European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday february 9,1987 stateside App told the Sunshine Skyway Bridge which connect St. Petersburg and and Talon Lowers abort Florida Tintera. One of a kind Bridge dedicated at Tampa Bay St. Petersburg Fla. A seven years after a ship rammed inc Sunshine Skyway Bridge Over Tampa Bay killing 35 motorists the Span s $250 Mil lion successor was opened to about 15,000 pedestrians. The new single Span Bridge five years in construction is the longest Cable stayed Concrete segmental suspension Bridge in the world and is the Only one of its Type in the Western hemisphere officials said the Bridge was opened at noon saturday with a Parade and crowds walked the two mile incline to the lop of the 4.1-mile Bridge that connects is. Petersburg and Bradenton on interstate 275. It s an exciting thing to do said Vera Chariton 76, of is. Petersburg As sailboats on the Bay below competed in a regatta organized for the dedication. Twin Cable towers Rise 40 stories above the water line anchoring the Bridge s main Span a 1,200-fool Long ribbon or precast Concrete slabs 175 feel above the shipping Channel linking the nation s seventh bus Rietl port with the Cul of Mexico it s a one of a kind landmark said its French de signer Jean m. Muller. At the official dedication ceremony later in the Day a crowd estimated at 15,000 observed a moment of silence in memory of those who lost their lives in the 1980 Accident. Speeches by sen. Bob Graham and gov. Bob Marti Nez were Cul Short by High winds which prevented sound from carrying Well we slatted the 21 is Century today Graham said calling the Bridge one of the most architecturally significant Bridges in the  it s due some Celebration said Larry Ferguson Deputy director of communication for the Florida department of transportation Crews still have to finish painting the cables and the Center stripes. The Bridge in t scheduled to open to traffic until Early March. Construction delays pushed the opening Date Back from september 1985, and the Cost is nearly $50 Mil lion above estimates. A pier Protection system to Safe guard the Bridge from any wayward ship won t be completed until october 1988. The old twin Span Skyway still stands on its con Crete and steel pilings 1.000 feel to the East but a gaping Hole in its midsection shows where inc 35 motorists died. During a sudden blinding Squall on May 9, 1980, a phosphate freighter strayed off course and rammed the old Bridge s pilings collapsing a 1,400-foot chunk of the southbound Lane. Eight vehicles including a Grey hound bus dropped into the water 150 feet below. One Man survived the fall when his pickup truck bounced off the Bow of the errant freighter. Wesley Maclaire spent one week in the Hospital and years trying to recover. People think it s Over it s past. In in a he says still haunted by the Nightmare. The Bridge collapse was not the Only 1980 disaster in Tampa Bay. On Jan. 28 that year he coast guard Cutter Blackthorn collided with an Oil Linker and Sank within minutes. Twenty three of the Culler s 50-Mcm Ber Crew went Down with the ship in inc coast guard s worst peacetime disaster. A Monument to the victims was erected on the Shore of Tampa buy in an area now called Blackthorn me Morial part Sile of the Skyway dedication ceremony. The ends of the old Bridge will be turned into fishing piers. The High Rise Center Section will be demolished and dropped Anlo the Bay to form reefs to attract fish. School will Stop using the Cage Troy. . A three students were disciplined by being placed in a wire enclosed area known As the Cage but a school official says the punishment never Wii be used again. The practice at the Brilton kill school came to Light when Sandy Nilz told a Parent teacher association meeting last week thai her 12-year-old son had been left in the Small cold room alone for two Days. Believe me i m not against discipline Niu said in a Telephone interview. It s just inc room was nil appropriate because of it being so cold and because it was  the room is adjacent to the supervisor s office and in is closed off from the Middle school s weight lifting area by Chicken wire. A loading Duck is on another Side. It will never be used again superintendent Jerome Ochs said. He denied charges that the children were left unsupervised. The kids Call it the Cage or Siberia " said Nilz. She said she Learned about her son s punishment from a school official then asked her son about in. He said. Mom i Don t want logo there again 1 was so cold she said. She said hit son Jason was sent to the room for two Days in november because he talked Loo much and disrupted the class. He was not permitted to bring books she said. Ochs said Only three students had been sent to the room the other two were not identified. Other parents i think have a legitimate right lob concerned if it happens in fact does happen the Way they think it docs he said of the disciplinary practice. But it simply does  Nitz said she was pleased that the room would no longer be used for discipline and the said she was t angry at school officials. This was just one of those i hangs. 11 was t Well thought out she said. I feel strongly our school Dis Ricl is a very Good  Pilot passenger die in Texas plane crash Corrigan Texas a a twin engine plane crashed in a Remote area killing inc Pilot and & University official shortly after the Pilot radioed he was having instrument troubles. Or. Rufu Sprayberry vice president for development at East Texas Baptist University in Marshall and Pilot Kenneth Barton chief of the Volunteer fire department in Garrison died in Friday night s crash authorities said. Barton told controllers he was having instrument trouble just before the crash but he did not indicate Ihal his Craft was in danger according to , Crocker of Houston air traffic control. The plane was flying from Nacogdoches to Austin when in crashed in Light rain said a department of Public safety dispatcher. It crashed in a Remote area five Miles Southeast of Conigan Polk county dispatcher Jim Vail said. Dentist s and for free care draws Eldery unemployed Saratoga Wyo. Up a charitable Demist and former gubernatorial candidate said saturday he has Given away $800 in free dental care since placing newspaper ads offering his services to the elderly and unemployed or. John Johnson who finished sixth in a seven Man race for the Wyoming Republican since the and started wednesday said Johnson. The advertisement begins you Don t have to be crazy to run for governor. But it sure helps the and offers free examination and Consulta Tion free Mouth and Teeth cleaning free a rays and free emergency treatment up to $50 per person for anyone 65 years of age and older. The and also offers up to $100 in free dental care for families where both husband and wife arc unemployed and have no reasonable source of income. Turnout for klan March far lower than predicted College Park a. A a far lower than expected turnout about 200 White Robed Kun flux klan members and supporters marched peacefully through this Atlanta suburb saturday outnumbered by More than 300 Law enforcement officers in riot gear. An you proud to be White does it fed Good to be while yelled de Stephens of Jonesboro ga., grand dragon of the invisible Empire knights of the Kun flux klan shouting through a Kullbom As he led the March. Stephens said the rally was in response to the dec. 3 killing of a 15-year-old White boy not to it pair of marches that brought thousands of civil rights demonstrators to All White Forsyth county last month. Four Black Leen agora Ait charged with the killing. God bless hat Little while boy who was Mur dered Stephens shouted. Kjan organizers had predicted that from 500 to 1,000 klansmen would come from 26 states. They had no explanation for the lower turnout. Cove in Michigan now ice cold work of Art grand rapids Mich. A an Ickov ered Cove on Reeds Lake near Here has blossomed into a swirl of reds yellows and oranges but rather than some bizarre result of water pollution it s abstract an. It s a lot More Beautiful from the air than i Ever thought design student Dwayne Szol 24. Said saturday night from his Home after completing the project and viewing Aerial footage broadcast by a local television station. Szol began applying 100 gallon of food Dye two Days earlier. The Kendall school of design senior said the weather had been favourable with thick ice and no Snow but also was surprising. The image disappears in the morning be cause of the Frost but when the Sun comes out it reappears he said. St til used a convened Golf cart and had of drive around ice fishermen to apply inc Dye in 10-Fooi-Widc swathes