European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 02, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday september 2, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 3 rescued dutch balloonist arrive in . Newark . A three dutch balloonist who were plucked out of the Atlantic Ocean after their Craft crashed during a trans Atlantic crossing arrived saturday in the United states aboard a Container ship. We Are very Happy that the Ever Greet the Container ship saved us said Hank Brink 43. It was More than seamanship. The Captain and the 15 crewmen risked their lives to save  Brink his wife Evelion 29, and Evert Louwman 45. Left St. John s in newfound land aug. 18 for the Netherlands trying to set a Speed record. A Day later the Hying dutchman Plum meted from 14,400 feet into the Ocean be tween Newfoundland and Europe when a leak developed in one of the valves of the balloon. H.c-. Wang Captain of the panamanian vessel said it took his Crew nearly two Boun to retrieve the three air travellers As Waves up to 16 feel High thrashed the 15 foot Long Metal Gondola. Upon their arrival in the United states the baht lists refused to comment on the flight. They said they were told by British Anci dutch aviation officials not to speak until an official investigation had been completed. Henri rommers a spokesman for Reco productions based in Hilversum the Netherlands said the three would not talk to reporters because of a contract with a dutch television station that has the exclusive rights to the Story. The three were stranded in the enclosed Gondola for More than four hours before a passing pan american jetliner picked up an automatic emergency distress signal. The aircraft notified British coast guard officials who sent a Royal air Force Jet to the location. Wang said the Ever Greet owned by the Taiwa based Evergreen line was on its Way from be Havre France to port new Ark when he and his Crew were notified by British officials. Wang said the 43,400-ton Ever Greet was about 19 nautical Miles from the Fly ing dutchman when it received word about the crash. We could t find them with radar be cause it was such a Small Craft and the Waves were interfering with our radar he said. We Ere Given their location and Bear ing and proceeded to their  winds of 17 to 20 knots produced swells of up to 16 feet. The Crew had a hard time spotting the Craft because they were facing the Sun Wang said. They found the floating Gondola an hour later. Chief officer . La sitting in a Sling was lowered toward the Gondola Wang said. Each balloonist was lifted into the Sling individually and pulled aboard. Balloonist Evert Louwman left and Henk and Evelyen Brink stand with i Captain of the ship that rescued them from the Atlantic Ocean. Mayor Sells Indian Medicine in dry town Mission . A the Rosebud Sioux tribe won its court Battle to keep this town that sits on the tribe s reservation from Selling liquor but the mayor won t let the town go dry. He s been convicted of Boot legging. Anybody that can Bootleg liquor i say More Power to them said mayor Ray Fernen. When the liquor Tore opens up i won t believe in bootlegging one bit  Fernen said alcoholics among the 11,700 residents of the Rosebud reservation will drink cleaning products and other dangerous chemicals if they can t buy liquor which the mayor called Indian  Indian Medicine is the drug that these Guys need he said. Rosebud Sioux tribal president Webster two Hawk said bootlegging Only aggravates the alcoholism. He Sui the mayor who is White was disparaging indians. There is no truth As far As i am concerned of alcohol being Indian Medicine two Hawk said. We never had it until the White Man brought it to us. He is actually making fun of the Indian people is what he is doing. He is degrading the  the liquor store on Mission s main Street provided the town of 750 people almost $100,000 in annual reve nue until a Federal judge ruled last year that All liquor licenses Are under tuba control. After sentiment at a Public hearing went against Alco hol on the wind swept reservation the tribe refused to Issue a License for the Tore which closed nov. 15. Without its main source of income the City dismissed its five Man police Force Cut hours for other municipal workers and imposed a properly tax and a i percent sales tax. The unemployment rate if. The area is about 50 percent. Without a Legal Supply of liquor Fernen said Many alcoholics have turned to drinking household disinfectants that contain alcohol. A lot of these people could give a Damn less about these winos but i do Fernen said. The mayor who pleaded no contest to a bootlegging charge in june Ana was fined s88 plus $12 in court costs said he s found dozens of punctured disinfectant cans in his Grove of Apple Trees. At a rubbish pile on the North Edge of town it seemed every other discarded can was disinfectant. Maybe you can see what i am doing said Fernen 52, who faces a recall election in october. This stuff will kill everyone or cripple  Fred Baker administrator at the Federal Indian health service Hospital in nearby Rosebud had no statistics on the health effects of the liquor store s shut Down. Some doctors who work in the emergency room feel they Haven t really noticed a change in alcohol related problems and they Haven t noticed an increase or de crease in Lysol disinfectant usage Baker said. Bootlegging has become a major Industry on the reservation said Dennis Lessard a City councilman. It s a wonder everybody does t Bootleg. It s such a  George Scott himself convicted in tribal court of bootlegging earlier this year agreed. I could show you a dozen places where liquor is sold said Scott 57, who was sentenced to 90 Days in jail and fined $300. Why we want liquor  Survey by arms control groups americans Back halt to nuke tests Washington a two arms control groups said saturday that a new poll shows a majority of Ameri cans support a . Halt to nuclear weapons testing As Long As the soviets refrain from similar tests. The Survey was sponsored by sane the committee for a sane nuclear policy and by the Center for de sense information a think tank that often criticizes cur rent is. Military policies. Based on Telephone interviews with 1,005 adults across the country aug. 9-15, the poll was conducted by opinion research corp. Of Princeton . The Survey was taken after the soviet Union announced aug. 6 a unilateral halt to nuclear weapons testing at least through the end of the year. The poll asked about the soviet move the soviet Union recently announced that it would suspend tests of nuclear weapons. Do you think the United states should also agree to suspend tests of nuclear weapons As Long As the soviets do fifty seven percent of those questioned agreed that America should suspend the tests. Thirty percent Dis agreed and 13 percent were not sure. Falwell protesters debate at Church Lynchburg a. Up the Rev. Jerry Falwell unfurled anti apartheid banners saturday and engaged in an Impromptu debate on the front Steps of his Church with demonstrators who moved their protest against South Africa s apartheid to the evangelist s Hometown. Falwell confronted or. Emmett Burns regional director of the a act asking him whether he considered presi Dent Reagan a racist. Burns replied if it quacks like a Duck walks like a Duck and swims like a Duck then it must be a Duck Falwell who planned to meet later with civil rights Leader Jesse Jackson told the 300 protesters there would be More Blacks in his Church on sunday than Whites in the churches of Black ministers who organized the demonstration. Burns told the crowd that Falwell s remark showed the moral majority Leader had put his foot so far into his Mouth that it d take a Bulldozer to get it  Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept. 2, 1945 the bloodless occupation of Japan went into full Force As the main part of the . 8th army went ashore in the Yokohama area on the eve of the signing of the formal surrender document. 30 years ago today. Sept. 2, 1955 in Jerusalem the israeli government announced acceptance of a United nations Appeal for a ceasefire along its Frontier with Egypt but said egyptian attacks would have to Stop first. 20 years ago today. Sept. 2, 1965 the Indian government in new Delhi reported that pakistani tanks and thousands of infantry men struck across the International Frontier in Southwest Kashmir. 10 years ego today. Sept. 2, 1975 administrators at the veterans hos Pital in Ann Arbor mich., have recorded at least 50 cases of respiratory failure from. July i to aug 15. The Fri has launched an intensive investigation