European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday May 27, 1906 the stars and stripes. Page 5 Grad in a class All by herself Billings. Mom. Cap de pending on How you View it Robin Riley was first in her class and Tost. She was Nisi prom Queen and class.  ,. Robin Llcy is i he class of l�86 at Rcd Point High school. Rcd pain. A Jot on interstate 90 Between Hillings and baseman be came Rill a s Home about nine years ago after Mir family moved from California. Most of rce Point s 160 resident watched us Riley was handed her. Diploma by her fatties John chair Man of the school Board. Roup claims a neglecting half a million homeless vets new York at the veterans and minstrel in is neglecting 500,000 homeless veterans in the United Stales the National coalition for the i limitless charged Sun Day. The continued neglect of thus men and women threatens la turn this memorial Day Inlo a travesty coalition lawyer Rob Ert a Hayes snid inn Tetter to Thomas k. Turn dec chief adminis Tralor for veterans affairs. Hayes called on the a to develop immediately a comprehensive outreach Shel Ter and assistance program assistance la homeless veterans will save the lives of men and women who were once ready to give their lives for this coun try he said. The estimate of half a million homeless veterans is based on a series of National studies and surveys conducted in nine cities thai revealed that up to half the homeless men in some cities Are veterans according to a coalition  new York City 32 percent of Home less men surveyed had military experience. The report said. In los Angeles 47 percent of the men surveyed were Veteran Sand in Detroit the figure was 36 percent Hayes said. "whether1 the a is cynically hoping to save Money by denying needy veterans entitlements or whether the a is simply in competent is open to question he said. A a officials were not available for com ment sunday. The coalition for the homeless is a National federation of  working with the homeless steel Plant that armoured . Warships goes Clown Homestead a apr Astel Plant that Clad . Warships in Armor plate and made the Metal backbones of inc Empire slate building and other american land Marks rolled its last steel Over the weekend most of the people feel it s already closed. It s been in the process of shutting Down since the big cutbacks in 1982 and 1983," said Bob Anderson a founder of the Rainbow Kitchen where about 600 jobless families turn for food every month. Al s a bad thing that it s shut Down. But most people have moved or adjusted their lives to the fact that it s gone he said saturday. The Plant s owner. United states steel corp., insists the closing of the Mill and layoffs in the few remaining jobs Are temporary measures that will be reversed whenever the Market for Large beams and other construction components returns. Industry officials including . Steel executives however foresee no improvement in steel demand or prices. Us. Steel s Gary works in can ind., the company s largest Plant with 8,800 workers at the end of 19k5, will fill the few orders that Homestead would have received. Thirty jobs will be added at Gary for the 350 that were suspended at Homestead. Even if the Mill would reopen the glory Days of hot Metal and throngs of Steelwork ers Are almost certainly gone in the Cradle. Of the american steel Industry steel is never coming Back said Ste phen Simko mayor of hard pressed Home Stead and a 43-year Veteran of the plan. We got to move ahead. The sooner people find this out and make the change the better off Well  the Homestead works across the Monongahela River from Pittsburgh was part of the muscle behind America s military and economic might 40 years ago Plant employment peaked around 15,000 during world War ii. We made some fantastic thing Down there said Simko 63. We made almost All the Armor plate for Lite . Navy. The Missouri All those ships were built with our Armor  Homestead produced the structural steel used in new York City s Empire stale build ing and verrazano Narrows Bridge Chicago s scars Tower the . Steel building in Pitts Burgh and the Mackinac Straits Bridge connecting upper and lower Michigan. The Plant has one of the world s largest lathes capable of shaping steel pieces 92 feet Long. A Hundred tons of chips would come off when workers turned a big piece Simko snid. But Tike a Thor steel plants throughout the Western world the Homestead works lost orders As postwar economic expansion eased and Mexico Brazil Korea Ana other devel Oping nations erected Mills in addition to those rebuilt in Germany and Japan after he War. The original Plant was built in ib79 and became part of . Steel when the company was founded in 1901 through a Combina Tion of companies representing 65 percent of the nation s St cloaking capacity. A handful of workers will remain at Homestead to finish shipping orders. I say they ought to give the last Guy Laid off some kind of plaque thai s a sad ceremony. That s when i go and cry Simko said. Salvadoran refugee jailed As Security threat bailed out Buffalo . A a salvadoran refugee who had taken Sanctuary in a Church for two years was arrested and accused of being a National Security threat but his supporters raised $47,000 in 24 hours to bail him out of jail. Supporters of Alejandro Gomez cheered loudly and Sang we shall overcome As he left the Eric county holding Center late saturday night. Garnet a former official with Al Salva Dor s building trades Union is accused of being an illegal alien and a National Security threat. He and his wife Are seeking Asylum in the United states. Benedict Ferro District director of inc immigration and naturalization service in Buffalo said Gomez was arrested after authorities Learned of additional information pertaining to the Case which has a direct bearing on National Security interests. The government docs not believe he s a Salvado ran political  Ferro would not elaborate but the Roch Ester Democrat & chronicle quoted Anonymous sources familiar with the Case As say ing Gomez had made trips to Cuba where he met with Fidel Castro the soviet Union 11 rescued by coast guard after Cabin Cruiser goes Down and other communist bloc countries before coming to the United slates. Gail Molt one of the organizers of the Effort la free Gomez denied that the Salva Doran had Ever visited Cuba or the soviet. Union. Gomez 43, his wife Felicia and their four children lived in Sanctuary at Corpus Christ Catholic Church in Rochester and later moved to the downtown United presbyterian Church also in Rochester. He was arrested Friday near the presbyterian Church by . Immigration and naturalization service agents and was taken to the Buffalo detention facility. A hearing for Gomez is scheduled june 4, said Christine Garrison a Lay worker at Corpus Christ Church and a member of. Sands of time the Rochester Sanctuary committee. More than 200 people and organizations helped raise the Money to free gome. Do nations ranged to 110,000, supporters said the Gomezs have endeared themselves to this Community said sister Marjory h Enninger of Corpus Christ Church bail had been set at $50,000. But sup porters said �3,000 had already been posted with the government on a previous detain men so ency needed $47,000. According to the Rochester Sanctuary committee Gomez was arrested in june 1983 in Al Salvador and was tortured for 23 Days by police. He believes his life and the lives of his family would be in danger if they returned to Al Salvador the committee said. Boston a a 30-foot Cabin Cruiser ran aground on rocks and Sank in Boston Harbor on sunday but All 11 people aboard including a 9-month-old girl were safely plucked from the water by a coast guard boat. We All rescued each other said John Mackenzie 29, of Norfolk a co owner of the boat. Double trouble. There was t too much panic the seven adults and tour children were taken to Massachusetts general Hospital and All were released after being treated officials said. Coast guard Petty officer Chris wan Derwold said the Cabin Cruiser went Down at 6 20 . In View of a coast guard auxiliary vessel the Rachel b. The vessel quickly turned about picked up the drenched boat ers and brought them into Boston mite cuban. 37, of Somerville the other owner of the Cabin Cruiser said the party was returning from greater Brewster is land after a picnic. We weren t paying attention to the Channel markers Gahan said we hit a Rock and went aground.". He said the boat was about a mile off he Island when it was grounded. Gahan said everyone but himself and Kimberly Mackenzie the 9-month-old, had life jackets on. Kimberly s father kept her above water. Jack Mackenzie had a Good grip on her Gahan said. Wundt walk estimated hat the 11 were in the water for about five minutes. Mackenzie said he was not concerned about the loss of his boat. Materials Are nothing he said. Peo ple Are what Mailer to  in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. May 27,1946 the Coal strike truce ebbed out after a lengthy conference Between labor leaders and the government failed to produce a settlement. Meanwhile the Railroad strike ended dramatically As president Truman asked Congress for Broad Powers to crush strikes. 30 years ago today. May 27, 1956 French troops eager for vengeance pursued a moslem rebel bund that Cut the throats of 12 French civilians in a nigh terror raid on an East algerian Camp. 20 years ago today. May 27, 1966 a battalion of 1st div vietnamese troops moved into Hue. South Vietnam to protect the . Consulate and other american holdings in the Wake of a mob attack on the . I information service building. 70 years ago today. May 27, 1976 rep Wayne Hays a Ohio admitted having a relationship with Elizabeth Ray who claimed she was Hays mistress. Hayes denied the woman had been hired far her sexual favors