European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday. October 21,1987 stateside $50 Reward for honesty causes problems for clerk san Francisco up a grocery clerk Given 3 $50 Reward by a grateful customer for returning a Wallet containing $2,900 was threat ened with disciplinary action unless she turned Over the Money to her employer a Union attorney said. Richard Mccracken a lawyer Tor the uni Eccl food and commercial workers International Union said the clerk employed in a Safeway store would Challenge the company order. Clerk Debora Pike found the Wallet last week and gave it to the store manager Mccracken said the owner showed up and picked up the Wallet which contained 11,000 Cash $1,000 in Money orders and three s300 payroll checks. The Wallet s owner gave Pike a $50 Reward for her honesty the attorney said. Later Mccracken said the manager informed her that he was advised by his superiors that she must give the Money Back because accepting a Reward violated Safeway s policy against tips. Man shoots at sex wife for not playing dominoes Oregon Iii. Up a 72-Ycar-old Man has been found guilty of attempted murder for shooting Ai his eve wife because she refused to play dominoes with him Ogle county circuit judge John Moore scheduled a hearing nov. 20 to determine whether Everett Kipling or is fit to be sentenced. At tempted murder carries a mandatory six-to-30 year sentence. Ada Kipling or 73, said during the trial that her former husband had tried to prevent her from leaving he House he Day of the shooting sept. 13, 1985, but she escaped his. Grasp by biting him. She said that she went outside and sat in the family s car and that Keplinger went into the House resumed Vii 3 ,357-Cahbrr a my re Volver and fired breaking the car s Windshield and grazing the lop of her head. Keplinger told investigators he wanted to Ware her because she would t come Back inside to play dominoes with him. The couple was divorced last year. Keplinger remains free on a j 100,000 Bond. Car kills pedestrian crashes through diner door Chicago a a car went out of control monday striking and killing pedestrian before crashing into a diner authorities mid. It crashed right through the Glass front door said officer Paul Ciernia luckily no one in the res aunut i Maura Walker 57, was pronounced dead on arrival at Illinois masonic Hospital said a spokeswoman. A 44-year-old woman Motorist was taken into custody. She s going to get ticketed As soon As we decide All the charges against her Czernia said. The Driver of the car and a passenger who were not identified were not Hurt. Security screening delays lengthy Iran Contra report Washington a release of Congress Volu Minous report on the Iran Contra affair will be delayed by about a week because of a time concur nine process of weeding out classified material the chairman of the House investigating panel said monday. Rep. Lee Hamilton a and said the declassification process is taking longer than expected and will push Public release of the document into he first week of november. The committees had hoped to have it ready for publication by the end of next week. The report was written initially without regard for the National Security sensitivity of information leaving the task of declassification to while House officials who go Over it Section by Section As each portion is completed he said. Hamilton also said that the report also he under gone extensive editing and thai the portion of the document that summarizes conclusions of the summer Long inquiry is now in its 35th draft. He said it still appeared Likely that House republicans would be writing their own version of the report s conclusions and would not sign the majority document despite changes that have been made since the first draft Drew complaints from minority lawmakers. We were not making the changes with that in mind he said. Infant with transplanted heart making Progress Hospital says Loma Linda Calif. A baby Paul who had a human heart transplant hours after he was delivered by caesarean Section last week was making Good Prog Ress and had his condition upgraded monday a Hospi Tal spokeswoman said. The infant s condition improved from critical to serious but stable said Anita Rockwell a spokeswoman for Loma Linda University medical Center. He has had excellent cardiac function since sur Gery he has recovered Well neurologically and he had a favourable tissue match with the donor she said. The infant diagnosed before birth As having a fatally defective heart was delivered to Alice and Gordon Hole of Canada on Friday and underwent transplant surgery about three hours later. The holes spent much of the weekend with their Newborn who remained on a Respirator Rockwell said. It is just really Nice to have Biro alive and doing Well mrs. Hole told the Vancouver Sun in their Hometown of Vancouver British Columbia he s hooked up to so Many lines he s got a lot of attachments a lot of equipment on him now Hole told the newspaper. It does t totally Shock us. We were first shocked when we saw it with other children but then we knew what to expect. For Tome reason when it was ours it was t so mrs. Hole 35, Learned two months ago that the fetus she was carrying had a fatal heart malformation. The holes Ahu have a 5-year-old son. Wang unveils 4 new minicomputers Lowell mass. Up Wang laboratories inc. Unveiled four new minicomputers monday that offer increased Power memory and Stor age capacity at a lower Price Ian ear Lier models executives said. The new systems announced Dur ing the i oth anniversary of Wang s original is Minicomputer systems also allow for As Many As twice the number of users officials said. All four models were available immediately. The new systems Cost Between $13,000 and 75,000 less than comparably configured minicomputers sold by Wang s Competition officials said. The is 5e supports 16 users and the is 6e allows for 32 users double the amount of earlier is models officials said both systems feature High performance disk drives and three internal drives. The is 75e supports 65 users and includes 32,000 bytes of Cache Mem Ory and two to eight megabytes of main memory twice the main and Cache memory of the is 6.1, which it replaces officials said. The is 7010, which costs $75,000, is the new entry level Model of Wang s High end is 7000 series officials said the system supports As Many As 96 workstations and a total of 128 peripheral devices officials said. The is 7010 delivers 40 percent More computing Power than the new is 75e, although both Are housed in lie same size Cabinet Wang Aba introduced two Mem Ory Board using 1-megabit chips for the is 7000 series processors officials said. The firm also said it would embark on an ambitious Agenda for is developments Over the next two years. The firm expects to produce new computers ranging from desktop versions to mainframe units. More than 40,000 of Wang s is computer units have been installed since the system was introduced on oct. 12, is77. Pc Market share to pwt no d unto to i at r ,1907 ice cube business leaving environmentalists cold Juneau. Alaska a ice cubes chipped from glaciers Are becoming a hot item in Urban grocery stores and the craze has protectors of die Alaska Wilder Ness worried. They say tourists who come to see ice bergs spawned by glaciers in two popular Southeast Alaska Fords Tracy Arm near Juneau and lec Anfe Bay near Petersburg May find the scenery marred by barges collecting the floating icebergs for Export. The prime attraction of the St Kine Leonle wilderness area is Leconie Bay where the southernmost Tidewater Glacier in North America provides a spectacular display of nature primeval Dun and Karen Cornelius wrote to the state. Bringing a Barge with a Backhoe on it into the Bay would be totally in compatible with the Pristine wilderness values of the the Cornel uses and other Petersburg resident want the department of Natu ral resources to deny a permit for Export of the ice but a department official says he is not sure How much Legal Power the stale has to Stop it. The iceberg Export was proposed by Tim Dimond a Northland service inc. Barge company employee who lows empty barges Back to Seattle after taking loads of produce North. According to the slate Dimond wants 10 take a Side trip into the fjords and fill empty refrigerator containers with ice for his return trips. Dimond estimated it would take a six hour Side trip once a week to collect the 1,000 tons of ice he Hopes to sell each month said Christopher Landis water resource manager for Southeast Alaska. A Crane on each Barge would be used to scoop 4,000-Pound bergs each about the size of a Large office desk out of the fjords Saltwater Landis said. About 100 icebergs would be collected each week. Glacier ice which fell As Snow or rain thousands of Yean ago is prize for is purity. The Blue ice crackles and pops while it melts and is sold As a Novelty item in groceries in some major cities in the West and Midwest one Anchorage company already is exporting it to Japan. The . Coast guard and the National Marine fisheries service which manages seals that rest on the icebergs have no objection to Dunoon s plan Landis said. But some Petersburg residents have started a petition against the proposal and have written several letters urging Landis to toss it out. There s nothing wrong with Barge operators taking icebergs out of less Scenic areas but the Enterprise would not mix with tourism Landis said. Dimond probably could take the ice without hat permission land isaid. But after state officials told him that once Dimond came Back and asked for their permission again. He said he needed an official stamp on the Enterprise. On second thought Landis. Decided the ice Export might require a permit for use of fresh water. But he said an attorney general s Opin Ion might be required to decide the Issue
