European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 11, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday december 11,1990 blast rocks army base housing area Indianapolis a a natural Gas explosion rocked an apartment com plex at an army base killing a 5-Ycar-old girl and injuring 17 residents and rescuers. The girls remains were discovered in the rubble of the building at 8 30 . Monday about 12 hours after it blew up officials at fort Benjamin Harrison said. The blast sunday night occurred hours after fire authorities arrived to investigate reports of a Gas leak telling residents there was no danger. The explosion in a housing area for enlisted personnel do Strycu a four family housing unit and damaged another unit said Post spokesman maj. Ronald Downing. A the fire engines were trying to get in and we were trying to get out. It was total chaos a said Joan Adams a resident of the Complex. She described people running through streets in their pyjamas car lying children. At least 17 residents and firefighters were injured including three people who were hospitalized in critical condition with Burns authorities said. Firefighters and police searched the soldering rubble Early monday the identity of the dead girl was not released. Firefighters and police called off their search through the soldering rubble after the missing girl was found. The girls identity was not released. Other members of her family were among the injured Downing said officials Are not sure if anyone is buried in the ruins because they done to knowhow Many people were in the buildings said army specialist Chuck  Post on the Edge of town serves As a processing Center for soldiers in route to the persian Gulf although none of those soldiers stayed in the affected area. Fire authorities had been called in about 5 45 p.m., or 3hours before the blast after people reported smelling Gas Downing said. He said officials had stateside firemen Battle a Blaze caused by a natural Gas explosion that ripped through a housing Complex at fort Benjamin Harrison planned to evacuate the 240-unit Harrison Village Complex before the  turned the Gas off at one housing unit where they thought the leak was occurring. But a nearby unit where the Gas had not been turned off blew up. Some residents complained that they were not adequately warned. Adams whose husband is a sergeant said that about two hours before the explosion military police began telling residents that a Gas leak had been found and would be fixed. A the told us there was no danger for us to stay there Quot she said. Her family had planned to leave anyway because the Complex was without heat and hot water but the explosion happened before they did so she said. The blast was Felt More than two Miles away. Wood and other debris were scattered where a two Story building once stood. Rubble was strewn Over four blocks. About 210 families were evacuated after the explosion. A v a insulation was coming Down like Snow when we got Here. One apartment was engulfed in flames and the other building was in flames Quot said state trooper Anthony Blackburn,. State comptroller a asks for hefty pay raise Albany . Not in a proposal that went Over like a Lead balloon and left some Albany officials scratching their Heads about his political instincts state comptroller Edward a Regan has asked for a $10,000 pay raise. A a a i was a Little surprised to put if mildly Quot said gov. Mario m. Cuomo who is struggling to Cut $1 billion out of the current state budget a a v Quot a in a letter to Cuomo Regan a Republican who was re elected last month to a fourth term proposed adding $10,000 to his satary and that of the state attorney Genera Robert Abrams each Man makes $110,000 a year. The comptroller one of the most forceful advocates of reduced state spending also said Cuomo arid it. Gov. Stan Auridine should push to have their salaries raised a to whatever you and he might feel is  Cuomo gets $130,000 a year but he has routinely re turned $30,000 of that. Film director Martin Ritt Dies of heart disease Santa Monica Calif. A Martin Ritt the Maverick director of a Norma Rae a a the front and a the Long hot summer who once was blacklisted in Hollywood has died of complications from heart disease a a. A a the director of 25 films and 250 television shows died at Santa Monica Hospital medical Center said Chuck warn spokesman for the directors Guild of America. Details on the cause of death were not Given. His family said he was 76 years old warn said but studio and other biographies listed him As 70. Ritt  an actor in new York in the late 1930s, after serving in the . Army during world War ii he worked on live television shows until he was blacklisted in the 1950s. ,. He made his first feature film Quot Edge of the City Quot with Sidney Poitier in 1957. His final film was last years Quot Stanley and Iris a starring Jane Fonda and Robert Deniro. Los Angeles a a football Captain who wants to build an inner City school is among 32 Rhodes scholars chosen to study at Oxford University in England for two years. J the 1991, . Rhodes scholars announced sunday were chosen during meetings held nationwide wednes Day and saturday said David Alexander the american Secretary of the Rhodes scholarship Trust based at to. Mona College in Claremont. The winners include a Baptist minister a student fluent in four languages. Four English majors five Politi. Cal science majors and two pre med students several scholars said they planned careers in education. Darcy d. Prather an inside linebacker at the mass a Chusett Institute of technology said sunday his even Tual goal is to Start a school in Chicago or St. Louis that would a address deficiencies of students in science and engineering a Prather will study politics philosophy and economics at Oxford. Harvard University had five scholars Yale had four and Williams College and the . Air Force Academy Quot each had two. Among the qualities sought in Rhodes scholars Are. Proven intellectual and academic excellence integrity respect for others ability to Lead and to use talents fully. A so a and  prowess. Applicants must be single and be new York not a Black garbage bags started piling up on the sidewalks in front of new York City businesses sunday As the 2,100 trash collectors in the teamsters Union local went on strike for higher pay. Union members who voted to strike a week ago but delayed the walkout at mayor David Dinkins request voted 360-117 to reject a new offer from the trash Naul ers in a secret ballot sunday morning. The haulers known As Carters normally dispose of 10,000 tons of waste a Day from 250.000 restaurants offices factories stores and other businesses As Well As construction and demolition Sites. Tote Industry in new York City has 475 carting companies with total operations exceeding $ i billion a year. No disruption was threatened for the collection of residential trash which is handled under separate Union tween the Ages of 18 and 24. A a it a renewing to be among so Many candidates this year who care about education and teaching Quot said Goodwin Liu a biological sciences major at Stanford University and a Tennis instructor. 1 Liu plans to study human sciences at Oxford. The University of Virginia a Brad Ronnell Braxton is a religious studies major who is already a licensed Baptist minister. He plans a career in the ministry and College teaching. / Sabina Alkire who majored in sociology at the University of Illinois worked in Pakistan India and Guatemala she Speaks Spanish hindi and urdu and plans to study theology at Oxford. Carl d. Marci a pre med student at Columbia University conducted a study last year for an aids support group that delivers hot meals to people with acquired a immune deficiency syndrome. He plans to major in Public health. / the Rhodes scholarships were established in 1902 by the estate of Cecil Rhodes a British philanthropist and colonialist who had hoped they would contribute to world understanding and peace. Scholarship winners have educational fees and living expenses paid. Vas contracts by municipal workers _ _ a garbage will be piled High again As it was years ago Saiq Bernard Adelstein Secretary treasurer of the striking Union local 813 of the International brotherhood of teamsters he was referring to the last trash haulers strike which ran for 17 Days in 1981some haulers will try to continue operating using supervisors and any Union members who report to work Sasia a in usury spokesman Brian a. Morris. A we do expect to work monday and get out As much equipment As we can Quot said Morns who represents the a Nate caning , composed of 35 major trash hauling companies. Union officials had warned that some companies would hire replacement workers but Morris said his group had no present plans to do that