European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday August 16, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7 Washington a processing plants infested with rodents and insects May be sending contaminated butter cheese and other Dairy products to the nations dinner tables agriculture department investigators said. An audit of Dairy product plants by the departments inspector general found rodents and insects in processing areas Mold on ceilings and Walls and peeling paint and dripping Rusty water above open cheese making vats. A was a result tainted or unwholesome products could be distributed to the Public during the periods that such plants Are allowed to continue to operate under unsanitary conditions a said the audit dated March 1991. The report said the Agency responsible for inspecting the plants the departments agricultural marketing service had failed to identify violations at some stays spare 2 Texas killers from execution Huntsville Texas up two condemned killers wednesday won 11th-hour delays of executions that had been scheduled for shortly after Midnight. Johnny James and Richard James Wil Kerson were both scheduled to die by lethal injection Early thursday. James won a stay of execution from a Chambers county District judge just hours before he was to be put to death. Wilkerson later received a stay from the 5th . Circuit court of appeals in new Orleans. Meanwhile another inmate Rodolfo Hernandez was scheduled to be executed Early today. Hernandez was convicted in the March 1985 shooting death of mexican National Victor terran 20, in new braunfels. Wilkerson 27, was sentenced to die for the july 1,1983, murder of Malibu grand prix race Center manager Anil Varughese 18, a student at Houston Baptist University. Varughese was stabbed 42 times. Three other employees were fatally stabbed in the robbery led by Wilkerson who had been fired from his Job As a pit attendant at the Houston Racetrack. The other victims were Ron Harris and Arnold and Joerene Pequeno. A Houston Federal judge wednesday denied Wilkerson a request for a stay and his attorneys then went to the Federal appeals court where the judges granted the stay late wednesday afternoon. Attorneys representing James 37, won a stay from a judge in Anahuac. He was convicted in the october 1985 abduction and shooting death of Barbara Harrington Mayfield owner of a High Island lounge where James once tended bar. Unsanitary officials say plants. When the Agency did find violations the investigators said it often failed to promptly notify state or Federal regulators with authority to shut Down the plants. The audit obtained by the associated press through a Freedom of information act request does not speculate on How much of a health threat the contamination could pose. Carol Tucker Foreman a former assistant Secretary of agriculture who is now a partner in a Public policy consulting firm said the conditions May not pose an immediate danger. A the real problem a she said a is if they re tolerating that. There a some concern that maybe they tolerate conditions where bacteria or very dangerous chemicals could get into the  Floyd Gaibler executive director of the athe rican butter Institute and the National cheese Institute which represents butter and cheese processors said he had not seen the report and would not comment on it. A i u a a j c. A u. A a quote a lumber containing rodent Clarence Teinberg a marketing serv droppings and a nest. The lumber was to processing area because of several torn screens and ill fitting doors and a whey storage tank with flies covering the spigot. Also declined to com ice spokesman ment. Auditors reviewed the marketing services records for March 19$9 and identified severe unsanitary conditions in one of 59 plants inspected that month. Then they made their own visits to 25 Cooling and curing. Plant set it i Lino is Andje a in a live rodents stuck on glue traps and March 1990 and found eight of them of a dead mouse in a Pool of standing water or atm under unsanitary conditions. All by a milk storage tank eight plants which were not identified in rated in the packaging storage area where a rodents had direct Access to All areas of the cheese processing room a the audit said. A Rusty water dripping from ceiling beams into the tanks where cheese was the report had been inspected previously by the marketing service. Among other things the auditors found a flies and crickets throughout one a electrical insect exterminators in the cheese processing areas of two plants. At one site the catch pans May not have been adequate to prevent dead insects from falling into and contaminating cheese products. 4miraculous last minute bailout brings cheers at Oakland Tribune by the los Angeles times Oakland Calif. A the ailing Oakland Tribune was saved from extinction less than an hour before Sunrise wednesday when the non profit Freedom forum came to the Rescue with a pledge to pump at least $5 million into the debt Ridden newspaper. Employees who just one Day earlier had brought in cardboard boxes expecting to  their belongings when the paper folded were jubilant. They hugged each other cried toasted their Good Fortune with Mineral water and danced in the newsroom after publisher Robert c. Maynard announced that a the Oakland Tribune is Here to  saving Oakland a Only daily newspaper a and the Only major Black owned paper in the nation a was made possible largely by the willingness of Gannett co. Inc., which once owned the Tribune to forgive most of a debt of $31.5 million. The pledge from the Freedom forum a Media oriented foundation made the final difference. A we have seen an incredible thing happen a said business writer Rebecca Smith who came in from maternity leave to hear Maynard a announcement. A a it a really  the Joy was not confined to the staff. Oakland mayor Elihu Harris once a Tribune paperboy hailed the agreement to save the paper As another piece of the Brick and mortar that maintains the distinct identity of this City of 377,000 in the crowded san Francisco Bay area. A we love our Tribune a said the mayor who stood alongside Maynard in the newsroom. A the Tribune is an essential part of Why we Are a  Oakland Tribune staffer Beverly Hunt hugs a co worker in the newsroom moments after the papers publisher Robert Maynard announced that it would not  major hispanic groups oppose Thomas by the Baltimore Sun Washington two main hispanic organizations announced wednesday that they would oppose Senate confirmation of judge Clarence Thomas As a supreme court Justice. Despite the stand by the mexican american Legal defense and education fund and the hispanic bar association of the District of Columbia some leaders acknowledged that for the nations 23 million hispanics there were signs of a dilemma Over whether Thomas should be seated. At a joint news conference held by the two groups Mario Moreno the funds regional attorney in Washington said that the organization could not a in Good conscience support a nominee who would a severely undermine civil rights a particularly in areas of importance to  Maria Holleran Rivera the bar associations president said that Thomas in his previous Post As chairman of the . Equal employment Opportunity commission had a failed to marshal the enforcement tools available to his Agency to the detriment of All  but signs of a dilemma emerged from Moreno a response to a question involving the abortion Issue. Moreno was asked if a a sizable portion of the nations hispanics a most of whom Are conservative particularly on the Issue of abortion a would a tend to agree with Many of the views of Thomas a Black conservative. A ooh certainly a he replied acknowledging that the fund is a a pro Choice