European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 6 the stars and stripes wednesday january 20,1986 Oil exploration planned in Alaska by 6 companies Anchorage Alaska up for the first Lime since Oil prices plunged Marc than two Yean ago major new exploration and development is planned in Alaska a group of six companies have announced. The companies unveiled plans for America last Oil Frontier an indication that the Industry is no longer in Retreat. The plans Are modest by past standards but significant because they Sig Nal a new Nan for the Industry in n state hat produces 24 percent of America s crude Oil there arc glimmers now of better limes to come the chief executive officer of Standard Oil co. Of Cleveland. E. John p. Browne said. Handicapped Mother of 2 says Shell sue for custody san Jose Calif. A a wheelchair bound cerebral palsy patient who has had two babies taken from her by welfare officials said monday Shell fight in court to get Back her Chil Dren if it s the last thing i do before i  Tiffany Calls 20. Gave birth to her second healthy son Friday but lost custody of him the nest Day. Just of she lost custody or her first son shortly after his birth last March. Santa Clara county welfare officials say Callo. Who lives on 153 3 a month from social Security is unable o care for the children and can t afford 10 pay for help. The Newborn Jesse Robert was placed with the same Foster family earing for id month old Antonio David. Calto has not been told where the family lives but she has been allowed to visit Antonio for an hour on saturdays at a welfare office. Deputies leave 37 pit bulls at Florida animal shelter Pensacola Fla. A the manager of the county animal shelter knew he was in for rouble when she riots deputies woke him up Early pc morning to deliver a Load of Dop Sei de in a raid. Deputies had seized 37 pit Bull Dop ranging from 15 to 65 pounds each during a dec 22 drug raid in Cantonment just outside this Flor Ida Panhandle City. 111 did know at the time they called me that it was Bull dogs but 1 did t know the amount said Escambia county animal shelter s Jimmy Bylas. It was terrible the worst part is he still hns 27 pit bulls. They take up More than half the 3s pens because they must be Kepi separated to prevent them from fighting Dykes said normally seven to 10 dogs can be kept in each Pun Sud last week 120 animals were at the shelter. Laundry agrees to Stop charging women More san Francisco a a laundry that is accused of charging More for women s shirts than men s has not Only agreed to equalize its prices but will also launder  women s shirts for free. Assistant District attorney David Moon said the negotiated settlement involves Only the visitacion Valley laundry a wholesale company and 14 retail outlets in san Francisco that use its services. However he said some other laundries seem to be equalising prices because they Don t want to fact the Wrath of  the California fabric care Institute has passed a Resolution calling for no More discrimination he said women were charged j3 to St to launder their shins while the Price for men was 11 to j2. The laundries claimed the higher charge was needed because a female s smaller shirt did not fit on the High Speed pressing machine. Of Puu Minneapolis police us � front end loader to smash through the Wall of a suspected crack  bust at suspected crack House is smashing Success for police Minneapolis a police used a piece of heavy construction equipment to ram their Way into heavily barricaded apartment building  of being a crack House monday authorities said. The front end loader lore a Hole through a Wall of the building and 10 people were arrested there and next door police said. The crack houses in Minneapolis Are heavily barricaded. You could spend half a Day trying to get in one said sol. Harry Baltzer head of the police narcotics unit. We used the Best system we could come up  police seized about an ounce of the cocaine derive live known As crack More than $2,000 in Cash and several weapons Baltzer said. In the past drug dealers have been Able to dispose of the drugs before officers could enter the building he said. Police said they knew no one was in he room where the Wall was torn Oul because they had been looking into the windows of the building with binoculars. Demo prevents army engineers from setting symbolic executive of Washington a the Vitorts of a House chairman have forced the army corps of engineers to Shelve possible plans to sell an executive Jet thai Audi tors say is used More often for globetrotting congressional passengers than for emergencies. Rep. Tom Bovill a Ala. Last month slipped into the massive 1600 billion Federal spending Bill a provision for bidding the corps from Selling its Headquarters Jet known As cause i for the corns Symbol and two other Ai reran. The action occurring about a month after Xcvi its most recent ride on Castle i was in response to an army audit Agency study that said the corps should sell the planes because they were being misused for expensive globetrotting instead of responding to emergencies such As floods and broken dams. The auditors whose conclusions arc being disputed by the corps top brass said taxpayers could get a one time Windfall of s6.4 million by Cilins the aircraft and save is million a year in travel costs if official Lew commercially or by occasional charter flights. Last summer rep. Mike Synar d-ovia., chairman of the House government operations subcommittee with jurisdiction Over the corps held a hearing to focus Atten Tion on the study and publicly called for the aircraft tale. But by year s end Bevill chairman of the Howe appropriations Energy and water development subcommittee had used the relative privacy of the congressional appropriations process to save Castle i and the other planes assigned to the corps Mississippi River and Missouri Val Ley  said he was aware of the criticism of the corps aircraft by the army auditors and sonar when he got the Sale prohibition amendment written into the spending Bill by Housand Senate Wala pro co negotiators. I disagree with the army audit Agency he raid. We know More about what they the corps do than anybody else. All three planes Are needed. They do their Best work when there s floods arid emergencies. Bevill said he discussed the amendment Wii i two or three of the officers of the corps. He said he could not recall their  Greene a corps spokesman said Bevin s sub comm tre asked the Agency to draft the amendment which also requires the corps to Tell Congress Boul foreign trips by rat aircraft 30 Days in Advance he said the measure did not include any provisions proposed by the corps. Minuteman flies 4,200 Miles to target Vandenberg fab. Calif. Api an unarmed minus can intercontinental ballistic missile was successfully launched and flew 4,200 Miles to a Pacific Ocean target an air Force spokesman said tuesday. Strong upper atmospheric winds and problems with payload and ground equipment delayed the lest for several Days. The weather also delayed monday night s launch by 20 minutes said u col Richard Hill. The missile reached its destination at lest Range at the Kwajalein atoll in about so minutes. I would say it was successful Hill said. It looked real Good from cured the launch also prompted Calls to authorities from residents across California who reported seeing a Bright lash. The so called Twilight phenomenon it created when in bumped missile pc Pellant part Idaj and water left in the Wake of a rocket freeze in be upper atmosphere. These Frozen fragments reflect the sunlight when the Sun is Low on the horizon producing the Bright Light