European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 21, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 stateside the stars and stripes to a. Juv2l 1988 cousins go Back to court this time Over watermelons Alexandria. La. A the Woodwort mayor and his second Cousin Are Back in court fight ing this time Over the Cousin allegedly Selling water melons without a License. Mayor David Butler brought Charlie Butler intestate District court monday Over a Roadside water Melon stand Charlie Butler set up without paying a occupational tax to the Village. Charlie Butler s lawyer suggested the ordinance was illegal. Ninth judicial District judge Richard Lee too the matter under advisement. The butlers first appeared in court several month Sago when Charlie Butler was accused of driving Woodworth s fire truck without authorization. Rapides Parish prosecutors agreed not to prosecute after Charlie Butler signed an agreement that he would not operate the fire truck without Permis Sion. Child 4, finds gun kills his baby Sitter by Accident Gulfport miss. A a 12-year-Oid Gir was shot to death by the 4-year-old boy she was babysit Ting As the two played together police said. Rhonda Whittock was pronounced dead at Guh port memorial Hospital on tuesday of a single .3s Caliper gunshot wound to the Back. Police identified the 4-year-old As we Jock brother but a neighbor Arl Ena Smith whose Chil Dren went to school with the victim said the 4-year-old was the girl s Nephew. The 12-year-old and the 4-year-old were playing in their Mother s bedroom when the 4-year-old found a gun in the bed and accidentally shot the girl police it. Donald Thurman said in a statement. The owner of the gun was not immediately known police said. Bricks knocked off building by lightning kill Man below new York a a 32-year-old Man died after being hit on the head by bricks that toppled off a building struck by lightning police said. The Man was waiting for a bus in front of an apart ment Complex in the new York City Borough of Staten Island when the Freak Accident took place tuesday night said it. John Mcsorley of the 120th precinct. Lightning struck a parapet on the six Story build ing during a thunderstorm loosening a masonry Wall Mcsorley said. The victim struck by a number of bricks was pronounced dead at the scene. His identity was being withheld wednesday until relatives could be Noti fied. The building was occupied but no further injuries were reported the lieutenant said. A letter to the skipper Donna Deary an aide to California state rep. Bill Lowen a san Diego looks Over a Section of a 570-foot Tetter addressed to the Captain of the Vincennes the guided missile Cruiser that shot Down an iranian Airliner killing All 290 aboard. The letter signed by nearly 10.000 san Diego residents expressed support for capt. Will Rogers Iii who ordered the plane shot Down because it appeared to be a threatening warplane. The message to Rogers and his Crew declared that the Citi Zens of our Home port san Diego show our Strong sup port to you As you strive to do your duty to god an country in troubled Waters. A v Owuor Xor ,., 9 us a to a Jet of i he j a u l7 j w k u it t v iut j Utu jul j i if a a a thu countr " Gas leak Given 50-50 Chance of delaying space shuttle launch Cape canaveral Fla. A engineers Are shuttle managers combed through documents to decrying to fix a tiny Gas leak in the space shuttle but Termine whether workers might have missed a Simila there s a 50-50 Chance discovery will have to be rolled leak As Early As last january. N3fk from tnp1 in Hinphy nah to o Honnor for Ariff a t l to -_., to i t i i ,. A engineers Are i it there s l Back fro the launch pad to a hangar for repairs the Kennedy space Center s director says. Taking discovery off the pad would delay the first launch since the challenger disaster now scheduled for Early september by up to two months Forrest  told reporters tuesday. We wish we had found it the leak earlier Mccartney said. The Odds Are 50-50 on a Rollback he said. He said no decision was Likely until after discovery s three main engines have been test fired on the pad in a critical test set for july 28. The main engines Are separate from the steering engine system where the leak is. The tiny nitrogen tetroxide Gas leak was detected last Friday in an engine compartment and was traced to a fitting on a line leading to an oxidizer tank. Nitro Gen tetroxide normally combines with fuel to Power the steering engines. Shuttl t de termin t r Lea Earl last. Launch director Bob Sieck said paperwork showed that a pressure Check was made on the oxidizer tank manifold in an engine compartment before Christmas and that a second Reading taken two weeks late showed a pressure drop. The pressure drop occurred in the same area As theone detected in january. The problem with fixing the leak on the pad is that the 22-foot engine compartment probably would have to be removed a difficult task never done there before. Another option would be to take discovery to hangar and replace the compartment As soon As Possi ble with one being prepared for a november flight by Atlantis. Such a move would eliminate the need to wait for a leak repair and could Cut the launch delay to about a month. Flying with the leak is a possibility but we would have to assure ourselves that it would be absolutely Safe Sieck said. Remains of world War ii Soldier discovered Anchorage Alaska up the45-year-old Skeleton of an unidentified Soldier with his boots still on has been found on a Remote Alaska Island where he was assigned in world War ii and military officials tuesday were astonished by the unusual discovery. We were just flabbergasted said Bob Elyard spokesman for the Adak is land naval air station where the sol Dier s remains were being taken by boat from bul Dir Island site of the unexpected discovery by Federal wildlife biologists working in the Western reaches of the Aleutian Island Chain. Here s a Guy after some 40 year coming Home Elyard said. "1 spent the night wondering if they could find his family and How they would  Elyard said Navy officials were plan Ning a ceremony to properly accept the Soldier s remains thursday before Send ing them to air Force and army Mort uary officials in Anchorage. The army scentral identification lab in Hawaii was being called in to help identify the sol Dier. Five . Fish and wildlife service biologists working on bul Dir Island some 1,500 Miles Southwest of Ancho rage stumbled upon the remains a Mere 132 feet from where they had set up amp to study seabirds said Agency spokesman Bruce Batten. Alongside the Skeleton were the sol Dier s my military Rifle with a Bayonet a military Issue pocket watch with "."visibly inscribed on it a Wristwatch an american Coin and a Wallet containing an identification card that was impossible to make out. No dog tags were found. Our records show that 12 american soldiers were stationed there during world War ii and Only 11 came Home said Walter Stieglitz director of the fed eral wildlife Agency s Alaska  45 years As missing in action the 12th Soldier is finally coming Home,too." the remains were found at the 1,600-foot level of the rugged 2,100-foot Island but not at a drop off. The body was wedged into some Large boulders As if the Soldier May have been t7ing to escape from the weather said Mike Boylan a biologist who helped recover the remains. Just How the Soldier died is a mystery but Boylan said the terrain is very rough and disorienting there. He Proba Bly got lost and died of  when the biologists found the remain last week they reported their discovery by radio and the Agency dispatched it boat the Tiglas because no planes can land on rough bul Dir. The boat was due thursday at Adak. The Skeleton was not Complete but consisted of the Skull leg and Arm Bones Pel vis and Bones of both feet in military Issue red Ball boots Batten said noting he appears to have died with his boots  Batten called the discovery dumb Luck and said the biologists scraped around for whatever they could find in the area where they found the Bones. Bul Dir a 4,915-acre Island is a Deso late uninhabited treeless chunk of Rock and Tundra that juts out of the Ocean half Way Between Kiska and Attu is lands which the japanese occupied Dur ing world War ii. The american inva Sion to rout the japanese led to some of the bloodiest action of the War. No Battles were fought on bul Dir but military historians report that 12 soldiers maintained a Garrison that served As weather and communications station. Bul Dir at the Western end 9f the1,100-mile Aleutian archipelago is part of the Alaska maritime National wildlife Refuge. World War ii debris still can be founding the aleutians but no one expected to find a Soldier s remains