European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday March 21,1989 . Image has travel Industry worried Washington a travel Industry leaders a worried thai visitors who bring an estimated s2 billion a year in tourism and convention spending to Washington May Slart shunning the City because its distinction As the nation s Cap ital is being overshadowed by its image As inc nation s murder  we re very concerned about it said Muncur a can president of the washing ton hotel association. Some of the associations Are calling us and saying what going to happen to your City do we have to cancel another thing it might Ait act is the family traffic in the  a can said the hotel association is embarking on a major Public relations and advertising Effort to assure potential tourists that the District of Columbia is a Safe place to  of midday Friday. 113 people had been killed in the City so far this year Many the victim not of drug turf wars. The american Bankers association which is sponsoring two major meetings Here this year has contacted the Washington convention and visitors association to urge that action be taken to coun Ter negative National publicity. Leaders of the greater Washington Board of Trade a regional chamber of Commerce have begun studying the prob Lem a spokeswoman said. Federal drug tsar William j. Bennett has announced that the District May be a Laboratory for testing ways to attack the nation s drug problem. We re very encouraged with or. Ben Nett s announcement that hell make the City a Model for his program a can said. That s a very positive thing he  Bui some people in the travel business believe tourists will keep coming to he District of Columbia despite its flagging image. Thus far there s been no Impact on the tourism Industry said Marie tiber director of tourism at the convention and visitors association. She said tour ism went up 3 percent in 198ft, a year in which a record 372 homicides were committed. Washington is not going to gel Hurt Asfar As the tourism business even Hough its or Public relations is at the lowest ebb it s Ever been said Dan Bohan owner of Omega world travel which has 120 agencies nationwide. Most visitors Are coming to the capital for some specific reason they re either politically motivated or they re bringing school groups Orson Ching he said. Other cities problems gang wars and the High crime rate in los Angeles and riots in Miami have been More damaging to them but the National monuments and the Federal government s presence give the District of Columbia a special Appeal Bohan said. However Bohan said he docs Sec a trend in which Many tourists Are staying in hotels in the nearby suburbs of Virginia and Maryland rather than downtown. Stateside Disneyland ride leaves passengers in suspense Anaheim Calif. Up1 riders on the Skyway Aerial Gondola at Disneyland had to be individually removed from the dozens of suspended cars after a mechanical malfunction brought the popular ride to a halt officials  fire department ladder trucks were used to remove the scores of riders trapped in the four person. Gondolas some which stopped inside a Currul that passes through the theme Park s Matt Rhom Mountain authorities said no injuries were reported. Most americans believe in celestial Fate poll says. New York up most people in the United Stales say they believe in god and will go to heaven a Newsweek Magazine poll said saturday As christians prepare to celebrate easter on March 26. In a copyright poll to appear in the latest Newsweek the Mae ii the reported 94 percent of the . Population said they believe god exists and 77 percent said their chances of ending up i heaven Are Good or excellent the Magazine reported 58 percent said  in hell and Hal Only 6 percent said they Ihrk they have a Good or excellent Chance of going there. Singing Telegram Mission ends in disfigurement Pauhu Calif. A a singing Telegram enter Tainer getting Oul of a helicopter to Greet guests at a party lost two fingers to the chopper s Blade when she raised her hands to wave a sheriff s Deputy said. T hand Price 31, of Venice was in stable condition Al Urcla medical Center recovering from the Acci Dent in this oceanfront Colony said Shori frs Deputy Bill Wehner 1 Ricc was hired to entertain guests at a private is. Patrick ,. After Landing Al the location. Price got but of the helicopter and raised Bolh hands in Celebration we incr said she had two fingers on her left hand. Severed by the moving Rotor  the Pilot put Price Back into the helicopter and flew. To a Gas station parking lot across the Surcel from medical clinic where she was treated before being Lakin to. Urcla medical Center. Her severed fingers could not be found. Fingerprinting backfires on Security Job applicant Franklin. I i. Al a Man who called police for an appointment  fingerprinted for his new Security Job was arrested instead when officers spotted his name. On a list of people with outstanding felony warrants. Dana t. Myers showed up for his appointment and was surprised to say the least said police dispatcher. Bob  Justice Robert  Myers on a warrant from Alabama accusing him of a felony level in Chi additional details were unavailable a. Hearing was Sci for May. Myers 28, a former resident of Lake Charles la  lives , remained in the Venango county jail on saturday in lie ii of $5,000 Bond. The prototype of the v-22 Osprey the world s first production tilt Rotor aircraft hovers during a test night. Revolutionary copter plane tested successfully hailed As Milestone Arlington Texas a two pilots look a successful 15-Minutc lest flight  a prototype of a revolutionary aircraft designed to perform like both a helicopter and an air plane officials said. The v-22 Osprey the world s first production lilt Rotor aircraft remained in helicopter Mode throughout inc flight according to officials of Bell Boeing of fort Worth a consortium of two com panics that built the Craft Bell Boeing officials described tests in aircraft Mode. As a Milestone soon to be  the v-22 Osprey performed Boih a slow taxi liftoff and a vertical Takeoff during the. Landmark Maneu vers and made conventional Nin on landings the officials said. Its lop Speed during the tests was limited to 20 knots less than 25 Mph. " the aircraft combines the operational capabilities of. A helicopter with those of a fixed wind Turboprop. With its engines and prop rotors vertical the v-22 lakes off hovers and lands like a helicopter. With its prop rotors in Forward position the Osprey would become a fast fuel efficient High Altitude Turbo prop air plane capable of reaching speeds of More than 345 Mph. The president of Boeing helicopters Don Chesnul said the Osprey gives he . Military the ability to develop new missions and ladies.". Family suit claims funeral disastrous fort Lauderdale. Fla. A a family has sued a funeral Home for Al million claiming thai a damaged. Casket allowed. Mourners. To. See the de ceased s foot and a cemetery employee interrupted the funeral to demand that the rabbi move his car. Atlo this happened at the funeral of Pauline Rosin Thal last year family members said Iii a lawsuit filed in a Froward county circuit court last week. Her husband. Arthur Rosenthal and her two Daugh ters and their families Are  damages from menorah gardens and funeral chapels for pulling them through an emotional ordeal at the funeral in january 1988.   director Mark Weissman said through a representative that he knew nothing  lawsuit -. It was a terrible terrible thing said one of the dead woman s daughters Linda Zimmerman of Northbrook i. We Are looking Forward to our Day in court.". Zimmerman and other relatives declined to discuss details fisc Case on their attorney advice. The  the grave site was prepared in a Sloppy and unkempt manner chair were filthy and Rusty. And inc scaffolding. Was uneven. And covered with artificial carpet. This caused mourners  and stumble the lawsuit said. ". Pallbearers were supposed to carry the casket from a Hearse to the grave site. Instead the lawsuit said slovenly attired and unclean cemetery workers did so until family members insisted on completing the task themselves. V during the. Service a. Come cry worker demanded Hal the rabbi move his car from a designated parking area the lawsuit said when the rabbi continued with the service the employee wrapped a Chain around the bumper of the rabbi s car and a Backhoe or other piece of cavy equipment backed within close Range of the automobile h was claimed the casket slipped Asil was being placed in a vault and iwo lids popped open exposing the deceased woman s foot wild a while lag attached to it the Law suit said. ". The casket  Fil in  and the straps supporting the casket could not be removed without More -. Jan Goethe casket and prying in with Iron Bare it said. In june Arthur Rosenthal ordered a Tombstone and specified that it should not be placed atop his wife grave until nov. 8, for religious reasons. He and one of his daughters asked to see the grave Bur were told that the original Marker had been chewed up by a Lawn Mower the lawsuit said. .-.-. In september Rosenthal visited his wife s grave an found that her Headstone was on in contrary to his wishes