European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday september 12,1987 Appal Falwell Falls Well the Rev. Jerry Falwell plunges Down the water slide at the pal Village s heritage Usa amuse ment Park in fart Mill . The ride fulfilled Promise Falwell made earlier this summer when the pal began a drive for donations. Falwell Sld he d go on the slide if 1,000 people donated $1,000 each by labor Day. The donors came through As the ministry raised More than $22 million. Dot begins drug testing of employees despite suit Washington at1 despite a continuing court Challenge the transportation department is beginning random drug tests of employees with jobs involving air and rail safety drug enforcement and Security. About so department workers All employed Al Dot Headquarters in Washington and randomly selected by a computer provided urine samples thursday thai will be tested for five types of illegal drugs. It is the first  drug testing program of civilian government workers under an executive order from president Reagan aimed at curbing drug use among government employees. The american federation of government employees is scheduled to return to Federal court on monday and ask for an injunction that would halt the tests. Last week a Federal judge refused to Grant a temporary restraining order against the department although that decision did not address the merits of the testing program. We think the random tests Are an abrogation of a Federal worker s constitutional rights and we think in s unnecessary said Janice Lachance a spokeswoman for the Union which represents about 6,500 of the transportation department workers. The department workers subject to the tests include air traffic controllers pilots Security specialism aviation inspectors drug enforcement personnel Railroad safety inspectors and any employee with a Security clearance. Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole announced the drug testing program last january. In August employees were notified individually thai they might be subject to a random test. Earlier this week Dole announced formally that the first round of tests would be conducted sometime during the week. In All about 30,000 employees about half of the department s civilian work Force Are subject to Possi ble testing under the program. We tested about to people today department spokesman Hal Paris said late thursday. Officials said the employees were selected by com Puter and notified by supervisors that they had to pro vide urine samples for testing. Paris said Alt of those tested thursday were employees at the department s Washington Headquarters building. The department said thai during the next three months the tests will be limited to a Small number of drug testing a tar Ernp Jilm a Niin to front i us Hahn Lbw " geographic locations with a High concentration of workers. Later the program will be expanded. Dole and other senior department officials have said the random tests would be conducted on a carefully controlled and monitored basis to ensure the highest degree of respect for individual  the test samples arc being examined under a con tract by comp chem laboratories for the presence of marijuana cocaine opiates pc or amphetamines. According to department officials the samples Are initially screened for the presence of any of the drugs. A positive initial result will result in a second test using a sophisticated Gas chromatography mass spec isometry analysis officials said. The department will not be notified of an initial positive test result unless it is confirmed by the second More sophisticated test officials said. Lome Greene of to s Bonanza Dies at 72 Santa Monica Calif. A lome Greene who As Ben Cartwright on Bonanza became a worldwide image of firm but gentle fatherhood died Fri Day of complications from surgery his Secretary said. He was 72. Greene died Al Saint John s Hospital where he underwent abdominal surgery aug. 19 for a perforated ulcer. While re covering he developed pneumonia at limes requiring an oxygen tank to help hint breathe. He died this  said Roxanne Lawrence his Secretary at new Wilder Ness productions. Hospital officials said he died at 12 14 . Greene s wife and children were at his Side when he died Lawrence said. Just last weekend Greene s condition improved and he was moved out of the intensive care unit into a private room but on thursday he suffered a setback and was returned to the intensive care unit. A barrel chested Man with White hair and Bushy Black eyebrows Greene tried different television roles Laic in his Ca reer playing a detective in Griff a space commander in Batt Lestar galactic Ca and a fire chief in code  Bui the native of Canada remained most closely tied to his image As a wid Ower in the old West Riding Herd on a Trio of Headstrong sons Adam Hoss and Little Joe played by Permell Rob erts Dan Blocker and Michael Landon. The series made him a multimillion Aire and he invested in real estate and ran a string of thoroughbred horses at Santa Anita and Del mar race tracks in Southern California. Greene also became known in recent years for dog food commercials for Tele vision. He once built a replica in Arizona of the Ponden a ranch House set Complete with a staircase that led to nowhere. But unlike the sometimes Stern humourless Cartwright Greene was full of Good Spir its and often joked with his co stars. Greene was a Little known actor and former newscaster in 1959, when he was cast for the part of the father. After a shaky Start Bonanza zoomed in popu Larity and was seen by an estimated 400 million people in 80 countries. After 14 years on Abc it was can celeb in january 1973. Roberts quit the show in 1965 and Blocker died May 13, 1972. Greene who was bom feb. 12, 1915, in Ottawa Ontario based his interpretation of his role after his own father Dan Iel Greene. His father had been a maker of orthopaedic boots and shoes. I Don t know whether i could Ever match my father As n person but As an actor i try to be like him Greene once said. Greene also appeared on a number of television variety shows and recorded such hit records As Ringo destiny and five card stud in which he talked rather than Sang to the music. Ringo about a renegade Cowboy was on the charts for 12 weeks in 1964. Greene remained a Canadian citizen although he was Active in democratic politics. Lome Greene cops say blood seepage m House could be hoax Atlanta a investigators won t try to solve the mystery of a blood spattered House if they re satisfied no crime was committed a police official said. Laboratory tests showed that the blood was human but does t match that of William Winston a 79-year old dialysis patient who has lived in the House with his wife for 22 years. We have no leads Al this Lime it. Horace Walker said thursday. We will continue a routine investigation and if we find that no crime was committed we re through with it. As we  it now there has been no crime. Someone could have done this As a hoax he said. It concerns me that we Don t have any  the director of the state s crime lab Larry Howard said thursday that tests showed inc blood was Type o. While Winston has Type a. Authorities had wondered whether the blood could have come from Winston because he must go to a dialysis clinic regularly 10 have his blood cleansed by a kidney machine. Howard said More samples from Winston and his wife would be tested. The human blood was found late tuesday on the floors and along Walls Al the Southwest Atlanta Home of Winston and his wife Minnie Clyde 77. Mrs Winston said thursday that she was weary of All the attention following inc bizarre discovery. I still Don t know where the blood came from and i m tired of All these people asking me All these questions she said. If anybody comes Here today. I m not going to open my  she said she was besieged with Calls and visits wednesday. The phone rang All night people asking me questions she said. I m fed up with All  she said she has not found any new spots of blood