European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday. Junn 9, 1938 the stars and stripes Page 7 storm with 75-Mph winds rips Delaware Smyrna Del. W the Waist. Air Jim Lbryant. Spokesman i or the san Umardin county sheriffs department. No other injuries were reported Lacomb. J7, was airlifted to san Bernardino county Hospital where hews listed in stable condition Bryant said. Authorities said he was charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Police and she diffs deputies tin the ground and a sheriffs Deputy in a Heli copter opened fire in the Man after Heran into the Side of flight Craft a Busi Ness thru gives flight lessons and refuel planes at the Airport. Chinn is locus to about 40 Miles East Angeles. is a construction worker Inich area and had Access to the grader but he look it out of the author cd area on his Day of another sheriff spokes Man Suid. The Chase began in the Chino Hills area about six mites West of the air port after the she Riff station received a complaint at 9 41 . That someone was operating a Road grader in an erratic manner. Bryant said. Chino police detectives began Chas a Phot before the Driver of this Ruad grader could be slapped huge vehicle had Duma cd at least three Lif thl air planes at Chino Airport. Ing the grader during the 29-Minuledrive to the Airport during which Sev eral people were nearly hit he said. During the five minute rampage atthe Airport Lacomb reportedly struck three Small air planes and barely missed several people con the ground. The Chase ended when the grader s front end was jammed into a Light Craft s hangar. Police officers and sheriffs deputies opened fire on the Man when he attempted to drive away from the hangar dry an i said. Jct Reeves who said he was in final witness testifies at hearing investigating Sailor s death in Pool 1 . . A a Navy recruit was allowed to resume a a Rescue course without taking a exam the Linal witness to a a hearing investigating the trainee s a a a. Closing arguments Liy lawyers for Hie. Navy and five Navy he Aie swimmer school instructors and their command ing officer were to begin wednesday the hearing was being held to determine whether the my should be court Martia Ledin the March 2 death of airman recruit Lee Mirucki at i Pensacola Nas. The instructors allegedly forced the 19-year-old from Appleton wis., into water when he tried to quit the course a second time during a Drill. According to a pathologist Mirucki was literally scared to death due to a phobia about being pulled under water. The instructors Petty officers . Richard e. Blevins and David j. Smith and Petty officers 2. C. John w. Acle Nock Frankie d. Caton and Michael a Combe Are charged the involuntary manslaughter and conspiracy to commit Battery. La. Thomas a. Torch a the school s commander is charged with dereliction of duty. The instructors ate accused of dragging Tim. Into the Pool and holding his head under Uhic Struc Ching with h m u ill he col aped and later died. The planned medical exam was Dis closed tuesday by John w. Singer the school s lop chief Petty officer. You cannot legally return to training status until that physical is Singer told the investigating officer cmdr. Daniel j. P Alesio or. Mirucki initially asked to drop out of the course a month before his death. A flight surgeon diagnosed the phobia and found him unfit Tor training but a psychologist subsequently disagreed. Mirucki. Who later requested he be re instated in the course was erroneously restored to the training on the basis of the psychologist s finding but without the required physical and the flight sur Geon s approval testimony disclosed. Singer said chief Petty officer Dan ice j. Conway the student control chief should have discovered the error because the scheduled physical was on a list of students on medical hold that Conway was supposed to Monitor daily. However Mirecki s name Digap Jeared trom the list without aut Niri a lion feb. 17, Ami he was paced in a new Rescue a ass Singer said. Chief Petty us fkr be. In Brannigan. A corpsman at the naval aviation schools conic testified that he failed to Send Mirucki Back to the flight surgeon. Conway said he noticed the flight sur Geon s approval was missing from Mirecki s form when the recruit requested reinstatement. He said he called Iran in Gan s office and someone there told him Mireski had been reclassified As physically qualified. 1 Rosc Culores on tuesday also introduced training records in an Effort to show Torchia and the instructors knew or should have known about Mirecki s phobia and psychological examination. Conway testified the records were Avail Able to the defendants in the school s office and hat Blevins had signed a counselling Sheet including comments by Mirucki. The recruit wrote that when he was 5 years old his brother threw him in the water and had to Rescue him. I Don t want to go through Hal again Mirucki wrote. Flight Craft s hangar at the Airport when incident occurred estimate that Lacomb came within 50 Yards of Hilling the facility s fuel tanks. It almost looked like the Guy in there wits Reeves said. He sure looked school promotes Oil 3 preaching strode children Raleigh. . A despite missing several weeks of school because of suspensions. Ihrcke Street preaching children were promoted to the nem Grade their father said tuesday. The strode children Duffey Matthew and Pepper were suspended numerous limes because Thev refused to proceed into the was Fiield elementary school building when they arrived on school property each morning. Instead the three children began preaching. Their father. David strode said in a Telephone interview that Mcdowell county school officials notified him tuesday afternoon that his children had passed. Matthew will be in the first Grade Pepper moves to the second Grade and Duffey will go to the sixth Grade. The children look comprehensive tests to Complete school year. School officials would Noi release the test results nor would they say whether the children were promoted to their respective next grades. Strode who is building a House in another school District said the preaching will Slop if the local schools end their teaching of the theory of evolution
