European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday August 25, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 5alaska s High Job death rate to be probed Anchorage Alaska up a unique Federal project has been launched in Alaska to investigate Why the state has the highest Job death rate in the country officials said Friday. A we looked at our data and saw that Alaska was the leading state in the Union in accidents and fatalities a said Melvin Myers. Myers has been sent to Alaska from the Atlanta Headquarters of the Federal centers for disease control to begin a full scale inquiry into Why jobs in Alaska Are so risky and what can be done to make them safer. The National Institute for occupational safety and health a Branch of the cd in the . Department of health and human services has regional offices in Atlanta Boston and Denver but the new Anchorage office becomes the first to focus solely on a single state because of its problems. Myers  s occupational fatality rates show a staggering 130 deaths per 100.000 workers compared with a National average of 7.6 deaths according to Federal government statistics. Fishing logging and transportation especially flying posed the. Greatest dangers and caused the most accidents and deaths. Myers said attributing the More dangerous jobs to the outdoor re source activities that characterize so Many Alaska occupations. A the rates Are especially High in the area of  Myers said. A taken together fishing forestry and agriculture1 in Alaska have flip highest fatality rates of any industries across the United  Myers said the Anchorage nosh office was not created to conduct an inquiry. Issue a report and go away. He said the office was permanent and full time. Fri d disciplines 8 More workers in harassment of Black sex agent Washington a Fri director William s. Sessions announced on Friday that eight More Fri agents and managers have been disciplined in the racial harassment of Black former agent Donald Rochon. The actions brought the total of Fri employees disciplined in the Case to 11 a three agents and eight managers a since 1985. Without explanation. Sessions took no action against three other Fri employees whose cases he had said last april were referred to him by a special review panel. His statement hinted that they May have left the Fri. A we have thoroughly weighed All of the evidence and have taken action against those current employees whose conduct judgment and performance deficiencies warranted administrative action a sessions said. The discipline announced Friday included counselling Oral reprimands and formal censures for managers who failed to react appropriately to Rochonn a complaints or for other management deficiencies in administering personnel actions affecting Rochon. Fridays announcement also included the 21-Day suspension without pay of an agent who sent unsolicited commercial mailings to Rochon. The Fri declined to identify any of those disciplined by name or title but Law enforcement sources said the suspension was served in june by Chicago agent Richard d. Ganslein. Rochonn a attorney Temple University Law professor David Kairys had disclosed in june that Ganslein was suspended for initially denying then admitting to arranging for junk mail to be sent to Rochon s Home. A a it a been seven years since Donald Rochon ventured to do what almost no one has done in the Bureau a file a racial discrimination suit against fellow employees Quot Kairys said. A a that san awful Long time to wait. Something should have been done sooner and the discipline even now seems rather lenient for agents threatening death and mutilation to other agents. A on the other hand the positive i see is that the managers in Headquarters were included in the discipline Quot Kairys added. Rochon received death threats by mail and a series of mailings that included a solicitation for a death and dismemberment insurance policy on which his name was forged in 1985, Kairys said. A White agent in Chicago Gary Miller was suspended for 14 Days for that mailing in 1985, Kairys said. The Bureau said that in 1987 two managers were ordered to undergo additional equal employment Opportunity training. Kairys said the number was closer to seven. Fri spokesman Tom Jones said the actions announced Friday were taken against two Field agents five Headquarters managers and one Field manager. Rochon has retired with full pay and pension As part of a settlement that could Cost the Fri More than $1  arrival greeted by a Seattle fireboat right tie three masted soviet ship pallada arrives at pier 66 in Seattle Oil thursday. Ship Crew members wave from the Yardar to the crowd of Well wishers waiting on the pier. In the stars and stripes10 years ago aug. 25,1981 a John w. Hinckley jr., the son of a wealthy Denver Oil Man was indicted by a Federal grand jury on charges of shooting president Reagan White House press Secretary James Brady and two Law enforcement officers in a March 30 assassination attempt.20 years ago aug. 25,1971 sex heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali predicted that Joe Frazier a face will be declared a a disaster area Quot at the end of their proposed return bout.30 years ago aug. 25,1961 a the . Government announced that it will launch All future manned lunar flights and other missions requiring giant boosters from Cape canaveral Fla. .40 years ago aug. 25,1951 a a Delegate to the second International poliomyelitis conference said that a cure for infantile paralysis is Quot probably not far off Quot and might come in the form of a a simple injection under the skin or some other simple therapeutic  2 grounded astronauts assigned to command upcoming missions space Center Houston up astronauts Robert a a Hoot Gibson and David Walker Veteran shuttle commanders who were grounded last year because of safety infractions were assigned Friday to command two upcoming missions. Gibson Veteran of three shuttle missions was named commander of the new shuttle endeavour for an August 1992 space lab research flight featuring a japanese scientist. Walker Veteran of two previous missions was named to command a military flight aboard the shuttle  a co Pilot Curtis Brown Jerome Apt Mae Jemison Mark Lee Jan Davis and Mamoru Mohri of Japan. Lee and Davis who will become the first married couple to Fly in space together and Mohri were assigned to the Mission earlier. Walkers Crew mates will be a co Pilot Robert Cabana Guion Blu Ford James Voss and Michael Clifford. In All the National aeronautics and space administration on Friday named or filled in Crews for eight upcoming Tober 1992. Gibson a Crew mates for the seven Day space lab Mission Are shuttle missions. Gibson and Walker both were grounded last year and stripped of shuttle commands after they violated Nasa safety rules. The unprecedented disciplinary action came after Gibson was involved in a collision during a weekend air race in Texas that left another Pilot dead and raised questions about the enforcement of rules Banning such High risk activity by expensively trained astronauts. While the air show crash was cited in Gibson Scase the details of what Walker did to warrant such discipline were not announced. The action marked the first Lime Nasa astronauts have Ever been removed from flights because of safety issues. World s tallest Burger reaches 24 feet Rosemont 111. Up several Hundred people showed up at the Holiday inn of Hare International on Friday to look at and eat what they said was the worlds tallest hamburger. The hamburger in the hotels spacious Horidome atrium towered 24 feet 1 Inch High said hotel spokesman Michael halt. It reached above the atrium a rafters and touched the ceiling. It took 111 hamburgers piled on top of each other to reach the ceiling Hatt said. Several Hundred people made a $10 donation to the muscular dystrophy association allowing them to take part in the eating of the giant Burger. Hatt called the measurement the Quot worlds record for the tallest  the hotel planned to submit photographs Anent measurements to the guinness Book of world records. Jeff Miller executive chef of the hotel built the hamburger out of 40 pounds of hamburger 85 Large Kaiser Rolls 60 tomatoes 8 pounds of cheese and nine Heads of lettuce. He was lifted into the air on a Hydraulic vehicle to make the hamburger which took several months of planning. The hotels chief Engineer Mike Malek. Constructed a slender support pole to keep the Burger from falling Over. After the hamburger was officially topped off it was broken Down to be reheated put on fresh buns and Given to the guests