European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 07, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday october 7, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7idaho fails to Block radioactive waste Boise Idaho apr radioactive waste shipments to Idaho resumed saturday three years after gov. Cecil Andrus declared he would not allow his state to become a dumping ground. Andrus a former . Interior Secretary refused to concede defeat As the first truckload of about 200 planned shipments of waste from a decommissioned nuclear Plant in Colorado rolled into the state. A this Colorado Utility s waste is truly the camels nose under the tent a he said. After a 690-mile trip from Platteville colo., the truck arrived saturday morning at the Idaho National engineering Laboratory in the Eastern part of the state lab spokesman Nick Nichols said. It passed a state police inspection before crossing into Idaho heading to the Federal research installation. A strict inspection of the truck loaded with spent fuel rods had been the state s last Chance to Stop the shipment. Last month Idaho lost its latest round in court to the Federal department of Energy Over waste from the fort St. Vrain nuclear Power Plant in Platteville. Idaho contended in a lawsuit that the shipments would violate the nuclear waste policy act because the Energy department failed to conduct a full assessment of the threat of radioactive exposure to Eastern Idaho s 250,000 people. A three judge panel of the 9th . Circuit court of appeals ruled against Idaho agreeing with the Energy department that its contract with Public service co. To accept nuclear waste predated the 1982 act. State attorney general Larry Echo Hawk said Friday he May seek a hearing by the full 9th circuit. Andrus and Echo Hawk also planned to press challenges this week in state court contending the Idaho Laboratory failed to obtain the necessary state environmental permits to handle the waste. Andrus said the Energy department which operates the Idaho Laboratory lied to the state for More than a decade on the purpose of the shipments. The Agency originally told Idaho the waste would be brought into the state for research and development at the lab he said. Andrus is a Democrat who served As president Carter s Interior Secretary. A i refuse to accept that it s inevitable that they will make a nuclear waste dump out of Idaho a he said. A i am going to do everything i can within the Law to see that that does not  the state already has about 120 truckloads of waste from the Colorado Plant the shipments were made Between 1980 and 1986. Andrus has been battling with the Federal government Over nuclear waste shipments since 1988. In 1989, Andrus allowed a few radioactive waste shipments from the Rocky Flats nuclear Plant near Denver citing National Security concerns because plutonium triggers Are made  no. 7 Horn player in heaven Jackson says by Lisa Harris United press International new York a until a week ago the headline Horn player in heaven was named Gabriel. The Rev. Jesse Jackson says Gabriel is now a in big  at a saturday memorial service for Miles Davis one week after the trumpeters death Jackson wound up the Talent Laden lineup of speakers and got no argument when he assumed Davis could be the greatest Horn player in this or any other world. A what should Gabriel do with his Horn now that Miles has come to heaven a Jackson asked. A Gabriel is scheduled to blow his trumpet a but now that Miles is on the scene there is More than one seat in the trumpet  Davis revolutionized jazz repeatedly. His innovations included the Cool and fusion periods although he decried labels and he was As Brilliant a composer As performer. He died sept. 28 at 65 of stroke and respiratory failure due to pneumonia in Santa Monica Calif. With someday my Prince will come playing in the background Jackson told Davis repeatedly to a rest Sweet  Davis worked endlessly at his Craft stoically at kicking heroin cold Turkey and passionately for Black emergence a and Jackson recognized it All. A someday the song says our Prince will come a Jackson said. A the made us feel so Good he made us feel so proud. The trumpet was an Extension of his personality. He sounded like he Felt and of How Complex were his feelings. He was realistic and futuristic. Disciplined determined hard working perfectionist visionary. Let this Sweet Prince  jazz luminaries friends and relatives of Davis at the service included his close friends and musical colleagues Quincy Jones dizzy Gillespie and Max Roach entertainer Bill Cosby protege Herbie Hancock and two former wives actress Cicely Tyson and dancer Frances Taylor. Also speaking were new York mayor David Dinkins and representatives of the governments of France and Malta both of which knighted Davis. They made it Clear they represented places that Long ago adopted the Illinois born Davis As their own. A Miles Davis led the Way to generations of musicians jazz pianist composer Herbie Hancock Speaks of his Mentor the late Miles Davis at a memorial service saturday. Who came to our City a Dinkins said. A the left East St. Louis Iii in 1944. The elite Talent that is Miles Davis is a new York treasure. Whether. At Gleason a gym or sugar Ray Robinsons bar he made our City his own a Dinkins said of the boxing aficionado. A we welcomed him with open  the exclusive memorial service was held at St. Peters Church on 54th Street a a jazz Church but a far cry from the 52nd Street address of clubs made legendary by the names Davis dizzy Parker c Coltrane and others. Outside the Sanctuary stood Floral arrangements with notes from former heavyweight Champion Mike Tyson entertainers Whitney Houston and Carlos Santana. One from Playboy was in the shape of a Bunny with a tear in its Eye another had a Banner Reading a Dewey ill love you forever Quot to Miles Dewey Davis Iii. Anon who helped create Burma shave signs Dies Edina Minn. Apr Leonard c. Odell who with his brother created the Early Roadside signs for his fathers Burma shave shaving Cream has died at the age of 83. Odell who went on to become president of Burma Vita co., died of cancer at his Home Friday. Odell a father Clinton commissioned a chemist to develop a Brush less shaving Cream and named the product Burma shave. Sales were slow however until Odell s sons Leonard and Allan joined the firm. They posted the first sets of signs on Rural Minnesota highways in 1925. The Standard Burma shave Couplet was written on five sequential signs. A sixth sign always said a Burma  an example within this Vale of toil and sin your head grows Bald but not your Chin a use Burma shave. The signs were popular fixtures along . Highways from the late 1930s until 1964. The company held annual contests for Jingle writers. Leonard Odell was vice president and Secretary of the company before becoming its president. In 1963, the company was sold to Phillip Morris inc. Odell retired in 1966. Judge won t release reports on Halcyon use murder Case Salt Lake City a a Federal judge has refused a consumer groups request to unseal secret reports filed in a Utah murder Case that Deal with possible Side effects of the drug Halcyon. . District judge j. Thomas Greene said in a ruling Friday that the Public can go to the Federal food and drug administration for More information about the drug one of the most widely prescribed sleep medications. Greene s ruling involved the Case of a Utah woman who claims she was under the influence of Halcyon when she killed her Mother. The ruling came two Days after the British government banned Halcyon and other medications containing tri Zolam. Last year Public citizen health research group founded by consumer advocate Ralph Nader asked the Fra to strengthen warnings on the Side effects of the drug. Greene denied a request by the group to release documents in the Utah products liability Case filed by Llo Marie Grundberg against the drug s manufacturer Upjohn co. Of Kalamazoo Mich. Murder charges against Grundberg were dismissed two years ago after psychiatrists testified the 1988 slaying of 83-year-old Mildred Coats resulted from Grundberg s addiction to Halcyon. Grundberg shot he. Mother eight times in the head in their Mobile Home