European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday August 18,1989 Tanker Captain company fined for Rhode Island spill stateside Providence. . A a Tanker Captain was overworked and distracted causing the Oil spill off Newport for which he and a shipping company have agreed to pay $510,000 in fines a prosecutor said. The Captain Jakovos Georgudis and Ballard ship Ping co. Each pleaded guilty wednesday to one Mise Meanor count of violating the Federal clean water act. Almost 300,000 Gallons of heating Oil flowed from the greek Tanker world Prodigy when it ran aground june 23 on Brinton reef at the Mouth of Narragansett Bay. Georgudis 43, of Athens Greece agreed to pay a $10.000 Fine to avoid prison and Ballard a Libnan company agreed to pay $500,000 to the state for environmental research and land acquisition. . District judge Ernest c. Torres set sentencing for sept. 15 but reserved the right to reject the pleas if a  investigation turned up other facts. . Attorney Lincoln Almond said Georgudis be came distracted and was also doing computations to double Check estimates of How Oil would have to be shifted for unloading. The ship at some Point should have taken a left  he said. Instead it ran straight onto the rocks. According to testimony at a . Coast guard hear ing Georgudis and a helmsman were on the Bridge at the time. A Harbor Pilot was preparing to Board the ship to guide it through Narragansett Bay. Georgudis could have faced one car in prison and he and Ballard each could have faced fines of twice the damages. Almond  Captain remained free on $50,000 bail but restricted to Rhode Island Massachusetts and new Yor City where the ship was repaired before it left for Greece late last  previously told gov. Edward d. Dir Etc and coast guard officials that he made a mistake by not steering the ship away from the reef and warning buoys and by not having a Harbor Pilot on  Captain also faces state charges of causing pollution and failing to have a Harbor Pilot on Board. I convicted of the state charges Georgudis could be sentenced to More than one year in prison and fined$20,000. State attorney general James o Neil has said he would not seek prison time. Claude Cote acting Legal counsel for the state department of environmental management said the state was negotiating a settlement Tor cleanup costs with Ballard. He said the Federal plea agreement would not Block stale Legal  said he decided the state should get the fines because it suffered More damage than the Federal  will pay $250,000 to an environmental Trust fund some of which Cote said would be used to develop better Oil containment booms for Ocean work. The remaining $250,000 would be used to help the stale acquire coastal property. Gun smoke s miss Kitty Dies after Long Battle with cancer Sacramento Calif. A Amanda Blake who played miss Kitty in Clevi Sion s Long running gun smoke series has died of cancer at age 60. Mercy general Hospital spokeswoman Jerri Ewen read a statement lat wednesday saying that Blake a Long time resident of the Sacramento area died wednesday evening. She said me Morial services were being planned.  one time two pack a Day smoker had undergone surgery for Oral cancer in 1977, and afterwards made appearances throughout the country on behalf of the american cancer society. In 1984, the society named her As the recipient of its annual courage award which president Reagan presented in the Oval office. Blake was born feb. 20, 1929, a Beverly Louise Encill in Buffalo. N.y., according to a biography prepared by lbs during the gun smoke series. She was educated in Buffalo n.y., Gainesville ga., and Claremon Calif where she moved with her parents in 1943. She made her dramatic debut As a 10-year-old in a school pageant in Buffalo and later studied acting at Buffalo s studio club. She signed a contract with mom while still in her teens and her first film role was in the 1950 film stars in my  Blake was at lbs when she heard that the successful gun smoke radio show was going to be made into a Tele vision Pilot. The first show was aired in 1955. I knew 1 had to have the part of Kitty so i hounded the producer until i got it she said in a 1971 interview. To do the gun smoke series Blake commuted by private plane from her Home near Phoenix Ariz. Blake left gun smoke in 1974 after 19  a 1984 interview with the los Angeles times she said i was tired and it was time to go. It was the end of the Trail. The show Only lasted one More year with out ," set in Dodge City kan., in the late 1800s, starred James Arniss As marshal Matt Dillon Milburn Stone As Doc Adams and Blake As Kitty Russell the owner and operator of the Longbranch  was broadcast for 20 years longer actress Amanda Blake As the character miss Kilt in the Long run Ning to series  than any other series with continuing characters in the history of television according to the Complete directory to prime time network to  after gun smoke Blake worked Only sporadically usually in guest appearances for television game shows made for to movies and such series As Hart to Hart and love  her fifth marriage in april 1984, was to Mark Spaeth an Austin Texas City councilman and devel oper. They later  information on survivors was available. Investors concerns Spur firm to seek new name los Angeles a the company Calls itself huor Carbon co., but the Way investors Here reacting you d think it was called some thing else a pariah. Since the mid-1950s, the company has been making expensive custom seals gaskets bearings and the like from Teflon and related plastics materials known As fluorocarbons. But try telling that to investors who be heard about chlorofluorocarbons the compounds used in aerosols and refrigerants that arc believed to cat holes in Earth s protective Ozone layer. So the company has decided to ditch the name and let the Public pick the new one. Contest entries Are due by aug. 31. The win Ner should be announced by the end of septem Ber. The prize is 100 shares of fluorocarbon Stock which has been trading at about $16 a share. More than 1,600 letters have arrived at the company s Headquarters in Laguna Nigul con Taining 6,000 suggested names. Cities in Iowa Given of to set curfews for minors Des Moines Iowa a the Iowa supreme court has freed local governments to impose curfews on minors to fight drug abuse and crime. The court in a 5-4 ruling wednesday said a curfew is Only a minor infringement on the rights of children and parents. It upheld a curfew set in Panora that barred people under 18 from being out from 10 . To 5 . David Simmons then 15, had challenged the Panora curfew after he was caught skateboarding at 10 35 . He argued that curfews unconstitutionally interfere with family rights and violate his right to move about As he pleased. Dissenters in the ruling said the court was allowing fundamental rights to be trampled be cause of panic Over crime and drugs. Texas storms expected to hike prices for oysters Houston a shoppers who find oysters available this fall will Likely have to pay Premium prices and experts say two Stormy visitors named Allison and Chantal arc to blame. Experts say the Freshwater Runoff from Tropi Cal storm Allison Hurricane Chantal and other rainstorms that have flooded Southeast Texas killed 50 percent to 90 percent of Galveston Bay s Market size oysters. Oysters arc Happy with Small amounts of fresh water because it helps Chase away their Preda tors. But Large Freshwater flows into Galveston Bay cause salinity Levels to drop to hazardous Levels for the prime Oyster Beds. Because the Galveston Bay s oysters make Upa Large share of the commercial Market Consumers will Likely see increasing prices this fall and Winter. A gallon of shucked oysters typically Sells for $26, but you la probably Sec prices Way Way Over $30 this year Kiel Russell. Galveston county Marine advisory agent said. Kernels of truth spill cover of school vandals Cactus Texas a a Trail of Popcorn led authorities to four Young vandals who broke into a school last week trashed several rooms and tried to take the sting out of any future punishment by stealing the school s paddles. Along with other damages they spilled in popped Popcorn and that was their undoing sheriff Ted Montgomery said tuesday. Montgomery said a boy at Cactus elementary school inquired the Day before the burglary if there would be paddling during the upcoming school year. He was told yes there would be the sheriff said. Part of the things that were missing were All of the paddles in the  authorities later found Popcorn kernels around the Home of the boy who had popped the Corporal punishment  boys Case was referred to juvenile authorities