European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 steel workers aim to preserve Middle class Ohio up the week old strike against Wheeling Pitts Burgh steel by steel workers is a referendum on the preservation of the Middle according to one United steel workers we feel that if we lose this Well have the Rich and the poor and nothing else in Between in this Ohio Valley just like it is in so Many parts of this nation right said John vice president of us local 1223 in 10 Miles North of it either Stolfs Here or it continues workers for the nations seventh largest steelmaker walked off their jobs july 21 at nine plants in West Virginia and Pennsylvania after the company said it would unilaterally impose wage and Benefit reductions of at least an the move came when bankruptcy judge Warren Bentz abrogated the uses scheduled to expire next company officials say the concessions Are essential to turning the company it is trying to reorganize Mil lion in Lon term the walkout is the first major strike against a steel company by the us since miners in Minnesota and Michigan went out for four months in it is the first strike against the Eastern Mills in nearly 26 it was a humid Day in Yorkville the fifth Day of the strikers manned nine picket stations sur rounding the Mill and gathered in the Union Hall just across the everyone is sticking together and they feel were Gonna go As Long As they keep us said local 1223 president John a 1984 3d Quarter earnings in millions of dollars i i i Ltd Bethlehem steel Inland steel i Aramco i Wheeling i Pittsburgh steel 1984 nine months earnings in millions of dollars National inter group steel  my Ltd 48 steel Inland steel Mahb Aramco National inter group b wheelin Pittsburgh steel Chicago Tribune graphic source company reports a 40year Veteran at we were working for which is about a the rate that they want to put in we would be losing about a we cant stand How can you make a House payment or a car payment you cant even have a kid today with that kind of Sam another 40year said wheelin Pittsburgh workers could set a bad precedent for labor nationwide if they agree to new wage the third in several if we its going to Hurt every Union in the Bumbico these companies complain about Money and were really not the ones breaking these there spending Money galore getting food in and out of this Heli copters coming in Day and Yorkville employees who prefer to Call the strike a work stoppage say the Community and officials have been great since the strike local merchants have donated food and lowered prices on other Jefferson county sheriffs deputies donated a Case of i brought some Coffee cause ill be drinking said a he was monitoring company and Union compliance with a court order affirming the unions right to picket but prohibiting it from interfering with supervisory those Guys Are really first a striker said amid a rash of thank yous from his Union Yorkville and surrounding Eastern Ohio communities such As Tiltonsville and Martins ferry could Well become ghost towns if wheelin Pittsburgh is forced to Tirpack a lot of Coal mines have closed and its not a ghost town Tirpack but 1 think a combination of All the Mills and mines closing would probably do i lets face this int califor people live Here because they work that the Only reason they live if they dont work Here they have no reason to live we can get nothing which we Are getting and not be Able to pay the Bills or we can work and not be Able to pay the and if our people Are not going to be Able to pay the Bills either there not going to work for the privilege cause its not a privilege to work and not be Able to pay the debt Ridden de Lorean living on a month a John de Lorean is deeply in debt but relies on Loans and in Book and movie advances to finance monthly living expenses of More than according to papers filed in his prop erty Battle with his the documents filed Friday in Superior court show de Lorean has assets of nearly million but potential liabilities of de acquitted last year on charges he dealt in cocaine to save his failing de Lorean motor expects to Garner this year from various invest holdings and according to the statement he signed july the former automaker also lists claims by his creditors that May reach de Lorean faces an array of claims against himself and his failed automobile according to his John he said the former automaker lives largely on Loans and a Book Advance and film minus agents a similar financial statement was filed monday by his 35yearold former Cristina Ferrare in the court Battle Over Possession of million in property frigate named Tor War hero Seattle a a guided missile frigate named for an Oklahoma farm boy who died a hero in the Pacific during world War ii was commissioned by the Navy on the Carr was named for Paul Henry of who was posthumously awarded the Silver Star for Man Ning a 5inch gun against japanese forces during world War despite a mortal it is the first time a Navy ship was named for an enlisted Man from Carr was a gunners mate third the 445foot launched in is designed to escort Carrier Battle groups and amphibious Landing it will be based in the vessel represents the 539th ship in the Reagan administrations aim for a 600 ship said senior chief Petty officer James following their april divorce in she is now married to television executive Anthony jurisdiction in the Battle Over the which includes a 430acre estate in nearby be minister was moved to new Jersey on july 3 by judge Michael Imbriani ruled that new Jersey would not recognize the California divorce because Thomopoulos did not meet a six month residency requirement in and said for that reason that the proceedings should continue in new the Somerset county venue was sought by de who lists his address As the be minister estate and a Man Hattan cooperative the trial is expected to begin in it is de koreans understanding that any distribution of including items such As furniture and Art taken by his a wife will have to await determination of the bankruptcy de Lorean says in the de who lists his employer As Logan manufacturing of reports any potential income from the company is barred by bankruptcy he also reports his assets Are Frozen in a multitude of various credit suits and bankruptcy court in but his court document records a comfortable lifestyle spent Between the new York Coop and the be minister apartment Upkeep and other expenses on both properties Cost de Lorean a his Case statement the farm is valued at million and the apartment is Worth de Lorean the former automaker also lists monthly personal expenses of including for for clothes and for Domestic de Lorean says transportation costs him a in her Thomopoulos reports she earned so far this year As a los Angeles television talk show she lists total assets of and liabilities of among her monthly Thomopoulos listed for shelter and in personal including a month for both parents Are also fighting for sole custody of their two free the t shirts sending message to Lebanon High a a Mother and her teenage daughter Hope shirts Treyve designed will help the seven americans still being held captive in Leb anon from being the woman Treyve really been on my mar Garet said last so i said to my we should do something to let the lebanese government know we still the designed by Hoy and her 16 year old says free the 7 on the front and has a map with United we stand on the the shirts Are expected to get their first National television exposure this Peggy sister of Terry the chief Middle East correspondent for the associated said she would Wear the shirt on the today i think its a great what she and her daughter Are say said in an interview from her Home in upstate new its a Way to support the families of the hostages and keep the seven before the american was kidnapped in Beirut on March Sadat widow to teach a Jihan widow of former egyptian president Anwar will join the faculty of Radford University this school officials whose husband was assassinated in october will teach one class a week As the first member of the University distinguished visiting professorship approved last August by Radford Board of Hoy also has spoken with the family of the Benjamin a presbyterian minister who has been held captive for 18 we certainly Welcome any kind of publicity that we can said Ann his the americans that were hijacked on the Twa Jet got a lot of we dont have that kind of we encourage people who make shirts and everything to in today is the 444th that my father is being its been a very Long time and were very much concerned about the shirts sell for and Hoy will donate of that to funds set up for the the rest of the profits will be Given to the missing childrens she