European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 1, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday june 1,1988 7 die after boat tips during Lake Joy ride stateside Tillatoba miss. A a Boa carrying eight people capsized during a memorial Day Outing killing six Young women aboard the overloaded Craft and a Man who tried to Rescue them. The operator of the 16-foot, aluminium boat was Able la swim ashore and one person on the Craft was rescued authorities said. The operator Robert Armstrong. 32, said the boat s occupants were on a slow Joy ride splashing water on each other when the Accident occurred on Lake til Baoba monday afternoon one girl leaned Over when the boat was turning and some water started coming in the boat and every body panicked said Armstrong who acknowledged thai the boat was overloaded everybody stood up and started moving around in the boat. Then it turned Over. They was just hollering help help help could t none of them  three of the girls held hands when the boat Over turned and were still holding hands when their bodies were recovered Armstrong said monday night. Yal Busha county Coroner Stanley True identified the drowning victims As Anna Martin 21 her 20-year old sister Marlyce their Cousin Janice Martin 20 Sherry Taylor 21 Sandra Baker 24, and Sherry Jen Kins 19. Eddie Lee rounds 41, died after swimming from he Shore in a Rescue attempt the Coroner said. Another passenger Melvin Pernell whose age was unavailable was clinging to the boat when he was res cued by a Fisherman Armstrong said. Pernell was in stable condition at Grenada Lake medical Center. The Boal had travelled about 30 Yards from the Shore of the 25-Acrc Lake located on Mississippi 330 Between the Rural communities of cof Sceville and Tillatoba in North Central Mississippi when the Accident occurred said the county sheriffs department. The Coroner said the bodies were recovered in eight to 10 feat of water near the boat and no alcohol was involved. The Flat Bottom boat was powered by a 25-Horsc Power outboard motor and was designed to hold up to five people said Deputy sheriff Homer Melton. It was kind of loaded but we was going slow though Armstrong said. They was playing in the water. Thai s what caused the  Accident is under investigation authorities said. True said no life jackets were on the boat but Arm Strong said there were two although neither was worn health officials puzzled by study linking tap water to miscarriages san Francisco not California health officials arc planning further studies in an attempt 10 explain puzzling results that suggest tap watertight contribute to miscarriages and birth defects. The California department of health services reported last week that pregnant women who said they drank bottled water had fewer miscarriages than one would expect from birth statistics. These women also seem to have children with slightly fewer than the expected number of birth defects pregnant women who drank tap water had the expected number of miscarriages and children born with birth defect slate officials said the results from four studies involving a total of 5,000 women Are preliminary and stress thai they Are not recommending thai pregnant women refrain from drinking tap water. In the history of epidemiology there Art Many instances in which initial findings were not born out by later findings said or. Shanna Swan a co director of the  said the scientists Are unable to explain their findings. One possibility is that the results were affected by Bias in the data. Women who had complications in their pregnancies might have been More Likely to recall thai they had drunk Lap water Swan  said researchers had corrected for other fac tors such As smoking alcohol consumption and the amount of exercise a woman  state officials did find elevated Levels of total organic Carbon in some samples of tap water. Total organic Carbon is an indirect measure of pol Lution and refers to All Carbon based organic com pounds which can Range from harmless carbohydrates to toxic petrochemicals. Some of these Carbon compounds might have been the products of bacteria found to be colonizing some water distribution pipes the health officials said. Infant mortality Dofi rata a  w by in ism . The health depart ment originally set out id investigate a neigh boyhood in san Jose in which women who drank ground water polluted by solvents from a nearby Silicon Valley electronics fac tory seemed to have a Higner than expected percentage of miscarriages and children with birth defects. That study reported in 1935, showed that women who said they drank bottled water had far fewer pregnancy complications than expected even in the control neighbourhood where the water was not polluted. The findings have been confirmed since then by three studies involving Silicon Valley and several other communities in the san Francisco Bay area. In the four studies the rate of miscarriages in women who reported drinking no tap water during pregnancy ranged from Zero to 7.7 percent. The Rales for women who drank at least some Lap water ranged from 8.4 percent to 13. T percent within the expected Range of 8 percent to 14 per cent the researchers said. The rate of birth defects in the children of Lap water drinkers was 2.6 percent to 6.2 percent. The rate for those who drank no tap water was Zero to 1.6 percent. The expected Rale was 2 percent to 3 percent. Beached Gray whale Dies despite Rescue efforts Aberdeen Wash. A two dozen volunteers trying to save a beached 28-foot Gray whale shielded it from the Sun and poured water on in to prevent dehydration but the whale died after a few hours. The whale was discovered thrashing in the surf on an Ocean Beach by Naomi Leonardo a youngster from Kirkland who notified police. When Lyte Moss a nearby resident saw it was still on the Beach the next morning he called Grays Harbor county sheriffs deputies. Other residents and High school students also responded volunteers erected a shelter to keep the Sun off the whale while others poured water Over in. Cuban couple in kayak saved by fishing boat Miami a a couple who sailed a Canvas covered kayak from Cuba survived Stormy seas and a water spout that broke their 15-foot vessel s Frame before being rescued by a fishing boat. I Don t know How in the world they made it across the Ocean said Don Gurgiolo Captain of a charter fishing boat that rescued the couple of upper mate Cumbe key near Islamorada. In was awfully  the fishermen called the coast guard to pickup Juan Ramirez Gomez and his wife Regina Gilda Sabina Mendez who were Bobbing in 6 foot seas when they were found 38 hours after they set sail East of Havana. Soviet emigre suing Yale Over retirement policy new Haven Conn. A a leading scholar who left the soviet Union in 197i to Tea Chi at Yale University is suing the school claiming that it mis represented in retirement policy. Sebastian Shaumyan an expert in mathematical linguistics receives about j19,800 annually a 1750-a-Momh pension from Yale and 1900 a month in social Security benefits. He earned about j5s.ooo a year when he retired in 1986. He claimed in a lawsuit filed in new Haven Superior court thai Yale did t explain its retire ment plan including thai lie would have to retire at 70. He s seeking a settlement of about s240.000 and an improved pension his attorney said Pink Floyd concertgoers face preaching protesters Columbus Ohio a a Small group of sign waving protesters confronted people attend ing a concert by the British Rock group pin Floyd and Many fans responded with shouts of Pink  All of them Are going to hell said David Tribb 34, who carried a wooden Cross and was one of eight members of a College ministry preaching to about 1,000 concertgoers outside the  concert the first permitted at the 66-year old stadium at Ohio state University Drew about 62,000 fans. One Man collapsed White waiting to enter the stadium but there were no reports of serious  than 160 Franklin county sheriffs deputies and University and City police officers were on hand to control the crowd. Swap Feam teaches judges to do the write thing Baltimore a a judicial writing swat team is taking aim at Judi Cial and Legal gobbledygook. Or As the lawyers might say said Par lies of the first part Are endeavouring to Render obsolete henceforth what has heretofore been an overabundance of wherefores and where ases of the said parties of the second part. The team is a group of English professors from the University of Maryland a College Park who have travelled the country for 10 years leaching judges How to get to the Point. Lucidity and clarity that s what we re after said Robert Coogan one of the professors. The writing course running two to five Days brings common sense formulas to courtroom prose said Charles Ruther Ford a College Park instructor. Often judges will make their decision in the last paragraph on the last Page forcing the Reader to Wade through Page after Page of Legal prose. It s like Reading an Agatha Christie novel said Rutherford. One of the Legal writing tenets taught at the seminars says an opinion should Stan with an introduction of the Case s circumstances to Orient the readers Fol Lowed by the decision and an orderly outline of the issues and Legal precedent. You have to take the Reader by the hand said Rutherford archaic words and common repetitive phrases such As in connection with and pertaining to or null and void should be used As infrequently As possible Accord ing to the tutors. If the crime was committed at the 7-eleven store they judges might say said store in their decisions. Become Down ban on that Rutherford said. You d never think of saying thai in a conversation unless you re a really constipated  the result said Rutherford is a Shorter More efficient opinion less characterized by the usual words of the profession and much More readable. Judge Jonathan j. Kaplan of the Superior court in Hartford Conn recently took the course. The first Day of the seminar 1 was told one of my opinion was numbingly Long and in was True said  very lint paragraph was a Page and a half Long. You re going to lose you Reader that