European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 9, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 6 a the stars and stripes sunday decembers 1990 pm idling 50,000 workers Detroit apr. More than 50,000 workers at general motors corp. Will have at least an extra week tacked on to their Holiday vacations because of slow sales. Pm officials said Friday that 18 of its 35 North american car and truck Assembly plants in 14 states will be closed for the week of dec. 17, in addition to the traditional Holiday shutdown. The retd of year break had been scheduled to run from the end of the last shift on dec. 21 until the first shift on Jan. 2. Pm officials two weeks ago predicted the first quarterly red Ink on operations at the worlds largest manufacturer since the 1981 recession chairman Robert Stempel said the company would Cut fourth Quarter car and truck production by 111,000, to a total of 1.07 million vehicles for the period. This week Ford motor co. Is cutting Back from two shifts to one shift at its car and truck Assembly plants in Lorain Ohio affecting 2,000 people. Chrysler corp., a the Louvere dome atop the Cut aspire is causing a whistling that a driving some new yorkers Batty. Mystery solved did it new York apr a whistling skyscraper is causing a commotion among some residents of the City a West Side. Quot wind whipping around the Louvere top of the 72-Story City spire building 800 feet above the Street emits a High pitched Wail that echoes for blocks through Manhattan a Concrete canyons City officials said Friday. A from third Avenue Down to the 40s, up to the 60s, Over on the West Side a the Calls Nave come from All Over a said Ian Matthews of the City a Artmen of environment conservation. On wednesday department in vestige solved that last problem. After More than a month of searching they zeroed in on the City spire at seventh Avenue and West 56th Street went up to the roof and found the eight sided dome was wailing away. A summons was issued for violating the City noise control code. If the building is found guilty a Fine of $220 to $880 can be imposed. A with the right winds it becomes a big Whis tie Quot Matthews . A i done to know the acoustics but it s a very loud very big whistle and if you lived in the neighbourhood it could drive you . A a a Quot a. Just ask Anthony Mazzola editor in chief of harpers Bazaar who lives two blocks from the building. A a in be been All Over the Street trying to find the noise a Mazzola said. A you think you re in a loony bin. You can to get away from it. Meanwhile will close it jeep Plant in Toledo Ohio this week idling 4,700 workers. But it wont be a Black Christmas for those employees. United Auto workers Union contracts with each of the big three include programs aimed at providing the workers with up to 95 percent of their regular pay during a temporary shutdown. Ford and Chrysler Haven to announced production plans for the week of dec. 17, a week in which pm plans to Lay off 50,470 workers. Each of the automakers said the shutdowns Are due to slow dealer orders. The number of autoworkers on Layoff actually will be larger than the total from Assembly plants. Whenever an Assembly Plant is shut Down layoffs usually occur at supplier and component plants. Tracking those numbers is extremely difficult. With More than a dozen Assembly plants closing Down in the next two weeks its Likely that thousands More employees at the component factories Iube Laid off at least temporarily. New York Aoji a fans of beatles founder John paid quiet tribute to him saturday on the 10th anniversary of his murder.,. Lennon a widow Yoko Ono and the couples 15-year-old son Sean were to Mark the anniversary privately in Europe family spokesman Elliott Mintz said a Small crowd of invited guests gathered Friday in Liverpool England at the beatles museum. They watched mayor Dorothy Gavin unveil a plaque honouring the Singer songwriter and guitarist for the band widely hailed As the greatest Rock group of All time. Lennon and his wife were returning to their apartment in new Yorkus Dakota building from a recording session dec. 8,1980, when he was shot to death by Mark David Chapman. The obsessed fan had received Len Uono a autograph Only hours before in los Angeles on saturday fans were invited to gather throughout the Day at Lennon a Star on the hoi Lywood walk of Fame Ana leave Flowers arid other tributes. V -.-. A similar tributes were expected in the Strawberry Fields Section of Central Park near the Dakota building and at the Cavern walk in Liverpool where a statue honouring the beatles is in place a we invite beatles fans and people from All Over the world to come along to the Cavern walk shrine Monument to Lay Flowers and other tributes in memory of John a said John James Chambers founder of the Liverpool beatles appreciation society of the . Tens of thousands of people gathered in new Yorkus Central Park for a ceremony that culminated in 10 minutes of silence while thousands attended similar gatherings in cities throughout the United states. Last oct 9, on what would have been his 50th birthday radio stations in 130 countries broadcast his song a imagine Quot to an estimated 1 billion listeners. Stateside shipyard plans to Lay off 1,400 workers by april Kittery Maine up Portsmouth naval shipyard has received permission from the Pentagon to Lay off 1,400 employees by next Spring because of a declining workload the facility a administrative officer said Friday. The layoffs had been anticipated for some time but had not received Inal approval. Workers to lose their jobs will be notified in february and the layoffs will be completed by april about 7,900 workers Are employed at the ship Yard most of the workers live in Maine and new Hampshire but some Are from chief charged Rochester . Up t Rochester police chief Gordon Urlacher was indicted on three counts of embezzling $150,000 in City funds and was immediately who had been chief of police since 1985, allegedly took Money set aside for undercover drug buys to pay for his bar tabs and his daughters College tuition. . Attorney Dennis Vacco said Urlacher was indicted for a Ami applying and embezzling Cash monies in the care custody and control of the City of if convicted Urlacher faces up to 10 years in prison and a Fine of $250,000.tax consultant who listed cat gets 2-year sentence Indianapolis up a a lax preparer who once listed a clients cat As a dependent Worth $2,350 in child cat credits and deductions has been sentenced to two years in prison. Johnny Lee Motley 40, was convicted in september of assisting in the filing of 19 false Federal income tax returns. V the tax returns listed $34,000 in undeserved credits and deductions \ Model plane flier faces trial in Blimp incident v los Angeles apr a Man accused of steering his radio controlled Model air plane in a Kamikaze style dive that punched a Hole in a Goodyear Blimp has been ordered to stand Blimp Columbia was carrying six passengers when it sustained the damage sept. 30. Compton municipal judge Morris b. Jones ordered John William Moyer 28, to trial dec. 20 on charges of assault with intent to commit great bodily injury vandalism and damage to an air. Craft a Quot prosecutors say Moyers plane ripped a Square foot Hole in columbian a fabric skin allowing nonflammable helium Gas to leak out. Veteran Pilot Nick Nicolary guided the 192-foot Airship to a Safe Landing in Carson. Moyer claims he lost control of the plane which he was flying in a vacant lot frequented by radio controlled air plane buffs. Wave Pebble Beach Calif. Apr the ashes of a legendary local surfer who suffered a fatal heart attack while Riding his Board at the age of 72 will be scattered on the Ocean he loved his widow said. �?o1 know the surfers will be disappointed because there will be no special services a Virginia Widenmann said Friday. A a he la be cremated and the remains taken to Spanish Widenmann died off Spanish Beach on. Wednesday 51 years after he caught his first wave. A a classic place for the dude to go a said fellow suffer Todd Roberts 28. Widenmann a retired electrical Engineer who lived in Pebble Beach suffered a heart attack and slipped off his surfboard into rough water according to the Monterey county coroners report. Fellow surfers pulled him from the water and unsuccessfully tried to revive him. He was pronounced dead at a local Hospital county officials said. Widenmann was surfing at an age when most people a could no to even get a wet suit on much less paddle out into the surf a said surfer Dave hemp 20. His wife said Widenmann took up the sport in Hawaii in 1939. He retired from engineering a 1954 and since then had spent most of his time at the Beach a a that a what be did Quot she said. A the surfed. Head just go out there and wait for the Waves. If he had a profession i guess that was it a witnesses said Widenmann was standing on his fibreglass Board when he clutched his Chest and fell into the water. A a a the was definitely part of the landscape a hemp said. A a it a kind of a Blessing that he got to go out there where he loved to
