European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday. August 24,1986 the o Kelleys from left Michael. 11 Terry and Tommy. 17 Jason 8 Charles 15 Jeffery 13, and a id 11. 7 Brothers vow to stay together despite fire financial setbacks Gainesville. A. A when Judy o Kelley died of a brain tumor in 1983, her last wish was that her seven sons slay together. So when their Grandfather died last year inc o  Ley Brothers now age 8 to 17, stayed on in the Mobile Home on his farm and look career themselves. La was Lough and last week it Goi Loughr when their Home burned Down. There was a mortgage on the place along with debts from funeral expenses and Christmas gifts the two older Brothers had dropped out of school to work in a poultry Plant to make ends meet. But the four youngest David 14 Jeffery 13 Michael ii. And Jason 8 went to Foster Homes last Spring be cause of financial problems. My mama Only asked me one thing and that was to Lake care of the boys Terry said thursday. He said his father let the boys after their Mother died at age 33 and resumed Only briefly to administer the estate of their Grandfather. Terry and Tommy 17, were Oul buying a used sofa wednesday when their Home burned in a fire thai officials have blamed on faulty wiring. Charles 15, also lived there but no one was Home at the time. " an of o pants was recovered and my Grandfather s gun we saved  even before inc fire word of the boys plight had spread and neighbors began collecting rum Ilure appliances and clothes for them last month. Much of it was destroyed in the fire. On thursday the Brothers Learned that a fund set up by a local Church had grown to nearly s27.000 and that the Home builders association of Northeast Georgia had promised to build them a four bedroom House. Spokesman Johnny Lawson said plans for inc House were made weeks ago but the association decided to make them Public now thai the need is urgent. Jack Hodge who helped set up inc Church fund Wini shopping Wilh the three older boys wednesday night. They had to have clothes to Wear to work he said. The sad thing is All of it went up in the fire Hodge said of the donated bunk Beds clothes shoes and television set destroyed by the flames. Just Back to Point one he said. Just got to Slart All Over. He said an Atlanta Man has agreed to support the two older boys until they can finish their education. The three older o Kellcy Brothers Are slaying Wilh the Hodge family until other arrangements can be made. Brenda Gore a social worker who has known the Brothers for More than a year described them As the Best behaved boys i have Ever been around and said Hall county Hopes to place the seven in the new Houseas soon As it is built and a guardian can be found. But the boys arc in debt $33,000, partly because of a j12.000 mortgage on the 7-Acrc farm. Hodge said that he has asked some creditors to for give the boys debts and that they will use the donated Money to pay off others but the Brothers will Honor the Farmers Home administration loan their Grandfather look out 10 finance the Chicken ranch. They will be Able to pay off the debt and they want to do it Hodge said we Don t want to do anything thai will Lake away their  Law workers strike 3 Deere plants Moline Iii. A about 7,500 members of the United Aulo workers struck three Deere & co. Plants saturday after the Union and the world s leading farm tractor manufacturer failed to agree on a new contract. The strikes began in Waterloo and Dubuque Iowa and Milan 111., at 12 01 a.m., when the old contract a the Law called the strikes after inc two sides failed to agree on a new contract for about 13.000 workers at 14 Deere plants in Illinois and Iowa. The contract covers an additional 8,000 Laid off workers Deere spokesman Bob Shoup said. The three plants were chosen because they have local issues As Well As the Basic contract 10 be worked Oul. Said Law spokesman Bill Casstevens. Workers at the other plants will continue on their jobs without a contract Casstevens said As he left negotiations in Moline. Shoup said company officials would meet saturday to discuss their next move. Asked if there was a com Pany lockout of workers at plants not being struck he replied no not at this  no new talks were scheduled. Casstevens said the major sticking Point was Job Security and the company s efforts to emasculate oat Cost of living  Shoup saying Deere was disappointed by the strikes said Friday the company had proposed a contract con Taining wage increases but lie did not elaborate. In addition to its nine plants in Iowa and five in Illinois Deere operates one non Law Plant in Hori con wis., and three plants in Canada with Law workers covered tinder another contract Shoup said. Nearly 200 salaried employees at Deere s tractor and engine works in Waterloo Iowa volunteered 10 be trained Over the weekend to operate a company foundry on the presumption that the Union would be Oul on strike sat urday the Waterloo Lowa courier reported Friday. On tuesday Deere said it lost $39.6 million in the three months ending july 31, bringing losses for the first three quarters or fiscal 1986 to $ 107.4 million on sales of$2.7 billion. Stateside 3rd Static firing of motor is successful firm says Brigham City Utah up ,.thic Kol inc., trying to win a contract to by Iwuh sub-1 rocket motor for the proposed Midge than icbms seem successfully completed its third Static finn of the motor the company said Friday the test took place in California at he air Force rocket propulsion Laboratory at Edward fab spokesman Rocky Raab said. Try Minary results indicate the test was Suc the most motor uses a new High Energy propel Lan and new generation Light weight graphic Case to increase performance while reducing weight he said Biden says labor demos now in deep trouble Norfolk Mupi sen. Joseph Biden d do. Warned Friday thai labor and the democratic party Are both in deep trouble and must change  if democrats arc o win in i9bs. Biden possible democratic presidential candidate told 460 delegates attending the Vir Ginia Kiaie Al Cio s annual convention thai problems confronting labor and the democratic party Are similar in origin and solution. _. Both arc in deep rouble questioning their leadership and How they can make a Case to Lead again said Biden a 14-year Veteran of the sen ate. 2,200 accept slashes in wages holidays Portland Ore. A Mill worker have ratified a Boise Cascade corp. Contract that Calls for wage cuts and the repeal of five company holidays a Union spokesman said Friday. The contract affects about 2,200 null worker at 11 plants in Idaho Oregon and Washington. It was approved by 62 percent of those voting said Denny Scott a spokesman for the lumber production and Industrial workers Union. Ratification of the two year contract Means the workers will receive wage cuts ranging from si.25 to si.65 an hour Scott said. Union work ers have been earning about s16.7s an hour in wages and benefits. Collectors of pull tabs can t Aid kidney patients Washington a people in seven states have been collecting pull tabs from Bever age cans under the wrong Assumption the tabs can be redeemed to help kidney disease patients the aluminium association says. There s no truth to what seems to be a persistent Rumor that the labs can be used to buy treatments for kidney patients on dialysis machines association president John c. Bard said in a news release distributed Friday. Groups have collected hundreds of thousand of pull labs. Bard said but he added that those people Are victims of an unfortunate  we have no idea How it gets suited or How it s perpetuated he said. We Only know thai a lot of Well meaning people Are left unhappy and  he said no aluminium company has Ever sponsored such a program. $ 10 million lawsuit filed in toilet paper incident Chicago a two women who were accused of ripping a package of toilet paper in a grocery store have filed a lawsuit seeking $10 million in damages their attorney said Friday. David Neely who represents Dolores Pitt Man 34, and Normandy Rogers 32, said his clients were shopping in a jewel grocery store in 1984 when they were accused of ripping open package of toilet paper. Pittman said she had spotted some toilet paper that matched her peach and Brown flow ered bathroom. She was about to buy it but changed her mind after Rogers pointed to a rip m the package according to the lawsuit filed earlier this month in . District court. Neely said Security guards then accused the women of damaging the package