European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday january 20,1990gm idling More workers to Cut Stock Detroit up a general motors corp. Has announced additional temporary shutdowns that will Albect More than 14,000 workers at five . Assembly plants. The action in late january and february is designed to trim stockpiles of unsold cars and trucks. The company said thursday that a its Buick City Plant in Flint Mich., will operate on single shifts during the weeks of Jan. 29 Ana feb. 5. The first shift of 2.000 workers will be idled during the first week and a second shift of 2,000 More workers will be off the following week said Julie Hamp. A spokeswoman for pm s Flint automotive division. Pm s Buick City Plant makes Buick la Sabre cars. A about 3,100 workers will be idled at pm s Linden. N.j., Plant during he weeks of Jan. 29 and feb. 5 to lower inventories of the Chevrolet bar Cotta and Corsica. The car maker announced previously that it would indefinitely Idle the second shift of 1,600 workers at that Plant effective feb. 26. A the closing at pm s Van Plant in lords own Ohio will be extended until feb. 5, affecting 2,500 workers. That Plant has been idled since late december to trim stocks of full size vans. A about 2.300 workers will be idled at pm s compact truck Plant in Shreveport. La., for the weeks of feb. 5 and 12. A the Lakewood a. Plant will be temporarily halted next week. About 2.200 workers will be idled said Sharon Hines of Gmys Chov Rolt Pontiac Canada division. Pm announced last september that its Lakewood Plant would be indefinitely shuttered this March. It makes full size Chevrolet cars As Well As the Buick estate Wagon. Production of a new Buick Wagon will be moved to pm s Willow run Plant in Ypsilanti Mich., after the Lakewood Plant is dosed. A about 4,000 workers at pm s Van Guys calif., Plant who have been on indefinite Layoff since dec. 22. Will remain idled next week As that facility prepares to build 1991 versions of the Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac firebird sport coupes. The company has already taken Steps to trim inventories. Pm car plants idled this week include its Fairfax Plant in Kansas City. Kan., and its b Plant in Lansing Mich. They arc slated to resume output next week. Pm truck plants now idled include those in Shreveport arid Baltimore As Well As in Flint and Pontiac a mom a 7-month-old Koala baby gives its mom Sydney a kiss at Miami s zoo thursday. Holding the pair is zookeeper Linda Owen wearing gloves to protect her from the marsupials Sharp Daws. The baby has been developing in us Mother s Pouch since june but will be carried piggyback for a month or two until it can go out on its of to Cut 5,000 workers in Seattle area Seattle apr the Boeing co. Plans to reduce its Seattle arca work Force by 5,000 people this year although the company has record orders for commercial jets with deliveries stretching into the next Century. Belter East West relations have cast doubt on the future of Boeing s defense business and fewer production workers Are needed on the company a 747-400 jumbo jets Boeing officials said thursday. Boeing wants to build a new wide body Jet the 777, but no orders have been announced and production Starl up is at least two years away. The aerospace giant said it Hopes to accomplish half the cuts through retirement and resignations. The announcement came about two months after Boeing and Union workers settled a 48-Day strike which was mainly Over wages and mandatory overtime. About 43,000 Scalle area Union workers were affected by the strike. Boeing was to give Layoff notices Friday to about 1.900 employees who might be among some 1,700 workers who will lose jobs starting March 20. The balance of the workers Are to be Laid off later in the year. Boeing has a backlog or orders for More than 1,700 commercial jets Worth about $85 billion. Last year it added 10,000 employees in the puget sound area and was so strapped for production workers on its 747-400 that it borrowed 600 machinists from Lockheed. That Start up and certification work has been completed and the extra workers arc no longer needed Boeing said. Delays and uncertainties on other projects especially defense work mean the lost jobs cannot be absorbed elsewhere in the company it said. About 1,400 of the 1,700 hourly employees to be Laid off arc at the company s Everett Plant North of Seattle where wide body 747s and 767s Are built. New procedure revives Man after 30 minutes under water Las vegas apr a Man trapped for 30 to 35 minutes under icy Waters thursday was revived with the Aid of a newly invented blood warming technique that doctors said brought him Back from almost certain death. Murray Brown who was plucked from Rushing Waters in a dramatic morning Rescue opened his eyes and moved his hands Only hours after being brought to University medical Center without a sign of brain function and a body temperature of 85 degrees. His condition was listed As critical but stable. Doctors credited a blood warming machine invented by a trauma surgeon at the Hospital with saving Brown. 38. The machine had previously been used Only on animals. A a it a nothing Short of sensational a said the machines inventor. Or. Larry gentilello. Quot the Rcw ing we achieved was a most trauma surgeons believe that at 32 degrees celsius 89 degrees fahrenheit a trauma victim is not gentilello said. A when this victim came in he was at 29.9 degrees 85 degrees and we brought him Brown was rescued after a passing police officer saw his overturned jeep in a ditch submerged in Rushing Waters fed by a Strong Winter storm. Firefighters righted the vehicle but As they tried to pull Brown from the water he slipped through the ropes and was washed downstream. Fire department capt. Perry Hortt jumped in the water and grabbed Brown in a scissor lock with his legs hanging on until both could be pulled from the water. At the Hospital the machine was used to Rcw brow no a blood without the use of anti coagulants. That was vital gentilello said because Brown suffered internal injuries and almost certainly would have bled to death if a cardiac bypass machine normally used to Reward blood in hypothermia victims had been employed. Anti coagulants Are used with the bypass machine. Quot in the. Absence of this technique with his Outlook As bad As it was we probably would not have been very persistent in our efforts to resuscitate him Quot said or. Barry Fisher the hospitals chief of surgery. Quot clearly this saved his . The machine a which takes blood from a victim rewards it and replaces it through an artery a raised Brown s blood temperature from 85 degrees to 94 degrees in a Little More than an hour. Stateside Sauna seeking partner rescued from Volcano vent Volcano. Hawaii Dpi a a naked tourist trying to take a natural a Sauna Quot had to be rescued when he fell Down a steam vent near the Crater of the Kilauea Volcano a Park Ranger said thursday. William Goidell 28, of new York was partying with friends at a Home in the town of Volcano. About 2 30 . Monday the group decided to take a Sauna at one of Many steam vents in the steaming Bluffs area Ranger Jon Erickson of Hawaii volcanoes National Parks. Goidell who removed his clothes lost his footing at a vent near the Kilauea s North rim and fell into the Hole Erickson said. The tourist landed on a ledge about 25 feet below the rim. The victim s friends tried several limes to Rescue him by tying towels together in a makeshift rope. They finally went to a fire station at nearby Kilauea military Camp for help and Park rangers were called. Rangers Rappel led Down to the Man and lifted him up to the surface Erickson said. Goidell was treated for numerous cuts and bruises at the Camp and offenders knit away their debt to Mich society Marquette Mich. Apr Needles arc the newest criminal sentence in Marquette county. A few people convicted of misdemeanours have been handed knitting Needles and told to knit and Purl away their debt to society. A i Tell them this is a Way to help make up for their crimes Quot said District judge Patricia Micklow. With yarn donated by a Church six offenders arc knitting afghans hats scarves mittens and the like for the needy. A these arc things i can use said sister Johnice Borer a franciscan nun assigned to the Marquette Catholic diocese outreach office that is distributing the knitted argument ends in murder conviction Ballston spa . Apr a Man who went into a rage after another customer berated a waitress about a cheeseburger served without lettuce and tomatoes has been found guilty of murdering the complaining customer. A jury deliberated five hours before finding Ronald j. Longo 45, of Saratoga Springs guilty of second degree murder. Longo argued he was acting in self defense when he stabbed William Mcentire 27, of Weatherford Texas during an argument nov. 5,1988. Witnesses testified they heard Longo threaten Mcentire after the argument at the spa City diner Over men Tirck a treatment of a waitress. Longo was ordered out of the restaurant and was waiting for Mcentire. He pulled out a knife during a fight outside the diner in Saratoga Springs according to testimony. Mcentire was working on a construction project in the upstate new York Community. Longo was sent to the Saratoga county correctional facility where he has been held since turning himself in after the incident. Sentencing is scheduled for feb. 8
