European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday june 11, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 7seek $11 million for Security Washington apr the nations Federal judges fresh from a 40 percent pay raise Over the last two years now want taxpayers to spend More than $11 million to buy them Home Security systems cellular telephones and Remote car starters. A they re also asking. Congress to exempt them from local gun Laws so judges can carry firearms. The reason three Federal judges have been killed at Home in the last 12 years and Many of their 1,900 colleagues fear they could be attacked As Well. A the judge seems to be the focal Point a said District judge William d. Browning of Tucson Ariz. Chairman of the judges Security committee. A people get angry at a judges decision who had nothing to do with the but Browning and other fudges concede that Home Security devices would not have saved their three murdered colleagues. Installing the Home Security equipment for All Federal appellate District and bankruptcy judges and magistrates would Cost $ 11,267,000, the . Marshals service estimates. The judges asked attorney general Dick Thornburgh to put the Money in the marshals budget. But Thornburgh refused and suggested the judges themselves ask Congress for the Money. Arming judges is not popular among . Marshals who protect courthouses and guard judges around the clock whenever they Are threatened. The question of protecting off duty judges became a Imor Issue alter 11th circuit court judge Robert Vance was killed by a bomb mailej.1 to his Home in a Birmingham. Ala. Vance died dec. 16. 1989. But that evening lives on a larger than life among the. Judges. A that was our Pearl Harbor Quot said District judge Stanley Sporkin a Security committee member from Washington. A Are we going to have to lose another Guy or two before somebody does something a indeed. 11th circuit chief judge Gerald b. Tjoflat of Jacksonville. 1-la., still remembers the Calls lie made that Christmas season saturday to warn other 11th circuit judges. A we were scared to death that somebody. Especially the ones that were out would come Home and pick up a similar package a Leo that said. Tolat later told Brownings committee he had trouble getting a marshals service coordinator in Washington to help him Contact the other judges. Quot if Niy hair could have it would have stood straight up when i heard about it from Tjoflat. Sporkin said. Sporkin was so upset about the problems in passing the warning that when he talks about it now he recalls it took 48 hours to Contact them All. In. Fact Tjoflat says it took nine. Prom Vance s death until an arrest was made teams of marshals guarded the 11th circuit judges around the Dock a among-443 such details last year afterwards the coordinator was reassigned and the . Judicial conference declared a a state of emergency Quot m the Security of judges outside facility in Massachusetts called dangerous Boston apr the reactor vessel it Yankee Rowe the nations oldest operating nuclear Plant is Brittle with use and could rupture two nuclear regulatory commission staff members warn. One official said the situation at the Western Massachusetts Utility is a extremely serious and very dangerous and could Lead to an Accident involving a Large release of radiation the Boston sunday Globe reported. The official was identified Only As a senior arc official with responsibilities for nuclear Plant safety. 1 his comments echoed concerns voiced last fall by Pryor Randall an official of the no cd a reactor regulation Section Randall said Yankee rowers operation presented a a a Gamble incompatible with arc safety guidelines. At the time Yankee Rowe was out of service for refuelling. Randall recommended the Plant remain closed according to a transcript of a september meeting of the a Rcd a advisory committee on reactor safeguards. The Globe said Plant critics released the transcript last week. A a a y a a Quot Quot a Randall told the committee that the plants pressurized water reactor vessel was a quite a uncertainties Are probably worse than any other Plant a he said. The unidentified official said Yankee rowers reactor vessel Wall could rupture because radiation bombardment has made it vulnerable to High temperatures. Yankee rowers 40-year License expires in the year 2000, and owner Yankee atomic is expected to seek a 20-year Extension. A. Aii Polly Wanna Cone Roy Nelson of Brooklyn Center minn., and his pet in Caw Parrot find a Way to beat the summer heat. The two shared an ice Cream Cone at a Dairy Queen in min Neapolis this past weekend. See Detroit up a Detroit Man will be reunited this week with the daughter that resulted from a world War ii Romance but whom he has not seen in 45 years. Wallace p. A a Nick Nichols was a 20-year-old . Soldier on leave when he met Ivy Pearson at a dance in England in 1943. They became lovers and two Days before a Day their daughter Jean was born. That was when Pearson told Nichols that she was married and her husband was with the British army in India. Nichols tried to bring Jean to the United states but Pearson insisted on keeping the child in Birmingham England. Now 69, Nichols has not. Seen Jean since 1946, when she was about 2 years old. Jean Aske now lives with her husband a construction worker in Birmingham. three grown children and two grandchildren. On wednesday after a Long search she will be reunited with her father in Detroit. Aske told the Detroit free press that she was encouraged by her Stepfather Art Pearson to track Down her biological father. She said her Mother rarely spoke about Nichols a l Art Pearson suggested Jean Contact the . Embassy in London or try to get names of veterans groups. Wary of the outcome she put off the search. Then Aske bought a list of names and addresses of . People surname Nichols a More than 44.0 h in All. She wrote letters to those named Wallace or with a a we As a first initial. There were about a dozen of them. Nichols wrote Back immediately saying a yes in a the line a and the two began planning a reunion. In the intervening years Nichols who spent 23 years in the army was married had a family and divorced. His six children Quot Ages 28 to 38, live in Detroit. Nichols said he often thought of his British daughter and whether she. Would try to find him. A i knew she would he said. A girls have a Way Quot of wanting to know their daddy a floridians ready to jump All Over huge Bufo toads Miami up a Spring Rains have spawned an invasion of giant Bufo toads in Southeastern Florida and homeowners Are hopping mad. A a in a going to have a War. In a going to have operation desert Bufo a said Isabel Pfau whose Yard in Plantation gardens has been invaded by the plump and poisonous Bufo Marinus. A a in a going to the police department to ask if i need a permit for a by the toads moan and ribbed All night. When frightened they secrete a Milky White toxin called Buote nine from glands behind their eyes. The Poison can sicken Small children and kill pets. It causes severe irritation to the Eves and mucous membranes of adults. The Bufo takes defense a step further by emptying its intestines w Hen attacked. The toads Range from 5 to 9 inches Long and weigh from a Quarter to a full Pound. In Well fed Captivity they have tipped the Scales at 5 pounds. Quot in a afraid that a Toad that size could actually ingest a Small Newborn Puppy or Kitten Quot said George dal Rymple a herpetologists at Florida International University who has noted the Bufo explosion in his own Yard the wet weather Lias coaxed the titanic toads out from underground Burrows for a spate of Breeding and. Feeding. The habitat ranges from the Amazon Basin to coastal Texas. It was brought to Florida to Battle insects in the 1930s and 940s but. Experts attribute its spread mostly to an animal importer who acc Dently released a shipment of 100 Bufo toads in the Miami area in 1955. A a
