European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 02, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Teachers end strikes in n.j., Seattle by he associated press teachers in Seattle and new Jersey ended their walkouts and went Hack to school monday but 280 High school instructors in suburban Chicago walked off the Job in a dispute Over wages. A total of 12 strikes by 3,500 teachers kept about 62,000 students at Home in Pennsylvania. Illinois and Ohio. A Rhode Island judge on monday upheld a total of $65,500 in fines against a teachers Union and 53 of its members who were jailed for defying the judge s Back to work order. Seattle s 3.700 teachers aides and secretaries returned to work to prepare for the arrival tuesday of the City s 43.500 students. The students missed 19 Days of class during the dispute that dealt largely with class size. In new Jersey 230 teachers librarians and school nurses in the Manalapan Englishtown regional school District re turned to work monday after a nine Day strike. The Union and the 3,350-Studcnt District reached a Tunu Sivc three year con tract sunday night that contains pay raises totalling 26.5 percent and adds one Day to inc school year. Niles strike teachers in Niles township near Chicago went on strike after a nine hour negotiating session ended at 3 30 . Without an agreement. They had been leaching 3.700 students without a contract since aug. 30. Also in suburban Chicago most classes were cancelled for 25,000 students at Tri ton College where 1.234 full and part time instructors went on strike sunday. Elsewhere in Illinois 59 teachers in Brown county continued the walkout they began sept. 18, affecting 800 students. In one of eight school strikes in Pennsyl Vania eight non Union substitutes monday joined administrators to teach seniors in Montour school District near Pittsburgh where 191 teachers have been on strike. District superintendent Fred ringer said officials plan to reopen classes this week or next for All 3,000 students. Also in Pennsylvania 250 striking teachers in Fayette county s Albert Gal latin school District agreed monday to return to work for the rest of the week under a court order requiring negotiators for both sides to bargain every Day. The teachers walked out sept. 5, interrupting class for 4,900 students. In Rhode Island Superior court judge Corinne p. Grande upheld fines of $500 a Day against individual teachers in Paw Tucket for each Day they were jailed for refusing to go Back to work during a bit Ter illegal strike that ended sept. 20. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago foday. Wednesday october 2, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5  search for the cause of he propane Gas leak that killed one woman and destroyed part of a Campground in Kansas. Propane Gas explosion kills woman injures 23 at Kansas Campground Newton Kan. A propane Gas exploded at a Campground office monday As workers tried to relight a Furnace Pilot Light. One woman was killed and 23 were injured authorities said. The blast occurred shortly after 10 . At the Spring Lake camping resort about 10 Miles West of Newton on . 50, a Harvey county sheriffs office spokesman said. It was just a big explosion and the roof just really started falling in said James Hansen. Who was inside the building with his wife listening to a sales presentation. It blew everybody out of their chairs. It Navy has no comment blew me across the table there Aguinol my wife and the sales lady there who was talk ing to us said Hansen who was t hurl his wife was treated at a Hospital for minor injuries and released. David Mccracken a resort employee was one of about 20 people inside the office when it blew up. Sales representatives were taking several couples on a tour of the facility and other couples were registering for Tours he said. Jim Barrett president of the Camp ground said workers were attempting to relight a Furnace Pilot Light when the blast occurred. Mccracken speculated that leaking pro pane Gas accumulated in inc basement under the building and then ignited. He said the office s Furnace was intact. Harvey county Coroner Carl Tompkins said the Young woman who was killed was just outside the office building and Proba Bly died of a head injury. Her name was withheld pending notification of relatives. Three seriously injured victims a 29 year old Man and two 20-year-old women were flown to we Surv medical Center in Wichita a Hospital spokeswoman said. Seven people were taken to a Hals Lead Hospital and eight went to Newton Hospi tals. $792 a Foorman wins vgo Den fleece Washington a the Navy s Purchase of a s792 custom made Doormat for a medical command office in Florida has won the latest Golden fleece of the month award from sen. William prox in the Belsen trials at Luneburg Germany Charles bin Del a parisian a told a horrified court of experiments on oct. 2. 1945 doctor and former concentration Camp inmate a human Guinea pigs conducted by an is doctor named Man Gale to find an injection producing instant death. 30 years ago today. Oct. 2, 1955 services were scheduled for actor James Dean who was killed sept. 30 in a head on automobile collision rear paso Robles Calif. The Young actor was driving his German built porsche spider spoils car to Salinas to participate in a Road race. Dean finished his work in the him giant Only a week ago. 20 years ago today. Oct. 2, 1965 Indonesia s armed forces chief thwarted what appeared to be a pro communist attempt to seize Power from president Sukarno in Jakarta. But the future of the country remains shrouded in doubt. 10 years ago today. Oct. 2, 1975 after months of studies the army says that about All it needs to prepare West Point for its first women cadets is to change the bathrooms around. Mire. A wis. That s right $792 for a custom made Doormat so Navy personnel can walk on nothing but the Best meanwhile the poor taxpayer gets walked All Over with this outrageous expense said Proxmire who makes the award each month to focus at Tention on what he views As wasteful uses of tax Money. The Navy had no immediate comment. Proxmire said the 8-by 10-foot Doormat was installed in August at the naval medi Cal come Southeast Region in Jacksonville Fla. He called it a posh top of the line Beauty Complete with a Woven medical coma logo in Blue White yellow and Turquoise. I asked the Navy to justify this outrageous expense Proxmire said. Its response this Purchase fills a legitimate command requirement i d like to Sec How legitimate they d think this Purchase was if their commanders had to pay for it instead of the poor taxpayer. What s More the Navy said these de signer doormats Are used by most major naval Headquarters commands " Proxmire said. Wife of accused Fri agent denies big Money problems los Angeles a Richard w. Miller s wife taking the stand in his de sense monday at his espionage trial suggested the Fri agent s family lived comfortably on his salary and was t engulfed by financial problems. Miller 48, the first Fri agent charged with spying is accused of passing classified Agency documents to the soviet Union in return for a Promise of $65,000 in Cash and Gold. Rivula Miller said that just six months before her husband s arrest there was enough Money for the two of them to take a vacation in Mazatlan Mexico. She said she later took their children skiing in Utah. On Cross examination however mrs. Miller admitted that managing a family of eight children was sometimes  under Cross examination she acknowledged that the couple s Avocado ranch in Northern san Diego county never made a profit and that other investments failed