European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 08, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday december 8, 1985 . Official not laughing at show s flour sack fashions Charleston . A a homeless West Virginia family Complete Wilh hillbilly accents and flour suck enthes sought Refuge Unnic s night court comedy show but a state official does t think it s very funny. West Virginia treasurer a. James Manchin saying that he wore a few flour sacks in his own Day is demand ing thai the network contribute to a statewide flood Relief Effort because of thursday night s show. In was the four d s. It was deplorable degrading dumb and despicable Manchin fumed Friday. The treasurer who views himself As the defender of West Virginia s image said he  received about 100 Telephone Calls from residents equally irate about the com Edy show s characters. Hut Abc officials in new York and California said they had received no complaints. And they said laughter was their Only aim in broadcasting the show. We apologize to our viewers in West Virginia who by any stretch of the imagination thought the program was meant to show All West virginians in a poor Light said Garth Ancier vice president of comedy programming for Nhuc s entertainment division. After All this was a comedy show not a documentary he said in a statement released from Nhuc s Bur Bank Calif office. Abc officials said thursday night s segment was the first of a two part series in which night court judge Harry Stone resigns because he is crushed by the Load of misery that he has to face each night said Abc comedy programming spokesman Bill Kilcy. Among those parading before Stone was a West Virginia family supposedly left homeless and jobless by a Torna do a detail Manchin said is too close to the plight of thousands of West virginians whose lives were a coasted last month by major flooding. A family member asked Stone that they be institution Ali cd for life and put on welfare programs. They were dressed in Burlap sacks and flour bags Manchin said. I can remember those. My Mother used to use flour sacks for us As children. But it s not something you make fun of people  Manchin also demanded an apology last month from the University of Virginia Afler its band lampooned life in West Virginia during half Lime of a nationally televised football game. People keep saying Why Don t you just let it go but i won t. We expect them Abc to bite their tongues and to say they did t mean it. We expect a National apology he said. Vikuk a fran & Oie puppeteer Dies Palm Springs Calif. A Burr Tillstrom the unseen puppeteer who created the Long running live television show Kukla. Fran &  died Friday. He was 68. Tillstrom was found dead near his swimming Pool shortly before noon said police sgt George Cesan. The cause of death was not known but appeared to be natural causes said Rene Galvin. Spokeswoman for the Riverside county Coroner s office. A Chicago native Tillstrom was regarded As a television Pioneer because of the puppet program which ran from1947lo 1957. He worked backstage manipulating the puppets while fran Allison starred with Oliver j. Dragon and Kukla. Tillstrom began his career at kindergarten age with two stuffed Teddy bears As his first puppets. After graduating from Chicago s scan High school he attended the University of Chicago on a scholarship but he left to perform in a puppet show from the spa Chi Cago Park District theater. Kukla his bulbous re cd first hand puppet creation was introduced in 1936. Ollic the one toothed dragon came shortly after. Tillstrom and the puppets toured slate fairs vaudeville and nightclubs before settling Down in a Chicago depart ment store theater the studio biography said. He discovered television in 1939, and started working in experimental closed circuit television programs. Besides puppetry Tillstrom enjoyed Ballet swimming and bicycling his studio biography said. Burr Tillstrom fetus not a human being court rules St. Paul Minn. A a fetus is not a human being under state Law. The Minnesota supreme court ruled Friday in a decision that Means a Man who was accused of killing an it a month old fetus in an automobile Accident cannot be charged in the death. In a 6-1 ruling the court said no specific slate statute deals with the question of whether a fetus is a human being and that the legislature has never precisely defined the term human being even though in has been used in homicide statutes since territorial Days. The ruling upholds a decision by Ramsey county judge Hyman so Gill. John Podelc executive assistant to county attorney Tom Foley. Said no Appeal will be tiled be cause the Issue docs not involve a constitutional question. The decision whether to permit criminal prosecution involving a viable fetus is one for the legislature to make the supreme court opinion said. State rep. Terry dumps by said he will seek a change in the Law when the legislature convenes in february. The person fetus is capable of life without even life support systems dumps by said. I can t believe thai be cause the fetus is killed should make it any less a person in the eyes of the Law. It just astounds  but Nan Hunter a lawyer for the re productivity free Dom project of the american civil liberties Union said the Minnesota court correctly decided the Issue. The court ruled that there was no basis in Law for interpreting human icings in criminal stall los to include a fetus Hunter said in a Telephone interview from her Newyork office. Courts in 23 other states have ruled that fetuses must be born alive before being considered a human being. Hunter said while at least i5 Stales have Laws that make it a crime to intentionally or negligently interfere with woman s pregnancy she said. The Minnesota Case stems from a november 1984 traffic Accident in which a car driven by 29-year-old John Solo of St. Paul collided with a vehicle driven by Jannet Anne Johnson who suffered a fractured Pelvis and Brokenleg in the Accident. Although inc heartbeat of the 8vi-month-old fetus was Normal when Johnson was admitted to the Hospital its heartbeat could not be selected a few hours later and a cacs Arcan Section resulted in a Stillbirth. Solo was indicted on two counts of criminal vehicular operation resulting in injury to Johnson. Two other counts charged him with criminal vehicular operation resulting in the death of the fetus but to nose were dismissed by the county judge. Any legislative action would not affect the Case of Soto who still faces charges connected with Johnson s injuries. Stateside company says blood substitute May help slow aids spread Irvine. Calif. Up a company working on a fryc a dried blood substitute for use on he Battlefield and in natural disasters says the product could help slow the spread of aids. Slat co inc. A medical research company has announced it will begin testing and manufacturing inc ready mix product in Mexico. Company founder or. Henry Tomizawa said the product is safer in some cases than real blood. The substitute was developed to Sircal military casualties or natural disaster victims when real blood was scarce but researchers realized in could be a tool to prevent the spread of aids through transfusions of contaminated blood company officials said. Computerized fingerprint system hailed As breakthrough for police san Francisco a California s new comp Tori cd fingerprint system is the most significant development in Law enforcement in years a 21st Century sys tem right out of Dick Tracy and Buck Rogers says attorney general John k. Van do Kamp. The system called Cal-i.d., stores electronic images of fingerprints and compares them with one another at tremendous Speed he said  the California press association in san Francisco. Van do Kamp cited a los Angeles murder Kidnap Case in september when More than 3 million records had to be searched to match a single fingerprint lifted from a burned car. We calculated that it would have taken our is test clerk 67 years to do the search manually he said. But . Did it in less than 20 minutes and identified a suspect who later led police to the  Federal grand jury probes leak of data on secret army units Washington up a Federal grand jury has begun a probe into How the Washington Post and lbs television network Learned of a government investigation under Way into secret army units and their work with the Cha the Post reported. The grand jury in Virginia began its investigation shortly after lbs broadcast a report nov. 22 about activities of a secret aviation unit that worked with the Cia on Covert operations sources who were not identified told the news paper. The Post reported a week later on the army s financial investigation of several of its special operations and Intelli gence units including the aviation unit known As sea Spray. Assistant . Attorney Theodore arc Enburg who the paper said is supervising the investigation declined to comment. 1 killed 2 injured As towers collapse at Ohio radio station Johnstown Ohio a two radio town col lapsed in a construction Accident killing one Man and injuring two others authorities said. Paul a. Kimper 32, was killed when he fell from the top of a 100-foot Tower being built next to a 300-foot transmitting Tower at a Zzz pm said Licking county Coroner or. Robert Raker. Workers Terry soil 31, and Bill Jashinski 28, were injured when they fell 80 to 90 feet authorities said. Bolt was in serious but stable condition at is. Ann s Hospital in Columbus and Jashinski was listed in critical but stable condition at mount Carmel Hospital in Colura Michigan school cancels classes after 4 pupils die in collision Mattawan. Mich. A classes were cancel Dat a Small Zamist school the Day after four students died and 21 were Hurt when their bus was rammed by a fuck whose Driver was charged with negligent homicide for Falong asleep at the wheel. It s a very hard thing a great tragedy said Roger Munson administrator of the Faith Baptist Academy we re very grieved. They were wonderful  i he truck Driver Lawrence Suda 45, of Green Bay wis., was arraigned in 8th District court in Kalamazoo flour counts of negligent homicide. Kas Naad Lee 7, and David Stewart 8, both of Kalama zoo and Pam Corric 6, of the Kalamazoo suburb of por Tage were declared dead at the scene said Mckenzie. Arne Hutch son 9, of Kalamazoo was dead on arrival at Branson methodist Hospital