European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes monday october 12,1987 3 states hold coastline cleanup Day by the associated press cleanup Crews combed the nation sat Antic and Pacific coastlines saturday picking up liner planting Dune grass giving environmental lectures and test ing for water purity. The Effort to Spruce up inc nation s beaches was begun tour years ago in Ore gon and has since spread to both coasts. Saturday s efforts took place in califor Nia. New Jersey and Oregon. In new Jersey which dubbed the event coastal Day about Iso volunteers tilled a dump Ruck and pickup truck with trash gathered from four Miles of Beach at Island Beach state Park. The department of environmental Protection handed out litter bags and work Caps and provided entertainment by a Rock v Roll band called Joey and the works said Park superintendent Dick Riker. An Epa helicopter and Ere also were on hand to demonstrate How the Federal Agency tests water Quality and tracks Shore pollution Riker said. Ocean City n.j., threw a Block party where officials handed out litter and anti litter bumper stickers said Regina Ostrof the City s information Center rep. H. James Saigon r-n.j., walked the 18-mile length of Long Beach Island behind a 20-foot Blimp proclaiming Hake Waves for a clean an environmental group save our shores held a 12-hour concert in a South Hamar bar to raise Money to cover Legal fees for a lawsuit the group plans against new York City said the group s spokeswoman Linda Hasbrouck. A week ago. Save our shores joined new Jersey officials in blaming new York for a 50-mile Slick of medical wast that washed up on the stale s beaches in August she sail. Another & our. Save our Ocean arranged a Dune grass planting project i Seaside Park. On he West coast volunteers from conservation and civic groups joined in the California coastal commission s third annual Beach cleanup collecting rash at beaches As far North As hum bold county to the Sausalito Shoreline in the Middle of the state and j far South As san Diego. At Ocean Beach South of san Francis co s Golden Gale Bridge stale sen. Mil ton Marks was joined by i so volunteers and presented an official adopt a Beach coastal cleanup Day proclamation from the legislature and Cov George Duck Majian. About 125 volunteers turned out in Monterey where the sea Knight diver from Fresno conducted an underwater cleanup on the Beach Ai Cannery Row said Jack liebster spokesman for the coastal commission. Lifeguards sponsored a Volunteer Beach cleanup and Rescue demonstrations at los Angeles county s Long Beach. Some 150 people filled two to rec garbage bags each said lifeguard capt Randall Davis. In a Colura county just Northwest of los Angeles the California Park service displayed one of its boats the 56-fool Pacific Ranger which is used for re search and transport to and from the Channel islands National Park. On Oregon s coastline hundreds of people from schoolchildren to motorcycle club members took part in the clean up. Nicholas Warila a state Parks employee who was coordinator for the event in Lincoln City said 80 percent of the volunteers came from Inland Oregon mostly the Willamette Valley. Louisiana held a coastal cleanup sept. 19, collecting More than 200 tons of Gar Bage officials said. Gator shades Ilde an Tolura not White Bijj Igitol is held a Longjr Litigator Ippu Tath bitched from the Urne neat. It hit Audubon zoo in new Orleans. The while Alligator i one of four out re bring in Iota around the world. The Alligator were Discor Erri in a dumb a Wal bunt of new or Leaai. Sky diver Dies in Bridge jump fayettev1lle, . A a sky diver taking part in an annual jump from the new River Gorge Bridge was killed saturday when his Para chm. In Leto open officials said. Steven Gyrsting 25, of Paoli pa., was pronounced dead at the base of the Bridge the nation s second highest Span after the 2 38 . Jump said Cpl. . Payne of the West Virginia slate police. Gyrating t main Parachute and Reserve Chute failed to open after he jumped from the 876-fool-High Bridge and he hit the water with a loud crack said Topper Sherwood a Charleston daily mail reporter who witnessed the dive. Apparently his Pilot Chute did not sufficiently open and he attempted to open his Reserve Chute said Jean Boenish an official with base a parachutists group thai organized the jump. Base member dive from buildings Antenna towers and Bridges. Gyrating is the third sky diver to die while jumping from the 10-year-old Bridge which stretches 1,700 fee across the Gorge and the turbulent River a favorite of Whitewater rafters. Every year on Bridge Day the Span s anniversary sky divers Are allowed to Parachute from the Structure. About 375 cd Utiss took part in the jump saturday and an estimated 250,000 people strolled across the Ridge to watch. Gursling was among the last of the parachutists to dive and the jumps were halted for about an hour after the Accident we All know the risks we just do the Best we can said Boenish who was scheduled to jump later in the Day. We know he would t want us to curl up and jumping out of a plane i a lot safer than this said Dave lament 30, of Pittsburgh shortly before he made a successful dive during saturday s event in a plane you re a lot higher and have More Good evening1 debuts in St. Paul St. Paul Minn. A baseball was the theme As Noah Adams and Good evening made their bows saturday to a sold out House As the replacement for Garrison Keillor s a Prairie Home companion radio program. Ain t it Nice to have a Winner again said Harold a character on Minnesota Public radio s new program referring to the Minnesota twins who Are leading the playoff series for the american league baseball Pennant but Adams May very Well be thinking along the same lines about his show which was broadcast live locally from St. Paul s world theater where Keillor held Sway for 13 Yean. It will easily take the place of the old show said longtime Keillor fan Christine David of St. Paul after attending Adams opening n Ighel it was terrific the 90-Rninule program featured music humor a poetry Reading not Igia and sentiment All bound to Gether by baseball. Let s play baseball in october Harold crooned. After All he surmised you can t die from in keeping with inc theme each audience member received a complimentary baseball Cap with Good evening printed on it. Adams concluded his radio essay St. Croix notes reminiscent of Keillor s news from Lake Wobegon monologue bul much Shorter with we re watching for Winter and hoping for a world and As the program a card the close Ronnie new Man organist for the twins accompanied the Audi ence in a round of take me out to inc Adams the former co Hosi of National Public radio s All things considered was hired to mount a replacement show for a Prairie Home companion which presented in final program in mid june after Keillor announced he wanted to do other projects. "1 just wanted to come out Here and Sec if it was As scary thought it would Adams told the Audi ence at the beginning of the show. Stateside Harvard won t return Indian artefacts to Utah Cambridge mass. A nearly 60 year Sago an archaeologist unearthed thousands of in Dian artefacts in Utah and gave them to a har Vard University museum. Now Utah wants the Art facts Back. No says the Peabody museum of archaeology and ethnology. We do not give collections away Rosemary Joyce assistant director of the museum use of the word return is not a Propri Joyce however said the museum would con Sider a request to put the approximately 1,500objects on Long term exhibit in the Clear Creek. Indian Center at Fremont Indian stale Park near Richfield Utah. Clear Creek curator Ken Kohler has sought ownership of the artefacts claiming that the pea body violated the 1906 antiquities act by failing to place the artefacts on Public display. Weekly Reader founder Eleanor Johnson 94, Dies Gaithersburg my. A Eleanor Johnson whose classroom news paper weekly Reader was read by an estimated two thirds fall american schoolchildren was mourned by her successor As a visionary educator who influenced millions of children. Johnson who had been in poor health diet at her Home in Gail Casburg. A spokesman for the newspaper said. She was 94, she developed a formal that was perfectly suited to the needs of teachers and kids said or. Terry Borton the err s current editor in chief. Every Friday to this Day millions of kids understand the world better because of her in sight and hard false rumours of aids shut Maryland restaurant Hagerstown. My. A false rumours that a homosexual a Nitro a had aids has forced a couple to close their seafood restaurant just 2vi months after it opened the proprietor said. I m not suing to discriminate. I m no scared of aids said Sci a Uoo Zillic of St. Thomas pa., who operated Sci a s place with her husband Lawrence. The couple saying that the rumours kept patrons away closed the 150-scat restaurant last week when weekly sales dropped from about 18,000 to 16,000 soon after the maitre d was hired. The employee who requested anonymity said he was a homosexual but did not have acquired immune deficiency syndrome
