European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday september 23, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 fisheries research lab destroyed in no. Tire Sandy Hook no. A fire swept through a multimillion Dollar commercial fisheries Laboratory sat urday destroying the facility and injuring 10 firefighters the Blaze destroyed thousands of scientific books and journals specimens and equipment in a 99-year-old building and annexes. The structures housed department of Commerce and National oceanic and atmospheric administration offices and the lab for Noaa s National Marine fisheries service. More than 275 firefighters from 15 departments brought the Blaze under control about 6 . Said Sandy Hook fire director Dennis Soyka. The fire was reported shortly after Midnight. Only one firefighter required hospitalization for a Cut Tendon in his hand officials said. Stuart ilk. The lab director said damage would run into millions of dollars. He Esti mated that 33,000 volumes including a collection of rare books used by scientists worldwide were destroyed along with a 32.000-gallon observation tank. Also destroyed were a school of Blue fish in the main tank and other fish in eight additional 500 to 750-Gnllon tanks in the basement. The real loss philosophically is two fold ilk said. The uniqueness of the tank and the Library was a real loss. And some of the work by our senior scientists who were not in tune with the computer age is lost ilk said. Their work was in notebooks tape recordings 10-year studies you just can t replace Well just Nave to Start Over he said. The cause of the fire had not been determined said Robert Mclntosh. Director of the Gateway National recreation area where the structures were located. Aids like illness would follow nuke War doctors say teen sentenced to die for killing 2 women boy Marion. Ark. A a 15-year-old boy has been sentenced to die by Poison injection for his capital murder conviction in the stabbing deaths of two elderly Sisters and their great grand Nephew. Ronald Ward of West Memphis ark., a three time seventh grader who will be 16 in october was sentenced by circuit judge David Burnett of Osccola. The boy sat upright then slumped and began sobbing As the sentence was read. Some of the victims relatives and some jurors also cried after the sentence was read. The jury deliberated about two hours be fore finding Ward guilty. Jurors then deliberated for 35 minutes and recommended the death penalty which the state had sought. The Only other penalty allowed by Arkansas Law for a capital murder conviction is life in prison without parole. Ward was convicted of killing Lois town Send Jarvis 76, Audrey Townsend 72, and Chris Simmons 12, his classmate. The bodies were found in a bedroom of the Sisters Home in West Memphis on april 12. An autopsy showed Townsend had been raped. At the sentencing Burn Cal asked Ward if he had anything to say. The boy said i did not kill those people. I m not guilty of this. I did not do  Burnett set Ward s execution for april 12, 1986 one year to the Day after the bodies were found. The sentence will be appealed. Washington a survivors of a nuclear War would not Only face darkness cold famine and radioactive fallout but also could develop a condition similar to aids according to a scientific study. Or. David s. Greer Dean of Medicine at Brown University said saturday that Environ mental stresses on nuclear War survivors could attack the body s immune response much like acquired immune deficiency syndrome. A study by Greer and colleague Law rence s. Rifkin says such stresses can impair functioning of White blood cells called t cells. The cells Are key components of the body s defense against bacterial viral and fungal diseases. The resulting immune system depression could leave survivors susceptible to potentially deadly infections As docs aids. Aids is a fatal condition believed caused by a virus that also cripples t cell functions. Epidemics of diseases in which t cells mediate the immune response arc Likely in the months and years following nuclear at tack said the scientists to a meeting on the medical implications of nuclear War. Such diseases could include tuberculosis leprosy pneumonia Legionnaire s disease and rare forms of cancer they said. Scientists believe millions would be exposed to sublethal doses of radiation in a nuclear War. Fires would produce enough smoke and soot to Block sunlight and Cool the Earth in a nuclear Winter halting crop production and spreading famine. Grcar told the symposium sponsored by the National Academy of sciences Institute of Medicine that Many studies show stresses affect t cell function. These stresses which would be common after a nuclear Exchange include increased radiation exposure physical trauma Burns and malnutrition As Well As depression and grief he said. T cell abnormalities also arc believed important in determining the body s susceptibility to cancer Grcar said. An upturn in radiation induced cancers which scientists have Long seen As a result of nuclear War. Could be partly attributed to t cell prob lems he said. Grcar told a news briefing he was unaware of any severe immune system effects among survivors of the world War ii atomic bombings of the japanese cities of Hiro Shima and Nagasaki. But aids like reactions probably would not have been recognized at the time he said. Meanwhile Herbert l. Abrams of the Stanford University Center for International Security and arms control told the meeting a nuclear blast Over Only one major . City would outstrip All of the nation s medical resources. A one megaton explosion equal to a Mil lion tons of int Over Detroit would kill 470,000 of the City s 4.3 million people and injure 630,000 others he said. Among the injured survivors blast and Burn effects would dominate he said with radiation effects far less  survivors would require 42,000 Beds in Burn treatment centers he said. He said 1,333 such Beds exist in the entire country. Also needed would be 134.000 intensive care Beds More than twice the nationwide capacity he said. All of the nation s doctors nurses and medi Cal technicians would be adequate to serve Detroit he said but Only if they could be sent immediately. Abrams also Analysed medical needs in the event of what defense experts envision As a general attack detonation of 6.000 Mega tons of nuclear explosives Over the United states. Whole Lotta woman la minis arc launching s1.8 million advertising Campaign this Winter aimed at countering inc City s persistent image of drugs crime and even Chainsaw slaying. The and features a dazzling Skyline a sunny Beach and a giant blonde Over the slogan we d like you to see Miami the Way we see  Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago foday sept. 23, 1945 a British court in Luneburg Ger Many heard evidence in the trial of Joseph Kramer and 44 accomplices accused of murder and torture at the Noto rious Burgen Belsen concentration Camp. Kramer the for Mer Camp commandant was known As the beast of Bel  30 years ago foday sept. 23, 1955 heavyweight Champion Rocky mar Ciano came Back from a second round Knockdown to floor Archie Moore four times and Knock him out in the ninth round. 20 years ago today. Sept. 23, 1965 Pakistan and India agreed to abide by a . Security Council demand for a cease fire in their undeclared War. 10 years ago foday. Sept. 23, 1975 the Senate intelligence commit tee was studying reports that the Cia secretly monitored conversations Between acc Harvey Oswald and the cuban and soviet embassies in Mexico City two months before president Kennedy was assassinated a spokesman said. Sex Bache & co. Chairman Dies new York a George Weiss a former chair Man of Bache & company the investment House now known As Prudential Bache securities inc., has died of heart failure at 90