European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. October 15. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 . Plant shipping chopsticks to Japan hushing Minn. Apr a Minnesota factory on tuesday shipped in first truckload of chopsticks 1o Japan a venture the company president acknowledged would remind some of taking coals to  a crowd of about 100 visitors and 45 workers was on hand to applaud the first shipment from the High Lech Lakewood Forest products Ltd. Plant in North Ern Minnesota s depressed Iron mining country. It s just kind of festive Here today said Dorothy Ylatupa. The Plant Secretary we  passing out chopsticks and instructions on How to cat with  the japanese discard 130 million pairs of disposable chopsticks daily a volume that has put a Strain on the country s traditional labor intensive manufacturing methods said Ian Ward president of Lake Wood in addition Japan s Slock of Chopstick Quality Wood is dwindling. Shipping chopsticks to Japan May sound to some people a bit like taking coals to Newcastle except thai in this Fate the coals arc quickly running  Ward said. And the Hibbing Plant can beat japanese chop stick makers on Price by relying on the locally Avail Able Aspen Trees. The Wood has a clean White appearance that the japanese like said Plant manager Scott Karppinen said. Lakewood s $5 million Plant opened in August 1986 with its owners aiming so eventually produce 7 million pairs of chopsticks daily for Sale in the far Easl. Primarily to japanese restaurants. High Speed Wood dryers and a computerised Cul Ling system designed by a danish manufacturer enable the plan to make chopsticks up to seven limes faster than traditional japanese plants said Karppi run. Having overcome manufacturing flaws thai made the first year s products unacceptable to discriminating japanese buyers the Plant is now Able to produce about i million chopsticks a Day thai arc deemed acceptable. The production process ends with a computerized Quality control Check that sifts out rejects with the use of fiber optics Kar Pinnon said. Ward said daily production will be stepped up to 7 million within a few months. Pic Koester a design Engineer Forsi Ormas inter National inc company from Copenhagen Denmark that created the machinery has said he does t know of another Plant that has the capacity to produce 1.6 billion chopsticks a year. The Plant also represents a counterpunch to for eign Competition that has Reduci a the number of steel Industry jobs in the United slates. Unemployed miners and other Iron Range work ers hooded the Plant with More than 3,000 applications for the hiring of the first 32-Mcmber Crew lust year. Al wages of 15.50 to j7 an hour Lakewood has said it will employ up to 95 people when the plan is in full production. Ward said tuesday that the company recently Lias seen Promise in a Domestic Market for the chop Sticks bul he said the initial concentration for additional sales will be in Taiwan Hong Kong and Singa pore. Soviets tried to foil invasion of Cuba seminar told Cambridge mass. Not Niichi la s. Khrushchev installed missile sulcs in Cuba 25 years ago. Unleashing what came to be colled the cuban missile Cri Sis apparently without deep consideration of what the american reaction to he move would be a former Khrushchev aide says this observation offered by a former  of Khrushchev was made during an unusual three Day meeting at Harvard University that brought together senior members of the Kennedy administration with some soviet participants in the cuban missile crisis. The conference which was hailed by several participants As an Early fruit of the soviet policy of glasnost or open Ness was intended to Exchange ideas on How the event came about and How it was resolved and to answer some of the remaining questions about an affair that in the View of most brought inc world closer to nuclear War than at any other Lime in history. Scholars and others at Harvard who attended the sessions said the soviet panellists were remarkable for heir open Ness. Many Here were struck by the rus sians willingness in describe shortcomings in soviet policy and said that it marked a new soviet Altitude for inc first Lime we have had the history of soviet foreign policy to a in a new Way said William Taubman an academic specialist on the cuban missile crisis who attended the symposium. He said that until now the soviet attitude was that the russians were always right and inc americans always wrong. One of inc remaining fundamental Fedor big Ralsky Lefi and Martje Orr Bundy discuss cuban missile crisis. Questions of Chr cuban crisis concerns the reasons for Khrushchev s move to install the missiles in he first place Given the likelihood that president Ken Nedy would not allow the move to pass without some Strong  action. Maybe he placed the missiles without any real planning without knowing Whai will happen afterwards Fedor m. Bur la sky a speech writer for Khrushchev. Said in a Public session of the conference. Maybe he did t understand the Ameri can  action to this  another soviet participant Sergei a. Mikoyan whose father Anastas Vas Khrushchev s special emissary to i. A. Prison guard killed in ambush Danville a. A two men and inc wife of a prison inmate were charged tuesday after a daring Hospital ambush thai left a prison guard dead and briefly freed the woman s husband. Harold Spencer Rabbins 48, and Marcus Lee Sofko 19, ambushed four guards monday night As inmate Paul Gavin Yasiello was pushed in a wheel chair outside he emergency room Al Grisinger medical Center said Fri spokesman John Kundts. After hustling Yasiello into a stolen car the suspects led police on a Chase that reached speeds up to 100 Mph before officers ran them off the Road 11 Miles from the medical Center authorities said. Lasi Cilo 31, who had been Robbins cellmate had been taken to the Hospital from the . Penitentiary at Lewisburg after complaining of a head injury officials said Federal officials charged Robbins with murder and Seiko with assault said act ing . Attorney James West. Both men also were charged with aiding an escape and Robbins also faces a number of local charges Nancy Lase Illo 37, also was charged with murder assault and aiding an escape said . Magistrate William Askey. Mrs. Lasi Cilo passed information from her husband to the iwo men and helped plan the escape Askey said. The murder charge carries the death Penally or life imprisonment upon con Vic Liun. Killed in inc ambush was Robert Miller 36, Laid Hospital spokesman Ted Townsend. Another guard Robert a. Adams j r., was treated for a scratch a gunshot and released. Townsend t i. Las Clio who was unarmed and shackled during the escape was set in the forearm during the ambush am was a Caird Al Geisinger and released according to . Marshal Joel weathering ton. Robbins and Solko will be arraigned on the Federal charges within a few Days West said. Mrs. Lasi Cilo was arraigned tuesday and ordered held in Loomin Guniy prison pending a hearing Friday. No charges have been filed Sci against Lasi Elto who was serving a 3 Vii a sen tence fur kidnapping robbery and pos session of a weapon in a car. He had been imprison cd at la Wizburg since nov. 9. 1983, officials said. Castro said i agree that to install the mis Siles on thai Island was adventurous be cause it did not take into consideration what would be the american  the conference sponsored by the har Vard Center for science and International affairs was organized to Mark the 25th anniversary of inc missile crisis which spanned n period of 13 Days in october 1962. It ended when Khrushchev agreed to pull the missiles out in Exchange for an american pledge never to invade the Island and to withdraw old missiles from Turkey and Italy three soviet officials took part in the meeting along with several lop officials of the Kennedy administration including Robert Mcnamara he we Ciary of defense mag Corgi Bundy Kennedy s National Security adviser and Theodore Sorn san a  and presiden tial adviser. The other soviet participant in addition in Burlatskiy and Mikoyan. Was Corgi Sha Nazarov a senior Mem Ber of he Soviel Central committee dealing with foreign policy. Tile soviet panellists said the installation of the missiles came about at least in pan because inc russians were con Vinced that the United states Wai pre paring an imminent invasion of Cuba. Mikoyan said Khrushchev regarded inc missiles As a Way to prevent an invasion. But the american participants said an invasion had not Bren considered by the Kennedy administration. I can say Only now after talks with such respected people As Mcnamara Bundy and Sorn san. Thai the invasion was not imminent Mikoyan said. Union chips in for fired worker Pittsburgh a demonstrators handed out bags of potato chips in support of a maintenance Man who says he was fired for eating chips on the Job. About a half dozen members of the service employees International Union demonstrated outside one Mellon Bank Center where Michael Rushin 25, of Pittsburgh worked for Arcade maintenance cleaning contractor consumption of these potato chips May be hazardous to your Job Security read warnings attached to the bags. Arcade a Linn Nance said Rushin was tired last month for taking unauthorized Breaks Union officials say the Union s efforts to organize 100 janitors at the building led to Rushin s firing