European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday october 15, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 7secret to world order 20 feet under group says Williamsburg a. A a new age group wants to dig up a historic Church graveyard in Hopes of finding a vault it claims contains writings that can save the world and prove that sir Francis Bacon wrote the plays of Shakespeare. The ministry for the children based in Santa be n.m., contends that if the writings thought to be buried at Bruton Parish Church Arentt found by the year 2000, world order will collapse. A i was born with a Mission and i believe this is it a said the Rev. Marsha Middleton Leader of the Small Loose knit group of believers. The episcopal Church where George Washington and Thomas Jefferson worshipped obtained a restraining order against the group after members entered the cemetery at night sept. 9 and dug a big Hole to look for the vault. Members were not prosecuted and a judge set a hearing oct. 29 to consider extending the order. The new age group a christians who espouse such things As Clairvoyance and reincarnation a believes Bacons lost writings were buried at the Church along with such treasures As the original translation of the King James Bible. The group says the writings outline Bacons plan for a perfect society a world United and at peace. The writings also will prove Bacon was the real author of Shakespeare a plays the group says. A a we re really innocent bystanders in the Way of this controversy a said the Rev. Richard l. May whose 1,500-member Church was founded in the 1670s. A a it a taking an awful lot of time and  the churches governing Board is considering paying for a professional archaeological excavation to put an end to the claims it says Are based on mystical calculations without scientific or historical basis. A i think its unlikely that anything of value is there. Still who can say a said Thaddeus Tate a Parish member and director of the Commonwealth Center for the study of american history and culture at the College of William and Mary. The Church has not obtained an estimate of the Cost of a dig. It will vote on the matter monday. About 50 ministry for the children members Are circulating petitions among tourists residents and College students in support of a dig. Bacon an English statesman and philosopher died in 1626 without Ever visiting Virginia. The idea that his manuscripts were buried at Bruton Parish arose in 1938, when the Church permitted an excavation sought by a Christian Mystic who said she deciphered the location from codes in other 17th-Century writings. That dig found no vault. However surface engineering tests in the 1980s indicated that a Large object a perhaps a Boulder a is about 20 feet below ground. Historians acknowledge that Many contemporaries of Bacon believed he hid some of his More provocative essays. Some of his relatives settled in Virginia raising the possibility that Bacon gave them writings to hide. Tate said he can understand the fascination. A any time you Lay a Spade to the ground in colonial Williamsburg you re going to find something a he  claims she made up aids letter in Ebony Dallas up a the mystery of  a the writer of a Magazine letter who claims to have purposely infected Black men with the aids virus a May be Over according to police who say they have interviewed a teen Ager who says she concocted the letter. The 15-year-old girl told police she wrote the letter published in the september Issue of Ebony Magazine. The letter purports to be from a woman who is deliberately passing on his the human immunodeficiency virus that causes aids. The teen Ager said that the letter is fic Titrous and that she does not have acquired immune deficiency syndrome police reported. A apparently a family Friend or relative had died of aids and she did it to raise awareness of aids issues a said police sgt. Jim Chandler. A Chandler said a handwriting Sample from the girl will be compared with the original letter and the results will be Analysed. A a in a going to be surprised if she did no to write the letter a he said. Asked whether the girl could be charged criminally Chandler said it Isnit against the Law to write a fictitious letter. But he added that if her statements Friday turn out to be untrue she could be charged with filing a false report. Chandler said the teen agers admission will not put an end to the  scare that has spurred a search by police and prosecutors and flooded aids hot lines with Calls. Local aids educators say the increased awareness about the disease caused by  has been Good but too much Energy has been misdirected. A what we be had is a Witch Hunt for a particular person rather than have people take responsibility for their own sexual behaviour a said Jamie shield of the Dallas Gay Alliance. A a in a sorry it has taken something like this to Wake up the heterosexual and african american Community that aids is there for them  High suicide rate during 80s found among Farmers in upper Midwest Wausau wis. Apr the suicide rate among upper Midwest male Farmers in the 1980s was nearly double the National average for White men in some of those years according to a study released monday. The study found 913 male Farmers killed themselves from 1980 to 1988 in Wisconsin Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota and Montana As they struggled with record indebtedness unstable prices falling land values and drought. The National farm Medicine Center which did the study said it would conduct More research to determine whether there was a link Between the farm crisis and the suicide rate As research for the first half of the decade suggests. A i think this is profoundly disturbing because there is no profession where an occupational Hazard ought to be suicide a said or. Kenneth Robbins an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin. The study based on information from Public health agencies found 44 suicides for every 100,000 Farmers and ranchers in 1980, researcher Paul Gunderson said. After peaking at 58 suicides in 1982, the rate fell to 42 suicides per 100,000 Farmers in 1985, and then to 50, 53 and 48 Over the next three years Gunderson said. Nationwide in 1980, 31 suicides occurred for every 100,000 White males age 20 or older he said. The figure for 1988 was 22 suicides per 100,000. Virtually All the Farmers who killed themselves were White except in South Dakota where one in five was an american Indian. Experts said the drop in suicides after 1982 could be attributed to increased awareness of the Farmers plight which reduced their sense of isolation and contributed to improved services such As credit counselling. In North Dakota some Bankers began calling mental health officials to warn of impending foreclosures said Myrt Armstrong executive director of the mental health association of North Dakota which runs a crisis line for Farmers. Older Farmers often Tell Counselor that the a Only Way to Salvage the farm was to die and the family would have enough insurance to maintain and keep the land a she said. Robins said that when faced with losing their land Farmers often feel they be failed their ancestors and children. A study of the first half of the decade conducted by Gunderson and others for the Minnesota Center for health statistics found that injuries alcoholism terminal illness family problems and the poor Economy contributed to Many of the suicides. The National farm Medicine Center founded in Wisconsin in 1981 to conduct agricultural health and safety research and education also found a 71 farm women 96 farm children and 177 farm workers killed themselves from 1980 to 1988. A the typical male victim was 64 years old. The youngest victim was 11. Farm children committed suicide at about the same rate As non farm children. A slightly More than half of the Farmers who killed themselves were married. Stanford doctors suggested Perks to win referrals los Angeles apr faced with fierce Competition for heart patients Stanford University medical faculty wanted to offer Perks to doctors who referred patients to the school a newspaper reported sunday. Some heart doctors at Stanford came up with the plan which included retreats to a Seaside resort but University officials rejected the idea As unethical and illegal the los Angeles times reported. To qualify for the Perks doctors had to Promise to a refer the majority if not All of their patients for cardiac Catheter nation and a or cardiovascular surgery to the. Faculty at Stanford a according to a draft of the plan. Or. Tim a. Fischell who authored the proposal said the inducement of a stay at the Lodge a posh Seaside resort at Pebble Beach in Northern California is mild compared with other offers being made. Fischell said the san Francisco Bay areas competitive medical Market offers tickets to baseball games dinners at expensive restaurants and greens fees at Golf courses to referring doctors. Lotto fever sends Illinois Jackpot rising a to $60 million Springfield 111. Up a lotto mania gripped players of the Illinois game monday enabling lottery officials to boost the Jackpot to $60 million the third largest in state history. The $5 million added to the grand prize monday was the result of an All time High for sunday sales spokesman Mike Lang said. He said tickets Are Selling at an even or better Pace than they were the last time the Jackpot hit $60 million. A things Are looking Good a Lang said. A a we re continuing to Monitor sales and it could go higher before wednesdays drawing lotto fever is Here and it wont subside until somebody  Chicago tour guide Mark Venegas expressed a philosophy held by Many. A when it gets this High you figure Why not take a Chance a he said. Interest in the Illinois lotto prize swept the Midwest and ticket sales to out of state passengers at of Hare International Airport were brisk. The epidemic spread when no one won saturdays $47 million lotto Jackpot. Lottery officials sweetened the pot by $8 million sunday. The rollover was the eighth straight a a record. No one has won the lotto grand prize since sept. 14. The largest Illinois lottery Jackpot was $69.9 million shared by four winners april 15,1989. The second largest lotto prize was $61.5 million won March 20,1990, Lang said