European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 19, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday March 19, -1991 the stars and stripes a. Page 7 trash collectors discover Over $70,000 in bag Cleveland up a a grocery bag stuffed with More than $70,000 in Cash and picked up by a garbage truck Driver was found at a suburban trash dump. Lawmen suspect the Money May be tainted a if not fake. Garbage workers say the bag was picked up March 9, apparently on a downtown route. The Money was discovered two Days later when a Bulldozer broke the bag at the Broadview Heights Landfill several workers reportedly took some Bills. Peter Dowling assistant agent in charge of the secret services Cleveland office said investigators Are trying to determine whether the $100 Bills in the bag were counterfeit. Dowling said he suspected the Money was either counterfeit or connected to drug trafficking because of the Large amount. Lou Bonacci an assistant prosecutor said the finder is not necessarily under a Legal obligation to return it unless serial numbers show the Money was stolen from a Bank. A a it a not a criminal violation to keep it though i think the moral obligation is there a Bonacci said. A if someone were to come Forward and say it was their Money then the finder would probably face a civil lawsuit for not turning it Over. A but the person who claimed they lost the Money had better have some really Strong proof that it belonged to them a Bonacci said. Workers at the dump were reluctant to talk about the find. Dowling understood Why. A you could be talking about an organized gang that a out this Money a Dowling said a whether its $20,000 or $70,000,  look to put someone on a Hook for it. This thing May have an unhappy  2nd meter reveals mayor As big user of Calif water a by the los Angeles times san Diego a mayor Maureen o Connor and her husband Robert q. Peterson consumed More than twice As much water at their Point Loma Home last year than City water officials and the mayor have previously acknowledged. The mayor s 1990 average daily water use a .1,248 Gallons a was so High that it would place her and her husband among the top 100 residential water users in the City. In the past the mayor and the City released figures suggesting that o Connor who strongly opposes mandatory water rationing had used Only modest amounts of water at the couple s 2-acre, wooded Home site. But officials have been making Public the figures from Only one of two water meters servicing the property. The second meter is listed in City records at a separate address. The second meter services a 73,616-Square-foot landscaped lot that contains the couples prize fishpond swimming Pool unused since the water crisis began of Connor said a and expanses of mature Trees. The second meter also accounts for More water use than the first according to figures of Connor supplied. A just remember i have two houses Here a of Connor said in an interview. A a it a just that the fish and the Trees live at  Paul Downey o Connors spokesman said a i done to think she knew there was a second meter until she went and  during the drought the mayor has argued that a mandatory reduction in water usage will Hurt the local Economy and pit City residents against each other. Of Connor has pressed for a voluntary conservation program that she Hopes will show a 30 percent savings during March. Her insistence on that approach to the water crisis has irritated other leaders in Southern. California and around the state where mandatory cutbacks Are largely the Rule Mike Gage president of the los Angeles department of water and Power commissioners has noted that san Diego which is 95 percent dependent on imported water consumes More Titan us a allotted share of metropolitan water District water. Of Connor s spokesman said that the mayor s efforts at  her Home should enhance her credibility in the Mandator is. Voluntary debate. �?o1 think if anything it will increase her credibility because she has put her consumption Lerere her Mouth  Downey said. A if everybody was As conscientious As she has been wed have no problems a o Connor released the Cor reeled water use figures after the los Angeles times inquired about the second water Quot meter operating on her Home site. O Connor s water consumption figures released publicly at least twice during the past year have appeared  they actually Are because the City a water Vitilio Connor ties department has counted Only consumption from the water meter lit the mayors listed address in Point  1990,o Connors residence consumed an average of 1,407 Gallons on the Section that contains her Home and 1,781 Gallons on the area that is primarily landscaped according to the mayor s statistics. That level is More than nine times the 349 Gallons consumed daily by the average single family Home in san Diego. However that rate was Down 12.8 percent from the 3,725 Gallons per Day that of Connor averaged in 1989. For the period of feb 13 to March 14 this year of Connor and Peterson registered an even More substantial savings of 51.5  the same period in 1990, according to figures Downey said were read ref the meters. The cutback was achieved by an overhaul of the couples irrigation system and when Rains came later in the month by turning off the sprinkler system Downey and the mayor said. A sex principal charged with record tampering Miami apr a former principal who led his school to a National excellence award has been charged with falsifying attendance and enrolment records. Michael Kesselman faces two Misdemeanour charges of falsifying Public records during the 1989-90 school year at North Beach elementary assistant state attorney Pam Thomas  done to. Believe Kesselman distorted the records but a got somebody else to physically do it a Thomas said. She declined to elaborate. Under state Law a person can be prosecuted for getting someone else to falsify Public records said Thomas who filed the charges last week. Kesselman a attorney Paul Rashkind said Kesselman will plead innocent. A i predict that these charges will be dismissed without a trial a Rashkind said. A and after that his records will be sealed.�?�. Kesselman who now teaches social studies at North Miami Beach High school declined comment. If convicted he could face a $2,000 Fine and up to two years in. Jail. The state might allow Kesselman to participate in a counselling program and do Community service instead of going to prison Thomas said. V the Dade county school Board will wait until Kesselman is arraigned next tuesday before deciding whether to proceed against him said Patrick Gray assistant superintendent in the office of professional standards. Even if Kesselman were convicted of the misdemeanours he would not automatically lose his state teaching License Gray said the Law applies Only to felony convictions he said. The state department of education is conducting its own investigation of Kes Selman but has not issued a final report. Gray said. Discrepancies in the records at North Beach elementary were reported last year by the Miami heralds Tropic Magazine. Three months earlier North Beach was named a National school of excellence by the . Department of a education in he school Board soon launched an investigation and a sept. 20 report found take report cards achievement test scores doctored to improve results and inflated attendance reports. In he report did not specifically blame Kesselman who denied any deliberate wrongdoing or anyone else. But As principal Kesselman was held responsible. I be was transferred to North Miami Beac High school the Day the report was released. A citing the school Board investigation the . Department of education stripped North Beach of the award on dec 3. A data on cold fusion invented. New York apr two scientists who said they had achieved a coitus Ion reaction in a test tube Experiment based the claim on a a invented data a physicist said in a new  author Frank close said b. Stanley Pons chairman of the. University of Utah chemistry department and Martin Fleischmann of Southampton University in England violated scientific ethics the new York times reported in its sunday editions. The two researchers dismissed the accusations. A we did nothing wrong a Fleischmann told the newspaper in a Telephone interview from his Home in  and Fleischmann startled scientists worldwide when they called a news conference March 27, 1989, to announce they achieved a nuclear fusion reaction in a test tube at room temperature. A nuclear fusion is the Force that Powers the Sun and stars through the merging rather than splitting of atoms. Achieving a fusion reaction requires millions of degrees of heat. If one could be generated at room or a cold a temperatures a nearly limitless Supply of cheap Energy could be developed. In his Book a top hot to handle Quot to be published in May by Princeton University press close said crucial evidence on which the cold fusion claim was based was so skewed As to have been  close a physicist and researcher holds top posts at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and the Rutherford Laboratory in Britain. All types of nuclear fusion produce a variety of byproducts including heat Gamma rays and neutrons. Pons and Fleischmann in a preliminary paper published shortly after their announcement said their reaction produced Gamma Ray readings of 2.5 million Electron volts or Mev. A the Reading they said  taken by Robert j. Hoffman a radiation safety officer at the University of Utah. But Hoffman told the times that the researchers used his data a any Way they liked without consulting him. And months later he said he discovered his measuring instruments had been faulty. According to closes Book Fleischmann presented the 2.5 Mev figure to scientists a few Days after the paper was published and they told him 2.5 Mev would not indicate cold fusion had been achieved. A few Days later in another talk he said the Reading was 2.2 Mev which was the  that would have been recorded in a successful cold fusion test the times said. Hoffman told the newspaper that because of his faulty equipment he does no to know what Mev reaction actually took place. Other scientists have been unable to duplicate the cold fusion Success Pons and Fleischmann had claimed. Pons could t he reached for comment. His lawyer told the l Imes the Book s assertions were unfounded. T Fleischmann said the two figures were simply the result of a change in calculation. Quot you always calculate a he said. A when you measure you have to convert it into an Energy you have to calibrate and calculate. In the preliminary note you cannot explain All