European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. October 24, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 Caf adoptions put on hold Guthrie okla a an animal welfare group says it i Stop cat adoptions until Aner Hal Loween because or the possibility that felines might be tortured Dur ing satanic rituals. Bill a Larson founder of the free to live animal Sanctuary said the Agency gets numerous requests to adopt Black cats this time or he year. He and other officials of the Sanctuary say icy have received several reports that Black cats arc targets for torture during halloween. We Are certain in goes on How much we Don t know Larson said. Officials applaud Wisconsin after $449 million refurbishing Pascagoula miss. A the battleship Wisconsin which received a nearly $449 million overhaul was re commissioned saturday us officials lauded the world War ii warship As a mighty defender. When the Wisconsin was originally commissioned in was the most powerful warship on the seas said rep. Les Aspin d-wis., chairman of the House armed services committee. With the new modern weapons sys tems that were ably installed Al Ingalls shipbuilding it is once again the Stan Dard for Blue water military strength around the  the Wisconsin will join three other world War ii battleships thai were modernized and returned to service inc Iowa new Jersey and Missouri. The Navy said the $448.8 million re fitting was a fraction of inc Cost of build ing such a ship from scratch. But Milwaukee mayor John o. Nor Quill who refused to attend the ceremony disagreed. The Navy Calls this ship a bargain but a half billion Dollar battleship is no bargain for Milwaukee and Wisconsin taxpayers Norquist said. He said it was incredible that taxpayers have been saddled so much to bring Back a ship that s mostly of nostalgic  the Wisconsin is so 7 feel Long 108 feet wide and displaces 38,000 ions. It will be based in Norfolk va., until construction is completed on a new naval base in Texas. It Wilt have a Crew ,600. Idaho returning radioactive waste to Colorado Blackfoot Idaho a a Box car filled with radioactive waste is being returned to the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons Plant in Colorado after gov. Cecil Andrus banned the temporary Stor age in Idaho of any new shipments. The Boxcar full of Low level nuclear waste had been in a rail Yard in Black foot the last Stop before a temporary waste storage facility at the . Depart ment of Energy s Idaho National Engi Neering Laboratory about 50 Miles Northwest of Here. More than 2 million cubic feet of Low level radioactive waste already is stored above ground at the Idaho lab awaiting Transfer to a permanent dump. The Boxcar will return to Rocky Flats and Well probably just leave in on our siding until we gel permission to ship in someplace else said Charles Bogard shift superintendent at Rocky Flats 16 Miles Northwest of Denver. The Boxcar left Blackfoot after it was inspected for safety by an environmental Engineer from the Idaho National Engi Neering Laboratory. Lab spokeswoman Penny Phelps said the decision was made late Friday by Energy department officials in Idaho Colorado and Washington. The move was delayed by the need to examine the potential Impact of Velum ing the waste to Rociy Flats she said. Andrus issued the order in an Effort to Force the Energy department to open the waste isolation Pilot Plant near car radioactive waste treatment system West Valley n.y., demonstration project q 600,000 q the liquid is Alwater is Gallons of littered through Day evaporated radioactive waste to remove High level from the hag already radioactive liquid separated into materials sludge and liquid in a storage tank q remaining liquid is mined with Cement and poured into Stool barrels with plastic. Liners the barrels Are sealed and transported la a storage Laci Llly on the Wesl Valley site the High level hbe9lnninb in 1992-radioactive sludge is the sludge and Day combined with the Clay mixture will be healed from the liquid filtering and formed into Glass process Chicago Tribune graphic by John Hanecek source . On payment d Neiny tie Glass will be poured into steel canisters and stored in a temporary on Sile facility i bad n.m., the nation s first permanent repository for defense generated Low level nuclear waste 11 was supposed to open this month but the opening has been postponed until Al least january. They have broken their word too Many times said Andrus who travelled to the new Mexico site last week. They cannot give us a  hopefully the opening of the wipp facility will be the final solution Rock Flats Bogard said saturday. We have about 90 Days capacity and space on the Plant site that s available where we could safely store  opening of the new Mexico Sile was pushed Back after Doe Engineer raised questions about inc safety of the proposed  Mexico gov. Garrey Cami hers said new Mexico communities will object to opening the site until Congress provide Money for Road bypasses and other improvements on the route to the  Idaho governor won an Assurance from Don Oft manager of the Idaho Laboratory on Friday that the Doe will observe his ban on All further shipment of waste into Idaho. The bulk of inc waste Al inc lab built up Over iwo decades has come from the Rocky Flats Plant. Other facilities also have been ordered to Stop shipping waste to the  said a westbound truckload of waste from the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois was turned Back at Little America wyo., after Federal officials were told it would be intercepted by stale police Al the Idaho , an ocl. 19 letter from sen. Tim Wirth d-colo., to Energy Secretary John Herrington indicated the Doe began assessing the storage situation Only after Andrus blockaded Idaho. Wirth in his Teller to Herrington again pressed for a list of contingency plans to Cope with the Andrus ban de Claring thai in his slate the situation has changed from urgent to  proposal would close Massachusetts atomic plants Boston not a proposal on the nov 8 Massachusetts ballot would ban generating electricity by commercial nuclear Power plans by Means which re sult in the production of nuclear waste after july 4, 1989. Passage of the proposal called ques Tion 4, would effectively close the state s iwo nuclear plans Pilgrim in plym Outh 35 Miles Southeast of Boston an Yankee Row in tic Rural Northwestern Corner of the state. The proposal is opposed by the state s utilities which have contributed More than j7 million to efforts aimed at defeating the Voler initiated referendum. Recent polls by Boston newspapers show inc referendum trailing and opponents say they Are encouraged by their own recent polling. The group backing the referendum Massachusetts citizens for Safe Energy complained that the utilities propaganda bombardment had drowned out the Safe Energy message. Supporters who Sec safety As a Pri Mary concern Point to Pilgrim s poo operating record since it was opened in 1972. Cited two years ago by inc nuclear regulatory commission As one of the worst run plants in the country it has been shut for 2vi  owner the Boston Edison co., has spent s200 million for extensive modifications and the arc is expected to per Mit it to reopen. Sands of time advocates of shutting Down the plants say that both Pilgrim and Yan Kee Rowe have outdated designs and that Pilgrim has an inadequate evacuation plan for area residents in Case of an emergency. Memorial to women Vietnam veterans of d Washington a Congress Friday voted final approval of a memorial honouring women who served in Viet during the nation s longest War. The measure approved by voice votes and sent to president Reagan expresses the sense of Congress thai the memorial be built Al the site of Ute Vietnam veterans memorial one of the City s most popular memorials but does t re quire that in be built at that site. The measure was a Compromise of ear Lier Bills which has disagreed on whether the new Monument should be at the site of the Vietnam memorial. Critics said Addi Tion of another statue would Hurt inc Artis tic integrity of inc memorial. The Vietnam women s memorial project proposes to Honor women Wilh statue of a nurse representing the Mili tary nurses from Vietnam. Recognition of the role of women during inc Vietnam conflict is Long Over due said sen. David Durenberger r minn., chief sponsor of the Senate ver Sion of inc measure. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Oct. 24,1948 Eleanor Roosevell Lold an audience in Stuttgart West Germany that Sovi Chism must not be permitted to fill the Gap left by fascist governments. 30 years ago foe a. Oct. 24, 19ss the last american combat troops new out of Lebanon a few hours after an announcement that All american Slaff and support forces would leave by oct. 30. 20 years ago today. Oct. 24, 1968 the . Olympic committee began investigating charges that americans competing in the olympic games in Mexico cily had. Accepted Cash in return for using a company s athletic equipment during Competition. T 0 years ago today. Oct. 24, 1978 the Dollar i All Lime lows in currency trading in foreign Exchange markets closing at i Boos Marks in Frankfurt