European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday. December 17, 1985 Back to the past longtime Antelope or., residents and seen newly appointed City officials rally happily around a sign restoring their town s original num. Wuco county officials returned government documents and Money left by it followers of Bhugwan she Rajnesh who left the country recently bringing on the to Flatt of us wet s commune. City official Alief Hensley said that the wet members had danced around the City of Rajneesha sign they erected three Yean ago after they bad Aken Over the City gown enl. Stateside Hopp no mad Montana Farmers bag those Long eared varmints Dagmar Mont. Farmers and ranchers have struck Back at hordes of hungry Jaek rabbits that have been eating forage and Iree bark with a task Force of some 80 Hunters bagging hundreds of the Long eared varmints. The area of northeastern Montana has always had lots of jackrabbits but we be got the most now we be had in 30 years said state sen. De Smith a local rancher who organized the hum. They re even eating up the shelter Bells of Trees planted to Cut wind erosion. We used to have a lol of rabbits in the late 30s and 40s, and even in the Early 50s," Smith said. Smith estimated thai the Hunters who staged saturday s Rabbit drive across the Prairie lulled More than 700 Jack rabbits Over three Square Miles of Jackson county in an Effort to protect the area s Trees and Alfalfa crop. That included 257 rabbits shot on just 500 acres of John and Clint Cartwright s farm and ranch. At times Hunters could t Load their guns fast enough. The Hunters planned to sell the rabbits to Mink ranchers for feed. Drought and Grasshoppers already have caused crop destruction in the area and Smith said the jackrabbits were eating plants right Down to the roots and threatening Hay that is Worth $90 3 ton. Pointing out Rabbit tracks in the Snow around his Yard Jack Cartwright said. You can drive up Here any night and Sec 15 on the Van " Howard Nielsen of nearby Wesley drove several Miles to help out saturday driving his truck behind the Hunters so they would t have to carry the dead rabbits. Those rabbits will move up our direction if we Don Stop them  he said. We just think if we fail to control it now we will end up like in  said Smith referring to a Rabbit infestation several years ago in Idaho that Drew National Atten Tion and protests when banners spent several Davs clubbing the animals 10 death. No protesters were seen saturday but Smith said a woman had called him from Orlando Fla. She asked me if we did experimentation on other methods of control Smith said. I told her 1 did t know any other method. She suggested birth control but i told her i could t run fast enough to give them birth control  fire destroys College inn owned by mount Holyoke South . Miss. A a fire raced through the 202-year-old College inn destroying the building and several connected businesses including a Bookstore containing rare books. The Laic morning Blaze broke out in the basement of the inn which is across the town common from the mount uni Yick College Campus and spread quickly through the three Story  building. I Oss at the inn. Owned by the College was estimated it More than 5500,000. Said the College s president Elizabeth Kennan. The 80-year-old Odyssey Bookstore in one of five additions to inc inn also was destroyed the store was used by students of the Region s five col lege consortium. Its Catalon was used by customers around the country and its Stock included Many rare Boob. World s most powerful particle accelerator fired Albuquerque. . Dpi scientists have to Cess fully tired the world s most powerful particle to Celien. Tor a machine designed with the potential of Del rain More than i00-tri\lion Watts of Power. The machine believed to the tint capable of igniting t controlled lab fusion reaction was tested at the Stati National laboratories according to lab spokesman nigh hey. The j48 million particle beam fusion accelerator it about 108 feet in diameter and consists of 36 pulsed Power modules that Are arranged around a Centra Perit Neathil Hub and deliver Power to it from All directions. The Pbfa-1i was designed and built at Sandia to deliver at least 100 trillion Watts of Power. At least one yet of development work is required before Power Levels of this magnitude can be attempted hey said. Urcla doctor reprimanded for cancer research project los Angeles a Federal health off Iab Haw reprimanded a Urcla researcher for failing to follow regulations in conducting experimental Bone marrow trans plants in 1978 and 1979, according to government documents. The work of or. Robert p. Gale of the University at California at los Angeles will continue under a s3 Mif Liob Federal Grant but will be closely monitored until muck 1988 under conditions spelled out in a nov. 25 letter from National Init tics of health director James b. Wynnjr Den. The documents were obtained by inc los Ajeto times under the Freedom of information act. Gale had contended that the Bone marrow transplant were not experiments but the Best treatment available for terminally ill cancer patients. Such treatments arc now accepted for some forms of leukaemia and anaemia. That was not the Case in 1971 and 1979, and the nursing staff at Urcla objected to transplants by Gale and other doctors in the . Manpower shortages curb airborne drug War Washington a manpower shortages at the . Customs service have idled sophisticated aircraft and new Marine radar designed As the Blest weapons against drug smugglers Federal official say. The shortages have grounded at least one surveillance aircraft prevented maximum use of a Blackhawk helicopter used for arrests by bust teams Ana left six Marine radar Sites unman nned most of the time. Investigators from a House government operations subcommittee headed by rep. Glenn English a okla. Said they might have found additional personnel problems but stopped looking once they discovered the dilemma and brought it to the attention of lop customs officials. We Don t deny ii customs spokesman Dennis Murphy said of the shortages and unused equipment. He said the Agency plans to have the boat radars operating by next february and is currently hiring additional air Crews a process that takes about six months. English blamed the problem on an in crease in equipment for customs while the number of people in the War on drugs has remained Static. They Don t have the personnel to to the  during a recent inspection tour English s investigators found a p-3 grounded in Tucson ariz., instead of racking air borne smugglers. They were Lold by Cus Toms officials that Only one full Crew and pan of another was available for i of p-3s based there making it impossible to Fly both the planes at one time. Originally built for the Navy to track submarines the four engine turboprops were modified especially for customs with state of the Art Long Range radar used by f 15 fighters. Customs has four of the air Craft. The investigators also Learned there was Only one Pilot in san Diego assigned to a Blackhawk helicopter used to follow air borne smugglers to their Landing site and swoop Down for an arrest. If the Pilot was Oft duty testifying in court or performing administrative work the helicopter could t Murphy said thai in an Ideal Environ ment without regard to fiscal restraints " the customs air Wing needs 618 people but Only 2. Another 137 personnel Are being hired he said. In Florida cig i Condo radars w nicknamed because several arc Alon condominiums were purchased during the Pas a to detect smugglers fast Boa two of the radar sues in the $88.000 project arc not it operational. T a ire .iisr7cr Lucr Sil have to in stalled for up to a year but have been manned As. Little As a Davs a month a the radars were billed As an in Earl a in of opera on Blue lightning a Feenst operation to catch the seaborne smuggled who usually travel at High speeds from Bahamas to the United Stales. Some of inc radars have been Sundial Idle and have not been used custom spokesman Jim Mahan acknowledged. But he said the problem will end with the open ing in february of the new joint Marint interdiction command Center in Floridt where the radars will be displays wit Boot the need to staff Tow Sites. Mahan said members of the Geo Civ boat Crews had been counted on 10 Offit the radars but the decision was made to Florid 10 keep them aboard the vessels to. Pursue smugglers and make arrests. You take your priorities with the re sources you have he said. English said the two Lern is in the of fice of management and budget and a White House itself i s an example of big rhetoric to indicate this is a Bill out Effort when it s business Ai usual