European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. March 24, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 up Orodan flock to join Flamingo fad Denver a people used to joke about Pink flamingos confront lawns but the plastic Birds an Thil Spring s hotly so Lawn item in suburban Denver. Some people buy them because they like them others Purchase them at a gag Tor  in Boulder neighbors Are playing hide and Seck with hem. They move up and Down a Street said . Dunwell of Mcguckin hardware which has  of plastic flamingos in he last year or so. We always thought they were Tacky so we bypassed them. Dun Welt said. We finally bought them because that s what people want they were on clearance at a discount store and 1 could t re  said Maggie Thomas who placed two flamingos in her Yard to be  were a standing joke in the neighbourhood last summer. Then we left them out All Winter to see if they d Fly South she said. 7 killed 30 injured in Harlem in High Rise apartment Blaze new York a fire roared up a trash Chute to inc top floors of a 35-Story apartment building sunday morning killing seven people including a 12-year old girl and her two older Brothers who jumped their clothes afire to escape the flames authorities said. Thirty people including four police officers and two firefighters were treated for smoke inhalation or minor injuries after the Blaze at the privately owned East Harlem building. Eurika Young who lives on the 7thfloor, said she heard people screaming help me help me before they plunged to their deaths. They were burning and nobody would help and they just jumped she said. Fire department spokesman Frank Martinez confirmed that the three who jumped were on fire. The panic is overwhelming you just can t fathom it he said. Is Over separates no whelming pain panic. It just Spart the body from the brain and there s rational  the victims were identified As Martha Wehrt smoke and flames pour from apartments. Jenkins 43. Found dead in her 33rd poor apartment and her sons Robbin. Is. And Stanley 23, and 12-year-old daughter Dwana who were the three who jumped. Found in a 34lh floor apartment were Clementine Grenshow 46 Charle Strensham 28 and Harriet Wynn 4fire officials believed the Blaze broke out in the garbage Chute at about the 23rd floor. A soldering cigarette May have ignited trash hat had become wedged in the two fool Square Chic. Martinez said. City Law requires the installation of sprinklers throughout inc trash Clute and investigators were trying to deter mine whether the sprinklers were work ing said fire chief Robert duller As the fire grew More intense in the Chute Martinez said flames broke through on five floors of the building he 23rd, 24th, 33rd. 34th and 35th. Ten ants on the lower floors were not affected by the fire and were not evacuated. People in the building were smelling smoke at 7 . But nobody called in fire department until about an hour later he said. They Felt there was no immediate problem. Coke employee advised9 not to accept Pepsi prize shelbyv1lle, ind. A a coca cola employee will take a free trip Courtesy of Pepsi cola to new Orleans this week to see the National collegiate athletic association basketball tournament. Although he s been strongly advised by his Bosses not to accept the prize Michael a. Wilson contends that they re making a bigger Deal of this than what it the vacation for two he says in t going to make him part of the Pepsi generation. This trip is very important to me and my wife Navy flier still missing said Wilton a self proclaimed basketball fanatic. Most everybody thinks it s neat that Pepsi is paying for a Coke Tran to  however Ron Jbryant. Coca cola s general Man Ager in Shelbyville said Friday he believed taking the trip represents a conflict of interest. And he said peo ple might also think that Wilson a route Driver for about one year drank Pepsi to win the contest i Don t want even the insinuation that one of my route men was drinking Pepsi cola said Bryant if we be got a Salesman who does t have any More Loy Alty than that i would t want him working for me for the record Wilson said he never drank Pepsi enter or win the conical he says he is a diet Coke fan. I just happened to be picking up the empties on my route and saw the winning bottle Cap on inc  Wilson. The bottle Cap had the number 63. Urcla s winning Point total in a basketball game with the University of notre Dame. After a conversation with Bryant Wilson said rechecked with Pepsi about giving the trip to someone else but was told the prize was not transferable. 3 military men killed in separate accidents by the associated press one Navy officer was killed and another was missing after the crash of their Antisubmarine plane in the South China sea near Okinawa authorities said sunday. Also on sunday the body of an army recruiting officer missing since March 9 was found in the wreckage of his single engine plane that crashed in rugged Ter rain near Oneida tcnn., officials said. The crash of the Navy plane occurred Early saturday on a routine flight from the Carrier Ranger said Navy spokesman Ken Mitchell of North Island Nas in san Diego where the Ranger is based. The plane carried a Crew of four. Two were plucked from the sea unharmed Mitchell said. The cause of the crash asunder investigation. The dead flier was identified As it. Fred Caroza. 36,"of Clairton a. Missing was it. Vati Morizi of Monterey  two survivors were it Paul Hennes and chief Petty officer Tom Gibson both Ofsan Diego. Cause of the crash is under investigation. Members of the Tennessee civil air patrol searching for Cape. Benjamin Canaday 32, spotted the wreckage of his plane about eight Miles Northeast of Scott county air on in East Tennessee said Cape. Keith Greene a spokesman for the civil air patrol in London by. They had to land about half a mile from the site and hike in said Greene. It s mountainous and  Canaday a recruiting officer in Lexington kv., had been on leave of absence to visit relatives in Alabama and was flying Back to Kentucky when he vanished. Greene said. The weather was Rainy and icy at the time. Searchers combed the area daily since tuesday after receiving numerous tips Greene said. Meanwhile the army on sunday identified the member of the Golden knights sky diving team who died saturday morning in Zephyrhills fla., when his parachutes failed but officials refused to release details of the Accident the victim was identified As staff sol Paul Eugene Jackson 23, of Seattle a Sands or time cording to n spokesman at fort Bragg. . Where the team is based. He and other team members spent the last week practising at the sky diving facility at Zephyrhills the army refused to re lease any other details of inc filial jump. Witnesses said the victim was filming other members of the Leam As they per formed formations in a free fall. Darrell Hutton Stein a 34-year-old sky diver from new port Richey. Said it appeared the diver s main Chute did t work and his Reserve Chute tangled around the camera mounted on his helmet. Retail gasoline prices on upswing los Angeles a retail Gaso line prices which have been on a roller coaster since bottoming out in novem Ber edged up by 1.23 cents a gallon in the last two weeks the Lundburg letter said sunday. The Industry newsletter which bases its findings on a biweekly Survey of15,000 stations found the National aver age Price for All grades of gasoline was 94.36 cents. The wholesale Price of gasoline during the period showed an even sharper in crease rising by \.91 cents to 59.6 cents. Tie greater increase at wholesale indicates we will probably see retail prices climb further As dealers pass through their costs to customers said Trilby Lundburg. Gasoline prices bottomed out in no vember at 84.63 cents. Since then Price shave fluctuated. At self service stations regular unleaded averaged 86.86 cents per gallon up 1.31 cents. Regular leaded was 82.42, up 1.52, while Premium unleaded was$1.00.20, up i.14 cents. At Fuli Scricc stations regular in iced was $1.13.94, up 0.87 of a cent regular leaded was $1.09.01, up 0.99 of a Ceni and Premium unleaded was s 1.23.67, up 0.66 of n cent. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. March 24, 1947 president Truman ordered u purge of All government employees where there were reasonable grounds to doubt their loyally and at the same time set up sweeping standards to lest loyally. 30 years ago today.,. March 24,1957 another Strong tremor Shook earthquake jilting san l Ratics co frightening residents and causing More property damage and Fin s. Tin1 Shock was. Inc third strongest of More than so that had rocked the Bay area for Hirw Silajs. 20 years ago foe a. March 24, 1967 preparing for a fresh Iriart in the Wake of the Apollo 1 fire. The . Space Agency disbanded All three Man Loams of astronauts assigned at Apollo space flight Crews. 10 years ago today. March 24, 1977 Emily Cardinal Blanc non roman Catholic archbishop of Brazzaville Congo Republic was murdered in an apparent act of revenge fur the slaying of Congo president Marien Ngou Abi