European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday. October 17, 1985 demo senator urges . To adopt metric system Washington map the United Stales should abandon its system of weights and measurements and con Vert to the metric system promptly. Sen. Claiborne Pell . The ranking Democrat on the foreign relation committee said tuesday. Indifference to the metric s Stem Lias left the nation out of step with the rest of the world and contributes to its balance of  deficit pet told the opening session of the american National metric Council s annual am vent Ion the 10 countries of the us Popcun common Market will Slop accepting imported products that Are not metrically measured in less than four years. Pell said and China is aug moving in Hal direction threatening iwo major foreign markets for . Products. Use of metric measurements is becoming essential. Pel said for automobiles tools wines and distilled spirits computers and even cosmetics he said. And thai mean thai to compete in the world  will have to convert to the metric Stem he said. Let s not continue inching along with a system of measurement that the rest of the world considers outmoded and obsolete Lei s take the big metric step Forward Pel said a 1975 Law. Noting that the Lack of . Interest in the metric system tended to isolate the United states from Theresa of the world set up a Board to coordinate whatever efforts would occur to convert to metric measures but it gave the Board no compulsory Powers. Since then no important Legal measures have been taken on the subject in the United states though Canada has moved a Long Way toward establishing the metric sys tem. The need for a Standard system has been an  As far Back As George Washington s presidency and in 1821president John Quincy Adams advocated inc metric sys tem Pell said. Adams decided to stay with the Inch Pound system then pc a said because most american Trade was with sen. C la borne Pell. Let s take the big metric step England and that nation used pounds and inches. England has since changed to the metric system. Pell observed while we re still stuck with inches and  indeed he went on. Only Burma and Brunei join the United Stales in not using metrics and those nations arc both discussing conversion. Insistence on keeping the current system was acceptable after world War ii when the United states was the Domi Nant Economy in the world. Pell said. But he noted there is no longer any dominant Economy. 45-ton wayward whale determined to continue Inland tour of California Rio Vista Calif. A a migrating Humpback whale whose internal Compass apparently went awry resumed ils swim upstream after freeing itself from a River Sandbar tuesday the fourth Day of its Lour of Inland Waters. The whale estimated to weigh 45 tons had entered san Francisco Bay on Friday after veering off the Normal Alaska to Mexico migratory path whales follow each fallin the Pacific Ocean. On tuesday it grounded itself for Aboul an hour in 10 feet of water in the Sacramento River 55 Miles Inland from the Golden Gate Bridge. Upon freeing itself the whale headed downstream and was spotted about four Miles downstream from Rio Vista which had been the Point of its deepest Inland pc Caralion. Bui the bus sized creature reversed course and continued its instinct defying swim toward fresh water. It swam 15 Miles upstream in three hours following a 30-to 40 fool deep snipping Channel in inc Bottom of the winding Sacramento River. By late afternoon it was sighted near inc Lown of Wal Nebraska governor announces he won t seek a second term Lincoln neb. A gov. Bob Kerrey who made headlines because of his  Wilh actress Debra Winger has announced he will nol seek a second Lerm. It s Lime to move on Kerrey said while declining to give specific reasons fur his decision or say what he would do next. Kerrey a 42-year-old Democrat was elected governor in 1982 in his first bid for Public office. Me won the medal of Honor in Vietnam and returned Home to build a successful restaurant business. His popularity has remained High in the polls through out his term and he has brushed aside criticism when it was Learned that Winger whom Kerrey met while she was making the film terms of endearment in Nebraska sometimes stayed Al the governor s mansion in Lincoln for weeks at a Lime. Nut Grove just 20 Miles South of Sacramento and nearly a third of the Way across the state from the Ocean. Witnesses said the whale appeared lethargic and disoriented bumping into barriers and other objects tuesday sparking speculation that it was losing strength due to a Lack of the Salt water organisms it normally feeds on. High tide brings brackish Waters to the areas where the whale was spoiled tuesday but Marine biologists said those Waters contain Only a fraction of the organisms Humpback whale feeds upon the a 2h crazy. The whale was Hilling poles and of her  including navigation Marker near a Bridge said Cynthia Barbera restaurant worker la inc Marker was shaking  two Marine biologists had placed sound equipment inthe River in an ally met to direct the whale downstream said by Nola Baker of the California Marine Mamma Center. We arc trying to lure it downstream with other Humpback whale noises or repel it from continuing up Stream Wilh killer whale sounds she said. It is obviously a very disoriented  depending on his he ally he can survive quite a while Nihoul eating. We re talking of weeks probably said Tom Laid it a spokesman for the Marine mammal Cen Ter. The greatest danger to the whale is grounding  earlier As inc 40-fool-Long whale languished on inc Sand bar. Coast guard and sheriffs patrol boats prepare to Spray water on Illo keep it alive until inc incoming lid could free it. Bui in just ungrounded ii self. In Wini Nackoul in inc River on ils own said coast guard spokeswoman Kathleen Potte stateside los Angeles Man jailed fined for illegal game Possession , Calif. A a Man has been sentenced to six months in jail and fined $7.800 after pleading guilty to illegally possessing Deer meat and 19 Bear Gall bladders believed by sonic people to have medicinal value authorities say. James Han song. 52, of los Angeles. Pleaded guilty and was sentenced by Trinity county Justice court judge John Loomis. Charges against Tanya Sun Kim. A co do fun Dent were dismissed. Song and Kim were arrested in january after their vehicle ran off a Road near Trinity National Forest spill ing the Gall bladders 20 Black Bear paws and freshly Butch Rcd Deer meal Sulho relics said. 2,500 Black Muslim followers seek assets of Leader s estate Chicago up about 2,500 followers of the late Black Muslim founder Elijah Muhammad marched  from the Leader s a million estate. The protesters who said they belong to muslims for Justice demanded that the estate dispute be settled quickly. Police said the hour Long March was peaceful. In 1983, judge Henry Budinski ordered that the assets Goto Muhammad s relatives but the decision was reversed and the Mailer remains unsettled. Members of the group charge that Muhammad s family has spent More than $1.3 million in Legal fees during the Battle Over the estate. Muhammad died in 1975. Budinski originally ruled thai a $4 million Community Bank account belonging to Muhammad was the property of his estate not the Muslim Community Ihnn known As the Nalion of islam. The group successfully appealed and the Case was returned to circuit court Budinski is hearing a county suit by several of Muhammad s relatives who arc seeking t he Leader s estate. Fermi lab can t predict results of test of new atom smasher Chicago a scientists say they cannot predict the practical results of a history making lest of the Fermi National accelerator Laboratory s atom smasher but they liken it to research that gave birth to modern technology. The world s most powerful atom smasher has collided Suba Tomic particles of Mailer at record High Levels of Energy three limes higher than previously achieved. Fermi lab s Complex of particle accelerators and storage rings smashed pieces of the Alom called protons and anti pro tons yielding Energy of 1.6 trillion Electron volts inc lab announced. A flashlight Battery produces about i Electron Volt. A trillions 1 million millions. The High Levi Energy ill allow scientists los tudy subatomic particles in finer detail than has Ever been possible and May yield clues to the origin of the universe. Cougar Mascot undergoes surgery after eating soccer Ball Edwardsville. Iii. Up Kyna. The 2-year-Oldcougar Mascot of the Southern Illinois University athletic teams has undergone surgery to retrieve pieces of a soccer Ball she ate Afler in was tossed into her outdoor Cage. School officials said thai whoever put the Ball in the Cage apparently believed Kyna needed something to play Wilh. Instead. Kyna ate part of the Ball and sections of i perforated the lining of her stomach. The Cougar underwent surgery at Cross keys animal inc in is. Louis and was rep Orlid in Good condition. Victims of Las vegas Blaze share $22.8 million settlement Las vegas nov a Viii sofa 1981 fire lha killed eight people and injured 198 at the Las vegas Hilm a a Grid to a $22 8 m " on settlement from More than 40 defendants. The Scull Cuenl will be shared by 109 plaintiffs with relatives of the eight people who died in the Blaze getting the largest payments attorney Neil Galaz who rep re scaled Mosi of the plaintiffs said. Total of $5or, o008uar s Al the res it sell cd separately for a a fire started by a Busboy in an eighth floor lounge area the Eady evening Nhou  off 31"5 by " in arc t by smoke inti 1 Ion in their Romonis Orin hallways of the hotel casinos of firs it ilb0y Phi in cli5 was evicted of eight counts of first degree murder and is serving multiple life terms. Be