European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wind postpones nuke test blast for third time Las vegas. Nov. A a nuclear weapons lest linked to president Reagan s Star wars missile defense system was postponed for the third time sunday because of wind conditions the department of Energy said. The test won t be conducted until saturday at the ear Liest because of continuing weather problems and the Christmas holidays said Doe spokesman Chris West. A forecast indicated that unfavourable weather would continue at the site 104 Miles Northwest of Las vegas Well into next week. West said. Another weather briefing has been set for Friday meaning that the test could not be conducted before saturday West said. The test code named Goldstone was scheduled for noon sunday after being postponed thursday and again saturday. The wind at paiute Mesa ground Zero for the test continued to blow toward . Nev., and populated areas of California prompting the i hit delay. West said. The tests arc not conducted if the wind is blowing to Ward populated areas in the event radioactive gases should escape the ground. The underground Hydrogen bomb blast will carry an explosive punch of up to 150.000 tons of int to limbs the Force of the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. Dom officials have declined to confirm that the test is pan of the Star wars program a proposed space based defense Sam pm designed to Knock out in Civ missiles with laser rays. But other sources say it is the fifth Star wars rela cd nuclear shot at the Nevada lest site since 1980. The test is reportedly designed to help scientists learn How to harness and focus laser rays from a Hydrogen bomb explosion. Thirty members of Congress have urged a delay in the Goldstone shot contending that measuring equipment in a Star wars related test last March was Fiat de and the problems have nol been corrected. The current delays arc strictly weather related and have nothing to do with the congressional protest West said. In Moscow the defense ministry newspaper red Star on saturday criticized the planned test saying in would undermine International stability. The soviet Union says it is observing a unilateral five month moratorium on nuclear testing. Tuesday december 24. 1985 real estate history dutch Consul general Vincent kramers second from right receives a copy of the original contract ctn Van the dutch and the indians for he Sale of Manhattan stand. Eric a. Degroof of Atlanta poses As Peter Minuit. Got nor of the dutch West colonies at new York s Rockefeller Plaza along with Roberta Rasmussen left and Marl can do Rine right. Bear beats agents to drug Cache Blue bldg i. A. A investigators searching for cocaine dropped by an airborne smuggler have found a ripped up shipment of the Sweet smelling powder and the remains of a Bra that apparently died of a multimillion Dollar High. The cocaine was believed to be the last Trace of inc drug dropped from a Small plane by a former Kentucky narcotics investigator Whu fell to his death in Tennessee because he was carrying too heavy a Load while parachuting said Gary Garner of the Georgia Bureau of investigation. The Bear got to it before we could and he Tore the Duffel bag open got him some cocaine and of d Over dosed Garner said. There s nothing left but Bones and a big  investigators said the Black Bear weighing More than 150 pounds had been dead about four weeks. Gb1 agents found the Bear s remains Friday in Fannin county in the mountains about 80 Miles North of Atlanta and just South of the tonne dec line near the Duffel bag and 40 packages of cocaine Hal had been ripped open and scattered Over a Hillside. The agents were searching for cocaine believed to have been dropped by Andrew Thornton. 40, who was carrying 77 pounds of cocaine on sept. 11 when he was killed. Officials believe the Bear and maybe some others ale several million dollars Worth of the cocaine. Each of the 40 packages is believed to have contained i kilogram of co Caine or about 88 pounds in All and valued at As much As $20 million. The Georgia state crime Iab will conduct an autopsy on the Bear monday. It was the third such find in Georgia and was less than 100 Yards from where Obi agents found about 75 pounds of cocaine in Duffel bags in Early november. Fran Wiley of the Obi said agents have linked Friday s find to the others because the Duffel bags were identical. Thornton fell in Knox Vilic an hour before an unmanned Cessna air plane crashed into a Mountain in North Carolina. A key bearing the same identification As the plane was found in his pocket. A few Days later clothes maps of Jamaica and a Pilot s Logbook bearing the Cessna s number were found in Butts county about 30 Miles South of Atlanta. Obi agents have not determined the identity of the intended recipient of Thornton s cocaine. Fight erupts Over Liberty s unpaid Bill Jersey City . Up the Dis Pulc Between the Federal government and Jeri by cily Over the Staicu of Liberty s million Dollar water Bill has now caused a fight Between Jersey City s tax collector and other municipal officials. Tax collector Timothy Rausch s threat to auction a tax Lien on the statue makes the City look in american Jersey City s business administrator Benjamin Lopez said sunday. Rausch who advertised the lax Lien in local newspapers on Friday said in an interview with the Hudson dispatch Hal he has no Choice because the department of the Interior which operates the Island has nol paid the Bill or taken formal Steps to contest it. If 1 could get a court order restraining myself 1  Rausch said. I Don t want to do this. Who wants to sell the statue of Liberty but Lopez said the Jersey City corporation counsel told Rausch that the cily cannot foreclose on a Bill that is in litigation. The City has sued the Federal government to Troto collect. Liberty Island is technically in new York City an other Point in Dis Pulc Between new York and new Jersey but ils water is supplied by the Jersey cily water depart ment through pipes running under new York Harbor. The department of the Interior which is in Chari c of the Island ran up the disputed Bill for $972 210 31 after a pipe broke in october 1981. The break was not discovered for 14 months and the department blames the City be cause nobody came to read the meter during that time. Stateside Bank officials did t go nuts Over highly unusual paycheck Provo. Utah a officials of Bonne Villa Bank look it in stride when photographer Doug Martin brought in his paycheck from a recent hawaiian assignment $1,500 written on a Coconut. I told him to bring it on in. We Don t Cash Loo Many coconuts around  Bank official Doug Christensen said he told Martin when the photographer called him. Martin received the unusual payment for taking Pio lures during a company convention that nature s Sun Shine products of Spanish Fork held in Hawaii. The photographer jokingly had told nature s Sunshine officials he was apprehensive about the kind of pay he would receive for inc assignment. I told them 1 wanted the funds paid in . Dollars nol in pineapples and coconuts and apparently that stimulated his company Art director Kelly Warnick s imagination Martin said. He worried that the agriculture inspectors might not allow him to take his paycheck Home but they laughed and let him pass. Then he had to get it past his children. They did t realize in was Worth Money and i had to Stop them from taking a Hammer to it he said. Guardian Angels hold Vigil in support of subway gunman new York up1 the guardian Angels held a Vigil sunday and passed out fliers in support of subway gunman Bernhard get on the first anniversary of the Day he shot four youths he thought were going to rub him. The citizens crime fighting group gathered at the sub Way station where Roctz made his escape after the shoot ing last dec. 22 and urged new yorkers to pressure the District attorney into dropping All charges against Goetz. Roctz who was packing to leave for South Carolina and Lorida for business and pleasure sunday said he visa gratified by the guardian Angels support. The guardian Angels Are More in touch with what s going on in the streets than City government he said. Golz 38. Who is free on $5.000 bail while he awaits trial on attempted murder charges shot and seriously wounded four youths on a subway train after at least one of them asked him for $5. Reactor leak prompts shutdown of Sacramento area nuclear Plant Sacramento. Calif. A a leak inside the reactor at the Rancho Seco nuclear Power Plant forced officials to shut it Down sunday a Plant spokesman said. The leak estimated at 20 Gallons per minute was Dis covered at 4 41 p.m., and officials declared an unusual  the lowest level of emergency at a nuclear Plant said the spokesman Brad Thomas. The leak which involved water used to Cool the reactor was confined to the reactor building and the cause was under investigation he said. There was no release of the radioactive water to the environment he said. The shutdown would not affect customers because backup Power is supplied by Pacific Gas electric co., Thomas said. Rancho Sacco a $364 million Plant that went on line in iv75, is 23 Miles Southeast of Sacramento and supplies Power to 370,000 customers in Sacramento county. It has been operated Only 1 16 Days this year. A previous shutdown this month caused by a water flow imbalance lasted seven Days and the Plant resumed operations dec. 12, Ford recalling 57,000 trucks buses for Check on brakes " a re motor co mid " is Mccallin to1 d us duty trucks and school buses mod Rev r e 28s pm w the Hydraulic brakes Tocheck for faulty Brake systems. I Ord spokesman Jim Bright said about 5,900 of the u Hal " Are based on Lac a serve Chassis which is the predominant platform used for school buses. H,., to 2 re could be rational vehicles or tour buses based on the a scrips Chassis Bright said. Lora knows of four accidents and three minor injuries buses he said a Mir " " involving scion bus All?0j1?,r is askin8 a owners of Tow tracks and my a dude Lac f b l in and c-600 ti"m&8000 series to return their vehicles for replacement of the c�nlr01 up. Reservoir. Lpi7utx, is n  Luil a take   a parkin8 Brak s on these vehicles Cou system pressure " res Pons to fluctuations in the Brake  scho0 buses and re vehicles Bright said urn a 1c full cos arc dump trucks and beverage haulers. I