European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday april is 1987 Piper pa-28 Wing cracks prompt warning Washington a tic nation-1 transportation safety Board called Friday Tor immediate inspection of on of the most popular private planet being flown because of concern about cracking that could cause the Wing to separate. The warning coven the widely use Piper pa-28 sen of single engine pro peller planet of which More than 35,000are used in everything from pleasure Fly ing and Pilot training to pipeline inspections. It was not immediately known How Many of he planes might be subject to the unusual fatigue cracking cited by then Tab but a Board spokesman said the warning is aimed at planet that have �. Record of High use. The Board investigating the recent crash of a Piper pa-2s in Texas urged the Federal aviation administration to require thai the Wing supports or spars of pa-28s As Well As other pipe planes with similar spars be inspected As soon As possible Faa spokesman Dob Buckhorn said the recommendation was under review and is being Given firs priority. At Soontas the review is completed Well act on  investigation that prompted the Nosb j warning involved the crash March to of a Piper pa-28-1s1 owned by the Griffin pipeline patrol co the plane crashed near Martin Texas after the left wine separated Al the Root the Pilot was killed. Investigators discovered evidence of fatigue cracking in the separated Wing s main spar. Later he Wing spar of font of the company s other Piper pa-28s with about he same number of service hours also was found to have similar cracks which had been drilled to Slop the from spreading. The safety Board is concerned thai numerous Piper Model 28 and possibly other Piper Model air planes that have relatively High time service hours also May have similar fatigue cracking in the Wing main spars the Board said. Because Luch cracking could Lead to catastrophic Wing separation under nor Mal flight conditions the safely boar believes the Faa needs to take immedi ate action to preclude the possibility of further  Nosb spokesman Ted  that the Board is leaving it up 10 the Faa to determine specifically what air Craft in terms of flying Lime should be subject to the special inspections. The plane that crashed in Texas had 7,488 service hours. The other aircraft i which Wing cracks were found had 7,878 hours. The Piper pa-28 aircraft a Small popular aircraft goes under the generic Cherokee name in addition to such Model names As the 140 series the 180 series Archer Warrior Dakota an Darrow according to the aircraft owners and pilots association which represent private Pilot. It s one of the historically highest production level air Lanei in the United sum Taid Sieve Brown in Dopa official. It s the Model hat hat been the highest and Best idler for Piper and their most popular Model in the product Tonline a. Raymond Johnson vice president for marketing of the Piper aircraftcorp., said Friday night the cracking problems found in the two planes exam ined by the Nosb Likely were linked to their heavy use and the conditions under which the planes flew. We have to consider that this ii a abnormal application of the aircraft be cause of the plane s heavy use often Atlow Levels where there is increased turbulence suggested Johnson in a Telephone interview. He said most Piper pa-2st would not be subject to the same  aircraft corp. Is headquartered in Vero Beach Fla. Stateside pro life pharmacists claim their beliefs led to firing Lon View Wash a two pharmacists say they were fired from a Tore because they refused to dispense birth control pills on moral grounds. We were terminated by Safeway for refuting to fill birth control prescriptions said former pharmacy manager Mark Rathjen 33. "1 did my est in working within the company to have Safeway accommodate our convictions but the were not  according to Safeway and the Washington stale Board of pharmacy director the action by Ralh Jan and Randy Johannes 30, appears unprecedented a Aljen and Johannes contend life begins a fertilization and said they believe Oral contraceptives Are killing unborn  have to be True to our conscience and True to the biblical principles we believe in Rathjen said. 5 enter pleas of guilty in attack on school bus Canton miss. A five Oung me pleaded guilty to charges of trespassing and disturbing the peace in connection with an attack on a county school bus. The attack was apparently sparked by a quarrel Over a girl. The guilty pleas were entered in Madiso county Justice court. Al five were fined 1100 and were Given 60-Day suspended  people were arrested in connection with the Jan. 22 incident which began at Clma Jackson High school and ended with a fight on a school bus on Mississippi Highway 43,officials said. A sawed off Shotgun and two pistols Are believed to have been carried by some in the Inci Dent but no shots were fired and no one was injured. The Shotgun was seized by officials. Of the 26 arrested 20 were juveniles while six Young men were charged As adults. Officials did not know the status of charges against the sixth adult. Man Falls asleep at wheel new wife killed in car crash Eureka Calif. A an 18-Ycar-Oldwoman was killed three Days after her wedding when her husband apparently fell asleep at the wheel on . 101, the Highway patrol reported. Tina Myhre of Myngle Point ore., was Sillin next to her husband Peter when the car ran off the Road near Trinidad struck a Culvert an flipped several limes the patrol raid mrs. Myhre was ejected from the car and die later in mad River Hospital in Arcata investigators  suffered minor injuries and was treated at the Hospital and released the authorities said. Sunday trip turns into fatal Dorofea Little Fork Minn. Up1 an elderly Man stranded with his wife in a Forest during a sunday drive survived on a diet of bark and leaves until he was found four Days later but the woman died during the. Ordeal authorities said Friday Louis Desrosier 83, was found lying along a dirt Road thursday by a Man who was out checking Beaver dams. His wife Margaret 82, was found about 100yards away in a Creek. She apparently drowned trying to get water officials said. It s a tragic Accident the kind you hate to see Hap pen but it does Natl Lake police capt. Linus Faine said. It was just Lucky the Guy was out checking the Beaver dams because who knows How Long it would have taken for someone 1o find  Desrosier was listed in stable condition Friday at Hospital suffering from dehydration. He s doing really quite Well the spokeswoman said. He s a Little More than stable i d  the couple got lost in the Northern Minnesota Woods sunday after taking a wrong turn then tried to hike out of the Forest after i hair car got stuck in Hemud Faine said. Desrosier Lold police he and his wife were just out for a sunday afternoon ride and were heading to Little Fork when they became lost. Retirement planned sen. Robert Stafford a it a leading Senate Enri Romney Talbot  Friday he wont seek re election in 1988, Stafford is chairman of the sen ate s environmental committee from 1981 to 1987. Surgeon plans More brain grafts after first operation goes Well Nashville Tenn. A the surgeon who Tedise team that performed be nation s first brain graft to combat Parkinson s disease said Friday he plans a least a dozen More such operations in the next several months. Or. George s. Allen said thursday s five hour operation to implant adrenal gland Ceils in the brain of a 42-year-old Parkinson s victim went Well but More study is needed before he can proceed with the other grafts. Aller final review and we assess How she has done and if everything goes along Well we intend to do several More in the next several weeks or few months said Allen professor and chairman of the department of Scuro surgery at Vanderbitt University medical enter. Parkinson s is a degenerative disease thai afflicts Early 1.5 million americans la is caused when he body docs not produce enough dopamine a Chemi Cal that allows nerve cells in the brain to communicate. Allen s patient Dickye baggy to was the first in the United Stales to receive an adrenal gland Gran. Similar operations have been performed with some Success i Mexico and Sweden. Baggy to an insurance clerk who lives in the Nash Ville area was removed from inc Hospital s neurological intensive care unit Friday afternoon and he condition was upgraded from critical to fair and stable said Doug Williams a Hospital spokesman. Allen said at least 12 other candidates have Bee chosen for surgery. They were selected from a list of 250 patients treated at Vanderbilt for the  s symptoms which include tremors rigidity or loss of balance can be controlled by drugs but Side effects such As psychological disturbances and impairment of movement can arise. Baggett who had a tremor in her right hand and Sligh dragging of her right foot had a moderate Case of the disease Allen said adding thai it would be several weeks before he could assess any change in her symptoms. In the meantime she will continue taking up to nine daily doses of her regular medication which attempts to Slaw inc spread of the disease Allen said during thursday s operation doctors removed dopamine producing adrenal gland celts from near one of Baggett s kidneys and grafted them deep inside the brain hoping thai the cells would begin producing the needed chemical Allen said. Similar operations performed since March j986 Atla Raza medical Center in Mexico cily on several patients in their 30s resulted in improvement on Bot sides of inc brain although adrenal gland cells were inserted in Only one Side Allen said