European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday september 8,1991 Lucas Cornfield 3, of Stamford conn., plays with animals in a Forest made from recycled paper products at eco expo. . S eco expo exhibit helps children hone recycling skills new York apr two dozen tiny architects scurried Barefoot sculpting a City from garbage and Duel tape. Paper Lowel Roll Trees sprung up around scrap cardboard buildings. Trash fuelled cars sported film reel tires. Quot i just thought it would be  said 6-year-old Leopoldine Core admiring the Waterfall she had concocted from shredded computer paper. A cities Are  the Urban Experiment sponsored by the children s museum of Manhattan was among dozens of displays that opened eco expo on Friday the nations largest environmental consumer products show. As children attendees honed their recycling skills adults staffing 150 exhibits displayed a mix of acc Whiz gadgetry and Back to basics products aimed at a Public hungry for ideas on How to live in a society free of waste. Exhibitors peddled purses made from used tires and invited anyone to flush see through toilets that purport to Cut water use. A scrap Yard owner seated on a junked 10-Speed bicycle powered a Small merry go round. An Art dealer showed off tiny animal statues created from melted Glass and plastic scraps. A far cry from the glitzy displays found at More High toned conventions the frugal exhibits represented a growing class of Small  Many of whom were inspired into business by the hubbub around Earth Day 1990, the annual events 20th anniversary. The few Large exhibitors at the cavernous Jacob Jav its convention Center in Manhattan included general motors corp., which displayed a new electric car and new Yorkus metropolitan transit authority promoting subway and bus use. But some visitors expressed scepticism in Light of recent reports about corporate exploitation of rising environmental awareness. State officials and activists alike have accused some companies of making misleading claims. In june for example Mobil corp. Paid $150.000 to six states for advertising its hefty plastic bags As degradable. Mobil withdrew the claim and paid the Money without admitting the claim was wrong. A i have to really go through and review each product Quot said Jim Rohrssen who made a four hour trip from Ithaca in Hope of finding new ideas to expand his shop of environmentally sound products for children. Space shuttle launch May be delayed Cape canaveral Fla. A a leak that occurred during a routine Check of the orbiter discovery a plumbing could delay the thursday launch of the space shuttle on its 13th Mission Nasa said Friday. Pressure in a fuel tank holding propellants for the orbiters Small steering jets Rose to unacceptable Levels said Nasa spokeswoman Lisa Malone. The Likely culprit is a valve that failed to close properly causing a leak. A we Hope it was just a speck of contamination and that blowing helium through the system will Clear it and allow the valve to close properly a Malone said. The problem arose in one of two redundant systems. Under Post challenger rules both systems must work for the launch to proceed. In Light excessive pressure buildup in the tank holding Mon Methyl hydrazine fuel could cause it to burst. Should the leak persist the shuttle might have to be taken off the launch pad for repairs Malone said. That could delay the launch by about two weeks. A decision on that was expected after valves and associated regulators Are checked. Phone system dials out governor Lansing Mich. Apr the slates new voice mail system is a Breeze. Just Call the main number then dial in the name of the state Leader you want. Like the governor. Dial  a sorry the keys you entered do not spell a recognized name Quot the recording says. A clearly we Don t want to have people calling and hear a message that we Don t recognize his name Quot said Bill Kerans Deputy director of gov. John Englert a department of management and budget. A a it a just that we done to have a voice mail Box for them in the  but Type in a dbl an cd a re Quot and the recording tells you you have reached the message Center for Jim Blanchard. James Blanchard was the governor before Engler beat him in last years election but he a not getting his messages through the state voice mail. This Jim Blanchard is an unrelated Commerce department worker. State officials said thursday that the omission of Engler from the voice mail system was an oversight that will be corrected soon although the system still did not recognize the name Friday. Engler spokesman John Truscott did not immediately return a Telephone message  recruiters owe $6,000 in parking fines from wire reports Schenectady . A army recruiters racked up More than $6,0011 in parking tickets then sent them Back to the City accompanied by the text of a 1958 ruling that gave the Federal government immunity from parking fines. There was Only one problem said assistant corporation Council Michael w. Schafer. The immunity decision by the . Comptroller general was overruled in 1967. Meanwhile the army wants those old tickets forgiven but Schafer wants full payment. A we Don t want anyone to feel they Are above the Law Quot he said. It. Col. Don Little chief of staff of the 1st recruiting brigade at fort Meade md., said he is ordering officers to pay any tickets they get. He said he did not speak for the other branches of the armed forces whose recruiters have also accumulated  threatens Prince Alexandria a. A a Federal judge Friday threatened to raise daily fines against a saudi Prince who has failed to appear in court to explain Why he has refused to pay a $250,000 judgment in a two year old Case. Quot he s refused to obey the  . District judge . Ellis Iii said of Prince Faisal Yazeed Abdullah Al Saud. A the cannot thumb his nose at this country s court. He a got to meet his debts just like anyone  Ellis found the Prince in contempt of court last month and started fining him $100 a Day. Businessman Chalky Jabaly won the judgment against the Prince by default. He contended that Prince Faisal paid him with two bad checks totalling $166,000 for work that Jabaly performed in Riyadh in 1985. Ellis gave the saudi Prince another week to appear in court before the daily fines Are increased. A family wins judgment Petaluma Calif. A $2.3 million judgment against a car dealer who sold a faulty used car to a teen Ager minutes before she died in a collision is a hollow Victory for her parents the family a lawyer said. Quot no amount of Money can make up for the loss of their daughter Quot said attorney Tony Wilde whose firm represented Elvia Ponce a family. Ponce was 16 when she drove out of Michael s Auto sales in 1989 after buying a used car there. Moments later her car swerved into oncoming traffic and she was killed. The family sued the dealer claiming the car was not properly inspected or repaired and had been illegally altered. The two front tires were mismatched and under inflated and the steering was faulty they said. The judgment May be meaningless because the dealers insurance company says it does no to have the . Killer electrocuted Columbia . Donald a pee wee Quot Gaskins the confessed killer of 13 people died in South Carolinas electric chair Early Friday hours after he slashed his wrists and arms with a razor Blade. Gaskins 58, went to the electric chair at 1 , with 20 stitches for wounds to his wrists and elbows said corrections department spokeswoman Robyn Zimmerman. A Gaskins was executed for the murder of a 14th victim fellow death Row inmate Rudolph Tyner in a 1982 murder for hire plot. Tyner was killed with a homemade bomb disguised As a radio