European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday. July 26,1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 Turtle mural May be fodder for cartoonist Palm Beach Fla. A fearing a second round of needling from " doonesbury officials arc moving slowly in enforcing an ordinance against a mural painted by a Turtle Lover. They be been giving conflicting instructions to John Hochella a Gardener who painted a mural with a 6-foot unit and he plea no Beach lights we Don t want to wind up in doonesbury town councilman Bernard Cheke old to Chela on thursday. He referred to a series or car Toons by Garry Trudeau thai compared the Lown requirement thai workers carry identification cards to South Africa s pass Laws for backs. The Law Waslar in validated. Hoch Cila 33. Painted the mural to warn people to switch Beach lights off during the Turtle hatching season. Bright lights can scare away Mother turtles returning to their nests and can disorient baby turtles trying to find their Way into the sea. Hoch Cila had been told earlier in the week by code compliance officer Loren Carpenter that he could leave the mural where it was pending a town Council meeting on aug. Ii. On thursday. Heck and code compliance officer Brian House asked Hoch Cila to obliterate the sign which is on a Wall racing the Road which runs Between the Home and the Beach. Hochella asked his employer june Manino what to do. She told me to just paint Over he letters that it would t be a sign that Way Hochi la said. He got As far As painting Ever the words no Beach lights when the housekeeper Bertha Brad Ford ran out and shouted slope mayor Yvelyne decay Manx was on the phone with Manino. The order came Down Don t paint Over anything. Marix said she would Call later with a decision. Pal fund raising crippled by hate mail Crank Calls fort Mill. . A directors Mcl in secret Friday afternoon after the ministry s new Leader said fund raising efforts have been crippled by Haie mail and Crank Telephone Calls appearing on the club television show be fore the Board meeting the Rev. Jerry Falwel Sard to needs 11,748,000 by Friday to avoid laying off workers and to keep the heritage Usa Christian theme Park in fan Mil open. At the Friday meeting Board members decided to seek a loan of $5 million and medium Range financing of 520 million to $25 million. Unless can raise Money fast we could lose our network Falwell said after the meeting. Documents released earlier last week show has debts of 166 million i which it has tried to i erase through a telethon i and stepped up fund-1raising. Falwell who took control of the ministry in March when the Rev. Jim Bakker Steppe Down amid a sex scan dal suspended the Tele Thon temporarily of cause of hate letters and1.800 Crank Calls thurs Day. He read on the air Jerry Falwell some of he messages received by mail or by phone including one that said i m going to kill or. Falwell somewhere in the name of Jesus Hope you rot in hell another was quoted As saying. Falwell said most of the Telephone Calls and let ters though were supportive. On wednesday attorneys filed documents in . Bankruptcy court showing that Bakker paid himself $1.3 million and loaned himself $180,000 during his last year As the head of the ministry. Bakker also paid his wife. Tammy Faye. $437,018, and a Secretary Shirley Fulbri Tinl received 1193,058 Between june 1986 and june 1987, according to the545-Page document. Many of the payments were made immediately before and after March 19, when Bakker resigned after it Wax disclosed that he had had 3 sexual encounter with Jessica Hahn a former Church Secre tary. The document showed thai the ministry fates 19 lawsuits for debts including 114.1 million allegedly owed to Wichita kan., contractor Roe Meisner. The salaries of former officials were also Dis closed. Former president Richard Dortch was paid 1501,082, and Bakker aide David Taggart received $580,830, the documents show. Taggart received$45,000 of his March 28 and $30,1 00 on april 16,just after Bakker resigned. Dortch was ousted from the in april and Taggart Jen soon after Bakker quit. Bakker and Dortch were later defrocked by the assemblies of god. Harry Hargrave appointed chief operating officer by s new management was paid $21,828 in Sal Ary and bonuses Between april 28 and j Une 12. Former Board member Rex Humbard a Tele vision evangelist received an honorarium of $69,500 in six payments. Two totalling $20,000, came March 16, the week Bakker turned his ministry Over to Falwell Humbard was appointed to the new Board but subsequently broke his lies with . The documents reveal that the has $555,544 in unpaid Loans and advances including a $321,148 loan to Taggart and one for $ 180,000 to Bakker. Pal also bought $182,486 in equipment and sup plies including a $791 Pool Fountain and a $14,671 jeep for Backer s Home in Gatlinburg Tenn. Legal fees Cost si.3 million last year and the ministry owes $169,000 in Federal taxes $1.1 million in taxes id South Carolina and $202,000 in other taxes the documents show. New Hampshire City rated Best in . New York. Up Nashua a Small new Hamp Shire City which enjoys rustic new England Charm a booming Economy and proximity to such desirable places As the White mountains Boston and Atlantic Ocean resorts was selected As the top place to live inthe United slates in a Survey released in the August edition of Money Magazine. Thi confirms what we be known All along said mayor James w. Don Chaft. Nashua and new Hamp Shire Are great places to Norwalk Conn., was second in the Magazine poll and Wheeling ., was third followed by Beaver county a. Danbury Conn. Long Island . And Oxnard Ventura Calif. Boston s North Shore suburbs the Scranton Wilkes Barre area of Pennsylvania and Anaheim Santa Ana Calif completed the top 10. There have been a number of Best City surveys in recent years including one by Rand Mcnally that concluded that Pittsburgh was no. 1. Pittsburgh rated 43rd in Money Magazine those surveys were flawed Money Days because they failed to give extra weight to the key characteristics such As safely the weather the local Economy that Are most i important to the Publ Money said those factors a re taken into consideration Asil formulated its ranking in a poll of 226 readers. The average respondent was 42 years old and had a household income of $56,000. They were asked to Rale 60 factors. The most important were safely of property personal safety and the appreciation or Home value. The least important fac tors a nearby Amtrak station availability of House hold help and proximity to a bus station. Although the dominance of the Northeast was to be expected. Money Magazine said since a Strong local Economy mattered enormously to our respondents the High standing of Wheeling w.v., and Scranton pa., was considered a Surprise. Both cities have slug Gish economies but that negative was offset by Low crime rates and inexpensive housing. Pennsylvania placed the most cities in the lop 100 with 13, with California second with 12. San Francisco ranked 12th, the highest of any major metropolitan area followed by los Angeles at i7ih and san Diego at 22nd. One municipal official in Nashua was not entirely Happy with the poll which cited a Lack of arts As one of the City s few retractions. That s not True said Caroline Mason special assistant to the mayor. He said Nashua has a symphony a chorus a Ballet company and an Art gallery. Of the 300 metropolitan areas rated in the poll five of the Bottom 10 Are in Michigan. The last 10 cities Are Mansfield Ohio Saginaw Mich. Wilmington Jackson Mich. Odessa Texas Rockford Iii. Atlantic City. N j. Benton har Bor Mich. Muskegon Mich. And no. 300 Flint Mich. These cities were hurl in the rankings. Money said by High crime rates weak economics and few arts and Leisure activities. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. July 26, 1947 former rep. Andrew j. May Day. Was sentenced to eight months to two years in prison for accepting some $53,000 in bribes while he was the wartime chairman of the House military affairs committee. 30 years ago today., july 26, 1957 an air Force colonel threw out on procedural pounds the conviction of . Donald Wheeler for refusing to gel a while sidewalk haircut. 20 years ago today. July 26, 1967 Canadian prime minister Lester Pearson called visiting French president Charles do Gaulle s apparent endorsement of a pc Quebec unacceptable. W years ago today july 26. 1977 the United Stales and South Korea agreed in Seoul to set up a combined military command that would give South Korea a say in the operational command of i 6 pm army for the Fibril time site the korean War. Pilots killed As 2 f-16s crash on training Mission from stiff Tod wire report Las vegas. Nev. Two f-16 fighter Jet on a training Mission crashed Fri Day near a Remote Mountain Range 70 Miles Northwest of Here and officials said both pilots were killed. The cause of the crashes a not immediately known. One Pilot was identified As Mai. I Chad j. Loti 42, of Fresno Calif., an instructor Pilot at idlis fab Here. The other was identified As Cape. Alexander Rupp a member of the a dust tac fighter Wing at Torr Jon a Spain. Rupp was unending it it Lii fighter weapon school at the time of the crash according to Torrejon spokesman maj. Keith Galle to. The Pilot was assigned to the 613th tac fighter so cil Letl said. His age and Home of record were not immediately . Barry Andeson an air Force spokesman said the two aircraft were attached to the s7th fighter weapons Wiriya Inellie. The crash ignited two Brush Fircz near the sheep Mountain Range about is Mil Northeast of Indian Springs nev.,the site of an auxiliary Field for Nellis. Bruce Sclier. A spokesman for the . Fish and wildlife service said the fifes charred about 50 acres each
