European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Paga 6 stateside the stars and stripes wednesday november 25.1987 jetliner s icy debris slams through roof fort Worth Texas a Gene Gordon got a Surprise when a chunk of Bluc Grcen ice apparently from a jetliner with a Leaky toilet slammed into his roof. La was loud Gordon said. "1 had no idea Vilii a a or i re the Hole in the baseball sized chunks of ice melted into i he insulation in his attic. The ice chunk broke a Light fixture and knocked Loose a ceiling. Gordon said he reported the incident to the Federal aviation administration s Southwest regional Headquarters in for Worth. The ice chunk shattered on Impact knocking an 8-by-16-Inch Hole in the roof. Museum has Art looted by nazis professor says new York not a famous 18th-Cen Tury painting hanging in the metropolitan museum of Art boy blowing bubbles by Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin was confiscated by the nazis from the Home of a dutch jew in Rotter dam during world War ii according to a professor who has spent months studying world War ii records of nazi War loot. The claim has been made by a professor of criminal Justice at Rutgers University sol Chan Clos who has spent the past sabbatical year studying the disposition of hundreds of thousands of paintings and Art objects that were confiscated by the nazis during world War ii. On monday Chan Clos said that at least five paintings that were confiscated by the nazis from jewish Homes arc now owned by the metropolitan museum. He said his evidence comes from lists of nazi War loot he had obtained from the National archives and other sources which he then Cross checked with lists of works owned by the metropolitan. Foggy conditions cause Highway pileup in Calif. Sun City Calif. A one person was killed and at least nine others were injured As dozens of vehicles collided on a fog bound stretch of interstate 215. Estimates ranged from 30 to 40 vehicles were involved in several crashes monday said Cali fornia Highway patrol capt. Ralph Limon. Some pileup involved six to eight vehicles and another had As Many As 15 to 20 cars. However Cape. Janet Stem of the California department of forestry fire command Center in nearby Ferris said she counted More than 40 can in just two of the pileup. Connecticut priest gets reprimand from Bishop Hartford Conn. A a roman Cath Olic priest whose policies prompted a protest by 1,000 of his parishioners was publicly reprimanded monday by his archbishop and ordered to make reforms. Archbishop John f. Whealon said the censure of the Rev. Paul p. Wysocki of sacred heart Church in new Britain was the first in his 26 years As a Bishop and was apparently the first Public reprimand Ever in the archdiocese of Hartford. Parishioners demonstrated outside the Church on aug. 9 to protest the dismissal of an assistant priest forcing the priest 10 Ancel masses that sunday. Whealon said the problems were severe enough for him to order the formation of a finance Council and a Parish Council to be made up of parishioners to help run sacred heart. Wysocki agreed to stay at the Parish and make the changes the Bishop said. Epa accused of ignoring toxic cleanup requirements Washington a the Reagan administration is violating the Tough toxic cleanup and human health requirements of the 1986 Law intended to revive the superfund program environmental groups charged monday. The administration has simply decided not to enforce parts of the new a � Zihich it 2rt by onto cd during the reauthorization debate three organizations said in a report on the restructured program first year. The report said the environmental Protection Agency is systematically ignoring the Law s mandates to find permanent solutions to waste dumps. The Agency also was criticized for foot dragging because it still has not implemented a provision under which communities can obtain Grants to hire technical experts to review Epa plans for cleaning up toxics i their areas. The policies and decisions. Appear More responsive to the concerns of the polluter. To hold Down costs than they Are to concerns related to Public health the environment and Fidelity to the Law the report said. The Agency s initial actions. Are setting the group the National Campaign against toxic hazards and clean water action. Epa spokeswoman Priscilla flattery said the Agency Hopes to have the Grant mechanism in place by february. She said Epa would comment on the other portions of the report after Reading it. The 1986 Taw was the product of two Yean of Tough battling in Congress where authors of the original 1980 superfund Law were upset by scandals in the Early Reagan Ufa and a i Woji of Only in Comsh tend clean ups in the first five years of the program. Signed by a reluctant president Reagan on oct. 17, 1986, the Law requires Epa to the maximum extent practicable to permanently Render toxics harmless through processes such As burning or chemical neutralization. The report quoted an internal Epa document As saying that Only one third of the 74 cleanup plans approved in the fiscal year beginning oct. I 1986, involved permanent solutions up from one fourth be fore the new Law. Epa is violating the permanent treatment provi Sions in most of its cleanup decisions said the report warning that toxic materials have leaked from Sites contained by Epa and that moving toxic waste to an other site can create a new superfund dump needing an expensive cleanup. The Agency seems Content in proposing band Aid solutions that inadequately address the problems at thersites and arc certain to fail in the foreseeable Edison s lab largely unchanged since 1931, now due for repairs West Orange . A a Hundred years after Thomas Alva Edison opened his Laboratory com plex Here it remains much the Way he left it when he died in 1931, but preservationists have decided to do some tinkering. Visitors attending ceremonies tuesday for the National Park service s Celebration of the Laboratory s 100th anniversary were to see the great inventor s Roll top Library desk As he left it with paper clips lying in a neat Bunch on the blotter. Equipment in his machine shop is As Black with Oil As when it was last used. His Laboratory still smells faintly of the chemicals stored in coloured Glass bottles on floor to ceiling shelves. The authenticity that delights an estimated 40,000 visitors a year carries a hidden peril however wit books and papers disintegrating for Lack of modern environmental controls archivists Park service which acquired the Complex in 1954, is capped a yearlong Observance of Edison s work with tuesday s ceremonies. But the Agency is just beginning a five year project to protect the historic site. Edison caught America at a really Pivotal time in its history and he was involved in so Many of the changes said Mary Bowling a Park service archivist. There is a Gold mine of information about him and his times bowline said books in Edison s three Story Wood panelled Library have been falling apart from exposure to sunlight and so have the papers of the Man who invented the phonograph and developed the first commercially practical incandescent lamp. The Federal government has promised $230,000over the next five years for additional staff members to tend to the artefacts. A recently completed project by the Northern new Jersey chapter of the asocial on of records manage Sand administrators brought the site j 15.000 in donations $15,000 Worth of donated supplies and $15,000 Worth of Volunteer hours. More than 150 association members were Given Days off by their companies or volunteered their downtime to help move 30,000 Glass photograph negatives to a climate controlled vault and organize them for easy Access. The volunteers catalogued thousands of letters and microfilmed the site s card Catalon making some of the approximately 3.5 million items in the archives accessible to researchers for the first time. Bowling said. Many of Edison s More than 40,000 phonograph discs and Wax recording cylinders Are stored in a vault built in 1915. The items were stored in crumbling cardboard boxes on shelves of Wood which Bowling said is the worst material for storage because it is acidic. A graduate student spent the summer transferring thousands of the items to acid free packages on new Metal shelves she said. To is leading information source in fight against aids expert says Radnor a. Up television has become the leading educator in the Battle to help Stop the spread of the aids although some High risk groups May be hard to reach a doctor says. Television has done More to help contain the aids epidemic than any other single Factor or. Marshall Goldberg chief of endocrinology at Hurley medical Center in Michigan wrote in the nov. 28 Issue of to guide Magazine. Scientific answers Are desperately needed and the Public wants them As soon As they Are known said Goldberg although he noted that in a Rush to report some broadcasts were inaccurate sensationalized and overdone in a dozen Overall Goldberg said to coverage of acquired immune deficiency syndrome which destroys the body s ability to fight disease has done More Good than harm. The disease is spread through an Exchange of body fluids or the use of contaminated hypodermic Needles. As has been said about aids and other diseases education is the Best preventive Medicine like it or not television has become our leading educator he said. Unfortunately Goldberg said one sure Way to reduce a to audience is to announce that a Given program is educational especially when its message is aimed at the undereducated High school dropouts prostitutes drug Over the coming years Goldberg said television will be reporting a major development on the aids front each month and the Public will doubtless learn of it almost As quickly As scientists in the same build ing As the one who makes the most people will have to depend on the integrity of the to station that broadcasts the news into their Liv ing room he wrote
