European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday january 8, 1987 the stars and stripes pages a photo preparing for launch technicians at the Kennedy spice Center in of Cape cuu feral thu begin preparations of a Delta rocket that will be used to Bunch Coroum Darin not satellite far the indonesian government Tea launch is it pm March 19. Outbreak of Home fires kills 19 people in 4 states by the associated press a rash or residential ires in four states killed 19 people monday night and Early tuesday and police i Chicago charged g Man with seven counts of murder in connection with a Blaze that killed seven people in tha City. Police it. Philip Cline said Madison Hobley 26 who lived in the burned building would be arraigned wednesday and said the Cook county stale attorney would be considering other charges against him. Authorities said Hobley s wife and Young son were among those killed in the Blaze Early tuesday which also killed another child and injured nine other people one critically. Five children of the assistant chief of a Volunteer fire department died in a Blaze at their Rural Missouri Home. An electrical fire that jutted a single family Home and a two alarm Blaze in an apartment building killed six people including three children in new Jersey. An apartment fire in Amery wis., killed a 30-year old woman tuesday. Her two children Ages 11 and 5, were rescued by a neighbor who used a ladder to Reacha second floor window. The lire that killed five Southern Missouri children was raging out of Centra when firefighters arrived monday night at the Dairy farm of Bill and Eileen Shockley near Niangua about 25 Miles Northeast of Springfield. When we got there the flames were reaching out 250 feel said fire chief Junior Ruder of the Niangua Volunteer fire department the House was fully engulfed. It had a basement and the House was going inon top of the  firefighter Kenneth Bohannon Isid the five children who were lulled ranged from i to 9 Yean in Ace. A sixth child Samantha 4, was treated and released Bohannon said he understood that Samantha 4, wok her parents after the tire started. I guess they got her out and then tried to go Back and gel the others but it was too hot to get Back in he said. Shockley has been assistant fire chief for about three years Bohannon said. Shockley and his wife were hospitalized with severe Burns. A Wood burning stove in the basement was the suspected origin of the Blaie Rader said. In Rockaway township n.j., a couple and their 16 year old granddaughter died in a Blaze that broke out Early tuesday in an electric outlet in their living room a spokesman for the Morris county prosecutors office said. In Jersey City an apartment fire began at 9 31  and killed a 39-year-old woman and her two grandchildren. The origin of the ire has not been determined. Government bars donations for embassy parties Washington Kupij the  Pul an official end tuesday Ito the practice of fume . Ambassadors Tali Chimg and accepting private con Ribu tic policy change came one month Nufler the us. Ambassador to Switzer nand Faith while Llesly was formally cleared by the Justice department of rat arcs 01 wrongdoing in her acceptance Al monetary contributions to the embassy s entertainment budget from wealth Republican supporters. Under the order which was sent to . Embassies Deputy Secretary of state John Whitehead said the acceptance of privately contributed funds for entertainment at . Embassies is Dis continued As of  the Jenison came after the state department s inspector general s office conducted a review and discovered according to Whitchead some contributors May have Felt that their donation might entitle them to some special Bene fits and that some expenditures from the privately raised funds had questionable benefits to the  Whitehead said by ceasing to accept these funds the department will resolve these potential  in the Case of the Whittlesey a former White mouse aide and Reagan Campaign worker some contributors were entertained at dinners or receptions at the . Embassy at Bern. The Ion of one of the larger contributors was later appointed As Public affairs officer of the embassy but he Justice department s investigation did not come up with a dear link Between the Rattler s 15,000 contribution and the son s appointment other contributors to the Swiss embassy fund were promised that they would be guest at social unctions. 7th Mississippi City to observe King s birthday Jackson miss. A the Jackson City coun cil Qiying it was tending a message to new York mayor Edwit 1. Koch for disparaging remarks about Tiht i Ullh on tuesday became the second Mississippi City in two Days to Honor the late Rev. Martin Luther Kingjr. With a City Holiday this month. "1 think this will Send a clearer message to the mayor Koch a of the world that Mississippi has Changey said councilman Louis Armstrong. Sikh referred to a recent racial attack in new York As something he expected to he in the deep South. Kodi later wrote letters to Mississippi mayors who protested the state men saying be was referring to the South Befurt the civil rights movement and not today. The unanimous vote came one Day after Clarksdal approved the Holiday for the slain civil rights Leader and makes Jackson the seventh Mississippi City to Honor King on the third monday in january. . Foster the Black Jackson City Council presi Dent who introduced the motion said or. King had those values most americans shared the Day is not observed by the state of Mississippi As it is by 30 other slates and lie Federal government. Mississippi state employees have the third monday in january off to Honor the birthday of Confederate  e. Lee. On monday Clarksdale mayor John Mayo who is White broke City commissioners 2-2 tie vote on the Issue a split along racial  is significant when a Mississippi Delta town recognizes Martin Luther King who captured the imagination of the world the Way few men have in the 20th Century Mayo said. In Memphis where City employees get a Day off to Mark the Date King was slain april 4, 1968, City and Union officials continued to argue Over observing King s birth by giving employees a paid Day off. The american federation of state county and municipal employees local 1733 negotiated the april 4 Holiday in 1978, and last year the members voted against a proposal to Swap the Day off for one in Jan uary. King was slain while in Memphis to Lead a strike Mycity sanitation workers. James Smith executive director of the Union said the City should observe both dates. After All. Or. King was t killed in but one City and that was Memphis Smith said tuesday. Surrogate called suicidal in custody suit testimony Hacken Sacic no. A a in Lidiett woman who hired a surrogate Mother testified tuesday that she anther husband agreed to let the surrogate take the infant Back because the appeared suicidal when told she had to give up the baby. That move sparked the bitter custody Batik Beine waged in Superior court Here ii Wen surrogate Mother Mary Jueth Whit Cittad and William and Eliza Greih Stern mrs. Stem testified. Under contract for $ 10,000, White tread was artificially inseminated with Lac Perm of Stern and peer 10 Bear the  e child for him and his 41 pc Auld wife. Tut when the baby was born March 21, Whitehead changed her mind and fled to Florida with the infant. The two were returned to new Jersey by authorities and the child was put inthe temporary custody of the Sterns while the Validity of the surrogate con tract and the custody Issue Are decided in the non jury trial. Mrs. Stem testified to tit Whitehead 29, was so upset about having to give up her baby that the and her husband agreed to let her take the child Home for awhile. The Sterns gave Whitehead the child four Days after she was bom when the natural Mother came to visit at the stems House. Whitehead told the Sterns she could t go through with hit arrange ment and that she hid been calling out for the baby in the Middle of the night. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. ,. Jan. 8,1947 two Republican Bills were introduced in the Senate to abolish the filibuster and crack the Power of Southern democrats who traditionally use that weapon to talk Down any legislation they opposed on sectional grounds. 30 years ago today. ,. Jan. 8, 19s7 the atomic submarine Nautilus with More than 50,000 his Tot making Miles behind it was scheduled for its Firtl refuelling Navy officials in Washington said. The Nautilus could have sailed farther on m uranium Load but the efficiency would have diminished. 20 years ago today. Jan. 8, 1967 . Marines launched a Long awaited offensive against the guerrilla controlled Mekong River Delta the . Corny announced in Saigon. The marines and their amphibious vehicles swarmed into the Viet Cong stronghold for the first time opening a new phase in the Vietnam War 70 years ago today. Jan. 8. 1977 Spain s communist parly chief Santiago Carrillo said . Military bases should remain there to avoid an upset in the International balance of Power