European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday May 28,1987 astronaut ride to take Post As Stanford Center physicist space Center. Houston a Sally k. Ride the first american woman to Fly in space is leaving the astronaut corps to Lake a position at Stanford univer sity her Alma mater Nasa announced tuesday. Ride who was 36 on tuesday will be leaving the National aeronautics and space administration this fall to become a scientist for the Stanford University Center for International Security and arms control in Palo Alto. Calif. In 1983 she became the firs . Woman to Fly in space when she was a Mission specialist on the seventh space shuttle flight a six Day Mission with four Crew mates. She flew a second Lime in 1984 on an eight Day Mission. Following the challenger Accident in 1986, ride was selected by president Reagan to serve As the astronaut representative on the commission Tkal investigated the Accident. In a statement released by Nasa ride said her Lime with Nasa gave her invaluable  the various projects i have participated in have provided unique challenges and have allowed me to grow As a scientist and a person she said. It is in that same spirit of Challenge that i have accepted a position at Stanford University. I am confident of the future of our nation s space program and will always remember my friends at  Nasa spokesman said ride was not granting interviews and had no plans for a news conference. Ride was one of six women selected for the Astro naut corps in 1978, and her assignment o the shuttle flight made her an instant celebrity a fact she found distasteful. She chided the press for making such a big Deal about a woman in space and declared it s time that people realize thai women in this country can do any Job that they want to  ride is married to Sieven a. Hawley who also is an astronaut. A Nasa spokesman said Hawley will continue As a member of the astronaut corps. He currently is Deputy chief of the astronaut office at the Johnson space Center ride grew up in California and Encino is her Home town. She earned a Bachelor of arts degree from Stanford with an emphasis on literal Urc and she later earned Bach Elors master s and doctorate degrees in physics. She i work As a physicist at Stanford Nasa said. Sally ride departs Nasa with a Superb record of accomplishment for which the nation owes her a debt Sully k. Ride photo ii of gratitude said Nasa administrator James Fletcher her flight As the first american woman in space firmly established an equal role for women in the space exploration program. Today the assignment of women to shuttle Crews is a routine Mailer based on ability and need and is no longer a cause for  Fletcher said ride s assignments at Nasa Mark her career As one of the most varied and productive in Agency  country is fortunate that her Energy Intelli gence and Good sense will continue to be focused on matters of vital Public interest Security and arms control Fletcher said. Before her first Light ride helped develop the shuttle s Remote manipulation system and served As Cap sule communicator for four space shuttle lights. Nasa said she will retain until aug. Is her position As space associate administrator for Long Range plan Ning at Nasa Headquarters in Washington. Scaffold Falls from skyscraper killing 3 Houston a a window washing platform blown sideways by Strong winds fell from near the lop of a 36-Story downtown skyscraper tuesday killing three people and injuring a fourth officials said. Killed were iwo men who were on the platform when in fell and a female pedestrian who was below said Paul pipe. Director of emergency services for Houston. The injured person a woman was walking by Pep said. It looks like they the men might have stayed Wilh the scaffolding All he Way Down. The two men were in the from of the scaffold. The women were Side by Side when they were hit Pep said. Four bolts anchoring the window washing scaffold ing to the top of the Pennzoil building gave Way As winds blew the scaffolding sideways said Deputy fire chief . Martin. These Skyhook Are designed to go up and Down Martin said. In appears the wind blew it sideways and when it got to the end of the track it came off. They the victims did have their safely harnesses on bul it s just that the whole machine came  the scaffolding believed to have fallen from the 31 is floor bounced off the Street and hit the two women who were standing Ai a Corner of the Busy downtown intersection. The Accident occurred Aboul 12 20 . When the Street normally is filled Wilh lunchtime crowds. The 35-year-old pedestrian who was not identified was listed in stable condition at St. Joseph s Hospital Wilh cuts Over most of her body and was undergoing foot surgery said Hospital spokeswoman sue Sonnier the remains of the window washing platform Lay crumpled in front of the building at a Busy downtown intersection. One of the bodies was on the ground covered with a Sheet. Traffic was snarled for several blocks in either direction As Rescue Crews took about two hours to pry the bodies out of the wreckage. Paroled rapist in secret Calif location Concord Calif. A paroled rapist Lawrence Singleton was temporarily housed in a secret location Here by authorises hoping to Avert scenes like one in nearby Rodeo where an angry mob chased him out of town under armed guard. We believe hell be out of Here within two or three Days maximum police it. Jim Jennings said tues Day. We Don i think hell be Here Long enough for things to be Sti rred  Singleton convicted in 1979 of raping a Leen age run away and chopping Olther forearms with an a was re leased from prison a month ago. But angry residents have kept him on the move Ever since while his parole officers try to find a Community that will accept him. On monday Singleton had to flee the Smalt town of Rodeo about 15 Miles Northeast of san Francisco after a Small group of people outside an apartment rented for the parolee by corrections officials swelled to a mob of about 500. Stale department of corrections officials placed Singleton in Concord under the supervision of parole agents Jennings said. Concord which has a population of More than 100,000, is about 25 Miles Northeast of san Francisco. Singleton 59, was sentenced to 14 years and four months in prison for alternated murder rape Wilh resistance forced Oral copulation and forced sodomy in the attack of Ihen-15-year-old Mary Vincent. A run away from Las vegas Nev. But his Good prison behaviour and work credits earned him an Early release.  Man not dead after All pleads innocent to forgery Chicago a a Man who authorise said May have faked his death to avoid prosecution has pleaded innocent to six Check-forgery1 charges that were reinstated after in was discovered he was t dead. James Smithy 30, entered his plea tuesday and was freed on Bond pending a july 13 court appearance. The charges tiled in 1984 had been dropped after a Cook county death certificate listed Smi thy As having died id july 1986 from a drug and alcohol overdose officials said the investigation was reopened after . Census Bureau computer in Washington chose Smithy s death certificate at random for a study of substance abuse deaths said county medical examiner Robert j. Stein official noticed the certificate was the Type used in natural deaths he said. No charges related to the death certificate have been filed. Nuclear material intact after train car collision Gary ind. A a train carrying radioactive material to a Navy base truck a car on the tracks tuesday night but police said there Wasno evidence of a leak. No one was seriously Hurt but a Motorist suffered minor injuries. The train in route to the port Smith naval station in killer Maine was carrying ammunition and nuclear containment vessels used to ship nuclear waste said David Mccarty spokes Man for the Indiana state Board of health. The vessels were transporting spent radioactive resin said state police sgt. Chip Sunier adding that there were no known evacuations. The rain was expected to continue its trip. Sex state lawmaker voted mayor of Jacksonville Jacksonville Fla. A former democratic stale rep. Tommy Hazouri overwhelmingly Defeated Republican City coun Cilman Henry Cook in tuesday s election for mayor of this North Florida City. With All 219 precincts reporting Hazouri had 88,482 votes or 75 percent to 30,066 votes or 25 percent for Cook. Hazouri will take Over july 1 from demo crat Jake Gobo id who was barred by Law from seeking a third four year term. Jacksonville the nation s 1 Bill largest City with nearly 600,000 residents has not had a Republican mayor since 1887. A proposal calling for a ban on new Bill boards along City streets and the eventual re Moval of some existing billboards won easy passage with 61,954 votes or 59 percent cast for the measure to 43,477, votes or 41 percent against. Colorado Community oks 2 grateful dead concerts Telluride Colo. A voter in this Small Mountain Community known for Large music festivals voted overwhelmingly tuesday to have two grateful dead concerts Here this summer. The Rock band was scheduled to perform Here aug. 15 and 16, but the Prospect of invading crowds of deadheads prompted some residents to draft a petition to ban the concert. The vote in favor of the grateful dead was 384 to 117 against said town manager Gary Hickcox. He said the turnout was 21 More votes than in the last municipal election that elected the town Council