European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 a the stars and stripes monday september 23, 1991desert storm weaponry big seller at convention from wire reports Las vegas a thousands of would be Rambus gathered for the annual Soldier of Fortune Magazine convention with a new War to discuss and enough weaponry on Sale to outfit a Small army. Desert storm items were big Sellers in the convention s exhibit area which featured everything from to shirts with a picture of iraqis Saddam Hussein inside a target to guns of every Type and size. Buyers could Purchase nearly any personal weapon from brass Knuckles and knives to stun guns and machine guns. Tint Bixler sold machine guns from a convention Booth and said sales were Good with collectors spending up to $10,000 apiece for their favorite Falls 4 floors Orlando Fla. A an englishman was in serious but stable condition saturday after crashing through a fourth floor hotel window and Landing in a parking lot a Hospital official said. Nicholas goosey 22, of Ludlow in the English county of Shropshire was conscious and bleeding from his head after the plunge and cursed at people who came to his Aid deputies said. Goosey and two friends had returned from a night of drinking Early Friday when they decided to race from the elevator to their room at the Days inn the Orange county sheriff s report said. The friends stopped Short of the hallway window but goosey kept going. He landed Between two cars breaking his wrists right Elbow and left knee. Goosey underwent 10 hours of surgery at Orlando regional medical Center and did not appear to have serious internal or head injuries. He remained in the intensive care unit saturday said patient care coordinator Julie Musher charged Anchorage Alaska an a Ditardo Musher has been charged with 14 counts of cruelty to animals for allegedly bludgeoning sled dog puppies to death with the Blunt end of an a authorities said. Frank Winkler 30, a two time runner of the Anchorage to Nome sled race was charged with the misdemeanours Friday. Each count carries a maximum Fine of $5,000 and a year in jail. An animal control officer went to Winkler a trailer on sept. 7 after a neighbor reported hearing puppies crying. The officer found the battered dogs in a crate in the Back of Winkler a pickup. Assistant District attorney Mindy Mcqueen wrote in a charging document. Mushers routinely cull weak dogs in an Effort to build a Strong least. When they can to find Homes for them the dogs Are killed using injections Given by veterinarians said an a Ditardo finishers club demand rejected fort Lauderdale Fla. The a act is demanding that two Hollywood police officers he fired for Selling to shirts depicting the electrocution of two Black teen agers charged with killing a Broward sheriffs Deputy. The two officers Are promoting hate crimes against Blacks by Selling the to shirts said Roosevelt Walters president of the fort Lauderdale Branch of the National association for the advancement of coloured people. Police chief Richard Wilt said Friday he would t interfere with the Sale of the to shirts. The two youths Are being held without bail on charges of killing Deputy Patrick Behan last has 5 sets of twins Holyoke mass. A kindergarten teacher Patricia Ferro can be forgiven if she goes Home some Days seeing double. In her two classes at Maurice a. Donahue elementary school she has five sets of twins. Four sets Are identical. Ferro admitted she is sometimes confused by the Matching faces. But Ferro said she usually can Tell the wins apart a even the three identical sets of 5-year-Olds in her morning class a Quot because they All have their own it also helps if they Wear different clothes she said. Rich Wurtzberger a Farmer in sleepy Eye Minn., assesses Frost damage to his soybean crop Friday morning. Million Dollar Frost hits Corn soybeans in upper Midwest Watertown Minn. A an Early Quot million Dollar Frost has nipped Corn and soybean Fields in the upper Midwest adding a new season of misfortune that has included floods and the worst insect infestation in decades. For some Farmers it could be the last Straw. A most of the soybeans were looking Well until 11 30 last night Quot Farmer Chuck Dimler said Friday at his farm about 30 Miles West of Minneapolis. Temperatures plunged to record lows in the upper 20s and Low 30s in Minnesota and Northern Iowa spreading a Blanket of Frost Over crops that Are particularly vulnerable to cold. Spring floods had delayed planting for Dimler and other Farmers. Many planted soybeans which can be sown relatively late in the growing season in place of Corn. Those late planted crops still a few Days or weeks from maturity were vulnerable to Frost. A a you be heard about a million Dollar rain this was a million Dollar Frost a said Dave Hessoun Extension director for Clay county Iowa. Minnesota and Iowa Farmers Aren t alone this year in facing erratic weather a in the heart of the Corn producing regions of Illinois and Indiana abnormally dry conditions Are cutting yields prompting experts to predict an 8 percent decline in the nation s Corn crop. A in Oklahoma Cotton Farmers have had More rain than they can use. Quot the moisture we be had has been More detrimental than helpful Quot said . Banks an Oklahoma state University Cotton specialist a most of our Cotton needs Sunshine and heat to a in the red River Valley along the Minnesota North Dakota line heavy rain during the last week has slowed the sugar beet Harvest. Quot the Northern end got 3 to 7 inches of rain in the last 10 Days and you kind of sit on pins and Needles a said Dave Sundby an agricultural administration my Iager for american Crystal sugar in Moorhead. Agriculture experts in Minnesota and Iowa said the full extent of Frost damage wont be known for a few Days when damaged plants will turn Brown and shed their leaves. But in Northern Iowa alone at least one fourth to one third of Corn and soybeans suffered some damage said Dale Cochran state agriculture Secretary. Quot its serious. We re talking about Farmers income for an entire year. When they re losing a part of their entire year s income it Isnit a week s wages or a months wages. A Farmer has to wait for another year to Start in again a Cochran said. In addition to the Spring floods heavy Rains this fall had raised the possibility of critical delays in the Harvest. Farmers grappled with Corn borers an insect that eats away at Corn plants in what experts say was the worst outbreak in 30 years. Quot it has been a very very difficult year Quot said Mark Seeley a climatologist with the University of Minnesota a department of soil science. Quot despite that we re hoping to be taking an awfully Large Harvest. We re talking about so Many millions of acres. If there a a net loss i think it will be fairly neighbors again Harvest Corn crop when tragedy strikes Illinois family Sadorus Iii. Apr Lois Bell was touched when 50 neighbors Canie out to Harvest her son s Corn crop after he died on the farm. But she was not surprised. She had seen this love and respect before a after her husband was killed while farming in 1075. A it s unbelievable a the second time in 16 years Quot Lois Bell said As truckloads of Grain left the Field. Quot look at this turnout of caring people. Some of them Are Here for the second Dean Roberts 48, died sept. 13, after receiving an electrical Shock and falling from a Grain bin on his farm about a mile from where his father Clifford was fatally injured by a Combine. Lois Bell was at a National farm safety week seminar at the University of Illinois when her son died. Agriculture is second Only to mining in its annual death rate 42 deaths for every 100,000 workers. The National safety Council estimates 1,300 people died in farm accidents in 1000 and 120,000 suffered disabling injuries. In Illinois 188 people have died and 246 have been injured in farm accidents in the past five years. Quot somehow we be got to pick up the pieces and prove to Dean and Clifford that we can go on. Be Strong Quot Lois Bell said. Chris Roberts 21, one of Dean Roberts three children said plans Lor the farm arc Quot up in the the other children Are Chad 10, and Heather 14. Chad Roberts and Lois Bell watched As fellow Farmers drove 13 combines through 400 acres of com. They used 35 trucks to deliver Grain to nearby elevators. The Farmers who stopped their own work to help out will return later to Harvest soybeans. A basically we Are All Independent and in Competition. But when tragedy strikes Farmers All pitch in to help a said Bill Stierwalt a family Friend who helped truck the Corn to Market. Quot its hard to explain. I just know they a do the same for Dennis Bales manager of the Sadorus Grain elevator said More than 60 Champaign county Farmers called to offer help. Quot the number of Farmers is dwindling but the Quality of these people certainly Isnit a said Bates who organized the Harvest. A these people have a closeness with the land and with one
