European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday August 20,1987 Dot May Fine airlines that Are late paper says new York a the department of transportation is threatening to Fine airline carriers for flights thai Are repeatedly late the Wall Street journal report cd Friday. The newspaper quoted airline executives As saying the department has asked at least seven of the nation s biggest airlines 10 sign a consent decree promising to end unrealistic scheduling. The Agency also is said to be considering the imposition of 11.000 lines for each flight thai is late More than half the time. The journal quoted a senior unidentified transportation department official As saying the Bottom line is that we mean business and Well either have an agreement from these earners or Well initiate formal enforcement  Continental was one airline asked to sign the decree but said it would not sign such an agreement an would argue that such a plan would undercut safely standards. Delays at the nation s busiest 22 airports Rose about25 percent last year. Transportation officials have said that hundreds of flights a Day arrive More than i 5 minutes late 70 per cent of the time at the major airports serving the at Lanta Chicago Dallas foil Worth and Boston metro Politan areas. Florida Utah Alabama put 3 convicted murderers to death by the associated plots three convicted murderers including Utah s i Fik Iller were executed Friday by electrocution or lethal injection the first time since the supreme court ruled capital punishment Legal in 1976 that three people were put to death on the same Day. Beauford White 41, who stood guard while six peo ple were shot to death in a robbery in a suburban Miami Home was electrocuted and pronounced dead at 7 11 . Friday at Florida state prison no Arstark. Earlier Wayne Eugene Ritter 33, died in Alabama selectric chair and Pierre Dale Selby was executed by lethal injection in Utah. Ritter had been convicted inthe killing of a pawnbroker Selby 34, was convicted in the torture murders of three people during a robbery at a stereo store. Serial Kilter Gerald Eugene Stano 35, who has claimed responsibility for killing 41 women had been scheduled for execution in Florida at 1 p.m., but received an indefinite stay from a three judge circuit court panel to review the issues in the Case. Killer Selby and White became the 20th, 21st and 22nd inmates executed in the United Stales this year passing the 21 put to death in 1984, the most since the landmark 1976 supreme court decision restoring capita punishment. At Point of the Mountain Utah about 150 death Penally opponents held lighted candles in silent protest As Selby was executed. Nearby 50 supporters of capital punishment Sang mock dirges. When White was asked if he had any last words he Shook his head and said faintly no  a Blac rubber Hood was drawn Over his head. White was condemned for his role in the 1977shootings of eight people six fatally during the Roth Faery of a Small time drug dealer s Home in pc Miami suburb of Carol City while did t participate in the killings but stood guard while the victims were shot. White s co defendant Marvin Francois died in the electric chair on May 29, 1985. While another convicted co defendant John Ferguson Waits on death Row. Ritter was the third Alabama inmate to be executed since 1976, his cohort in the 1977 crime spree John Louis Evans Iii was the first executed in 1983 for shooting to death Mobile pawnbroker Eddie Nassa during a robbery. Although Ritter did not fire the fatal shot he threat ened jurors at his trial and demanded the death penalty. Later he voiced remorse and filed appeals. As his head was shaved for the execution Ritter was Stu laughing and joking. And did shake hands with the guards prison commissioner Morris Thigpen said. Ritter declined to make a final statement. Ritter smiled broadly and gave a thumbs up sign to prison chaplain Joseph Kolb after he was strapped into the Garish yellow electric chair dubbed yellow mama at Holman prison. Selby condemned to die for the torture murders of three people during a 1974 robbery at the Ogden i i shop was put to death less than three hours later. He spent thursday fasting praying singing hymns and Reading the Bible Utah state prison spokesman Jua Benavidez said. Warden Gerald Cook said the inmate asked that Bis remaining $29 be Given to William Andrews another death Row inmate awaiting the outcome of his final appeals. Asked if he had anything further to say Selby told Cook thank you i m just going to say my prayers shortly before 1 ., he was strapped to a Gurney inthe death chamber and then injected with three drugs to put him to sleep paralyse his lungs and Stop Bis heart. He was pronounced dead at 1 12 . The execution was Utah s first since Gary Gilmore faced a tiring squad in january 1977, ending a 10-year National moratorium on the death Penally. Selby had acknowledged forcing his victims to drink drano before he shot them. One victim was raped an another had a ballpoint pen kicked into his ear. The execution of Georgia inmate William Mitchell 35, also was set for Friday but was postponed until tuesday so the 11th circuit court of appeals could hear his Case. Stano has claimed responsibility for killing 41 women mostly hitchhikers and loners Over the last 12 years in Florida Pennsylvania and new Jersey. Man charged with trying to kill wife who Clung to moving car Torrance Calif. A a former airline Pilot accused of driving his car up to to Mph while his estranged wife Clung to the Hood has pleaded innocent to attempted murder charges. Russell Allen jobs 43, whose 20-Monlh-old son Toby was in the car during the ordeal also pleaded innocent thursday to charges of child endangerment and assault with a deadly weapon during an arraign ment Here a court clerk said. South Bay municipal court judge Wilbur Johnson ordered jobs a retired Pilot for United airlines into custody without bail pending a bail hearing sept. 18. A preliminary hearing was set for sept. 10. Police said Jobst s estranged wife Madonna Roslyn Jobst Kennedy 36, Clung to the Hood of a car for 30 minutes aug. 17, while her husband raced Over City streets and freeways in a High Speed Battle Over their Jobst Kennedy told police that she and her husband Are going through a divorce. She said they were arguing about custody of Toby when he put the child in a rented car and drove off with the toddler unsecured inthe front scat. The woman said she jumped on the Hood and hooked her feel into the wheel Wells while her husband allegedly tried to shake her Loose by veering and Stop Ping suddenly. The car reached speeds of up to 80 Mph at times on he san Diego freeway police said. Police finally caught up to the car in a los Angeles cemetery where jobs allegedly tried to impale his wife on a Cactus. Both she and her son suffered minor injuries in the incident. Jobs who lives in Hawaii could face up to 14 years in prison if convicted.  w. Quiet on the Beach id kit Halai he Wall weighing 25 Poon i lighter. Calif kayaker lands in Hawaii 23 Days late san Diego a sunburned and covered with sores a 36-year-old kayaker from san Diego paddled his Way onto a Beach in Hawaii More than 20 Days after his family presumed hews lost in the Waters of the Pacific. Edward a Gillet left Monterey Calif., on june 25 for what he thought would be a 40-Day, 2,200-mile crossing to the hawaiian islands. The kayak shop owner arrived 63 Days later on thursday morning weighing 25 pounds lighter. It was Worth doing but it was much harder than i thought it was going to be gig Tel told the Sun Diego Union newspaper. A trip like this extends the limits an stretches our imaginations of what humans Fiji accomplish. The Only real danger was losing my grip and losing my sense of what i was there for. It was very taxing very stressful with stress coming every moment. Just about every Day i went to he Edge cillers father Edward a Gillet of Pensacola  had criticized the coast guard for not searching for his son after he failed to arrive in san Diego in mid August. When 1 finally see him i m going to hug him and kiss him and then punch him in the nose he told his Hometown newspaper. I should have chopped up his boat t could have lived 0 Yean longer without  the coast guard said it would be impossible to locate the kayak in the open Ocean and noted Gillet s Craft was equipped with an adequate food Supply equipment for making fresh water a life raft and emergency locator beacons Usu had not been activated. Gillet who had loaded enough food for a 60 Day trip aboard his 21-fool Craft said he ran out of food four Days before Landing in Kahului Hawaii. It was either hit the islands or die he said. You could t turn  Gillel was last seen by the Crew of a passing ship july 7, the same Day his homemade trans Mitter stopped working he said. Afler phoning his family Gillie treated him self to cookies and a quart of ice  for his future Gil Tel said he May take up Rock climbing. I d like to go Back to my Ordinary life with an enhanced appreciation of what it s like to sit in a hotel and order a cup o "