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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, December 23, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Boy saved after 2 hours under ice Boston up _ a 10-year-old boy chasing his dog plunged through a Frozen Lake and was trapped beneath the ice for nearly two hours until divers rescued him. Jeffrey Goodale was flown by coast guard helicopter from Martha s Vineyard to Boston s Massachusetts general Hospital where a spokesman said he was in very grave Condi Tion Lale saturday. Goodale who Mill had a pulse when divers pulled him up was taken to a Hospital on mar tha s Vineyard where his temperature was so Low it could not be measured. They had no thermometer that went that Low coast guard it. Bruce Vickman said. Fire department police and coast guard divers plunged repeatedly into the icy Waters of the Island Lake in search of the boy who apparently was chasing his dog when he fell through the Inch thick ice into water 10 feet deep. Vickman said the rescuers using several Small boats and a helicopter searched the water for two hours before spotting the boy. Doctors warmed the boy with blood transfusions until his condition was stable enough to withstand the helicopter ride to Boston. He was attached to a heart lung machine at Massachusetts general Hospital until his body the Canadian Tess temperature was raised to nearly Normal to Long in a for a Ion monday december 23, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 spokesman Martin Bander said. Robert Koch is Selig Winter s Nap on Lake Ontario Afler running aground near Oswe stranded for the Winter go n.y., with 2,000 tons of Cement. The owners of the badly damaged ship based at min Isaura Ontario Are planning to pump some 40,000 Gallons of diesel fuel from the ship s tanks and irate it Sherf in is until next Spring. People express suspected of Over booking flights san Francisco a people express airlines is being investigated for allegedly overbooking its Cut rate transcontinental flights from san Francisco by As much As to percent the Federal aviation administration says. Our inspectors will Sec what people is doing Russell Park a spokesman for the Faa in los Angeles said Friday. The airline left on the ground 160 out raged passengers at san Francisco International Airport on Friday and 120 on thurs Day afternoon the san Francisco chronicle said. Some of the reservations were made More than three months ago. The Cost of the bargain flights ranges from s99 to $ 149 one Way to Newark . Park said that if the Faa discovers the airline is failing to provide the service it claims to offer a process begins that could put the airline s License to operate at ques  there also were reports that some major trunk carriers that serve the Airport were overselling Holiday flights at a higher rate than Normal the newspaper said. People express spokesman Russell mar Chelta said from company Headquarters in Newark that overbooking is a fact of life in the airline  he said airlines Are forced to overbook because too Many customers make two or More reservations on different carriers and then fail to cancel any of them. The airline offered stranded passengers checks for-j198, double the j99 fare or a voucher for a round trip to Newark that was Good for one year said Paul Klyman a Magazine editor who said he was bumped from a flight. But that did not appease some travellers. They can t do this to people Over Christmas when they re going to see their families said Maureen Sparks of icons Valley. I was going Home for the first time in five years said Kristina Ross of Santa Cruz. Now i Don t know what i m going 10  girl 11, took part in boy s slaying jury says janesv1lle. Wis. A a jury has found that an 11-year-old girl participated in the stabbing and bludgeoning death of a 9 year old playmate after quarrelling Over his bicycle. The child wiped her face and Mouth with both hands and her Mother sobbed loudly upon hearing the ruling saturday which came after More than 6 hours of deliberations at the end of an 11-Day trial. The verdict leaves circuit judge Mark far num to decide whether to commit the girl to a Foster Home or a juvenile treatment Center. The judge was to St a Date monday for a bearing for the defendant who was Loo Young to be charged with juvenile delinquency under slate codes. The codes apply w juveniles 12 . The girl was accused in the july 26 death of Anthony d. Wilson whose body was found the next Day with three chop Marks to the head and 15 Stab wounds in a Garden behind his grandmother s House in Beloit. Police said inc girl was one of three Young sleds who attacked the Wilson youth. A 14 year old has been sentenced to an Insixi Ilion. And a 12-year-old faces trial in january. The girl who has been living Al Home with her parents since Wilson s death said she was watching television Al the time of the slaying. But a 5-year-old girl who testified she saw the killing said she had heard the girl say we re going to finish this sucker off As she Binl Over the boy s body in the Garden. The witness said she saw the ii year old kick Wilson Stab and chop him with a Butcher knife and hold him while the 14-year-old hit him in the head with an a Lite object. I believe the whole thing boiled Down to a question of credibility Between the 5-year-old and the 11-year-old," said District attorney James p. Daley. He would not comment on what son of treatment he would recommend for the girl. Prosecutors contend the incident began As an argument Between Wilson and the girl after she took his bicycle. A. Henry Hempe the girl s court appointed defense lawyer called the verdict a great miscarriage of  Hempe insisted the girl played no part in the killing and said he would recommend that the girl be allowed to stay with her parents. He said he May Appeal. Tynna Woodson Wilson s Mother said she was Happy with the verdict. Now our Christmas can be a Little More Happy she said. The court barred the press from identifying the defendant her relatives or juvenile wit Nesses. Use of proven Carcinogen allowed in Coffee Washington a the food and drug administration has proposed Banning the use of methylene Chloride in hair sprays because it can cause cancer in animals but would allow its Conlin cd use in deca Uei rating Coffee. Two consumer advocates were Quick to condemn the proposal which was earned wednesday in Federal Register and re Pofs saturday in the new Yore tunes. It s an insane policy to allow the use of an unnecessary and acknowledged Carcinogen Nichael f. Jacobs director of the Center for science in the Public interest. Or. Sidney m. Wolfe head of the health research group said that the proposal Vio lated an amendment to the food and drug act that bars the use in food of any sub stance that has been shown to cause cancer in Laboratory animals. They Are admitting that it causes can cer because they Are barring its use in cosmetics said Wolfe. The Fra said it would allow Public com ment on the proposal until feb. 18, and that it would take effect 60 Days after that. Methylene Chloride is a volatile chemical used As a solvent and flame suppressant in hair sprays in which it serves 10 Speed the drying and setting of applied resins the Fra said. It is also used by some manufacturers to remove caffeine from Coffee. It said however that inc Agency has sufficient information to determine that the existing methylene Chloride residue level for decaffeinated Coffee is  the Fra said the amount of the chemical entering the body from consuming treated cof fee was Loo Small to be dangerous. Fire hydrant Bandit has lot of brass Buena Park. Calif. A an expert Bandit has stolen 10 of the City s solid brass 60-Pound tire hydrants in the past week probably for scrap or Art materials police said. You almost take them for granted. The things Are bolted to the ground police officer Terry Bra num said. Nothing is sacred any  the the of uses special wrenches to shut off the water removes the bolts and unscrews the top of the hydrant from the plastic pipe below said City water supervisor Darrem Mays. For someone who knows what he s doing it takes less than five min utes Mays said. He knows his stuff. No doubt about  the City which has 2,200 hydrants has replaced All of the stolen ones at a Cost of s36i each. The thief was almost caught in the act while stealing a hydrant in front of a retirement Home where Resi dents became suspicious when he inadvertently shut off the water to the Home Branum said. But the thief fled in a Van before police arrived  
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