European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday March 19,1887 2 accused of possessing stolen Marine armaments stateside san fkanc1sco Cap a police officer and a Marine were charged tuesday with possessing guns and explosives allegedly stolen from a Marine base in san Diego and officials said a second officer has been suspended in the Case. Court papers said investigators recovered machine guns hand grenades and thousands or rounds of am munition from area Homes the second officer Alexander Alfaru a nine year Veteran was quoted in a court affidavit As telling an investigator the three men were engaged in the if icel storage and distribution of m Hilary  accused were Alejandro Serrano also a nine year Veteran of the san Francisco police Force and Gustavo Rodriguez identified in court documents As a Marine stationed in the san Diego area. Each was charged in Federal court with possessing and transferring unregistered firearms and with aiding and abetting in the firearms violations. Each of inc three felony charges carries a maximum sentence of 10 Yean in prison and a $250,000 Fine Serrano 31, was ordered into protective custody by . Magistrate Joan Brennan who scheduled a hear ing Friday on a request by Federal prosecutors o hold him without bail until trial. Assistant us. Attorney Susan Gray had said a War Rani had been issued for Rodriguez who later was placed under arrest at Camp Pond Talon Alfaro has Noi been charged in the Case. Alfaro and Serrano have been suspended without pay said police sgt. Manuel Barrett. Court papers said officers were led to n san matco Home by Alfaro on monday and seized two Silencer equipped machine guns about 60 fragmentation Gre Nadis 120 pounds of c-4 plastic explosive 24 to to blasting Caps with Detonator cords attached and 5,000 rounds of military Type ammunition. Officers accompanied Serrano to a san Francisco site where he said he and Alharb had buried More explosives and found More ammunition another Gre Nade and two to three pounds of c-4 explosive the papers said. A search of Serrano s Daly City Home Friday turned up a machine gun and two rifles along with 1,000 rounds of ammunition and some narcotics paraphernalia according to court papers. Serrano told police investigators that he had gotten the machine gun from Rodriguez who had come to him about a year ago with a plan to steal military explosives and grenades from the san Diego Marine base said the papers. There was no indication in the court papers of whether any amount of stolen weapons had already been sold. Judge revises his Alabama ban rows partial use of 4 textbooks Mobile. Ala. A a Federal judge tuesday amended his order Banning 44 textbooks from Ala Bama Public schools to permit limited use of four Home economics texts.. District judge w. Brevard hand rejected pleas of slate school officials to allow All 44 to used for inc rest of this school year. Hand ruled March 4 that the 44 books violate the first amendment to the . Constitution which pro Hibits the state from advancing religion in Public schools. The books hand ruled illegally promote godless humanist religion. The judge said tuesday 40 of the books shall not be used and inc remaining tour Home economics texts could remain in the classrooms Only if the offensive portions Are not used. One Home economics text had been ruled unconstitutional in its entirety. Critics of the Home economics books had challenged sections teaching processes for clarifying values int omitted any mention of parental or divine guidance. Hand s ruling tuesday did Noi change the state s plan to Appeal the Book ban order to the Lith . Circuit court of appeals in Atlanta. The stale May seek an immediate stay of hand s order until the Appeal is heard Jim Ippolito a state school Board attorney said tuesday. Ippolito said carrying out hand s order to remove the books would disrupt the educational process Aad prove costly to financially strapped school systems in Rural areas. The state had requested permission to use the books through 1991, we have asked teachers nol to use the books Ippolito said tuesday. Bui be said they May have to remove the books from All schools to comply with hand s order unless the appeals court intervenes. So far the banned Book have been removed in two adjacent counties Mobile and Baldwin. Mobile county removed the books the Day after the March 4 order. Baldwin county superintendent Larry Newton said five books in use in his school system were re moved monday. Stale school superintendent Wayne to ague has instructed the schools not to use the books How inc local officials Cany out the order is left up to them. Stud ends raise Money for teacher s son Springfield mass. A High school Stu dents sold Green carnations tuesday 10 raise Marc than $7,000 for a teacher s child who suffers from a Bone marrow disease. I m awed by this said Donald d Amato the his tory teacher whose 4-year-old son Andrew has Aplas tic anaemia i m in  some 120 students from Springfield Central High look time out from classes to sell the carnations for a Dollar each at shops and malls around the City said organizer Maria Decarvalho a Spanish teacher. Or. D Amato is one of the favourites at school said Junior Elayne Forastiere. He always seems to understand your problem and he always has Lime for everyone and he s always in a Good mood. He does t let what s going on at Home affect him in  several donors gave Money or wrote checks without taking Flowers and local businesses called in pledges said Decarvalho. Holy Cross school in Springfield put in an Advance order for 1,000 carnations. It started As a student government idea she said. Damato is beloved by everyone. It was an excellent Way to do a Loving service for someone close to  d Avalo who adopted Andrew As a baby said the disease was diagnosed last june. Its cause is unknown and it often is fatal he said. It s the pernicious nature of the disease hat you never know what direction it will take he said we be had a number of limes where we thought he was going to  retrial of d because of sleepy jurors Jefferson City to. A a trucking com Pany that was sued after one of its Drivers hit a Pedes Trian was granted a new trial tuesday by inc Missouri supreme court because jurors dozed off during inc original trial the record. Docs show thai the court observed jurors with their eyes closed or their Heads Bobbing evidence sufficient to support the inference of dozing the court said in a unanimous opinion. The High court upheld a lower court s decision that had ordered a new trial for consolidated freight ways and Paul w. King a Driver. King and the company were sued by Chang acc and  Yoon of St. Louis. The Yoons alleged King no co negligently when he backed into Changhee Yoon in a 1981 Accident in a february 1985 trial inc jury awarded the Cou ple $510,000 bul reduced that to $459.500 because Yoon was determined to be 10 percent at fault. The trial court ordered a new trial saying an excessive verdict was caused in part by the jurors sleeping. An appeals court reversed the order. But in an opinion written by chief Justice Andrew Higgins inc supreme court disagreed. Convicted Arnis Farmer fails to escape camera Minneapolis a a Federal judge monday rejected a request Byan Amish Farmer convicted of bribery that officials not photo graph him because of his religious beliefs. Us District judge Harry Maclaughli wrote thai the government s interest in Public safety overrides Andy Slabaugh s legitimate claim to the free exercise of his religion. Slabaugh 48, of Canton was placed on three years probation nov. 4 after pleading guilty to bribing an internal Revenue service agent. Federal authorities arc required to Lake photo graphs of All people charged with Federal felonies. Tests show unit of blood Reagan gave was clean Washington a tests for aids and hepatitis on the unit of blood president Reagan gave prior to his surgery in january were negative a White House spokesman said. The president gave a unit of his own blood in cast a transfusion was necessary during his pros Tate surgery on Jan. 5, said Liz Murphy a White House spokeswoman. Blood tests for aids or acquired immune deficiency syndrome and hepatitis were negative Murphy said the disease is believed to be caused by an unusual virus a Tiv i discovered in France an the United slates. Its chief victims have been homosexual men and intravenous drug users made-in-taiwan1 flags illustrate Babbitt s Point Phoenix. Ariz. A aides to former nov. Bruce Babbitt who has made the Trade deficit Centrepiece in his Campaign for the  presidential nomination have Learned the Dimen Sions of the problem  nags distributed by aides to a crowd of several Hundred at a Homecoming rally Las week bore the wants made in Taiwan the Only ones you can find to buy  made in Taiwan Babbitt press Secretary Mike Mccurry said monday. This is an indication of the perilous position of ,  aides called at least a half dozen places before settling on the imports at 53 cents each Mccurry said adding that the cheapest american made . Flag was seven times that. Catholic diocese Leader chosen in Pennsylvania Altoona. A. A a Michigan priest will replace Bishop James j. Hogan As head of the roman Catholic diocese of Altoona Johns Lown Church officials said tuesday monsignor Joseph v. Adamec is of Sagi naw Wil take Over the Post sometime after easter and will be the seventh Bishop to head the diocese thai was founded in 1901, Hogan said Hogan tendered his resignation oct. It his 75th birthday and the mandatory retirement age for roman Catholic prelates. Birds of Many feathers get drunk together on tree Beaver a. A the Early Bird May catch the worm but the season s first Robins Are bound to Caleb a hangover when they feast on one Plum of a tree William Bauer president of the Community College of Beaver county said 20 Robins and several Gray a wings feasted monday on fruit front a Plum tree Al the school that apparently fermented during the Winter. Many Birds seemed to be staggering and others missed attempts to land on branches Bauer  year Bauer said finches eating talc win Ter fruit from the same tree got so drunk they were lying on the ground and flying into Campus  can gel Good and drunk said Scott Woods assistant curator of Birds at the Carnegie museum of natural history in Pittsburgh. The fruit starts to rot and ferment and it makes Plum wine he said. They eat fruit Tike that and gel bombed out of their minds