European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday june 27. 19e7 the stars and stripes Page 7 Louisiana mud bugs fill european cravings Baton Rouge la. Up1 a crawfish blight in Europe has been a Boon for the Industry in Louisiana. Providing new Export opportunities for producers of the last crustacean in the Bayou state. Louisiana is going to have a permanent place in the european said Charles Friedman president of Kim seafood corp. Friedman and three european businessmen have constructed a 10,000-Square-foot processing Plant in Baton Rouge to Cater to Lite european Market for crawfish also As Crawdad is and mud bugs. Officials at the Plant said they Are shipping 700 tons of Frozen whole crawfish to Sweden for a late summer fest Ival and 400 tons to inc rest of Europe. A native american fungus known As Achan Moysis Astacio a reduced crawfish production in Turkey from 400,000 Lon to 500 ions a year and virtually wiped out the Industry in the rest of Europe Friedman said. The fungus was brought to Italy from North Ameri Ca in 1860 and has since crept through Ponds and streams throughout Europe said Rusty Gaude director of crawfish research Al the University of South Western Louisiana in Lafayette. The crawfish in Louisiana have built a resistance to it he said. Sweden s annual crawfish scion begins in Early a gust and runs for is weeks of crawfish parties Folk songs and other festivities the entire country goes crawfish crazy Gaude said. Swedes in the past have been squeamish about Loui Siana mud bugs because they like their lib wish smaller cleaner Ana cooked in a Dill Weed sauce. The europeans eat with their eyes first Friedman crawfish normally arc larger and Darker than the european variety so inc Baton Rouge processing Plant sorts the crustaceans by size and color and Cooks those bound for overseas european style in wine or Dill sauce. Unidentified missile sails past Delta jetliner Atlanta a a Small rocket glided past a Delta air line jetliner 29,500 feet Over Charleston w.va., on thursday officials said. There were about 60 people on the Boeing 737, in route from Pittsburgh to Atlanta when the missile passed about 600 feet below the aircraft going in the opposite direction Al very High Speed said Delta spokesman Bill Berry and Federal aviation administration spokes Man Jack Barker. The missile was apparently out of fuel Berry said and no evasive action by the jetliner was necessary. The military was notified. Barker said but authorities Aren t ruling out the possibility it was a homemade rocket. In Washington Faa spokesman Ste phen Hayes acknowledged inc Are pursuing it but we Don t have any comment to make he said. We Are checking Wilh the military. I Don t have any information Al the Pentagon spokesman maj. Larry ice Nogle said officials at the command Cen Ter had received the report. They say All they have on this is Thefan s voice report which says the Delta s Pilot said this thing looked like helium filled promotional balloon of some sort or some sort of a homemade object that was either spent or falling Icenogle said. There s no defense department involvement to former Cranfi War activist sentenced for bomb a Sempf Seattle Wash. A a judge sentenced former anti War activist Terry Jackson to two years in prison thursday for attempting to bomb a military train ing building at the University of Washington 17 years ago. Jackson 45, who this year changed his name from Silas trim Bissau Lold the judge that he was wrong to use violence to protest the Vietnam War but asked that be be allowed to a Plum to his life As i physical therapist. I have great regret for any harm i May have caused anyone in those Days Jackson said. What i did was not out of haired. What i did Al the time was done out of love of country and love of fellow human . District judge Walter Mcgovern acknowledged that Jackson was a Model fugitive since fleeing trial in 1970. But he added that the passage of 17 years has not diminished the serious Ness of Jackson s crime. Jackson the grandson of the founder of the Bissau carpet sweeper company said that in the late 1960s, he was pressured by fellow members of the Radical group the weathermen to act against the War but used poor judgment. App Hota Carissa Uryniak reals in her Home while her Mother Karen witches. 4-year-old Colorado girl needs $100,000 for liver Aurora Colo. A a 4-year-old girl who attended her father s funeral on father s Day desperately needs a liver transplant but her Mother must first come up wilh1100,000. Carissa Uryniak her Brown eyes jaundiced by chronic liver disease stared into her father s casket Las sunday put inside a Pencil Holder she had made and whispered "goodbye,daddy." Al Uryniak 36, Dit id june 16 of Aheart attack. Carissa suffers from neonatal hepa Titis and doctors have Given her no More than six months to live unless she gets a liver transplant. Her Mother Karen Uryniak 31. A part time supermarket worker must come up with a si00,000 Deposit on the s2so,000 operation but her late husband had no life insurance and her health insurance covers Only kid Ney and Cornea transplants. Relatives have set up an account Al a Golden Bank for donations to Carissa � operation. American Gator no longer endangered species Washington a the now flourishing american Alligator has been removed from the endangered species list in the rest of its Range according to the fish and wildlife service. In an announcement received thurs Day the service said it has added 12 other species of plants animals Birds and fish to the endangered and threat ened categories. The Alligator earlier had been re moved from the endangered species list in the heart of its territory Florida Louisiana and Texas. The latest action affects Alabama a Kansas Georgia Mississippi North car Olina Oklahoma and South Carolina. The Alligator is now classified As threatened by similarity of appear Ance a classification designed to pre vent illegal Trade in crocodiles. But Alli gators May be hunted and their meat and hides sold. Alligators have Broad snouts Croc Odiles narrow ones. Today the american Alligator is biologically secure throughout its Range thanks to habitat management and Law enforcement said Frank Dunkle director of the service. Additions to the endangered species list were the mount Graham red Squirrel found Only in the Coronado National Forest of Southeastern Arizona. The Alabama red bellied Turtle found in the lower flood Plain of the to bile River system in As threatened species were the flattened Musk Turtle another Alabama Turtle. The Florida scrub Jay a Bird found in Florida. The backside Dace a Small fish found in Southeastern Kentucky and northeastern Tennessee. Seven plants Sacramento mountains in Isle new Mexico rough leaved loosestrife North and South Carolina Geo Carpon minimum Arkansas an Missouri Jesup s milk vetch Vermont and new Hampshire running Buffalo Clover West Virginia elfin tree Fern puerto Rico and Cook s Holly puerto Rico. Of wants 200 midget Man missiles in Montana Washington a the air Force propose thursday to locate at least 200 of 500 new midget Man nuclear missiles on Mobile launchers inside igloos Al Malmstrom fab Mont. It outlined a massive construction program at the base to accommodate the new weapon including new facilities 1,746 new units of Mililay family housing and extensive rebuilding of Highway announcement made As a Survey of the environmental Impact on the area said an slim died 2,190 10 3.100 air Force personnel would be added to the base s roster to operate the midget Man known formally As the Small inter Continental ballistic missile is a ,37,000-Pound, Long Range missile designed for deploy ment on a Low Slung Mobile launcher that resembles a heavy truck Rig. President Reagan in a decision announced last dec.19, authorized full scale development of the midget Man and also proposed placing 50 Large my missiles on rail car launchers As Steps to improve the survival Milit of . Nuclear forces. At the Lime of the White House decision the Penta gon said it had already selected Malmstrom. Near great Falls Mont., As inc first Home for the midget Man. The air Force plans to have the first of the new missiles deployed by the end of 1992.the service plans to deploy so Midge Man mis Siles. Other proposed Basing Sites Are in Wyoming South Dakota new Mexico and Arizona
