European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. June 28. 1988 the stars and stripes half a million take part in Gays festivities by Hil associated press Gay couple marched in Matching col ors. San Francisco s mayor brought his family and balloons were released 0 memorialize aids deaths As half a Mil lion people participated in Gay Pride celebrations nationally sunday. Police estimated that 100,000 people marched Down new York s fifth ave nue stripping for a period of silence As 10.uoo balloons bearing messages and poems to people who have died of aids were released. Similar balloon releases occurred in san Francisco and West hol Lynwod. Calif. The balloons arc symbolic of the Freedom we As homosexuals have to Fly free and he proud of what we arc said Kenn Kidd an Brj Janifer. About 25 members of three organza Lions jews for morality the National coalition to t reveal the spread of aids and the committee for the defense of St. Patrick s protested opposite St. Pat Rick s Cathedral condemning homosexuals and shouting aids spreaders at Parade participants. In Hartford. Conn., Aboul 600 Gay activists chant ing Gay bashing we say no homophobia got to go marched sat urday through the downtown Are to the stale Capitol. Activists attributed a bludgeoning death last month to anti homosexual Bias. Chicago s Parade attracted several Hundred marchers and Many More spectators and ended with a rally that attracted Aboul 70,000, police said. A focus was support of a proposed human rights ordinance approved by a City Council committee thursday that would prohibit discrimination on he basis of age martial status disability or sexual orientation. Church groups have lobbied against in Chicago mayor Eugene Sawyer was scheduled to speak at the rally but did t show up. In Seattle three congressional Candi dates turned out to court about 15,000 people who marched and rallied to Cap a lesbian and Gay Pride week. In san Francisco Art Agnos became the first mayor to Lake part in the City s annual Gay Freedom Day Parade which Drew More than 160,000 marchers and spectators. Agnos Rode with his family in a Black 19,1 Lincoln Continental. The Parade also featured 175 floats and contingents escorted by the group Dykes on bikes. Hundreds of leather Clad motorcycle revving lesbians. In addition to the traditional sprinkling of female impersonators and leather Clad buttock flashing cowboys there were More serious contingents such As living sober a group of recovering drug addicts and alcoholics. In West Hollywood Gay couples Wear ing Matching colors strolled Arm in Arm along the Parade route. Drill teams and marching bands entertained 150,000 people in the 19th annual los Angeles Gay and lesbian Pride Celebration. The Parade grew somber As participants released 12,000 purple helium filled balloons each bearing the name of a person with aids. The aids crisis has brought together the Gay and lesbian communities and has helped bring people out not just to the festival but to their families and their friends said organizer Gary Jonker. I watched in 1982, and 1 Don i know if there was any aids groups . Said Gary Farnsworth a student at City College of san Francisco watching the Parade there. Then last year in seen d so heavy into aids which is valid it s important. Tor All the thousands of people marching Loday in this Parade More than a thousand of them won t be Here next  lie said. The Alps re Latch concerns Stem from inc fatal virus rampant spread through inc male homosexual Community. Nationally 65,099 aids cases have been reported since june 1981, resulting in 36,874 deaths. Boy kills Alligator with Tennis Racquet after attack on dog Midland. Mich a a  All Falor thai Luri cd up in a dog s Kennel was beaten to death by a 12-Ycar-old boy wielding a Tennis Racket As the Repi Ilc struggled a Vii his Doberman pins her. It freaked me out. It was so  said Hen Clif ton i hit in in the head 15. 20 limes and it still was t dead Hen said he was watching a god Ilia movie on television Friday when he heard Iii dog. Fawn bark ing and growling. He found boil animals inside the Doberman s Ken Nel with Fawn s Teeth clenched on the Back of the Gator s neck and the reptile s Teeth around the dog s Collar. Ben ran Back inside for a weapon. "1 grabbed the closest thins a Lennis  Hen ignored Fawn s efforts to keep him out of the Kennel and struck the Alligator. It let go of the dog and Lur cd on the boy who hit in until in stopped snapping. Fawn was not seriously Hurt. Although owning a live Alligator is illegal a fraternity member at Northwood Institute brought the beast to Midland after a Spring break trip to Florida according to another student Bill Sulkanen. The student sold the Gator to a Midland Man when he went Home for the summer another Man who re fused to give his name told the Midland daily news. The new owner apparently released the Alligator after leaving Midland about three weeks ago the newspaper said. A Start toward new Frontier App to Jennifer Hodgem ii poses sunday before starting what could be a new first for a girl Pilot flying from Homestead flu id the northernmost tip of Alaska. Jennifer n sex la Reader from a Huntsville ala., later took off on he Al Rel ice of inc Etc Klong journey flying. This Cessna 182. Grain piling up in streets of City As barges stranded by Low water Mound City. I. At this cum Montiy on the Banks of the Ohio River is living up to ils name in an unexpected Way piles of Grain valued at almost is million arc heaped on ils streets because of drought stranded Barge traffic. The olt and on closure of the River from Cairo to about 10 Miles North of Mound City where the top Industry is Grain storage Ana shipment has made it Tough to find empty barges to haul the Grain. And the ones that Are available cannot be locked to capacity because the coast guard has placed tonnage limitations on Low sies in Hopes of avoiding vessel groundings. Dozens of Low Boals which need a mini mum depth of 9 feel have run aground in recent weeks because of sinking water lev Els and shoaling the buildup of Silt de posits caused by slow flowing water. How do you gel the barges in if the River is closed and they can l move asked Ruburt Hudson of adm Crow Mark in Mound cily. You have to bring them in by  adm Gro Mark along with iwo of her Grain operators Here began dump ing Grain on City streets near the River about two weeks ago. Hudson said adm will hold the Grain rather than move in by rail. He estimated rail costs at 50 percent Mare than the highest Barge freight Rales. Since the drought began taking its toll Barge operators have doubled the aver age bulk commodity Rales to about si4 a ton said Robert Gardner of Conli carriers and terminals a unit of Chicago based Continental Grain co., the nation s fifth largest Barge company. "1 think a lot of people underestimate this Industry Gardner said. It s resilient and it s Able to Cope with problems of this nature. We re pretty  l y inc Middle of last week about 200,000 bushels of Grain Worth an Esti mated $700,000 had been dumped on Mound cily streets and trucks continued Loump More. The coast guard said Barge traffic along the Riser where Depths were Only b Ltd in spots. Remained limited during the weekend. Sand bars some larger than a football Field have forced closure of the River to allow dredging. The pileup Hudson estimated will Cost local Grain operators about $6.000 a month. Bui Hudson and other Industry officials say they be weathered Tough limes before. We take economic chances from Lime to time said Gardner. We do in with the weather As Well. All in All whal it docs is slow things Down a Little  Hudson noted for example that Baize arc still loading however slowly. Officials Call the Southern Edge of the Ohio one of Fth nation s most Ira Charous Inland Waterways because of its shallow Waters. Takeoff halted because of Jet s engine problem Santa Barbara Calif. Up an engine malfunction forced a uni cd airlines Piikoi to abort the Takeoff of a Lio eing 737 As it rolled Down the runway saturday forcing 62 passengers to take other lights authorities said. The Pilot had moved the Denver bound Jet onto the runway and had revved its engines in preparation for Takeoff when he aborted the Takeoff at 1 55 p.m., said Kich Tom isl a duty officer Lor she Federal aviation administration. It was departing Santa Barbara when it had to abort because of an engine problem Tom isl said. The problem was described Only As a  passengers said the plane started to turn right and went onto a sort of Wavy path before it rolled to a Stop. The Santa Barbara county fire department was called to the runway As a precautionary measure