European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes wednesday june 27,1990poe�?Ts visitor remains mystery despite photo Baltimore apr the dark figure who visits Edgar Allan poems grave every year was captured on film by a photographer who used surveillance equipment to snap the Only known picture of the annual rite. But the identity of the Man remains a mystery worthy of Poe the patriarch of american mystery writers. The photographer did not approach the shadowy figure or try to spoil his secret. Every Jan. 19 since at least 1949, on the anniversary of poems birthday someone has left three roses and a bottle of Cognac on the writers grave. Poe died in Baltimore in 1849. Life Magazine in the july Issue that hit Newsstands monday includes a picture of the figure during his Early morning visit. Bill Ballenberg a free Lance photographer in new York spent $17,000 from life to rent infrared night vision equipment which he set up facing poems original grave and the Monument he rests beneath. When the darkly Clad visitor appeared at the grave at 3 a.m., Ballenberg took the photograph by a Remote radio signal from inside Westminster Hall the presbyterian Church that overlooks the graveyard. A we had about 30 seconds. It was really fast. It was like 12 hours of boredom punctuated by 30 seconds of terror a Ballenberg said in a Telephone interview monday. Left Jerome curator of the Edgar Allan Poe House allowed the photographer and a Magazine writer to wait with him for the visitor last Jan. 19, the 181st anniversary of the writers birth. The two agreed not to try to Nab identify talk to or otherwise disturb the visitor. The picture shows the Back of a Man kneeling at the grave where Poe was buried for 26 years. Because the photo was taken with a night scope which intensified the available Light 35,000 times the somewhat fuzzy photo shows Only the visitor and the grave within a Circle of Light. A i could see his body. I never could see his face. No one could see his face. He had a hat and a Scarf pulled up Well around his face securing his face a Ballenberg said. Poe died at the age of 40 after being discovered in a delirium on a Baltimore Street in 1848. For 26 years poems remains Lay under a medium sized Stone in the graveyard. A larger Monument was erected in front of the downtown burial ground and he was re interred in 1875. Someone has visited Edgar Allan poems grave on his birthday for at least 41 years to leave roses and Cognac. The visitor was photographed for the first time this year. Charges against Bush a son May be made Public Washington apr savings and loan regulators Are considering publicly releasing administrative charges against Thrift officers including one of president Bush a sons before the cases Are judged. Timothy Ryan director of the Treasury departments office of Thrift supervision told reporters monday that in the next week or two he expects to decide on a policy governing when and if the Agency publicizes such charges. House democrats last week called on him to release conflict of interest charges concerning Neil Bush and Silverado banking savings and loan association of Denver. But Ryan said he preferred to set a Broad policy rather than decide the matter on one Case. Separately Ryan a Agency issued rules aimed at making hundreds of struggling a amp is a More attractive investment such thrifts will now be permitted to pay some earnings to stockholders on a sliding scale depending on their condition. Healthy thrifts can distribute earnings without restriction while clearly weak institutions would be barred from paying dividends without special permission. Regulators allege that Neil Bush a interests As an Oil and Gas Developer in Colorado conflicted with his duties on Silverado a Board. Silverado made Loans which were not repaid to Bush a business associates. Bush has denied wrong doing but the ots is pursuing administrative actions against him. Currently the Agency publicizes administrative penalties after they Are imposed however it rarely releases the charges while an accused executive is contesting them. Hearings on charges before administrative Law judges Are almost always private. Ryan said the new policy could spell out when charges would be released and hearings conducted in Public. Historically regulators have been reluctant to release charges before they Are decided for fear of scaring depositors he said. But in the Case of an institution already closed by the government such As Silverado there presumably would be less Impact on depositors Ryan said. The new dividend regulation  to strike a balance Between struggling institutions need to pay dividends to attract capital from new investors and their need to retain earnings to build capital. Under the Rule 1,185 thrifts that already meet Tough new capital standards taking effect in 1994 could freely distribute earnings to shareholders while 716 that fail current capital requirements would be barred from paying dividends unless the ots approved a special application. Ryan announced the policy to the . League of savings  shelters in record 120 degrees Phoenix apr cars conked out tempers flared and air conditioners taxed Power supplies As the City hit an All time High of 120 degrees. The National weather service predicted the extreme heat will last through the Middle of the week. The temperature monday was the highest Ever recorded in Phoenix beating the old Mark of 118, equated As recently As july 4, 1989. Tucson reached 113 degrees one degree shy of that City Sall time High. Hot weather plagued other parts of Arizona including highs of 118 in Yuma 102 in Prescott 94 in Flagstaff and 92 at the grand canyons South rim. Some elderly people suffered heat exhaustion said Steve Jensen a fire department spokesman. A we probably had a few More heat related Calls but nothing major a he said. The City a two largest Power suppliers urged customers to conserve and put on extra generators to handle the demand. The Arizona automobile associations main office in Phoenix said it took at least 1,500 service Calls up from a usual 900 to 1,000. Most of the additional Calls were from motorists whose vehicles overheated or had dead batteries. Roger Austin a police officer in Tempe said police used trained volunteers to respond to some Calls of stranded vehicles freeing officers to answer Domestic violence Calls partly generated by the heat. A business is up a he said. A being stranded in the heat can be very dangerous especially if you have Small children or animals travelling with  Jim Hight a psychologist at Camelback Hospital in Phoenix advised people with Low tolerance to heat to stay inside. A problems that seem run of the Mill in the months of january and february May seem a lot More Complex and More difficult to handle come june or july a he said. Walter Forgione of Turin Italy cools off monday in Phoenix in a 55-gallon trash can that he uses to water elephants from a visiting  to get fuel valve from unfinished shuttle Cape canaveral Fla. Apr a fuel valve from the unfinished space shuttle endeavour will be removed and connected to the shuttle Columbia which has been grounded because of a Hydrogen leak the . Space Agency said monday. Shuttle director Robert Crippen approved the Transfer after engineers at Rockwell International corp., which is building the endeavour failed to find a leak in Hydrogen lines that had been removed from the columbian a external fuel tank. That confirmed the National aeronautics and space administrations suspicion that the leak was in plumbing in the orbiter rather than in the tank. The 17-Inch disconnect valve is in a pipe that carries liquid Hydrogen from the external tank to the main engines. It will be removed and replaced by the one from the endeavour. Only one valve was built for each shuttle. The columbian a bad valve will be shipped to California Lor testing. The columbian a scheduled May 30 launch with the $ 150 million Astro Observatory was scrubbed six hours before liftoff when the leak was detected during fueling. Nasa now Hopes to conduct the launch in mid August. Nasa plans to conduct a test on the shuttle Atlantis at the launch pad on thursday partly filling the shuttles external tank with super cold liquid Hydrogen to make sure there Are no leaks. The same test was conducted with the Columbia a week before the scrubbed launch and showed the leak