European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday june 23, 1991the stars and stripes b Page 7many ways to say a i love you president Bush practices signing �?o1 love you with a group of deaf High school students at the White House on Friday. The students who come from throughout the nation won an oratorical contest sponsored by Gallaudet University. The Washington  University for the deaf was founded in 1856 and has an enrolment of 2,400, gets 2-year sentence Memphis Tenn. Apr the owner of a pair of killer pit Bull dogs was sentenced to two years in prison Friday despite tearful claims of remorse. The dogs owned by former policeman Edwin Hill attacked and killed his next door neighbor Betty Lou Stidham a 57-year-old schoolteacher. The sentence was the maximum Al Lowed on Hills conviction of criminally negligent homicide. A Hill sobbed on the witness stand at his sentencing hearing. He sought probation. A if i could take her place i would a Hill said of Stidham. Hill said he lost his House land he inherited from his parents in Mississippi and most of his other possessions in settling a $1.6 million lawsuit filed by Stidhams family. Hill said he lives now in a trailer in his former in Laws front Yard. He retired from the Memphis police department last year because of High blood pressure. Stidham was attacked in june 1990 As she walked across her Yard. Witnesses said the dogs Tore at her for 20 minutes before police pulled them away. Both animals were destroyed. The victim suffered More than 70 Biles and had Large chunks of torn flesh. She had complained to authorities about the pit bulls which were ruled Quot dangerous a several months before her death. The dogs had attacked her much smaller dog tearing off one of its  bees just have bad attitude College station Texas up a Texas a amp a University scientists studying the infamous a killer bees making their Way through Texas claim the pests Are not the crazed insects they have been made out to be. A Africa sized honeybees Are not killer bees a said Leon Praetorius director of the colleges Honeybee identification lab. A a they re just bees with a bad attitude. A these bees wont put up with people Messing with them but that does no to mean that they actively seek out people to kill a he said. Praetorius who examines bees for aggressive characteristics is one of several a amp a researchers studying the behaviour of Africani Zed bees. The school with the largest Apiary program in the state has become a focal Point for information and research on the bees. At least 71 wild swarms have been discovered along the Texas Mexico Border since april with colonies found As far North As Eagle pass and Laredo. No Bee related fatalities have been reported in Texas but the insects have caused an estimated 200 deaths in South and Central America since 1957, when Africani Zed Queen bees accidentally escaped a brazilian lab said John Thomas an a amp a entomologist. A Brownsville Man in May became the first person in the United states to be stung by the Africani Zed bees but he survived. Valdez water treatment Plant accused of dumping wastes Anchorage Alaska a the state and Federal governments Are investigating allegations that Oil companies arc improperly dumping wastes from tankers into the water treatment Plant in Valdez. If True the practice could cause hazardous waste to spill into Valdez Harbor site of the Exxon Valdez Oil spill because the Plant Isnit equipped to handle All types of pollutants Oil Industry critics say. The investigations were begun after Charles Hamel a longtime foe of the Oil Industry said several months ago that tankers were bringing hazardous wastes to the water treatment Plant. The allegations also have prompted rep. George Miller d-calif., to ask the general accounting office to investigate practices at the Plant. Miller chairs the House Interior committee. This is not the first time allegations have been made about dumping wastes at the Plant which separates Oil from ballast water used to stabilize tankers in route to pick up North slope crude Oil in Alaska. Hamel made similar charges in the mid-19k0s, but the environmental Protection Agency investigated and found no proof. Hamel and others say that investigation was inadequate. An Epa official said the Agency decided to take up the matter again in part because the Agency realized it did not fully understand shipping practices and was unaware of some liquids that were being brought to the Valdez Plant. Hamel notified the Agency several months ago that the liquids a Tanker washings transferred Between ships a were being sent to Valdez. The washings Are a mixture of Oil water and sometimes detergent that results from the cleaning of cargo tanks. A we were surprised and we done to like to be surprised a said Gregg Kellogg who oversees compliance with water permits for the Epa in Seattle. Kellogg said the Epa has not decided if the plants water permit forbids the treatment of transferred Tanker washings. But he said the Epa is studying the liquids to see if they should be discharged into the Plant. Alyeska pipeline service co. A the Oil company consortium that operates the Plant a contends it has not violated its permit by treating Tanker washings or other substances. Alyeska spokeswoman Mamie Isaacs said most of the trouble comes because the Plant s water permit is vague in certain respects. She said she believed some concerns arose simply because Alyeska has done a lot of sell policing. She said fhe permit requires the company to test what is discharged from the Plant Lor example and regulators rarely did their own testing. A a that sets a perception that its not credible a Isaacs said. A it s understandable but its not  Yii Ile the Epa conducts its investigation the Agency is requiring Alyeska to get permission each time tankers want to discharge the transferred washings