European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday. December 22,1989 Lockheed workers watch Blackbird s flight into history stateside Burbank Calif. A thousands of Lockheed aircraft corp. Employees watched an sr-71 Blackbird Thunder overhead wednesday As the spy plane Lew toward retirement after nearly 25 years of top secret supersonic service. Among the Lockheed workers watching the flybys was Clarence Kelly Johnson 79, Lockheed s legend Ary aircraft designer. Johnson who is in poor health has been living at a undisclosed Hospital said Richard Sadler. A Lockheed spokesman. The Black Delta winged reconnaissance Jet which is heading for retirement under Pentagon cutbacks was first flown on dec. 22, 1964, said Bill Spaniel a lock heed spokesman. Spaniel declined to give further details about the Maiden flight saying that much information about the intelligence gathering aircraft remains classified. It was the first time Many people had seen the Black sophisticated aircraft even among Lockheed employees said Stadler who watched three flybys in Burbank from the roof of a Lockheed building. The sr-71 was developed to succeed the u-2 spy plane which came to symbolize the cold War after american Pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot Down in i960 during a reconnaissance flight High above the soviet Union. Like the u-2, the Blackbird was conceived by Engi neers working at Lockheed s advanced development projects a highly innovative program organized by Johnson that gained renown As the Skunk works. Blackbirds on reconnaissance flights were frequently targeted by ground to air missiles and Jet interceptors during the Vietnam War Lockheed officials said. But attempts to shoot Down blackbirds have All failed primarily because the Jet was Able to outrun its attackers at speeds three times faster than the Speed of sound and was Able to Fly at altitudes higher than 85,000 feet officials said. While Many of the sr-71 s exact capabilities have remained secret it has held several Speed and Altitude records for nearly a Quarter Century. One Public record held by a Blackbird was a 15,000 mile flight completed in Kij hours which works out to a Speed of about 1,429 Mph. The capability of radar infrared cameras and other intelligence gathering sensors aboard the sr-71 also is classified. However officials have acknowledged that the pictures produced by such equipment Are Sharp enough that one can read the numbers on a License plate photographed from 15 Miles away. Hunt agrees to $10 million Fine Washington up Nelson Bunker Hunt the Texas oilman accused of trying to Comer the Silver Market a decade ago agreed to pay a $10 million Fine and was barred from All commodity markets under a settlement announced , his brother Herbert and six other business men were accused by Federal regulators in 1985 of manipulating the Silver futures Market and the Price of Silver Bullion. Silver which sold for less than $ 11 an ounce in september 1979, soared to a record j50 an ounce in january 1980 but crashed two months later. The commodity futures trading commis Sion which regulates the futures Industry con tended Hunt and his con federates manipulate prices by buying Silver on Nelson Bunker Hunt the futures markets at the same time they were buying Bullion. During a 6v month period they bought 100 million ounces of Bullion. The collapse of the Silver Market marked the Start of hard financial times for Hunt and the rest of the Hunt family. In september 1988, Hunt filed for bankruptcy under chapter 11, which allows debtors to try to reorganize their operations. The settlement with the trading commission came one Day after a Federal judge issued an injunction that temporarily barred the commission from pursuing its complaint against Hunt. The commission said its settlement was announced in conjunction with settlements with the Justice department and the internal Revenue service. Under the settlement Hunt also consented without admitting or denying guilt to the panel s findings that he violated Laws against Price manipulation and agreed to an order not to violate those provisions. The trading commission has a si.5 million claim against Hunt in bankruptcy court. His obligation to pay the entire civil penalty is not discharged in bankruptcy but is payable Only from inheritances received by him and Only after his Multi million Dollar debts to the internal Revenue service have been paid the commission. Hunt s bankruptcy reorganization plan Calls for the bulk of his property to go to the government to pay tax claims. Much of the rest the commission said will be paid to people who claim they were Hurt by the manipulation of the  trading commission spokesman said there had been no settlement yet with Herbert Hunt. The Hunt Brothers Are the sons of . Hunt who built an Oil and real estate  in the 57-Page complain along with the Hunts were brazilian businessman Naji Robert Nahas,. Commodity brokers Swiss Bankers and invest ment firms and a company owned by two wealthy saudis but controlled by the  Hunts maintained they were seeking Only an honest profit. The collapse in Silver prices left them with More than $1.2 billion in debts according to an estimate made soon afterwards. Dads protest divorce court judge publishing names of deadbeats Philadelphia a a judge s new weapon inthe War against Deadbeat dads in divorce cases has led a fathers group to demand equal time against Mother who violate visitation rights. Family court judge Stephen Levin spent nearly$7,000 in court funds for a full Page and last week in the Philadelphia daily news listing 136 fathers and six mothers accused of ignoring Bench Warrantor More than a year mostly for failing to pay child support. He warned they would go to jail if they did not respond  delinquent fathers and two mothers did Al though they were angry about the unexpected and unwanted publicity. They said they were petrified angry humiliated and several told me they were even afraid to show their face on the Street Levin  mothers congratulated the judge for his innovative approach it irritated a group called fathers an children Equality which claims family court caters far too much to mothers and takes too Long to handle child visitation violations. The judge said he recognized the Validity of complaints Over visitation rights but said he was elated at the results of the  got an immediate response and we sent a Strong message to others delinquent in child support that if you Don t want your name in the paper you better pay up he  said he would also try to address the Visita Tion  is difficult to Deal with and sometimes fathers won t pay support because the mothers won let them see the children the judge said. And fathers Are resentful because courts Don move As swiftly to help them As they do for mothers seeking support. In the Middle unfortunately Are the kids and we Are there to make sure they Are taken care  about those 76 fathers and four mothers who have ignored the and i am going to gel sheriffs deputies to arrest them and i am going to put them in prison Levin said. Iam not  Disney world fire sends workers fleeing hurts 14 Orlando Fla. A a Smoky fire in a behind the scenes workshop at Walt Disney world sent 800 workers scrambling from the area and injured 14, none seriously authorities say. The fire wednesday was confined mostly to a craftsman s oven in a seven acre shop used by metalworkers and carpenters to build props and floats authorities said. The shop is not near tourist areas. Employees making a Model of a boat bumper had put a molding substance into the oven to soften it As they usually do and something ignited said Mickey shiver acting chief of the Reedy Creek fire department. Sand Lake Hospital spokeswoman Cindy Baker said the injured were treated for minor breathing problems. Temporary Home found for . S Bronze Bull new York up a massive Bronze bul that captured the hearts of Walt streetcars until he was carted off the streets outside the Newyork Stock Exchange was brought wednesday to his new temporary Home a lower Manhattan Park. The 16-foot-Long, ii foot High sculpture was delivered to Broad Street in the financial District thursday night and greeted by Wall Street workers As an Omen that the 90s will be As bul Lish As the last  the Exchange had the Bull removed and placed in storage in  commissioner Henry Stem said he called the Bull s creator italian bom sculpture Arturo Dimodica and asked the artist if he wanted to exhibit the metallic beast in Bowling Green Park at the South end of Broadway As part of the City s Art in the Parks program. Los Angeles to impose mandatory trash recycling los Angeles a the los Angele City Council has unanimously approved Manda tory trash separation and recycling in a $160million program to Cut in half the amount of garbage deposited in the City s rapidly filling handfuls. While about 1,000 . Cities have some kind of recycling program the los Angeles Effort will be among the nation s largest along with those in new York City and statewide in new Jersey. The plan will require All 720,000 single family households in the City to separate Glass and Plas tic bottles aluminium cans and newspaper int different containers for collection. The City eventually will sell reusable materials to re Cycle cars. The program is to be phased in Over three years with the first neighbourhoods required to participate by next september. Lost county owners find themselves in court Stewart a. A a couple had declared their acre of land to be without a county but a Federal judge says otherwise and now the face the inevitable a $1,200 Bill for Back  Tom and Brenda Norton still Haven t taken Down their hand painted sign that reads lost county. Pop. 2." the notions bought the land from mrs. Nor ton s Uncle in 1986 and paid property taxes to Jasper county. After they started a building for their family business Jasper county officials discovered the land was in Newton  filed a lawsuit in 1987. Norton refused to pay Newton county taxes on the land for the past three years because of the dispute. Now county officials say he owes$1,200. . District judge Robert l. Vining last wee granted the counties request to end the matter. Officials said an Independent Survey last Yea determined that the property was pah of new ton county in southwestern Georgia