European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday May 27, Boston restoring headstones in neglected cemeteries stateside Boston a a co year s5 million project is under Way to restore headstones in 16 historic com Cir is Hill have been subjected 10 centuries of Wear and neglect and More recently partying teen agers and shelter seeking vagrants. Sec knew if we did i do a Lull scale comprehensive planning and conservation project we d lose Irre place Cable Urli facts said Eilen Lipscy a City Parks and recreation department planner who Heads the project. Rainwater Lias seeped Ritlop cracks of slate grave markers that Cuns lithic most of the rom Jiining 13,000 Stone splitting Numy apart. On Marble Slones years of exposure to the elements have melted off the Carv Ings and inscriptions. Portrait of John Hancock other markers have shifted some toppling Over and breaking on the ground where icy arc crushed into bits by lawnmowers and tourists seeking to catch a glimpse of history. Others have sunk deep into the ground nearly out of sight. Modern Day problems have added to the worries of. Historians and others who watch out for the tiles of Paul Revere Samuel Adams Cotton Mather and John Hancock. Neighbourhood ctn is Gers  of the historic rest ing Sites for nighttime gatherings smashing Beer bottles against the fragile stones knocking them Over and cover ing them with Spray painted Graffiti Lipscy said. Homeless people sleep in above ground tombs. And periodically stones Are stolen winding up As backyard Garden markers and Coffee tables she said. Three years ago the newspapers in Boston were full of stories about How wretched the burying grounds were. They were full of trash neglected and Vandal izod. They were a real embarrassment said James Bradley a state archaeologist and Survey director of the Massachusetts historical commission but Bradley said the restoration project funded with City state and private contributions has turned around the cemeteries image and is saving the problems Cre ated by years of deferred maintenance. The restoration team including three sculptors two historians a structural Engineer and a landscape architect already has completed detailed inventories of the Sec pcs at six cemeteries and has started restoring broken and sunken markers at King s Chapel burying ground which Dales to 1630. Conservators last week finished repairs on the Black slate Gravestone of Mary Chilton believed to be the first woman off the Mayflower the Chilton Marker had broken into 10 pieces. It was like a big Jigsaw Puzzle said de Sullivan the chief sculptor on the project. The restorers have pieced together 10 King Chapel grave markers and reset about 70 others that were either pushed up by tree roots or depressed by their own weight. University of Kansas dedicates Vietnam memorial for fallen alumni Lawrence Kan. Up the University of Kan Sas Vietnam memorial was dedicated sunday to Honor 55 Kun alumni on the same Campus where veterans of the two world wars arc remembered. The 65-fool-Long, a Shii cd Structure bears the names of 55 Kun alumni including one journalist who were killed in the Vietnam War or who Are listed As m As or Powys. About 200 people including survivors of some whose names appear on the memorial attended the 30-Minutc Cere Mony on a Grassy slope on the West Edge of the Campus. As the ceremony closed the Campanile Bell lower a tribute to world War ii veterans slowly tolled 55 times to Honor another Genera lion of heroes. After the dedication some solemnly walked to the me Morial and run n Finger along the engraved names. Others Laid Flowers at the Monument s base one person left a woman s photograph. Tom bar Ger chairman of the Kun Vietnam memorial committee said the Kun Monument is the first free stand ing Vietnam memorial on a major College Campus except for Vietnam memorials at is. Military academies. The message of this memorial was not whether the War was right or wrong bar Ger said. Decide that on your own. Its most important message must always read merc we remember the Price hey paid it must remain a place where we find a piece of the affirmation these Young men were denied upon their death bar Ger said. And those who ultimately sacrificed we seek to Honor in quiet  inc memorial has two Concrete Walls overbid with native Kansas Limestone stabs. The names Are engraved on one Wall. On the other is the Symbol for a fallen Comrade a helmet a Rifle and boots along with an inscription lest we forget the courage Honor and sacrifice of our fellow  the Monument is the third memorial to veterans on the Kun Campus. The others Are the Kansas Union built after world War i and the Campanile Bell lower. Homeowners raise Flap Over Flag los Angeles a a world War h combat hero says he will go to jail before he gives in to his Condo minium association and takes old glory Down from his Patio. That sucker will never come Down Jim Meltzer. 63, has vowed. And if somebody objects to it Over a technicality regardless of whether they arc right or wrong in court 1 will go to  the condominium association at he Complex where Moltzer lives tiled suit in los Angeles Superior court last week saying the 12-foot flagpole bolted to Melter j Street Side Patio Fence violates its regulations. The suit also indicates mall scr failed to ask anyone s permission when he planted his flagpole last july. Mel Lucr. Long disabled with a heart ailment said he spends hours on the a lid of his Villa san Mcmo town House just watching his Flag rip pfc in the Breeze i gel tears every Lime i see that thing Mel Lucr said. It whips and cracks and talks to me. La is a meaningful symbol.1 of the five Homeowner association officers who brought the suit Only Leah Olson could be reached. Ill Tell you one thing the homeowners and the Board Are not opposed to the Flag being flown Olson said. Or. Moltzer is saying that we re against the american  in fact she said the Case has to do with what can be erected in a Patio in accordance with condominium rules. Russell Dean who lives a few doors Down from act Lucr said he believes the suit is foolish and never should have been hied. I was in the Navy during world War ii Dean said and i be always had a very warm feeling for the Flag women s memorial a group of Nomen who so cd in Vietnam has mounted i is million drive la Correct an inequity and put a Bronze statue of for nil nurse in combat Fiti Eues War the Nan a shaped Viernum memorial in Wisnyi Uicon. This Model illustrates he proposed statue Jet makes emergency Landing on just 2 of its 3 Landing gear Corpus i Kristi Texas a a Continental airlines Jet made an emergency Landing with Only two of its three Landing gear sunday tipping onto its left Wing As it stopped officials said. There were no injuries. Flight 199 was bound from Houston to Mcahon with 78 passengers and seven Crew members aboard when the Pilot discovered that the left gear of the Boeing 727-200 would not go Down said Continental spokesman Bruce Hicks. Because me alien did nut have the equipment to handle a possible crash Landing the plane was diverted to Corpus Crisli where it circled for about 90 minutes before land ing. Hicks said