passed the Oregon bar he urged a special panel this week to allow him to practice a lot of time has passed since my of and Ive recognized the error of said he spent 5vi years As a fugitive before he was captured and Imp is i think it was totally politically and in every other Way it was totally Fine appeared before a three member panel appointed by the Oregon supreme court to hear his Appeal of a state bar Deci Sion rejecting his a graduate of the University of Oregon Law Fine passed the state bar sex but the bar ruled he  practice Law because he was a convicted Felon and his crime indicated an innate con tempt for the Fine pleaded guilty in 1976 to charges of third degree conspiracy and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution in connection with the 1970 postdoctoral researcher Robert Fassnacht was and three others were seriously injured in the Fine was not accused of actually planting the bomb in the army math science research Center on the Madison the 18yearold College Radical and Mem Ber of the students for a democratic society did place an Anonymous Call to police warning them to evacuate the the bomb exploded with an estimated Force of Sticks of killing Fassnacht and causing million in dam Fine and three other suspects became Fine was captured six years later in san assistant Oregon attorney general David Slader told the panel his for Mer Law was of sound moral charac Ter and would be an asset to the Legal pro Jeffrey a Portland attorney representing the argued fines admission would tarnish the Public image of All lawyers and erode Public Confidence in the criminal Justice smoking Pigeon blamed for fire a a Pigeon with a lit cigarette is the Likely culprit in an attic fire that forced 12 people from their City fire investigators a Pigeon apparently picked up a smouldering cigarette butt in its beak and carried it into a nest in the attic of the fou family where it ignited some paper backed Arthur Lester it sounds but they do Lester  use anything to make their they dont know its a lit Cigar the fire monday night burned a Hole in the but firefighters managed to control it within 12 six of the 12 evacuees from the House had to spend the night away from there was no evidence of any dead i Lester