European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday May 27,1987 a photo Contra Costi county deputies escort in role Lawrence Singleton from his Rodeo Calif., apartment monday. Police move Singleton from Home after neighbors mount protest Rodeo Calif a paroled rapist Lawrence Singleton wearing a Bullet proof Vest was removed from an apart Mem monday after about 400 residents surrounded die building to protest a decision to place him there permanently. Singleton was shielded by police officers As he was taken from the rear of the building at 3 40 . O a waiting police vehicle. Police would not say where he was taken but some protesters said they would remain nearby to make cer Tain he did l return. One demonstrator was arrested for inciting a Public riot said police it. . Warren e. Rupf assistant Contra Costa county sheriff criticized the demonstrators at a news Confer ence. He said Singleton was still in the county but would not say where. Let someone show me How you can legally justify a mob read Ion Rupf said. We have a mob reaction a mob mentality. Where docs it Stop Rupf said Singleton is under the supervision of the stale parole office and the sheriff Don not have to be notified of his whereabouts until there is a permanent change of address. The demonstration had built throughout the Day after residents Learned late sunday that Singleton had been moved into he apartment building. Sheriffs department officials said. Some people carried signs Reading drop  they were a pretty Good crowd said police sgt. Larry Aulich. They threw a few rocks but they were a pretty Good crowd. The residents circulated a petition asking thai sin Gleton be removed and carried it Igns saying get sin Gleton  Parker Avenue the main thoroughfare through the Western Contra Costa county town was blocked by the demonstration. A sign posted near the town line gave the Street address of the House and said Singleton Here. Come join  one Man drove through town announcing Singleton s presence Over a Loudspeaker and others passed out leaflets at supermarkets. Audrey Anaya 34, who lives near the apartment Complex said she joined the protest after hearing the announcements Over the speaker. Nobody wants him Here she said. Nobody wants him  apartment manager Arlene Baldridge said she rented the unit May 19 to a couple who said they wanted it for a cantankerous old Grandfather who was coming Home from the  Baldridge said she became suspicious sunday when police would t allow her to enter the apartment and notified local Media. Corrections department officials had refused to specify the location of Singleton who gained notoriety in 1979 when he was convicted of raping a 15-year-Oldrunaway and using an a to Cut Oft her arms it the elbows. Department officials said earlier thai Singleton would be moved if his location was discovered. Singleton 59, was paroled april 25 after serving about eight Yean of a 14-year sentence. Since his release. Singleton had been shuttled around Northern California by armed parole officers while a court Battle raged several counties have gone to court to keep him out of their jurisdictions but the California supreme court upheld appeals court rulings that said the coun ties could t prevent officials from locating a parolee anywhere in the St to. Initial plans called for Singleton to be paroled la Contra Costa county and county officials Learned last week that he had finally been placed there on Perma nent status. Singleton was registered As a sex offender with the county As required by slate Law. Paper to distribute safer sex guide Boston a the Boston Phoeni an alternative weekly newspaper will distribute a safer Sra guide and condom in each copy of its May 29 edition a move its publisher says is designed to help fight ads. We take our responsibility to our Reader very seriously and we recognize that it is Only through an aggressive Public education Campaign like this that we have any Chance of combating the alarmingly Swift spread of the killer  said Stephen a Mindich publisher of the 125,000-circulation newspaper. The eight Page guide was prepared with help front Boston s aids action committee said brochure author Bruce Berman. We expect a lot of people to learn an awful lot about aids transmission and we Welcome the Contro Versy because this is the most important Public health Issue affecting America today Herman said Friday. The envelop like brochure will feature up to Date scientific medical information on acquired immune deficiency syndrome and its transmission Aji explicit list of safer sex practices and instructions and advice on a variety of sexual topics Berman said. The guide will he explicitly illustrated and each kit will include a condom donated by Trojan the nation s largest condom manufacturer he said. The Harvard perspective a student run monthly newspaper distributed condoms in 5,000 copies of its March edition. Aids is caused by a virus thai attacks the body s immune system i cams victims susceptible to a variety of infections and cancers. As of May is it had struck 35,769 americans killing 20,683 of them. Stateside woman finds live shells while digging in Garden san Francisco a a woman digging in her Garden round four live artillery shells that were deactivated by a member of the police department s explosives division officials mid. Police inspector Ken King said the woman who was not identified found one 5-Inch Shell and three 3-Inch shells. She was just doing some gardening out there and unearthed these things he said. They were in very unstable condition 8j they lend to get i h  King said sgt. Robert Hankins who is just 45 Days Short of retirement deactivated the Snells. King said he does not know How the shells apparently left Over from world War ii or the korean War got into the Garden. Group aiding homeless Marks first anniversary Long Beach Calif. Dpi singing and holding hands monday organizers of hands across America marked he first anniversary or their transcontinental human Chain with a renewed Public Appeal to fight hunger and Aid the homeless As extraordinary As the hands across Amer Ica Public demonstration was it was Only a be ginning principal organizer Ken Kragen said during a ceremony aboard the luxury liner Queen Mary. An estimated s.5 million people participated last May 25 in the 15-Minule, 16-state sing along that raised $ 15 million for the needy. Bodies of burned victims of Jet crash misidentified Pittsburgh a two victims bodies that had been badly burned in a recent Jet crash apparently were misidentified causing the wrong Man to be cremated the Coroner said. As a result the body that was buried will have o be exhumed said Allegheny county Coroner Joshua Perper. Obviously the families Are upset and i an Dere tand Perper said. I myself am Unet and i m sorry but it was an honest mistake. Regis a. Stretavski 44, of Jefferson and Wal Ter Troy 39, of Coraopolis were burned beyond recognition when their twin engine Jet crashed seconds after Takeoff on May a. Str Yumlu was to have been cremated and Troy buried. Last week a member of Troy s family re turned a ring that authorities said had been re moved from Troy s body. The family member said Troy did not own such a ring. Man Dies of injuries in skateboard Accident. Ne1lton, Wash. Jap a 24-year-old Man died from injuries suffered in a skateboard Acci Dent that left him face Down in a shallow Creek at the Bottom of a 25-foot embankment author lies said. Robert Lee Ewell a landscapes died after Bor rowing the skateboard he had seen at a Friend i House. He had removed his glasses before Riding the Board Down a sleep Grade. Lawyer hurling Challenge at storm killed by lightning Doyline la. Up1 a lawyer we killed by a Bolt of lightning minutes after standing up in a boat during a thunderstorm and proclaim ing Here i am witnesses said n. Graves Thomas 40 a Shreveport attorney and a former sate and Federal prosecutor Wai pronounced dead shortly after 5 . Monday at Riverside medical Center in Bossier City in Northwest Louisiana said Scott Hodges spokes Man forthe Bossier Parish sheriff s office Thomas was boating with four other people a the Northern part of Dike Bis Tincau at the Lime of the Accident Hodges said. Witnesses said Thomas stood up in the Back of the boat raised his hands toward the sky and said Here i  moments later the Bolt of lightning struck him in the head