European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes tuesday june 26,1990 a by. A a a t Christen Benson and Robert Degroot peek out of the Cross Island Chapel in Verona ., toward Well wishers on Shore after their wedding in the worlds smallest Church. The Church is a Small wedding perched on a tiny Island and measures 3 i feet by 6 feet according to the guinness Book of world records. The Bainbridge ., couple used a Rowboat to get to the Church on time. A museum Quality works found cached by heirs of Wii army officer by the new York times Dallas a a court ordered inventory of the contents of Safe Deposit boxes belonging to the heirs of a . Army officer who is believed to have stolen artworks from que Linburg Germany has turned up other Art objects apparently taken from France and Germany during the final months of world War ii. The new Cache of unidentified objects includes a Large collection of old coins with each Coin carefully described on a Label written in German said a source close to the investigation who spoke Only on the condition of anonymity. The labels appear to have been done in the 1920s or �?T30s. Stilt other unidentified Art objects in the Safe Deposit boxes have labels or inscriptions written in French the source said. Asked if the French labelled objects might have been purchased legitimately in Art galleries in Europe after the War the source said a no these Are medieval museum Quality he declined to attach a monetary value to them. The inventories of the Safe Deposit boxes rented by Jane Meador Cook and Jack Meador were ordered last week by a Federal judge after representatives of the Stifts Kirche in que Linburg now in East Germany filed suit to recover artworks missing since the end of world War ii. Cook and Meador Are the sister and brother of Joe t. Meador a former army lieutenant who is believed to have taken the Church treasures from their hiding place in a mine Shaft. It is not known How he transported the works Back to Texas. The source said he did not know the provenance of the new Art objects and coins. They Are not associated with the que Linburg artworks. The Safe Deposit boxes Are in Banks Here and in Denison Texas at a Branch of the first National Bank of White Wright. Last week judge Sidney a. Fitzwater of . District court Here granted a request by lawyers for the East German Church to order Meadors heirs not to remove the treasures from their Safe Deposit boxes and to permit the churches lawyers to inspect and photograph in secret any objects in the boxes that might match a list of artworks missing from que Linburg. The examinations according to court papers took place on thursday and on Friday. It was during these examinations that the new Cache of missing artworks was found. The discovery of the new Art treasures will have no effect on the suit filed by the East German Church. The source said about a third of the que Linburg artworks that the lawyers hoped to find were still of 4 men shot by a Zodiac gunman Dies new York apr the letter writing gunman threatening to shoot 12 people a one for each sign of the Zodiac a is now a killer. A 78-year-old Man who was shot in the Back and beaten May 31 died sunday at Jamaica Hospital. He was one of four men who have been shot by the so called a a Zodiac gunman since March. The City a chief of detectives Joseph Borrelli said it was Only Luck that the three other victims were still alive. A i think he is intending to shoot them and kill them a Borrelli said. The Zodiac shot his latest victim thursday a homeless Man sleeping on a Central Park Bench. All four victims were vulnerable including a 50-year-old Man who used a Cane to steady a Limp and a 33-year-old Man who was Tipsy. At least one of the victims a the latest one a was stalked because of his astrological sign police said. Larry Pam Ham the wounded homeless Man told detectives he was befriended Days before the shooting by a stranger who asked him his birth Date Borrelli said. The Day after the shooting a note taking responsibility and introducing the writer As the a a Zodiac was received by the new York Post. The birth dates of All four victims correspond to astrological signs scrawled in notes written by the killer Borrelli said. A we were concerned and we were confused As to the manner in which these shootings were happening under the sign of the individual victim a he said. A when you get four out of four i think it goes beyond police believe the gunman has copied the methods of californians Zodiac killer a Man who claimed responsibility for As Many As 40 killings in a series of notes sent to san Francisco area newspapers from 1968 to 1987. In the most recent letter to the Post the gunman claimed to be the same Man who terrorized California. But police said they done to believe that. Astrologers had warned police that the first Day of summer when the Central Park shooting occurred was considered a significant Day because the Zodiac changed from the sign of gemini to the sign of cancer. After the Central Park shooting Borrelli said a this opens up a whole new Pandora a Box. We be got the whole City now to be looking police have a Zodiac task Force of about 50 officers on the Case Borrelli said. Dispute centers on right of alaskans to live off land Juneau Alaska apr Rural alaskans cherished right to live off the land is at the Center of a dispute that has the Federal government ready to take Over game management in most of the state. Because of an Alaska supreme court ruling that put state and Federal Laws at Odds the government plans to assume responsibility for game management july 1 in the two thirds of the state it owns. In Hopes of regaining control the legislature was to Convene in special session monday to consider an amendment to the Alaska Constitution that would ensure Rural alaskans continue to have first crack at fish and game for subsistence. An amendment must pass both houses of the legislature by a two thirds margin and be put to the voters a process that could take months or years. Gov. Steve Cowper a Democrat and . Sen. Ted Stevens Riaska met with lawmakers sunday to seek support for the amendment. An estimated 110,000 alaskans venture into the wild to Hunt fish and gather plants for food. For fewer than half of them a indians aleuts and eskimos a its a the Core of their existence a said Julie Kitka who is president of the Alaska federation of natives. The dispute began in december when the Alaska supreme court ruled that part of a state Law that limits subsistence activities to Rural residents discriminates against urbanite. But a Federal Law passed in 1980, requires a Rural preference. Five Federal land agencies plan to assume game management of alaskans Federal land to protect the Rural subsistence right. The takeover is expected to Lead to confusion among Hunters faced with differing regulations on alaskans Patchwork of up Otic lands. A a it a the worst Jigsaw you can imagine a said Bruce Batten spokesman for the . Fish and wildlife service. City University of Has most alumni in top jobs by the new York times new York a in what May rank As the educational equivalent of a photo finish a new Surrey found that City University of new York has More undergraduate alumni in top ranking executive jobs than any other school in the country. Thirty More big shots to be precise. The Survey by the Standard amp poor s corp., found that Cuny has displaced Yale As the undergraduate Ite leaders. In Alma mater of co 1987, the last time conducted the Survey Cuny was second trailing Yale but leading Harvard. Walies May complain that margin of Victory was razor thin Only 30 among the 5409 company presidents vice presidents chairmen and other High level executives questioned by Standard amp Pom s. Tim tally showed 1,288 Cuny graduates and 1,258 Yale alumni among the executives. The third largest group 1,041, did their undergraduate work at Harvard. The Standard amp poor s Survey begun in 1976, found that most of the executives questioned were bom in new York state and live and work in new York City. Most Are under 50 and Are men. Most also belong to a masonic order. Currently 65 percent of Cunyus students Are Black hispanic or asian american and a majority of students Are the first in their families to attend College. Asked Why so Many Cuny graduates had made it to uie top spokesman Jay Hershenson said a i would Chalk it up to persistence and determination because we re talking about a population that historically has not been
