European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 11, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday March 11, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7 fire Levels former Bakker parsonage Ray. . Apr the Hilltop mansion _ a a. The stars and stripes Tega Cay . Apr the Hilltop mansion where to evangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker once lived amid his and hers bathroom suites three kitchens and an air conditioned Doghouse was destroyed by fire Early Friday. The 10,226-Square-foot Home on a Hill overlooking Lake Wylie once featured exercise rooms and As Many As 25 room sized closets. It was bought and remodeler by new Jersey businessman Robert Rubi no in 1988. Rubino who paid $685,000 for the House after the collapse of the bakkers religious Empire was out of town and the House unoccupied when the fire was reported at 2 15 a.m., said Tega Cay Volunteer fire department chief Bill Kruysman. A it looked like a Volcano spewing up a said Kruysman adding that the layout of the five level Home hampered firefighters. A this House is huge. It has been added on and added on and there have been additions to the the now bankrupt pal ministry bought the Home in one of Tega cays most exclusive sections in 1981 As a parsonage and enlarged it four times while it was Home to the bakkers and their two children. A the bakkers moved out of the Home when they left the ministry in june 1987, three months after Bakker admitted to having sex in 1980 with Church Secretary Jessica Hahn. Bakker 50, was convicted of defrauding his followers of $3.7 million and is serving a 45-year Federal prison sentence in Rochester Minn. Tammy Faye Bakker lives in Orlando fla., where she has started a successor ministry to pal. Neither was available to comment Friday on the Fate of their former Home. The South Carolina arson task Force was investigating the cause of the fire said Kruysman. That does no to indicate arson is suspected but rather is Standard procedure in fires of unknown origin he said. At one Point the Homes master bedroom had his and hers bathroom suites connected by a sunken Whirlpool tub. The tub was flanked by a Glass enclosed Rock Garden. Faucet handles were shaped like swans. Smoke curls upward from the soldering ruins of the former Bakker mansion in Tega Cay ., Friday. A 600-Square-foot carpeted clothes closet adjoined mrs. Bakkers dressing room. The main Kitchen had Industrial Grade appliances and the Home also featured two additional kitchens and electronically controlled drapes and curtains. The grounds included an air conditioned Doghouse two Story heated and air conditioned playhouse guardhouse boardwalks to a White Sandy Beach at the water s Edge and a Large Dock where the bakkers once kept their 58-foot Houseboat and Small Power Cruiser. Mrs. Bakker and her followers Are building a Home for her new covenant Church in a i 5,200-Squai a foot building outside Orlando. Donnie Beck who oversees new covenant s direct mail fund raising said the ministry was in the process of buying the building but refused to give a Price. W Cut a v. F v u Pic Vav. Pilots can keep smoking Light lit a for themselves r v hip Misiou vol. A it. By the new York times los Angeles a smoke free air in the Cabin of an Airliner May be better for the health of passengers but Federal officials have determined that it is safer to id the pilots keep smoking. In an Effort to avoid withdrawal sym onis that could affect the performance of cigarette smoking pilots a Federal ban cigarettes that took effect on All air s nth made 3n exception for theaitutnunn0ticed Vic publicity Over ban Anniv wording that made the let i 1�, fans hunger Cabin and t0i-icts, but not to the flight deck. Study hiccnti0nmwa-s based up a 1978 Heath of nor atl0nal institutes of finding that possible withdrawal symptoms would pose a potential risk to the performance of pilots said or. Andrew Horne an official with the Federal aviation administrations office of aviation Medicine. A the effects of withdrawal in a habitual smoker Are associated with decrements in vigilance in concentration and with increased irritability anxiety and Aggras Sion a a Home quoted the report As saying. These symptoms Are becoming familiar to Many smokers who Are no longer allowed to Light up on most Domestic flights. Since feb. 25, smoking has been banned on All but about two dozen of the 18,000 Domestic flights daily in the United states. Before then the government had banned smoking on flights of two hours or less. Members of smokers rights groups said that they sympathized with smoking pilots but were still unhappy about restrictions in the rest of the plane. A if in fact a cigarette is helpful to the Pilot and co Pilot in a stressful situation let them have it a said Dave Brinton. President of a lobbying group called smokers rights Alliance. A i just wish people were As sympathetic with airline passengers who find the flying experience a stressful Horne voiced Little sympathy. A a there a a lot of difference a he said. A a smoker in the Back of the plane is not instrumental to the safety of the flight and the Pilot certainly is. For instance if you have a Guy who is in a stressful situation shooting an instrument approach and he begins to have his withdrawal effects then that is not a Good Walt Coleman an official with the air transport association said some airlines had banned smoking on the flight deck. A i guess its somewhere split among the associations 18 member airlines. He said. The flight deck of an aircraft is better ventilated than the passenger Cabin and has a separate air circulation system that docs not mix with that of the Cabin. Horne said. Lorraine Bennett a spokeswoman for the association of flight attendants which has strongly supported the smoking ban said the association had not yet formulated a position on the flight deck exception. My. Lall Pikull. Former Captain praises Hazelwoods actions Anchorage. Al Kos and r ,. _ cd pain s Friday that 3inaph a former Tanker Mance commanding if Ioseb Hazelwoods perform Blore the Tanker struck0 a a Valdez in the hours a worst Oil spin was of Auhll Mesa had the Nav ing Bris cd cry the no up Bettati fully before a be former Captain Chr ,c�ntro1 of a third mate won Dos criminal thai As a Kerr rifled at Hazel should no to have Blyn and the suggested there Hazelwoods nrhsrr0em c earing jagged Bligh pitied out. 0 make a turn had been plei1tyofssearoom80ntle turn a Walker said. A the had s criminal trial the Central Issue on hazes Pons with his iwo Ness sad a the Eft proper th-0 re mate to Call i 8uve awful command turn it was capt Haze woj Wuhu Quot he made the turn. Urn was Elwood s Check to make sure the and called the captain10 third mate did As be was t0,d181 a a old a Ca Quot like tha it Ell you a asked at or Michael Chalos. A it would put me at ease a said Walker who noted that the turn order Given to the helmsman was a a very simple thing. Its even easier than steering some after the ship grounded on the reef March 24, spilling almost 11 million Gallons of Alaska crude Oil into Prince William sound Hazelwood continued to act properly. Walker testified. �?o1 would have done exactly what capt. Hazelwood did a Walker said crediting Hazelwood with thinking More clearly than he would have expected after a grounding. A a in be been through groundings a Walker said. A the feeling is equivalent to being punched in the stomach. And in a talking about a one to two barrel spill not something of this magnitude. To Bear up under that a its Hazelwood 43, of Huntington n.y., is charged with one felony count of criminal mischief and Misdemeanour counts of reckless endangerment operating a vessel while intoxicated and negligent discharge of Oil. He faces up to 7 a years in prison and $61,000 in fines if convicted on All charges. In an unexplained development Friday Superior court judge Karl Johnstone dismissed a woman juror and replaced her with a male alternate during a secret session with lawyers for both sides that lasted nearly an hour. Johnstone refused to disclose Why the juror had been excused telling reporters Only. �?�1 released a juror a and a a it a not a big Walker testified that Hazelwood did nothing unusual in boarding his ship just 45 minutes before departure. As for Hazelwoods decision to go below while a local Pilot guided the ship through the Valdez Narrows Walker said that too was routine. Quot on most of the ships i Pilot the Captain is Walker said. Fici find no fault there. There Are no regulations on where he has to be. He could be anywhere he wants to Walker said when he was in command of tankers in the Valdez area he operated under the belief the coast guard monitored his movements from its traffic control Center there. Quot they spent $70 million to build that place to warn you of collisions and Walker said. He indicated that if there was ice in the area and a ship left the Normal traffic lanes he believed the coast guard would Monitor even More closely than Normal
