European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 6 the stars and stripes wednesday february 17,1988 smoker kicks up a fuss Over trams ban new York map a diehard put for threw a kicking and Hilling Tantrum on the Long Island Rait Road but. Otherwise no smoking rules look i Eccl monday with grumbling acceptance by new York commuter rail riders. The violent reaction came an Lac 6id . Train from Man haitian 10 Babylon when William Mackney 30, of Island Park was asked to put out his Cigar civic according to liar spokes Man Brian Dolan. He became abusive and then Alleg edly kicked the assistant conductor and Lac conductor then became in vol cd. And Lac Man kicked the con Ductor and then the passenger alleged struck the assistant conductor in the lace Dolan said. Railroad police took Mackney off at Jamaica Queens and charged him with one count each of harassment Anil criminal Possession of a controlled sub stance Dolan said. The Possession charge was filed when Mackney could not provide a prescription or other documentation for seven valium pills in Hii Possession the spokesman said. Other protests were verbal. I think we re More discriminated against than anyone else around said Julie Sullivan of Danbury conn., who lit up while wailing for a metro North train Al the North while Plains station. Kathleen Macklowe who Sells computers puffed hard on a cigarette As she wailed to Board her Urr train in min Eola. I have one. Maybe two before i Board she said. I Light up As soon As 1 get  the metropolitan transportation authority Parent of the railroads voted last Mouth to outlaw smoking under threat of losing Federal mass transit funds. Among those welcoming the ban was Jan Schown fold a Salesman and one Lime pack a Day smoker from Mineola. I literally quit smoking because of the putrid smoking  said Schown fold. We were caged in that smoking car and could t breathe i had to quit to  Dan snicker of Mclroy North said that the Law would be enforced in a gentlemanly manner and thai smok ers would gel summonses Only if they refuse to put out i hair cigarettes when asked. There were no plans 10 put smokers of trains he said. Violators face fines of up to s100. A hearing has been scheduled for feb. 25 in a suit against the ban filed in stale supreme court in White Plains. The liar collects 272,000 fares on an average Day and metro North collects Jusi under 190,000. Stateside court denies lawsuit by widow of sex athlete Indianapolis a a Federal jury turned Down a wrongful death suit tiled by the widow of former Indiana University football player Denver Smith against Lac City of Bloomington and three police officers. We were disappointed. Very very disappointed Cynequa Smith said after the verdict monday. She was seeking  million in damages. Mrs. Smith s lawsuit claimed police officers had violated her civil and constitutional rights As Well As those of her late husband and the couple s 4-year old daughter when they fatally shot Smith during a struggle Over a gun on sept. 12.1983. Mrs. Smith s attorney Rich d. Hailey said he would decide within a week whether an Appeal would be filed. Mrs. Smith claimed her husband was mentally impaired when he was shot. Her lawsuit alleged negligence on Lac part of Bloomington police officers. Baby Boom balloting May be key expert says Minneapolis a the nation s baby Boomers Are poised for the first Lime to swing a presidential election according la a University of Minnesota research fellow. There s a Good Chance the baby Boom vote could play a key role this year said Harry of Etc. A re search fellow at the Humphrey Institute of Public affairs. Boyte wid a candidate who shows concern about the Economy Job Security Home ownership and the future of children can win baby Boomer votes. He said however that would require tapping an underlying social concern among older baby Boomers who fought for civil rights and women s issues and Awakening a political interest in younger baby Boomers who have generally shunned activism. Airliner returns safely after engine part shatters Miami a a Turbine Blade from an Eastern airlines Jet shattered on Takeoff monday and sparked a Brush fire just outside Lac Airport. The plane which Wai carrying 249 passengers and 10 Crew members was Able to return safely and no one was injured. Flight 8 from Miami to Newark n.j., was taking off from Miami International Airport when the incident occurred said Jack Barker regional spokes Man for the Federal aviation administration. Right after Takeoff the Pilot had a problem with the no. 2 engine and shut in off Barker said. Parts of the Turbine Blade came out and landed on Airport property and some of them landed in a the Jet a twin engine european built wide body Airbus can Fly safely on one engine. The Pilot returned to the Airport 10 minutes later without incident Barker said. Nobel prize winning physicist Richard Feynman Dies at 69 los Angeles a Nobel pm winning physicist Richard Feynman who worked on the development of the atomic bomb during world War ii and helped investigate the 1986 challenger space shuttle., disaster died monday at age 69. A professor of theoretical physics at the California Institute of technology since 1950, Feynman died monday night at Urcla medical Center from complications due to recurrent abdominal cancer sold Hospi Tal spokesman Rich Elbaum in 1965, Feynman shared the Nobel prize in physics with Julian s. Schwinger and Shinichiro Tomonaga for developing an improved theory of quantum electrodynamics. The three men worked independently in the 1940s and arrived at the same theory which allows scientists to predict the effects of electrically charged particles on each other in a radiation Field with the death of Richard Feynman the world has lost one of its greatest  said be a. Dubridge. President emeritus of Leeh. Marvin l Goldberger director of Princeton univer sity s Institute for advanced study and a former Cal tech president recalled Feynman As a lowering figure in 20ih a Colury physics who was always curious always modest always ebullient always willing to share his deep insights with students and  Feynman was a member of the atomic bomb project staff at Princeton in 1942 and 1943 and at los Alamos Laboratory in new Mexico from 1943 to 1945. During a committee investigation after the Jan. 28. 1986. Explosion of the space shuttle challenger that killed the seven Crew members he emerged As one of the leading critics of the National aeronautics and space administration. Feynman accused Nasa of erratic attention to safely mailers that he likened playing russian  born in new York on May 11.1918. Feynman graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of technology with a Bachelor of science degree in 1939. He received a . From Princeton in 1942. Feynman s scientific interests developed Early with the Aid of his father a clothing Salesman who taught him elementary mathematics and read his toddler son scientific studies. Feynman "1 grew up with him and 1 knew him through Many stages and he is just a terrific Guy Feynman s Cousin Frances Law inc said Early tuesday. The Young scholar joined the Cornell University faculty in i945as an associate professor of theoretical physics and remained there until moving to Cal tech in 1950. It was at Cornell that Feynman did the work that led to i Nobel  was also a dynamic writer. His 1985 autobiography surely you re joking. Or.  on the new York times Busl seller list for 14 weeks demonstrated his humor and Strong like of formality. He also whole red the strange theory of Light and Mailer an explanation of quantum electrodynamics published in 1986, and was co author of the 1963 textbook the Feynman lectures on  he was especially popular with Cal tech students who in 1982 honoured him for leaching excellence. Despite his a Laluc As a professor he continued to teach freshman physics classes Over the years and to Ham in up in school plays once taking on the role of a Bongo player in the musical Guys and  Cal tech officials reported that when Feynman be came ill a few years ago students and teachers Over whelmed local medical facilities Wilh offers to donate blood. His Many honors and awards included Princeton s Al Bert Einstein award the atomic Energy commission s . Lawrence award the oersted medal Lor leaching the kids Bohr  medal and the Albert Ein Sicin col lege of Medicine s Einstein award. He is survived by his wife Weneth son Carl daughter Michelle and sister Joan. 1 dead 2 Hurt in mistake1 shootings Zephyrhills Fla. A a Man apparently Bent on killing his former wife s Boyfriend mistakenly went to the Home of another Man with the same last name killing one woman and wounding two other people police said monday it was a one in a million Case of mistaken Ridenti  said Pasco county sheriff Jim Gillum in announcing he arrest monday of John Edward Soggs is in Vermilion Ohio. Bobb is accused of breaking into a darkened Mobile Hom Etere last thursday night voting a pistol and a Shotgun. He fatally shot Nigel Manas. 70, and wounded her Friend Harold Ruth. 69, and her Daugh Ter Lelsie Ritchie 50, said sheriffs spokesman Bob Loc Filer. None of Lac victims Ever met the suspect and bongs shot them thinking they were someone else Loew Casald. Boggs had recently divorced his. Wife Gerry who had moved from Ohio 10 Zephyrhills. Investigators said. She tiled a complaint late last year Wilh police saying that her former husband had threatened to Lull her and her Boyfriend Loeffler said. That Boyfriend s name is Gerald Rush no relation to victim Harold Rush. Gerald Rush and Gerry Boggs live in a Mobile Home but on a different Street from the one where the shootings occurred authorities said. Neighbors of the shooting victims say that on he Day of the murder flogs was going around knocking on doors looking for a or. Rush to Filer said. He found him Bui in was the wrong or. Rush Harold Rush who was in stable condition monday at East Pasco medical Center said the intruder never asked who he was before he opened fire. Ritchie also was listed in stable condition. After the shootings Loeffler said Boggs fled and drove tack to Ohio. Detectives followed him there and staked out his House for nearly iwo Days before arrest ing him. He was jailed in Vermilion without Bond on a Pasco county warrant of murder and attempted juror Loceff tar said the dead woman and the two wounded people Are from Granite City 111., and spend their Winters in Zephyrhills authorities said