European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday december 28, 198b the stars and stripes Page 7 Affer Chi Risemas bargain Hunters am stores by the associated press shoppers with visions of after Christmas sales danc ing in heir Heads jammed malls across inc nation monday is gifts were traded from California to new Jersey but Boston s famed bargain basement was t booming. The Day after Christmas is one of the biggest shop Ping Days of the year and this year retailers revealed in a Happy coincidence that gave most people inc Day off to return gifts and swarm around Sale tables. A s packed it la be taxed out  said Lora Dubbs manager of the 269-store galleria in the los Angeles suburb of Glendale. The mall s department stores opened two hours Early at 8 ., she said. In san Diego county dressing room lines were so Long at the Nordstrom s department store in the North county fair mall thai men look their bargain duds to the men s res Raam to try on. In Indiana stores were packed with shoppers looking for deals and returning gifts Hal weren t quite right. Returns increase at least tenfold the Day after christinas said Rod Rumrill manager of the Browns Burg k Mart. In Minnesota Consumers were Welcome to make returns with few questions asked said George Lite a spokesman for target stores in Minneapolis. Returned items ranged from clothing to Telephone answering machines Hile said. What happens with answering machines is people Realise nobody s calling them said Kite. We get a lot  new Jersey shoppers lined up Early at stores to re turn Christmas gins and to take advantage of sales in the Posi Yule Side Rush. This is one of the biggest shopping Days of the year lied with  said Mary Kitsos assist ant mall manager at the bar gun mall in Paramus. In Michigan Consumers looking for a better fit kept some stores Busy. Those misfit gifts arc coming Back said Randy Padway manager at my incr s Thrifty acres in North Ville. Craty is How k Marl employee Lynn Herglund described the activity at a store in Kine Ford. Most people seemed to be sweeping up Holiday items at bargain prices Berglund said. Wrapping paper was. Most popular. But in Boston Cashiers at t in inc s basement looked a present for president elect or Joe Bush is pro need a Quail Pouch b acc Villa Texas chamber of Commerce president i Inry Medina on his arrival at Chase fit id Nas to Benjin a four a 1 Hunting und fishing vacation in lie 10,000-acre Lazy of ranch owned by his Friend will Parish it Houston investment banker. Disappointed when the expected crowds failed to materialize at the famed bargain Mecca by noon monday. I kind of look Forward to Ihm said Nelda Scott referring to the traditional Post Holiday shopping crowd to cart be fun if the customers Are  store clerks said that the confusion Over store hours monday May have contributed to the lesser turnout. A judge ruled Josl week against retailers who sought per Mission to open All Day monday. Although Silenc s and other stores around Boston s downtown crossing appeared quieter than Normal other shopping malls in Lite Region reported Good turn outs. The stores picked up around noon said Beth Chase a clerk at Bloomingdale s at the Chestnut Hill mall. I think a lot of people got up talc had Brunch and then went  but some store managers already had their minds on other Holiday happiness to sell. Valentine s Day goes up  said Joann Demilner manager of gala s hallmark in suburban Detroit. Ski or die was Only Hope after couple got lost Steamboat Springs. Colo. A a couple said they survived a snowy Naglit in Suh Cro tempera Tures on the 9,425-foot Rabbit ears pass by Cross country skiing All night. Mitchell Dion 32, and his wife Sydney 15, of san Pedro calif., were found in Good condition saturday nearly 24 hours Alicr leaving on what was supposed to be a three hour Cross country ski trip authorities said. It was either ski or die. That was the  Dion said from Routt memorial Hospital where he and his wife were admitted for observation and released. Dior said he suffered frostbite on a toe but that his wife was unharmed. Rescuers began looking for the couple after a rela Tive reported them missing Friday evening said Roll county sheriffs Deputy Dana Taylor. By morning about 30 people and a helicopter were involved in the search Taylor said. The helicopter Crew spotted the couple on Rabbit ears pass. Dion said he and his wife left on the ski trip shortly before noon Friday carrying two baked potatoes and a quart of water. We just wanted to get warmed up but. Ihen i Gol us completely lost to said. I did t think Hal kind of thing could happen to me. We gut so far away from where we intended to be that even the searchers could t find us. Once we realised that we just had to survive our fatigue went away and we never got tired or hungry after thac he said. The couple braved a snowstorm for several hours but the snowfall stopped about 3  Saturday. They figured put where they were with he help of the Moon Light Dion said. I he recognized a Canyon that a Puld Lead Ihm out but the route was and if ficus tone Dion said. Two die in fire documents reveal 57 dioxin warning on Tacoma ship Tacoma Wash. A p fire aboard a ship undergoing repairs lulled i to workers and sent two other people to the Hospital authorities said. Monday s fire was Slarich by a welder s spark in an elevator Shaft area authorities said. The men who died a Cre in inc hold of inc vessel the All alaskan which was being converted from an Oil drilling Rig to a fish processing ship said Larry Schau a fire department dispatcher about 30 Tacoma firefighters responded to the Blaze at pier 23, said Schatz. The Blaze caused no. Structural damage to the vessel fire officials said. The ship,1 owned by All alaskan sea foods had been scheduled to depart Jan. S. Tor Alaska. Newark . A documents from a . Company show that a West. German chemical manufacturer sent a series of Nicos in 19s7 10 its competitors around the world warning about the dangers of a byproduct in the Manu facture of certain herbicides. The then nameless byproduct eventually became known As dioxin. Dioxin. Has been linked to skin diseases liver damage birth defects and some forms of cancer dioxin was a component in agent Orange the herbicide which . Military forces sprayed Over the Jungles of Vietnam in the. 1960s. The confidential documents from the Diamond Shamrock co. Provided to the associated press show that the West German company . Mochringer. Sohn Learned about the dangers of the byproduct after an explosion in 1953 m its Hamburg Plant. According to the Diamond company documents Mochringer workers exposed to the explosion developed a severe skin condition known As chloral no and eventually suffered liver damage. The documents show the Weil Ger Man company was worried about he Long term effects of the contamination lore its Hamburg Plant Down and Rede signed ill production process to virtually eliminate dioxin from its product. Boch ringer also offered to help its competitors to do the  a lawyer involved in . Litigation Over herbicides provided the Diamond company documents to the a on Condi lion of anonymity. A lawsuit against Diamond Shamrock filed in Essex county Superior court in Newark claims that the company fraudulently withheld in formation about the dangers of dioxin from Ili employees and from the govern ment. The company then known As Diamond Alkali co., rebuilt its Newark Plant after a i960 explosion but made i talc change in its design despite Plant manager John Burton s recommendation that some of Lochri hgr s methods be adopted the company documents show. That Newark Piant which manufactured agent Orange and other herbicides was closed in i9fi9. Diamond officials referred questions about the taws Tiit and he documents so attorney George Mccurter of Newark. Diamond Shamrock which is based in Dallas is among a group of manufacturers of agent Orange Iha afire it to a s240 million settlement of a lawsuit brought by Vietnam veterans. The veterans claimed their exposure 10 agent Orange during the War caused cancer and other illnesses