European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday october 6, 1986 the stars and stripes pages 3 killed in crash of cargo plane in Texas by the associated press a private cargo plane crashed saturday at an air Force base in Texas killing three Crew members and the bodies of three people were retrieved from the wreckage of a Light plane thai crashed into a Cliff i Massachusetts. The Hercules 1.-100 transport crashed at about 4 i5 a.m., shortly after Takeoff from Kelly fab in san an Tonio killing the Crew and narrowly missing a dormitory base spokeswoman Phoebe drown said. The plane veered sharply and crashed Between two buildings badly damaging two honduran jews parked in a hangar for repairs. Brown said. Thank goodness it happened on a weekend she said. There weren t Many people at work. But i m sorry it turned out the Way it did the plane was operated by Miami based Southern air transport inc., under contract with the air Force. Company spokesman Dill Kress in Miami identified the dead As the Pilot capt Peter Sammet 52, of san Rafael Calif. Copilot hit officer Phillip do Cunzo 31, of Stowe Ohio and flight Engineer Leon Mulca hey 60, of Sacramento Cal i f. The plane was bound for Wright Patterson fab in Ohio via Warner Robins ga., officials said. In Massachusetts investigators were trying to deter mine Why a Pilot made a in mile flight despite bad weather and poor visibility Friday. Holyoke police sgt. Michael Sheedy said the Pilot believed to be the owner of the Piper Cherokee flew from Barnes Airport in Westfield on Friday afternoon to Laflour Airport in Northampton picked up a Northampton couple and was returning to Barnes when the plane crashed into a Cliff at about 7 40 . Identifies of the victims Are being withheld pending notification of relatives. Kevin god Pul who refuel planes at Barnes said people at the Airport tried to discourage the Pilot from making the trip because of bad weather. The bodies of two men and a woman were retrieved saturday from the charred wreckage. $200/000 Chi War debt May finally be settled the two Chambers agree on a final ver Sion of this year s spending Bill the debt will finally be of the books. Republican sen. Charles Mathias. Like Many Western Maryland politicians be fore him often has introduced legislation seeking to get the Money Back. Now Hal he s retiring Malhias colleagues apparently have seen fit to Grant him the wish. I m sure this is partly in appreciation to him and his patience Randy v. Frederick. My. A on july 9. 1864. The City of Frederick paid Confederate troops 5200,000 to avoid being burned to the ground As punishment for storing Union  supplies. After decades of fighting Washington to be reimbursed Frederick seems close to getting its Money Back although without interest. The Senate Lasi week approved the payback already of d by the House. If Faa lacks software for new computers to improve safety los Angeles a computers sent to airports nationwide four years ago to help control air traffic remain Idle because the Federal aviation administration docs not have the software to make them work Agency officials say. They re sitting there waiting to be utilised said Juhn Tompkins manager of the Faa s san Diego sector. The equipment was supposed to make radar series clearer help track aircraft that do not carry Rada Sig Nal equipment and otherwise ease the overloaded air traffic control computer system Tompki is said. Steve Henderson a controller at the Ontario Airport terminal radar approach control facility said the com Puter information was critical because of its ability to enhance aircraft indicators Lii at appear As tiny radar by i is. The computers called the sensor receiver and processor system were purchased from the now defunct Sperry uni vac information storage systems Tompkins said. But without a software program 10 Tell the computers what to do the equipment is virtually useless he said. Larry sump regional vice president of the professional airways systems specialists Union said the Faa rejected Sperry s offer to a Etc a compatible software program and that the Agency wanted to a Etc its own. I guess they wanted to save a Nickel sump said. Major air traffic control facilities received the computers As part of an Faa plan to replace aging systems with state of the Art equipment. Things have been delayed a lot. It s really a shame said Jim Lougheed. Of the Faa s los Angeles sector. Raccoons pose threat to sight doctor says Dove an aide to Mathias said Friday. Dove said some form of the reimbursement Bill has been before con Gress every year since 1889, according to Harry l. Decker a Fred Crick historian Confederate Gen. Jubal Early and his troops had burned the town of Chambersburg pa., two Days before they moved South into Frederick on july 9,1864. Decker said there was no overt threat to destroy Frederick a pro Union town where Many Confederate enlisted men lived but the likelihood of dam age was real. The mayor went to a hand Ful of local Banks scraped together the Cash and distributed it equally among the Confederate medical unit commissary department and the quartermaster and ordnance units. As promised almost none of the Union stores valued at the time at roughly i million were raided and no prop erty was damaged. Shrines Are Una mused  front Detroit Are suing the dead Ken Nedys hard Core Punk rack group far using their photo on a record album titled Franken chrysl. Call ing the album and an accompanying surrealistic pos Ter depicting male genitalia obscene he shrines Are suing the group and Newsweek Magazine for $45 million. Newsweek published the photo about 10 years ago and wild it to the group for $175. Sands or time Washington up raccoons can be cute Pels or annoying marauders in search of trash cans to topple but a scientist said sunday they can also trans Mit an infection that can damage sight. Gardeners and children playing in dirt or with their Pels who come into Contact with Raccoon droppings can contaminate themselves with r. Form of roundworm that likes to Lodge in Eye tis sue said or. Lawrence Raymond associate professor of ophthalmology and chief of the Retina and vitreous service at he University of Cincinnati College of  13-year-old patient of Raymond came to him suffering from night Blind Ness constricted Side vision and blurred Central vision. A roundworm larva was discovered in her Retina and was destroyed by  parasite can also cause brain Dis ease and death if not treated he said since raccoons Are frequently found in residential and recreational areas Rac Coon focal contamination is possible Raymond said in a paper presented at a seminar. Children Are at risk who place dirty hands or objects in their Mouths. We recommend hands be wish cd immediately after Contact with Din or waste  three of four eases Are recorded by the Federal centers for disease control each year he said because reporting of the Conditi n is not mandatory. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago foe . 6, 1946 Barney Oldfield 69, one time Auto Speed King died of a cerebral hem Sorhage in Beverly Hills Calif. Oldfield was the first Man to travel a mile a minute accomplishing that on the Indianapolis track in 1903. 30 years ago today. Oct. 6, 1956 Eton Bessant came out of the bullpen to stifle the booming bats of the . Yankees As the Brooklyn dodgers slugged out a 13-8 Triumph in Brooklyn and made it two straight in the world series. 20 years ago foe a. Oct. 6, 1966 the Texas court of criminal appeals in Austin reversed the conviction of Jack Ruby on charges of murdering presidential Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and ordered a new trial. ? 0 years ago today oct. 6,1976the Marine assault on an Island off Cambodia in the Mayaguez Rescue Mission last year was ordered at a Cost of 41 lives despite pilots reports Hal most Crew members of the merchant vessel were not there a congressional report says