European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday. November 7,1987 iceberg twice size of . Drifts from Antarctic shelf Washington a an iceberg twice As big As Rhode Island has broken away in Antarctica and is Drifting in the Ross sea the National science foundation reported thursday. The size of he iceberg in human terms is stagger ing. If you could somehow transport it to Californi and mall it it would Supply All the water needs of los Angeles for the next 675 years said Guy g. Guth. Ridge of the foundation. Icebergs often break away from the massive ant Arctic ice shelf in the Ross sea where they Are affected by weather and tidal forces. However the new iceberg equals two to three times the Normal amount of ice that Breaks free in a year. Despite its size the iceberg represents no threat to shipping in the Region the foundation said. The Drifting iceberg is about 25 Miles wide and 98 Miles Long for an area of 2,450 Square Miles the foun Dation said. Rhode Island by comparison has an Are of about 1,200 Square Milf. The iceberg is estimated to be 750 feet thick. Despite its massive size the floating Block rep resents Only three one hundredths of i percent of the total area of Antarctica. It broke from a Region of Freshwater ice formed fro Snow that ice has flowed Glacier Ike. Over Lime onto the sea surface from the Antarctic land mass. The float ing ice near the coastline has Many weak areas and the cat s meow cat Politan nude its distinguished debut in the publishing world with Ami at Pic Len Purd Kate gracing its cover. The Magazine for it enthusiasts is a spoof of  Nuguid. Itene Kochberg or new Hope pm Ilso it the creator of Vogue like publication for dog by called  Large crevasses scientists report. The movement of the iceberg was reported by scientists Al Mcmurdo station about 450 Miles away and was confirmed by satellite photos officials said. The major significance this has for us besides the historical aspects is that it will alter All our maps of the continent said Terry r. Cooke a Navy acro Gra Phr s mate stationed at Mcmurdo station the iceberg broke away from the ice shelf Al a Loca Tion known As the Bay of whales an Inlet into the shelf near the locations of several Camps constructed during expeditions of the late . Explorer Richard e. Byrd. Unless the iceberg halts close by its departure will alter the coastline to effectively eliminate the Bay of whales As a geographic feature scientists said. While the iceberg could provide plenty of fresh water if towed to a dry area moving a Berg would involve major problems. A . Army study several years ago concluded that moving icebergs posed an exciting possibility but would require development of super tugboats plus efforts to prevent the bergs from melting in route to their destinations. In addition the study raised the possibility of Anvi Ron mental damage from the influx of cold fresh Waters a moving Berg melted while passing through warmer saw Alcor and it raised questions As to whether the Cost of moving an iceberg would be justified. Papers drop Bloom county Jacksonville Fla. A several newspaper publishers Are not laughing Al Friday s instalment of the comic strip Bloom county which they pulled because of language a character used to describe president Rea Gan. It s just offensive language said James l. White vice president and general manager of Florida publish ing co., which publishes the times Union and Jack Sonville journal. The times Union and the Miami Herald were among the newspapers that pulled the strip by Berke breathed in which a character is shown saying Reagan  since the strips were Send to newspapers last week the Washington Post writers group has receive about a dozen complaints about the cartoon said Al Leeds sales manager for the Syndicate. Breathed whose strip has wan the pulitzer prize said the instalment is not a comic strip about Ronald Reagan and defended the language he chose. I would t have done the strip if the word had t been used appropriately. Today s youth have Lon since legitimized that word in the american lexicon the cartoonist said. In the strip puck a Penguin character breathed borrowed from nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant. Makes the remark about Reagan. The Miami Herald subs Itulid an old Bloom county strip for the one slated for Friday. New Day on new York s Long Island also chose not to run the strip. The new York daily news ran the strip but changed it so the puck character is depicted saying Reagan  Wilma Wall assistant to the features editor of the Chicago Sun times said we Are going to run it is this such a big Deal Elpaso s rabies vaccine used up Elpaso Texas a health officials used up the City s Supply of rabies vaccine in an Effort to Inoc ulate More than 100 people who might have come in Contact with a school farm s Rabid calf. Extra vaccine was shipped in from across the state. Or. Laurance Nickey City county health District director said. Niccy said every Paraon who might have had con tact with the animal at Ysleta High school s farm will be inoculated. The calf died earlier in the week and rabies was can firmed. The calf was a class project of Junior Isaac Moreno. It was purchased As a Day old calf from a Dairy and bad received excellent care Ysela principal Roger paries Laid. However the animal developed diarrhoea which is common with bottle fed calves Parks said Nickey estimated the inoculations would Cost the health District s30,000to $50,000. The program is aimed at 49 students and others from the school and 54 students and others from Mesa Vista elementary school who visited the farm oct. 23. Some teachers and relatives of students Are receiving vaccination As Well. This is a preventive measure Nickey said adding trial human rabies develops 10 Days to two months after infection occurs. Infection would require Contact Between the calf s saliva and a person s open wound. Nickey said the calf probably was infected by a Rabid Skunk or perhaps by a Bat Coyote wild dog or non immunized pet dog. Stateside Ink on checks disappears in the twinkling of an Eye Corpus Christi Texas a employees at an Eye Wear More wondered if they were having vision problems when the Ink vanished from a customer s Check. Invisible Ink was used to write the Check it he designer Eye car store in Corpus Christi police sgt. . Rodriguez said. An employee Loki police a woman recently took her son to the office for an Eye examination and wrote a i so Check for the examination along with i $45 Check for the Deposit on eyeglasses. After the woman left office employees discovered the Ink on the $50 Check had disappeared the other Check which had been sent to the Bank was resumed because it also was Blank according to a police report. Rodriguez said the police identification Sec lion is trying to make the Ink  boy s glasses were never picked up. 2 children found dead in refrigerator left in Yard new York a a 4-year-old girl and or 3-Yoar-old brother died after their Slep Grandfather found them in an old refrigerator lie had left in the Back Yard of their Home police said. Vemon and Shawana King were taken to to pitas by police after they were found unconscious in the refrigerator about 3w hours after he had last seen them said officer Peter p Donnell. Each was pronounced dead a Short time later he said. Police did not release the name of the step Grandfather and no charges had been filed o Donn cd said. Fracture study confirms oestrogen protective role Boston a oestrogen pills can protect older women from breaking their hips according to a study that confirms earlier research. Or. Douglas p. Kid of Rhode Island Hospital whose study was published in us new England journal of Medicine found that oestrogen reduced the risk of hip fractures by 66 percent for two Yean after women Lake the hormone supplement the latest report was based on a review of 2,873 women who participated in a Long running heart study in suburban Framingham. There were 135 fractures among postmenopausal women who had never taken oestrogen and 28 among those who had used oestrogen. Easier studies have concluded that oestrogen can event wrist and hip fractures. Demolish Berlin Wall panel asks Honecker Washington a the House foreign affaire committee approved a Resolution thurs Day asking East German Leader Erich Honecker to demolish the Berlin Wall and to cancel the shoot to Kili orders of his country s Border guards. The shoot to kill order against people trying to flee Over the Wall was suspended at the Lime of Honecker s recent visit to West Germany. Rep. William Broomfield r-mich., a sponsor of the Resolution that was approved by it voice Vole and sent to the full House said Uch Ashoori to kill order is unacceptable to Congress and the american people and an affront to the dignity of  he said he is certain the Wall dividing Berwin eventually will be reduced to rubble Ana i Hope this Resolution will bring that Day a Little  broker commits suicide Market crash blamed Litchfield. Conn. Up1j a Wall Street stockbroker distraught Over financial problems triggered by the recent Slock Market Cash committed suicide in his Rural Connecticut summer Home slate police said. David Goldring. 44, was found by a neighbor Rinsje his summer Home in  dead of � self inflicted gunshot wound to the Chat said state police spokesman sgt. Daniel Lewis. Stale police said the death was ruled a suicide