European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday december 11, 1986 the stars and stripes pig 7 Appl clothe right approach Morton thl Okol i redesigned shuttle Booster is est Fred under her tempt Here conditions tues Day at Bra Ghana City Utah. The new joints and teals designed to be More elastic in cold weather held tight temperatures were i the Low 30s a ignition do and the joints had been cooled to 20 degrees. 9 injured scores trapped in Boston office Tower fire Boston a More thin 101 people were trapped in elevators and upper floor and some huddled on a rain swept Balcony to escape the Imok thai filled a 42-Story office building from � fire that injured nine people. The fire started tuesday by in electrical tru form or explosion in us one foil office Square building Wai contained to the basement of the downtown office and did an estimated s750.000 damage fire Offir Iau  than 3,000 employees Are in the building daily but Many already had leu when the fire fluted in late afternoon. Laid spokeswoman Mara Solomon of Beacon companies the managers. The building will be doted indefinitely. Five people remained hospitalized with injuries ranging from smoke inhalation to chert and facial bums. Two of those were in serious condition and on Wax critical officials said. Four other were treated and  office workers said their ordeal began with flickering lights and a fire alarm that some dismissed at first Ai a routine malfunction then the lights were out the phone went dead an then came All the smoke said Sandy Hook an administrative assistant at an accounting firm. It was unbearable. I can t Tell you How  dozens of people were trapped in elevators while theri look Refuge from Smoky stairwells on a 34thfloor Balcony huddling for about 40 minutes to Sta warm in the wind and rain. Others congregated in dark offices. It took nearly three hours for the last worked to be taken to safety a Friend and relatives wailed anxiously outside Forten moved Ona to appear through the thin veil of  m of Hon a tearful Lin Dato. Said w she hugged her husband Stephen. Through three foot Hole punched by firefighters. We Wen tired petrified amid Janice Madden librarian it i Law firm who we one of 27 people trapped in a 37th-floor office for about an hew. Fire  Leo Staplton said the Haxe asunder control quickly but Moke wafted up elevator Shaft and Muir Adbi to the lop of the bribing. It also spread to another transformer and the emergency Gen Tralor failed knocking out emergency lights. Bui Chenoweth manager of company that Dean office in the building said there were 10 or 20 explosions one right after the other like a machine gun going Oft about 600 to 700 people Alto were evacuated fro the adjoining Meridian hotel As a precaution said Jim Collins a hotel spokesman. It was the fourth fire in a Boston High Rise this year. In september a fire at the Copley Square hotel routed hundreds of guests. In july 3,000 people were evacuated from the state Street Bank build big after transformer blew up in the basement in january fire forced the evacuation of the 52-Siory Prudential build ing and a filth floor fire at a 36-Story apartment build ing forced nearly 700 residents to flee. Pries fes children at mass that Santa is dead woodbr1dge no. A Chil Dren were startled and parents were upset when a roman Catholic priest de dared in a Sermon that Santa Claus is  Rev. Romano Ferraro also told the scores of children present that therein no North pole toy factory and that Rudolph the red nosed Reindeer was fake one Parent Sai he tried to kill Santa said Joann Apolonia who attended the saturday mass at St. John Vianney roman Catho Lic Church. That s How the kids took it Robert Madison whose 7-year-old son attended the mass said parents Are going null Over the priest s comments he said his son seems to have lost his enthusiasm for Santa clans and that the incident May have damaged his credibility in the boy s eyes. We spend a lot of time trying to get our children to feel comfortable talking to us and this Guy is telling them your parents Are lying to you,1" he said. The Sermon started very nicely with Ferraro explaining St. Nicholas history and telling the children that the Saint distributed presents to the poor a fore runner of gift giving today Apoloni Asaid. But Ferraro then told the children that just As St Nicholas is dead so is Santa Claus she said. During a question and answer session after the mass a fifth grader asked if the Sermon meant that parents were liars Apolonia said. Ferraro answered yes and told the youngsters that if you pretend to be sleeping on christinas eve you la catch your parents putting presents under the tree said Apolonia whose daughter was at the mass with a first Grade class. He told the children that there was no such thing As a living Santa Claus who delivered gilts that it was just a fairy tale said Nick Andrusko whose 1 and10-year-old children were Al the mass. I am appalled by the Church going far beyond its jurisdiction in regards to these Young impressionable children said Andrusko adding that until the ser Mon Bis younger child believed in Santa Tous Many of the children refused to be Lieve the priest and one youngster went from mass to a Church Bazaar where she told a Man playing Santa Claus to bring the priest charcoal at Christmas because he had lied the parents said. A Secretary at the Church s rectory said tuesday that Ferraro was not available for comment and she did not know whence would be in. Paul Fenmore a lawyer who rep resents the Parish said Ferraro was horribly misquoted by the Parent but a statement issued by the Metuchen diocese apologized for any Lack of sensitivity. That May have caused disappointment or disillusionment among the children. The statement issued in the name of the Rev. Francis j. Sergei pastor of St John Vianney said it is unfortunate that father Ferrara in his Zeal to explain the spiritual Dimen Sions of our Celebration May have appeared to dismiss the importance which Many especially children attach to som of the cultural and secular aspects of the  the statement said the legend of Stnicholas distributing secret presents to children has been associated wit Christmas eve and the Church does t want to discourage that the Parish has scheduled a meeting tallow parents to discuss the matter with priests. 38 tourists to get their liquor Back Memphis Tenn. Apall but two tourists whose duty free liquor was confiscated As they passed through Memphis International Airport on toc Irisy sack from Mexico will get their booze Back authorities say. Lua. Usu rum and other _,21 Gallons after they were that a massive Quantity of in Lvie Liq of ejected on two flight. To Mexico on oct is said agent War Ren Bond of the Abc. Or the 40 tourists involved will gel their liquor Back authorities said tuesday but two Tennessee residents Are subject to a state Law allowing confiscation of untaxed liquor. The oct is raid by four Abc agent embarrassed Airport officials and prompted gov. Lamar Alexander s of fice to intercede. A plan to return the liquor is being worked out with Northwest airlines whose flights were raided said Larry Cox director of aviation at the Airport i think the state did a very Magnani Mous thing in returning the liquor. Airport officials sent 125 to each Pas Senger after the incident he said. Riwe were so embarrassed it had happened and we did t want people to blame the Airport or Northwest  i still would like to know exactly Whit happened to begin with said Dianna Chronister of St. Louis who got letter saying her liquor would be returned. What was the real reason the liquor is being returned because authorities determined that the individuals did not intend to break the Laws of the state of Tennessee said Steve Carl son assistant Abc director. Inmate was on the Lam tape was on the air sleep ate spun his own escape. Bert a spokeswoman for the Alaba Aprison system in Montgomery. He apparently pot on a three hour tape Aad left about 130 in the morning she said. When the corrections office called him in the morning the inmate was t , 28. Is serving 10-year state prison sentence for his april 1984 conviction in Jefferson county on a chary of Possession of a forged instrument Herbert said. He had been in the work Deate pro Gram at Alexander City since april end would have teen eligible Tat parole neat year she said cat credited with saving 4 Dies in fire rant Ham . A mor Ris a family cat who died of smoke inhalation in a fire Baa been credited with saving the lives of four  fire was discovered Early tuesday when mom woke up Jim and Jennifer Cox and their two daughters inc Wayne count fire marshal s office said. He just started meowing real loud and everyone Apt up to find out what was going on/1 mrs. Cox  we realized there was a file and we left the Bouse. We tried to All him butted int have much time. He was real Nice cat and beloved us and we loved  the Miry was treated at Wayne memorial Hospital for Minke Daft Laiful