European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday. November 9,19b7 a pow to fun with mums packets a 3tt-Montb-old Bengal Tiger cub licks his chops As he frolics at Cypress gardens in Florida. The cub was let Loose amidst chrysanthemums. His enjoyment blossomed is he rolled and leaped amongst the mums. The flowery play time is to publicize Che Park s annual mum festival scheduled for the last half of this month. Many feel fail to turn Columbus Ohio a Many of he passers by who scooped up hundreds of thousands of dollars thai Tell from an armoured truck Are holding on to the Money and nearly two week later the cily was still buzzing with talk of mystery and moral ii. No one has said How much is missing and police admit they face a difficult task in gelling the Money Back. I m no saing in s going to be easy. Franklin county prosecutor Michael Miller said about the chances of Success fully prosecuting anybody in a Case with apparently Little physical evidence. An estimated 200 people converged on interstate 71 moments after the rear door of a metropolitan armoured car inc. Truck swung open oct. 28, sending Bills ranging from ids to 100s fluttering to flip pavement. The airborne Bills looked like Snow said one of the first police officers on the scene. The truck continued for at least a mile before the Drivers realized whal had happened witnesses said. Tales Aboul the passers by have made the rounds including one about a woman supposedly seen stuffing Cash into her underclothes. Don t forget there was no armoured car in  said Michael Behrens police re Porter for the Columbus dispatch you just have Cash hundreds of thousands of dollars blowing around the  the Accident has prompted debates on moral ii in offices on the airwaves and in classrooms. It s finders keepers in truck s spilled Bucks Tarry Bromagen 31, a High school social Sladics Leachjr said a debate broke out among teachers at his school when Broma Gen said he would have Cpl the Cash. They said i should t be teaching moral values in the classroom if i m going to have that kind of morality Bromagen said. Radio station w it asked listeners to Call in to .,.-. Ether they would re Lurn the Cash. The Lalion said 600 peo ple responded with 61 percent saying they would keep the Money. At radio station Onci More than 100 phone Calls jammed the switchboard after announcers mentioned the spill. More than 90 percent of the callers said they would have kept the Money the Sta Tion said. We Aren t even a talk show announcer Tom Kelly said. One girl called and said she had $300 after picking up 10s and 20s." Melvin Riser a Telephone company employee from Columbus turned in nearly $57,000 the night of the spill that he said he found inside a bag on the freeway. Kyser said he considered keep ing the Money but he could not in Good conscience. Mayor Dana Rinchart later presented Riser with a proclamation and metropol Itan armoured car rewarded him with a Check equal to 10 percent of the amount turned in. The company promised Simitar rewards for others . But Kiser s Lead was t followed and police Are continuing their investigation. Metropolitan armoured car officials and police have refused to say How much Money was lost or How much has been resumed. Some of the bats dropped contained More than 1100,000, Miller said. The number of bags has nol been Dis closed and metropolitan officials have declined to say whether the Bills were numbered sequentially. The dispatch the City s Only daily newspaper has quoted sources As saying More than is million was lost. Miller citing radio polls showing that most listeners would keep the Cash said he believes the listeners Are thinking Only of Small sums. I Don t think anyone in this Community is going 10 say it s All right to take $5,000. He said. If i m walking in front of the state House and i find a Wallet Wilh $5,000 in it then it is imperative of me to turn it in 10 the  Las week police released photo graphs taken by an Amateur photographer of the freeway shortly after the spill police say they Hope to use computer enhancement techniques to identify License plates of vehicles parked on the freeway and two exit ramps As Well As faces of people carrying away Cash. One Man who called the dispatch a few Days after the spill claimed to have run off with two bags of Money. The Man who refused to give his name said he planned to leave the City. I m pretty much set for life he said. Warning voiced on nuke pact Washington a defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger warned Sun Day hat the Reagan admin Starlion has to be very careful in reaching a nuclear arms Accord with the soviet onion and said the United Stales must maintain ill military strength As a deterrent to soviet attack. Weinberger who announced his Resig nation lust thursday also said he believes that his successor National Secundy adviser Frank Carlucci would not use the strategic defense initiative known As Star wars As a bargaining Chip to additional arms accords Wilh the soviets. Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev will meet Wilh president Reagan on dec. 7 in Washington where they arc expected to sign a pact Climina ing  Range nuclear missiles. We do have to he very careful with any agreement thai we make Wein Berger said on Abc to s meet the  first of All that it s verifiable be cause he soviets have a Long record of cheating in these agreements and secondly thai we have