European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday june 3. 19b8 the stars and stripes Page 9 Prokopo a tickled Pink with Green porkers Cincinnati a a sculptor unveiled his oar Bronze flying pigs atop a City Bicentennial Monument by to the Relief of some they re a weath ered Green not Pink. I changed my mind artist Andrew Leicester  Green and can pigs top the Entrance Sculp Ture at Bicentennial commons at Sawyer Point anew Park near downtown and along the Ohio  pigs measure 4vt feet from Tail to Wing tip. They stand on their Hind legs an Bright Blue replicas of riverboat smokestacks. Their wings arc spread and stomachs Are taut and  re pigs of the 80s very trim said Carol Scott a visitor from Connecticut who was among a Small group of people to watch wednes Day s  pigs covered with Black doth were lifted into place tuesday night by a mechanical lift. The fourth was flown in wednesday on a . Coast guard helicopter and lowered into  were Many Many times i thought they would never make it said Dennis Barrie director of the contemporary arts Center which commissioned the 1600,000  artwork contains 17 elements depicting Cincinnati s history and itt River heritage. The pig celebrate the City s heyday in the 1880 As Porko polls the Midwest s nog butchering  originally planned to cover the Bronze hogs with Copper plating to achieve a lifelike Rosy color. But there was t enough Lime so he opted for Bronze s natural Patina of Grcen he  re More subdued More traditional much More appropriate said Leicester who was born in England and lives in Minneapolis. If you want Pink pigs go to a department store not a artist. Navy predicting Job cuts at shipyards report says Washington Jap the Navy is projecting a21 percent cutback in employment at its eight Public shipyards by the end of fiscal 1991. An unpublished naval planning document shows. The reduction from 71,100 to 56,400 jobs would because largely by fewer ship overhauls As Well As com petition Frum the private sector according to shipyard employees and officials familiar with the naval sea systems come document. The May i document obtained this week from congressional sources was bom out of a recent ship scheduling conference sponsored by the systems com Mand which oversees the eight Yards. The document projects employment require ments based on ship repair and modernization assignments for the the 1989, 1990 and 1991 fiscal years. The Job figures Are Only estimates and arc subject to change because of schedule shifts network or other factors. Overall employment in the Yards would shrink from about 71,100 now to 64,050 in the fall of 1989.the work Force then would shrink further to 57,150 and 56,400, respectively Over the following two years. The current 7 Foo figure which is mostly civilian jobs includes about 4,000 temporary an part time employees. The naval sea system come said in a statement in response to a reporter s query that the Navy has not published employment projections. However shipyard employment figures Are routinely reviewed and working documents Are pre pared to determine what employment Levels arc Nec Essary to meet fact l operational requirements the statement  naval shipyard employment figures will not be determined until the budget process is completed for fiscal year 1989 and beyond it said. Some Yards would see their work Force dip an then swell again under the working document s projections. For example employment at the puget sound naval shipyard in Bremerton wash., is estimated to dip from 11,400 to 8,500 Between now and the fail of 1990. Before climbing Back to 10,000 the following year puget sound spokesman Bruce Andrac said that White he was nol familiar with inc planning document the Yard was pretty Well aware of its work Load Over the next few  think you la find we re not the Only shipyard where you la some rather wide swings in Man Power Andrac said. You go Down for a couple of years and All of a sudden you be got to make a dra malic increase. Skilled labor does t come easily and that pre sents some challenges he said. A similar pattern was projected Al the Norfolk naval shipyard in Portsmouth  at Norfolk whose 12,700 workers make it the largest Public Yard was forecast Atit,350 in the fall of 1989, 9.700 in 1990, and 10,900 in 1991.employment Al the Philadelphia naval shipyard now at about 8,700, is projected to decline to 6,300.the Yard Likely would Lay off 749 temporary work ers first officials  ships in the new threat upgrade pro Gram were listed in the working document As being assigned to the Long Beach Calif naval shipyard. Long Beach would suffer the least disruption lots work Force with its employment remaining be tween 5,000 and 5,250 during the three years the Marc Island Yard in Northern California would see its work Force drop to 10,000 in inc fall of1989, followed by a loss of 3,boo workers and then a gain of 1,300 to bring it Back up to 7,500.hawaii s Pearl Harbor Yard which employs about 6,100 now would drop to 4,000.among Eastern Yards Charleston s.c., would go from about 8,600 to 6,200. The Portsmouth n.h.,Yard would remain at about 8,000 workers until 1991, then dip to 5,800 at the end of 1991. Psychic Turkos Dies of heart failure at 77 los Angeles a Peter Turkos who claimed psychic Powers stemming from a brain injury and helped police to investigate the Boston Slang scr Cassand inc Manson murders has died of heart failure. Turkos 77, was stricken wednesday in a Medica Complex near Cedars Sinai medical Center after a visit to his doctor said publicist Barbara Silver. He had Hada portion of his cancerous right lung removed in april she  helped authorities investigate the 1969 Mur Ders of actress Sharon talc and supermarket owner Lena Labianca and his wife who were among eight people killed by followers of Charles  said he told authorities the person responsible for the slayings was a bearded Man named  also worked on the Boston Slang scr Case and on murders of College students in Ann Arbor,mich., Silver said. The Boston Strangler Case later was made into a movie starring Tony  after Albert Desalvo confessed to being the Stit mgr and was convicted Turkos maintained that another Man was Llie killer. Felt 110 Miles away in Las vegas Peter Turkos Turkos said he became psychic in 1941 after falling from a ladder and suffering a brain injury. Upon re gaining consciousness he realized he had an ability to Pierce inc barriers that separate he past present and future according to his biography. Turkos said he was Able to things by touching objects i see pictures in my mind like a television  i touch something i can then Tell what i see he  appeared in tic movies the amazing world of psychic Phenomena mysterious monsters now Ilay me Down to sleep and the Boston  he was inc author of three books psychic the psychic world of Peter Turkos and Peter Turkos 1 have Many  Turkos was born in Dordrecht Holland and Cameto the United Stales in 1956 for psychic experiments he lived in the los Angeles area about 25 years. Survivors include his wife Stephany Courtney an seven children. Nuke weapon set off in desert in fifth 88 fest paiute Mesa nov. Up1 scientists exploded a thermonuclear weapon beneath the Nevada test sit thursday swaying High Rise gambling houses 110 Miles away in Las Vega with the Energy of 11 Hiroshima atomic bombs. The fifth underground nuclear weapons test announced this year by the United states came two Days after the signing of Summit accords in mos cow that clears the Way for joint super Power nuclear verification experiments in three or four months. The detonation was the third .nuclear weapons test since a group of soviet scientists arrived Al the Nevada test site in late april to prepare for verification experiments designed to determine whether the superpowers can measure the exact size of a nuclear explosion. The weapon lest Loday was a Cess Federal Energy department spokeswoman Barbara Yourg said. Yoerg observed the 6 . Deto nation from the command Center 31 Miles from ground Zero. Site said Al radiation from the detonation was contained underground and no Radia Tion leaked into the  she said she fell no ground motion Al the control Point. Less than a minute after Zero time an Earth tremor spawned by the nuclear explosion reached Las vegas he state s most populous City. It Felt like a gentle swaying. I saw afew of my larger plants moving said a resident of Regency towers a High Rise condominium near the strip. No damage was reported and Man Las vegas residents slept through the blast. Previous . Weapons tests in 1988were announced feb. 15, april 7, May 13, and May 21. The last iwo detonations consid ered smaller Han thursday s test measured 5 and 4.5 on the Richter scale according to the earthquake in formation Center in Golden Colo. The nuclear weapon in the latest lest was buried 2,000 feet beneath paiute Mesa a 7,000-foot volcanic plateau deep within the boundaries of the Nevada test site the weapon had a yield of less than Iso Kilotons according to the government spokeswoman. The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in world War ii was a 13-Kilotonweapon. The weapon was code named Corn Stock after the Mother Load Gold and Silver find in Nevada