European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 20, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday june 20, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7rostenkowski tells mayors there wont be a peace dividend for troubled cities Chicago apr the chief tax writer of the House of representatives monday bluntly dashed the Hopes of mayors seeking billions of dollars of the expected peace dividend for their Cash poor cities. A a there a no Money to pay for such programs a House ways and Means committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski told the . Conference of mayors. A the peace dividend is already going to be  Rostenkowski said budget negotiations Between Congress and the White House Are going a fairly  but he said the budget is unlikely to include More Money for cities. A we need to slash spending and raise taxes merely to reach ground Zero a the Chicago Democrat told More than 200 mayors meeting in his Home City. Two democratic mayors challenged Rostenkowski to confront president Bush and demand that Aid to cities be increased. They said the $500 billion or More needed to bail out the savings and loan Industry should be found elsewhere. A we Haven to got the votes a Rostenkowski said. He broke off the questions and left the meeting after telling the mayors Good Nat redly a a in a going to Tell you like it is. If you done to like it too  while the mayors expressed affection for Rostenkowski a supporter of their causes they did not like the message. A the cities Are in desperate need a said Atlanta mayor Maynard Jackson. A i really done to feel we have a partner in  Rostenkowski said he was prepared to support an array of new taxes. But he said his fellow democrats want Bush to be the first one to propose new taxes. Rostenkowski delivered the dour message to the mayors a Day after they gave initial approval to a Broad costly Domestic Agenda that Calls on Congress to abandon the Gramm Rudman Law complaining the deficit reduction measure unfairly chops Urban programs first. A a we re always first in line when it comes to cuts a new Bedford mass., mayor John k. Bullard said sunday As the mayors gave initial approval to a sweeping and costly Domestic Agenda that would get most of its Money from a Congress that has been cutting Aid to cities for a decade. Sundays votes by the conferences key policy committee must be ratified by the full conference of More than 200 mayors on wednesday but few changes Are expected in a plan that blames Many Urban woes on Federal cutbacks and warns that Urban tensions Are at dangerous Levels because cities Are too strapped for Cash to Deal adequately with drugs and housing. The Centrepiece of the mayors Agenda is a handful of economic development proposals that include the demand that Congress repeal the Gramm Rudman Law. The mayors said they were reluctant to take that stance but said they had Little Choice because Congress and the Bush administration have failed to negotiate a comprehensive deficit reduction plan. Gramm Rudman imposes automatic cuts if the deficit eclipses certain targets. A the mayors across this country have got to say this is a charade a said mayor Lee Robinson of Macon a. A a we be got to say enough is  mayor Paul Soglin of Madison wis., added a too Many of our members of Congress and the administration arc seeing this As a Crutch to hide some of the problems of our  also included in the blueprint is a Call for Congress to reduce the social Security payroll taxes paid by nearly 120 million workers and lift the outside earnings Cap on social Security recipients. The plan Given initial approval also Calls on Congress to Stop using the balance of the social Security Trust fund to mask the True size of the deficit. And if formally adopted wednesday it will put the mayors on the record in opposition to a reduction in capital gains taxes favored by  toll from Ohio Flash flooding rises to 21 Shadyside Ohio apr friends of Kerri Polivka say they Are not surprised that she put a 9-year-old girl into a Bathtub that was whisked safely away from a trailer Home As it was Tom apart in a Flash flood. The body of 13-year-old Kerri was found monday in the Ohio River bringing to 21 the number known to have died in Flash flooding in Central Ohio. Thirteen people were listed As missing. Kerri of we gee was baby sitting at the Home of Amber Colvin thursday when a storm dumped 5vi inches of rain in about three hours sending a Wall of water Rushing Down two Small creeks that empty into the River. Kerri put Amber in the tub and got in with her. The two became separated after Kerri was hit on the head As the trailer collapsed Amber said Friday. Amber said she survived by holding onto logs and was rescued 7 i hours later when she reached the Bank of the Ohio River. She suffered cuts and scratches. A she would have thought of Amber first because she was watching her that night a said Angel Halpin a sixth Grade classmate and one of Kerri a closest friends. Angel said she believed searchers sifting through debris along the we gee and pipe creeks would find Kerri alive. A i kept saying to myself that she had a broken leg or something and was just sitting somewhere waiting for help a she said. Rescuers held out Little Hope that any of the missing would turn up alive. The Federal emergency management Agency said it would open centers to accept disaster Relief applications in three counties on tuesday. The Agency said at least 700 Homes were destroyed or damaged in the three counties. A National weather service official said the storm developed so quickly there was no time to Issue a Flash flood warning. A a we re dealing with god almighty Here nature itself. Sometimes nature just Isnit predictable a said de Heath director of the weather service office in Akron. The National oceanic and atmospheric administration which oversees the weather service said it would investigate the Agency a performance. Such investigations Are routine in disasters involving More two men look Over the tons of debris deposited on the West Virginia Side of the Ohio River by last weeks flooding. Than five deaths the Agency said. The first funerals were held monday for victims of the flood. About 100 people gathered at morning services for Roger Denoon. Funerals were held later in the Day for John and Edna Andrecht in Shadyside and 6-year-old Timmy Gatten in Jacobsburg. A a in a not sure any of us can prepare for this Type of a tragedy a said capt. Tim Muir a salvation army chaplain who delivered the Eulogy at Denoon a funeral. A the thing we have to look at is found in Isaiah 38 i _ a thus Saith the lord a set thy House in order for thou Shalt die and not  a news that Kerri a body had been found will be especially difficult to accept at Leona Avenue Middle school where she was an a and b student who made friends easily said principal John Krupa. A she was lust the Type of girl everyone would like to have As a daughter. Maybe mine will follow in her footsteps a Krupa said. He pulled her student file and looked at it. A a there a nothing anywhere in Here that shows she was Ever in any kind of trouble and nothing that shows that she was the smartest girl in the world a Krupa said. A Kerri just did her  surgery corrects defect but girl remains Blind Chicago apr a 9-year-old turkish girl is preparing to go Home four years and seven operations after coming to the United states for treatment of a birth defect that left her without eyes. Acrylic implants have made Dilek Erdogan look More like other children but much More has changed than her looks said Matt Deletioglu the turkish native and former Chicago restaurateur who has made the girls treatment a personal crusade. When Dilek first came to this country she lacked Confidence to the Point of being filled with fear. A now she looks like a Normal human being and is afraid no More he said. Dilek is returning to Istanbul with her Mother Gullane and her 7-year-old brother Ozan by the end of the june Deletioglu said. A i am very Happy a Dilek told the Chicago Sun times recently. A i am going Home. I miss father i miss Grandfather grandmother and aunt. I miss my Deletioglu said monday night that Home. I doctors have said that Dilek was bom with skin covering both of her eyes a a condition called  or hidden Eye. Deletioglu a native of Antioch Turkey decided to help Dilek after he saw her picture in a newspaper from his Home country. He contacted the family and sought medical care. Two doctors at the University of Illinois Hospital Allen Putterman and Joel sugar agreed to donate their services leaving Only Hospital Bills to be paid by Deletioglu or through donated funds. While Dilek a family had hoped operations could give her some sight she remains Blind. Putterman who surgically built Eye sockets and an eyelid for the girl said after an operation in March 1988 that there was Little Hope she would see. Surgeons had hoped she could get some sight through implantation of a Cornea in her right Eye but the Eye had no Iris or Pupil. Dilek a family Hopes to return in 10 years if doctors have developed a procedure to implant real eyes by then