European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday March 9,1989 air controllers score worst in drug tests report says stateside Washington a air traffic controllers were the largest single group of Federal employees 1o test positive for illegal drugs under the government s pro Gram of random testing a published report says. The Washington Post reported wednesday thai 203 Federal workers have tested positive out of the 30,307 employees tested so far in the random spot checking urinalysis program that translates into a rate of 0.7 percent. Among those testing positive were 60 air traffic con trollers Annj 42 employees in the nuclear and chemical weapons Security program the newspaper reported. The remaining 101 were in positions thai included Obs involving aviation safely enforcement of Drugas and rehabilitation of drug users. The overwhelming majority of those testing positive had used marijuana which can be detected in the urine As Long As two months after being smoked. Urine samples from 47 employees showed traces of cocaine which can remain in the body for three Days. Nobody has been caught who has his Finger Over the Button or even anybody directly in Contact with nuclear or chemical weapons said Paige Evrsole an army spokesperson. John a Wallace Iii special counsel to the assistant attorney general of the civil division said the real danger comes from inattention from an unsafe Condi Tion someone does t notice at a nuclear or chemical weapons site. When Job applicants and workers who were acting suspiciously Are included with workers caught up in random tests at least 49,751 people have been tested the Post said. The results it said reveal a drug use rate of 0.6 percent among reporting agencies. Hawaii seeks Federal assistance in wiping out marijuana Industry Honolulu a Hawaii wants the Federal government to provide millions of dollars to help eradicate inc stale s biggest Industry the cultivation of marijuana. Hawaii s marijuana Industry began As a backyard operation but in Only a few years mushroomed into inc largest Industry in Hawaii and one of the largest businesses in the entire nation state attorney Gener Al Warren Price said1 in in idler to William Bennett director of the office of National drag control policy. Hawaii s potent Maui Dowie and Kona Gold marijuana command about $3.800 a Pound on inc West coast and As much As 15,800 a Pound on the East coast authorities say. A a result the total Street value of the islands an Nual marijuana crop is potentially Over s10 billion according to a report prepared by Price s office Hawaii s tourist Industry provides an estimated j7 billion i the Economy followed by military spending at s3.5 billion. Significant Federal assistance will be necessary to eliminate Hawaii s marijuana Industry otherwise it will continue to flourish and be a main supplier of marijuana to the other stales1 Price said in the March 1 letter  Public monday. Price is proposing a new approach aimed at stopping the tons of marijuana being shipped out of Hawaii in Stead of  solely on locating and destroying . He also wants to try to prosecute inc growers instead of jus pulling up their plants. The eradication Effort in Hawaii now costs More than to Migliori a year but it apparently is not reducing much less eliminating the marijuana Industry the report said. Hawaii probably is he largest marijuana producing state in Thi nation despite being one of the smallest in geographic is Price said. Most  marijuana is grown in the rain forests of it began As a backyard operation but in Only a few years mushroomed in to the largest Industry in Hawaii. Warren Price Hawaii Island known As the big Island where combined eradication programs in 19s7 resulted in the destruction of 1.7 million plants compared to Les than 200,000 plants seized in California that year. Statewide 1.9 million plants were destroyed in Hawaii in 1987. Police estimate the plants destroyed in 1987 accounted for Only 20 percent of the marijuana sighted by officers making the total marijuana crop in excess of 8,5 million plants according to the report. Authorities say marijuana plants which can reach 14 feet in height produce a Pound or More of scalable marijuana each marijuana apparently is being shipped from Hawaii in numerous Small packages carried As Luggage by some of the 44,000 passengers who leave Hawaii each Day by air or mixed in with air cargo and mail moving daily through the five major airports according to the report. Price said he thinks a program of surveillance and prosecution of growers and interdiction at airports using dogs to detect the drug can reduce the flow of marijuana to the Mainland and dry up the Hawaii Industry. Birch society to move Headquarters to Wisconsin Appleton wis. A the John Birch society plans to move its Headquarters to this northeastern Wisconsin town but mayor Dorothy Johnson said she doubts it will give the Community an image problem. App Teton already is known for its links to the late sen. Joseph Mccarthy. Annual memorial services arc held at his Graves ii in town and a Large bust d pm is in the out Agamie county courthouse. The Tiv n also holds the annual Harry Houdini seance ii  of the famed magician who grew up in own. The conservative organization will close its head quarters in be Mont mass., and san Marino Calif.,and consolidate operations in Appleton beginning in july the group said in the March Issue of the John Birch society bulletin. The society is a conservative political organization that emphasizes fighting the spread of communism and reducing the size or . Government. In claim More than 10,000 members. Girl scout cookies Lead to lawyer s suspension Columba . A the slate supreme court has suspended a lawyer for a year for pocketing girl scout cookie proceeds belonging to  s troop. V Marlene t. Sips of Columbia a lobbyist with the South Carolina medical association has. Repaid the $1,819 she kept in 1986 for personal and family Busi Ness. The court issued a reprimand and announced the suspension monday. The court said sips conduct constituted a breach of Trust accompanied by fraud and involved Dishon esty deceit and  Sipes a graduate of the University of South Carolina Law school worked three years As a Law clerk and paralegal for the stale department of consumer affairs before going to work for the medical association last year. She did not return messages left at her office tues Day. Minuteman 111 missile launched successfully Vandenberk gab Calif. At1 the air Force Early tuesday launched an unarmed minute Ryan Iii missile which filled the night sky with Light As it streaked toward a missile Range 4,200 Miles away. The launch at 12 26 . Was the third of 13 launches scheduled for this year from this base to Miles Northwest of downtown los Angeles col. Richard Hill said. Everything looked Good he said. The intercontinental ballistic missile reached its tar get on the Kwajalein missile Range in the Marshall islands after a 30-minute flight. Hill said. The missile was launched by inc 91st strategic mis Sile Wing based at Minot af1 in North Dakota he said Winner of lottery cheated by death Valdosta co. A three new cars a used car three pairs of shoes a pair of pants and half a Racehorse were about All Jake Malham had time to buy with is million in Florida lottery winnings before he died. Malham. A liquor store and lounge owner died monday at age 53 of an apparent heart attack. Friends said he died a Happy Man. All that Money did t change Jake said re Springs a Friend of for 30 years. After he won the drawing he bought new cars for himself his Mother and his Girlfriend Joann Williamson. She said he bought a used car for his brother and inc pants and shoes for himself. Malham paid off the debts on his property and gave $1,000 each to six employees of the first slate Bank and Trust s Branch in Valdosta even after Malham won the scratch three lottery contest he continued to open his liquor store at 8 . Each Day and still lived in he Samc Mobile Home. Woman faces 5 Days out of this world Oracle Ariz. A when biologist Abigall Alling Steps inside an Airlock Shell begin is stay in what eventually will be a new world on Earth. Starting late wednesday ailing was scheduled to live for five Days inside a self contained environment a completely closed ecosystem Independent of the air water and nutrients of the planet. Her five Day slay in the module is a precursor to a two year stay in a larger and More Complex version of the Airlock or biosphere ii. Project spokeswoman Kathleen Dyhr said research ers Hope Alling s five Days in the Airlock will have no. Startling developments. In similar but Shorter experiments nothing dra Matic happened which is exactly what we wanted she said. Nothing unusual goes on and then that s   a 29-year-old design coordinator for the biosphere ii project will be monitoring and studying the various systems that control the environment inside the sealed 15,000-cubic-Fooi Structure made of Glass and steel. Project managers on  will be doing the  s heart and respiration rate and other vital signs also will be monitored during her five Day  will be breathing air that is apart from Earth. Water recycling will be apart from Earth this is really a Milestone ailing said. The nearly 2.5-Acrc, 7-million-cubic-foot biosphere ii is under construction. In september 1990, eight re searchers called biospheric is will be scaled inside for two years. The  will be to see whether humans can exist in a Complex and evolving but completely enclosed world biosphere ii will have seven separate environmental systems including a tropical rain Forest Marsh and desert. About 3,800 Plant and animal species Are being selected for the project. Learning How to do a  of stewardship of the Earth will be the big payoff of biosphere ii said Carl Hodges director of the University of Arizona environmental. Research Laboratory and a consultant on biosphere ii. Such global problems As air pollution acid rain and the greenhouse effect would be some of the issues studied he said. The $30 million biosphere ii project is being under taken by space biosphere ventures a private company funded largely by Texas oilman Edward p. Bass there have been 2tt years of unmanned studies and a three Day manned study in the test module