European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday. July 24,1986 number of homeless in . Rising study finds Berkeley Calif. Up skyrocketing rents a Durban renewal projects Are causing a Rise in the num Ber of homeless people in the United states a new study shows. The study compiled by Richard r. Ropers assist ant professor of sociology at Southern Utah state col lege also dispelled a myth about the character of Stree people. Most Are not elderly drifters alcoholics and mental patients ropers said. His study indicates most Are 40 or younger and have completed High school and fewer than 20 percent have a history of psychiatric Hospital study published by the University of California and appearing in the latest Issue of Public affairs re port was based on ropers own study of los Angeles As Well As other studies in san Francisco Portland Ore. Dallas Phoenix Ariz. Chicago and new York. Ropen said there Are 3 million homeless people inthe United states and most live on the streets because a photo Docking his trophy Bill Sweedler of Westport Conn proudly pose beside his catch a 1,174-Pound Bow Martin of a Dock in Montauk . The Chut fish Earne Sweedler a place in the new York record Book. Of the Scarcity of Low income increases in rents and mortgage inter est rates probably have contributed most directly to increasing homelessness along with Urban renewal programs that Are disrupting skid Row areas he Factor is destruction of single room occupancy buildings or their conversion to condominiums. As a example Ripen said 87 percent of such buildings in new York City were lost to Urban renewal between1970 and 1980. Another change is the rapid increase of non White sin the homeless ranks. It is Well documented that homeless americans in the 1950s, 60s and 70s were predominantly White males ropers said tuesday. Now that unemployment and poverty rates Are among the highest since the end of world War ii and there is disproportionately High representation of non Whites among the unemployed and poor it is not sur prising that non Whites account for nearly half of the nation s homeless he said. Litton subsidiary pleads guilty Philadelphia a a subsidiary of defens contractor Litton industries inc. Pleaded guilty tues Day to defrauding the government of More than $6million and to covering up its practice of lying about production systems inc. Entered guilty Picas to 321 charges listed in an indictment announced july 15.. District court judge Charles r. Whiner was to Rule thursday on whether to accept a plea agreement calling for restitution of $6.3 million and a criminal Fine ot$3 charges included 20 counts of mail fraud 300 counts of making false claims to the government Andone count of concealing material facts from a govern ment penalties could bring the total amount of fines and restitution to $15 million said assistant . At Torney Nicholas c. Harbist. There were Only two employees that we believe directed the scheme actually told people How to do it Harbist said. He said numerous employees were aware of she scheme to add Chicken fat to contracts but they were not considered criminally along with the company were Michael j. Millspaugh 34, of Buffalo Grove iii., and Joseph Diliberto 68, of Levittown. Millspaugh pleaded innocent tuesday and was re leased on $50,000 Bond Harbist said. Diliberto was scheduled for arraignment aug. 4.the two men were officers of Clifton precision Spe Cial devices division located in Springfield which Isth sole supplier of types of radar and instruments used aboard aircraft and ships in All branches of the armed forces. Millspaugh facing one count of racketeering 20counts of mail fraud and one count of making false statements to a government Agency is former vice president of finance and administration at the division. Diliberto charged with one count of conspiracy tomake false statements to a government Agency and one count of making false statements to a government Agency is the former materials manager at the division. Guard drinks aids laced coffe6 Lake Butler Fla. A a prison guard s cof fee was laced with blood serum from an aids patient by two inmates seeking revenge after the officer foiled an escape attempt according to a published report. Sources told the Gainesville Sun that the prisoners suspected in the incident have been placed in Segre gated cells and that inmates no longer Are allowed inthe room where patients blood samples Are stored. The Case has been turned Over to the state attorney office. The prisoner whose blood serum was used in the revenge Effort now jokes that he and the officer Are blood Brothers said the officer a five year Veteran of the prison system who did not want his name used in the Story published sunday in the Sun. I try to keep Light about it but it s really not funny said the officer who drank the tainted of my fellow officers have been real supportive. They be just been super about it. Nobody s shunned me or anything like that prison officials Learned of the june 17 incident through an informer. When they believed one inmate stole a vial of serum and passed it to another who dumped it in the Coffee investigators told the officer about it the Sun said. I More or less went into Shock the officer said. The chief doctor at the reception medical Center Inthis North Florida town told the officer the chances of contracting the deadly acquired immune deficiency syndrome were slight the newspaper reported. But even if the virus that causes aids survived the officer s stomach acids it would take years for the illness to show up in tests. Stateside Pennsylvania Man indicted in tainted jello scare Scranton a. A a Man was indicted tuesday in a cyanide tampering scare that forced a Wayne county supermarket to pull jello dry mix desserts from its shelves the Fri said. A Federal grand jury indicted Norman Maryallen 21, of Honesdale on two counts of knowingly spreading false information that a product was tainted said Fri agent Charlie Grubert. Each count carries a maximum penalty of five Yean in prison and a $250,000 Fine. Jebo Gelatin and instant pudding mixes were removed from the Honesdale Acme alter the super Market received two Calls july 11 and 12 that the products had been laced with cyanide. No Poison was found and there were no re ports of illness Grubert said. Allen has been held without bail at the Lacka Wanna county jail in Scranton since his arrest july 14. 11 year old suspect held in Miami armed robbery Miami a even Street hardened police Werea Little surprised by the age of an to year old boy taken into custody for investigation of armed Rob Bery in the theft of a radio from other teen agers. They keep getting younger and younger said robbery detective cd. Rakestraw tuesday. I be seen 9 and 10-year-old purse snatch Enand Petty thieves but this one is the youngest armed robbery suspects i be Ever boy and a 16-year-old Friend were Riding a bicycle when they accosted two other boys on bicycle and demanded the radio from the 15-and 16-year-old boys Rakestraw 11-year-old punched one of the other kids in the head and began threatening him he said. The clincher came when the 16-year-old suspect lifted up his shirt and showed what looked to the other kids to be a gun tucked in Bif pants. They gave up the or not the weapon was real is not known he said. It s still armed robbery because the other kids weren t about to Challenge police booking officers had to Kneel to Lake the Young boy s Mug shot during booking be cause he is Only 4 feet Ull the suspects we retaken to youth Hall. Victim of Bear attack released from Hospital Yellowstone Park Wya up Frenchman who survived an attack by a grizzly Bear in Yellowstone National put has been release from a Hospital a Hospital spokeswoman said. Alain Foegle 29, of Bitch France was release from Lake Hospital monday. Foegle was hiking alone in the turbid Lake area of the Park when attacked by a Bear with a cub sunday said National Park service spokeswoman Amy suffered several puncture wounds on his upper and lower left leg and his lower left Back punctures and lacerations to his upper left Arm and a dislocated left shoulder. Chemist for Dea indicted in theft of cocaine from lab san Francisco up a 15-year Veter an chemist at the . Drug enforcement administration has been accused by a Federal grand jury of stealing four to 14 ounces of cocaine from the Agency s san Francisco Laboratory twas announced wednesday. Esther Allen 56, was named in a i 3-count indict ment on charges of stealing High purity cocaine As signed to her for analysis in five Dea cases between1983 and 1986, according to John Russell of the Justice department s Public integrity , of Corte Madura Calif., resigned in april Russell indictment charged that she look the cocaine with the intent of distributing it and she was accused of using the mails to Aid in the distribution. The indictment carries six embezzlement charges with maximum prior i terms of 10 Yean each plus a is also accused six counts of posses Sion of cocaine to i Button. Each of those charges Carrie mum of 15 years in prison plus a Fine
