European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday septembers 1986 the stars and strikes protesters taunt Pigeon shoot competitors hegin5. A. Up animal rights  competitors in Hegins 53rd annual Pigeon shoot a Jih epithets such As Hitler would he proud of you and real Mon Don t kill Birds but left Early trend the volatile confrontation. Police reported no arrests hut More than 50 officers had to step in frequently to break up shouting matches monday Between the protesters and the 300 men and women competing for trophies by blasting pigeons oui of inc air with shotguns. The proles was coordinated by trans species unlimited based in Williamsport on behalf of he coalition to Hall the Coleman shoot made up of dozens of animal rights groups from across inc country. Protesters shouted through bullhorn As participant look aim Wilh their Shotgun. To be honest i think they should he More concerned with of Nile starving to death in  said one participant. Jack Wilkinson 40, of a Chury. Mass one animal rights spokesman said most of the id protesters left Early to diffuse what he described As a volatile situation during the labor Day shoot the big Gest social event of the year in the Rural Village of 3.00 1. The pigeons were purchased from commercial trap pers who captured them in Philadelphia and other cities. The event billed As inc largest one Daj live Pigeon shoot in the world is held annually of raise Money for Hegins Park a 40-acre Community recreation area. Shooters were applauded As they approached the Slind to Lake i hair turn at 20 Birds and protesters cheered when they missed. We Don t consider this a sport. We consider it a atrocity a spectacle said Dana Stuchell. Trans Spe cies vice president. No ethical sportsman could condone  she said Stuchell Iii most pigeons barely had time in Al from their traps before being shot and that Man wounded Birds were not killed instantly but had their necks wrung by teen agers working As trapper  Stuchell said her group would continue working for new Laws to outlaw live Bird shoots in Pennsylvania. Since its beginning in 1934, the Fred Coltman me Morial shoot has raised More than 1175,000, with profits growing yearly. The proceeds go to the Hegins Park association which uses the Money to maintain and upgrade the. 40 acc Park which includes picnic pavilions football and baseball Fields Tennis and basketball courts an out door theater and a Large swimming Pool. The association began la shoot As a fund Raiser so thai tax dollars would not be needed for the Community Park shoot chairman Bob Tobash said arguing that the shoot violates the state s cruelty Law. Protesters took their fight All the Way to the Penn Sylvania supreme court which on sunday refused Loholt the contest. Infant Dies four months after getting new heart youths on rampage a photo an unidentified youth holding a lighted flan jumps up Anil Down on a lifeguard Hycle at Huntington Beach Calif Sev eral Hundred Young people went on a rampage during a surfing contest Sun Day pelting police with Rucks and bottle Sand overturning and burning police cars. Twelve people were injured and 10  arid five police vehicles were damaged or destroyed. By the los Anselc times eighteen month old baby James who lived four months with the heart Ofa brain dead baby girl beating in hit Chest died after his body suddenly rejected the donor heart officials said at Loma Linda University medical Center in Loma Linda  death came sunday night one Day after the infant was readmitted to the Hospital where lie received his heart transplant april 2ft, Hospital official launched an emergency search for a Sec Ond donor heart sunday but the child died before one could be found Hospital spokeswoman Anita Rockwell said. She said he was the third of six babies who have had heart transplants at Lom Alinda about 60 Miles cast of los an Geles. One of them identified As baby Nicky died july 3 of respiratory difficulties after two transplants within 24hours. The other four Are in Rood Condi Tion and arc Home with their families. In death. Baby James was identified a Nicholas Lawrence Miller who was adopted at birth by Thomas and Jayn Cmiller of Redwood City Calif. The Mill ers had asked Hospital officials to with hold their identity during their child s life but after his death they issued a statement through  his adoption Ai birth Ingvi months ago Nicholas has been a source of great Joy and happiness to us and to All those who knew him. His contagious mile and big Bright Brown eyes will be remembered by All those whose lives he touched the parents said. He was cheerful energetic and adventurous up-10 the end of his Young life. We will miss this Little boy we loved so  parents also thanked or. Leonard Bailey and the transplant team that care for their son and the parents of the 15 month old girl whose heart was donate when she was declared brain dead. Hospital officials said Nicholas had suffered since shortly after his birth from a general deterioration of the heart mus Cle. By the Lime he was a year old he suffered from congestive heart failure. After the april transplant his health rebounded and he was released to his parents in Early my. The following month he was treated at Loma Linda far an acute rejection episode but he re covered and was again released. Over the past weekend however befell ill and his parents took him to inc Hospital. Doctors began administering anti rejection drugs but his condition worsened. He died at 9 05 .  death leaves four remaining baby to baby heart transplant recipient still alive. Baby Moses who received a new heart when he was four Days old is jabbering 9-month-old, Rockwell said. Baby eve who received her transplanted heart seven months ago at the age of 17 Days is doing Well As is baby Rachel a7-Monlh-Oid who was Given a new heart four months ago baby Jesse 3 month sold received his heart at inc age of 15. Days after his unwed parents agreed to sign custody of the baby Over to his grandparents. Kkt will move Headquarters to Connecticut by the Hartford courant East Windsor Conn. Connecticut will be come the National Headquarters for the largest faction of the Kun Siux Kjan following the election of a Connecticut Man As the group s National Leader. It will be the first time in the 120-year history of the invisible Empire of he Kun flux klan that the group Shea quarters is Nonh of he Mason Dixon line. James Farrands a Shelton Conn., machinist and the organization s grand dragon of Connecticut was elected Imperial wizard at the group s National Conven Tion and Public rally sunday. Farrands succeeds James Blair of five Points ala.,who announced his retirement. Klan members said the mailing address for the National Headquarters immediately would be changed to Farrands Home. Members of the invisible Empire say it is the largest Active group affiliated with the klan and has chapters in 16 countries. Blair refused to say How Many members the invisible Empire had. That s klan business he said. East Windsor police chief Thomas j. Laufer said think it is an unfortunate and sad Day for the state of Connecticut. If the National Headquarters of the klan is located in this state there will have to be a lot of evaluation and consideration done by authorities and Law enforcement agencies in this  it. Edward Dailey a state police spokesman was less alarmed. They Don t even have that Many members in Connecticut Dailey said. In the past i hair Headquarters was in Alabama and they had their rallies in connect Cut. Who cares where heir Headquarters Are Ai Long As they hold their rallies somewhere else Ollari build to to is an Gufel Tlam Kuhn ten Pell 600,000 pounds of fish netted in smuggling plot Seattle a nearly 600,000 pounds of illegally caught Salmon from Taiwan have been seized and lawsuits May be filed in what appears to be multimillion Dollar fish laundering scheme officials said. The fish was found in shipping containers thai were unloaded in Tacoma for Union inc., a manufacturing distributing and trading company based in Costa Mesa Calif., Bill Fulton said monday. He is Deputy special agent i charge of Law enforcement for the Pacific Northwest regional office of he National Marine fisheries service. The shipments were part of a Multi million Dollar Salmon smuggling scheme involving fish caught by Tai wanese vessels which Are barred by Tai wanese Law from catching keeping and exporting Salmon and Steelhead. The fish were shipped to Hong Kongo Singapore then to the United slates and finally to Japan he said. They re a legitimate corporation rather than one formed solely to traffic in illegal fish Lutton said in a Telephone interview. He said the fish Frozen whole body chum and Sockeye Salmon was seized in two batches Worth an estimated total of �800,000 on july 14 and 20. Sea land apparently was not involve Din the smuggling. They be been extremely cooperative in the investigation Lull on said