European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday february11, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 9 suspicious fires damage churches in Florida from wire reports a Winter Haven Fla. A. Investigators Are searching for links Between arson fires Ait six churches in this Central Florida town in the past Fleck and three suspicious blazes at churches in Orlando and this number of fires involving churches is unusual to us a said Don Steverson chief of the fire and arson investigations Bureau at the state fire marshals office in Tallahassee. A a we be seen no relationship yet but its a logical matter for us to investigate a he said. A the latest fire occurred Early Friday at the state Headquarters of the Christian missionary Alliance outside Orlando. A fall we have is a Shell that is All that a left a said Harry Arnold Southern District superintendent of the fast growing fundamentalist denomination of 97 churches in Florida and the Bahamas. There were no injuries in any of the fires. Amp teen convicted Rochester . A a teen Ager was convicted of murder for causing a 90-year-old woman to have a fatal heart attack during a burglary of her Home. John c. Howard 19, of Rochester was found guilty in Monroe county court on Friday of murder and six other charges for the april 1990 death of Joanna Metz during an Early morning break in at her Home. Howard was also convicted of burglar izing another elderly woman a Home the same morning. He will be sentenced March 11 and faces a maximum sentence of 32vi years to life. Howard and two other Young men charged in Metz a death were not accused of directly attacking the elderly woman who had a heart condition. Instead they were charged with causing her death by terrorizing her when they ransacked her Home ignoring her pleas for heart medication. Bridges Wickliffe by. A seven Railroad Tanker cars derailed saturday on an Ohio River Bridge and two ruptured spewing Antifreeze and Oil into the water a state official said. The Illinois Central Gulf train was travelling West from Kentucky to Illinois when it derailed said Mark Mcdaniel of the state division of disaster and emergency services. No injuries were reported and the cause of the Accident was under investigation. The Tanker that spilled Antifreeze overturned on the Bridge in a Rural area Between Wickliffe and Cairo 111. Sex congressman Dies Lakewood . A Harry Lancaster Tower a former congressman and Deputy attorney general of new Jersey died Friday at his Home in Lakewood . He was 92,. Towe a Republican was first elected to the House of representatives from the 9th District in new Jersey in 1942.a member of the armed services committee he served in four succeeding congresses until he resigned in september 1951 to become special Deputy attorney general for Bergen he held that position until 1953, when he resigned to enter private Law practice. Morgue Driver charged Gastonia . A a Man who delivered bodies to the Gaston county morgue allegedly stole a dead Many a automatic Teller card and shared out his $500 account police said. Richard Carl King 27, who picked up bodies for King transport of Gastonia was charged Jan. 29 with financial transaction card theft and Larce any said Belmont police it. . May. On Jan. 9, King transported the body of Donald Walker to the morgue at Gaston memorial Hospital May said. The next Day. Walkers family reported his Wallet was missing. ,. King 27, allegedly stole the card Quot in walker�?Ts1, Wallet and withdrew the Money from his savings. Account police said. Ism chief gives Brown u. Historic $25 million gift by the new York times Thomas j. Watson.jr., chairman emeritus of International business machines corp. And former . Ambassador to the soviet junion once told by amp Dean a it does no to look promising for you in College a gave $25 million to his Alma mater Brown University. The gift $10 million in Cash and the rest in bequests is the largest contribution in the 227-year history of the University president Vartan Gregorian said. V to acknowledge Watson a generosity and 45-Ycar involvement with the University the Brown corporation voted to rename the University a Institute for International studies for Watson. Over that period Watson has served As trustee and visit and vice Chancellor. The Institute was established in 1986 and consists of 13 affiliated centers and programs including the Center for foreign policy development which researches ways to improve relations Between the United states and the soviet Union. Watson 77, graduated from Brown located indy evidence . In 1937. He has been the University a most generous donor. His first contribution was $750 in 1946, when he was named a trustee Watson said in a Telephone interview from his office at in my a Arrn Onk ., Headquarters. His donations have continued and grown since than. And now total More than $42 million. Gregorian who headed the new York Public Library from 1981�?~to 1988, when he took Over at Brown said the $25 million gift would help Start a Campaign to raise As much As $500 million for the University a endowment. That would More than double Browne a current endowment estimated at $400 million. The University a endowment fund is the smallest of any of the eight colleges or universities in the Ivy league. The endowment at Yale University for example is $2.3 billion. Yale Lias nearly 11,000 graduate and under graduate students As against Browns total enrolment of 7,000. Harvard with a total enrolment of about 18,000, has the largest endowment in the Ivy league and in the nation with $5 billion. The size of its endowment Means Brown faces More difficulties than other similar institutions in this time of rising costs. Otter universities can rely on substantial interest in come from their endowments to balance their budgets. Brown must generate moist of its Revenue through tuition and fees. The Cost of an undergraduate year at Brown including tuition fees and room and Board is slightly More than $20,000. Gregorian said the University faces a $2.7 million budget deficit this year. So far he has a Hjad $1.3 million from the president s contingency fund toward the deficit and has imposed a hiring freeze that is expected to result in savings of up to $900,000. The remaining $500,000 will come from cuts in funds for non academic areas he said. Wat sort the son of a founder of ism ran the coi Spany from 1956 to 1971. In his memoirs a father son amp co.,�?T published last year he describes four years at Brown unfettered by the Rigours of academic life or to Lac economic hardships of the depression. Thomas a Watson or. Florida jury recommends life for convicted sex Stark Sailor Jacksonville Fla. Apr a july saturday recommended life in prison for a former Sailor convicted of murdering two people and. Blaming the slayings on the trauma of seeing shipmates killed in a missile attack several weeks earlier. Walter Thomas Taylor or. Will be sentenced on March h. The jury heard five hours of testimony before rcom mending two life sentences and no Chance of parole for at least 25 years. Taylor 24, was convicted Friday of two counts of first degree murder in the aug8, 1987, slayings of acquaintance Paula Smits 21, her 3-Ycar-old daughter Amanda. F a. The defense tried to spare Taylor from the death penalty by linking the murders to a May 1987 iraqi missile attack on Taylor a ship the guided missile frigate Stark. The explosion and fire that resulted killed 37 of his shipmates. Taylor a lawyer claimed he was suffering from Post traumatic stress syndrome when he took a Hammer and beat the it woman and her daughter two Days after the ship returned to Mayport. Taylor showed no emotion As the recommendation was read. A a prosecutors contended Taylor killed the woman after raping her then killed the 3-year-pld because she witnessed the crime. Taylor was never charged with rape. Former Sailor Walter Thomas Taylor or. Shows Little emotion after being convicted of two murders. Fort Dix . Up a poor timing and heightened fears of War inspired terrorism landed a dominoes pizza deliveryman and his Friend in jail for joking they were delivering a bomb not pizzas to this army base. State police said Dennis Siciliano 29, drove his unmarked jeep to Gate 1 at fort Dix on thursday and when a guard routinely asked what wife inside Siciliano replied a a the guard immediately called military police who continued to question Siciliano a Driver for a dominoes franchise in Cookstown and passenger Paul l. Sexton,37. A Quot a a when they asked the passenger if there was a bomb in the Back he said a i done to know. I guess you better have a look a a state Edward Verbeke said. A this is certainly not the time or the place for pranks a Verbeke told the Trenton times. Maps trained their guns on the pair and ordered them out of the jeep. The state police bomb squad was summoned the area around the jeep was evacuated the bases Entrance and exit were sealed and the Highway in front of the base was closed. Only when the bomb squad arrived did Siciliano and Sexton insist it was All a joke Verbeke said. State police found two pizzas that were to have been delivered to the base but no bombs. The base was reopened after a half hour. Sexton of new Hanover township and Siciliano of Pemberton Borough were taken to the Burlington county jail and charged with making terroristic threats. They were released after posting $1,000 bail each. _
