European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes tuesday july 30, 1991 a photographer standing on closed Highway 101 takes pictures of overturned rail cars near sea Cliff Calif. Train carrying chemicals derails closing key California Highway sea Cliff Calif. Apr a a Southern Pacific freight train derailed sunday along . 101 and sparked a fire causing officials to close the main North South Highway because they feared a toxic chemical was burning. No injuries were reported Ventura county sheriffs it. Gary Backman said. Several Small Brush fires along the tracks were quickly extinguished. The derailed cars or Railroad ties a officials could t determine which a still were burning said a fire department spokeswoman Sandi Wells. Several Hundred people were evacuated from nearby Homes an Oil refinery arid area beaches Backman said. Fourteen cars jumped the tracks along . 101 shortly after noon. Four of them contained hazardous or flammable materials officials said. Many types of hazardous materials were aboard including paint non flammable Gas adhesive cements glues and aqueous hydrazine a corrosive liquid used in Jet fuel said Mike Brown a Southern Pacific spokesman. A hazardous materials team was assessing the derailment sunday evening. An extensive traffic Jam was created by closure of Highway 101 from the Santa Barbara county line to Northern Ventura Backman said. The derailment also disrupted Amtrak passenger train service on the main san Francisco los Angeles route Amtrak spokesman Bruce heard said. Six Amtrak trains traverse the route daily carrying several Hundred passengers each he said. He said travellers were being bused Between Santa Barbara and los Angeles. Sea Cliff is about 75 Miles Northeast of los Angeles. Mayors to urge . S Cuomo to run for president in 1992 Boston up a the . Conference of mayors will encourage new York gov. Mario Cuomo to run for president in 1992 because a cities need a Strong voice in the White House Boston mayor Raymond Flynn said sunday. Cuomo will give the keynote address at the conferences annual leadership meeting aug. 9 in the Cape cod town of Hyannis said Flynn president of the mayors group. During the gathering the mayors will plan strategy for the 1992 presidential race and a begin a dialogue to persuade Cuomo to make a bid for the presidency. In a Telephone interview sunday night Cuomo said he regarded Flynn a remarks As an endorsement of his ideas a and nothing More than  Flynn said the mayors were a trying to find somebody who a going to articulate and fight for an Urban Agenda. The cities need a Strong voice. The issues of Urban american have been ignored. A governor Cuomo has spoken out eloquently about our National economic distress As Well As the need for states and cities to work together to press for a renewed Domestic Agenda in Washington a Flynn added. Besides Cuomo a Democrat the mayors May also approach sen Tom Harkin a Iowa. Sen. Jay Rockefeller . And others concerning the 1992 presidential race Flynn said. A a we re trying to encourage mayors and governors who Are going to address the issues of housing jobs and economic development to run a Flynn said. Despite president Bush a popularity with voters his record on Domestic issues a is miserable a Flynn said. Yoko promoting artwork by Lennon Knoxville Tenn. A Yoko Ono is trying to get John Lennon Sart career off the ground nearly 11 years after his death. A artwork was very important to him. Rock was his second love a Lennon a widow said. Gallery an in Johnson City is to open an exhibit and Sale of a selection of Lennon a lithographs aug. 10. Lennon who was shot to death in new York in 1980, had three gallery shows of his work when he was alive. None was Well received. A showing of some erotic lithographs at the 1970 London gallery of Art resulted in Scotland Yards closing the exhibit As indecent. A no said Lennon was frustrated by gallery owners More interested in his celebrity status than his artwork. Some asked him to bring his guitar to openings and perform she said. A and of course John was very proud a she said. A the did no to want to show his work in this  trains collide injuring 7 in Boston from wire reports Boston a two subway trains collided at a station sunday slightly injuring seven people an official said. Cars of two commuter trains heading in the same direction hit each other at the Wood Island station but did not derail and there was no apparent damage said Nancy Sterling spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Bay transportation authority. The accidents cause was not immediately known. Seven people with minor injuries were taken to three hospitals Sterling  prices stabilize los Angeles a a slight increase in taxes and wholesale prices the past two weeks stemmed a summer Long decline in gasoline prices according to an Industry Survey sunday. Weighted average retail prices Rose by just .005 of a cent per gallon staying at $1.22 by Friday according to the biweekly Lundberg Survey of 13,000 stations nationwide. A the Price is virtually unchanged and probably would have gone Down if it Hadnot been for wholesale prices and the tax increase a said analyst Trilby Lundberg. The recession is keeping prices from rising this summer normally the Peak season for gasoline demand Lundberg said. Prices including taxes ranged from $1.01 per gallon for regular leaded at self service stations to $ 1.52 for Premium unleaded at full service stations. A real 14-Karat find Xenia Ohio a a Man hoeing his Carrot Garden unearthed a ring a Friend lost six years ago on a farm six Miles away. A i did no to know what it was right away a Barry Stroop said. A i hit something Metal and picked it up brushed the dirt away and brought it  Stroop who made his discovery july 21, remembered that his Friend Woody Lott had lost a Many a Gold Diamond ring. He wore the band to lotto a Home that evening. A i  believe it a said Lott who lost the family heirloom in 1985 at his mothers farm. A when he handed it to me i knew right away it was my ring. A the Only thing i can think is one of the cows either ate it or picked it up in its Hoof and carried it away a he  s Windshield Breaks Boston a the co Pilot of a pan am shuttle took the controls and landed the Jet after its cockpit Windshield shattered obstructing the pilots vision authorities said. The plane a Boeing 727 that took off from la Guardia Airport in new York City touched Down at Logan International Airport on sunday afternoon without injury to the 33 passengers or seven Crew members authorities said the cause of the Accident was under  sentenced in slayings Ocala Fla. A jury recommended that a than convicted of arranging the slaying of his Mother be sentenced to life in prison for the deaths of four people a hit Man killed instead. Dorsey a. Sanders Iii was convicted last week of Lour counts of murder conspiracy and accessory after the fact for his role in the Floral City slayings nearly a year ago. The jury on saturday recommended a life sentence. Sentencing was set for aug. 19. Circuit judge John Thurman can overrule the jury and sentence Sanders to death. Prosecutors said Sanders 33, hired John c. Barrett 26, to kill his Mother Joann Sanders in August to prevent her from receiving $500,000 in a divorce settlement from his father Dorsey a. Sanders. Prosecutors said Barrett botched the Job and instead killed four men working at his mothers Home in Floral City. Barrettes trial was to begin monday. Defense attorneys maintained that Dorsey Sanders knew nothing of the plot and that it was planned by his father. The elder Sanders 61, was arrested Friday in key West and was being held without Bond on four murder counts and charges of conspiracy and solicitation to commit murder