European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 31, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes wednesday december 31,1986 la police asking residents not to ring in 87 with guns los Angeles a alarmed by an annual ram of bullets on the roofs of inner City Homes and the death of a boy hit by a stray slug last year police arc begging new year s eve celebrants not to use guns As noise makers. In South Central los Angl pcs the past two or three years especially at Midnight it has sounded like a 15 to 20-Minulc War police spokesman cmdr. William Booth said monday. You shoot a gun straight up into the air that Bullet will go up several thousand feet and it la fall wit enough velocity to kill someone if it hits them on the head Booth said. Most people who do it Don t real ize How dangerous it  police have no Way to count the number of people firing into the sky As Midnight cars but believe from the noise and the number of spent slugs and casings collected that it must be in the thousands he said. The gunfire is loudest in the poor sections South of downtown but also is heard in Middle class and affluent suburbs Booth said. Last new year s eve 13-Ycar-old Dean Morgan was hit by a Bullet that fell and hit him in the head As hews watching some adults celebrate by firing guns into the air in South Central los Angeles. He died a few Days later. Detectives Are certain the shot was fired by one of Morgan s fellow part goers but there was t evidence to link any particular individual to the fatal shot Booth said. It is a Misdemeanour to shoot a gun anywhere in los Angeles county except at shooting ranges and designated areas in the Angeles National Forest. Reagan will leave Federal debt of $1.5 trillion Stockman says Washington a former budget director David a. Stockman accusing president Reagan of continuing to wage a phony War against spending claims Reagan will leave a $1.5 trillion legacy of red Ink by the end of his second term. The next president will inherit a publicly held fed eral debt nearly triple that accumulated by All of Ron Ald Reagan s 39 predecessors Stockman contends in a new chapter he wrote for the paperback edition of his Book the Triumph of  the debt already is double the $1 trillion it was when Reagan took office in 1981. The Book scheduled for release in paperback on Jan 1 four Days before the president submits his $1 trillion fiscal 1988 budget to Congress is a Broad an Blunt indictment of reaganomics from one of its Early architects. In a 12-Page postscript to the bestseller Stockman disputed recent claims by Reagan and White House budget officials that the Federal deficit is finally begin Ning to ebb. In fact the office of management and budget which Stockman headed from 1981 until mid-1985, estimates the budget deficit will shrink to $170 by on in the current fiscal year from the record $221 billion in fiscal 1986, which ended sept. 30. Reagan has vowed to meet the Gramm Rudman Law s target of a $108 billion deficit in the fiscal 1988 budget a reduction that would require additional cuts and other savings totalling about $54 billion. But Stockman claimed Reagan is not serious about budget cutting and never has been. The White House has no semblance of a program or political will to spend any less he wrote. Relative to the scale of a trillion Dollar annual budget Ronald Reagan cannot possibly be considered an anti spend  Stockman is a managing director of Salomon Broth ers investment banking firm in new York City. Edwin l. Dale jr., a spokesman for budget director James c. Miller Iii said we re not going to walkabout it the new chapter. We Haven t even seen it  the Gramm Rudman budget balancing Law enacted after Stockman left the government and supported by the Reagan administration is Little More than mindless destructive gimmickry the former budget director wrote. That Law partially invalidated by the supreme court Calls for eliminating annual budget deficits entirely by 1991 through a series of increasingly Strin gent annual spending cuts. Rather than promoting real spending cuts Stock Man argued Gramm Rudman has forced the legislators to embrace the most blatantly dishonest budget accounting  in the final analysis Only one conclusion is Possi ble. The american Economy and government have literally been taken hostage Fay the awesome stubborn Ness of the nation s 40th president Stockman wrote. Sister of Row asks coloradans to Send captives gift packages Littleton Colo. Up air Force Pilot Victor Apodaca disappeared 20 years ago when his plane was shot Down off the coast of North Vietnam and has not been heard from since. But his family stubbornly hangs on to the belief that he is still alive in a pow Camp. His sister Dolores Alfond monday urged coloradans to Send gift packages to her brother and other pos in a program that is sponsored by a private organization called veterans of the Vietnam War inc. On Jan. 27, the organization will deliver the pack Ages to the laotian embassy in Washington. Stau Siclar new York air to Cut fares on some e. Coast routes new York up new York air Mon Day said it will lower fares on key East coast routes during the highly competitive Winter vacation season to match a tiny  York air a unit of Texas air corp., the nation s largest airline said the fare cuts were taken to match presidential airways. New York air said it would Fly passengers for$39 Between Washington and Boston Hartford Conn and Detroit. Fares from Washington to six Florida cities were Cut to $49 on weekdays and $69 on  Between Boston Hartford and Detroit and the six Florida cities were set at $59 for weekdays and $79 weekends. A spokeswoman for new York air said the reduced fares would be available in limited num Bers on All flights among the cities Between Jan. 6 and feb. Ii. Tickets bought under the fare Are not refundable and must be purchased by Jan. 10, she said. Virginia girl Breaks Arm at cheer leading contest Nashville Tenn. A a 16-year-old cheerleader from Virginia suffered a broken Arm monday while practising a human Pyramid for Competition in the International Opechee Reading championships officials said. Krista m. Kersey of Mechanicsville va., was standing on another person s shoulders when she toppled from the top of the Pyramid said Karla pen rink an assistant staff director for the group sponsoring the  Don t they use Mats out there asked paramedic Mark Hines noting the Hardwood floors where the High school and Junior High students Are competing in Nashville s municipal auditorium. Winter resort in Georgia reopens after restoration Jekyll Island a. A the Jekyll Island club founded nearly 100 years ago As Winter resort for industrialists like the Vander Bilts and Rockefeller reopened monday after a 16-month restoration project financed in part by the Federal  hotel founded in 1887, was operated by the state of Georgia after the state bought the resort Island in 1947. The hotel closed in 1972. Girl scout troop to get Reward for helping family Williamsport. My. A the Mem Bers of a girl scout troop will get to visit a amusement Park As planned even though they spent their Treasury to make the holidays brighter for a needy  nine members of Cadet troop 240 last week spent their entire $200 Treasury on Christmas gifts and food for a Mother and her three children. The Money had been earmarked for a trip to a Virginia amusement  Reading a newspaper account of the scouts gesture a Towson couple who asked to remain Anonymous and the red men s Conococheague tribe 84 of Williamsport donated a combined $450 to the troop s Treasury. Train derailment in mar land spills Lye into River Conowingo my. A a train derailment spilled about 15,000 Gallons of Lye into the Susquehanna River and forced municipal water intakes to shut Down an official said. Nine cars of a 72-car train derailed near this Rural Community monday night seven ending up along the Edge of the River and two in the water said Bob Thomas spokesman for the state fire marshal s office. No injuries were reported and no one was evacuated. Officials from Conrail were to study the site tuesday to deter mine the derailment s cause. One car leaked Thomas said. That Tanker which was upside Down on the Bank under two other cars contained 15,000 to 16,000 Gallons of sodium hydroxide More commonly known As Lye or caustic soda he said. Officials were not sure what the other derailed cars contained. Forty of the train s cars were loaded 32 were empty. Thomas said officials would have a better idea tuesday of when the Munici  water intakes could be  now from what they know there was t much damage Thomas said Early tuesday morning. Water pumping stations at Perryville Perry Point Havre de Grace and Dee Creek were ordered to Stop pumping from the River Thomas said. The stations Send water to Baltimore Perryville Havre de Grace and several surrounding  officials in Perryville and port Deposit asked residents to conserve water until the effect of the leak on water supplies could be  a fire develop water Supply is very very Low in that general Community Thomas  began Early tuesday gather ing equipment to drag the derailed cars up the 50-foot Bank. The train was in route from hams Burg pa., to Washington d.c., Thomas said. Caustic soda is used in Petroleum re fining paper manufacturing and in cleaning products Thomas said. The stonely alkaline chemical causes Burns to the skin and eyes. There were conflicting reports of what was on the train and How much. Al though Thomas said the leaking Tanker contained up to 16,000 Gallons of sodium hydroxide Conrail spokesman Steve Lubetkin earlier said the Tanker was empty and contained Only residue. Thomas estimate of the size of the leak came after he had consulted with Conrail officials. Railroad officials then said they would Reserve comment for later tuesday