European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday. July 23, 1986 More quakes Likely californians warned Bishop Calif. A Calico Means were warned to Brace for More earthquakes As residents lec Vanl from the Dale s sixth big temblor in two weeks which damaged every Tome m one Mountain town and Shook buildings of fit away As Utah. Aftershocks ranging up to 4.7 rumbled through the area tuesday. It u our assessment that the Region of Chalfan Valley from Bishop North to the Nevada Bonier May experience additional earthquake similar to the jury21 event during the next several Day said Dallas Peck director of the . Geological Survey. Despite the warning some of the 300 residents of Charant Valley a High Sierra Lown where All 145 houses were damaged said they would t leave. " like it Here 1 said Nona Roripaugh 29, a police dispatcher in Bishop five Miles away. It could Hap pen anywhere and if it happened in the City it would be that much worse. Buildings rail on you in the City. Here you go outside and you re  monday s quake at 7 42 am left so people Home less swayed buildings hundreds of Miles away in la Svecia nev., and Salt Lake City Utah budded a Road i Rock elides and briefly stranded hundreds of campers. Two minor injuries were reported. The quake estimated at 6.1 on the riddler scale a entered m the High Sierra 240 Miles North of Losangeles and five mile from Charant Valley which it came one Day after a 5.5-magnitude quake and was followed by two Strong aftershocks measuring 5.2 and 5.1 on the Richler scale. Altogether six quakes surpassing 3.0 have hit Southern California during the past two weeks. Robert Uhrhammer chief of the seismographic Sta Tion at the University of California Berkeley said the Bishop quake was unrelated to the july 13 temblor near Oceanside which measured 5.3. And the july 8 one near Palm Springs measuring 3.9. A series of smaller quakes that began july 3 and led up to monday s temblor Are pan of a marked increase in seismic activity Over the last decade thai could Gen Erate an earthquake of of the Richter scale he said. The Richler scale is a measure of ground motion As recorded on seismographs. Every increase of one cum Ber Means a enfold increase in the strength of the shaking. Thus a Reading of 7.5 reflect ground move ment 10 times stronger than one of 6.5. A 7 Reading is a major earthquake capable of widespread heavy damage 8 is a great quake Capa ble of tremendous damage. Union Carbide agricultural unit to be sold off Charleston a a. Api Union car bide corp. Said tuesday it is wiling its agricultural division which manufactures the deadly chemical that killed More than 2,000 people in India in 1984. Spokesman Harvey Cobert said from Union Carbide s Headquarters in Danbury conn., that Union Carbide agricultural products inc wholly owned subsidiary has plants at Institute . Research Triangle Park . Wood Bine a. Clinton Iowa St Joseph and St Louis. To. And Ambler. A. He said the division also has affiliate facilities in Calgary Alberta Bezier France and Cuba lao Brazil. Carbide s agricultural operations suffered a severe blow in december 1984 when Methyl Iso Cyanate leaked from the company s Plant i Bhopal India. The Sale does not involve the Bhopal Plant Cobert said. Cohen said the Institute Plant where a leak last August of attic arb oxime and methylene Chloride injured 135 people but caused no deaths would not be closed the company was forced to close its Domestic Methyl Iso Cyanate operation located at Institute after the Bhopal Accident until it could make changes in safety procedures. In a statement Union Carbide president Rob Ert d. Kennedy said the decision to sell the Agri cultural business reflects recent changes in the company s plans. Dave Burnett vows his living room split from the rest of Bis cruel vhf cab Mottle hone by monday s quake. We feb the san Francisco earthquake of 1906, which occurred before the Richter scale was devised has been Coli mated at 8.3. Geologist Alan Ryall of the Center for seismic stud ies in Arlington va., said monday that seismic activity in the area since 1978 has been about 20 times greater than during the previous  said All 14s Homes in Chalfant Valley. 10 Miles North of a hop sustained some damage. Fifty three Mobile Homes were knocked from their Stan Sand some were badly damaged. Uninhabitable Mobile Homes forced about so people to seek other lodging said . Forest service spokesman Dick Serino. Resident Shirley Burnett whose Mobile Home we wrecked said she was cleaning up the damage from sunday s quake when monday s nil. At first it was kind of a slow rolling and then it hit hard and Ihen i said to myself Man i just better get out of Here " she said adding that she had to Daw far Way out with a Hammer after the Watts collapsed. Officials said one woman suffered a few minor cub when she and her husband were jarred awake amid falling objects in their Chalfant Valley Home and a storekeeper was slightly Hurt by falling debris. The quake caused a 150-foot Section of Road to drop about 30 feet at pleasant Valley Reservoir near Bishop a pickup truck drove into the Bole but All six occupants escaped unharmed sheriffs deputies said. In Bishop windows shattered ceilings buckled electricity was temporarily Cut off and water was feed in alter Wells that provide the Community s Supply were polluted by the shaking Serino said. Former Secretary to Rajneesha pleads guilty to Federal charges Portland Ore. A a Anand Sheet for Mer personal Secretary to Bhagwan Shree Rajneesha pleaded guilty tuesday to Federal diaries of immigration fraud wiretapping and conspiracy to tamper with consumer products. Us. District judge Edward Leavy sentenced her to concurrent 4h-year prison sentences on the tint two charges and a five year in Penn j sentence on the third. After scr log her sentence tit Musi leave the country. A second former Raj Neeshee Leader a Anand Puja was sentenced to vhf years for conspiracy to Tam per with consumer products to be followed by three years probation for wiretapping. Sheela and Puja admitted their role a a 1984 food poisoning outbreak in the Dalles that sickened More than 750 people and in creating the vast electronic eavesdropping system at the sect s . The immigration fraud charge Agai to Sheela alleged that she helped arrange More than 400 Sham marriages among the guru s disciples. After the women pleaded Gushy to the charges 32 other immigration charges and three wiretapping charges against Sheela were dropped. One wiretapping charge against Puja was dropped. The women also were accused in state Dan giving glasses of poisoned water to two Wasco c officials and of a Poison syringe attack on die a Tori physician. Sheela was charged with setting a fire that frumpy the Wasco county planning office. Assistant state attorney general Bob Hamilton lot Leavy that Sheela would plead guilty to felony charges of attempted murder first degree arson Ana first de Gree assault at a Hale hearing later tuesday me said the state would recommend a sentence to run concur rent with the Federal sentence. Beela also would pay $469,000 in fines under the stale agreement Hamilton said. He said Puja would plead guilty to attempting to murder the doctor and assaulting the two county officials. In Exchange the state would drop charges of conspiracy to assault the three and conspiring to Mur Der the doctor. The state would recommend concur rent sentences for her Hamilton said. Sheela Puja and a third former sect Leader. My Sbranti Bhadra were arrested in Germany in october on state charges of attempted murder and assault Stem Ming from the attack on the doctor Swami Devaraj. The three women were extradited to the United states in february. Blasts injure several at Gas storage site Petal miss. A a series of explosions ripped through a liquefied Petroleum Gas storage facility near Petal tuesday and at least 16 people were injured authorities said. A one mile area around the Enterprise Gaj products facility was evacuated because flames threatened other storage tanks police said. Steve Coleman a photographer for the a Liesburg american said at least two  propane Gas storage tanks were in the immediate fire area. He said firemen bad pulled Back several Hundred Yards be cause of the danger that the tanks would explode. Witnesses said at least one worker had not been accounted for