European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 c the stars and stripes sunday August 4, 1991 7u-� 5,000 jobs to be lost at pan am by the new York times More than a fifth of the employees of pan american world airways will lose their jobs in the next few weeks the troubled Carrier said Friday. Pan am which is operating under . Bankruptcy court Protection and is in the process of Selling most of its assets said it would dismiss 5,000 of its 22,300 employees worldwide a in All work  about 10,500 of pan am a work Force Are located in the new York area. The announcement came at a time when new Yorkus Economy is already losing thousands of other jobs to Bank mergers and when its once thriving financial services sector is shrinking. A spokesman for the airline Jeffrey Kriendler acknowledged that the cuts go deeper than the usual yearly reduction after the Peak summer season. A we Are going to be cutting schedules unrelated to any future asset sales to reflect what we feel will be continued soft demand in the fall a he said. On Friday the carriers Parent company pan am corp., released its second Quarter results which showed that the company lost $125.3 million on an operating basis in a period when traffic and profits usually pick up. The airline had an operating loss of $8.5 million and a net loss of $49 million for the Quarter last year. Affected employees will be notified starting monday Kriendler said. Asked where the cutbacks would be concentrated he said they would hit management the hardest. But George Miranda a vice president of local 732 of the International brotherhood of teamsters which represents 5,400 reservation agents and other pan am workers said he would be surprised if management bore the Brunt. Although Job losses had been expected for some time because of the airlines dire Straits Union officials took the news hard. A five thousand is a big number a Miranda said. A we done to Lay off 5,000 every year. Under Normal circumstances you May get some adjustments 100 Here or 200 there As you adjust your schedule but 5,000 a this is a major  teen Ager Safe after 2nd-to escape Dawn Hess jumps from a second Story window while the Rev. Stephen Rhoades partially blocked and assistant District attorney Rich Knecht prepare to catch her. Hess Mother Paula Winn scoops up peepers the family a terrier. Berwick a. Apr a woman who was doused with paint thinner and held captive by her Stepfather jul hoped from a bedroom window As officers stormed the House and stopped the suicidal Man from setting the two on fire police said. Police ended the two hour standoff thursday by wrestling Wells c. Winn 45, the floor and spraying him with Fife extinguishers As he struggled to strike a match. Officers said he begged them to let him commit suicide. His 18-year-old stepdaughter Dawn Hess Flung her Yorkshire terrier peepers out the second floor window and then jumped out of the window into the arms of a Clergyman and a District attorney standing below. Her Mother and winns estranged wife Paula Winn scooped up the dog. Police chief Eugene Golla one of three officers who stormed the bedroom said the fumes were so Strong that the House would have exploded had Winn struck the match. Winn had barricaded himself and his stepdaughter in the family a Home after nearly a week As a fugitive. Police accused him of kidnapping and assaulting Paula Winn last week. Hess told police she had returned to the House with her Boyfriend to feed the family dogs and get some clothes when her Stepfather jumped from a bedroom closet. The Boyfriend Chris Joline said he heard Hess scream and he went inside and saw Winn holding his stepdaughter at the top of the stairs. A the  come any closer and ill blow us All up a a Joline said. Police surrounded the House and waited. A the situation had really deteriorated rapidly a said police sgt. Robert Mccormick. A the had poured a flammable liquid onto his daughter and was showing us the matches. That a when we determined to go  after being arrested Winn was arraigned on charges involving the alleged abduction of his wife. Bail was set at $145,000, and Winn was taken to Geisinger medical Center for psychological  courteous prom Date woman says Cleveland apr Jeffrey l. Dahmer a prom Date said the Man who has now confessed to 17 mutilation slayings was a polite companion for the High school dance but that later that year she fled his Home during a seance in which the Devil was invoked a newspaper reported saturday. The Plain dealer reported that Bridget Geiger a first Date was with Dahmer who went with her to the Revere High school prom. She was 16 and he was 18 in 1978. Quot Geiger said he was polite and courteous but somewhat aloof. She said he asked her to be his Date because her Best Friend dated Dahmer a Best Friend. A the was scared to death of girls a she said. A the was scared to death i was going to kiss  police said Dahmer now in jail in Milwaukee await ing trial has confessed to 17 killings 16 in Wisconsin and one the same year As the prom at his boyhood Home in the Akron suburb of Bath township. The newspaper said Geiger is now married but the report did not say whether Geiger is her married name or her Maiden name. Geiger said it was sometime after the prom in june 1978 that she was invited to a party at Dahmer a Home. She said there was a no music no food or drinks a it was a nerd party. There were seven people at the whole  she said Dahmer and a Friend called for a seance a then after we sat Down and were situated the lights went out and one of the kids a not Dahmer a said a lets Call  then the flame on the candles snapped a she said. She said she was frightened and fled from the House and has not seen Dahmer since. Meanwhile the father of a Hitchhiker who May have been Dahmer a first dismemberment slaying victim said he wishes Dahmer could go through an eternity of the agony All the victims families feel. Richard Hicks father of Steven Mark Hicks also told Cleveland television station Kyc that he does not believe in the death penalty a but a if i thought that killing him would bring my son Back id do it myself. And if i thought killing him would Stop it from happening in the future id do it  on july 23, authorities told the Hickles that Dahmer May have killed their son who disappeared in 1978 at age 18.cholera epidemic nearing ., officials say Elpaso Texas apr a cholera epidemic that has stricken More than 250 mexicans is moving toward the . Border health officials said. The warning came thursday at a cholera prevention conference in Elpaso called by the pan american health organization to Stem an epidemic that has killed More than 2,500 people in South America. More than 250,000 cases of cholera have been reported in seven Western hemisphere countries this summer the National centers for disease control in Atlanta reported thursday. Fourteen cases have been reported in the United states the cd said. Or. Laurance n. Nickey head of a regional cholera prevention task Force recommended shipping clean water to poor neighbourhoods m West Texas at risk of getting the disease. Cholera bacteria Are spread by water and food contaminated by the focal matter of the infected generally in areas with no water purification or sewer systems. Symptoms which usually appear two or three Days after infection include severe diarrhoea. Cholera is easily treatable but it can be fatal if antibiotics or Salt and sugar solutions Are not promptly available. Cholera vaccinations last three to six months but have been found to be Only partially effective. All recent cholera cases in the United states have been linked to commercially imported food