European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page6 the stars and stripes Friday. September 23,1988 it s for Short Helena Mont. A the opponents of Montana s bottle Bill arc either going to have to change the name the picked for themselves the Short ver Sion s or look for a very fast talker. Stale Law says any political action com Mittee must include Iti name in recorded advertisements for to and radio. Needles to say a name like Caf causes a problem. Even More of a problem is the optical name the initials stand for the committee against forced deposits Montana Groc ers recyclers Soli drink bottlers Bee distributors Container manufacturers and their National affiliates and other Montana businesses and concerned citizens. It takes about u seconds for most people to read the group s name slowly Capps said. The name and its somewhat Shorter initial Only version were ostensibly adopted to satisfy a requirement enforced by the state commissioner of political practices that committee names accurately reflect the opponents interests. Bottle Bill backers had gotten the commissioner to throw out two simpler names the committee against initiative 113 had adopted. If we re going to have to make mockery about what we re doing it s Best to bring it out in the open Ami initiative committee treasurer Frank Capps said ballot initiative would require 5 a Cal deposits on bottles and cans con Taining carbonated beverages. Nasa replaces outdated rings used in space shuttle rocket test stateside br10ham City Utah a Morton Thi Okol discovered that an outdated nozzle Inlet ring was used in the final lest of its redesigned space shuttle Booster rocket but Nasa said thursday that the proper rings Are in the boosters attached to the shuttle discover engineers who rechecked paper work on the eng Sand re examined a rays of the discovery determined that the shuttle rockets now sitting on the cat canaveral launch pad contain the new rings said de medal a spokesman at the Marshall space flight Center in Huntsville ala., which oversees the Booster rocket if the old rings had been in the boosters he said it is unlikely that they would have caused a delaying plans to launch the discovery next thursday be cause the old rings had performed Well in tests. We never did expect any Impact on the launch from the discovery in the test rocket of the wrong rings he rings Are inside the nozzle Assembly at the Tail of the shuttle Booster. They Are not the of nags in the Booster segment joints that were blamed for the Jan. 2 8, 1986, explosion of the shuttle challenger. The Noile Inlet ring has been modified Only slightly since then while the of ring segments have been Exten sively a rays of the boosters were enhanced by com Puter and confirmed thai the boosters Are in the right configuration medal said. Everything we be seen indicates the redesigned rings Are in the sts26 some reason the nozzle installed in the Booster used in the aug. 18 test firing contained a ring of the pre challenger design. Medal said. Morton Thi Okol spokesman de Snow said the old Inlet ring performed satisfactorily. The error was discovered during regular Post test examination and analysis of the part. Nasa and mor Ion Thi Okol Are working to discover How the error was made and How it can be prevented in the future he said he believed the mistake was discovered within the last Day or test firing the fifth full scale Static firing of the redesigned Booster was conducted at Thi Okol s Wasatch operations Plant 25 Miles West of Brigham City. We fully believe the Correct parts Are in the flight set said Morion Thi Okol spokesman Rocky Raab. Hunks file under bankruptcy Law As Silver Case verdict is appealed Dallas a Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt filed for personal business reorganization wednesday in . Bankruptcy court in Dallas a spokesman for the two Brothers said. Tom who Laker executive vice president for the Hunt Energy corp., said the Hunts decision to seek chapter 11 reorganization was a result of a court s requirement that they Post a $225 million Bond to Appeal the Case they lost last month in a new York Federal court. A jury decided that the two Hunts and brother Lamar Hunt must pay More than Al to million in damages for conspiring to Comer the world s Silver Market in the late 1970s, ruining the investments of Minicco a the peruvian government s Mineral marketing company. The Hunts maintain that Peru As the second largest producer of Silver in the world could Only be helped As the Silver prices roses. The Hunts said they chose bankruptcy to keep min Poco attorneys from beginning foreclosure on their Persona assets until their Appeal can be made. Bunker and Herbert believe the jury verdict in new York is so unjust that they elected to seek Chap Ter ii Protection of the United states bankruptcy court in order to insure their ability to continue their businesses while at the same time appealing the Silver Case Whitaker said in a statement the Hunts said raising s215 million in an extremely depressed Economy would Force a fire Sale of assets and also would have resulted in non payment to Busi Ness and personal creditors. The jury trial is the first step of a Long civil process and i expect that the verdict will be reversed or substantially modified and we will continue to work to that end Bunker Hunt said in a statement released by Whitaker. Wednesday s filing was the latest chapter in the munis furious struggle to keep alive what was once one of the world s wealthiest legacies. The Texas Brothers inherited a Fortune from their father oilman . Hunt. But heavy losses in Silver Oil and real estate Cut to Cir wealth from More than �5billion to an estimated $1 billion according to published reports. On Friday a Federal bankruptcy judge approved a Nelson Bunker Hunt William Herbert Hunt reorganization plan to Settle s7so million in Loans and pull the Trust funds of the two Hunts and their brother Lamar out of chapter 11 bankruptcy. The plan called for turning their financially strapped Penrod drilling co., which is not in bankruptcy into a corporation jointly controlled by creditor Banks. The agreement approved by . Bankruptcy judge Harold Abramson also called for the Brothers to pay$53.8 million in Cash and surrender real estate in Texas Kentucky and Arizona to Eccl $200 million in debts. Placid Oil co., owned by the Hunt Irusle estates also is in chapter ii. The Trust estates had offered in jul to pay s 803.5 million to Placid s tenders including $663.5 million in proposed Placid reorganization plan called for the Sale of the Hunt Brothers interest in thanksgiving Tower a downtown Dallas building. It also would re quire the Brothers to come up with s250 million in Cash by borrowing on their Petroleum properties. Wednesday s bankruptcy filings will not affect the reorganization of Placid Oil or the Hunt Brothers Trust estates Whitaker said. Pioneer Black Jack gum to reappear on Market Morris Plains . A Black Jack is Back Allong with by cans and Clove chewing Gums bul Only for a Little while the makers of the old time favourites said Gums will be reintroduced in october Ameri can chicle group president John f. Walsh said. The company a division of Warner Lambert co., makes certs mints rolaids Halls cough drops and Chi lets Trident and Den Lynn Gums. Licorie Flavoured Black Jack is regarded As the first Flavoured mass produced Chc Wina gum and first appeared 11s years ago. Biemans hit the Market in 1898and cinnamon Flavoured Clove in the 1920s. Officials arc not convinced the Market is Large enough for year round production but said the Gums probably would be available for about three months and probably available the Las few months of the next several years legionnaires disease Breaks out in la area los Angeles a the county has issued a health Alert to doctors because of an outbreak of Legionnaire s disease that killed seven people Ai a retire ment Home and the Urcla medical Center a published report said department of health services asked doctors to watch for serious symptoms in patients who Are elderly or whose immune systems Are not functioning prop Erly the los Angeles times reported. The notice was a routine precaution because no Evi Dence Points loan ongoing problem said or. Shirley Fannin Dirc Clorox the county s disease control program. Legionnaire s disease similar to pneumonia or a debilitating flu is caused by the legion Lla bacteria so named because 29 infected people with the bacteria died after an american legion convention in Phila Delphia in 1976. La hispanic police file discrimination complaint los Angeles api hispanic police officers in the nation s second largest City filed a discrimination complaint wednesday contending they Are routinely passed Over for promotions . The complaint was filed with the stale department of fair employment by the latin american Law enforcement association on behalf of the 1,300 hispanics on the City police Force of about 7,000 officers. Of the department s 17 commanders one is hispanic. Police cmdr William Booth called the complaint Divi Sive and said in ignores an eight year department Effort to boost hispanic hiring. Booth said the percentage of his panics on the Force Nai risen to 18 percent from 10.7 percent in 1980. He said hispanics Advance As quickly As other officers but their presence in higher ranks was bound to be lower because it lakes time to Csc in rank. 727 jetliner belly lands after Landing gear jams Grapevine Texas api an american airlines 727 jetliner was forced to make an emergency belly land ing wednesday Al Dallas fort Worth International air port when ils main Landing gear jammed officials said. Passengers evacuated the aircraft on an emerged one person Hows Hurt receiving an ankle injury. Holard said flight us. Carrying 81 a Gera and seven Crew members was due at 9 . From Oklahoma City on a non Slop night when the Pilot could not gel the main Landing gear to descend
