European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday september 29, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 mayor elected on 4th attempt Mosby to. At a school bus Driver was elected mayor of this tiny town after inc opponent who had lied him in three elections this year moved away. Thomas Lydford won Hie election tuesday night by an unofficial count of-25-5 Over Harold Hart Man. In contests this Spring and summer voters had split 17-17,20-20 and 34-14 Between the two. The Winner said turnout was Down this time because people got lir cd of going to the polls for the same race. I m glad it s Over and i m certainly pleased at the outcome said Lydford whose predecessor. Mayor Hatlie Mac Shelton is resigning be cause of health problems. Hartman Lydford s Only opponent sold his farm and moved this month to exc Casior Springs five Miles away. Although his name appeared on tuesday s ballot he would not have been eligible to serve had he won. The town Council would have had the authority to appoint a mayor. Stories about the town s troubles in getting a mayor were reported in newspapers from Washington state to Washington . It really put us on he map said  one Hosby s 280 residents. Whence or i say Mosby people say. That s the town that s trying to get the mayor " Lydford said he s eager to put the Campaign behind him and get on with City business such As organizing More social events for town youth. Of penalizes Morton Thi Okol for safety non compliance by Norman Black a military writer Washington the air Force dissatisfied with the Pace of safely improvements after a disastrous fire at a Morton Thi Okol inc. Plant has begun Docking the company a portion of contract payments for work on inc my missile the service and company said tues Day. The company was notified on aug. 30 that 15 per cent of each month s payment would be withheld said Cape. Kathi Blevins a spokeswoman for the air Force systems come. On sept. 6, the first Penally was applied and the air Force is now withholding $767,208 from the. Firm the spokeswoman said. We took this action because of Thi Okot s Lack of compliance with contract requirements in that the company has failed to ensure thai its employees follow operating procedures and that there has been a general deterioration of the housekeeping practices related to safely she added in a prepared statement. Morion Thi Okol holds two air Force contracts Call ing for production of first stage rocket motors for the huge my or peacekeeper nuclear ballistic mis Sile. One contract was awarded in fiscal 1985 and to tals $93.5 million and the second was awarded the following year and totals $144.3 million. Morton s manufacturing Plant 25 Miles West of Brignani City Utah was shaken by an explosion and tire on . 29. 1987, thai left five workers dead. The men were working in a special building known As a casting pit. Where solid rocket fuel is poured and set inside he rocket engine s Cylinder. The company was fined last March by the state of Utah for safety violations in connection with the Acci Dent. A i486 audit performed by the air Force after the Accident complained of marginal Industrial safely and fire Protection procedures at the Plant. The air Force declined tuesday to spell out in detail Why it was now penalizing the company by with holding contract payments suggest no Only that the firm had failed to meet inc requirements of an action plan it put together to ensure Safe operations after the fire. The air Force s prepared statement referred to deficiencies in operating  measurable improvements in safety and House keeping procedural compliance must be accomplished before reinstatement occurs the statement said. There is not a set Date for compliance. The length of time necessary to resolve deficiencies. Is dependent on Thi Okol s ability to effectively ensure employee compliance with operating  Rocky Raab a Thi Okol spokesman agreed tuesday the company had been informed contract payments were being withheld but said he could not discuss de tails of what prompted the move. We re working very closely with them and we expect to get Back in compliance with the contract before very Long but it has been a difficult process Raab said. The spokesman said he could not predict when the company would satisfy he air Force s concerns. Stolen plane crash lands after anti Reagan caper san Francisco al1 a Pilot crash landed a stolen plane in foggy Golden Gate Park after apparently drop Ping anti Reagan pamphlets on san Quentin prison authorities said i be got political news there s More people to vote for than just presidential candidates Michael Dukakis and George Bush the uninjured student Pilot. Allen Dale said As police took him into custody tuesday. Dale told the san Francisco Esami Crin an interview published in wednes Day s editions that he was a Vietnam combat Veteran who was troubled by Hal he called the Reagan administration s failure to determine the Fate of service personnel missing in Southeast Asia. Reagan and evidently Bush promised the families of the my As and pos that he would make it an a no. 1national priority to get remains and search for survivors Dale said in the Telephone interview from jail. Polite did not say whether Dale was licensed to Fly Solo. The 40-year-old san Francisco Manas arrested shortly after his Landing for investigation of stealing the single engine plane from Palo Alto Airport. He was carrying a Backpack filled with political pamphlets. It was material about wanting to get Reagan a Csc and  said police officer Barry Cooper. Some people said pamphlets had been tossed out Over the Haight Ashbury neighbourhood which the plane also buzzed but police could not confirm the reports the 1979 Rcd and White Bellanca Cit Avria had Nasty Nancy and other anti Reagan slogans Pailca on it. It was no damaged except for a Binl propeller said Cooper Federal aviation administration investigators examined inc plane and found that it had fuel in it and no apparent engine defects. It kind of Points to the fact he did it crashed it on purpose said Faa spokesman John Evans. Police set. Jerry Senkir said inc Pilot faced possible additional charges for carrying what authorities suspect was a false passport and for Landing in the Park. Scattered around the Landing site were leaflets tilled american revolution 1988." we inc Peoples of the army air corps a team arc arming to Demon Strate disapproval of the criminals in Washington and to save the planet Earth now " said the pamphlets. The tracts called for the impeachment of president Reagan Bush and a number of other political leaders. Dale was about Halfway Back to Haigh Ashbury on foot when officers Ina truck apprehended him running out of steam the Man s name is Quick Henry Quick id be precise but from inc looks of things Quick and his Pacific 462.1 Inch scale steam engine Are too slow for a poodle named fit. The occasion is the Finger lakes Lite steamers Kail meet in Marengo , where train enthusiasts maintain 1.5 mites of track. Price to be put on vet s pain from object left in him Nashville. Tenn. Dpi a Federal judge has been asked to place a Price on the pain suffered by world War ii Veteran who discovered 41 months after surgery thai doctors left a 13-Inch instrument in his stomach. Testimony began tuesday before . District judge Thomas Wisemanjr. In a $450,000 suit brought by Sam Sizemore 63, who underwent an operation at the veterans administration medical Center in Nash Ville in 1983 for an ulcer. The surgeons removed the ulcer but left behind in size More s stomach a 13-Inch-Long, a Inch wide stainless steel retractor used to protect his Abdomen during the opera Tion. It was removed in a second operation in 1986. The government acknowledges that the surgeons made the mistake and the question for Wiseman to decide in the non jury trial is How much Money to award size More for his discomfort Sizemore claims to have suffered from constipation haemorrhoids abdominal pain nausea stress Lack of Steep and weight loss while the instrument was in his stomach. Both sides called expert witnesses tuesday Thomas Farrar an emergency room physician at Edge Field Hospital testified on behalf of Sizemore saying that the retractor was free floating and would have produced pain each time it pressed against an Organ or the abdominal Wall. I think in would have been hard to move at All without feeling something wrong Farrar said. The government s expert Benton Adkins chief of surgery at general Hospital said the retractor actually was lodged in a pocket of the stomach where in Wouldhave been Able to shift Only slightly from Side to Side. Adkins said he has removed larger objects from patients who did not even know they were there. Size More said thai even though he had pain he was sent Home from he a Hospital is Days after inc operation with instructions to Lake aspirin. Size orc then made three trips to a Hospital. On the third trip an a Ray showed the metallic object in his stomach. Sizemore had claimed that in was revealed in an a Ray an hour after the a Hospital operation