European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday March 22, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 his miss on a Violet in every window Nashville Tarn. A by the time Reinhold Holtkamp or. 11 finished he Hopes id tee purple Pink and White violets decorating the win Dow tills of every american Home. Holzkamp brought his family from West Germany 1o the United stale some 10 Yean ago with a. Mis Jion of spreading he Violet craze to this relatively Pioneer territory. If you walk through the streets in Germany i Don t know of a window Sill that does t have n Violet on it it s considered a necessity there said Reinhold jr., who helps his a us run Hollkamp greenhouses. It s not that Way in the United slates at All. But it was t that Way in Germany 20 years ago either said the younger Hollkamp whose Grandfather is considered the Johnny Appleseed of the Violet Industry. Holtkamp greenhouses this year will produce More than 12 million violets in Nashville making it the largest grown of violets in the coun try. Worldwide its operations in Germany Japan spam and Nash Ville will nurture some 65 million of the Dainty plants making the family business the largest producer of violets on the planet. House study says midget Man better Choice than my on rails Bee Falo Herd creates havoc Miami a a Herd of Buffalo de Rived animals known As Bec Falo roamed onto the Florida Turnpike Early sunday causing five accidents and resulting in seven of Ifica huge animals being killed police said. One Motorist was slightly injured. About 75 to 100 Buffalo broke through a Hole in the Fence on the Flor Ida Turnpike Extension in Northwest Dade county about 12 30 a.m., said Florida Highway patrol sgt. Alv Schinn. The animals part by Taio part beef Cai Ilc were part of a 400-head Herd kept on a ranch near the Turnpike Exten Sion which Borders the Everglades Northwest of Miami. Five of the Bec Falo died instantly or nearly so alter being hit by vehicles on the Highway. Chinn said. I believe that two other Buffalo had to be killed later by the humane society he said. The animals caused an estimated s 18,000 to 520,000 damage to the can Chat collided with them he said. The injured Motorist was treated at a local Hospital and released Chinn said. Stale troopers animal control officers passers by and workers from the ranch herded the rest of the animals Back to their enclosure investigators believe the Cefalo left their pasture after horse thieves Cut the Fence. Police have recorded 29 horse thefts in the area with seven horses Sto Len in the last two weeks Chinn said. Washington a the midget Man atomic lipped missile is Good idea that can do More to improve . Nuclear deterrence than would pulling my nuclear missiles aboard trains according to a House armed services study re leased sunday. The report by the democratic con trolled panel a the la Ioctl round in Long running fight Between the Pentagon and Congress Over the Best Type of land based nuclear weapons to build. The report Wai critical of air Force plans to Pul my weapon re aboard trains for transport on the nation s railways during limes of crisis the air Force is assuming thai be cause my would be roaming commercial rail lines Only in times of International crisis Public resistance to launch ready missiles in boxcars will evaporate said rep. Lei Aspin d-wis., chairman of the panel. Maybe that s Rue but the air Force has no evidence to support the Assumption. On the other hand rail Basing schemes have been shelved twice in the past because of Public  but the air Force was sharply critical Ofa Ipin there he goes again Gen. Larry Welch air Force chief of Matt said re Ferring to previous Aspin criticism of air Force atomic weapons that the service says was unfounded. In a statement the service said the rail Basing plan has been subjected to a rigorous analytical and careful acquisition process and it said civilians would support the idea. The dispute has its roots in the bitter fights during president Reagan s first term about whether the build the my As a successor to the aging minuteman mis Siles which Are the heart of the . Land based atomic deterrent Force. Reagan wanted 100 of the 10-Warhcad weapons but Congress Cut the total 10 to because of fears that the Large number of warheads on each missile combined with their placement in stationary silos would make them easy targets for soviet attack. A presidential commission said the my program should go ahead but comparing . Missiles to Wax drat Nitoiu height 71 ft., diameter 92 inches Wallah to 92.000 tos armament 10 individually targeted nuclear warheads performance Range 5,000 Miles accuracy within 300 it. Of target i Midge than. Dimensions height 38 ft.,diameter 70 inches weight 25.000-35.000 ids. Armament one nuclear warhead performance Range 6,000 Miles accuracy unknown Chicago Tribune graphic soured Csc ago Tribune re we reports should eventually be succeeded by a sin Gle warhead weapon dubbed Midgel Man. Aspin became one of the biggest champions of the midget Man and Tenta Tive plans were drawn up to build a Force of 500 of the weapons and Pul them in Western silos. Bui Pentagon budget cuts in recent years have forced a revision of the plans to buy both the my and midget Man and air fora end Pentagon officials have nude Clear that their Choice would be purchasing More my weapons. In addition to the so my weapons approved for land based silos the air Force want to build 30 More and Pul two on each of 25 trains. Defense Secretary Frank c. Carlucci told Congress last month that he preferred to kill the midget Man program outright but consented to including j200 million in next year s air Force budget so i could be kept alive unlit a new administration nuke final Deci Sion. The House panel s study noted thai a Force of 500 Midge Man weapons would Cost an estimated s40 billion but pointed out thai the figure he decreased from the 157 billion estimate when the pro Gram was proposed four Yean go. By contrast putting the my aboard Railroad would Cost an estimated si3.s billion the study noted. Aspin raid thai the midget Man Coil figures which would make it the most expensive weapons program in the Pentagon could be reduced As part of the Coffon to Cut defense spending giving each missile two warheads would Cut the number of deployed mis Siles in half or it May be that the Job can be accomplished with fewer than 500 single warhead missiles Aspin said. The report said the midget Man pro Gram appears to be operating under a sound acquisition strategy emphasizing risk reduction Competition and a realistic schedule Al a Lime when some Strate Gic programs Are experiencing severe Dif  but air Force Secretary Edward Al Dridge noting the higher Cost estimates for the midget Man said Aspin s report took an extremely narrow View of what is in the Besl interests of our country because the Money to pay for the More expensive weapon would have to be Laken out of the budget for non nuclear weapons. The net result would be a decrease in our conventional deterrence posture Aldridge said in a statement. Lone Detroit Jet crash survivor mending new York a four year old Cecelia Cichan the Lone survivor of the Northwest airlines Jet crash in Detroit last summer is recovering and adjusting reasonably Welt but still wears bandages on her Chest and  according to a published report. She has been told that her parents and 6-year-old brother were killed in the crash the second worst air disaster in . History and psychologists say she understands she will not see them again. Life Magazine reported in its april Issue. At halloween Cecelia was Well enough to dress up like a Ballerina and go tick or locating at her new Home in suburban Birmingham ala., where the lives with her aunt and Uncle Rita and Frank Lumpkin. And her 2-year-old cons . But she Silil put up a fuss when she has to go to the doctor for checkups on her skin grafts according to the mag Azine. Cecelia whose parents lived in Tempe ariz., suffered a broken leg and Collarbone deep head cuts and third de Gree bums Over 25 percent of her body in the aug. 16 crash. She was hospitalized for 541 Days at the University of Michigan medical Center where she underwent numerous skin Gratis to replace the burned tissue. While she was in the Hospital Well wishers sent her More than 1150,000 in donations 32,000 cards and letters and 2,000 gifts including dolls Teddy bears and jewelry most of which were Given 10 children s hospitals. Cecelia also received 23 Boll Les of purple Fingernail polish her favorite color. It was he color her grandmother bad painted her nails the morning of the Fate Ful flight. It was the color that led id her identification by her Grandfather two Days after the crash which killed 154 people aboard the plane As Well As two motorists near Detroit metropolitan Airport. Sorts toy Bazooka turns out to be real thing Springfield 111. A David Grigg was miffed when his 11-year-old son pointed what he thought was a toy Bazooka at him then was is untied to find out it really was live anti Lank rocket launch Crigg said he was working on a cat sunday afternoon when he saw his son Dennis pointing the weapon at him. I walked Over to Tell him not id Point toy guns at people Grigg said. Then i found out n was a  Grigg. Who once served with an artillery unit in the  said he looked Down the barrel of the weapon and saw something inside. I decided not to tale any chances and called the sheriffs  he said. The Sangamon county sheriffs department called for 3 bomb disposal unit which identified the weapon As a Law anti Lank rocket launcher said Gary Mack spokes Man for the bomb unit. The bomb squad a Rayed the weapon and determined it to be a live weapon with the firing pin intact mock said. Police then transported in to a gun club where it was detonated. Crigg said his son had been playing with the live weapon in the House for i i Days before he noticed in. He thought in was a  Grieg so. Authorities were trying to find out where the weapon came from. Crigg said his son got it from a Friend who found in in his father s pickup truck. Criffi said that the other boy s father is a trash collector who had gotten the weapon from another Nan who had been storing in in to old refrigerator and wed led in taken to a trash dump