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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday August 23. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 sex aides scoff at reports Hart to rejoin race Washington a speculation thai Gary Han will rejoin the Nice for the democratic presidential nominations being so Ford a by former aides to Hart who noted that the former Colora do senator s political organization a gone and questions still linger about his relationship with Miami Model Donna Rice. His organizations absolutely disintegrated says Daniel Wakgari a new Hampshire resident who was Hart s new England political director. Most of the key people in this state in particular have signed on with other campaigns John Holum. A former lop adviser to Hart Calls talk of a revived Campaign outlandish saying Hart still would be dogged by questions about his involve ment with Rice of incr aides and other politicians offered their assessments following a laments by hard former Campaign manager. Bill Dixon that he believed in was Likely thai Han would rejoin the race. The former Colorado senator was the front runner for the 1988 presiden tial nomination until he withdrew May 8 alter questions were raised about his relationship Wilh Rice. A poll taken for the nation Magazine last month indicated that he would still be at the head of the pack if he decided to re enter the Raie although Willi Irei support than Lefure. Dixon said he believed Hart would rejoin the race As a Long shot Wilh a Low budget Campaign. But Hart s longtime pol Lical aide. Bill Shore quoted Hart As saying. I m not a candidate and i Don t have any intention of becoming a  Shore said Hart made the statement to him in a Telephone conversation Lale thursday night. Hart vacationing in Ireland did Little to Clear up the questions. He was quote Don Irish radio As saying thursday night that he had no intention of running and then saying Friday morning Ihil he would Neil her confirm nor de by the claim. Shore said Hart left i vacation cot Tage Friday to avoid Telephone Calls. But he said Hart had told him in inc Tele phone conversation that he was very comfortable Wilh my dec ism to with  he said that when he asked Hart Ifni were going to re enter inc race. Hart said of no. No. No. You should be unambiguous with people who ask Shore said Dinon spoke without hav ing first talked Wilh Hart. Holum told the Denver Posl Hal questions about Hart s relationship with Rife would cripple any attempt to revive the candidacy the problem Hon l of set away he a d. How could he talk about Tui Lhing else one death tatty Mitic party chairman speaking in condition he Mil to i Jonii led suggested thai i on s remarks were intended As n Irinel i Zhixin loner Mil Hart and his Simonak. In gauge pub Lic and insider Raj Cimon in the idea of re entering the race. Onion denied that was the Case. Probe finds Many motorists pay Premium prices for regular Gas new York a Many motorists Are routinely cheated when they get Low octane fuel at High octane pumps official said Friday in announcing a nation wide investigation of the problem a Survey by the Federal general accounting office noted that nearly one in 10 Gas stations in new York City was cited last year for lying about octane ratings. In the worst cases the octane rating were off by four Points or More meaning that customers who paid for Premium gasoline actually got regular. The Survey was conducted at the request of rep. Charles Schumer d-n.y., and rep. Philip Sharp 0 ind., who asked the Gao to look first at new York cily and then at the rest of the nation. The Gao statistics were based on a review of in Force Etu actions by the new York City department of consumer affairs which inspects every Gas station in the City at least once a year. The report said thai in 1986, the department of consumer affairs issued 171 citations to 135 stations 8 percent of the City s Lota. Stations that arc cited arc fined a maximum of s 500 for each violation. The Federal Trade commission has the authority to charge 10,000 fines for octane cheating by rarely does so according to Gary Walker a spokesman for the department of consumer affairs. He said the department would ask the cily Council this fall to increase the City Fine to $10,000. The Oao report said the source of the incorrect octane information has no been firmly established with fuel distributors and Gas station operators each blaming the other. However it noted Hal the Cit found Only one violation Al Gas distribution terminals during inspections in january 1986. Discovery of old cemetery puzzles California Community Santa Rosa Calif. A officials Are trying to piece together the puzzling discovery of an overgrown Century old cemetery where they believe 1,000 Indi Genu and chinese were buried. The thing that s hard to believe is you could Bury 1,000 people on a site and then forget in Ever existed said Sonoma county architect Rene Cardinaux. Some of the Graves arc marked Only by Small cans filled with Cement and stamped with numbers. At least one resident was t surprised by the Ceme Tery song Bourbeau said her father Tom Wing Wong was buried Al the two acre site in 1918. She said the existing burial ground in the area the Odd Fellows cemetery did t permit chinese Graves in the Early part of the Century. Members of Cardinaux s staff and county Crew Dis covered the cemetery now nearly hidden in weeds evergreens and Poison Oak on july 28 when the began Clearing a portion of the site to build a 48-car parking of for the adjoining family practice clinic. Records indicate the cemetery located about 30 Miles North of san Francisco probably was founded in 1876 and was part of the county s poor farm. However Cardinaux complained thursday that no one seems to know How Many people were buried there or Why the site was never Given any Border Demarca Tion besides a barbed wire Fence to keep out cattle. We re really groping around he said. Cardinaux s Stal this week go a list from Community Hospital in Santa Rosa of 450 people who apparently were buried at the cemetery from 1920 to 1940, when for unknown reasons in was no longer used. The architect believes it is Only a partial list and that the number May actually be 1,000. However officials have found no records indicating when the burials began on the property which one county history report says me co my bought in 1876 tors 5,000. According to another Story the Grav Sites headstones were replaced Wilh numbered markers be cause tuberculosis patients in the family clinic were upset Over having to look out on two acres of the departed Cardinaux said. The heading atop the list of 450 names is Cata Logue of grave  besides names and the dates of birth and death the list contains numbers in no specific order ranging from 100 to 976, he said. Cardinaux said he will suggest to county supervisors that the site be cleaned up and possibly pasted Wilh Small memorial. The planned parking lot will Lake up Only a Small part of the cemetery officials said. Caf Over has 60 felines too Many Washington a. A a Man who sheltered up to 200 cats in his Home faces a nuisance citation because a health official found he still had 70 felines on the Date of a court imposed deadline for reducing the number 10 10. Thais Tepper of the Washington Board of health said she would file the charge a second degree Mise Meanor against Sam Mancuso on monday if the cats Are still there. Mancuso so could be fined up to j5.000 and jailed As Long As three years if convicted. If he has t gotten rid of the cats by the time the Case goes to court Well have a professional pest control Man remove the cats Lake Ihm to the humane society Fumi Gate the House and charge him for the expense she said after visiting Mancuso s Nome Friday. Mancuso said he began taking in abused cats eight years ago. His neighbors complained about stench and possible health hazards when the number of cats grew to 200 last Spring. Mancuso was to have had Only 10 cats and to have had them neutered by the Friday deadline Tepper said. I Don t want to come Back two years later and have 10 look Al 100 More Little faces she said. A photo dem Duox hugs a sister Marie Peterson 76, of Minneapolis in reunion in san Jose Calif sibling search almost Complete san Jose Calif. A a missionary Sepa rated from his 10 sibling for 58 years by adoption has found a brother in Springfield mass., the sum piece of the family Puzzle to All into place. De Maddox 62, of Sunland Calif., Tele phoned the brother Lloyd Lindberg. On thurs Day after officials at go to in san Francisco iced him Lindberg had called to say he had seen Maddox on television. Lindberg had been watching Cable news net work Wilh his son David when news of mad Dox s search for his family came on the air mad Dox said. David asked his father hey in t that someone in your family Lindberg immediately phoned can and net work officials contacted go according to Maddox who was also reunited last week with two of his Sisters. It s just gelling More exciting All the Lime said Maddox who vowed to continue searching for the four siblings he has not yet found. He said it Felt great to talk Wilh his brother and the two spoke for half an hour. It was just kind of family talk he said. Maddox a retired schoolteacher who works As a Volunteer for youth with a Mission a Hawaii based Christian Church group said he Lack the Money to visit Lindberg in Massachusetts bin said somehow sometime we re going to get together. I m  in 1929, when Maddox was 4 years old. His poverty stricken parents placed aft of the Chil Dren up for adoption rather than see them go hungry according to an article published in the Oakland Tribune at the time. After his adoptive Mother died in july Maddox said he fell free finally to begin looking for his natural family and came upon the Tribune article with a photograph of himself and two siblings. So far his search has determined that two of his Brothers Are dead. Maddox has Mel with to of his Sisters in Sacramento Calif and Minne Apolis and plans to visit another sister this week in a Castro Valley Calif nursing Home  
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