European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday Nav Amber 4, 1988 Christmas gift from Nova Scotia the City of Boston got an Early Christmas rift from Nova Scotia a i Pulitic 4-ton Spruce. Cables lower the Tow ring or into place at the Prudential Center Plaza. The Spruce which the City plans to decorate with 17,000 bulbs will be the Centrepiece of my official lighting ceremony dec. 3, featuring bras bands and Carlers to Mark the beginning of the Nunter Holiday season. S. Francisco voters to decide on Home for Wii battleship san Francisco a voters next week will Settle a four year  Over whether the City should open its Golden Gate to the historic battleship Missouri on which Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur accepted Japan s surrender in world War ii. Supporters led by former mayor Dianne Frinstein believe that serving As the Home port for the 58,000-ton ship will bring san Francisco at least 5,000 new jobs increase City revenues and re vitalize the waterfront. Opponents led by mayor Art Agnos argue that it could Cost the a Cicil plagued City millions while generating unwanted and possibly hazardous environmental consequences. Environmentalists fear  extensive port dredging to accommodate the ship could stir up deadly toxic wastes. Anti nuclear activists charge the mis Souri s weaponry would increase the likelihood of a nuclear Accident and Gay rights advocates oppose the Navy s Hir ing practices. Agnos placed measure r on the ballot requiring the Federal government to foot the Bill for keeping the Missouri at the old shipyard at Hunters Point. Ii also would require that 351 prom ised new jobs go to san franciscans under Union contracts. But Feinstein who originally pro posed he City As the Missouri s Home port in Early 1985, disagrees. It s a Good Deal to the City for an up front invest ment of 12 million the City brings in $200 million a year in ship repair pay Roll and services she said. Supporter of fins twin s plan have placed a rival measure s on the ballot instructing the City to  s non binding 1987 agreement with the Navy to improve port facilities and requiring the City to process and approve All actions necessary to carry out the agreement including the allocation ofs2 million to pay for dredging. She and her allies fear thai if approved measure r would Send the Navy elsewhere. Indeed Navy Secretary William l. Ball Iii has rejected Agnos terms saying there is no Way in which the Navy could proceed with the Missouri Home porting were such a plan adopted by the  but Agnos has said the City u serious about wanting the Navy. In a Way that works for san. Francisco. The current plan works Only for the Navy he called Feinstein s agreement a one sided sweetheart Deal. That does t guarantee one Job for san fran Cisco and does t guarantee one Dollar for san  Feinstein counters that Agnos in philosophically opposed to Basing the Missouri in san Francisco despite Public Opin Ion polls showing a majority of residents favouring the plan. A Public vote is the Only Way to get the plan Buck on course said Feinstein adding when 1 left office i thought it  of us who Are native san franciscans want to do our share we want to do our part to provide a Strong defense she said. This is not a patriotic Issue insisted Agnos. It s not a Good business Deal for the local taxpayer who is being asked to foot the  police trainee Dies 5 we is after collapsing Boston a a police recruit who collapsed from heal stroke and dehydration sept. 19 on the first Day of Boot Camp like training at an Academy in Agawam has died officials said thursday. Timothy a Shepard 25, of pills fiend died late wednesday said Susan Ruth a spokeswoman for presbyterian University Hospital in Pittsburgh. At the family s request the Hospital withheld word of his death until thursday. The cause of death awaited a Coroner s report Ruth said. Shepard was the sickest of the 16 cadets in a class of 50 who were hospitalized with exhaustion and dehydration following a grueling regimen of push  confusion drills and punishment laps under the direction of state police Drill instructors. Ten other cadets also suffered kidney ailments. Attorney general James Shannon thursday called for an inquest into Shepard s death saying the family is entitled to a full explanation. The pills Field police department recruit had lapsed Back into a coma and underwent surgery for a blood clot on the brain monday five weeks after undergoing a liver transplant. Published r pulls Cathy strip puts pro Bush and in Cornice Cullman Ala. A a newspaper owner dropped the comic strip Cathy for criticizing George flush and replaced it thursday with a pro Bush and. Bob Bryan publisher and owner of the Cullman times fld the Athens news courier said wednesday he would pay for the advertisement on the comics Page.  Bryan said he just took the panel Cut that would have been Cathy and right where Cathy has been put in big Type vote for Bush after thursday he said he will replace Cathy with another sri p. The popular comic strip about a single working woman has been running Politi Cally Flavoured episodes for More than a week in them a Friend of Cathy s is. Depicted strongly criticizing the Reagan Bush administration. Several newspapers pulled install ments of the strip and at least one other newspaper said last week that it was can celing Cathy altogether. Bryan said he believes the comic strip is no place for a political message. "1 would t have wanted the cartoonist or Syndicate to endorse Bush in the paper he said. -.-. Cathy creator Cathy Guise with said last week that it was in keeping with the strip to comment on women s issues that Are at stake in this  Alan Mcd Crmoil managing editor for Universal press Syndicate said Bryan had called to cancel  he said 30 to 40 other representatives of newspapers have contacted the Kan Sas City based Syndicate in the last two weeks to express concern about the comic strip s political turn. Doctors warn of worm eggs lurking in sushi and a shirt Boston a raw or under cooked fish such As sushi can cause a serious intestinal illness often mistaken for appendicitis doctors warned thursday. The disease Ani Sakiakis is caused by eating fish infested with larvae of Worms known As an Sakis Marina. Cooking kills the Worms. The doctors said about 50 cases of Anis Karasis have been reported in the United Stales but this May be the up of the . James h. Mckerrow and Judy Sakanai of the University of califor Nia san Francisco and Thomas  , food and drug administration described the infection in a letter in thursday s new England journal of Medicine. The doctors said the emergence of the disease was partly due to the cur rent popularity of sushi and a Simiand lightly cooked fish Salmon and Pacific snapper Are most commonly implicated in causing the disease. Another Factor they said is the in creasing number of seals sea Lions and other Marine mammals that har Bor the parasites in their stomachs. The animals expel worm eggs in  which Are then eaten by other sea creatures including  who cat Wormy fish some limes cough up live Worms or feel the worm in their throats a condition known As tingling Throat syndrome.". In More serious cases the Worms Burrow into the Wall of the stomach or the intestines. They Are removed by a lube that is pushed into the i. Ges Jve system. .