European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday april 29, 1991 the stars and stripes a. Page 5wafer cops catch California by the associated press some Call themselves a drought busters a others prefer a water cop a but the people caught sprinkling and hosing when they  have far less flattering names for enforcing water rationing in California a a a woman i caught with her sprinkler running into the Gutter got so mad at me she wrote my Boss and said i was a a water Witch a a a said Rene Frenken whose title with the City of Palo Alto is a gush  Frenken patrolling Palo Alto which is South of san Francisco by bicycle would rather be known As a  v she and others Are taking to the streets from san Francisco to los Angeles m patrol cars on motor scooters and bicycles enforcing water rationing Dur ing one of the californians worst droughts. Now in its fifth year the drought is a year Short of being the state longest. Frenken like More traditional police officers says she can sniff out the crimes. A in the summertime when its really dry i can smell the water a she said. And i keep my ears open for the sound of sprinklers.�?�. Frenken a fellow gush Buster Max Killen says t he Job is not easy. A one time an elderly woman just kept screaming and screaming at me and All 1 wanted to to was Tell her her sprinkler was on a said Rillen who works from a moped l in has plenty of informants but also answers lots of false Larnt Calls. Penalties vary from City to City but fines for firs time water wasters Are generally about $50. In los Angeles a drought busters Quot who cruise neighbourhoods in patrol cars have issued More than 12,000 citations mostly for watering during forbidden hours. After four citations the City can turn off a customers water Supply for two Days. Chillicothe to. A a 69-year-old farm woman was sentenced to death saturday for helping her 76-year-old husband kill five transient farmhands As part of a bad Check scheme. Faye Copeland whose husband will be sentenced later for the five murders becomes the oldest woman in the nation on death Row said Pam Rutter program coordinator for the National coalition to abolish the death penalty. Livingston county circuit court judge e. Richard Webber imposed the sentence on mrs. Copeland following a 2 i hour hearing on motions aimed at getting her a new trial or easing her sentence. Among the unsuccessful motions was one asking the judge to disqualify himself because once during the trial he had eaten dinner at the same table with four or five sequestered jurors. Webber said he had dinner with jurors to Monitor whether they were following instructions not to discuss the Case. Mrs. Copeland was Given the death sentence on four counts of first degree murder and life in prison without parole on the fifth count. That sentence followed the recommendation of a jury after in the stars and stripes a two week trial in november. The judges Only options were the death sentence or life without parole. It she winced and cried when Webber pronounced the sentence. Moments ear Iier she pleaded that she is innocent. A i am not guilty of these charges and i want you to know it a she told the judge her attorney David Miller said in final arguments before sentencing that the prosecution never proved she had killed the drifters or wanted them dead. At most he said she aided and abetted her husbands scheme. A in november a jury convicted her in a swindle in which she and her husband Ray tricked transient workers into writing bad checks for cattle. According to prosecutors the Copeland promised $50 a Day plus room and Board to drifters willing to open checking accounts in their own names to buy cattle at livestock auctions. The Copeland pocketed $32,000 in Cash from 1986 to 1989 by reselling the cattle and the five men were each shot in the head and buried on property near the copelands�?T40-acre farm. Faye Copeland is led from court after having the death sentence imposed. 10years ago april 29,1981 a israeli jets rocketed syrian positions Downing two syrian helicopters engaged in War operations against Christian militiamen near Zahl in Lebanon scentral mountains government sources said. 20year s ago april 29,1971 a Hank Aaron became the third player in major league history to hit 600 Home runs belting no. 8 of the season against san Francisco. He trails Only babe Ruth 714 and Willie Mays 633 .30 years ago april 29,1961 a the United states countered a suggestion for talks from the Castro regime in Cuba by declaring that Quot communism in this hemisphere is not  state department officials quoted president Kennedy saying that american people Quot Are not complacent about Iron curtain tanks and planes less than 90 Miles from our  40years ago april 29,1951 a american businessman Robert a. Vogeler was released after 17 months in a hungarian jail and brought to his Vienna Home where his wife Lucille and two sons were waiting. Vogeler was convicted of espionage and sentenced to 13 years in prison. Peace activists told they can t March in Hollywood Parade for Gulf troops los Angeles up worried that veterans might be offended organizers of Hollywood a upcoming Parade to Honor Gulf War troops have decided not to allow peace activists to participate. Jerry Rubin said he and other members of Alliance for survival had planned to carry a Large scroll containing peace messages scrawled by what they claimed were a thousands Quot of activists in the May 19 Parade through Hollywood. But organizers of the a Welcome Home desert storm event say hundreds of veterans have called to object to War protesters joining the Parade. The extravaganza will include marching troops veterans groups and displays of tanks and missile launchers winding along Hollywood and Sunset boulevards. F in a statement Friday Parade producer Johnny Grant said a this is a Parade to Honor the military and veterans who have put their lives on the. Line countless times to preserve peace and Freedom. We will not offend the very people we Are trying to Honor. Or. Rubin and his organization will not participate. A a Rubin who is not related to another 1960s anti War activist said he was disappointed by the decision. He said it came after an earlier indication from Grant that the group could be included. Rubin said in a meeting thursday Grant showed him a Fetter from the los Angeles county veterans advisory commission which said it had adopted a re commendation that non military Parade participants be limited to family members of veterans. He said it a specifically and vehemently opposed having anti War or so called peace movement Quot groups. A Johnny said some of the veterans groups were threatening to drop out if we participated a Rubin said. It Felt like political blackmail. Why would they object we re Good people. We re americans and we want  Grant could not immediately be reached for comment. Don Weiss chairman of the advisory commission told the los Angeles times that other non military groups such As the boy scouts and an elks club had also been denied entry in the Parade. Weiss added that some veterans especially those from Vietnam expressed longstanding hostility against anti War activists a. A a a. A one motorcycle veterans group said put them in front of us a Weiss said. A another veterans group said put them behind us. I think they had an ulterior motive for wanting them close  Rubin said he Hopes to meet again with Parade organizers and also has asked the american civil liberties Union if his group can legally be excluded. A we should not be excluded because we opposed the use of Force in the Gulf. We re very glad that the troops Are alive and Home a he said. Suit filed in plane crash of Singer s band Dallas up a lawyers for a woman killed in the crash of a plane carrying county Singer Reba Mcentire a band have filed a $22 million negligence suit against the firms that chartered and owned the aircraft. The husband and parents of Singer Paula Evans Wallace sued in Dallas Quot county District court against prestige touring the Dallas firm that chartered the Jet and Duncan aircraft sales of Venice fla., which owned it. The suit charges Duncan with negligence for employing Don Holms and Chris Hollinger the Pilot and co Pilot. It contends that the two were not Well trained and did not accurately plan their flight causing the plane to plow into a Mountain about 25 Miles Southeast of san Diego shortly after Takeoff on March 16. The singing group was headed for an engagement in fort Wayne ind. Prestige touring is accused of negligence for chartering the Duncan plane which crashed killing 10 people a Wallace six of Mcentire a band the Road manager and the Crew. The suit seeks $10 million in putative damages and $10 million in compensatory damages for the singers husband. Larry Wallace 33. It also asks $2riillion in compensatory damage for her parents James and Hazel Evans of Garland Texas