European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 03, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday april 3, 1991 the experimental rocket motor for the Titan in program explodes during a test firing at Edwards fab Calif. Experimental rocket explodes in Titan program test firing from wire reports Edwards fab Calif. A an experimental rocket motor being tested for the Titan in program exploded monday during its first test firing officials said. There were no injuries and the explosion represented no danger to communities near the Antelope Valley base 90 Miles Northeast of downtown los Angeles base spokesman Dennis Shoffner said it was not known Quot what went wrong be said. Damage was confined to the immediate area the 110-foot rocket motor was to be a statically fired a or held in a stand while its thrust and pc Tor Munce were measured Shopfner said. / a the whole reason that you test is to find out How things Are going Quot he said. A a in a sure Well learn a lot from  a this was the first in a series of five tests that we planned to conduct to develop and qualify a new solid Roe act motor for the Titan in launch vehicle a said col Frank Stirling the Titan in program director this was a Tull scale motor test firing he said with a planned thrust of 1,7 million pounds. The motor was 10 5 feet in diameter and weighed 770,000 pounds the program is testing motors to improve their Relia Bilty and performance Stirling said. More than 3 Miles away Kern county fire department capt Randy Kitt said he was in his station when he heard a a big Boom and Felt a big Roll my kind of quaking motion at the time of the firing. The incident generated a White column of smoke that reached thousands of feet into the sky Kitt said. The upgraded motor is intended to allow the Titan in to carry larger heavier payloads. It was designed to be 25 percent More powerful than the current Titan Booster the base said earlier. Companies involved in the air Force test were Martin Marietta corp. And Hercules aerospace col Quot last september a Section of a Titan in Booster fell from a Crane at the test site  fire killing a worker _ a Connecticut to Lay off workers Hartford Conn. A gov Lowell p. Weick or or. Said monday he plans to begin laying Oft 2,616_ state employees this week. Weicker said he hoped state employee unions will agree to give backs in talks later this week and avoid the need for any layoffs beyond the 938 already called for in his proposed budget for the year beginning july 1. A the Layoff process has started unfortunately a _ Weicker said during a news conference a this whole exercise is total anathema to me a Weicker repeatedly has said layoffs would be a last resort used Only if the unions did no to agree to $400 Mil / lion in concessions. The administration had pushed for wage freezes health Benefit cuts and changes in pension funding Quot. _ attorney Robert Krzys representing a coalition of 45,000 Union state employees denounced weickers announcement As precipitous and deplorable Tuhcic Wall be a a lot of families sitting around their Kitchen tables wondering How they re going to pay their Bills a kr7ys said. Counting layoffs already in his proposed 1991-92 budget the states 53,463-Mcmbcr work Force would be reduced by 3,554 under the latest plan. New Orleans police chief named new Orleans apr a 26-year Veteran of the new Orleans police department was named superintendent of the Force monday and said getting More uniformed officers on the streets will be his first priority. A Arnesta  assistant superintendent since 1986, replaces Warren Woodfork who retires april 15. _ a a intend to have every police officer in this City in uniform and out on the streets at least part of the week a Taylor said. Quot visibility will be a lop  Sidney Barthelemy said he received 68 applications for Ihbe Job and interviewed 33 candidates in eluding 12 from outside the department. The mayor said Taylor s knowledge of the department and of police work was a major Factor in . A i was looking for someone who can provide leadership to the department and who can convey to the Public that the police department  Good and Tough and will tackle crime head on Quot Barthelemy said  newspaper goof leads to mis timing on Island _ from wire reports. Time and tide wait for no Man. And this was doubly True sunday on Martha a Vineyard. All Over the Massachusetts Island people were popping up one hour earlier than expected. _ _ Why in Friday the Vineyard Gazette the islands prize winning newspaper published an am Cle on Page 1 that read a sunday is easter Day. It is also the first Day of Daylight saving time.�?�. Awell it was easter sunday but the Gazette was a week Early in announcing Daylight time the Rev. Peter r. Sanborn who. Knew the paper was wrong showed up an hour Early for Sunrise services and got to the Community Baptist Church in Gay head at 5 . To open the Church for worshippers who had set their clocks ahead at the la Etoile restaurant people who had i . Reservations showed up for Brunch at noon Michael Brisson the owner and chef was there but not quite ready. He called the Telephone operator to see what time it really was. Richard Reston the papers editor and co pub a scr said monday a a in be been in hiding All  he said it was All the  the Eldridge tide and Pilot Book the seamen a Bible for 117 years and the gazettes source. A we goofed a said 1 Marion Jewitt White the books publisher m Bose. Ton. She explained that  the first Sun Day in april the real Start of Daylight time a with the last sunday in March. A. A a a. Activists plead innocent Bath Maine a five peace protesters including Vietnam War Era activist Philip Berri Gan pleaded innocent to criminal trespass charges monday following a protest in which a blood pc liquid was poured on a warship. The five refused Bath District judge Paul a Macdonald a offer to each sign a $1,000 unsecured Hond and were returned to Penobscot county jail / they were arrested without resistance after the incident on the Gettysburg a Ticonderoga class guided missile Cruiser being built at Bath Iron works for the Navy. The ship is scheduled to be completed Friday and commissioned m june. Police said banners critical of the Navy a Aegis Cruiser and Tomahawk missile programs were. Hung from the ship. _ medicaid report issued Washington a medicaid the health program for poor people pays doctors much less than either medicare or private health insurers for the same services and As a result Many doctors Are refusing to take medicaid patients a Federal advisory commission said. In a report to Congress the panel the phys. Cian payment review commission said medicaid pays doctors 69 percent of what medicare pays and an even smaller proportion of what Pri vate insurers pay. / forty four states have problems getting doctors to participate in medicaid and a flow fees were cited As the most common Factor in discouraging participation a the commission said. Medicare the Federal health insurance program for 33 million elderly and disabled people has a much stronger political constituency than medicaid a Federal state program for 27 million Low in come americans including 13 million  patient missing Newtown Conn. A a the woman who claimed to be David letter Many a wife and broke into his new Canaan Home seven times is missing from a state mental Hospital a nursing supervisor said. Margaret Ray who was undergoing treatment at Fairfield Hills Hospital was found to be missing. Sunday said nursing supervisor Wayne Prescott. A Ray of Crawford,.colo., left a note saying she was returning to Colorado and would not bother the talk show Host anymore Prescott said. Sgt. Nick Warren of the new Canaan police said his department was a aware of her absence from the Hospital and Well take appropriate Steps to safeguard or Letterman a property Ahe declined to be. More specific Quot Ray was arrested six times on charges of breaking into Letterman a Home she was first arrested in 1988 when she was found driving let Termanas porsche in new Jersey