European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday september 26,1988 beaux am Sajle Union station has undergone $160 million North of renovation in the Poisl two Yean. Washington s Union station reopening after restoration Washington Cap the Vermont Marble floor is polished fresh Gold Leaf highlights the vaulted ceiling and the massive mahogany doors arc in place. The capital s 80-year-old Union Sta Tion is about to become a Railroad terminal again. A station with boutiques to be sure but also a place from which one can catch a train. After a two year. 1160 million restoration the beaux arts style edifice reopens thursday. Once a Pride of inc capital the station fell on hard times As Railroad travel gave Way to Auto mobiles and air planes. The decline was accelerated by government mismanagement bureaucratic squabbling and neglect. An earlier j48 million redevelopment project occurred under president Nixon an Effort to trans form the station into a National visitors Center for the nation s Bicentennial. 11 was a bust. Tourists did t go there. Parking was scarce. Shops and restaurants were a Patron in cry. Two years later inc doors dosed. By 1981. Toadstools sprouted in the dust on the floor water dripped from the ceiling and con Gress approved the Union station redevelopment act calling on the private sector rather than the government to manage anti her restoration of the station. This Lime the government officials and private developers have High expectations. It s a dream coming to  said Jack Tram a senior vice president of Lasalle partners ltd., who supervised the project s construction. I m an architect by training and a taxpayer by necessity. This is a Beautiful restoration thai also lakes a building with a spotted past off the taxpayers  the redevelopment team Lasalle a National real estate company Williams Jackson Ewing a retail Developer and leaser and architect Benjamin Thompson & associates of Boston closely adhered to Daniel Hudson Burn Nam s original designs of the station. But they added retail space expected to produce is million in annual rent and eventual profits for the Federal government. Upscale stores such As Ann Taylor Brookstone Benetton signal the limited and Putumayo will fill same of the 210,000 Square feet of mahogany arid Glass space that line inc newly created shop Ping concourse on inc station s upper level and the East Hall on the main level. The new York based restaurant America and Denver s Rattlesnake club arc two of the main Eal erics in the head House. While and multicoloured tiled food stalls and a nine screen 2,000-scat movie theater occupy inc lower level s metro concourse. In the Center of the head House sits a to Ieval Kiosk with a cafe above and an information Booth below. Jonathan Bortz a Lasalle vice president envisions the Kiosk As a meeting place similar to the Oyster bar at new York s grand Central station. For the station s main purpose transportation Amtrak will have 22 ticket counters a baggage Carousel and electronic arrival and departure signs As Well As the use of a 1,300-car parking garage. Developers believe that with an estimated 8,400 Amtrak passengers  Melro subway Ridera and countless visitors from nearby Capitol Hill and elsewhere the station s stores and restaurants can l help bul succeed. Bul some have expressed doubts about immedi ate Success citing the building s history of failure and the surrounding neighbourhood s slow development. Nevertheless the station plans a gala opening with a Black lie dinner daytime fireworks a bal Loon and confetti drop parades and the scream of a whistle from a Coal powered steam engine. Cor crash kills Canadian flier 2 Hurt Rector a. A a member of inc snowbirds Canada s precision military acrobatic team was killed saturday and two Oiher team members were injured in a one car crash police said. Capt. Wesley a. Mackay. 28, of Alberta was killed when his car went out of control around 1 . Sat urday on a private driveway owned by rolling Rock farms said police spokeswoman Lely Vella. A front scat passenger Cape. Paul Giles 28, of qua a Ontario was in critical condition at presbyterian University Hospital in Pittsburgh with massive inter Nal injuries facial fractures and head injuries a Nurs ing supervisor said. A passenger in inc Back scat Cape. Kenneth l. Rne 31, of Toronto was taken to Lair Obj area Hospital for treat ment of a broken leg a broken Cla Vical Mulsand abrasions. The three were travelling Down a driveway at the exclusive estate in the Southeastern suburb of Pitts Burgh when Macclay failed to negotiate a left hand curve Vella said. The car struck a Large tree spun around and struck a second tree broadside she said. All three were wearing seat belts she said. The men Are members of the Canadian forces 431st air demonstration so. Also known As the snowbirds they were to perform saturday and sunday at the Westmoreland county air show. Stateside 1 gang member killed 1 Hurt by shots into car los Angeles up a member of a Kane was killed and another was wounded by shots fired into heir car saturday hours after two teen age boys were wounded in an apparently random freeway shooting authorities said. The shootings occurred two Days after three people including an off duty los Angeles police officer and his 3-year-old son were injured in to other incidents of Roadway violence. In the latest attack Erie Peterson 25, was shot in the Chest and died As he Rode in lie front passenger scat of a car driven by a Man identified Only As Artie a sheriffs Deputy Delta Roberts said. The Driver escaped injury bul the other passenger lament Harris 13, of cos Angeles was wounded in the left shoulder Roberts said. Harris was listed in stable condition at Martin Luther King  med ical Center three hours after the 5 . Shooting. Estimated 70,000 fish killed by pollutants entering River Okeechobee Fla. A pollutants that were flushed into the Kissimmee River from its Banks after flood control gales were opened killed everything that was alive including an estimated 70,000 fish a state biologist said. The River had been swollen because of heavy Central Florida Rains. When flood control Gates were opened last week to reduce the water level upstream Pollut ants from the Banks became concentrated in the shrunken River depleting the oxygen Supply in a por Tion about 25 Miles Northwest of Here. Since the kill was reported water District officials said the Gates have been adjusted to prevent pollutant Laden water from moving farther downstream and kill ing More fish. About everything that was alive in t now Biolo Gist Steve Milter of he Florida game and fresh water fish commission said As he inspected inc damage. Sex sen. Mccarthy to run for president in 4 states Minneapolis a former democratic sen. Eugene Mccarthy has said hell appear on the novem Ber ballot in Minnesota Pennsylvania new Cray and Michigan As a candidate Tor president. Mccarthy 72, who was a serious challenger for the democratic nomination in 1963 and also ran for presi Dent in 1976, said he is running on a platform support ing the Star wars defense system protectionism and breaking inc two party system. Democrat Michael Dukakis and Republican George Bush Are avoiding issues that will affect America s la lure Mccarthy said in Pennsylvania and new Jersey Mccarthy is on inc Philadelphia based consumer party ticket. He is on the progressive party ticket in Minnesota and the Independent party ticket in Michigan said consumer party spokesman Darcy Richardson. Texan urges transit system to accept Federal Gas plan Austin. Texas up slate land commissioner Garry Mauro has urged mass transit systems across Texas 10 Lake advantage of a new Juji. I million Federal program to study alternate fuels such As natural Gas. We can use this fund to demonstrate the importance of natural Gas in cleaning up the Brown Clouds that hang Over most medium to Large . Cities said Mauro. The Federal fund is overseen by the . Depart ment of transportation s Urban mass transportation administration. Ii will cover capital costs for alternative fuels demonstration projects such As buses and equipment to convert vehicles from convention fuels to alternate fuels. The general land office which oversees More than 16,000 Oil and Gas Wells on slate owned lands Hai for inc past 1s months been promoting natural Gas As a vehicular fuel. Texas holds one third of the nation s 1,000 trillion cubic feet of natural Gas reserves