European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday. May 13. 1986 " the stars and stripes it cuts upset Page 7. Moffett Nas Calif. Up Secretary of stale George Shultz assailed Congress sunday for budget cuts that would trim embassy Security abroad Catling it a tragedy for is. Foreign policy and National Security inter ests. Schuliz who new Home sunday from a 17-Day trip to the far East said he would hold Congress derelict in to duty if another embassy is attacked by terrorism. An agitated Shultz told reporters aboard his plane thai tentative cuts already made would halve the ii2.fi billion requested in foreign assistance. K Shultz whose plane made a refuelling Stop at moff Canas in route to Washington spent the weekend resting in Honolulu playing Golf and Tennis. The Secretary uncharacteristically combative during his trip with president Reagan to Indonesia and Japan Tor the Tokyo economic Summit and on to South Korea and the Philippines expressed particular ire at the Senate Tor cutting a new embassy Security program from n requested Sia billion to $491 million. The House of representatives scheduled to cake up the. Budget sometime next week tentatively has approved billion for embassy Security Shutlz said he will drop everything else on his sched ule to lobby Congress to keep the Overall 522.fi billion stale department budget which the Senate and a House Toab oui $17 billion what is being perpetrated Here is a tragedy for . Foreign policy and National Security interests he snapped. Lie said he spoke with House budget committee chair Man William Gray d-penn., from Manila on Friday and will spend next week testifying in defense of his budget. The picture of the United Stales right now withdraw ing from the world is not consistent with a picture of an Active foreign policy which we find desirable he said. He said deep cams in embassy Security and department operating funds could Lead o closing some foreign posts he said the biggest specific Aid cuts would affect sub saharan Africa South Korea Thailand the Caribbean and drug eradication programs in South America. The 55.3 billion combined Aid package for Israel and Egypt is sacrosanct he said because even if he wanted to Cut it. Congress would say no. He said he favors full nid for the two How he planned to alter the looming cub. Sulu responded simply. By screaming about asked to justify spending two nights in Hawaii Given the Security Cost and the $200-plus per night room charges for his travelling parly. Skull said i have la have a link rest once in a while so 1 take Refa gasoline prices on rebound increase is bearer than Usua Bbosa los Angeles a retail Gaso line prices after a five month decline Are on a historically unprecedented upswing for this Lime of year an Oil Industry analyst. Said sunday this Mother s Day increase reflects an earlier than usual Price boost normally associated with memorial Day said Dan Lundberg who added thai this has never happened at this time of year. Crude Oil prices broke at a 11 5-a-barrel level the highest Price in three months. Re Tail gasoline moved swiftly upward As Well. This development ends an uninterrupted re Tail decline of 31 cents a gallon since last december. It bottomed out two weeks ago at an Overall average for All grades at 89.96 can Magallon. Nevertheless Ltd Borg who conducts a Survey of gasoline prices nationwide said this year s May prices re main about 30 cents a gallon lower than last year s prices. During the weekend the upturn of 2,33 cents a gallon brought Trie new so state average to 92.29 cents a gallon Lundberg said. There is still a larger increase of 3,311 cents a gallon Al wholesale indicating Tinl an additional pump Price of another Penny a gallon is in the immediate future. Bui As memorial Day approaches he said the increase if seasonally Irimie to form could bring on another four 0 five cent in crease especially pressured by the nation s exceptionally Low inventory of gasoline. a notable unseasonal increase in driving already has taken place he said with the Promise of still More to came As Many americans plan to vacation in the United states rather than overseas because of the terrorism threat. Regular leaded and unleaded grades of Gas Oline still hover Well below a Dollar at 79.36 cents for regular leaded 95.39 for regular unleaded and 99.78 for Premium unleaded. Those Are average prices at self service pumps. Full service prices average out at a gallon. Gasoline is cheaper in the Southwest by More than six cents a gallon for regular leaded and nine cents for unleaded he said i s most expensive on the Pacific coast averaging seven cents higher for regular leaded 10.5 cents for regular unleaded and 9,8 cents for Premium unleaded. Shuttle victim to be buried in Hometown Lake City . A the body of astronaut Ronald Mcnair who was killed in the explosion of challenger is scheduled to be flown to his Hometown on Friday and burled on saturday. A funeral service is scheduled saturday morning at Lake City s Wesley United methodist Church according to the Gra. Ham and Godwin funeral Home. A memo rial service for the 35-year-old laser physicist was held at the Church in february. Killed Jan 28 Menair and six other astronauts including new Hampshire schoolteacher Christa. Mcauliffe were killed Jan. 28 when the spice shuttle exploded shortly after liftoff. Mcnair who grew up in Lake City was regarded As a hero in his Hometown. A Parade was held Here and a Streel named in his Honor in april 1984. Ronald Mcnair Boulevard a part of . Route 52, is Lake City s most travelled Highway. The South Carolina general As Sembly recently designated All of . 52 through Florence county Ronald Mcnair memorial highly. Explosion kills 4 in Kentucky Auto repair garage Ivyton by. A a is gallon drum of racing fuel exploded in an Auto repair garage destroying the building and killing four people including an 11-year-old boy authorities said. Five people escaped from the Sheet Metal building ignited saturday by Sparks from a cutting Torch state police said. Smoke still Rose sunday from tie Black twisted nibble of the garage in a Green Val Ley in Magoffin county in Eastern Ken Tucky. Adamo Marshall 29, whose family owned the garage was hospitalized in satisfactory condition sunday. Marshall Pas Tor of Blue lick pentecostal Church at Ivy ton old a Rescue worker he thought lie had his son by the hand As he fought his Way Clear of the flames. He had hold of his son s hand said it Paul Howard of the Magoffin county res Cue squad. But his arms and hands were All third degree Burns. He lost All feeling in them. He thought he had his son with him. But he did Brandon n. Marshall 11, was among the four dead. Members of the Marshall family who also worked Al local surface Coal mines did Auto repairs and worked on race cars in the 40-by-so-foot Sheet Metal garage building Howard said. At the time of the blast nine people were in the garage preparing a Hobby Stock car Tor dirt track racing saturday night at Salyersville. Carter Conley Captain of inc Rescue squad said one squad member arrived with in a minute or two after the fire started it was totally involved and everything was melting Conley said. The fire just consumed the whole place within Magoffin county Coroner Luther Dean Dunn identified the other victims As Adam Marshall s brother. Earl a Marshall. 43, at Salyers Volle Bobby Osborne 27, of Ivy Lon Ana Scottie Neil prayer 16, of Ivyton. $108,000 item purchased for $976 Navy sold Aerial Spray system by mistake paper says Sacramento Calif in the Navy mistakenly sold As surplus to a Pri vate fuel and chemical tank company a Aerial Spray system capable of being used for chemical and biological warfare the Sacramento Bee said sunday. Aero Union corp. Purchased the equip ment for s976 in 1982, but has demanded that the Navy pay 553,800 to get it Back the newspaper said. Record bid for commode new York a a european furniture dealer paid .56 million for an an Traue French commode setting a record Price in out bidding five other people at so theby a spokesman for the auction House said. In the meantime the firm is advertising internationally to sell the four systems it bought which one expert says could have catastrophic implications if obtained by terrorists. Jack Mcgeorge president of the Institute for Public safety a military consulting Agency said a defense department manual Stales the system was designed to apply a wide variety of chemical and biological although Aero Union paid lets than ,000 for the equipment sold As military surplus records show it Cost the govern ment More than si08,000. The Bee said. Craig weeks an Aero Union marketing specialist said his company was Laid a few months after buying the 14-As thai the systems had been placed on the surplus list by mistake. We were notified by Telephone to not Market the Lank and to return them to the Navy said Arnie Adams a former Consul Tant for Aero Union in a letter to the Navy onocl.24,1984. Aero Union which specializes in fuel and chemical tank systems used primarily for firefighting insists it is marketing the Spray system it purchased from the Navy solely for civilian uses. The company bought four of the com plete Aero 14-a" Spray systems and eight additional components Al a 1982 Sale of surplus military equip Mcnol at Eltoro Marine corps As. Adams told the Bee he thought the nozzle if modified could be produced and marketed to Spray detergent Over maritime Oil spills or to apply insecticides Aero Union said it would return the sys tems if it received reimbursement for labor storage and expenses such As hotels and meals which it said came to a total of $53,800. Aero Union general manager Vic Tor Alvistur listed his own labor for five Days at 52,500, William Mccleary a purchasing agent with the Navy s aviation Supply office in Philadelphia said he tried to buy the sys tems Back bul could not reach an agreement with Aero Union. Newspaper executive Dies Raleigh . A Frank Arthur Daniels chairman of the Board of the com Pany that publishes Raleigh s two daily newspapers has died of congestive heart failure it 81
