European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday april 16, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 Spring snowstorm hits . Northern Plains by the associated press an intense snowstorm interrupted Spring monday across the Northern Plains with up to 20 inches of Snow record Low temperatures and winds of up to 90 Mph giving North Dakota state workers the Day off cancelling classes at scores of schools and stranding travellers. Five people died in a plane crash during blizzard like conditions in Nebraska and one traffic death was blamed on the weather. A Montana Man who tried to walk to safety from a stalled vehicle was found dead sunday in a makeshift tent. Kevin r. Silvan 22, of big Sandy died Early sunday morning after he and a Friend became lost and spent the night inside a makeshift tent in a driving snowstorm in the Missouri Breaks about 80 Miles South of Chinook. The storm s Eastern Edge carried heavy rain that threat ened flooding in the Eastern Dakotas. And to the South thunderstorms with Hail and High wind caused severe dam age overnight in Arkansas and Oklahoma. In Western North Dakota Williston had 13.6 inches of Snow by 6 . Sunday a record for april and by Mon Day morning the accumulation was up to 15.4 inches. The storm dumped 20 inches of Snow at Litchville in Southeast North Dakota by 4 . Sunday. Snow blown by winds of 20 to 45 Mph reduced visibility to Zero across Central South Dakota and South Central North Dakota. Gusts to 91 Mph were reported at Mitchell ., and to 86 Mph at Yankton , North Dakota state workers were Given the Day off and dozens of schools cancelled classes. Rural electric cooperative customers around Fargo were left without Power As ice broke Power lines. North Dakota s state radio communications reported no serious accidents but quite a few vehicles in ditches said spokesman de Schlenker. Some trucks Jackknife on highways and efforts to help stranded motorists were hampered by the Snow and poor visibility. Up to a foot of Snow sleet and rain in South Dakota caused Power outages Slippery roads school closings and blizzard and flood warnings. Nearly 240 Miles of inter state 90 were closed in the Central part of the state. About 100 travellers took Refuge monday in the Kadoka City auditorium said Jackson county sheriff Arlo mad sen. All the motels in town were full and Many people took motorists into their Homes he said. A photo policeman Doug Lockrem helps a Motorist negotiate a Slick spot during the storm at Minot City . The Snow also blew into Northern Nebraska reducing visibility to near Zero closing schools around Valentine and causing one traffic death monday near Norfolk. Five people died when a Small plane crashed outside Norfolk just after taking off monday and recovery efforts were hampered by the Snow and wind. There was nothing you d recognize As a plane just a soldering motor said Jim Dooley of the fire department. The weather also caused a Small plane to crash sunday while Landing at Wall Airport. The three people aboard suffered minor injuries. Wind gusting to More than 50 Mph in adjoining parts of South Dakota Nebraska and Iowa combined with temperatures in the teens and 20s to produce wind chills of be tween 15 below and 30 below Zero. Havre Mont., had a record Low of 3 degrees below Zero and the Low of 13 at Miles City Mont., was one degree below the former record set in 1880. Other records for the Date included 9 at Billings Mont. 6 at Glasgow Mont. 3 at great Falls Mont. 10 at Helena Mont. And 6 at Lander Wyo. April snowstorms Are common in South Dakota because of contrasting temperatures to the North and South of the state said National weather service forecaster Rusty Kapela. A Low pressure system literally feeds on these temperature contrasts he said. It s just like fanning a fire it makes it More  prosecution claims papers link Whitworth to spy ring san Francisco a a system of. Low Power broadcasting on Navy ships devel oped on a ship on which espionage defendant Jerry Whitworth served was described in a document attributed to spymaster John Walker a Navy expert testified monday. Government agents have said the document was in Walker s handwriting and was found in his Home after his arrest last May. It was one of a series of classified documents shown to the jury to link Whit Worth to the Walker family spy ring. Whitworth 46, of Davis calif., is charged with Selling secret information about Navy code and communications sys tems for $332,000 to a soviet controlled spy ring led by Walker his longtime Friend. Seven of the 13 charges against Whitworth carry potential life sentences. Walker who has pleaded guilty to espionage and is serving a life term is scheduled to testify against Whitworth in two weeks. He is to be followed by several relatives including son Michael who also pleaded guilty to spying and possibly his brother Arthur who was convicted. To Lay the groundwork for Walker s Tes Timony the prosecution in the fourth week of the trial is showing the jury a number of documents found in Walker s Home which allegedly were based on information sup plied by Whitworth. Some of the documents were said to contain Whitworth s handwriting or fingerprints. Whitworth retired from the Navy in 1983 after 23 years most of them spent in communications work including ship and Shore jobs that put him in charge of Sensi Tive decoding equipment and code keys. From june 1976 to july 1978 he was a radioman who operated communications systems and supervised code equipment on the aircraft Carrier Constellation according to the prosecution. A witness testified that Whitworth was on the Constellation when it made the first use of a Low Power radio system to reduce the effectiveness of soviet direction finding equipment used to locate ships. Cmdr. Frederick Mcdavitt who is in charge of communications equipment plan Ning for the Navy said monday the system is now in general use and was described accurately in a document that earlier wit Nesses said was in Walker s handwriting and found in his Home. Mcdavitt said the usual transmissions of 1,000 Watts make it very very easy for potential enemies to find  the document said transmissions could be held Down to 5 Watts or less. Mcdavitt led the jury through a variety of documents attributed to Walker which included diagrams of code equipment descriptions of Security methods for codes plans for conversion to satellite communications and lists of channels on which Mes sages were broadcast. He testified that one document described a coding device that was probably the most widely used piece of cryptographic equip ment in the . Armed forces along with a worldwide code key list. La. Paper pus week s doonesbury by the associated press the los Angeles times monday said it was pulling this week s doonesbury comic strip which lampoons Reagan administration appointees accused of Legal or ethical misconduct and two other newspapers said they planned to edit the strip. Doonesbury appears regularly in the stars and stripes. See Page 18. We feel this week s doonesbury grossly exaggerates the real and alleged transgressions the los Angeles times said in monday s editions. Monday s four panel strip by cartoonist Garry Trudeau showed character Mark Slack Meyer saying on his radio show it s about time for an update of our running tally of Reagan appointees charged with Legal or ethical misconduct. So Here it is the definitive list of Back scratches till dippers and conscience Cut ters the unabridged 1986 sleaze on Parade Lee Salem vice president and editorial director of Universal press Syndicate in Fairway kan., which distributes the comic said the times was the Only paper that had informed the Syndicate that it was pulling the strip. The Milwaukee journal and Seattle times however decided to run an edited version. " doonesbury is dealing this week with a list of names of people who were fired or otherwise indicted said Dominique Paul Noth journal feature editor. We very carefully went through our files and excised a few. We. Don t name people who have not been indicted or  Mike Fancher managing editor of the Seattle times said the newspaper would change the strip to make the language be As precise As it can  other papers said they would run the uncut version. " doonesbury is political satire said Chris Jennewein assistant managing editor for features at the Atlanta Constitution. It will offend some people. There is a place in our paper for  not Only is the Detroit free press using the strip the paper carried a Story monday promoting this week s episodes. Monday s strip named Clarence Pendle ton chairman of the . Commission on civil rights who was accused last week by a member of his panel of undermining the panel s credibility by using inflammatory rhetoric. Pendleton has not been charged with any wrongdoing. Among the approximately 50 Reagan appointees named in the rest of the week s strips Are former environmental Protection Agency chief Anne Burford her aide Rita Lavelle and former Interior Secretary James Watt. Sands of tune in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. April 16, 1946 the Estonia born High priest of nazi philosophy Alfred Rosenberg whose anti jewish writings were a Factor in Adolf Hitler s Rise to Power took the stand in his own behalf to try to con Vince the International military tribunal in Nuernberg that he had always striven for world peace and a bloodless solution of the jewish question. 30 years ago today. April 16, 1956 new tunisian pre Mier Habib Bourguiba formed his free country s first government in Tunis. 20 years ago today. April 16, 1966 rep. Gerald Ford the Republican House Leader from Michi Gan accused the administration of Shock ing mismanagement of the Vietnam War. To years ago today. April 16, 1976 president Ford signed a $1.94 billion Bill to carry out a nationwide Swine flu immunization pro Gram and to finance various Job programs