European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. May 9, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 California s shaking Over Orson we is video  Angeles api a 7-year-Olu docudrama narrated by Llie late Orson Welles has Many califor Nia resident panicked that an earthquake could re duct Gheciu to rubble this week. Tin1 hot Selling i9si videotape. The Man Sliu saw tomorrow dramatically interprets a vague prediction in verse by the Ibali Cen stirs seer Nostra Damus As proof thai ii planetary alignment will cause an earthquake. It make matters wone astrologers  further Narnst d the prediction to say Lac make is most Hudy to strike sometime this week possibly Between sunday and Tiu relay. Callers have clogged earthquake hoi Lin. 1 by Choln costs report an increase in patients anxieties moving companies have even transported a few Des pc Rale soul out Nufi make proc California. Although Many experts have called the film hunk and said then1 is no planetary alignment during May Anniet seem 10 lit gaining momentum. The phones Art ringing pretty steadily said arc non scary. A nurse answering crisis line phones at charter Hospital in Long Beach Friday night. They re really panicking. Some on him arc shaky and crying. I be had a lol of parents Call and say their children can t sleep at night because of the predict  scary said she Ells the callers the Way 1 Ltd. 1 Don t believe there is going in be an  the Griffith Observatory also established a hoi line after workers found themselves Fielding admins of Calls a Day said program supervisor John e. Mos icy. The most common que Stiim when will the plan ets line up the answer there Are no planetary alignments whatsoever in the month of  and even if Llu Rcv Erc. Such alignments have never been found to Cor respond loan earthquake Motley said. I eople Don l need to  said Stewart Kobb an Anaheim. Calif., author who has studied Nostra Damus prophesies for 4b years  has will in five books on the French seer. A s nol nostradamus. It s an Orson Welles movie. I would go so far Aslo say that even if there were a big quake in May it would still not give credit to nostradamus nevertheless. Elaine Young a Beverly Hills real Eulale agent said her company has gotten Calls from those who warn to lease their Homes for the month. We had some inquiries in april from people asking if hey could he moved at the end of the  said office manager Linda Chavec of West Ern Mayflower moving company in suburban Mon Tab Kiln. They indicated they wanted to move be cause they feared the coming  the fears have been a Boon to some. Ron Burke marketing manager for the spark lets drinking water company said sales of containers de signed 10 be stored for earthquakes increased 500 percent during april. And extend a life. A Pasadena disaster Supply company reported a 10-fold increase in sales last week of such things As purified water survival Coo Kie bars first Aid kits and Thermal blankets. Two suspicious fires in new Orleans Burn 5 buildings Hurt 3 firefighters new  a to five Uli irm fires broke out within a few min utes of one another and spout one Block apart saturday destroying five buildings and injuring three firefighters officials snid. Of in chief William j. Mac Essen said arson is suspected because of the timing. It said most and possibly All of the buildings Ere Van no and thai firefight ers injuries were minor. The first fire broke out in the Back of a vacant iwo Story Wood Frame building Liidi collapsed during the Blae and spread to a iwo Story Brick House and a vacant one Story House Mccross n said. Firefighters Irish Iii to the by a Law the other fire a Block away la started in a Luo Mary apartment building and spread id the building net door. In ref wave about 20 Miles upriver from new Orleans Ahu i 40 be unto were evacuated briefly Friday after a Pilot Light from a i Luthes dryer apparently touched off fumes from gasoline being pumped i loan underground tank nobody was Hurt in that , which did about s60.000 Worth of damage in 30 minutes sweeping through a maintenance garage Anil trailer House and exploding at least three tanks of acetylene and oxygen used for welding St. John the Ila list Parish sheriffs spokesman Edward Toolie Newell said. Thick Black smoke poured from Burn ing tires fuel and other oily equipment for More than in hour after Llie main fire was extinguished. An emergency truck from the mar i Lhnn Petroleum refinery1 in Ciary Vilic put those fires out with foam. A serve is about 10 Miles upriver from n oreo. Where an explosion and tire at the oreo refinery last week killed  people injured j2 and left one missing. A nil Orleans firefighter pulls u companion in safety in � building collapses. Money Short Dolphin study getting help Fern Anirina Neacil. Fla. A a Money starved project to study Dol Phin deaths along the Liast coast is receiving a Cash infusion from the Navy Anil National Marine fisheries service. The office of naval research has pro idea 150,000 for the Dolphin study and Tom Mclntyre of the fisheries service said his Agency soon will Chip in another $50,000, the beneficiary is a task Force headed by Canadian researcher or. Joseph be Rae who has anxiously awaited More Money since the study s funding ran out earlier this year. Geraci professor of veterinary medi Cine in the pathology department at the University of Guelph near Toronto is a member of the . Marine mammal commission. The . Government asked him to head the research begun last july when hundreds of dead dolphins began washing ashore in new Jersey and Vir Ginia. The deaths spread Down the coast reaching Florida in november. The cause of the deaths is unknown although scientists believe something is sapping tie dolphins immune systems leaving them id languish and die from common infections. The fisheries service fears that As much As -10 percent of the East coast s Dolphin population has been wiped out cubans March in opposition to .-Castro ties Miami api some 6,1100 cuban exiles marched through the Little Havana Section of Miami saturday to i press their opposition to the possibility of normalised relations Between the United Stales and Fidel Castro s communist regime. The Enik a who waved the cuban Flag and Sang their Homeland s National an them. Are opposed to any formal rela. Lions Between the two governments. For 30 years. The policy of the United Stales has Bei n not to Send its people to Cuha because of the human rights position  said Rafael Penalver Leader of the task Force of cuban civic organi actions. Nothing has changed and opening up re lations will not change  cuban american Leader longtime supporters of the Reagan administration say they fed bcraye4i by secret meetings of . And cuban officials last year that resulted in a renewed immigration pact. They say such discussions in Hilimire the Castro regime and could be a move toward formal ties Balw can the to countries. Organisers of the March said More protests will be held unless the undid states changes its position. Sands or time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. May 9, 1948 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands announced that Slie would Transfer responsibility for her Royal duties 10 her daughter. Crown Prin Cess Juliana. 30 years ago today. May 1958 vice president Rich Ard m. Nixon who had ignored warnings that his South american tour might cause violence walked into jeering Rock throwing demonstrators in Lima Peru and challenged them to hear the  20 years ago today. May 0. I96b sen. Robert f. Ken Nedy Defeated sen. Eugene Mccarthy in Indiana and vice president Hubert h. Humphrey in the District of Columbia in his bid for the democratic presidential nomination bul said it s a Long time until  0 years ago today. May 9, 1978 David r. Berkowit pleaded guilty to All sin son of Sam killings a yearlong rampage thai terror i de new Yolk City