European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday March 6, 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 7 weather alerts off until computer1 s fixed Washington a the National weather sen1 inc has decided to hop crying Wolf. Computer changes arc being blamed for a flurry of false Tornado alerts and other warnings of severe weather Over the past week affecting cities from Long Island n.y., to Brownsville Texas. One report had Rockford iii., about to be destroyed by a non existent Tornado. At fault according to Agency spokes Man Donald Wrt Ien arc new computer program disks being introduced la Speed up ils warnings of severe weather. They work All too Well it turns out. The test messages Scollo Check their performance zipped into newsrooms across the nation not always bearing the notice that they were tests. One  Early monday reported he impending destruction of Rockford a report that got broadcast by some Chi Cago area radio stations before nation Al weather service officials could re tract it. The twitter was said to be heading toward Chicago. Other cities also received warnings of tornadoes and other severe weather which did not occur. The weather service halted All severe weather warning tests on its National weather wire wednesday until programmers can track Down the prob Lem and i 11 a process Wilton said could Lake a few Days. The computer disks include pre pared messages with local forecasters Only required to fill in the names of endangered cities or counties and pro vide any necessary localizing information he said. Wilton explained that when local meteorologists tried out the new sys tem they were supposed to include the statement this is just a test but for some reason that phrase did not get transmitted in several instances. In addition to the erroneous Rock Ford report later the same Day a severe thunderstorm warning also false and also without the lest disclaimer was transmitted from the Chicago weather service office and had to be retracted. The Lone Island Case occurred feb. 20, when the severe weather warning from the new York City weather office was filed. It involved a Tornado warn ing for Nassau county n.y., and two new Jersey counties according to local news Media. That statement was Fol Lowed by a message 16 minutes later that said the original warning had been in error. The Brownsville Case occurred at 8 41 . Monday and also involved a Tornado warning according to weather service officials. N the Washington instance on Sun Day a severe weather warning was is sued at 2 32 . And in Dodge City he false bulletin wednesday reported a Tornado near Medicine Lodge and moving Northeast. Five minutes water the weather service Scal a disclaimer saying the bulletin had been sent by mistake. Jim Johnson n meteorological tech Nican who was on duly when the false bulletin moved said lie was testing a new computer program used for fore casting when the bulletin was Acci dentally transmitted. The warnings Are distributed on the Agency s weather wire a teletype Cir Cuit that prints out local conditions forecasts and warnings. Local offices of the weather service Issue their reports on this wire which is widely used by the news Media and government Agen cies. Lost Matisse on exhibit in Washington Washington a a rare painting by Henri Matisse which an historians believed was lost for More than 90 years surfaced recently at a private Art museum in Florida and went on display wednesday at the National gallery of Art. To my knowledge we be never had a new discovery in the Middle of a show said gallery director j. Carter Brown who supervised the mounting of the painting before television cameras and delighted Cura tors just before the doors of the gallery s East building opened to he Public wednesday morning. The picture tilled la Toque de velours Bleu the Blue velour Halis a Smalt Oil portrait of the artist s daughter. Marguerite. Matisse painted it at his Home outside Paris during the summer of 1919. The painting took a place of Honor alongside seven other portraits of Marguerite for the final three weeks of the National gallery s major exhibition of nearly 170 pictures from Matisse s important years of work at Nice from 1916 to 1930. The Blue velour hat was shown in Basel Switzer land Irrl 931 and then disappeared from Public View. Its whereabouts were a mystery until last december when its owners or. And mrs. Martin Goodman gave the painting for a year end tax deduction to the notion gallery and school of Art near their Home in West Palm Beach Fla. Norton s director Richard Madigan picked up the painting in his station Wagon on Christmas eve re turned to his gallery and immediately telephoned Jack Cowan he National gallery s curator of 20th Century Art. Cowan who had listed the whereabouts of the painting As unknown in his Catalon for the Matisse exhibition said it was through his goodness of heart and native enthusiasm that Madigan alerted the National gallery of his find. Arrangements for the loan for the Matisse show were completed last week mrs. Goodman interviewed by Telephone in West Palm Beach said she was surprised at All the fuss Over inc painting she had bought in Paris nearly 40 years ago and which Hung until recently in the Goodman apartment in Manhattan. It never occurred to me that i was holding some thing that was so needed she said. It was no mys Tery. At least two Art dealers in new York knew All National gallery director j. Carter Brown hangs the Blue velour hat � portrait by Henri Matisse along that we owned the painting one was Stephen Hahn. A Nephew of the family Friend who arranged the Goodman Purchase from a private French collection in the late 1940s. The other was Matisse s son Pierre a retired Art dealer who still lives in new York. Mrs. Goodman s husband is a former publisher of movie detective and other Papular magazines and founded the Marvel comics series in the Early 1940s. Cowart said the Blue velour Hal is one of the Best of Matisse s portraits of his daughter this is a work of great Quality a compelling astringent portrait thai captures the direct Gac and psychology of the subject. Aids victim wins worker s compensation suit Norwalk Calif. A a Man who contracted aids while working in Zaire will receive worker s compensation because his company condoned recreational sex for employees in the african country a judge ruled wednesday. Judge Maurice Carey said Paul Trojo. 46, should receive benefits because mor Rison Knudsen corp. Condoned the prac Tice of procuring zairian women often by bribing tribal leaders with kerosene or aviation Tuel. The company wrote such bribery off As Public relations expenses Carey said. Morrison Knudsen. A Boise Idaho based engineering and construction con Cern issued a statement wednesday say ing we feel the decision is wrong and we will Appeal. We Are very sorry that he for co contracted aids while working in Zaire. In no Way or at any Lime has the company supplied prostitutes or condoned  Carey said the approximately 30 americans assigned to Morrison Knud in construction projects in Zaire from 1980 to 1984 would bring in women by the  Trojo testified that he was old by the company that he could t take his wife because of danger from rebels from neighbouring Angola. He asked what there was to do and was told except for sex there s not much you can do. The River is full of crocodiles and the mosquitoes have malaria " Carey said. Under Carey s ruling which found Trejo temporarily disabled Trojo receives $179.12 ii week in worker s compensation retroactive to dec. 26, 1985, when inc Onset of the disease became apparent. In addition Trojo s family is entitled to a $95,000 payment if he Dies. Trojo is being treated As a Volunteer in an experimental aids treatment project at the University of Southern California in los Angeles. In Africa aids equally affects men and women and appears to be spread primarily heterosexually As u venereal disease scientists say in Industrial countries most cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome have been reported in homosexual males and by a duals intravenous drug abusers who share contaminated Needles and the sex partners of affected persons. Trojo s attorney Alfred Moratta said it was routine for Morrison Knudsen workers to frequently have zairian women As sexual partners