European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday october 15, 1988 the stars and stripes pages funeral held for Pilot downed Magnolia Ark. A the american co Pilot of a cargo plane shot Down Over Nicaragua was buried monday with a military ceremony and a sister s song. Wallace Elaine Buzz Sawyer or. Was one of two americans who died in the c-i23 transport which the nicaraguan government said was loaded with weapons ammunition and other supplies for the rebels. A third person who died has not been identified. Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega said during the weekend that his government has evidence of Cia involvement. However president Reagan and other officials have insisted that the . Government had no connection to the plane. Sawyer 41, a contract Pilot had served for six years in the air Force after graduating from the air Force Academy in 1968. At a funeral at first United methodist Church in Magnolia his sister. Lisa Lee Sawyer of Spearfish. S.d., Sang amazing  in a ceremony at the cemetery a . Flag draped Over his coffin was folded by Blue uniformed Honor guards and passed to his widow pcs acc. The couple s son year old Nock pc Hunter saw yer grasped a second Flag and hugged his Mother. I Don t think the boy realizes what this is All about said a photo Wallace Sawyer s widow Kewanee left and Mother Margaret leave the grave after monday s funeral. Bill Jennings of Magnolia a Friend of  present was Sawyer s 18-year-old daughter Carol from a previous marriage. Sawyer was buried with a fishing Rod and reel mid an employee of Lewis funeral Home. The body had been partially cremated in Nicaragua he said. The Rev. Jack a. Wilson pastor of the Church quoted Sawyer s father As saying he had received Tele phoned condolences from a representative of the nicaraguan government. He quoted the elder Sawyer As saying this experience has taught me to have greater Trust in the human  the elder Sawyer said last week that he asked his son on several occasions if he worked for the Cia and his son said he did not. I m 99 and nine tenths positive he was not connected with the military Sawyer said. He disliked the military because of always having to hurry up and wait. He disliked the bureaucracy. He disliked politicians As opposed to statesmen and had a Strong Dis like for communism. If he was dying this stuff he was doing something to fulfil a need for  Wilson said Sawyer served his country in a very self giving Way in far away places calling him a quiet person but one of those persons willing to have deep seated  to station says us air still employs smugglers Pittsburgh up two us air pilots who were convicted of drug smug gling in 1979 Are still employed by the airline As pilots a Phi to news reported monday. Both pilots who were not identified in the Story served three months of one year sentences wpx1 said. It said they were key figures in a scheme to smuggle More than $3 million Worth of marijuana into the United states from Columbia. They were indicted by Thcn-. At Torney Robert Cindrich and us air sus Pended them from duly for one year the station said. A Phi said it asked the Federal aviation administration what action it had taken against the two pilots and the Agency told the station it could find nothing on one of the two pilots. However an Faa spokesman said that As recently As 1984, the Agency had cited the second Pilot and fined him$1,500 for violating Federal regulations dealing with careless or reckless opera Tion of an aircraft. One of the two pilots in question declined to be interviewed about the allegations and the other could not be reached for comment a Phi said. Us air declined to comment on the Story it said. A Phi said that during its investigation it received an Anonymous Call from a Man who identified himself As a us air Pilot and said that we re getting pres sure from above not to say anything about the fact that several pilots with Sair have been involved in drug smug  the station said the caller then named one of the two pilots who arc the subject of its investigation. In a Story sept. 21, the Pittsburg press said doctors at local hospitals had reported treating several us air employees for cocaine use and a Federal grand jury reportedly is investigating allegations of possible drug use and trafficking among us air employees. Treasure ship s Booty divided by computer key West Fla. Up the daughter of treasure Hunter Mel Fisher pushed a Button monday to Start a com Puter s random division of some $100million Worth of 350-year-old Spanish artefacts jewels Gold and Silver. About 600 people will share the treasure. Fisher said. I thought we were going to bring it All up in six weeks and Divide it with shovels and wheelbarrows Fisher said. It s really kind of complicated  the treasure is Booty salvaged from the Ocean floor in 1985 from the wreck of the Spanish Galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha which Sank in a 1622 Hurri Cane 45 Miles West of key West. It took Fisher and his associates 14 years to find tin wreck site and another 12 to find the Mother lode or Mai cargo of treasure on july 20,1985. Hey today s the Day a big one Fisher exclaimed to a crowd of about 100 spectators and television Crews gathered at the Headquarters of his treasure salvos inc. To watch the com Puter division begin. But he said it would be sometime tuesday afternoon before the compute completed its program. And it will take up to three More Days for it to print out2,500 pages showing who will get what from the 118,593 objects of treasure and artefacts. Fisher said. Company spokesmen said about 600 investors employees of treasure Sal Vors and others with an interest in the 1985 Salvage will share in the random division developed by an analytic firm and an accounting company. Fisher said the other half of the Ato Cha s treasure is still buried at sea and that another $180 million in treasure remains on the Santa Margarita the other main treasure Galleon in the Fleet that Sank 364 years ago. Vermont formers dump milk in protest Derby Al. Up irate Farmer monday dumped More than 80,000 pounds of milk in sparsely populated northeastern Vermont in a protest against Federal agricultural policies. These people Are beginning to realize that their milk is almost worthless these Days said Susan Judd who helped organize the protest. We had about 350 to 400 people come out to dump  the action came one week after Dairy Farmers in St. Johnsbury staged a similar protest. Farmers say declining Federal Price supports for Dairy products and increasing costs Are making it impossible for them to stay in business. We want a fair Price for our milk Jack Starr told those who gathered to watch the protest. Well Supply the milk but we want a fair  Judd said the dumping was designed to make people realize now bad things Are up  we re getting less and less for our milk while the Price of everything from electricity to machinery has gone up she said. Workers taking uranium from wreck twin Falls. Idaho a wreck ers on monday began moving casks of radioactive material from the Snake River after a tractor trailer plunged off a  radio action was released in the sunday Accident said Leigh Ann Garn a dispatcher with the Idaho state police. Traffic was detoured on interstate 84, Idaho s major East West Highway As a radiation team from the Idaho National engineering Laboratory assisted a wreck ing company in recovering the truck and its hazardous cargo. A Crane was moved into place to begin removing boxes and other material from the trailer. Robert Funderberg radiation chief for the state division of the environment was dispatched to the wreck to conduct further tests for the nuclear regulatory commission said Bill Freutel Hazar Dous spill team Captain for the Environ mental Protection Agency in Boise. The truck leased to . Miller truck line of Ohio was carrying 20wooden boxes of Low Grade uranium bound for the department of Energey s Hanford nuclear reservation near Rich land wash., Doe spokeswoman Karen Wheeless said monday night. Early reports from the scene that the cargo included highly radioactive fuel rods were erroneous Wheeless said. The uranium in pieces 6 inches in diameter by 22 inches High Are proc Essed into fuel for use in reactors at Han Ford she said and were being shipped from . Inc., a uranium enrichment facility in Ashtabula Ohio. Traffic on the interstate was halted for a time while police performed initial radiation tests following the wreck shortly after 5 . Sunday Garn said. The eastbound lanes were reopened after those tests found no leakage. The truck driven by Lonnie Miller 34, of Waverly Ohio apparently hit a farm Combine and Tore through the Guardrail of a Bridge on the westbound ii is of the interstate about 10 Miles East of Hurley in the magic Valley. The Combine was spun into Miller s path by a second truck that Miller was attempt ing to pass Silver said. Miller and a Passen Ger Jim Pruitt. Were in satisfactory Condi Tion in a Hospital after swimming dear of the truck. The Combine Driver suffered minor injuries and was not hospitalized and the other truck Driver was not Hurt. Sands or time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today oct. 15, 1946 the supreme court denied an application for Hareas Corpus filed by former women s army corps capt. Kathleen Durant convicted of the theft of the Hesse Crown jewels in Ger Many because it said it lacked jurisdiction Over the Appeal. 30 years ago today. Oct. 15. 1956 former president Truman told a fund raising dinner for Illinois democratic candidates in Tay Lorville that people Are frightened at the possibility of turning Over the govern ment to vice president Richard Dixon. He said you cannot elect Ike without electing Tricky  20 years ago today. Oct. 15, 1966 Veteran stage and motion picture actor Clifton Webb died of heart failure at his Home in Beverly Hills Calif. Webb was famous for his Brittle wit and technicolor clothes. 7 0 years ago today. Oct. 15, 1976 the special Gate prosecutor has cleared pres f9id of any wrongdoing in Conne with Campaign finances while he member of Congress