European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 07, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse That s my town not Pennsylvania says vermonter Montpelier it. A the scene is quintessential Vermont a a Church Steeple mountains Ana town Hall. But the postcard says its panoramic Pennsylvania. A a that a not Pennsylvania. Its our town a said Tom Mckone chairman of the Board of selectmen in Worcester. Mckone is asking the postcard company to recall the cards. The picture shows a Small town tucked into a Mountain Range in near Peak fall foliage. It is nearly identical to an out of print Vermont postcard. But the photographers Are different and the scenes from Gould Hill in Worcester Are about a decade apart Mckone said. A virtually our entire town is in that picture a Mckone said. A i live in that picture we meet in that picture. That a our Earl Handley a spokesman for the new England division of the National postcard company Impact said a mix up could have occurred in production. A a it a a convoluted web a he said. A the printing is done in Japan. We have branches All Over the county. In a not familiar enough with the whole process to be sure of what Mckone Learned of the pilfered Panorama after sending an old postcard put out by National life insurance co. Of Montpelier to a Friend in Pennsylvania. Tom Mckone holds the misidentified postcard below. The Friend a professional photographer who keeps up with the postcard Market in his state recognized the photograph. A we got a Good laugh but we want this corrected Mckone said. A a. A we have what other people would like to have he said. A a in be vacationed in Pennsylvania a its pretty but its not families fils separate lawsuits Over deaths of three Navy men Atlanta up the families of three Navy aviators killed in the 1989 crash of an anti submarine Jet have filed separate multimillion Dollar lawsuits against Lockheed corp. And the . Government. They contend the aircraft was defective. The complaints filed Friday in . District court in Atlanta charge the government did not properly my in Tain the anti submarine s-3a Viking which crashed moments after Takeoff from the Bow of the aircraft Carrier John f. Kennedy off the coast of Norfolk va., on oct. 7, 1989. A there were numerous design defects numerous manufacturing defects and major maintenance pro by lems Quot said Robert Killorin an attorney for the Lead plaintiff Stacy Gray of Dekalb county. Gray the wife of the Pilot it. Douglas Gray is seeking $26 million in damages. Families of it. David s Jennings of Akron Ohio and it. John Hartman of Janesville wis., filed similar suits in the . District court. The three men died in the crash and a fourth was seriously injured. Within seconds of the planets clearance from the aircraft Carrier radio dispatchers heard Gray a final words a ooh my god eject eject eject a a the was an excellent Pilot and was in the prime of his life a Killorin said. A neither Lockheed nor the government has offered to compensate any of the families for their the s-3a Viking is a twin engine plane that drops listening devices into the Ocean to detect enemy submarines. The Jet carries a Crew of four. According to Lockheed officials who declined comment on the suit several s-3a Vikings arc still in use. The aircraft was built at Lockheed a California Assembly Plant. Sex Green Beret Macdonald appeals says murder trial evidence suppressed Richmond a. Up Jeffrey Macdonald the former Green Beret doctor convicted of the sensation murders of his wife and two children in 1970, has filed a new Appeal claiming the government suppressed evidence that would have led to his acquittal. In arguing that his convictions should be overturned Macdonald s lawyers contend the prosecution withheld information and physical evidence tha would have helped his defense. Attorneys for a Boston Law firm representing Macdonald filed papers with the 4th . Circuit court of appeals contesting a decision july 8 by a Federal judge in North Carolina who rejected arguments that the convictions should be thrown out. Macdonall 47, is in a Federal prison in Oregon serving three consecutive life sentences for the slayings which occurred in his quarters at fort Bragg . His wife Colette 26, and daughters Kimberly 5, and Kristen 2, were clubbed and stabbed to death. Macdonald insisted the murders were committed by a band of drugged hippies who invaded his Home. He was cleared by an army investigation but in 1975 Macdonald was indicted by a Federal grand jury. After a series of appeals he was tried and convicted in 1979. The Story of the killings and Macdonald Slegal Battles was the subject of a Best Selling Book fatal vision and a television ministries based on it. Homeless rally in Kennebunkport misses Bush Kennebunkport Maine apr about 1,000 protesters marched to president Bush s vacation Home saturday a even though Bush Wasny to there a to urge the government to do More for the homeless. Activists and homeless people carried signs beat Drums and chanted a housing now a As they marched about a mile from the Center of town to Bush a Seaside Home. Several speakers shouted toward Bush s Home about a Quarter mile away and led the crowd in a chant of a George Bush join the fight housing is a human Mildred Cyr of Dorchester mass., Hung a sign from her neck that read a George Bush lives in subsidized government housing Why not the homeless a a a group of protesters walked Here front Boston staying at churches and shelters during the eight Day trip. Bush was spending the weekend at the presidential Retreat at Camp David my. Pointer offers Point Job for transplant from wire reports Woolwich Maine a a House Painter with leukaemia has an offer he Hopes someone will take. Hell paint their House for free if someone with Matching Bone marrow agrees to a transplant a a to Rocs for the whole Continental United states ill hop in my and ill be there a said Mark c. Geiger 39, who will die within a few years without the operation. Geiger Hopes to find a donor this week at a test inn drive in a nearby town for another leukaemia patient Julie Fortin Beaupre. Those tested will be included among 400,000 names at the Minneapolis based National marrow donor program which matches donors with patients. A although its easy for me to say i d do this for someone else it is a relatively simple thing for people to do just a blood test a Geiger said. His 11-year-old son Colin matched on preliminary tests and the family is awaiting final attacks surfer 32 Davenport Calif. shark saturday not far from the site of another shark attack three months ago. John Ferrara 32, was airlifted to Stanford University Hospital where he was reported in Good condition with gashes on his Arm and Back a Hospital spokeswoman said. He was bitten twice by a 12-foot shark authorities said. Other surfers fashioned a Tourniquet with surfboard leashes and brought Ferrara to Shore. The attack occurred about 14 Miles North of Santa Cruz near the town of Davenport. Another surfer Eric Larsen fought off a shark in the same area in july and survived despite losing half the blood in his body. He received 400 membership up new York a Church membership in the United states is increasing somewhat faster than the population according to the latest National 1991 yearbook of american amp Canadian Church shows that religious membership increased by 1.5 percent in 1989 from 145,383,738 to 147,607,394 while the population grew 0.9 percent. The yearbook compiled by the National Council a a of churches says 59,3 percent of americans now belong to religious congregations. Most mainline churches had Small losses in 1989, continuing a trend that goes Back to the mid-1960s, but roman catholicism and conservative denominations such As the Southern baptists had member quits Job Lansing Mich. A a school Board member who said basketball Star magic Johnson was a a big dumb Black kids while growing up in Lansing resigned As the panels treasurer but not from the Board. Johnson a Lansing native who attended Everett High school and nearby Michigan state called for William Carters apology and resignation or ouster. Board president Nancy Erickson said Garter voluntarily stepped Down As treasurer sept. 27 after learning the Board would Likely oust him from the Post. Carter made his remark about Johnson three times during a sept. 12 meeting at which the Board was discussing whether to reinstate a sports program in Lansing a Middle schools. He said he was trying to show How athletics could help shape Young people. Carter 66, said the statements were taken out of Frame kills teen Honolulu a teen Ager died on his morning walk to school after a basketball backboard Frame made of pipe fell on him police said. Willie Tamaga jr., 17, was walking through Kalihi Valley Homes recreational Center thursday when two boys knocked against the backboards supports outside a gymnasium police said. The supports gave Way and the entire Frame fell on Tamaga who suffered head injuries an was pronounced dead at a Hospital
