European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 8, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6. A the stars and stripes stateside family of of crash victim awarded $3.68 million Indianapolis apr the family of a business Man killed Evhen an air Force Jet crashed into a Motel has been awarded $3.68 million. Flora Murray wife of Thomas c. Murray sued the Federal government last year in a wrongful death complaint that blamed Pilot error and government negligence for the crash oct. 20, 1987. Mrs. Murray a attorney John Townsend said the settlement awarded by . District judge Larry j. Mckinney was a a very substantial reasonable the air Force has not said if it will Appeal the award. Murray of suburban Carmel had stopped to use a Telephone in the ramada inn Airport when the crippled fighter Jet crashed into the lobby. Nine others also were killed. The Jet crashed after it lost Power and Pilot maj. Bruce l. Teagarden lost control As he attempted to make an emergency Landing at Indianapolis International Airport. The Pilot ejected safely moments before the Jet slammed into the hotel. Murray 37, the father of four children was a regional sales manager for Haynes International inc., a Metal products company in Kokomo. . Firm sends 9 workers to Iran to put up housing Philadelphia apr a plastics company has sent nine employees to Iran to build 1,200 houses for those left homeless by an earthquake that killed More than 50,000 people. The workers from Fana inc. Of Springfield took with them Chat shrink film and pipes that will be used to build the structures said Fana president Anthony Seraphin. The film is a thick opaque plastic that is designed to be shrunk on pipe frames to form a shelter. The Homes arc not designed As permanent structures but they should last two to three years a we can put these buildings up quickly a Home 20-by-20 feet takes two hours tops a Seraphin said. A we wont build All the structures. We will be showing them How to do it and then go on to the next . Ford to Idle Mustang Plant in Dearborn for a week a Dearborn Mich. Up a Ford motor co. Will Idle its Dearborn Mich Assembly Plant for one week starting next monday because of a shortage of dealer orders. Ford builds about 3,700 Mustang cars a week at the Plant. Some 2,100 hourly workers on two shifts will be affected by the temporary closing. The Plant has been idled for a total of five weeks since the Start of this year a company spokeswoman said. Suicide attempt ends in Rescue of a sightseeing helicopter pulls 38-year-old Alice Goldman from the Niagara River on monday after she apparently tried to kill herself. The Thom Hill Ontario woman jumped into the rapids from a Bridge near Goat Island but changed her mind about ending her life. She dung to rocks and was rescued 75 Yards from the Brink of Niagara Falls. Goldman was admitted to a Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. Tons hamper staffing of super clinic at Montana base great Falls Mont apr a $16 million a super clinic that opened at Malmstrom fab three months ago Isnit getting full use because strict air Force regulations disqualify most local doctors from working there. Airmen and their families Are being treated at two local hospitals a at greater expense a by the same doctors. A a it a ironic Quot said or Peter Horst a private urologist. A the air Force is perfectly comfortable with us doing the same work at local hospitals that we can to do at the new base . The clinic has been billed As the first non Hospital in the military designed for outpatient surgery that civilian hospitals offer. Twenty great Falls physicians won contracts totalling about $600,000 to perform surgery at the new clinic in addition to their other work. But the air Force has More stringent standards for physicians who conduct major surgery such As hernia repairs than either Columbus Hospital or the Montana deaconess medical Center. Some of the surgeons tabbed to work at the air Force clinic plan to upgrade their medical certification but 12 Anaesthesiologist a have walked at other air Force requirements like a dress code and a mandatory aids test. Horst estimated the certification would require two to 10 hours of study and a few hours of testing. The problem was discovered in april when paper work was being signed. A we assumed the standards for downtown providers were the same As for the air Force but they weren to Quot said col. Ronald Bumel clinic commander. The service standards Are More rigorous than at other Montana hospitals and at the commission that accredits most civilian hospitals said or. John High Smith chief of clinical services at Malmstrom the reason for the air Force standards is not Clear but the air Force has refused to Grant Malmstrom a waiver. A primary air Force requirement is that All doctors working in High risk Fields be certified in advanced cardiac life support. Only one of the 20 great Falls doctors has such certification. A they obviously have the skills but May need a refresher course Quot Highsmith said. A it will be a formality to most of them a but its a required Malmstrom offered a certification course in june but most of the doctors could not rearrange their schedules on Short notice. The air Force is paying $1,500 to run another course wednesday. Seven Doc tors signed up last week. Anaesthesiologist a Are required for major surgery but the 12 local specialists decided against working at the clinic because of the dress code and aids test and increased demand for their services at the City a hospitals said or. Fred Fleming Malmstrom May have to hire resident Anaesthesiologist a a process that could take months Burnett said. . Mayor shooting off his Mouth Dodge City says new York apr Dodge City kan., population 21,000, had one reported homicide in the last 20 months according to its City manager Jim Witt. New York City has one homicide every 4 hours 37 minutes. So its no wonder the folks in Dodge City tired Back when mayor David Din lib invoked their towns name last week to defend his City. A this is not Dodge Dinkins snapped angrily when questioned about his commitment to crime fighting after four child homicides. The kansans Are used to the comparison but they wish Dinkins Hadnot shot off his Mouth. A it gels a Little said Wilt. Quot our murder rate is nowhere near new York Washington Chicago. Its not Paradise with Zero crime but we done to have that kind of Between 1876 and 1885, the first years that records were kept Dodge City had 15 homicides said Betty Braddock of the Kansas heritage Center. Quot violence Wasny to Wanton it was More Man to Man. There was always a reason a said Braddock. A it could be a fight Over gambling or a girl but it was t somebody just blowing out a kansans blame Dodge City a undeserved reputation for violence on Media hype. Quot the one thing about Dodge is that the newspapers blew it All said Frederic Young a Dodge its native and historian. A it was fun to write about they a exaggerate a Little they did t worry much about the Laws of much of new Yorkus violence is attributable to drug dealers with uzis Back then it was Drunken cowboys with Colts Young said. New York recorded 1,905 homicides last year Dodge City a big year was six in 1878. Then again Dodge City had 4,000 residents in that Peak year new York has 7.5 million the murder rate was 1.5 murders per 1,000 people in Dodge to 0.26 per 1,000 in new York but the numbers arc misleading the historians said. There really was t that much violence Here a said Young. Quot it was worse in the towns Southwest of Here in new Mexico and Arizona there were mostly isolated incidents Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp were responsible for Law enforcement in the town. Both were More Likely to be found sipping a drink in the Long Branch Saloon than gunning Down criminals on front Street. Masterson wound up coming to new York once the West was won in 1916, and he became a sports columnist at the new York morning Telegraph. Earp was More of a career Lawman but Braddock in t sure he d help things in. New y Ork now anyway. A it Wyatt Earp was Here wed Send him Back a Braddock said. A but we gave Sou Bat Masterson and you did no to do much with
