European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 08, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday May 8. 1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 Iowa headed for Mediterranean will sail until Winter with damaged furred Washington a the Bat Ltd ship Iowa will be returned to sea duty next month while its badly damaged no. 2 gun Turret is still awaiting re pairs defense officials said saturday. The officials who spoke on Condi Tion of anonymity said the Iowa would serve a Normal tour of four of six months in the Northern Atlantic and the Mediterranean before being re turned stateside fur repair of the Turret next Winter. Aside from the disabled Turret where an explosion killed 47 sailors during practice firing april 19, the ship is sound said one official. Don t forget he added she s still got two other turrets of three 16-Inch guns and a whole mess of cruise mis  in addition to their big guns the Iowa and its three sister ships the wis Consin the Missouri and the new Jer sey each carry 32 Tomahawk cruise missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads 1,500 Miles As Well As four 20mm anti missile guns and 16 har Poon missiles that can hit ships up to 60 Miles away. While declining As usual to specify dates of the Iowa s new tour officials said the ship Likely would leave its Home port at Norfolk naval base. A. Next month. The ship could use its two other tur rets As Well As other weapons systems if it became involved in hostilities but a moratorium against test firing the 16 Inch guns remains in effect until the Navy determines the cause of the Acci Dent the officials noted. The moratorium decreed by adm. Carlisle a. Ii. Trost chief of naval operations applies to the three other world War ii Cra battleships As Well As the Iowa. % the officials said the decision to re turn the Iowa to sea before repairing the no. 2 Turret at an estimated Cost of $15 million to $20 million was made to avoid disrupting Normal Fleet sched Ules As Well As shipyard schedules. To begin the repairs now they said would Force costly delays on work scheduled for other ships. By sending the Iowa to sea. With the damaged tur ret sealed the Navy will be better a Leto plan for the repair of the battleship including the determination of which shipyard is Best suited for the work. That also will enable officials to seek regular appropriations from Congress next fiscal year for the repairs rather than dipping into an already depleted discretionary account for the Atlantic Fleet they noted. After the explosion which occurred during a training exercise 330 Miles Northeast of puerto Rico the Navy said at first that it did not know whether it could find either the parts or the technicians to fix the guns which arc nearly 50 years old. Since then however chief defense department spokesman Dan Howard has said the Navy is satisfied the Job can be done. Memorial funds for challenger victim debated Concord . Not three years ago it would have been unthinkable for state rep. Marion Copenhaver to do what she did last month urge a cutoff of state Money for the Christa Mcauliffe planetarium a Monu ment to the Concord teacher killed in the explosion of the space shuttle challenger. Paying tribute to Mcauliffe the social studies teacher at Concord High school who was selected for the teacher in space program has been a lop priority Here since the Jan. 28,1986, explosion. But this year a tight budget has tempered the desire to Honor her memory with political reality. The House of representatives Cut $100,000 from the $500,000 that Civ. Judd Gregg had allotted to the planetarium s operations and the Senate will consider the expense later this month. Copenhaver wanted to go further divert the $400,000 in question from the planetarium to a dental program for poor children that had been Cut from the budget. I am convinced Christa Mcauliffe would be horrified if she were alive to think that a dental program was being eliminated while this project was being funded Copenhaver said. Most legislators believe that at least some Money will de allocated this year for the planetarium. The planetarium funding would have Zero Chance of passing if it did t have Christa s name said Arnie arc son a slate representative from Orford who would rather Sec the Money spent on textbooks. There arc other objections to the planetarium besides Money. The building is near a strip of crowded shopping malls in Concord and residents worry that it will mean More traffic. Christa Mcauliffe uses fur 1986 photograph. Walter n. Hawley director of the astronomy Center at St. Paul s school and chairman of the planetarium com Mission said the planetarium would be one of the coun try s most technologically sophisticated. Last week. Clinton w. Hatchitt a writer and producer at the Hayden planetarium in new York was named director of the planetarium which is scheduled to open in  the challenger explosion unwanted attention from hundreds of journalists made Concord residents bit Ter about their City s link with the disaster. People still talk about How camera Crews nosed their Way into memorial Church services and How journalists pressed distraught schoolchildren to answer questions. There was a bombardment of  recalled Marilyn Monahan president of the new Hampshire Edu cation association schools changed their names streets became Mcauliffe Highway. Everyone wanted a piece of doing  this atmosphere legislators allocated $2.5 million for the planetarium to cover construction costs. The financing now under debate would go toward operating costs. One sign that the City s wounds arc Healing is that Ste Ven Mcauliffe a Concord lawyer whose prominence has grown has come to be known As something besides the astronaut s widower. These Days he is More frequently mentioned in the context of a candidacy for state office. Although Mcauliff c still refuses to speak publicly about the disaster that took his wife s life he has been Active in state issues scr Ingon the Board of trustees of the univer sity of new Hampshire and campaigning for sen. Joseph r. Biden jr., d-dcl., in the last presidential primary. It was a dumb and sch of by confess of Honor dark and stormy1 author san Jose Calif. A the would be novels began badly and turned worse before their first sentences thudded to an end. But those were the winners of an annual writing contest intended As a laughable tribute to a once popular Vic Torian author of purple prose. The grand prize from nearly 10.000 terrible entries from around the world last week went to Ray c. Raincy of Indi Anapolis for this professor Frobisher could t believe he had missed seeing it for so Long it was after All right there under his nose but in All his years of research into the intricate and mysterious ways of the uni verse he had never noticed that the freckles on his upper lip just below and to the left of the nostril partially hidden until now by the hairy mole he had just removed a week before exactly matched the pattern of the stars in the pleiades Down to the angry red zit that had just popped up where he and his colleagues had Only today discovered an exploding  for his Effort Gainey gained a word processor confirming the computer age adage garbage in garbage  the 8th International Bulwer Lylton fiction contest sponsored by the san Jose state University English depart ment and founded by English professor Scott Rice seeks to Honor Edward George Bulwer Lytton. Rice describes Lytton As the author of some of victorian literature s most turgid prose perhaps most famous for the opening sentence to his novel Paul Clifford it was a dark and Stormy night. Here arc some of the deliberately bad winners in various categories detective fiction sol. Tom Katt was t 100 percent sure of anything but he knew something was t quite right when the factory Foreman told him that the night shift guard had fallen into a vat of baby Oil and softened to  Wayne d. Worthy Washington . Romance Jake liked his women the Way he liked his Kiwi fruit Sweet yet tart firm fleshed yet yielding to the touch and covered with Short Brown fuzzy  Gretchen Schmidt. Coral babies Fla. Historical " rumbling sch mumbling retorted bul Onius to his wife s alarm at the sounds coming from my. Vesuvius. That stupid Volcano Al ways makes noise and besides our insurance agent at Pompeii Mutual says that if it does erupt Well be covered " John l. Ashman Houston. Vile puns As Wilbur Long obsessed though unfamiliar with poin i list escorted his wife Kaly Inlo the modern Wing of the local Art museum he exclaimed jubilantly Kay. Seurat Sci ral to which she replied yawning by whatever Wilby Wilby " Matthew Kaslow Brooklyn . Western sheriff Blalock groped for his shooting Iron As the thought that he was up for re election crossed his mind because he was t going to let this Varmint get away with insulting miss Beulah s girls even if they did kind of resemble a string of horses that had been Rode hard and put away  Lucile r. Adding Lon Dallas. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. May 8, 1949 Ray Al Horton. The . Delegate to the United nations denied charges made by soviet Deputy foreign minister Andrei Gromyko that the United states had military bases in Spain for use in a War against the soviets. 30 years ago foday. May 8, 1959 a nato spokesman said the United states had concluded trea ties with the Netherlands West Germany. Greece and Turkey to Supply them with information on nuclear weapons. 20 years ago today. May 8, 1969 stating that hunger in America was intolerable president Nixon sent Congress a proposal for a new food Aid program which would in crease the number of food stamp recipients at a Cost of $ i billion a year. 10 years ago today. May 8, 1979 in response to the More than 65,000 anti nuclear protesters demonstrating outside the Capitol presi Dent Carter announced that an increased emphasis would be directed towards Al Ternate Energy sources