European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6the stars and stripes Friday july 20,1090 put stateside police blow up explosive in Home after Clearing Are Piqua Ohio apr a Batch of nitroglycerine was blown up inside a Home after officials decided it was too dangerous to move. But the blast turned out to be Little More than a thud. The drama forced 2,000 residents to evacuate and Drew the attention of Federal investigators after police found two soda bottles filled with a substance containing nitroglycerine. Quot was that it a one child asked after the detonation tuesday afternoon. Police found the material in the House monday after responding to a report of a Domestic dispute Between Dana Taylor 25, and his wife Karen. Residents in a 12-Block area evacuated their Homes and were kept away overnight while authorities decided How to dispose of the substance. Officials were not sure How much of the explosive was in the basement. Officials detonated the material by attaching an explosive Cord and a three minute tube to the material he House sustained minor damage including broken windows. Surrounding Homes were not damaged. A Fri spokesman de Boldt said there apparently was not As much nitroglycerine As suspected. After the detonation evacuees were allowed to return to their Homes in this Western Ohio City about 30 Miles North of Dayton. Taylor was charged with possessing dangerous ordnance and was being held in the Miami county jail in Troy on $50,000 Bond a preliminary hearing was scheduled for july 24, . Workers Cut workweek to 4 Days in War on smog los Angeles apr about 1,600 county workers will be switched to a four Day workweek in the latest move to Cut traffic and reduce the smog that sits Over Southern California. The county Board of supervisors voted tuesday to close the Headquarters of the department of Public works in suburban Alhambra on fridays and put its employees on a 10-hour, four Day week. It is the latest Effort to meet the regional air Quality authority s demands for big employers to reduce travel by their employees. Public works director Thomas a. Tidemanson said that in addition to reducing smog the change would save the county $1.7 million a year and would t affect the departments efficiency. But supervisor Pete Schabarum the Only one on the five member Board to vote against the plan Wasny to so sure. He said the change sends a message to the Public that a the county of los Angeles is Only in business four Days a  3 workers die in Cave in of deep pit dug for pipe Laurel miss. Apr three construction workers died under about 15 feet of dirt wednesday when a pit caved in authorities said. The workers were in a Hole dug for a Concrete pipe Jones county civil defense spokesman Don Mckinnon said. Mckinnon who was one of the first people to reach the Cave in site described a Chain reaction disaster that left the men buried under 15 feet to 20 feet of dirt. A a Mound of dirt had fallen and pinned the legs of one of the men a Mckinnon said. A the other two ran Over to help him and they about had him free when it All caved  Kelso orders by the Washington Post Washington a the Navy a new chief of operations has ordered a sweeping investigation of the . Naval Academy at Annapolis my in response to other recent probes that have found sexual harassment and inequities in the institution s venerable Honor code and disciplinary systems officials said wednesday. Adm. Frank b. Kelso after less than three weeks at the Helm of the Navy added his own review to the growing list of investigations at the troubled Academy Sho which was hit by a rash of scandals last school term Kelso a order followed a Navy inspector general a report that surveyed midshipmen and found that More than half of the students believe the Honor system has been corrupted by favouritism. In addition More than half of the women and More than one third of the men surveyed said they believe sexual harassment is a serious problem at the Academy according to officials familiar with the study. The inspector general whose report has not been officially released was ordered to investigate the Academy after a hazing incident in which 19-year-old Gwen m. Dreyer was chained to a urinal in a men s room a there Are clearly some problems at the Academy a said one Navy official. A but the naval Academy is a solid institution. Its not about to blow up in our face Kelso has asked a special panel of officers headed by the Navy a manpower and personnel chief rear adm. Michael Boorda to conduct a broader review of some of the Academy s oldest internal institutions according to officials. The panel will investigate the Academy s Honor and conduct system in which midshipmen have responsibility for judging the guilt or innocence of their Peers on allegations of infractions As Well As the authority to make recommendations about whether a student should be dismissed from school. Investigators also will examine the Academy policy of allowing some a midshipmen to be readmitted following dismissal. The five member Board of officers is drawing from the recommendations of the inspector general a report and from the review by an advisory panel composed primarily of Academy faculty members on women s issues. A subcommittee of the Academy a Board of visitors is conducting a parallel investigation which the Academy superintendent rear adm. Virgil l. Hill or. Ordered in May after publicity about the Dreyer incident. The panel expects to release its findings sometime this summer according to Arthur b. Culvahouse who is heading the probe. The special committee whose members include sen. Barbara a. Mikulski d-md., and rep. Helen Delich Bentley  has received a copy of the inspector general a report As Well As an internal Academy study on the integration of women into the student body Culvahouse said. The documents will be used in preparing the committees final report he said. The general accounting office recently launched its own investigation at the request of the Senate armed services committee. The House armed services committee and several members of Congress also have been scrutinizing Academy procedures and problems since May. Grief stricken Steve Smith left and Scott Justice stand by As Rescue personnel remove the bodies of three friends who drowned wednesday in Flint mich., when sudden thunderstorms sweeping across Michigan a Ixia or Peninsula flooded the Culvert storm brings tragedy a a left by we7s pla>in8 trapped and killed were Vit \4a 17-year-old wend. Fire department official John Balser said a fall the Rainwater in the area converges in the one Culvert the water pressure pinned them against a steel  old Cool site suspected in Bobies rare cancer Taylorville in. Apr a rare cancer usually found in just nine of every million children struck three babies in this Small Central Illinois town and residents suspect an abandoned Coal factory is to blame. The children ranging in age from 6 months to 22 months have been diagnosed w Ith Neuroblast Oma a cancer of the adrenal glands and sympathetic nervous system that occurs primarily in children under age 10. The sympathetic nervous system controls some automatic body functions. State health experts Are studying medical records and the incidence of cancer in Taylorville a City of 11,000 people about 210 Miles Southwest of Chicago. The childrens parents and others in the Community suspect the cancer Cluster is linked to an abandoned factory site that was contaminated with Coal tar. The affected children All live within three Miles of the site. A a it a too much to be a coincidence Quot said Brenda May whose 7-month-old daughter Erika was diagnosed with Neuroblast Oma soon after birth and underwent successful surgery to remove a  old Zachary Donaldson has been declared Curca while 6-Inonth-old Chad Hryhorysak is undergoing chemotherapy. Symptoms include weight loss body aches paleness and irritability. In some cases tutors cause diarrhoea and High blood pressure. The condition can be fatal if left untreated but is usually caught in time. Residents have formed the Taylorville awareness group to press the government to investigate the Cluster. State and local officials plans for action were to be discussed at a town meeting wednesday night. In in nut a Luiu i a. I. A a a. May said that while she was pregnant i v of cries she often took her two older Ina a a a a Quot Quot daughters to play in a Park next to the for Mer site of a Central Illinois a Sinois Public service co. Plant that made Coal Gas for Street tights. The Plant shut Down in 1932. Thomas Tomshaw who assesses toxic chemical Sites for the state environmental Protection Agency said 9,000 cubic Yards of Coal tar and contaminated soil were removed from the site in 1988. Although the site is no longer contaminated residents could have been exposed before and during the clean up he said. Studies have linked Coal tar to lung and skin cancer but not specifically to Neuroblast Oma health officials said. Researchers done to know exactly what causes Neuroblast Oma but heredity plays a role and a virus or environmental factors might be involved said or. Holly Howe chief epidemiologist for the Illinois department of Public health