European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 2, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes August heavy Rains hit areas in Eastern by United press International heavy rain flooded streets in Worces with up to 6 feet of water thursday and disrupted Boston commuter rail lines while tornadoes knocked out Power in almost 4 inches of rain forced travellers in Worcester to use boats to navigate City streets where a 10inch fish was caught by a police its said Worcester police Reginald when the water began to there were a lot of things lying around in the one of which happened to be a 10inch he caught it water cascaded Over abandoned cars in downtown streets and flooded store base ments before receding by the morning Rush no serious injuries were in Boston inches of rain deluged commuter rail stations and forced the Massachusetts Bay transportation authority to bus passengers from outlying stations into Boston and Between flooded stations on subway most flooding subsided during the morning and trains resumed Normal serv in police searched new Castle county streams for an 86 year old woman who apparently was swept Way in a Creek swollen by Thunder High winds in Delaware City Tore roofs off several flattened Trees and damaged 30 boats at a officials rain deluged the with inches falling during a 75minutc period in Nebraska wednesday storms also doused the Pacific Northwest and the mountains of the prompting a Flash flood watch in two construction workers were one when High winds blew Down a Home being built in officials skin diver Mike Mayer shows some of the 13 Gold bars he discovered aboard the buried treasure no longer a photo sunken ship Nuestra Senora de Atocha our lady of Atocha off the Florida Mayer and other divers found seven chests filled with Silver and president wants to hasten separation of social Security system from budget Washington a president Reagan would like to accelerate the sched ule for severing the social Security system from the Federal budget to remove social Security from deficit politics and encourage people to Stop toying with the emotions of a White House spokes Man said the bookkeeping scheduled to take place under current Law in would have no direct effect on social Security payroll taxes or but advocates of the separation contend it would relieve political pressure on lawmakers to trim Feder Al deficits by tampering with social Securi As republicans attempted to do this John said he would introduce legislation thursday to make the change effective on the beginning of the 1986 budget Heinz said he had reagans Assurance of presidential spokesman Larry Speakes the presidents viewpoint is As he stressed Many times and has been misinterpreted Many that it is basically a Dis honest approach to use social Security income As a Means to lower the budget social Security income is collected from social Security payroll Speakes it goes into the social Security Trust and it will be spent in benefits out of the social Security Trust Gao says at least 138 deaths Are linked to alleged detect in Ford transmissions Washington a congressional auditors said thursday that at least 138 people have been killed in connection with allegedly defective Ford transmissions since the government agreed years ago not to order a recall of the Timothy who or dered the investigation by the general accounting said the findings show the number of deaths per number of vehicles on the Road has increased contrary to past claims by the transportation depart ment of a significant decline in the death Wirth accused the National Highway traffic safety which is within the of playing a numbers game and misleading Congress As to the seriousness of the safety prob Lem with the 197079 Ford of which there Are an estimated 16 million still on the Diane the Highway safety Agen cys was scheduled to testify before Wirths subcommittee thurs Day and explain her Agency july 12 decision not to reopen the Ford transmission the Center for Auto a Public interest group founded by Ralph cad As cd that traffic safety administrate reopen the Case because of what the said were mounting fatalities Stem Ming from the Ford transmissions Sud Denly slipping from Park to often when cars Are left in rejecting the Steed argued that no mechanical defect has been shown and the Overall trend of re ported incidents and accidents has continued downward in recent the Gao investigators acknowledged that the number of reported incidents and accidents has been going but they said the number of fatalities has been increasing in relation to the number of cars still on the there have been 138 reported Fatali ties linked to the transmissions since when the government agreed to drop its demands for a recall of the cars in Exchange for Fords agreement to Issue warnings to All of the cars the Gao investigation another 88 fatalities have been reported since december of that but Actu ally occurred before the government Ford at the time of the the government knew of 110 the investigators who in the past has accused Nitsa of not adequately pursuing safety complained that the Agency ignored the fatality statistics in favor of the Overall incident report figures according to the Gao were based solely on information provided by Ford motor we have had More reports of deaths from this defect since the 1980 settlement than Nitsa knew about when the initial defect determination was made in Wirth for an Agency charged with protecting the pub Lic this is an outrageous Chain of the Ford transmission Case goes Back to the mid1970s when Nitsa first received complaints about accidents in which the automatic transmissions which at the time were on More than 22 million Ford cars would slip from Park to in june Nitsa engineers concluded there probably was a mechanical and four months later Joan Clay then Agency recommended a she was Howe by the transportation who reached an agreement with Ford not to Pur sue the matter if Ford agreed to Issue warn Ings to in Early Ford distributed Mil Lions of letters to owners of the cars As Well As a warning Label reminding motorists not to leave their cars running unattended and without engaging the Emer gency fan launches drive to recall lost Penguin Milwaukee a opus of Bloom county has been missing for More than a month and presumed eaten by but a teenager who has Faith that the comic strip Penguin is alive has started a petition drive calling for his Bryan of Milwaukee has collected about 200 signatures on her opus was last seen in the daily strip on june when it was said his flight on a balloon powered suborbital wheelchair had ended in the at lactic i cant get along without Belmer said this he adds something to the Hes such a charismatic the strips Berke said he had been getting mail from kids who feel they have the sole responsibility to represent the masses and bring Back readers can expect some Prog Ress in the investigation into opus disappearance in about three he and Belmer has a theory i think he landed on an Island somewhere in the Atlantic and hell find the Mother Hes been looking for for so