European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 2. 19bb the stars and stripes Page 7 tax funds authorized to help build ski lift Washington a a Small Idaho town is in line for 56,4 million in taxpayer Money to build a ski lift hauls to an item inserted into a massive government spending Bill by sen. James Mcclure. Over the objection of a House com Mittee chairman the Idaho Republican put the Money destined for Kellogg Idaho into the 5600 billion spending Bill that Congress approved late last year. The Money was tucked away in the appropriations for a u.5. Forest service program that is supposed to pay for the development and management a forests. If things turn aul the Way Kellogg boosters dream Trees will fall to mate Way for skiers at a Bis s3i million resort that planners Hope will be made possible by a 3.2-Milc-Long Gondola a lift with enclosed cars. Agriculture department officials House appropriations committee staff ers and environmentalists say this is the first Lime they can recall Congress put Ting up lax Money Tor a ski lift. Duane Little co chairman of the Kel Logg Gondola committee said that the lift is seen at the vehicle to bring the 2,800-Residcnt Northern Idaho Lawn Baek from hard Lime caused by the virtual collapse of the area s mining Industry in the Early 1980s. The Gondola would link Kellogg with the silverhorn ski area originally devel oped far mining company employees but operated for the past three years by the town under a Al a year lease wish its owners. Bunker partnership Ltd. A Road runs seven Miles from Kellogg to silverhorm. Little and aides 10 Mcclure say Many people Are afraid of the route because it lacks guardrails and of fers a Clear View of sleep ravines because a now closed smelter killed the Trees. Little said the Gondola which would be owned and operated by the own would Lead to economic development around the Gondola base in town and on Kellogg Peak Elevation 6,297 feel. He said the optimistic scenario has he lion acre ski area growing to some 1,800 acres with up o 135 million spent to turn it into a major Winter facility. Maybe i m a dreamer bul i think once we gel the Gondola built someone will come up and build a destination re sort Little said. Getting the Gondola built is Kellogg s first problem. The Federal Money won t be handed Over until the town raises at least s6.4 million on its end. Little said Banks and private interest Haven t rushed to invest. The town May Issue Revenue Bonds but right now the Bond Market in t Good Little said. Kellogg official went to Mcclure after the own s Aid request was turned Down by the Farmers Home administration and after the economic development administration said the most it could do was lend $1 million. Lille said that in discussions with Mcclure he never heard any mention of loaning Kellogg the 16.4 million rather than giving it the Money. I guess some people would Call Iii pork Barret Little said. . Palmer Mcclure press Secre tary said he senator views the Grant As necessary and  he s convinced his assistance is needed for a Community that has seen the worst of it Palmer said. He s con Vinced that if they Are willing to pull themselves up by their Bootstraps he s willing to  Cool canines Street artists at Fisherman s wharf in Sun in Cit to deck out their dogs on a Char Sonny afternoon. 18-Day-old Given new heart ,. The 12lh to undergo heart transplant surgery at Loma Linda University medical Center said spokesman Dick Schwac for. Loma Linda Calif. A surgeons trans planted a heart into an 1 8-Day-old boy born with a fatal defect and said sunday the infant wis in critical but stable condition. The infant identified Only As baby Runny. Became or spokesman the surgery was performed by or. Leonard Bailey who stirred medical controversy in 1984 when he transplanted n Baboon s heart into baby Fae in an Effort to save the Newbom s life. The baby died 20 Days after the trans piano. The sin hour operation ended saturday night Schaffer said. Loma Linda is 60 Miles cast of los Angeles. Baby Runny was born with Hyp plastic left heart syndrome an underdeveloped left Side of the heart Schaffer said. The baby had been in the neonatal in Tensive cure unit for 16 Days the last nine on life support the spokesman said. The donor was located 15 Days after inc baby was Pui on the transplant list. Loma Linda released no. Information on the donor. Eleven other infants have undergone heart trans Plant surgery at the medical Center and eight survived including baby Moses the longest to live so far with a transplanted heart. That surgery was performed nov. 20. 1985. All eight survivors arc doing Well Schaefer said. The father of the 12th and latest transplant patient was identified As a 40-year-old los Angeles tool and die maker whose name is also Renny the Mother Millie is a 31-year-old Home maker and they have a 2 year old son. Scan. The family asked that no further information be divulged Schwac for said adding there is quite a Bil of stress on a family at this  Wang finds simple Way to Check net Lowell mass. A Wang laboratories inc., one of the world s largest computer companies has been awarded a Federal government Patent for a method of checking whether any Given Tennis court net is at inc proper height. An Wang chairman and chief operating officer has concocted a series of Marks to be placed on the Racket strings and handle of racquets that players can use to Check whether he net is the Standard 36 inches. Or. Wang is an avid Tennis player and had been troubled by this for some years spokesman Joseph Roy said sunday. It s a simple solution for a modern  checking the net height has been complicated be cause of the new oversized and Odd shaped rackets. Until recently All rackets were manufactured 27 inches Long and 9 inches wide by putting one Racket on end and another on its wide Side a player had a Yard Long Standard to compare against the Center of the net. As manufacturers introduced different shapes and lengths the old practice of using rackets to measure net height became infeasible. Wang however conceived of placing Marks on the new rackets indicating the proportions of the tradition Al size rackets. Two rackets bearing Wang s Marks can again confirm incl height it really just look a Little ingenuity said Roy. Wang 67, declined to be interviewed concerning his invention Roy noted that the Patent has no business connection to the Lowell based Wang laboratories which has approximately 30,000 employed worldwide and re ported revenues of $2.8 billion for the 12 months that ended june 30. It s strictly or. Wang s own pro Cal lie said. Wang is at least the sixth inventor to receive a Pat pm fora Tennis incl measuring device. Yet his predecessor ideas were hardly a smash. Some of the previous concepts include calibrated chains affixed to the Racket or height indicators placed on a strap at the Center of the net. One inventor de Vised a 36-Inch Rod that would Lay beneath the net and be raised to Check height. Roy said several manufacturers Are studying Wang s idea for future Racket designs. Rehnquist s death Row Appeal views draw fire Washington chief jus Tice William m. Rehnquist s Call for stricter regulation of eleventh hour appeals by death Row inmates is winning support from slate prosecutors but de sense lawyers say the idea won t Fly. I applaud inc chief Justice s instincts said de Carns an assistant at Torney general in Alabama abusive ladies must be  but Leigh Dingerson director of inc Washington based National coalition for the abolition of the death penalty said we find the suggestion disturbing. When there a life at stake there Are no  in a speech 10 stale chief justices last week Rich Nuisl said he Hopes to gather recommendations for imposing some reason Able regulations on the chaotic conditions thai often develop within a Day or two be fore an execution is  told of Rehnquist s speech Cannes had two recommendations at the ready a prime step would be a presumption of a Lack of Merit for any successive a peal filed less than a week before an exe cution he said. And secondly lawyers should be required to file affidavits explaining Why they arc filing new Apical a or new motions so ale. Some have waited six months before filing jus Days before a scheduled execution a successive Appeal As Carns uses the term ii one cited after a convicted defendant has challenged the conviction in so called direct appeals and has failed in subsequent collateral challenges called Hareas Corpus petitions in slate and Federal court. We re not talking about the first six or eight years of the process carries said. David Bruck a Columbia s.c., lawyer who hat handled numerous appeals for death Row inmates said the finality of death makes it impossible to come up with inc remedy Rehnquist seeks. "1 cannot imagine any set of procedural reforms that will spare a judge from having to make eleventh hour determinations in capital punishment cases Brack said no Mailer what support for the death penalty now exists surely no one wants a mechanical Rule that would Chew up the innocent As Well As the  carries countered by contending that 98 percent of All successive appeals have nothing to do with guilt or innocence. Bui Dingerson pointed out the Case of Joseph Green Brown a Florida death Row inmate for 15 years who several times came close to being executed. Brown was released last March after being exonerated of inc murder for which he had been sentenced. Dingerson argued that dozens of death Row inmates who one or More times came within hours of being executed sub sequently have had i hair death sentences overturned. Carries said he doubled whether Sueh cases involved inmates whose appeals had not travelled to the supreme court Ai least three limes. There has to be some Point of finality he said