European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday july 12,1988 ostriches keep Busy laying Golden eggs Sonoma Calif up a dozen eggs from Sonoma ranch will Cost you about $24000. But they re big s gone beyond my wildest dreams said Bob Mckean who got into the Ostrich egg and Breeding business with his wife last november. The Market s gone crazy. It s wild Wilda 3 Vij Pound Fertile Ostrich egg is Worth about $2,000 and rising he said while a Breeding pair of ostriches go for about $30,000 and is going of. A year and a half ago a Breeding pair of Birds runabout $10,000," he said. A year ago they were up to $20,000."every time i pick up the phone to find out what the other people Are charging i find myself a thou Sand dollars behind. It s phenomenal the Market is less for the Fleet footed Long legged but flightless Birds that Are the biggest in the world weighing no to 400 pounds than for their hides. Ostrich hides Are used for Cowboy boots and fancy gloves. It s Supply and demand Mckean said. There s a big demand for the hides and there in t much of a Scarcity is due primarily to Trade sanctions against the apartheid government of South Africa which used to Export 90,000 hides a year he said. At the present rate he said it could take Vas. Breeders including Small operations like his tip to 10 years to meet the demand. V Mckean and his wife Carolyn have a flock of 30 ostriches on their 20-acre one time horse ranch to eluding More than a dozen Chicks. They started with seven Birds nine months ago at a Cost of about$30,000. I got in on the ground floor when they were relatively cheap he said. If the Bottom fell out of every thing right now i already have my Money Mckean also have gone into the Ostrich Rais ing information businesses he said. A How to boo they wrote about the Ostrich business has sold 400 copies so far he said. Stateside ave of drive by shootings kills 4, injures 9 in los Angeles two natural Gas buses new York City testing los Angeles a a spate of drive by shootings in the los Angeles area killed four people and injured nine others Over the weekend police said. One woman was killed and six people were injured in the gang style attacks sunday while three men were killed and three others injured in shootings the Day before police said. An unidentified woman was found at 1 45 . Sun Day in South Central los Angeles and pronounced dead at los Angeles county us medical Center said sgt. Steve Laroche. Despite a police crackdown on gangs beginning ear Lier this year deaths from drive by shootings a form of attack favored by the gangs average one a Day in the los Angeles area authorities have said. The violence is most serious on the weekends. Two reputed gang members were arrested in one of the shootings a saturday attack that left another suspected gang member dead. Detectives were trying to determine if the other attacks were linked and if they were also gang related leap said. In the first of sunday s four attacks three men and woman were hit by bullets As they sat outside playing dominoes around 2 25 . Near downtown los an Geles. About 30 minutes later and 2 h Miles away an unidentified Man was struck by shots fired from a passing car leap said. Five minutes later a Man about five blocks away was hit by a Shotgun blast fired from a car police said. Late saturday afternoon two men were shot to death near a Barber shop in Baldwin Park 10 Miles East of downtown los Angeles. More than 12 hours earlier a suspected gang Mem Ber was killed and a teen Ager was critically injured when gunfire burst from a car As the two stood on alos Angeles sidewalk said police detective Robert Suter. Two reputed rival gang members both in their teens were arrested and booked for investigation of murder. Police said bad blood Between the gangs apparently prompted the shooting. Meanwhile Harbor area police arrested a Man for investigation of a 4 15 . Saturday drive by shooting that injured two men said sgt. Bill Snyder. One of the victims was shot in the face and the other was shot in the Back. U.s., Europe Ore exchanging methods on disposal of waste Washington a Europe and the United states Are beginning to adopt similar strategies for Dis posing of wastes spurred by common recognition that there s not enough space to Bury it All and burning causes too much pollution. For centuries Western europeans marvelled at the luxury of available land in North America says a report from the non profit Institute for local self Reli Ance. This luxury allowed for ready Access to disposal Sites for solid wastes As Well As for a casual disregard of the maintenance of soil Fertility for but As that luxury decreases new methods Are being tried. A company in Oakland calif., has Long collected wine bottles washed them and sold them Back to Vint ners at less than the Cost of new bottles. Now the prac Tice is spreading to Michigan Massachusetts and new York. Italy has passed a Law that in 1991 will ban All pack aging unless it can be recycled or will decompose Natu rally. The Institute rep9rt favors recycling but says Little has been invested in it and that some professional planners Are sceptical. Neil Seldman one of the authors nevertheless sees recycling As the path that must be followed. You la have the bottle manufacturers asking for a National bottle Bill because they Don t want to have Todeal with 50 different bottle Bills so i would say that within a few years we will have that he predicted. State bottle Bills typically require Consumers to Paya Small Deposit which is refunded by shops when the empties Are returned. The Bills have been strongly opposed by business interests especially Container manufacturers. Brenda Platt the Institute s staff Engineer said that some communities states and governments Are no setting a three tiered set of priorities for disposing of waste components off garbage projected for the year 2000 other 6.7% food wastes 6.8% metals 9.0% plastics 9.8% Yard wastes 15.3% Chicago Tribune graphic source . Environmental Protection Agency first source reduction or discouraging the us of materials that become waste. Seldman cited a proposal in Philadelphia that would put one tax on bottles and a double tax on secondary packaging the cardboard or plastic that goes around a six pack. Source separation the separate handling of Dif Ferent kinds of waste in both Homes and spoke approvingly of a three Container system in some communities of West Germany with a Green Container for one Type of waste. If you Don t put your recyclables in the Green can they la take away the Green Container and give you maybe a Black one and you re labelled As the Slob of the neighbourhood she said. Peer pressure can do a lot to encourage Large scale burning and burial of waste is seen Only As a last resort. New York. Not Brooklyn Union Gas has introduced two buses that run on natural Gas producing very Little pollution and lots of Praise from City officials including mayor de Koch who held a White handkerchief Over the exhaust pipe of one As a test. Look no smudge he said triumphantly inviting others to try. Showing off the buses Brooklyn Union said they were the first of their kind in this country and i widely copied would pollute the air less and do it with an economical fuel in plentiful Domestic Supply and not to mention it would open a major new Market for the buses which will be run for three years by the command bus co. Over express routes in Brooklyn Queens and Nassau county Are the natural Gas Indus try s answer to another test that began in april. In it six buses built by general motors and powered by methanol began plying the streets of new York. Health officials report human anthrax Case Atlanta a Federal health officials have reported the nation s first Case of human anthrax since1984, which apparently started with contaminated Cashmere at a textile Plant. A 42-year-old maintenance Man at the North Carolina textile Mill became ill in july 1987 with a Small red lesion on his and developed pain fever and chills Over the following week the centers for disease control said. The patient was diagnosed with a cutaneous form of anthrax a severe and potentially fatal disease most commonly found in cattle and sheep. Only nine other human anthrax cases have occurred in the United states in the past decade the cd said. 3 killed As Motorboat hits break Wall in Wisconsin Milwaukee a a 22-foot Motorboat smashed into a Concrete break Wall at the South end of Milwaukee s Lake Michigan Harbor killing All three passengers a coast guard spokesman said sunday. Petty officer Donald Jarman identified the victim Sas Robert Gottfredsen 43, owner of the boat Jesus Placencia 41 and Peter Lawrence Back 42. All three were from Racine. Jarman said the boat hit the South Side of the break Wall about 300 Yards offshore at 11 55 . Saturday. The whole Bow appeared to be disintegrated Jarman said. The boat was partially submerged after the crash and divers pulled the bodies from the wreckage he said. Car goes out of control kills 3 Young pedestrians grand rapids Mich. A a runaway car jumped a sidewalk struck and killed three Young Chil Dren As they played in front of a House police and witnesses said. The children died after they were taken to two hospitals after the Accident. Killed were Jason Northrup 9 his sister Marlene 7 and a 2-year-Bld neighbor,. Murray. The Driver of the car Stan Dlugolenski 79, was slightly injured. He said the car just went like a rocket on me As he turned a Corner. It just kept going he said. I had the car service yesterday. I tried the brakes and they was t working. I just could t get it to
