European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 2, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday july 2,1988 Clark Harrison inspects his Piper Cherokee a Day before starting his flight to Germany Friday. Paralysed Wii vet starts Solo trans Atlantic flight Atlanta a a world War ii Veteran began a Solo flight across the Atlantic Friday to return to the German Battlefield where a sniper Bullet left him a paraplegic 43 years ago. Clark Harrison 63, a real estate company owner and Bank chairman in suburban Decatur took off from Dekalb peach tree Airport about 9 30  in a single engine Piper Cherokee equipped with hand controls and an extra Gas tank. The residents of Stolberg West Germany plan to celebrate what City manager Heinrich Romer called Harrison s spirit of Enterprise and courage after the wheelchair bound Veteran completes the 4,669-mile Solo trans Atlantic flight. The reception at Stolberg s historic Castle i scheduled for july 11, the Day Harrison plans weather permitting to arrive at the Airport in near by Aachen. The disabled Pilot said he does t think hell fee vulnerable making the flight alone in the 19-year old plane which has a new engine instruments an plexiglass. He flew a Solo round trip to Alaska in it three years ago. What scares me the most is rolling around Inthis wheelchair and getting in and out of it he said. The easy part is the flying. Once i get on the ground that s the hard part. Harrison flies in a cramped two seat cockpit filled with his wheelchair Luggage life raft survival kit and an auxiliary fuel tank. He gets in and out of the plane by crawling onto the Wing and then pull ing the wheelchair up. He lets it Down with a strap. Electric boat sub builders go on strike Groton Conn. A More than 10,000 sub Marine builders at the electric boat shipyard went on strike Friday after refusing to accept the company Soffer of Lump sum bonuses instead of wage increases Over the next three  Metal trades Council representing More than half of the shipyard s 18,000 workers negotiated wit the company until a half hour before the Midnight deadline before announcing an impasse.n9 new talks were planned Union and company officials said Early  300 chanting pickets marched outside the Gates of the giant Yard under sunny skies Friday morn ing. City police reported two arrests one of a Man setting off fireworks and another of a Man who allegedly drove his car through police barricades in front of the Plant nearly hitting some  officials did t know How Many people stayed off the Job Friday. Union officials said 5,000blue-Collar workers normally report for the first shift. The submarine workers voted 4 921-3,140 thursday to reject the latest contract offer from electric boat a division of general  boat is one of Only two shipyards making nuclear submarines for the Navy and the Only manufacturer of giant subs capable of carrying the Trident ballistic  boat general manager Fritz Tovar said a strike will not Stop submarine construction. The company mad arrangements to reassign 3,000 of its 8,000 salaried employees to new jobs within the Yard he  boat offered employees bonuses Worth 5 percent of a worker s wages during the first contract year and 4 percent during the second and third years of the pact. The Union demanded wage increases of 5percent, 4 percent and 4 percent. The shipyard said it could not afford to raise base pay if it was to remain competitive in its Pursuit of Navy  went up one minute past Midnight outside the shipyard s main Gate located along the thames River that flows into Eastern Long Island sound. The last strike at the shipyard was in 1975, when the Union walked out for five months and the Region s Economy  boat s final offer presented monday called for bonuses totalling $4,250 Over three years for a first class Mechanic making $12.02 an hour said Thomas Sotir vice president of human  thursday the Navy awarded this year s third and final attack submarine contract to electric  $347.4 million contract will go to electric boat s main shipyard Here and its other Plant in North Kingstown r.i., which is unaffected by the strike. King Holiday vice presidential prospects courted rejected in Arizona by Dukakis while Bush takes break Phoenix Ariz. A the stat Senate Defeated a Bill to create a Holiday honouring slain civil rights Leader Martin Luther King jr., a proposal that touched off widespread criticism of former  Mecham when he . The King measure fell two votes Short of the 16 needed in the 30-member, re publican controlled Senate. Democratic gov. Rose mofford had campaigned for the Bill and still could try to designate a Holiday by executive proclamation. But Republican attorney general Bob Corbin has said such above would be illegal and could subject a governor who tried it to Legal costs. Mecham a Republican in 1987 cite Corbin s advice when he rescinded such a proclamation made by Mecham s predecessor Democrat Bruce Babbitt for a King Holiday for state executive Branc workers. The move incited nationwide criticism of Mecham who was eventually impeached and removed from office on unrelated charges. By the associated press Democrat Michael Dukakis campaigned Side by Side with sen. John Glenn of Ohio Friday playing up Glenn s vice presidential prospects after doing the same with Indiana rep. Lee Hamilton the night before. He invited Jesse Jackson another Prospect to his Home for a fourth of july dinner. While Dukakis was winding up a mid Western Campaign swing and keeping the pot boiling on his Choice of a running mate Republican George Bush was relaxing and celebrating his Mother s 87th birthday Friday at his vacation Home i Kennebunkport Maine. On wednesday the two Likely presidential nominees had Given contrasting pictures of the Economy As Republican continued work on a party platform that they said would have More meat than the democratic document. Friday in Dayton Ohio Dukakis said with the grinning Glenn standing by that he does not think talk that the former astronaut is Boring would be a problem in choosing a running mate. Dull and Boring i kind of like that said Dukakis who himself has been accused of failing to excite audiences. At a United Auto workers Hall where they appeared there was no question who was the crowd favorite. I be been taking a poll All Over Amer Ica about running mates. What do you think about John Glenn Dukakis asked. Hearing the response of loud applause and whistles Dukakis said sounds unanimous to  Jackson who has pressed for an offer of the no. 2 position on the democratic ticket will meet monday night with Dukakis said Dayton Duncan Dukakis Campaign press Secretary. The aide gave no Indica Tion what the two might discuss. The Massachusetts governor face continued heat from opponents in the statehouse who criticized him for campaigning while the state ended its fiscal year with a nearly $400 million deficit thursday and without a budget for the next year. A series of tax Bills and fee raising measures to help the state pay for expanded spending in fiscal 1989 was nearing enactment. Bush told a luncheon group in Newyork that paid $10,000 a couple to hear him speak that the country has been enjoy ing an economic recovery since late 1982, the longest peacetime expansion in  meeting in los Angeles to draft a party platform criticized the democrats platform document As lacking con tent and trying to conceal a tax and spend policy. Senate minority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas said the democrats kept their plat form Short because they Don t have much to talk about. I mean who wants to talk about raising your taxes and More Regula Tion and More spending Bush and Dukakis played a game of role reversal thursday in response to a pair of polls that showed the two Candi dates tied or Bush trailing Dukakis Only slightly. Earlier polls have Given Dukakis double digit leads. I can Only say what i be been saying for 16 months Dukakis said. Early polls Are  Bush in new York declared i feeling like Harry Truman and depicted himself As a comeback Winner