European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday june 26, 1991 the stars and stripes Quot x ski is it amp a it it Eugenie Lang on monday congratulates Mildred Gonzales 17, for graduating from High school. 7 0 years later dream to Aid poor students new York apr if actor Burt Lancaster had answered the phone a decade ago millionaire Eugene Lang might never have hatched his nov la Mous plan to Spur poor youngsters to go to College. At a 10th anniversary gathering monday at the East Harlem Public school where he founded the a i have a dream project the industrialist recalled that he was not the first Choice to make the commencement speech in 1981. The school wanted a a a celebrity graduate and picked Lang Only after several unsuccessful attempts to reach Lancaster who had attended the school. During the speech Lang uttered to pay the Tui Tion of any students then in sixth Grade at his Alma mater. Public school 121, who finished High school and went on to College or technical school. Back then the District had a 60 percent dropout rate. The principal told Lang he  Lucky to gel two students. But Lang said 45 completed High school and 32 went on to College. His program mushroomed into the National i have a dream foundation with some 141 sponsors and 10,001 students. Lang 71 said it occurred to him that a Oil Burt Lancaster had answered the Telephone a the program a might never have  fort  f. 11a. Up sonar tee uni a cans will join a fall expedition in search of Amelia Eai a Hart s air plane believed to be 2,000 Leet below the Parilie Ocean surface near the Remote Island of Nikuma Roro. The port l Alderdale division of Ocea Neering a Houston company specializing in High Tudi sonar has been hired to help find the plane company officials said Mon. Day. A just locating the plane would be a big thing alter All. These  said Rick Morgan manager of of Caneer Inge sport i Alderdale Olliee. Ocea Neering w ill work w Ith 1 he International Ioup for historic a Craft recovery a non profit archaeological group in Wilmington del.,which believes  s Lockheed Electra to a crash landed on Nikuma Roro. The expedition Wilt sail from Honolulu on sept. 30. Ocea Neering technicians will scan the sea floor aboard a research vessel while a separate team a searches  clues. Earhart the first woman to Fly Solo across the Atlantic. Ilis appeared july�?~2, 1937, while attempting to circumnavigate the Globe at the Equator. She and navigator bred Noonan vanished while Fly ing the longest and most dangerous leg of the flight a 2,556-Nlile trip Over water from lae. New Guinea. To i Lowland Island in the Central Parilie. More than to dozen . Navy ships and planes searched a Quarter of a million  of Ocean but found no Trace of Earhart or Noonan. A we feel very confident we have the answer to the Earhart mystery said Richard Gillespie executive director of the International group for historic airmail recover. Gillespie thinks Earhart and Noonan crash landed on Nikuma Roro an uninhabited atoll 3311 Miles South of Howland. He said  have easily landed her plane during Low tide on the Broad Flat reef that extends slime h t feet out from Nikuma Roro. Eventually the tide would have pulled the plane Oil the reef and sent it plunging 2.000 Leet to the Ocean floor lie said. In-i9n9. During the recovery group s first expedition to Nikuma Roro researchers found tin aluminium Box later identified As a 1930s navigator s ease. It appeals to match the one shown in a photograph of Kathait s plane. By the los Angeles times St. Paul Minn. A come july the a plastics police could be out in Force Here issuing fines to grocers and restaurants Selling food and. Drink in the new contraband plastic containers. A City ordinance to be enforced effective july 1 will impose some of the strictest packaging regulations in the nation. They will ban ubiquitous plastics such As Sandwich a clamshells Quot and eventually plastic cups Deli containers and a whole Host of throwaways. In grocery stores milk and soft drink bottles will be spared because the City expects to Recycle them. But other plastic food containers for items like Yogurt Maple syrup or Salsa will gradually be outlawed grocers will be forced to find alternatives such As paper and Glass or face $30 fines. Across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis an identical ordinance kicks in at the same time but will be enforced differently there plastic bottles soon to be followed by plastic cups and trays will be recycled and thus escape the ban. A the Minneapolis and St. Paul ordinances appear to be the most comprehensive ones to be actually implemented in the country a said. Nancy Skinner executive director of local solutions to global pollution a nonprofit Berkeley Calif group. A a it a  but whether the rules prove workable.1�? and withstand a possible court Challenge a remains to be seen. The Laws will effectively ban packaging that is not returnable or recycled. They also will Force restaurants to Start on Sito receding. Paper products plastic wrap and microwave trays Are exempt. Most of the metro area already recycles Glass cans newsprint and corrugated cardboard so those Are Oil the Hook too. Supporters of the ordinance say it the programs work in the twin cities and five adjacent suburbs an area of 2.3 million people they May help solve a major dilemma of the 1900s a How to Cut the piles of garbage sent to landfills and waste incinerators. These communities Are among a growing list now exceeding 100 throughout the country with Laws on recycling or food packaging. Some companies have already responded to pressure from environmentalists. Mcdonald s restaurants Tor example recently scrapped plastic packaging in Lavor of paper and will Recycle on site As much of its waste As possible. But some local grocers and restaurateurs i edict marketplace mayhem As they try to juggle rules and regulations that May vary from one jurisdiction to the next. A a it a going to be a  predicts Francis i a go said lobbyist for the Council for solid waste solutions a Washington d  plastics Trade group. Starke Fla. Up Bobby Marion Francis who murdered a. Man who told police about his drug trafficking was executed in the electric chair tuesday morning despite a jury s recommendation for a Lite sentence. Officials at the Florida state prison near Starke said Francis who was condemned by a judge who overrode the jury s sentence was pronounced dead at 7-07 . Tuesday just 30 minutes after the Florida supreme court unanimously but without comment rejected a last ditch Appeal. Francis 46, had been tried convicted and sentenced three times to die for the 1973 murder of i itus r. W alters who informed against him for drug trafficking. Investigators said Francis shot Walters in the head and heart because Walters had set him up Tor a narcotics dealing arrest. Francis was scheduled to die thursday but the 11 ill . District court of appeals in Atlanta granted a last minute stay. That stay was vacated monday by the . Supreme court which rejected two separate appeals by Francis to Block his execution. In both instances Liberal supreme court Justice Thurgood Marshall dissented a court spokesman said. In a separate ruling monday the supreme court refused Lor a third time to consider Francis ease. His lawyers had argued that Francis should not be executed because the judge ignored the jury a recommendation in Francis third trial that he be sentenced to life in prison. Florida. Alabama and Indiana Aie the Only states that permit judges to Ovcin Dea i .1. 1it�?� recommendations m death penalty eases. Gov. Lawton Chiles has said he does not approve of the jury overrule Law but nevertheless signed i Rauis death warrant As a Means of forcing a judicial review o i the Law. I Don t think that i can sort of put my Elf m front of what the Law is now Chiles said when he signed lire death warrant. A but 1 would suggest that the  Lalure ought to change the Law. Jury