European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday ma/17, 19b7 the stah3 and stripes Page 7 40 million bees escape As truck flips in Georgia Cordele a a a truck carrying 800 boxes of bees overturned on a Highway and re leased about 40 million bees. An overpass near where the Accident occurred thursday night was covered with bees and Crisp county fire chief Guy Jones Laid they were flying around the Bridge ind t lot of them were lilting on the he Laid several officers were stung bul Iacre were no serious injuries. The unidentified Driver was treated at a hos Pital for minor injuries and released. The truck was taking the bets from Florida to the Dakota where they were to be used to Aid pollination of Clover and wheat Fields when it overturned on interstate 75. Authorities closed the interstate and squirted the bees with water throughout the night said firefighter Ronnie Youngblood. Water was used because it makes the bees wings Loo wet for flight encouraging them to Ding to the surface or hover in groups he said. The northbound lanes of the Highway were dosed from about 9 45 . Thursday to 10 30 . Friday. Authorities destroyed about 90 percent of the hives. Some were burned at the scene while others were scooped up by a front end loader Uva taken to a Field to be dumped. Audit shows pal is missing $92 million Vintage Rolls fort Mill . A pal accountants say $92 million in Church funds is missing along with a 1939 Rolls Royce and the ministry on fonday announced it is seeking emergency donations to help pay off a $66.7 million debt. Jerry Nims pal chief executive officer also too reporter on a tour of the opulent presidential suite a i the heritage grand hotel in pal s heritage us Atheme Park. The suite which was used at times by former pal chairman Jim a Akcer and his wife Tammy Faye includes a 50-foot closet lighted by a Cut Glass chandelier. It is reasonable 10 say it was extravagant for ministry. But not necessarily if you were president of a Fortune 500 company Nims said. He said the missing millions had disappeared in a Black Hole and pal has less than $200,000 in in Bank. The missing Rolls Royce which was to have been on display at the hotel a an ornament was valued at Between �62,000 and �69,000, Nims said. There was no answer Friday evening at the bakkers1 Palm Springs calif., Home. Bakker turned the 518,000-member pal ministry Over to the Rev. Jerry Falwell on March 19 after admitting to a tryst with a former Church Secretary in 19so and making s26i,000 in payments to keep her quiet about the incident. Falwell a fundamentalist appointed his own Board to replace the charismatic pentecostal oriented boar that had worked with Bakker. The new Board has been investigating pal expenditures. Nims released an unaudited statement dated March 31 that showed pal assets of is 78.4 million and liabilities of s66.7 million. Debts include $8 million owed to to stations and $ 14 million owed to contractors. Neil Eskolin a pal spokesman said the missing $92 million was not included among the Asj cts in the financial statement released by pal. Nims said he believed some of the missing Money May have been used to run the shop on a daily basis. I can t say that accounts for All of the Money Nims said. A lot of Money went out of this Organiza Tion in the first Quarter in Cash if that Money had t gone we would t have the Light Cash flow that we have right Nims said there seemed to be a pattern for the disregard of the rules the rules that Are there when in comes to paying your taxes business and the Way you Are supposed to do Well leave it to the proper agencies to investigate that he said. Harry Hargrove chief operations officer did that since july the ministry has had on average negative Cash flow of $2 million a month except for december when it broke even. He a
