European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 5, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday april s. 1989 North s sex Deputy not on promotion list Washington a it. Col. Robert ear re buffed by the Senate for promotion last year because of questions about his role in the Iran Contra affair failed this year to win nomination from the Marine corps for advancement officials said monday. Earl 43, served As the Deputy to it. Col. Oliver North on the staff of the National Security Council from february 1986 to january 1987. North is on trial in . District court in Washington accused of concealing from Congress and former attorney general Edwin a Csc 111 his efforts on behalf of the Nicara Guan Contra guerrillas. Earl now a plans officer at the Marine corps com Bat development come in Quanico a has acknowledged that he was aware of the diversion of prof its from arms talks to Iran to support the Contra and said he helped North destroy records after the affair became Public. Last fall a Marine corps promotion Board selected Earl for advancement to the rank of colonel. The sen ate armed services committee however look the in. Usual step of refusing the promotion while allowing others on the Marine fist to go Forward. At the time. Sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., the chairman of the panel said he was troubled that the corps apparently had not considered Earl s activities at the White House when it reviewed his military record. On monday Mai. Ron Stokes a spokesman for the corps said that a list of 130 Marine lieutenant Colo Nels selected for advancement to colonel had been sent to the Senate two weeks ago and that Earl s name was not on the list. Slowdown eases inflation fears new York. A the . Economy continued to grow in March but at a significantly slower Pace than in the first two months of the year the nation s purchasing executives reported monday. The report is another sign that the nation s Economy is slowing Down casing fears of inflation caused by Loo rapid growth. Last week the Commerce depart ment reported that its Index of leading economic indicators fell in february by 0.3 percent. New House sales also fell that month by 9a percent it said. Virtually All indicators confirm the considerably subdued growth in the first Quarter and signal even More modest growth into the second Quarter said Robert j Bretz chairman of the National association of purchasing management. The group s purchasing managers Index declined to 50.4 percent in March Down sharply from 53 per cent in february. A Reading above 50 indicates that the Economy generally is expanding. Although the. March figure is the 32nd consecutive month the Index was above 50. It was the lowest read ing since july 1986, when it stood at 48 percent the group said. The figure s first Quarter average of 52.2 percent was the lowest quarterly average since the fourth Quarter of 1986, when it was 51 percent. Past experience indicates that if this average were to continue for the remainder of 1989, it would be consistent with real Gnu growth of about 2.5 per cent said Bretz director of materials management for Pitney Bowes inc. The Trade association is based in Tempe Ariz. Employment continued to decline for the second consecutive month after eight months of growth the Trade group said. Stateside county commission throws Rice throwing out window Oklahoma City a wedding Bells arc of bul Hose who get married in the okla homa county courthouse May no longer Cele brate Wilh Rice or Birdseed. Oklahoma county commissioners on monday voted to ban the throwing of i Birdseed con Fetti and other similar substances in and around the courthouse. Rice and Birdseed traditionally have been tossed at weddings As symbols of Fertility but the commissioners action apparently was not an Effort to limit population growth. Commissioner of. Buck Buchanan said the policy was enacted As a safety measure we be had people who have been Furt by sliding on Rice and so Forth he said. Self adhesive Stamps to go on Sale this summer Columbus Ohio a self adhesive Stamps arc expected to be on the Market this summer but , postal service officials say they la Slick to their search for the perfect lick and stick Seal. Postal officials said last week that they plan to Tret Market a stamp with a Peel off backing Ai part of their Effort to find out Why some Stamps stick and others Don t. The Columbus based bal Tell memorial Institute has been researching various Adoc sics since july under a 1700,000, 16-month contract with the Post office. It will be the second time Hie postal service has sold such sumps said Roxanne Symko spokeswoman for the . Postal service in Washington a similar attempt in the late 1970s failed be cause the adhesive did t last Long she said. Frieff found now who was Scarlett Hrit Clark Gable and Scarlett i attn Leigh in a tender scene from Scorie Avith Ilie  Charleston sic a although author Marga ret Mitchell always said the characters in gone with the wind were fictional a historian believes he has found a real life Model for the dashing Knelt Butler. E. Acc up Choc who writes books about treasure Hunting believes Butler was based in part on George Alfred Trenholm a Cha lesion businessman who was reputed to be the wealthiest Man in the South at the end of the civil War. There was nobody to match the stature of Rhett except Trenholm Spence said in an interview. In .1967, Spence president of Shipwreck Consul Tants on nearby Sullivan s Island recovered some Needles pins and buttons from inc blockade runner Georgiana which went Down in 1861 off the nearby Isle of Palms. The cargo had been consigned to a com Pany owned by Trenholm Spence said it seemed an unusual cargo until he read Mitchell s account of Butler shipping pins through the Union s wartime blockade to the Delight of Scarlett Thara. During a recent six month period of research on the novel Spence said he read about the Book and its author consulted diary Sand contacted family members. His conclusion Butler was a composite of Tren Holm Tran hot s son Fred and red Upshaw Milch Ell s first husband. Gone with the wind was published in 1936, 13years before Mitchell s death. It won the 1937 pulitzer Prie for fiction. The film adaptation in 1939 became the world s most popular movie. Here is some of the evidence Spence offers in sup port of his position Butler in the Book and Trenholm in real life had extensive banking shipping and Railroad interests. Both contributed to charities endowing hospitals and schools. Both were imprisoned at the end of the War by the Union army in an attempt to recover Confederate funds. In the novel Butler is mentioned As the owner of five blockade  had so ships. Several of Mitchell s relatives worked for Tren Horii while another relation was Alexander Stevens the vice president of the confederacy who would have had dealings with Trenholm. The detail in the novel about the pins and buttons and blockade running would not have readily been available from written documents at the. Time of Mitchell s research. He believes in came from family stories about Trenholm Trenholm s great granddaughter Ethel  of Charleston said there arc similarities Between butter and Trenholm in their business and politics. Bul she added the personalities Are quite different. George Trenholm was a terrific family Man and conservative in All his dealings she. Said. The unscrupulous Side of Rhell Butler does t ill my great  crossed wires plumbing found in 36 More Boeing jets Seattle a an additional 36 Boeing co. Planes have been found with crossed wiring or plumbing lines bring ing the total number of Boeing planes with that problem to 95, the Federal aviation administration said monday. The latest 36 All belong to foreign car pen. Kiro to quoted the Faa As say ing. The television station did not say which airlines the planes reportedly be longed 10, and Faa spokesmen were not immediately available monday night faulty wiring is suspected As a Possi ble cause of the Jan. 7 crash of a British midlands Boeing 737 in which 44 people died. The Faa ordered inspections of about 740 Boeing 737s, 747s, 757s and 767s produced since 1981 after the crash. Most foreign aviation agencies ordered their carriers to make similar inspections. As of March 10, the Faa had received reports of 59 Boeing planes with crossed wires Karo reported. The problems have been found Over the last year. The 36 planes either had crossed plumbing lines or wiring in the tire Emer gency system and most of the planes had been built since 1981, Karo reported. Boeing earlier confirmed that inc repeated wiring problems have prompted the company to Start an engineering study in an Effort to prevent crossed wires and pipes in All Boeing models. There would be changes in the plug Sand sockets so that for example an individual wire can Only go into a particular socket Boeing spokesman Craig Martin said earlier this year. Martin said the study to modify plugs and sockets was also in response to fire suppression wiring problems detected on 757s, As Well As problems noted on other aircraft. Pc said company executives were supervising studies 6y three engineering teams but it was not known when changes might be made or what the costs might be. Two main Ini wiring problems can occur in the engine and cargo fire warn ing and suppression system and could interfere with the lire extinguishing sys tem in  reported of the total 95 discrepancies 68 were " wiring problems the station reported. It said 24 planes had wiring problems in the engine fire warning and suppression systems and 44 planes were found to have cargo fire warning and suppression systems wiring problems the other 27 discrepancies were plumbing problems  767s.