European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday March 6, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 space cemetery May die from Lack of land Tallahassee Fla. A a com Pany offering celestial burials was charged tuesday with operating an unlicensed cemetery and it must own at least 15 contiguous acres of land in outer space with a paved Road before it can obtain a permit officials said. Celestis group inc. Is not complying with Florida Law said comptroller Gerald Lewis in an administrative complaint. Chapter 497 of Florida statutes specifies a cemetery must be at least 15 acres and must have a paved Road from a Public High Way to get a permit. The fact is that they May be in space but they Are using space for the permanent interment of human remains and they Are operating out of Florida said Bill Quattlebaum spokesman for Lewis. It s going to be an interesting question How they will meet some of the  celestis advertises that it will launch into space the cremated remains of a loved one packed into a Gold plated lipstick sized capsule. For $3,900, the spacecraft will be placed in orbit around the Earth for $4,600, it will be sent into deep space. The name of the deceased would be in scribed on the capsule and because of their reflective surface the capsules should be visible through a Telescope company Litera Ture says. The company which markets its services through terrestrial funeral Homes plans its first launch for 1987 on a four stage con Estoga 2 rocket according to company ads. Quattlebaum said celestis has contracted with space services of America a Houston based company owned by former astronaut Donald Duke Slayton. That company planned to build and launch the High powered Hearse but was not named in Lewis administrative complaint. Lewis complaint gives celestis 21 Days to respond. If the company disputes the complaint Lewis will ask a judge to Issue a cease and desist order said Quattlebaum. A Telephone Call to the celestis group on tuesday afternoon went unanswered. Opposing Aid to nicaraguan rebels a photo nearly 200 members of a religious coalition demonstrated tuesday in Washington at the Capitol Steps accusing the Reagan administration of conducting a distortion Campaign. To prepare the american peo ple for further . Military action in  a statement vowing to oppose . Aid for nicaraguan rebels was signed by 21 roman Catholic methodist episcopal and lutheran Bishops More than a dozen jewish rabbis and leaders of the United Church of Christ the Christian Church disciples of Chris the mennonite Church the unitarian universalist association and the National Council of churches. Says fancy gimmicks not needed Reagan praises education report Washington up president Reagan tuesday hailed a $120,000 study prescribing parental involvement discipline and Homework As keys to better education As proof government interference and fancy gimmicks Are not needed for Quality schools. Standing before an audience of educators at the White House Reagan used the report to promote a Back to basics education Agenda. Some of the research findings Aren t really very sur prising he said. That s because sound educational prac Tice is based upon something americans know a lot about Plain old fashioned common  the report stressing that education begins at Home was presented by education Secretary William Bennett who said its recommendations were an answer to Kopiness that we saw in education theory and practice in the 1960s and 70s." Bennett acknowledged that the findings Are neither revolutionary nor comprehensive but expressed Hope parents and educators would use the report As a handbook to improve instruction at the local level. Reagan said the document packs More practical use Ful information into its 65 pages than a whole Mountain of most government  teachers still know what they re doing when they must Tell Johnny to behave ask questions in class and do his Homework every night Reagan said. And Good teachers still know what Good teachers have always known we Don t need a lot of government interference and fancy gimmicks to produce Good  the administration depicted the report As the most important assessment since the 1983 study a nation at risk which detailed a dangerous decline in educational excellence. Some of the recommendations calling for closer Consul tation Between parents and teachers increased discipline and More rigorous academic standards Mirror the proposals advanced in the 1983 study. Passenger Hurt when Jet hits turbulence Chicago a a United airlines jetliner cruising in Clear skies Over the Pacific Ocean hit a pocket of air turbulence that jolted the plane upward breaking one passenger s leg authorities said tuesday. The Boeing 747 jumbo Jet with 340 people aboard landed safely at o Hare International Airport at 5 27 . Tuesday after its flight from Honolulu said airline spokes Man Chuck Novak. The incident occurred about five hours earlier he said. The injured passenger Elmer Freese 58, of Urbana was hospitalized in Good condition with a broken leg said resurrection Hospital spokesman Warren d. Nelson. Five flight attendants All from Hawaii were slightly injured. Novak said they were treated and released. The plane was Over the Pacific when it hit what we Call a Clear air turbulence said Bob Raynesford a Federal aviation administration spokesman. That s when a plane experiences turbulence All of a sudden but there Are no Clouds no storm no bad weather you can see  the Jet was flying at 33,000 feet about 500 Miles East of Hawaii when it struck the turbulence said Novak. It was just one Jolt. The seat Belt sign was not on at the time said Novak. There was no structural damage to the plane he said. Fires Force guests to flee hotels in Atlanta Cincinnati by the associated press fires raced through the ground floor of a suburban Atlanta hotel tuesday forcing about 300 people to flee and through a corridor of a 21-Story hotel in Cincinnati forcing 70 guests to evacuate. Seven people were injured. Three men were taken into custody for questioning about four fires in Cincinnati two of which occurred at about 6 . On separate floors of the Clarion hotel said fire chief Norman Wells. Three guests were treated for smoke inhalation or hyper ventilation Wells said. One was released by midday and the others were reported in Good or fair condition he said. In Georgia where fire broke out at the six Story Harley hotel in East Point one guest was Cut on the forehead when she jumped from a second floor window said fire chief . Garmon. Another guest was hospitalized in fair condition and two firefighters were treated for smoke inhalation and released. The Blaze apparently started outside a laundry room and the cause is under investigation officials said. We confined the fire to the first floor but smoke damage to the rest of the building was heavy. Assistant fire chief Terry Ransome said. Fay Jester of state College pa., who was rescued by ladder with her husband and two children from their second floor Balcony said the family did not panic. My husband broke the window with a chair she said. Then i knew we were  in Cincinnati about 70 guests were evacuated from the Clarion s 21 Story South Tower As a precaution officials said. Investigators had found no evidence that the Cincinnati fires were related but one of the Clarion fires and a Blaze at the Hyatt Regency hotel across the Street were started in boxes of tissue Wells said. A fire near an elevator heavily damaged a corridor on the 18th floor at the Clarion Tower and another on the fifth floor caused minor damage Wells said. Damage was estimated at $52,000. The fire at the Hyatt was limited to the restroom tissue Box and the Milner hotel another downtown hotel where a Blaze broke out tuesday morning suffered minor damage Wells said. Sands or time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. March 6, 1946 during a speech at Westminster College in Fulton mo., Winston Churchill said an Iron curtain has descended across the  he said rus Sia posed a growing peril to Christian civilization and called for a .-British Alliance to prevent a third world War. 30 years ago today. March 6, 1956 the British government in London disclosed the collapse of secret negotiations to bring peace to Cyprus and threatened to use its military might to restore Law and order. 20 years ago foday. March 6, 1966 the Mossier murder trial jury in Miami reported to the judge that it was deadlocked. Can Dice Mossier and her Nephew Melvin Lane Are accused of killing her Multi millionaire husband Jacques Mossier. 70 years ago foday. March 6, 1976 Leonid Brezhnev was re elected As general Secretary of the communist party in Moscow. Agriculture minister Dmitry Polyansky who was blamed for Russia s agricultural failures was ousted from the politburo