European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 b the stars and stripes Friday May 3, 1991 Quayle Outing on of Jet reported weekend Golf trip Cost $27,000, lbs says Washington a vice president Dan Quayle took a $27,000 weekend golfing trip on an air Force Jet that left Only hours after president Bush promised a full scale review of taxpayer financed travel lbs news has reported. Quayle and transportation Secretary Sam Skinner played 18 holes last Friday at the Augusta National course Home of the masters tournament and 18 More on saturday before jetting Back to Washington the network said wednesday night. Lbs said they were guests of broadcasting executive Ron Townsend and were joined at Augusta by Arkansas financier Jackson Stephens a political Campaign contributor. Only Quayle and skin Ner flew on the government plane. Quayle spokesman David Beckwith said vice presidents have beef travelling on air Force planes As a Normal procedure for decades. A anytime he goes on any trip whether its for any purpose its on a governmental plane that a the Way the policy is set up and it has been for 40 years a Beckwith said. A so where is the news value in this a he continued. A this is another Media cheap shot at Dan the vice president does routinely trav scat air Force c-20 used by Quayle a counterpart to the civilian Gulf Stream lacked the a United states of american markings of others in the Fleet. A the network said the trip Cost $27,000, including $12,000 for flying time $10,000 for secret service and military travel expenses and $5,000 for meals and lodging for a five member air Force Crew. Meanwhile the Dallas morning news reported wednesday that 30 of 102 flights Commerce Secretary Robert mos Carly 1989 until last Gary Foster said in a statement however that Mosbacher paid for personal trips aboard the planes with a credit card. Those made to help in political campaigns were paid for by the campaigns themselves according to the statement. In a Menio released simultaneously Barbara Fredericks assistant general counsel for administration recalled that in 1964 the department received permission from Congress to accept a gifts and bequests to Aid and facilitate its a this authority has been used consistently by Commerce to accept donations Bacher took from Al aboard air Force planes for Security month were aboard private or corporate of transportation and travel expenses for reasons. Air planes. Official trips by Commerce secretaries a lbs reported that the particular 12 Commerce department spokesman them Mosaid. Lip at 1 designers say Kelley s Book full of untruths new York apr fashion plate sure. But a dragon lady to rival her old Friend Imelda Marcos no Way say the designers who helped keep Nancy Reagan on the Best dressed lists All those years. A a a a a. A a a a a a a Kitty Kelley so Nancy Reagan the unauthorized Biog Piyu asserts that the former first lady shamelessly solicited $1 million Worth of clothes from top Couturier during her eight years in the White House. Her a Kcf session with acquiring and possessing eventually led to the kind of excess practice a Only by women like Imelda Marcos and Leona Helmsley a the Book says. The designers Are de scribed As a willing to Bow and scrape for her patronage and the attendant publicity and White House invitations. New York designer Adolfo who makes mrs. Reagan a signature red knit suits called the Book a a travesty of unlike the greedy demanding client Kelley paints mrs. Reagan Isa a charming gracious lady a Adolfo said. And other designers a a rather than being pres Nancy Reagan sure were a a thrilled to serve her he said. A she knew her style and stayed with people shed been with for years a Adolfo said. I had been making things for her., since the �?T60s.�?� the Best Selling Book quotes Adolfo a former employee Oscar de Lavin As saying that mrs. Reagan got up to $100,000 Worth of outfits a year. De Lavin said the publicity boosted Adolfo a sales in one store alone by $100,000 in 1981, and sales shot up similarly elsewhere. Adolfo refused to estimate the value of the clothes that he loaned mrs. Reagan or the increase in sales but said de Lavin inflated both figures still he acknowledged that mrs Reagan a patronage was Good for business. A first lady a stimulates tastes and trends and that extent the publicity is valuable but not everyone wants to or cafe dress like her Quot Adolfo said. The lasting value is prestige he said a a it a simply a great Honor for a designer to dress a first lady any first lady not just Nancy Kelley claims new York designer Carolyne Roche was invited to White House dinners because she gave mrs. Reagan a Green and White ensemble. Roehm said that a just not True. Train with contaminated soil finally arrives near Utah site Salt Lake City apr a Load of contaminated soil that wandered the country in search of a dumping ground arrived thursday near a toxic waste site in Utah despite protests from environmentalists. Dogged by demonstrations and bad publicity As the cargo made its Way Down the East coast and across the continent Cox transportation which owns the soil had refused to reveal the trains whereabouts. The train arrived thursday morning in Tooele county Utah said Mark Burrell at the Utah division of environmental health. The soil is destined for a Landfill in the county 85 Miles West of Salt Lake City. Like the new York garbage Barge that wandered the Ocean in search of dump site in 1987, the train had become a Symbol of the nations waste problems. The 2,400 tons of soil were scraped from the ground surrounding a toxic train fire in Freeland mich., in 1989. The soil contains acrylic acid which is a pungent liquid acid and Trace amounts of other chemicals. The environmental Protection Agency As Well As Michigan and Utah authorities said the soil is not hazardous. However the Load was turned away in at least three states. The train travelled through Michigan Ohio West Virginia Kentucky Tennessee North Carolina and South Carolina in search of a dump site. Along the Way protesters chained themselves to he train. \ United states pollution control inc. Agreed to Dis pose of the soil at a desert Landfill in Tooele county where some 500,000 tons of hazardous waste from around the country was buried last year. The site is 80 Miles West of Salt Lake City. County officials have said they Are not worried of Jabout the soil. A in my opinion it is receiving a lot of unjustified publicity a said Joseph Trujillo environmental health specialist for the Utah health department. A the Public is concerned about a Hazard even though a Hazard does no to the environmental group Greenpeace called on gov. Norm Bangerter to turn the train away at the state line. John Liebman a spokesman for the group said a we need tougher regulation of the railroads so. That Tooele Utah. Or any other american Community should not have to live in fear of what is being shipped through their Francine Giani the governors spokeswoman said Bangerter would not try to Block the train. A the might be willing to Chain himself to the tracks in some instances a she said a but not this however Bangerter took the Opportunity to criticize Congress for failing to give states greater control Over such waste. Bangerter is chairman of the Western governors associations solid waste task Force and vice chairman of the National governors associations committee on Energy and environment. Alaska quake brings Spring a and $140,000 to 2 contestants Nenana Alaska up a the Earth quaked the ice broke and alaskans most popular guessing game ended As up Frig a a officially began wednesday. The ice broke up on the Tanana River at 12 04 a.m., just after a 6.6 magnitude or 6.0, depending on who is doing the measuring earthquake Shook the area and two alaskans who guessed the exact minute of the ice breakup will share the $140,000 Nenana ice classic pulse. Breakup on the River heralds the Start of Spring. A the earthquake was just enough to put some pressure on the ice a said Jan Blair manager of the Nenana ice classic. Alaskans pay $2 per guess to predict the Date hour and minute that the Tanana River ice will Start to go out tripping a specially rigged clock connected to a tripod on the ice. This was the 75th year that the contest was held. Although channels of water were beginning to form along the Banks hard ice still covered the River on tuesday leading Blair to conclude that the breakup was at least several More Days away. But the earthquake changed that. The quake hit at 11 18 . Tuesday. The epicentre was about 125 Miles Southwest of the town of Nenana near mount Mckinley. The quake was Felt from Anchorage to Fairbanks and caused scattered minor dam a aae at a dozen locations in Between. Blair was sitting in the Nenana ice classic watchman a Shack along the River when the quake rumbled through giving everything a Good shake but causing no immediately noticeable effect on the Frozen after the Earth Shook ice upstream began to crack and churn and break up into giant icebergs and move toward the town of Nenana where the tripod is mounted on the ice and rigged to a clock for the Annua guessing game. A somewhere up the River the earthquake probably jolted the ice and set it into motion Quot Blair said. She said a 5-acre piece of ice broke apart and pushed smaller pieces of ice toward the tripod. The River ice had been solid enough that Nenana ice classic officials predicted that the two most popular betting Days a april 30 and May 1 a would turn thou Sands of hopeful bettors into losers. The earthquake changed the makeup of the River Anc the outcome of the game. 6 a earthquakes Are fair game a Blair said. Of the 148,692 guesses purchased by the april deadline two alaskans chose the right minute. Lei Chamberlain of Mcgrath and Donna Edrington o North pole will split the $140,000 Jackpot. We Felt the quake pretty Good out Here for 40 Sec ends Chamberlain said recalling that he said a Ythi might do something for that ice and it did. _
