European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 10, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday october 10, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7battered ship leaking fuel off Alaska Shmagin islands Alaska up a storms pounded a grounded South korean freighter and ruptured 12 fuel tanks As a coast guard team struggled tuesday to contain the fuel and prevent More damage. Two coast guard cutters and a Salvage tug were on the scene and two More tugs were Rushing to the stricken cargo Carrier that ran aground last week loaded with american Grain bound for Asia. The Hyundai no. 12, sailing from Portland Ore., to Hong Kong with 27,000 tons of Grain took a Detour from its North Pacific crossing to seek shelter from Stormy weather in the protected Bays of the Shmagin islands off Southwest Alaska 210 Miles Southwest of Kodiak Island and some 550 Miles South West of Anchorage. When weather improved and the Hyundai no. 12 began heading Back to its North Pacific route oct. 2, it ran aground. Attempts to re float the vessel have failed and weather worsened again monday night and tuesday thwarting efforts to pump fuel Oil off the freighter onto a Barge. Now about a week after the freighter ran aground 35 Mph winds and 12-foot Waves lashed the vessel twisting it around on the rocks and rupturing the fuel tanks. Only one of the tanks contained any fuel but some leaked out forming a film and Tarballs coast guard spokesman Erik Lott said. A coast guard Pacific strike Force team with pumps Oil containment booms and other pollution response equipment was at the scene. The vessel held an estimated 203,000 Gallons of fuel but officials could not estimate How much had leaked out of the ruptured tanks Seaman Don Atwell said. Stormy weather helped dissipate the fuel leaking from the vessel which was grounded near a National wildlife Refuge coast guard spokesman Mike Milliken said. Some 20 Crew members remained on the vessel but they were in no danger As Long As the ship remained hard aground on the rocks Milliken said. A there is a possibility the vessel could sink if it slides off the rocks a he warned. The coast guard cutters were stand ing by to Rescue the Crew if necessary and to help with the pollution containment and Salvage Effort Milliken said. He said the coast guard still hoped to pump off any remaining Oil and have the Salvage tug Crews re float the ship when weather improved. If efforts to safely Transfer the Oil fail the coast guard said the state department of environmental conservation the. National oceanic and atmospheric administration and the environmental Protection Agency have approved using chemical dispersant or burning off the leaked Oil. Officials wanted to dump some Grain overboard to lighten the Load but the freighter had no equipment on Board to remove the  of Birmingham elected to fourth term despite scandal by the associated press a scandal in City Hall did no to Stop the first Black mayor of Birmingham ala., from easily winning a a Lay. In Mississippi meanwhile red a a fourth term tuesday publicans nominated a businessman for a Long shot bid against another democratic incumbent gov. Ray Mabus. In Salt Lake City businesswoman Deedee Corradini moved closer to her goal of becoming the City a first woman mayor finishing first among five candidates in a non partisan primary. But the vote was so close Between the second and third place finishers that a recount probably will be needed to determine Corradini a opponent in november. Re voters in Burlington vt7 rejected the City Utility a proposed Purchase of Power from a Canadian Utility a hydroelectric project. Critics claimed the plan could Larm wildlife and the regions indians. The vote against the Purchase was 3,335 to 2,409. The Birmingham election came a month after Federal prosecutors named mayor Richard Arrington an a indicted co conspirator in a scheme to defraud the City of $220,000. The mayor who faced five opponents contends he is being smeared. Unofficial returns showed Arrington with 47,419 votes or 63 percent. His nearest competitor Black municipal judge Emory Anthony had 23,867 votes or 31.5 percent. A they threw everything at us including the Kitchen sink and we still kicked them Back Good said Arrington in his Victory speech. Also in Alabama Montgomery a Republican mayor Emory Folmar turned aside two challengers and won a fourth straight term. Folmar received 21,403 votes or 59 percent and attorney James Wilson had 11,767 or 33 percent. In the first Ever Runoff for a Mississippi gop gubernatorial nominee Vicksburg businessman Kirk Fordice easily Defeated state auditor Pete Johnson. With 82 percent of the states 2,101 precincts reporting Fordice and 30,503 votes or 61 percent compared with 19,200, or 39 percent for Johnson. In Salt Lake City Corradini got 7,638 votes or 29 percent. State Commerce director Dave Buhler the Only Republican in the race was second with 6,762 votes 25 percent and state legislator Dave Jones was third with 6,677 votes. Fourth with 5,331 votes was Mike Zuhl chief of staff to mayor Palmer Depaulis who is leaving office to run for governor. Jones Only 85 votes behind Buhler said he probably would ask for a recount. Century of sober reflection clears books for Norse sailors new York apr six norwegian seamen jailed Here on Public drunkenness charges while on a visit to recreate Leif Ericson a voyage to the new world have been cleared a nearly 100 years after their arrest. Judge Martin Karopkin dismissed the charges tuesday in time for Leif Ericson Day on wednesday. The Story began on june 20, 1893, when 12 norwegian sailors recreating Ericson a voyage stopped in Brooklyn on their Way to the Chicago worlds fair. Celebrations were planned there in Honor of both the 400th anniversary of Columbus voyage and the 900th of Ericson a. On their Way Back to their hotel a band of ruffians attacked the Norse sailors according to a newspaper account of the time. When the police arrived six of the norwegians were detained and the americans released the newspaper said. In the Book the Viking voyage 1893, capt. Magnus Andersen suggests the attack May have stemmed from pro Columbus partisanship. The Case May have garnered attention because Brooklyn in 1893 was Home to the biggest settlement of norwegians outside Norway said attorney Norman Liss who represented the norwegians in tuesdays proceeding in state court. Noway never forgot the Case. During a speech last month in new York prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland raised the Issue and asked Liss to file a motion to dismiss the charges in time for the Ericson millennium. Youngsters can t sing Jesus loves me Alexandria ind. Up a a kindergarten teacher hoped that the singing of Jesus loves me would help her children get acquainted. But the result was the song was formally banned by the school Board. There will be no More singing of Jesus loves me at Orestes elementary school the Alexandria Community school Board decided monday night because its illegal. School Board lawyer Jeffrey a. Lockwood said the Board determined that the song clearly crosses the line Public schools must keep Between primarily religious and secular activities. Lockwood said the teacher acted without any intent to Start a juror innocently picking a song she thought most of the children already knew. A Parent who heard of the singing Kathie Wilbur made an inquiry after her son came Home and told her his class had Sung the song he had Learned in vacation Bible school. She said she had no intent to sue but was Only inquiring about the legalities. Her inquiry led to an Indiana civil liberties Union inquiry and More than 100 parents packing a school Board meeting protested removal of the song. Officials said Wilbur had not questioned the use of traditional Holiday songs such As Christmas carols so they expected the policy to create no major  s cocaine use linked to fetal dangers from wire reports Chicago a men who use cocaine May increase the risk that their children will be abnormal say researchers who found that the drug binds tightly to sperm in test tubes. The study raises the possibility that cocaine May piggyback onto sperm As it enters and fertilizes eggs or that the drug May damage male genes before fertilization said the head of the team at Washington University school of Medicine in St. Louis. The findings also raise the possibility that environmental poisons which reach far More men than cocaine could endanger fetuses by latching onto sperm the same Way said the authors and an Independent researcher. The authors put sperm from several dozen drug free men in test tubes along with cocaine at various temperatures and concentrations including concentrations typical in the blood of cocaine users. The cocaine harmed neither the sperm a ability to move nor to live even at toxic drug concentrations but it latched tightly onto the male cells the researchers said in wednesdays journal of the american medical association. A this novel mechanism could be involved in the abnormal development of offspring of cocaine exposed males a the authors said. One possibility is that cocaine rides the sperm into the egg said or. Ricardo a. Yazigi now at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. Another is that the drug damages the sperm itself by altering its genes he  Campaign debt Washington the 1988 presidential Campaign of Democrat Michael Dukakis owes the Treasury nearly $100,000 because it received too much in Federal Matching funds according to report by Federal auditors released tuesday. The recommendation is based on findings by Federal election commission auditors that the Dukakis Camp received More than $581,000 in extra Federal funds for the presidential Campaign. The Campaign made an initial repayment of $485,000 in april after a preliminary audit was issued. The final audit report said the Dukakis Campaign still owed the Treasury $96,059. The report was dated oct. 4 and released by the commission  nears gambling Salem Ore. A a judge has cleared the Way for a state run video poker network that will place game terminals in 2,600 in bars and restaurants around the state. Marion county circuit judge Richard Barber ruled monday that opponents failed to prove video poker runs afoul of state constitutional provisions that forbid casinos in Oregon. The lottery commission plans to begin the game in february said lottery director Jim Davey