European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday August 2, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 Way up North Hazel Kolb a 61-year-old grandmother from Hannibal to talks to admirers after rolling into Junean Alaska. Kolb s visit marked the end of a 2tt-year, 30,000-mile tour of All 50 states. The Solo journey began in March 1985 in Tala Hassee Fla. Plan of d for private use of air Force space facilities Washington up the air Force said Fri Day it has approved a plan opening the Way for private corporations to use air Force facilities to launch com Mercial space flights. Companies will pay a fee for use of air Force launch pads and other facilities at Cape canaveral Fla., and Vandnberg fab Calif an air Force spokesman said. The amount of the fee will depend on the services provided. The plan was worked out by the transportation department the Agency in charge of regulating com Mercial space flights. This opens the door for agreements now to be made Between commercial companies and the air Force the spokesman said. Commercial space Ven Tures can be launched from air Force  aerospace companies such As the Martin Marietta corp., the Mcdonnell Douglas corp., and the general dynamics corp. Already have commercial launch marketing activities under Way. This is a highly significant agreement in Commer Cial space support policy concerning use of air Force support facilities and ranges air Force Secretary Edward Aldridge said. It is a major step in maintaining space leadership through cooperative efforts betwee the defense department and commercial  pm recalling 472,600 vehicles Washington a general motors corp. Fri Day began recalling nearly half a million 1982-Model Chevrolet Pontiac and Csc vehicles because they put excess gasoline fumes into the air. The models affected by the recall include 1982 Chevrolet Impala Caprice classic Camaro Malibu classic Monte Carlo and Al Camino the 1982 Pontiac firebird and the Csc Caballero Light truck. The vehicles Are equipped with 3.8-, 4.4-, 5 and 5.7-liter engines general motors said. The environmental Protection Agency said the vehicles have a faulty Thermal vacuum switch part of the emissions control equipment required by Federal regu lations which failed to open. The fumes Are eventually released into the air where they form tar bestial Ozone a chemical that irritates the eyes mucous membranes and the respiratory system the Epa said. It impairs the Normal functioning of the lungs and reduces the ability to perform physical exercise the Agency said. Pm said it began mailing letters to owners Al 472,600 vehicles on Friday. The automaker said it would install new switches on the vehicles a procedure taking less than an hour. The company said the Mal functioning switch docs not affect vehicle operation. Donald Zinger a special assistant to the director of the Epa said the problem was discovered Only recently because most times the defects Don t occur until the cars arc a couple of years  former Texas gov. Connolly files for bankruptcy Austin Texas a John Connally a three time Texas governor and a Cabinet member under two presidents Friday hied personal and business bankruptcy papers in . Bankruptcy court in Austin Bob Williams . District court Deputy clerk said. Bames Connally partnership which Connally formed with former it.  f. Barnes filed for liquidation under chapter 7 of the bankruptcy Laws while Connally himself filed under chapter i for Protection from creditors. Titis is one of the most difficult things i have Ever done but obligations arising out of the Bames Connally partnership have sorrowfully left me no Choice Connally said. The business primarily real estate development was formed during the Boom years in the Early 1980s. From 1981 to 1986, Connally and Barnes borrowed heavily and built $200 million Worth of office buildings shopping centers houses and apartments in Texas and new Mexico. But the collapse of Oil and Gas prices and a soft real estate Market left Connally and Barnes with debts they estimate at $170 million owed to some 300 creditors. Among the partnership s developments were the estates of Barton Creek in Austin As Well As projects at South padre Island on the Texas Gulf coast and in Houston. They also had a condominium development in new Mexico. Connally said his assets would be auctioned off to help pay creditors. I regret that acquisitions of a lifetime must now be lost but i willingly sacrifice them in an attempt to repay those who had Faith and Confidence in me con Nally said. Connally 70, and his close Friend and political partner the late president John son were dominant forces in Texas poli tics for years until the Early 1970s. But after Johnson s death in 1973, Connally switched from the democratic to the Republican party and his popu Larity waned. The following year he was indicted b a watergate grand jury but was acquitted of charges that he accepted a si0,000 bribe from milk producers to persuade then president Nixon to raise Price supports. Connally was Treasury Secretary under Nixon and was Secretary of the Navy under president Kennedy. He was injured in the nov. 22, 1963, assassination of Kennedy. He was an unsuccessful candidate Foi the Republican party s presidential nomination in 1980. Three Little zeroes could Cost firm $92.9 million new York a three missing zeros could add up to a $92.9 million loss for Prudential insurance co. Of America if a court rules against it in a Case involving an error in a financial document. Prudential says it should not be made to suffer for a clerical error in a bankruptcy Case that reduced its $93 million Lien on eight ships to $93,000. That mistake c9uld be a Boon for unsecured creditors in the bankruptcy Case of United states lines the giant ship Ping company that entered chapter 11reorganization proceedings in november with More than $1 billion in liabilities. On wednesday . Bankruptcy judge Howard c. Buschman Iii rejected Prudential s plea to foreclose on the Lien and said he would decide the Issue after hearing from All sides. Prudential appealed and said it wants the Issue decided in admiralty court which governs maritime matters. Prudential loaned $160 million to United states lines in 1978 with the eight Container ships As collateral. The loan had been reduced to $93 million bythe time of the bankruptcy filing. Prudential says the Lien was mistakenly recorded As $93,000 by its Law firm Haight Gardner poor and havens. If the wrong number is affirmed by the judge then Prudential will get just $93,000 and the remaining $92,907,000 will go into the pot for unsecured Rcd i Lars where Prudential will have to share with everyone else. If its liens Are not upheld at full value. Prudential has said it May file malpractice suits against Haight Gardner poor and havens and its Overall outside coun Sands of time set on the transaction Dewey Ballan Tine Bushby Palmer and Wood. Paul Nash a partner at Dewey bal Lantine said it s such an obvious error that we would think that the court would protect Prudential on it. Beyond that i Don t think i can really say  Richard Barmett a partner at Haight Gardner said his firm had no comment. It to Tumoe a Irma drowning of Flynt s wife was accidental says court los Angeles up Hustler her los Angeles Home june 27. Larry Fly Magazine publisher Larry Flynt s wife whose body was found in june in the Bathtub of the couple s Home accidentally drowned after taking drugs a Coroner ruled Friday. Laboratory tests showed that Althea Flynt 33, an aids victim who had a history of drug use had taken several different sedative Type drugs before drowning in he Flynt has said his fourth wife suffered from aids for about three years. We Don t know what actually caused her to drown but the drugs and aids were present said los Angeles county Coroner spokesman Bill Gold. We can t say How much the drugs and aids contributed to he drowning but both could have had some  in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Aug. 2, 1947 the . Security Council called on the Netherlands and indo Nesia to cease hostilities immediately. 30 years ago today aug. 2, 1957 the House armed services committee voted to give . Mili tary services the authority to decide whether a service member should be turned Over for foreign trial for an on duly offence. 20 years ago today. Aug. 2, 1967 three persons were arrested in connection with the $1.5 million Plymouth mass., mail robbery in 1962 the nation s largest Cash Holdup. John j. Kelley 51, Thomas j. Richards 41, and Patricia Diaferio 32, were charged with armed robbery and jeopardizing postal employees lives. 10 years ago today. Aug. 2, 1977 Francis Gary Powers the u-2 Pilot who was shot Down Over the soviet Union 17 years before died in the crash of a helicopter in Van Guys Calif