European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Space jobs to take off despite fears Washington a Job Levels Al the Johnson space censer in Houston will increase by 1,400 to 2,400 jobs while the space station is being developed a forecast that is directly opposite to another that said As Many As 1,900 jobs might be lost the National aeronautics and space administration said thursday Nasa administrator James c. Fletcher said the figures come from an Agency analysis about the Impact of a recent decision to shift management and systems development from the Johnson Center. He said he had met with members or Congress to give them the report he said projections Are employment will increase from the current 12,600 to an average of 14,000 in the six to seven years it will take to develop the space station these figures take into account changes made in program management Fletcher said. This projected employment level could increase by another 1,000 personnel through potential assignment of additional space station tasks to  the space Agency announced recently that manage ment of the program would be shifted to Nasa head quarters in Washington in line with a challenger com Mission recommendation that Nasa exercise tighter control Over tasks that have historically been parcelled out to centers All Over the country. The Agency also is shifting responsibility for devel Oping systems for the station living quarters and air lock from Houston to the Marshall space flight censer in Huntsville Ala Houston is and will be Mission control for space shuttle flights Fletcher said. Houston is and will be the training Center for and the Home of the corps of astronauts. It is and will continue to be the Center for planning and directing space shuttle missions saturday july 26. 19b6 the stars and stripes Page 7 treating the wounded App Lulo emergency workers treat two people who were injured in a fire in Lawrence mass the my in the background is being treated for cuts after jumping through i window to escape the dimes. An elderly woman died did four other people were injured in the two alarm ire. 1,000 stealth secrets May be lost Earth qua Ces Washington not the lock heed corp. Is lost More than a thou Sand secret documents concerning an air Force fighter so secret that the Pentagon will nol concede it exists. The company s chairman said our internal laxness is  however witnesses at a congressional hearing said there was no evidence thai any of the documents about a stealth fighter designed to be difficult to Deled by radar had fallen into the hands of foreign espionage agents. Lawrence o. Kitchen the Lockheed chairman and chief executive officer told the subcommittee on oversight and investigations of the House Energy and Commerce committee preliminary indications Are that there has been no Actu Al Compromise of classified material. Robert m. Sims assistant Secretary of defense for Public affairs said at a Pentagon news conference that while there was no evidence the secret material had reached a foreign Power obviously an inability to account for the documents internally makes it difficult in fact impossible to know if such compromises have  Only one of the documents was Classi fied top secret the rest being graded secret a total of 1,460 documents from Lockheed s California aircraft Plant could nol be found in the auditing sys tem meant to Chart the location and Dis position of secret material according to investigators from the general account ing office. In a subsequent Lockheed search for 235 such documents 224 were accounted for but 1 i were  that second investigative audit is continuing the subcommittee was told. Officials of the general accounting office said that the department of de sense should Bear part of the blame for the problem and that ironically the de sense department enforced much better Security procedures for weapon pro Grams known to Congress and die Public than for an estimated 8,000 military con tracts of which the existence is officially denied. Members of the subcommittee wit Nesses and Sims carefully avoided Mak ing any explicit description of the pro Gram in which document auditing control procedures had broken Down. However other sources with intimate knowledge of such programs said it involved a Lockheed Covert survivable in weather reconnaissance strike aircraft or sirs sometimes described As the f 19 fighter. The plane has been under production since 1984 and is nol the same As a stealth bomber or advanced technology bomber being developed by the Northrop corp. The sirs fighter 40 of which May already be operational is probably based at Nellis fab near Las vegas nev., the sources say. The plane which can be flown secretly to other bases on Large cd cargo planes has Low observable mate rials and shapes that give a very Small return signal when struck by radar beams court declares Dupont heir incompetent West Chester a. Apr a 29 year old heir to the Dupont family for tune who gave or loaned thousands or dollars to political extremist Lyndon la Rouche has lost a court fight to regain control of his 11.5 million estate. Chester county judge Lawrence Wood on wednesday made permanent an earlier order designating a Bank As trustee guardian of the estate of Lewis Dupont Smith. In november Wood judged Smith mentally incompetent to manage his affairs. Smith Sells advertising for a la Rouche affiliated newspaper. In rejecting Smith s Effort to regain control of his Money the judge said he had a mental illness thai made him unable to protect himself or his estate from designing persons or from dissipating his assets. In my judgment Smith has not made a knowing and voluntary Choice to throw away his Money on the Larouche organization the judge wrote. Instead his mental disorder has made him unable to resist their  Larouche a frequent fringe candidate for president and his candidates advocate quarantining aids patients link the Queen of England to drug trading and consider Henry Kissinger a soviet agent. In the Smith Case the Wilmington Del Trust co. Remains As guardian of a $1.5 million estate which earns about 1200,000 annually. The judge said that although he was limiting Smith s ability to spend his for tune his constitutional rights remain intact and he May exercise them As foolishly As he  Smith s attorney James Crommett said he would seek to overturn the order in Federal court on grounds that it Vio lated his client s constitutional rights. Failing that Crummett said he would App Callo Pennsylvania s Superior court. The judge had ruled on an april 1985 petition of Smith s parents e. Newbol Smith and Margaret Dupont Smith of Paoli barring their son from sending $75,000 to a Larouche organization. Hurt tourism in California los Angeles Dpi tourism in Southern California has hit a mid year slump despite earlier predictions this could be a record summer travel season in the United states. The slump struck this month following a Strong six month showing. Some tourism experts believe recent earthquakes May be to blame. Knoll s Berry farm one of Souther California s leading amusement Parks has been particularly hard hit by Low at Tendance even though its Orange county neighbor Disneyland is experiencing a Banner summer. Many Southern California hotels re port room occupancy rates Down 10 per cent this month compared to a year ago. Besides quakes tourism experts blame a variety of factors including the devalued mexican peso the popularity of expo 86 in Vancouver British Colum Bia and Rock Bottom european air fares that have lured americans overseas. We were on our Way to a record sum Mer until that first earthquake rolled in Bill o Connel. General manager of the seven slovak s motor hotels in Orange county told the los Angeles times. O connect said the Day after a Strong Southern California Lemb Loron july 8,182 guests cancelled reservations at his hotels citing the earthquake As the reason. Officials Al the Westin Bonaventure hotel in downtown los Angeles blame Low overseas air fares for luring tourists elsewhere. Room occupancy rates arc Down i percent at the 562-room hotel. Many tourism executives had envisioned a near record summer based on Low gasoline prices and the threats of terrorism in Europe