European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes a a sunday March 17, 1991 dry California searching for ways to stretch water from wire reports Sacramento Calif. A Urban legislators asked the Federal government Friday to Cut off most of its remaining water supplies for Northern California Farmers to defend the health of City dwellers and the environment in the midst of the 5-year drought. Their pleas came As the state water Board met to consider a proposal by gov. Pete Wilson a office aimed at lowering water Quality standards in the Sacramento san Joaquin River Delta to save water in Case the drought continues into 1992. However Wilson a drought task Force at the outset of the hearing scaled Down its proposals for water saving measures at the Delta a expense. Pointing out that Early March storms have changed the water picture it asked the Board to delay a decision until Early april when the situation will be clearer. De Huntley chief of the water planning division of the state department of water resources told the Board that Early March storms have changed califor Niass water situation slightly for the better. Wilson see quest for a lowering of Delta water standards was drawn up in late february at a time when it had not rained for almost a month Huntley said. The original request by Wilson a task Force dated March 1, would have set aside about 500,000 acre feet of water that otherwise would have flowed through the  proposal Friday Calls for about 350,000. The Bureau of reclamation reported that the Surprise storms in Early March have added about 1 million acre feet of water to the states major reservoirs though their Levels still remain Well below Normal for this time of year. An acre foot is the amount of water needed to cover 1 acre of land to a depth of one foot. It is 326,000 Gallons about the amount used in a year by five people in a single family House with a Small Garden. In a related item the Goleta water District selected a company Early Friday morning to ship Canadian water to this thirsty Santa Barbara county coastal Community by supertanker the first time such a drastic action has been taken in the United states. But contract negotiations with the company that was chosen and the permit process still stand Between go Leta and the costly water from British Columbia. A we Are committed to moving ahead with this a said Katy Crawford president of the water District Board. A the main thing that would Stop us is the permitting process which is horrific. But it has to happen within the next year because a year from May our Reservoir Lake Cachura will be  if Lake Cachura runs dry and no new water is available several Board members said there would be enough water for Urban use but agriculture would have to be Cut off. The result $52 million in lost crop value and 750 to 800 lost jobs. A under Normal circumstances the water District uses 16,000 acre feel of water each year today its 70,000 residents Are scraping by with 10,000. Mandatory rationing has been in place for nearly two years. The District plans to ship an estimated 7,500 acre feet of water a year from British Columbia an area that averages More than 150 inches of rainfall each year compared with Goleta a 6 inches in 1990. The project which could run up to seven years would Cost More than $22.5 million annually. Jazz great Freeman Dies at 84 Chicago apr Lawrence a a buds Freeman who helped make Chicago the jazz capital of the roaring �?T20s, died Friday of cancer. He was 84. Freeman a Tenor saxophone player was the last surviving member of the a Austin High gang Quot a group that forged the Chicago jazz sound of the 1920s. The group included such future jazz stars As Corn e t is Jimmy me part land who died wednesday clarinet St Frank Teschemacher and drummer Dave toughs a teen Ager. Freeman and his friends used to sneak into clubs to hear the likes of trumpeter Louis Armstrong and i Freeman Anist Earl a Ufa that Hines. 1 hey took what they heard changed it somewhat and created what was known As Chicago jazz. The group expanded to include people who did t attend Austin High Benny Goodman Eddie Condon and Gene Krupa. A a. Quot Bud was the last very influential musician of the �?T20s,�?� said Bob Koester owner of Chicago a jazz record Mart and Delmark records. A it was him and Coleman Hawkins who All the Young Tenor players listened to in the�?T20s and early�?T30s.�?� he added a there just weren to that Many Guys that Good with that much technique and that much  b a voracious Reader Freeman often would pick up a Book Between sets a habit that once led to an unlikely a raise v1. A. 1 a a a a a a  a. Freeman was playing in a mob owned club Koester said. A the Guy who ran the joint picked up his Book and could hardly get through it he figured anybody who could read stuff like that deserved a  Freeman played with a series of swing bands in the 1930s, including those of Goodman and Tommy Dorsey. From the late �?T30s on he usually led his own band. He lived in London for several years and performed throughout Europe and Asia before returning to Chicago in the Early 1980s. He made Many recordings the most popular of which were the eel and a Acra geology a which was also the title of his 1989 autobiography. Freeman is survived by a sister. 2 killed in my. Munitions blast by the Baltimore Sun Aberdeen proving ground my. Two munitions handlers were killed Friday morning when an explosion ripped through a munitions processing Bay Here while they were loading propellant into a Shell. The blast victims both civilians were identified As a Norman a Barcase 40, of Abingdon. Mya 17-year Veteran munitions handler. A John Zielinski 41, of Aberdeen md., who had been working with munitions Only a few months. Both were pronounced dead at the scene. Proving ground spokesman John g. Yaquiant said that the Accident occurred in one of several processing Bays at the East ammunition Assembly Plant one of two primary processing plants at the sprawling military facility. The deaths were the first munitions related fatalities at the 74-year-old proving ground in at least 30 years. A fall of the employees civilian and military kind of consider everyone As family Quot said col. , com Mander of the 1,800-Man combat systems test activity. To which the two men belonged. A this is a tragic exp nonce for us. We re going to do everything possible that we can for the families of these men a the colonel said that the two men were attempting to Load 12 to 13 pounds of m-30 powder propellant into unti link. Shell that has been used in recent bring tests of a new lightweight anti tank gun at the 1 rowing. Ground. The extra propellant was added to give the Shell a higher pressure required for the test bring. A. Touch added that Shell involved during the explosion was a a inert or without a fuse at the time of thy blast touch said that More than 100 similar shells had been processed in recent weeks without incident. I he munitions handlers were the Only people in the _u-toot-by-35--foot processing Bay at the time of the explosion which rocked the reinforced Concrete Walls of the Loo-foot-by-50-foot building. Five other people were in the building during the blast but were quickly evacuated by safety Crews w to responded to the scene i Here were no other injuries.2 women hit killed while walking from plane from wire reports Washington a two women a a passenger and a flight attendant a were killed Friday evening when they were struck by a  while walking from a commuter plane to a Gate at. Washington National Airport authorities said. The Accident occurred about 7 30 As passengers and Crew were leaving pan am flight 4779 from new York said David Fless a spokesman for the metropolitan Washington airports a. Hority. A a -. A Quot a a a a a a a the Northwest airlines  struck the two women just after they left the plane Hess said. The passenger Yvonne Lethem of Falls Church va., whose age was Given As about 45, was pronounced dead at the scene Hess said. The. Attendant identified As Isaura Lagos was taken by . Park police helicopter to Washington fio Spital Center where she was pronounced dead at 10 24 p.m., Hospital officials said. Her age was not Given. The four engine prop Jet which had just arrived from new York had parked about 70 feet from the terminal Hess  s approval drops Albany . A Public approval of gov. Mario Cuomo a performance has dropped to its lowest Point since he took office in 1983, according to a poll released  eight percent of those surveyed by the Marist College Institute for Public opinion said Cuomo was doing a Good or excellent Job while 27 percent said he was doing a poor Job and 25 percent rated his performance fair. It was the first time he received less than a 50-percent positive rating Institute director Lee Miringoff said. It the states budget crisis was largely responsible for Cuomo a drop in popularity Miringoff said. A a a. A Florida Law proposal Tallahassee Fla. A a House of ill Fame would be replaced in the states criminal Laws by the less vague term a House of prostitution under a Bill that cleared the Senate. The state supreme court struck Down a statute first adopted in 1868 against operating a a House of ill Fame a saying it found the term to be archaic and impermissible vague under the state Constitution. The statute fails to put people on fair notice of what is unlawful the court said.3 sentenced in . Trenton . A three people who pleaded guilty to burning a Cross on the Lawn of a Black family were sentenced Friday to prison and ordered to study the civil rights movement. . District court judge Anne e. Thompson said Lisa Pfettscher Theresa Kling and Gary a Agan must watch a pcs documentary on the civil rights movement called a eyes on the prize a read a companion Book and write a 25-Page paper on the topic. A r Ragan was sentenced to 13 months in prison and Pfettscher and Kling to nine months each. They were each fined $3,000 each and will be required to perform Community service. In addition Thompson the first Black to be appointed to. The Federal Bench in new Jersey ordered each of the defendants to write three 10 Page papers on leaders of the civil rights movement. A. The three defendants pleaded guilty to Federal civil rights charges in the burning of a 3-foot september on the Camden front Lawn of Paulette Mccormick. A week earlier Mccormick and her two daughters had moved into a House in the City a predominantly White Fairview  caution on travel Washington a the state department urged americans Friday to defer non essential travel to Yugoslavia because of heightened political tensions ethnic demonstrations and other disruptions. The department reported that incidents such As clashes Between police and demonstrators have occurred most recently in Belgrade and previously in Croatia Kosovo and Bosnia