European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday september 30,19b6 r4 no a firefighters inspect the wreckage of the twin engine plan that crashed into � Chicago killing engine trouble forces plane to crash into Homes Pilot killed Chicago Vij a plane delivering morning newspapers plummeted Inlo a crowded neighbourhood nit two rooftops Ihnn nose dived i Rouen the porch and an fire to i third Home in a crash that killed in Pilot hut spared residents. It was miraculous that no one else bul the Pilot was killed. He s a hero in a Way. There could have been a lol More people killed said Scott Steward who Wason the scene Early monday. The twin engine Beech Craft reportedly delivering monday s edition of the new Yorac times apparently had engine trouble minutes after Takeoff from Midway Airport. About 11 . Sunday it crashed into houses a mile Northeast of Midway Chicago s second largest Airport after o Mare. Witnesses said inc Pitot whose name was not immediately released May have been aiming to crash land in a Small neighbourhood playground. Bul the plane Fello Earth with its nose rammed through he Back porch Imo the basement of Jim Caliendo s House. I went into the Kitchen and i saw the plane. I was t scared until 1 tried inc lights and they would t go on said Caliendo 29, who was sleeping when the plane plunged into his House. Caliendo said he and his wife ran out of the Brick Anil Wood House. He was returning to Check on the Pilot when the plane ignited setting much of the rear of the House afire. The nose of the plane was in the basement pan ofic House and the Tail Section was outside in the Back Yard Steward said. The plane dipped iwo houses knocking Down Chim Neys and Power lines and Small fires erupted on he roof lops. The crash knocked out Power for 100 households and repairmen worked overnight to restore Power. Police and firefighters arrived on the scene in min utes and put out the Small fires on the roofs and the larger Blaze on the porch As they pulled the badly burned Pilot from the overturned plane. Federal aviation administration spokesman Mariedel slain said the twin engine plane had flown for Only a few minutes before the Pilot radioed the control lower and said i have a problem. 1 urn resuming to Midway that was the last radio Contact with inc plane which was owned by the Titan air taxi co., he said the Faa was invest Ligating the cause of the crash marriage rate dropping in . As baby Boomers wed Ess later Washington up _ the marriage rate in the United slates is at ils lowest level in nine years apparently because baby Boomers arc marrying later and less frequently inc government said sunday. Richard Cline of inc National Center for health statistics predicted that the marriage rate would go still lower. Provisional Dala shows the marriage Rale nationwide fell 3 percent Between 1984 and 1985, from 10.5 la 10.2 for Ever 1,000 people in the population. The 1985 mar Page rate is the lowest since 1977, the number of marriages fell Between 1984 and 1985 Frum 2,4r7,000 to 2,415,000, a drop of 2 percent. Despite the drop the number of marriages in 1985 was the fourth greatest annual total in american history. Barbara Foley Wilson a government demographer said the population of people in the marriage Ages is gradually declining. Baby Boomers arc marrying less and the marriage Rale recorded since 1s67, has varied Between a High of 16.4 per 1,000 population in 1946 and a Low of 7.9 in the depression year of 1932. There was a period of fairly steady rates from 1980 to 1984, reviews of he figures suggest that the decline is continuing on into 1986," said clinic adding the Fig ures were not a Surprise bul on the other hand Idon t know if in was anticipated the Center s monthly vital statistics report said marriage rates ranged from lows of 7,5 in Pennsylvania and 7.6 in Nebraska and West Virginia to highs of 13 i in Texas 14.s in Hawaii 15.8 in South Carolina and 114.2 in Nevada where marriage licenses and divorces Are easily granted. Between 1984 and 1985 marriage rates fell in 40 states and the District of Columbia Rose in six stale Sand remained steady in four Stales. Remarriage Are boosting rates in the South and Wesl Wilson said. You get a higher proportion. In the some people marry younger and divorce is higher and they marry again. Those regional differences have been observed for a Long merger will make Quaker the no. 2 pet food firm Chicago a Quaker Oali co., maker of Ken a ration and Anderson Clayton & co., maker of Cains have agreed to a merger Hal will make Quaker the no. 2 pet food company in the country the firms announced sunday. Quaker reported that it had purchased 2,865,100 shares in Market transactions thurs Day ii also reported that it has purchased or has arranged id Purchase 3,776,658 shares from members of the Clayton family group at $66 a share in Cash. These purchases give the Chicago based food giant More than 53 percent of Houston based Anderson Clayton Stock. Under the merger agreement Quaker will promptly make a Cash tender offer of 166 a share for ail of the remaining shares of Ander son Clayton followed by a Cash merger of the same Price mild aftershock defected Northwest of Palm Springs Palm Springs Calif. Up another aftershock was detected Early sunday in the re Gion where a moderate earthquake caused $6 million damage in july scientists said. No injuries were reported. The temblor reported at 12 06 ., measured 3.3 on the Richter scale said Dennis Meredith a spokesman for the Calloch seismology Laboratory. The aftershock was cent cred 13 Miles Northwest of Palm Springs where a s.9 Earth quake caused s6 million damage on july 9. Hundred of aftershocks have been reported since the quake Meredith said. 450 residents evacuated after fire spews toxic fumes Santa Barbara Calif. A a fire engulfed a greenhouse warehouse and Small office spewing ionic fumes from pesticide Over a Quarter mile area and forcing the evacuation of 4sq residents for several hours officials said. Those vac Saied were allowed to return Home about i Sunday 12 hours Afler the fire broke out at inc for la mar Nursery in Goleta Valley about eight Miles West of downtown Santa Barbara. Environmental officials determined the air was Safe for residents after the fumes dissipated said Santa Barbara county fire capt Charles Johnson health officials planned to collect soil and water samples monday and test them for contamination. The cause of the fire which was extinguished sunday afternoon was under investigation. Police department rejects record number of applicants Fairfax a a _ More than two a hindi of thus year s applicants to Northern Virginia " fcb were reject cd inter. A Kytt d number of rejections by the Fairfax county police d Partl them Haf a member Force Short 30 officers officials told Thein � us Cane accounted for 48 per of a is to i. Michael a of the police department the Only one in the
