European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse In ill Indiana Indianapolis Gary ind. Apr a rash of seven Shotgun killings has prompted residents to carry guns or stay indoors at night As police try to Nab the killer. Gun sales Are skyrocketing in the largely Blue Collar area of Northwest Indiana after the slayings within a 20-mile radius since late october. At jacks gun shop in Burns Harbor sales of fire arms and ammunition have jumped fivefold since last week owner Jack Batz said thursday. Quot we saw a big increase because people realize these Are senseless killings a Batz said. The latest victims were Brothers Ilija a Deli Quot Balowski and George Balovski who were killed with Shotgun blasts to the head in their Gary tailor shop tuesday the store is just Down the Street from a Pawn shop where owner Robert i Bicci has . A a life a too Damn precious for this kind of junk a said Ribicki who carried 9 .38 Colt revolver strapped at his Waist just under his jacket. Quot i just Hope they catch this Guy i done to care if they blow him away a police believe the killings were carried out by the same gunman. They were looking for a Man described As Between 20 and 35 years old Portage police sgt Warrene Lewis said. Quot we have evidence to tic All the shootings together. We have several suspects at this time a Lewis said a i can to say that we arc close to an he declined to discuss the evidence but sources said Shell casings from the latest killings match those from earlier slayings. A special police unit was formed to investigate the shootings that occurred in a parking lot at Gas stations a garage a Motel a Bank and of the Street. Ribicki who Sells a various merchandise including shotguns says All five people working there carry guns. Some people done to Welcome the increase in people carrying guns. �?o1 can see some poor sucker getting his head blown off approaching a car to ask for directions to Burger King said Willy Carbins 40, who was waiting for Nis teen age son to get off work at a Gas station less than a Block from the site of the latest shootings. The Shotgun killings began oct 30, when a Man and a woman were gunned Down and at least three other people were fired at in separate incidents in the nearby towns of Griffith St. John and Cedar Lake. Then there was a Lull broken with the dec. 13 death of a Man working at a Gas station in Portage. That was followed by the slayings saturday of a nyan and a woman in separate attacks in Portage and Gary and the fatal shooting of an Indiana toll Road collector the same Day. Some in this steel Mill City on the Southern Shore of Lake Michigan were Blase about the string of a that a not uncommon. In Gary people go around killing each other for no reason a said local resident Denise Moss 23. A people Are just nervous just scared and people have a reason to be a said Louis Ruffin 44, who did electrical work for the slain Brothers. Police scorch Elias tailor shop in Gary ind., for dues in the double murders of etl and George Balovski. Rocky John Center eyes a package that Santa with the help of the air Force has just brought to Arctic Village Alaska Arctic Village Alaska a on a c-13q Hercules transport plane headed North across the Arctic Circle air Force sgt. Carl Warrings donned his Santa suit and practice his who to _. A half hour later lie and 1,5 0q pounds of Christmas presents a in eluding a Community washing machine a were lowered onto the Frozen Tundra outside this a Wichy in Indian Village a few dozen Small children bundled in furs and snowsuits waited with their parents. It was 45 degrees below Zero warmer than its been Herd All month. A this is Good. Usually when Santa comes its really cold a said kias Peter the villages traditional chief. The kids flocked around Santa when he appeared out of the belly of the Green plane. 01 Saint Nick then stepped on the Back of a dog sled and was pulled the mile or so into town by a a a it was the 24th consecutive year the air Force has brought gifts Goodwill and Santa Claus from Elmendorf fab in Anchorage to the 125 residents of Arctic Village. The Village is 500 Miles North of Anchorage and More than 100 Miles North of the Arctic Circle. In return the Village threw its annual Potlatch feast to Welcome the plane Caribou Stew salted Caribou dumplings Whitefish and other local delicacies were spread out on a table inside the Village school. A the whole Village participates a men women children everyone, Margaret Tritt the school Cook who supervised the dinner for More than 100 people on dec. 10. Be also brought the washing machine and fixings for a Christmas feast. Annie got a toy piano keyboard and Sang a silent night with it. Her Friend Crystal Frank 8, got two cassettes by new kids on the Block her favorite singing group. Five Wear old Rocky John got a jacket All 54 children got Candy. Parents had sent their children a Christmas wish lists to Elmendorf where the ,17th tac Airlift so organizes the annual visit with help from the officers wives club this year Santa a gifts to Arctic vib Lage Cost about $2,000, most of it raised at a Chili Cook off last fall said 1st it. Robert Allen the c-130�?Ts Pilot. The a Wichy in Are an athabaskan Indian group. M on cancer Gene Washington a two research groups reported thursday they have closed Ilion a Gene that increases susceptibility to breast cancer in some families. May Claire King of the University of California at Berkeley said that in a Nee dec in a Haystack quest for a Gene linked to the disease her research group has narrowed the search to a specific Chromo a some.,�� a a a a a a we re now at the Point of knowing the handful of Hay in which this Needle lies As opposed to having to search through the whole Haystack a a she said. Means Lille a research team from the University of Utah health sciences Center found that proliferative breast disease a condition connected to developing breast cancer has been found to be inner led in some families. A based on this study we believe the. Genetic susceptibility to breast cancer is More common than previously thought said or Mark a Skolnick of the Utah group. ,. Both groups have been studying families with Large numbers of breast cancer cases. The studies were being published Friday in the journal science Skolnick and King said their studies could Lead to tests enabling women with known cancer risks based on their family histories to be treated even before Small tutors form a the Jong term goal of this kind of work is to try to develop diagnostic techniques that will allow the detection of aberrant cells in the breast at an extreme it in Early stage a King said a those cells could be removed and the woman can go on with a Normal life.�?�. With such tests used widely she said a it w Ould be possible that there would be no mortality from breast King said that even when the Gene is found it w ill not be the final Story in inherited breast cancer risk. She said that a combination of genes is involved in Devi. Oping the disease and that still other genes May permit the cancer to grow and proliferate., a a a
