European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday August 15, 1989 the stars and stripes Pago 7 drawing a line on the record several thousand people mass in front of Macy s new York City store sunday intent on Helpin break the guinness Book of world records for the world s largest chorus line. The occasion was Macy s annual tap of mania. 2 plane crashes kill 7 people in Kansas off coast of Florida by the associated press seven people were killed sunday inthe crashes of two single engine planes one of the Florida coast and one in Kan Sas authorities said. A civil air patrol plane crashed into inc Gulf of Mexico during a training flight killing the Pilot and three teen age cadets. The plane went into the water three Miles off the southernmost Point of St. Petersburg Beach which is across to Cacicia Bay from St. Petersburg shortly after taking off from a Small St. Peters Burg Airport. David Vaughn of the coast guard set. Petersburg station said the coast guard sent a Cutler and a helicopter tothe scene hut All they found was debris. He said divers later found the wreck age in about 25 feel of water with the bodies of four people inside it. He said the cause of the crash was not immediately known. A crash near Mound City. Kan., killed St. Joseph mo., couple and their teen age granddaughter authorities said. The single engine plane crashed into a Field 51/ Miles North of Mound City at about i p.m., Jim Grayson a dispatcher for the Kansas Highway patrol said. The victims were identified As the Pilot James w. Worley 66 his wife Josephine. 57 and their granddaughter Angela j. Procella 16. Of Kirbyville Texas. Those killed in the Florida crash were identified As Pilot Wayne Mcnight 46and Cap cadets Shawn Kellcy 18 Joseph Flythe 17 and Damion Weber 14, said cmdr. Frank Sportell of the civil air patrol s Pinillas county Squadron. He said All victims were from inc St. Petersburg area. This was what is known As a civil air patrol Cadet orientation said Sportell. These Young people weren t familiar with flying and this was just to give them a Chance to get up in the air with a senior Pilot. They were not flying the  the civilian organization which helps search for downed aircraft often enlist Young people interested in aviation Ca Reers. Gas prices Tumble in . Los Angeles a the average Price of gasoline fell nearly 3 cents a Gal Ion at the  in the past three weeks a nationwide Survey found. The National average was 112.95 cents gallon on Friday 2.71 cents below the average on july 21, according to the Lundburg Survey. The average includes All grades self and full service and All taxes. A drop of this magnitude during Sucha Short period is something that motorists have nol seen since 1986," analyst Trilby Lundburg said sunday. The Survey of 13,000 gasoline stations found that prices per gallon at self serve pumps were regular unleaded 102.29 cents Premium unleaded 118.32 an regular leaded 102.64. Prices per gallon at full service  were regular unleaded 129.55 cents Premium unleaded 141.74 and regular leaded 129.25. Lundburg said refiners and  to forestall any Short age because of tight refining capacity and new vapor regulations on gasoline. As a result she said there is a abundance of Supply and a cleaner prod  controversial Nobel prize Winner Shockley Dies Stanford Calif. Not William Bradford Shockley who shared a Nobel prize in physics for his role in the development of the transistor and earned the enmity of Many for his views on the genetic differences Between the races died of prostate cancer at his Home on the Campus of Stanford University saturday at the age of 79. He was a professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Stanford and also lectured and wrote extensively. In 1947, he and two colleagues from Bell Telephone laboratories John Bardeen and Walter h. Brattain produced their first semiconductor device and in 1956 he shared the Nobel prize with them. The invention of the transistor became the basis for the electronic age. From it flowed virtually every one of the electronic devices installed in airliners and cars calculators and computers wrist watches and washing machines. Shockley left Bell laboratories in 1954 and founded a semiconductor company. A rebellion among his employees who set up their own companies began the phenomenon near Stanford University known As Sili con Valley. Shockley went on to lecture at Stanford in 1958 an served As Alexander m. Poniatoff professor of electrical engineering and applied sciences from 1963 to 1975. His accomplishments became clouded by controversy however because of his pronouncements on race. He preached a philosophy of retrogressive Evo  claiming intelligence was genetically transmitted he deemed Blacks genetically inferior to Whites and unable to achieve their intellectual  a corollary he suggested that Blacks were reproducing faster than Whites hence the retrogression in human evolution. His theory which few social scientists subscribe to. Set off a National argument Over the use and applicability of in tests. Evidence that Blacks ten to score lower than Whites was discounted by most experts who Sec the explanation in cultural and so Cial rather than genetic factors As Well As the com position of the tests themselves. Stanford University which announced the death late saturday said Shockley regarded his work on race More important than his discovery of the transistor. Quoting his wife the former emmy Lanning the announcement said he continued to sift Dat and prepare papers on it until a few Days before he died. In addition to his wife he is survived by three children from a previous marriage William Rich Ard and Alison Lanelli and one granddaughter. Arson blamed in fatal mass Rooming House fire Lynn mass. A arson caused a fire blamed for the deaths of three people in a Rooming House that had no fire escape and a substandard sprinkler system investigators said sunday. About 10 people representing local state and Federal investigative agencies most of whom had previously said they suspected arson met for two hours to discuss tuesday s fire at the Ben Crest Plaza Rooming House. The group reached a final conclusion that it was arson involving the use of an accelerant said Howard Whitehead assistant District attorney for Essex county. An accelerant is a substance such As gasoline used to accelerate a fire. He said it would take a week or More before the accelerant was identified. After the fire struck tenants Clad Only in their night clothes had to leap from windows to escape the flames. Some swung Down on ropes the management had provided As fire escapes. More than 19 tenants and rescuers were Hurt. Before the fire the City had filed a criminal complaint against the building owner Leo Allard for failing to install a sprinkler system covering each room a required by a 2-Ycar-old ordinance Whitehead said authorities had no suspects or possible motive in  Are two angles to this motive and Opportunity who was around at the time he said. Whitehead declined to provide further details such As where the fire might have begun saying he did t want to influence anyone who would be questioned. Some50 or 60 people including the Rooming House tenants have already been inter viewed. Authorities were still Hunting Tor two Rooming House residents who were seen around the time of the fire and Haven been seen since although they arc assumed to have escaped safely he said. Whitehead said a search dog trained to locate human remains failed to find any Trace of the missing men inside inc burned out building