European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday november 14, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 9over her Ramstein butane sales restricted base Hopes age limit will curb abuse by teens by Deedee Arrington Doke Kaiserslautern Bureau. Ramstein a Germany a Diane Paulson remembered one particular teen age customer by what he bought each time he visited the bases North Side shop Pette. A every night i worked he came in a Paulson said. A a he a buy a big old bottle of butane. Sometimes head buy three to five at a the former cashier suspected that the teen bought butane to get High. But neither she nor her co workers could do anything to Stop him from buying it. Butane which is used to fuel cigarette lighters is not illegal. But now Only people 18 and older can buy butane at Ramstein Abs army and air Force Exchange service stores. Local cafes authorities instituted the age limit in june at the request of base officials. Ramstein is the Only installation in Europe where cafes restricts butane sales said capt. Wes Davis a spokesman for the Exchange service. Butane is extremely addictive said or. Jerry to Grad the 7th medical Comdr a drug and alcohol consultant. Its physical effects Are intoxication which frequently causes a sense of euphoria and excitement or a floating sensation. It also causes numbness slurred speech visual distortion and impaired judgment from a breakdown of inhibitions. Long term use generally will result in brain damage evidenced by ongoing tremors a staggering gait and speech abnormalities Bograd said. High doses can cause a rapid loss of consciousness. Death can result from an overdose because of respiratory arrest or sometimes from irreversible damage to the brain and body tissue. . Medical authorities at Ramstein and land Stuhl do not know of any area cases of butane abuse that have been treated at their facilities. However local officials acknowledged in the Kaiserslautern american newspaper during the summer that butane abuse was a problem in the Community. Months earlier Paulsons husband air Force staff sgt. Gene Paulson wrote a letter to authorities expressing the couples concerns about the Youthful butane purchasers. Other clues to inhalant abuse lurked just beyond school grounds. A we started finding empty butane cans out in the a amps Dae Dee Arrington Doke butane is sold at cafes outlets in containers like those at left at right empty cans of inhalants including deodorant and shaving Cream Are found discarded with other litter in a Pond near Ramstein High school. Woods a said col. Buz Carpenter Ramstein a base commander. A we went to cafes and said a Why not put an age restriction on buying butane a a a a in be had kids Tell me they use two cans of butane a Day a said Arlene Greathouse a clinical psychologist with the family guidance service at Kapaun air station. A my suspicion is its always been Here. I done to know if its gotten worse or better. Its the available the Strong smelling inhalant has surfaced in one crime investigated by Ramstein Security police. Authorities responded to a report of a possible drug Deal that turned out instead to be a theft involving teenage suspects. Butane found in the Young culprits Possession had been used for sniffing police said. A your dog handlers have seen butane cans in the Woods but we be never run across anyone in the act of sniffing a said staff sgt. Brian Sullivan a Security police investigator. A a it a so hard to prove unless they admit to a recent visit to Woods near Ramstein High school turned up several butane can lids As Well As other aerosol cans that Likely were used As inhalants. But a 15-year-old Ramstein student whose Circle includes former butane sniffers said use is Down this year within his crowd. A most of them stopped because my mom called their parents and told them what they were doing a said the youth who asked that his name not be used. The teen said he never dabbled with the drug a because of my dad. He said head take away my privileges and let me outside for a Long time if he Ever caught me doing it or if he Ever heard about my doing it.�?�6 held in of bombings linked to retaliation Mcchord fab Wash. A six Young men were arrested in two bombings and a fire at an air Force base that apparently were acts of retaliation not terrorism authorities said. Some of those arrested monday had been targets of previous air Force investigations Fri and air Force officials said. They elaborate. Nobody was injured in the Early sunday bombings that damaged two unoccupied government owned cars and a fire that scorched the Walls of a building housing the air Force office of special investigations. One of those arrested was airman Steven Hawkins 19, based at Mcchord said Jon Eyer assistant agent in charge of the of big a Seattle office. He said Hawkins was charged with crimes on a government reservation and is being held at fort Lewis army base. The other five arrested were civilians All from the Tacoma suburb of Lakewood. Arch Drummond jr., 20, Michael Drummond 18, Louis Baldassari 19, Brian Cotten 19, and Michael Levasseur 20, were booked into the county jail in Tacoma also charged with crimes on a govern ment reservation. A preliminary hearing for the civilians was set for tuesday before a . Magistrate in Seattle. Hawkins will remain in air Force custody air Force special agent Ronald Pearlman and William Gore Fri special agent in charge said. A it is Clear from the investigation that this was not a terrorist act but allegedly one of retaliation against the investigations office the statement said. A some of the individuals arrested and possibly others associated with them have been the object of air Force investigations in the sgt. Randy Mitchell at Mcchord said monday night the arrested men had refused to answer questions about the bombings and fire. The air Force special investigations office handles cases involving Security problems and crimes or threats of crimes above the level of simple drunkenness or fighting. A a they re sort of the Fri for the air Force a master sgt. Gloria Rayford said sunday. Mcchord has 4,800 Active duty personnel and 1,300 to 1,500 letter from Nautilus finally reaches Home by the los Angeles times Chula Vista Calif. The Breese family was lever much for writing letters a or As it turns out for receiving them either. But the breezes got Lucky a few Days ago when a letter dropped out of the postal Twilight zone into Chula Sta South of san Diego a 32 years after it was mailed Tom the Nautilus the worlds first nuclear powered submarine during the first trans Polar voyage under the Morth pole. A hell no i Haven to got the foggiest idea what was in t. I did no to even know it was missing. Id forgotten All about it a said Denny Breese the Sailor who penned the Nissing letter to his younger brother Nick. They Learned of its discovery last week. The letter a More significant for its commemorative Seal and being lost for More than three decades than for its simple contents a now is in the hands of the Breese Brothers father . A a Bush Breese the 77-year-old family patriarch who lives in Chula Vista. A ooh my yes it was a big Surprise a Breese said. A Denny did no to write that much. Maybe once a month at the most. The whole family is like that though. That a what makes this All the More Denny Breese now 56 and Hunting sunken treasure in the Atlantic Ocean off North Carol a was a 25-year-old electronics specialist when he wrote his brother in Chula Vista a one Page letter dated aug. 6,1958, three Days after the historic voyage. Breese who sensed a bit of history in the making hurriedly penned 15 to 20 letters to relatives and friends. The letters were stamped with special markings a a Large map of the North pole and postmarked Nautilus. North pole. 11 15 . Aug. 3,1958 a and sent off. A Nick this will be Short a the letter said a but i just found out that the mail is leaving the boat in about 15 minutes. Please forgive me i Promise ill write soon As we get in. I just want you to get this envelope that was stamped at the North pole. Some people think be Worth Money to collectors someday. Drop me a line. Ill write from England. Love your brother
