European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 stateside the stars and stripes wednesday March 26,1986 up photo restrained demonstration three police men demonstrate a new human restraint device made of reinforced Nylon bag. The device was designed by it. Robert Dewey right and police officer Michael Berkow not pictured to immobilize unruly suspects and prevent them from kicking out windows and damaging doors on squad cars. Helping with the Demon stration of restraint Are officer Sammie Drayton left and youth officer Phillip Goodwin Center. Sears urges bunk bed owners to Check fastening of supports Chicago a citing a second child s death Sears has urged owners of Brawny bunk Beds manufactured before autumn 1984 to make sure supports for each of the two Beds Are securely fastened. The company said the most recent death in september involved a 21-month-old Pennsylvania child who reportedly was playing beneath the bed when the mattress Assem Bly apparently dislodged and fell on the child. The company said the first fatal Accident in december 1983, involved a 2-year-old Denver boy. Nursing Home resident Dies of exposure during stroll Butler a. A a nursing Home resident froze to death after he apparently became disoriented during a stroll and sat Down under a tree authorities say. Edward Rosche 71, died of exposure less than a mile from the Betty Thomas personal care Home said Butler county Coroner William f. Youngjr. We feel he maybe bumped himself and lost his glasses and became disoriented. We figure he sat Down and Fig ured somebody would find him Young said. Rosche set out for his daily stroll wearing Long under Wear lightweight Slacks a flannel shirt and a Nylon wind breaker. Police and Volunteer searchers failed to locate him. His body was found after overnight temperatures plunged Toner 5 degrees. Koch offers anti smoking Bill to ban habit from Public areas new York a a Bill that would ban smoking in Public areas like taxicabs stores and restrooms has been proposed by mayor Edward i. Koch who said it would give new York the nation s toughest anti smoking Law. Among other things the Bill if passed by the City Council would prohibit smoking in buses taxicabs and other Public transit Public hearing or Assembly rooms retail stores restrooms and All Public areas at All businesses and not for profit organizations. Koch said the Bill is the most stringent anti smoking Law in the using his executive authority he imposed it on All City agencies and buildings effective july 1. Katya visits new York pupils to Exchange Hopes for peace new York a Flowers music and Crayon scribbled signs welcomed Katerina Locheva As the 11 year old soviet girl called Katya and elementary schoolchildren in Brooklyn shared their Hopes for peace. Katya whose five City tour is in memory of Samantha Smith a Maine schoolgirl the soviet Union in 1983 after writing a letter about peace to then soviet Leader Yuri Andropov. Samantha died last summer in a plane crash. On monday Katya visited Public school 276 in Brook Lyn. After receiving a bouquet the fifth grader from mos cow was treated to Folk Rock and gospel songs by the school band and chorus. Katya reciprocated playing the theme song of the inter National children s peace movement May there always be Sunshine on the piano. I thought that she would look different Jordan Linn 11, said after scrutinizing Katya who looked Prim in a checked skirt and Blouse with Matching tie. The soviet girl and Star Rowe her 10-year-old Ameri can travelling companion were Given school to shirts. Star the daughter of a san Francisco Street artist won the trip in an essay contest sponsored by children As the peacemakers the san Francisco based organization Spon Soring Katya s visit. Jamie Goldstein 11, who is vice president of the pupils governing group told them the journey for peace is much longer than the distance that Bridges our two lands. As children and future leaders we Hope to Bridge that Gap speaking at times through an interpreter Katya told about 500 students at an Assembly that she shared their Hopes for peace. I bring with me messages from kids at my school which i will give you and that Way you will not Only be friends with me but friends with my soviet friends Aswell she said. Sixth grader Jason Cooper said we want her to learn that we want peace As much As she wants peace and that we can do it Katya visited a sixth Grade classroom where pupils asked her questions about her school and its teachers and about differences Between the soviet Union and the United states. She said children Are much the same everywhere and that her first teacher was something like a Mother to her. Katya was also Given a red big Apple pin by Herbert p. Rickman a special assistant to mayor Edward i. Koch. Earlier she appeared on Abc to s today show where she spoke of Samantha Smith. Samantha was very much like our soviet girls the youngster said. We All saw something very familiar and very Nice and she was close to our at the end of the Day Katya visited Bob James and his family in South Orange n.j., for a supper of Spaghetti and meatballs. James a planner for the port authority of new York and new Jersey is a Volunteer at the International Center which extends hospitality to foreigners. Katya played some russian tunes on a synthesizer in the family s living room and enjoyed the Chance to be quiet for awhile James said. The three children exchanged Small gifts. Katya leaves wednesday for Washington for a two Day visit. She also will go to Houston and los Angeles ending her tour april 1. She left Moscow with her Mother a research scientist last week arriving in Chicago on thursday. Growing problem of fake cops has Miami officers worried Miami a seventy one people have been arrested Here in the past two years for impersonating police officers and officers say the growing problem of fake cops is making their Job More dangerous. Such impostors Are nothing new. Members of the bugs Siegel gang posed As police for the St. Valentine s Day massacre when seven rivals were gunned Down in chicagoan 1929. B however in Dade county s Miami area it is becom ing More and More of a problem said police maj. Law rence Boemler. The fakes confuse honest citizens and criminals such As drug dealers who Are sometimes targeted because they keep Large amounts of Cash in their Homes officers said. When citizens or criminals doubt we re police they re More Likely to use violence and Force to resist said it. Mike Gonzalez. These impersonators have put us in a position where our Job is very much More because of the problem police no longer give children shoulder patches or baseball Caps decorated with official emblems. Too Many end up used by impersonators gon Zalez said. Authentic police equipment such As two Way radios or used cars Are hot items in the underground markets the Miami Herald reported in an article published monday. One scam involved a fake cop who preyed on elderly women. Identifying himself As lieutenant Wilson or Captain Peterson the Man first telephoned his victims telling them people were stealing from their Bank accounts and asking for their help in catching the scoundrel. Soon after the Call a clean Cut Man in a suit and tie showed up at the victims Homes examined their Bank statements and drove them to the Bank so they could withdraw the Money needed to find the Crook the Herald reported. Last year several women Between the Ages of 75 and 90 were hoodwinked some of them losing More than $1,000,records show. Another example of fake cops was the unmarked car with flashing lights that stopped a Young Louisiana tourist Early one morning on interstate 95. The cop told the woman she d been speeding and said she had to take a breath test for liquor. She asked him to Call a marked car and show her his identification. He robbed and raped her and told her that he was a metro Dade officer. The Man was later caught and sentenced to 27 years in prison the newspaper said. Highly Mobile Light infantry division reactivated to defend our interests fort Richardson Alaska up for the first time since the Vietnam War the army s 6th inf div has been activated making it possible to deploy soldiers world wide in less than six Days army Secretary John Mars said monday. Army chief of staff John Wickham said the division gives the army the ability to defend our interests around the sen. Ted Stevens a Alaska said the division is particularly important in Light of today s news and the actions that have taken place off Libya but Wickham said the division was not reactivated in answer to any specific perceived threat. The 6th inf div was first activated in 1917 and was reactivated for world War ii the korean War and the Vietnam War. After each War the division was inactivated. Reborn As a Light infantry division the division can deploy troops anywhere in the world in one third the time it takes to deploy a Standard division and with Only one third of the Airlift sorties army officials said. Headquarters for the reactivated division temporarily will be located at fort Richardson on the outskirts of Anchorage until facilities can be built at fort Wainwright near Fairbanks. Troops now stationed at both bases will become part of the new division along with about 3,700 additional soldiers to be transferred to the division by 1989. Stevens chairman of the Senate defense appropriations subcommittee said that by the time the division is fully activated in 1989, it will have Cost Between $1.7 billion and $2 billion
