European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 4, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday january 4,1989 stateside san Jose Gas leak spurs evacuation of 20 Homes san Jose Calif. A an ammonia Gas leak at a cold storage company forced evacuation of 20 Homes authorities said. Sabotage is suspected As the cause. A pipe ruptured shortly after noon monday at the modern ice & cold storage co. Fire officials evacuated nearby Homes while the pipe containing the very toxic Gas was repaired. Residents were allowed to return to their Homes by 3 . No injuries were reported fire department battalion chief Al Montez said. Montez said a Plant Engineer suspected the pipe had been tampered with because it was broken by pieces of flying Metal from a Pulley that had blown apart. He did t think an Accident could have caused that dam age Montez said. Bank robber flees leaving identifying papers behind Syracuse . A a Man who robbed a Bank left documents for his wife s car loan at the Teller s window police said. A Man walked into the key Bank in Syracuse and handed a Teller a note demanding that she put $100 Bills in an envelope. No weapon was displayed police said. After getting the Money he ran out leaving behind an envelope containing papers for a car loan in the name of Marcia Leonard. Police arrested Gary r. Leonard 34, of Syracuse after reviewing photographs from the Bank s Security cameras police said. Tiny town has big trouble nobody wants to Lead it Forsyth Iii. A no one seems to want dal Aupperle s Job As Village president. The situation has reached the Point where each of the nearly 400 households in this Macon county Community of 1,000 will soon receive instructions on How to get on the april 4 ballot for the Post of president or trustee. Aupperle 37, is completing a four year term and would like to be replaced. But no one has bothered to enter the race although the deadline for filing candidacy petitions is Only two weeks away. Aupperle asked Village clerk Cheryl Lehman to mail out the candidacy instructions after monday s Vil Lage Board meeting was cancelled for Lack of quorum. Aupperle who is senior vice president of the Magna Trust co s farm management department said he does t really want to give up  Post but other demands on his time Are increasing. Woman jumps 200 feet off Span and walks away new York a a 22-year-old woman was seen walking on a Beach minutes after she jumped More than 200 feet from the verrazano Narrows Ridge authorities said. Maria Bertoline jumped monday morning from the Bridge which connects Staten Island and Brooklyn and was taken to St. Vincent s medical Center with a possible broken spine said a police spokesman  o Donnell. She was listed in guarded condition Early tuesday with fractures and was under observation a nursing supervisor said. Housing authority police officers driving across the Bridge spotted a Nightgown Clad Bertoline on the oppo site Side of the Span but she had jumped by the time they turned the car around. About four or five minutes after she jumped we saw her walking along the Beach at fort Wadsworth officer Martin Mckeon said. We could t believe  the woman s father Joseph Bertoline said his daughter had been under treatment for depression an had Boyfriend  state Pilot project to pay health insurance for some Seattle not in a pioneering program that Congress is watched closely the state of Washington this week began providing medical insurance to work ers who cannot afford it. The state will pay up to 90 percent of the Cost of health insurance for selected families whose incomes Are less than double the poverty level. About 30,000 Washington Resi dents 4 percent of those with no medical insurance will be covered in the first five years and state officials Hope to expand the plan if it proves successful. As Congress prepares to debate proposals to help the 37 million americans who do not qualify for government assistance but have too Little Money to buy private health insurance officials in Washington and several other states say they can no longer wait for Federal help and Are going ahead on their own. We be decided that some of the states like ourselves Are going to Pioneer these projects and then share the information with other states said Washington gov. Booth Gard Ner. We re not waiting in this   James Mcdermott a Seattle Democrat who was a leading advocate of the plan when he was a state senator said it can help Bridge the Gap Between no insurance and the Federal programs now being debated in con Gress. State Legislatures Are the Laboratory of democracy said Mcdermott. If the states can get it rolling they can Point the Way for the Federal  the Washington Pilot project is fundamentally different from a Massachusetts plan that has attracted More Atten Tion. Where the Washington program puts most of the financial Burden on the state government the Massachusetts Law signed in april by gov. Michael Dukakis requires All employers of More than five people to provide at least half the Cost of their workers health insure Rance. Under the Massachusetts Law employers who do not comply will be required to pay up to $ 1,680 per employee per year into a state health insurance Pool. The program which is taking effect in phases now covers about 7,600 people. In Washington a family of four making $23,300 or less double the Federal government s poverty line would qualify for state subsidized coverage. Nearly half those who meet the requirements Are under age 25, according to state officials. Many Are children of working parents too poor Toby health insurance. In its first phase the coverage is being offered Only to families in two populous counties King and Spokane. Without the state subsidy private insurance would Cost a family of four about $250 a month. With it individuals will pay $7.50 to $38, depending on their income and family size and the state will pay the rest. The plan is expected to Cost $66 million in its first two years but state officials say it will reduce other costs in Thelong run. There is an expectation said Thomas Kobler the Washington program s director that if people come in to be treated for wellness shots and dietary advice in Stead of illness then your costs will be less in the Long  Christopher sister gets a kiss from Lovie Arlington at a Detroit candlelight Vigil in memory of 54 Chil Dren who were killed by gunfire in the City in 1988. According to Clemintine Barfield founder of save Vigil for innocents our sons and daughters sos Detroit led the country last year in the death by gunfire rate for youngsters below 16. She said 300 children were wounded by bullets. La s landmark ambassador hotel cashes in los Angeles a the 68-year old ambassador hotel a landmark where Charlie Chaplin once lived and where Robert Kennedy was assassinated checked out its last guest tuesday and closed its doors. Employees and visitors walked the nearly empty lobby monday As Christmas Deco rations were taken Down. People snapped pictures and swapped memories about the hotel which had once put up the likes of soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and actress Elizabeth Taylor but which has lost Money in recent years. Elvira Bell a maid met such stars As Taylor Lena Home Harry Belafonte Bing Crosby and Ray Charles during her 31 years at the hotel. She remembered How a party thrown by Singer Don to left pineapple juice in the Haf Iway. In those Days the music was so loud that it began to run you crazy said Bell 60, who la now try to collect unemployment payments. Now i miss it. I have dropped tears when i see those singers on to. They re getting so old and i wonder How about me " the hotel which sits on 23.5 acres of expansive greenery on Wilshire Boule Vard faces an Uncertain future said spokeswoman Margaret Burk. Two companies Are negotiating to buy it she said. The ambassador dramatically came into the National limelight when sen. Robert Kennedy was assassinated there on june 6, 1968. He was shot to death As he made his Way through the hotel s Kitchen toward a news conference moments after declaring Victory in califor Nia s democratic presidential primary. But the hotel had been a landmark for years before thanks in part to its famous Coconut Grove nightclub where such stars As Sammy Davis jr., Nat King Cole and Bob Hope performed. Khrushchev slept at the hotel and newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst entertained there