European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday november 26, 1985 the stars and stripes states Virgin islands to share $15.8 million for victims of crimes Pago 5 Washington a _ Twenty stat Sand the Virgin islands will share si5.8 Mil lion to provide compensation and services such As rape counselling to crime victims under a Grant program. Assistant attorney Genera Lois Haight Harrington. Who Heads the office of Justice programs said sunday that the awards Are the first of their kind under a program Cre ated by Congress when it passed the Vic Tims of crime act of 1984. These funds arc landmark Long overdue assistance for crime victims Herrington said in a statement. These Grants will enhance state efforts to provide compensation for peo ple whose lives have been wrenched by  the Money for the awards comes from the crime victims fund in the Treasury. That fund is financed with fines and penalties assessed on convicted Federal defendants. Herring on said the fund can receive up to $100 million from i Csc sources in any give budget year. To be eligible fur he victims assistance Grants Stales or territories have to show that they had a compensation program in 1984 awarding payments to crime victims. However to be eligible next year the department said a stale victim compensation program must offer compensation for medi Cal and health counselling costs Losi wage Sand funeral expenses. Of the 20 Grants announced sunday inc largest which Lota cd More than  Mil lion went to California. In contrast. New York received j2,434,000. Anne Voight a spokeswoman for the Agency said California received More than twice As much As new York because Cali fornia had distributed roughly $14.8 million in victims assistance through its state pro Gram in 1984. Compared to about s7 million in disbursements by new York. The third largest Grant totalling $23 Mil lion went to Ohio. Herring on said there is $68 million in the 1985 crime victims fund to be divided be tween compensation for victims and pro Grams aimed at providing them with such services As rape crisis centers. Supported by taxpayers inc criminal Justice system has spent billions of dollars to provide food clothing shelter Legal Aid medical and psychiatric care and Job train ing for criminals she said. Alone the crime victim has been left to repair what the criminal has destroyed. These innocent victims arc honest hard working citizens and we must respond to their  he s got hang  firefighters Rescue an unidentified 25 year old construction worker from Church rooftop in Auburn ., last after Hook on his safety caught on an obstruction stat Iii dangling 65 feel above ground. Rope him Kkt aryan nations Church National Alliance court told right Wing groups shared in Holdup loot Seattle up right Wing groups such As the Kun flux klan and the aryan nations Church were Given hundreds of thousands of dollars in Money taken in a 1984 California armoured car Holdup a government witness has testified. Kenneth Loff the treasurer of the Radical Neo nazi group known As the order said key members of the organization met in Boise Idaho four Days after the s3 6 million Ukiah calif., robbery to Divide up the loot. Loff said it was decided that $170.000 would be Given to Glenn Miller inc purported head of the Kun flux klan in North Caroline and that $100,000 was to be Given to Louis beam the purported head of the Kkt in Texas. Also. $50,000 would go to the aryan nations Church of Hayden Lake Idaho and $130,000 to the National Alli Ance in Arlington a. Offs testimony came in the Federal trial of 10 Mem Bers of the order accused of charges ranging from Mur Der to attempting to overthrow the . Government and plotting to kill jews and other minorities. His testimony came in a saturday court session. The court was told by Loff who has already pleaded Guilly to one count of racketeering and is awaiting sentencing thai after the Boise meeting he was instructed to take $1.5 million of the robbery Money and Bury in on his farm in Lone Wash. He said he was contacted frequently to produce Money to pay salaries and bonuses for members of the order. He said $105.000 was also spent on weapon Sand military supplies. Loff testified that in the fall of 1984, Fri agents found Barge Laden with heavy Oil thought too risky to Salvage new London Conn. A a sunken Barge carrying More than 800,000 Gallons of heavy Oil will stay on the Bottom of Long Island sound As salvos decided Sun Day it would be Loo risky to raise the vessel the coast guard said. The Barge is upside Down under water 180 feet Down said chief Petty officer Doug Bandos a coast guard spokesman. At this Point there s less danger of a spill than trying to bring in up. There does t appear to be any pollution cracks or leaks he said. To pick it up and bring it to the surface is a bigger risk. You could break it in half and dump 840,000 Gallons around the  look for crack the coast guard will look for cracks this week and determine whether the Barge can be salvaged Bandos  it cracks and leaks Oil that Barge will be there until May or june then we might bring it up he said. We believe we could leave it there for another 30 or 40 years and it would t be leaking  the Oil aboard is a no. 6 Grade which is almost like tar Bandos  240-foot Barge had remained with inc underside of its Bow poking just above the water s surface until Laic saturday then Slid to the sound s floor. Meanwhile two Slicks of the Healing Oil carried by inc Barge washed up along an 8,000-Yard Strelch of Shore line near Mon Auk  Each Slick is about a half Mil Square. Bandos said the Slicks occurred when the Barge turned Over and hoi Oil poured out of the Barge s 12 tanks Fitch Lank has a vent and when the Oil thickened it plugged the vents he said. The extent of environmental damage from the Slicks could not be determined but booms reeled saturday were prot cycling Mon Auk Lake a habitat for Birds and wildlife he said. Sank Friday the Barge Sank Friday As it was being towed through a powerful current but the cause has not been deter mined. Two crewmen were forced to jump overboard but were rescued uninjured. The vessel is owned by Eklof Marine corp. Of Staten Island  Eklof also owned the lug celtic which Sank in the sound off Bridgeport a year ago. The six crewmen aboard died in that acid Chi which occurred with a Barge in Tow. A wealth of information about the order at the Idaho Home of member Gary Yarbrough. He said it was then Hal Robert male cos founder of the order became fanatic and  called me and told me to get the army ready Luff said. Mathews died dec. 8. 1984. In a shootout with the Fri on Whidby Island Northwest of Seattle Loff said that As Law enforcement officers started Clos ing in on other members of the group Richard Scutari inc Only order member Mill at Large came to his Lone farm to remove inc Rusl of inc Holdup Money. He said Scutari look $200,000, but had to leave behind $50.000 Hal was Frozen in inc ground. The Money was later recovered by Fri agents. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Nov. 26, 1945 the japanese Learned that War docs not pay when Gen. Douglas Macarthur ordered inc government in Tokyo to enact a 100 billion yen tax in Gram affecting every corporation and individual in Japan who profiled from the War. 30 years ago today. Nov. 26, 1955 the . Atomic Energy commis Sion has announced inc testing of new a bombs thai arc expected in equal or exceed the new soviet super weapon in destructive Power. 20 years ago today. Nov. 26, 1965 or. Allen Dumont called the father of television died in new York. Dumont. 64, established a network Hal carried the first commercial to program developed cathode Ray tubes and single unit oscilloscopes instruments that translate electrical fluctuations into Waves visible on a screen. 10 years ago today. Nov. 26, 1975 the White House said that president Ford has ordered intelligence officials to answer questions about secret . Intervention in Chile s Domestic affair for the Senate intelligence committee