European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday May 31, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 diver rescues Pilot offer plane crashes into Lake Oakland Ark. A a diving instructor on a tourist jammed Lake gave a real lesson in Rescue skills when he repeatedly plunged into 25 feet of water to save the Pilot of a Small plane that crashed minutes earlier. The army corps of engineers estimated that Day up to 165,000 people were on Bull Shoals Lake near the Missouri Border when the incident occurred sunday afternoon. Scores of them saw the single engine plane crash. The diving instructor John Van Der Voorn 42. With no gear other than a borrowed diving mask went Down three times before being Able to pull Mark Sec Mcyr 35, out of the cockpit of the plane. I teach a specially Rescue class Van Der Voorn said monday As he and his wife packed to return Home to Morton. Iii. I did exactly what i a passenger in the plane Mike Kuhn 33, of Sunset Hills mo., floated to the top after the crash but Sec Meyer who was unconscious was buckled into his scat Van Der porn said. Sec Meyer of finlon. Mo., was upgraded from Crit ical to stable condition monday according to a Nurs ing supervisor at Cox South Hospital in . Kuhn was also in stable condition the spokeswoman said. Van Der Voorn. Who was supervising about 25 Stu dents on a diving trip sponsored by his shop in ton said he was in a Cove ready to ski when the plane went Down about 300 Yards behind him. He said he heard a Boom and looked behind him just in time to see the plane plummet into the water. Van Der Voorn said he jumped into the ski boat and was at the crash site within two minutes. My wife and i Dove in he said. The first time 1 could t get Down because i had a wet suit on and i was too Van Der Voorn said. On the second dive i found the Man unconscious leaning he said the Man had a scat Cut around his Knees. Van Der porn said he got the Seatbelt off an thought an unidentified diver who had joined in the Rescue Effort was pulling Sec Mcyr to the surface. When i got to the top he said he did t have him that he could t hold his breath that Long so i went Back Down Van Der Voorn said. By then he said Sec Mcyr had settled Back into the got him and pulled him up the diver said. He said he immediately began giving Mouth to Mouth resuscitation. That diver happened to be at the right place at the right time said Rick Mcclosky chief of a sheriffs diving team that patrols the Lake. If it was t for him. The Man would have been dead at the guided tour coast guard cmdr. Frank Kushman gives British member of parliament Douglas Hock a tour of the Cutter bar anon at Miami Beach Fla. Hogg who is the chairman of the minister s group on the misuse of drugs in great Britain is inspecting drug inter diction facilities in the United slates. Buddhist Leader in Retreat reported to have aids Boulder Colo. A the Leader of an International Buddhist Community is in seclusion seeking guidance from the teachings of his 2.500-year-old religion amid reports he has aids and May have spread it among his followers. Church leaders refuse to confirm or deny the allegations swirling around Osco to Cadzin a Man from new Jersey who Rose to become the Leader of a Buddhist Community or reports that he refused to step Down. The 45-year-old father of four went last fall into religious Retreat a traditional Buddhist practice. Meditation he said is the Best tend in has been vague about the allegations but some buddhists in the 3,500-Membcr Var adhate Community have said he admitted in a tape played for them that he is suffering from acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Although the faults of myself and others arc the cause of this apparent con fusion this situation has provided a Means for purifying whatever negative Karma has been accumulated he was reported As saying in a Jan. 17 letter to his followers. Church officials say he is expected to remain in Retreat in the san Diego area at least through the end of the summer. To Cadzin is unavailable for comment but remains in touch with Church officials indirectly Martin Janowitz a Mem Ber of the Var adhate Board of directors in Halifax Nova Scotia said last week. Tenzin s followers arc Uncertain what the future holds As weeks and months go by without a word. One of them John Mcclellan. Said the group is split Between those who believe Endrin acted in a Way unfitting for a group like ours but nonetheless feel he has just made mistakes and those who think he has gone so far beyond any reasonable Standard of human behaviour that they can no longer practice under his born Thomas Rich to Cadzin was raised in Passaic . After dropping out of Fordham University he met Vidad Hara the venerable Choyam Trung a. In 1971 and became the tibetan Buddhist Leader s top student. Trung a established Var adhate at Boulder in the 1970s. Jobless Yale graduate kills Mother 3 others Springfield . A a Young Man described by neighbors As a Yale graduate frustrated by unemployment stabbed his Mother and three other people to death at his Home on memorial Day authorities said. Rolando Marcollo 23, was arrested by state police after a High Speed Chase that ended when the suspect left his car and jumped off a 40-foot Bridge in an attempt to elude capture said Union county prosecutor John . Two of the victims were Marcollo s Mother Anita Marcollo 51, and his brother Raymond 20, Stamler said at a news conference late monday. The other two were identified As Nelson Paiva 20, a family Friend from neighbouring Union and Mark Den Nis 36, a neighbor who attempted to Stop Paiva s slay ing. All four victims died of multiple Stab wounds. Another neighbor Richard Hartmann was in guarded condition at Overlook Hospital in Summit. Authorities said that neighbors at a Holiday Barbecue monday afternoon saw Marcollo chasing Paiva with a Large knife outside his White two Story Home in this suburban Community about 25 Miles West of new York City. Janice Bongiovanni who lives across the Street said she first thought it was a joke when she saw the Man who goes by the name of oily wrestling on the ground with other neighbourhood men. They were on the ground. I thought they were fool ing around until i saw a knife in his hand she was a 10-Inch knife it was like a she said Marcollo had Hartmann on the ground but the latter got away. The other Man apparently Dennis did not. Then oily ran into the House came out again opened the door of the car and said. What have 1 done what have i done " she said. Bongiovanni said he then drove away in his car while clutching a Brown garbage bag. Marcollo later abandoned the car and stole a Volks Wagen and took off heading West on route 22. The High Speed Chase took them 20 Miles to neigh Boring Somerset county before Marcello abandoned his car and jumped off a Highway Bridge Over the Lan in ton River. State troopers called reinforcements and eventually found the assailant exhausted under a stand of Trees at about 8 was described As the oldest son of a family of longtime Springfield residents originally from the said he had been depressed recently be cause after graduating from Yale with a business de Gree he had been Able to work Only a Short time in an internship with chemical Bank in new York before illness forced him to drop out. The nature of the illness was not immediately neighbor Steve Galluzzo said the whole family was very Low key and respectful think he was depressed he said. For a while he was at the top of his class in Yale but when he got out into the business world i Don t know what said Marcollo s Mother lived with her four sons in the same House for about 15 years. She said the Mother was a nurse at Newark University Hospital and that the father died about 10 years ago. Detroit Parish holds Street mass to protest closing Detroit a about 50 Mem Bers of a roman Catholic Parish held amass outside their shuttered Church while cars and trucks whizzed by but a spokesman for their archdiocese said their ceremony was just a stunt. They locked us out said Sandy Simun a member of Mother of our Saviour Church in Northwest Detroit for 14 years. We need our Mother of our Saviour was one of 30 Detroit parishes with dwindling congregations that were ordered closed by car Dinal Edmund Szoka earlier this year to save Money. The move sparked hot criticism from some catholics who argued that it was discriminatory to close inner City churches. The churches were told to close by june 30 and some have already done so. Mother of our Saviour had 57 Mem Ber families. Some members of Mother of our Saviour gathered sunday to protest the action with a service led by a priest from another Church. There should not have been a mass there said Jay Barman. A spokesman for the 1.5 million member archdiocese of Detroit. That Parish has a pastor and administrator who determined that there would be no further sacramental activity. It s regrettable that another priest decided to come and say mass he called the service a stunt to gain Media attention for protests against Szoka s decision to close the parishes. Simun 59, said he was willing to fight. We re going to have Church out Here until they jails he said. Church officials said the closings were needed because the City s Catholic population has fallen from 100,000 to fewer than 50,000
