European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday april 9, 1fl87 getting a Well deserved rest Nellie and Oolite Obendorf recuperate it Norton count Cap Btij Norton Kan alter betas stranded in a brim re. Mrs. Obendorf and he husband. 71, Surv fed in their cd for 13 Days eating girl scout cooties and drinking diet soda. They were rescued by a Tanner Over the weekend. Be halts delivery to military of 2 Jet engines with defects Lynn mass. A general electric co. Tuesday said it has suspended delivery of two models of Mili tary Jet engines following the discovery of defective parts supplied by a subsidiary. Be last Friday Learned the Elano East Plant in Row icy had been skipping an inspection procedure on the parts required by the defense department said Wil Liam Kennedy spokesman for the company s sprawl ing Jet engine Plant Here. Since then be has found several defective pans that had been shipped by Beano East he said. Our investigation is still underway Kennedy said. The parts arc for be s f4q4-ge-400 engine used in the f/a-18 Navy fighter and for the t700 engine used in various types of military helicopters Kennedy Laid the Navy has been made aware of the matter and it is being studied said it. Kippy bums a Navy spokeswoman. 10 guardsmen /a/7ed for failure Charleston . A ten member of the South Carolina National guard Nave been court mar titled and jailed for failing to attend drills. The guardsmen All members of Charleston based co a 1st in 1 Isth of were ordered jailed for Peri ods ranging from seven Days to two weeks fallowing their courts martial saturday. Maj. William Power stale Public affairs officer for the National guard said the 10 were court Marti Ledfor an excessive number of unauthorized absences. Some of these Guys treat this like a. Part Lime Job at a Zippy Mart said capt. Gregory balls the company commander who requested the courts martial. He said he men had missed drills and had been reduced to the rank of private because of earlier unauthorized absences. Elano East has been supplying the parti to of for More than six years Kennedy said. Be bought the company about a year ago. The defective parts included tubing that carries lubricating Oil inside the engines and brackets that hold the tubing Kennedy said. The required inspection called a fluorescent pen it nil inspection is designed to detect cracks in Metal pans. In it a special liquid thai shows up under an ultraviolet Light is applied to the pans revealing defects otherwise invisible 10 the Eye Kennedy said. Kennedy said other inspections after the engines Are assembled including a test conducted with the engine running should have caught any Oil leaks that could result from the defective parts. However he said we re not shipping any of the ones that arc already put together until we can Lake he pans off hem and test in s. Carolina to attend drills if they can t show up for a two Day Drill How could you expect them to show up for a mobilization he said. Power said two of the men were sentenced to seven Days in jail and fined $50. Two others were sentenced to seven Days and the remaining six were sentenced to 14 Days in jail. We can t even get Frank Caldwel one of the jailed guardsmen told the news and courier news paper. The National guard is a militia Force recruited by Abc slate equipped by inc Federal government and jointly maintained subject to the Call of either. Power said Charleston county sheriff Charles f. Dawley can decide whether the guardsmen can work in the jail to reduce their sentences. Deere plans decrease in White Collar Force Moline Iii. A Deere & co. Has announced it is reducing ill White Collar work torn by 5 percent in an Effort to Cut expense and regain profitability. Between 600 and 700 jobs will be lost by consolidating some agricultural sales branches merging some administration jobs in Waterloo Iowa and Early retirements the firm raid monday. Deere lost a record $192.6 million during the tint Quarter or this year although much or the loss was blamed on a five month strike and lockout sales branches will be closed in East Moline. Iii., Syracuse n.y., and Portland ore., effective july 31. A pans depot in Memphis tcnn., will be close nov. I. The Waterloo consolidation Wilt merge some management jobs in the company a tractor works and component works. Circus fans see Tiger give birth during show Cincinnati a circus fans got More than they expected when a Tiger gave birth during a Ringling Brothers and Baum & Bailey circus show. A Tiger standing on a Stool in the ring sunday gave birth As the performance began at Cincinnati s River rent coliseum. Spectators saw the tiny cub dangling on the umbilical Cord. When the Trainer saw what had happened he quickly moved the Ligeri to their cages. The Trainer picked up the cub which had fallen tree of the Mother and placed it in the Mother s Cage. Then the next act began. Pregnancy is difficult to detect in a big cat which might weigh 400 pounds compared with a cub or less than a Pound did Barry Wakeman curator for Educa Tion at the Cincinnati zoo. Tigers normally give birth easily quickly and with Little pain he said. The circus now is on the Road headed for Rochester by stroke prevention Rofe of aspirin confirmed new York a a two year study of nearly 1,000 europeans supports previous studies that aspirin and similar drugs can help prevent recurrence of stroke researchers say among patients who had previously suffered a stroke those who took he equivalent of three aspirin tablets a Day plus a second medication showed about 39 percent leu risk of a second stroke than did those who look a Placebo said or. Paavo Riekkinen. In patients who previously had suffered a transient is Chernic attack sometimes called a Little stroke the difference in future stroke risk was More than to percent he said. Because of potential Side effects aspirin should be taken for stroke prevention Only under a doctor s direction said Riekkinen neurology professor at the University of Kuopio Finland. He spoke tuesday at the annual meeting of the american Academy of neurology. Mother throws son 4, to safety in Condo fire Eltoro Calif. A a 4-year-old boy whose desperate Mother threw him from a window of their burning second floor condominium escaped injury when a neighbor caught him. Tricia Sheffield 24, tossed her son Jonathan to safety monday night after a smoke alarm alerted her loan electrical lire that filled their Condo with smoke. Orange county fire department capt. Patrick Mclyn Losh said. Neighbor William Chan caught the boy Mclntosh said. Sheffield was treated for smoke inhalation and re leased from Saddleback Community Hospital a spokeswoman said. Firefighters attributed the fire to a Short circuit in a lamp Cord
