European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday August 30,1986 waterlogged this car in Rome gaunt going anyplace for while. More than 3.7 inches of rain fell on the Northwest Georgia Community la Tiro Boon Etas ing extensive water damage to property. Rescue workers helped two families escape ugh water that was entering their Homes. Teams search for sources of 2 disease outbreaks by United press International health officials tested water and Cooling systems at a Hospital near los Angeles and flew Over Sheboygan wis., looking for stagnant water in search of the sources of separate outbreaks of legionnaires disease suspected in at least four deaths. There have been six cases of the disease three of them fatal in the last five months at the City of Hope National medical Center in by arts calif., and another three cases confirmed in Wisconsin where one per son died authorities said thursday. Jeff Davis an epidemiologist for the Wisconsin division of health said the three Sheboygan victims contracted the disease Between aug. 10 and aug. 23. No new cases have been detected since then he said. The first cases at the California Hospital were reported in March and Hospital spokeswoman Bonnie Rog ers said three deaths Nave been attributed to the Dis ease. Two cases were reported in the last two weeks. Hospital officials evacuated patients from two wings of City of Hope fearing germs that cause the disease which normally strikes people already suffering from illnesses that weaken the body s immune system might still be lurking in the building. We think we have a problem but it u not an epidemic said or. Ralph Jung the Hospital s acting medi Cal director. We be got to take precautionary Steps before this gets out of  legionnaires disease is not transmitted from person to person but it can be spread through contaminated water supplies or air conditioning ducts. Wisconsin gov. Anthony Earl authorized the use of a National guard helicopter thursday to search a 15 Block area of Sheboygan for pools of stagnant water water tanks and other areas where the legionnaires disease organism could Breed. The causes of the outbreaks have not been deter mined but officials at City of Hope said the Hospital s Cooling system and dust from recent construction Are prime suspects As possible carriers of the legion Ella bacteria. Officials said it May be weeks before they obtain results of cultures taken from water and Cooling sys tems in the Hospital. Or. Peter Acrdnt an investigator with the Federal centers for disease control who travelled to California to Aid local officials said it May take weeks to obtain the results of tests that May help pinpoint the cause. The Sheboygan health department also was work ing with state officials who were investigating an out break of atypical pneumonia in a 15-Square-Btock Are Northwest of the aty. Since aug. 10, an outbreak of atypical pneumonia an illness with symptoms similar to legionnaires Dis ease has hospitalized 28 people and lulled five said Nancy Kaufman Deputy director of the Bureau of Community health and prevention. More suspect cases Are being investigated she said. Symptoms of legionnaires disease include a rapidly rising fever and chills dry cough vomiting abdominal pain loss of appetite diarrhoea muscle aches and head aches. The disease was first identified in 1976, when it killed 29 people at an american legion convention i Philadelphia. A 1984 Survey by the Federal centers for disease control showed 750 cases of the disease re ported nationwide. It can be treated with antibiotics although Chance of survival Are diminished if victims already Are afflicted with other serious illnesses. Delay in modifying 8-52 could save Salt Accord by Norman Blackcap military writer Washington a Modifica Tion work on a b-52 bomber that would put the United states above the limits of the Salt ii arms Accord has been delayed probably until late december military sources say. The defense department sources who spoke thursday night on condition of anonymity said the modification work on the plane the 131st b-52 to be so modified has been moving More slowly than expected because of technical problems. Nevertheless the delay raises the possibility that president Reagan will fail to make Good on his decision to abandon Salt ii before a hoped for Summit meeting this year with soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Reagan announced in May he was preparing to abandon the 1979 Salt ii Accord because of soviet violations of the pact at the time Reagan said he had ordered that two old Poseidon sub marines be dismantled to remain in compliance with the Accord through the summer. But he said he would allow the . Air Force to continue modifying its b-52s to carry cruise missiles. Cruise missiles Are Low flying unmanned jets that hug the ground to avoid radar. They can carry either conventional or nuclear warheads. Until Reagan s decision last May the United states and the soviet Union had pledged to abide by the terms of the pact even though the Accord was never ratified by the Senate. Among the restrictions is a limit of 1,320 on the number of multiple War head missiles that each Side can possess. For the United states a bomber equipped with cruise missiles counts against that limit the modification of the 131st b-52 to carry cruise missiles unless offset by the retirement of other submarine or silo based missiles would push the United Sta. Over the 1,320 limit. The Pentagon has never publicly revealed a precise schedule for completing modification work on the 131st bomber beyond saving it would occur toward the end of the year. On aug. 18, however. Gen. Larry d. Welch the . Air Force s chief of staff disclosed that work on the 131stbomber had already begun and the modifications were taking about 90days. Welch s statements suggested that work would be completed no later than nov. 18. Quite honestly Welch was off base in using the 90-Day estimate one source said. The schedule for these modifications has always been soft on How Long it takes because it varies by plane. It s just not a finite process because there Are a lot of parts Supply and labor Varia Bles there was always a possibility of slippage even As late As january added another official. The administration maintains the Salt ii Accord was flawed from the Start because it did not require deep reductions in nuclear weapons and the soviets have violated it by deploying t new ss-25 land based missile and other Cavemen called elaborate hoax Pullman Wash. A Dpi Stone age Cave people discovered deep in a philippine Jungle is years ago were not the anthropological find of the Century but rather an elaborate hoax according to a professor. John Bodley a Washington state University anthropologist recently attended an International conference at the University of the Philippines at which Strong evidence was presented that a filipino official offered the 24 casaday tribesmen a Reward in 1971 to go naked and live in caves while anthropologists visited their Remote Island Village. Manuel Elizalde then kept the casaday off limits to journalists and academics saying the gentle people should be allowed to continue their lives untouched by 10,000 years of civilization. I think Elizalde saw this As an Opportunity to say we Are protecting our primitive Peoples Bodley said. The More primitive they were the bigger a hero he would  Elizalde was director of former president Ferdinand Marcos presidential assistants on National Minori ties called pan Amin he was the first to announce the discovery of casaday natives in the farthest reaches of Southern cot Abalo on the Island of Mindanao. Bodley author of a textbook on primitive tribe called victims of Progress said Mindanao govern ment officials told the International conference the tribesmen were neither Cave people nor untouched by civilization. A National geographic article in 1971 reported that the casaday Hod no word for War and were Loving kind devoid of anger or envy and untouched by Vio Lent urges. To the casaday the Magazine said Eliza dewas a near  in fact Elizalde was on the Island arming natives a soldiers in a War against communist guerrillas who were attacking the Marcos government Bodley Otid. Anthropologists had Only two or three weeks to study the tribe. That was a condition pan Amin imposed he said. They also were dependent on government translators of the rare casaday dialect he noted. The casaday tribe was totally absorbed in the literature As a surviving Stone age tribe he said. The wore Little clothing. They knew nothing of farming. They started fires by rubbing Sticks together. This month s meeting of anthropologists was called after a Swiss journalist visited the casaday last april. Just after Marcos fled the Philippines. Swiss writer Oswald Iten found the tribe living in common native dwellings clothed and acting like Many other tribes in the area Bodley said. Now that was a fast Wash norr1stown. A. A Amyjo Mccoy says Shell never drive into another automatic car Wash which May be Good news to the folks at a suburban Philadelphia car Wash who Are suing her for  Ridge Pike car Wash in Conshohocken filed the lawsuit thursday against the 19-year-Oldnorristown woman alleging she caused $2,152 in damage by driving her red Mustang through at 30 Mph in september 1984. Alex Jafarian manager of the car Wash said the equipment was designed to work with vehicles moving about 2 Mph and the car Siisi Pidto dose for repairs after the incident it s not laughable when you re losing Money. She is the fastest be said. No question  Mccoy who was 17 at the time of the Inci Dent said thursday she recalled thinking the conveyor Belt was broken and her car was being pulled faster than usual