European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes monday March 9,1987o no threat interrupts Berlini by Linda 1travel editor _ Berlin a noontime bomb threat put a tempo"1rary Damper on saturday s opening Day festivities of the International tourism fair it. The . Booth the target of the threat was close for several hours while a bomb squad and dog searched the area. They found nothing and the stand was backing operation of 2 p.m., As a crowd of people stood listening to a country music band. The Hall where the threat was mad its from the United states and Canada Tui incas in other areas of the Fairground Wau disrupt cd. The world s largest Trad Miniad started on an optimistic note with Redmons of an improving tourism season for l987jimm than 2,000 exhibitors from over100 count Raj nip 13 percent from last year have set up show Irnne City s Fairgrounds. Klebig travel Industry marketplace is where professionals Exchange information on what is available d�go47 61 san Inuko go san juan54 Sadat 75 Shreveport 77 skuhfu141 Apo Kana nlbsf63 tit to tim4 4am 4pm 12 2323 32 38 4045 u 10 2334 41 26 43 4ilt 4pm 43 4825 32 Franjul. I 30 38 London m Madrid p munctl.1 p 28 39 Bonn. I sup bad by via Tampa ratautas h4huow61 48 Mon Vail. I 48 41 Moscow. I ing from South Dakota and Nebraska into Illinois and kept rising. Rockford iii., had already hit a record 57 at 9 10a.m., and Duluth Minn on Chilly Lake Superior passed its previous record of50at9 30a.m. Lis toppled a record on the books since1898, and la Crosse wis., hit 60 to erase a record that had stood since 1878. Far to the East the thermometer inner York City s Central Park hit 60 de Grees for the first time since nov. 26. The warm weather prompted a change in business practices. I be got my Lawn mowers out Early said Dan Gobi owner of Arrow Mower service in South St. Paul Minn. Displays of seeds fertilizer and Garden tools replaced Snow blowers and shovels in the windows of Iowa hardware stores. We Only sold two or three Snow blow ers and about two dozen Snow shovel this year Robert Hobbs manager of an Earl May Nursery and Garden Cente store in Des Moines said. Iowa is experiencing its warmest win Ter in 50 years and the fifth warmest on record said state climatologist Paul Waite. The warm weather and Promise offspring made gardeners itchy on Chi Cago s North Side. The Sun makes All the difference in the world said Peter Macbride owner of the Fertile Delta. We be already had people come in for peat Moss and manure. The Spring material is at the John Ball zoo in grand rapids mich., about 600 people went through the Gates in the first 1 a hour saturday compared with just More than 500 for the entire first weekend of Marc last year said Ann Schuneman a Secre tary in the zoo s office. At Chicago s Lincoln Park zoo next to Lake Michigan the phones have been ringing off the Hook said assist ant curator Kathleen Marshall. Everyone wants to know when we reopen she said. Everyone wants to be outdoors. We usually hive a couple Bun Koehler loses new Job matted a victim of us Washington to president Reagan s John Koehler was fired on his quiday artwork and White House urday he was a victim of staff Jand the feud Between Donald regal Nancy Reagan. Koehler a Veteran foreign Dent and editor with the press before he became a Coa font tothe . Information Agen Avisia in 1985, replaced Patrickj Khanan Las monday the same a toward Baker began work As Whithouse chief of Stan replacing Baker him a coterie of aides in the Senate an two Presy filial campaigns. Soup said Baker told Koehler Fri Dayem he is reorganizing the staff and Thi Hie Job description of his Post might change. Koehle Forbe Given a Job with the appointment in mid feb r caused a 24-hour stir when it Wase aled that the Dresden Germany a bad been a member of a nazi youth when he was 10 years old. Bub his past was not a matter Koehler had Al ways Talke
