European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday october 21,1991 aftermath of fire Robert Cutler who farms 600 acres with his brother in nine mile Falls Wash., searches through the remains of one of his farm buildings Friday. A total of 34 major fires charred 48,000 acres and More than 100 Homes and other buildings around Spokane said a spokesman for the Multi Agency command in Olympia. Officials began tallying the fires costs and estimated it reached $15 million in Spokane county alone. Anxious parents flood hot lines after poisoned baby food found by Robert d. Mcfadden the new Vork times new York a worried Consumers tied up hot lines with Calls for advice on food poisoning saturday As chemists tried to identify a caustic substance in a Jar of baby food that apparently had been tampered with at a Small East Harlem grocery store. Five month old Linda Lin who was said to have been stricken wednesday when her father by Lin fed her from a Jar of strained bananas bought last sunday remains in extremely critical condition at new York i Hospital Cornell medical Center. Officials of the new York City health department and the Federal food and drug administration said inspectors had examined other grocery stores in the area but had found nothing suspicious beyond the contaminated jars from Hector a supermarket. Margaret Karanja a health department spokeswoman said Only two jars of Beech nut Chiquita bananas stage i bought by the baby a parents had been found to be contaminated. She said 13 other jars of Beech nut baby food had been taken off shelves at Hector a because inspectors found them suspicious. Only botulism has been ruled out As a result of Laboratory tests Karanja said. She said that authorities were convinced tampering had occurred and that it was not merely an instance of spoiled food. Health authorities and the company cautioned Consumers to make sure that the tops of jars pop when they Are opened to ensure that the safety seals have not been broken. The hot lines of the Fra at 718 965-5725, and the health departments Poison control Center 212 340-4494, were barraged by worried Consumers. In St. Louis James Nichols president of the beechnut nutrition corp. Expressed regret Over the child s illness and outrage at the a irresponsible and dangerous actions of an individual who would intentionally contaminate a baby food  Pilot sought in Chicago near hit Chicago up1 a Federal aviation administration investigators saturday searched for the Pilot of a Light plane that came within 50 feet of an american airlines Jet in the third near collision Over Chicago within a month. The incident occurred around noon thursday As american airlines flight no. 552, carrying 59 passengers and a Crew of six from Salt Lake City to Chicago was on Landing approach to of Hare International Airport. A the american airlines plane was heading in to Ward of Hare and out of the Blue an unknown Cessna 170 was on a head on collision course with it a Faa spokesman Mort Edlestein said. The Small plane was flying on visual flight rules about 38 Miles Northwest of of Hare and should have seen the Large plane he said. A when they did get pretty close both planes made moderate turns to the right and they missed each other a Edlestein said. It was the third close Call in the Chicago area since september. Murder charge fails to Sway husband Jacksonville Fla. A Billy and Paulette Waters still live together even though Paulette Waters is charged with plotting her husband s murder to collect his life insurance Money. Quot in be been doing this for 22 years and in be never seen a Case with these bizarre factors Quot said h. Randolph fallin the lawyer representing Paulette Waters 44. She was arrested oct. 3 and charged with solicitation to commit murder. Police said that the family a Auto body shop was having financial trouble and that they owe the internal Revenue service $58,000. Paulette Waters promised a family Friend $1,000 to find a hit Man to kill her husband authorities said. The Friend said she even gave him a copy of Billy Waters $170,000 life insurance policy they said. The Friend secretly recorded a conversation with Paulette Waters and she was arrested a few Days later said assistant state attorney Anthony Berry. A there is no question the woman wanted her husband killed a Berry told the Florida times Union. Paulette Waters was freed on bail after her husband appealed to a judge for her release. He told circuit judge David c. Wiggins that his wife would never try to kill him. A the Man has absolutely no fear for his safety Quot said Failin adding that the husband does no to even want the Case prosecuted. The couple have refused to  turns in gun Warden left in Bis car from wire reports Folsom Calif. A Folsom prison Warden Robert Borg says he is the owner of a loaded handgun an inmate found in his state car at a prison car Wash. �?o1 Don t make any excuses. Its a great embarrassment a personally professionally. Its embarrassing As hell a Borg said. The inmate a minimum Security trustee in a prison work program found the weapon last tuesday in Borges Glove compartment and immediately reported it to a guard a prison spokesman said. State prisons director James Gomez was considering taking disciplinary action against Borg said prison spokesman tip  father Dies Langhorne a. A William Harvey Dinkins jr., the father of new Yorkus mayor David n. Dinkins and a retired real estate broker in Trenton n.j., died Friday night at the Delaware Valley medical Center. He was 85 and was a longtime resident of Trenton. Dinkins died of cardiopulmonary arrest said Leland t. Jones the mayors press Secretary. The mayor who went to the Hospital Friday night cancelled his weekend  injured on ride Lake Buena Vista Fla. A teen age girl was critically injured saturday when she got caught in the tracks of a haunted House ride at Walt Disney world authorities said. Kelly Ferguson. 15, of Sarasota Fla., was hospitalized in critical condition saturday evening at Orlando regional medical Center said Julie Stowell the hospitals patient care coordinator. A according to witnesses she was jumping from car to car and got caught on the track a said Orange county sheriffs Deputy Carlos Padilla. A she got dragged quite a  Ferguson was pulled about 50 to 80 feet on the slow moving ride Padilla said. The haunted mansion was closed for the night which is Standard procedure when accidents occur said Disney spokesman Tom  woman robbed Chicago a thieves swooped Down on a Young woman struck by a hit and run Driver and then stole her purse As she was dying in the Street from her injuries police said saturday. Authorities said the robbers rifled through the woman a pockets and apparently tried to pull three Gold rings off her fingers before running off. The woman was struck by a car on Chicago a West Side about 11 . Thursday. Onlookers then set out to steal from her. One witness told police an unidentified Man took her purse before paramedics arrived. The woman was pronounced dead at mount Sinai Hospital. Working from clues from witnesses police were searching saturday for the Brown car that fled the  announcer Dies Nashville Tenn. A Grant Turner a grand Ole opry announcer for half a Century died saturday of a heart aneurysm. He was 79. As he had for 47 years Turner worked the Friday night opry show. He died six hours later at Saint Thomas Hospital. A the worked every Friday and saturday night every weekend doing what he loved Best a said his daughter Nancy Turner who said her father had an enlarged Aorta and knew he was at risk. Turner also provided daily commentary on Nashville radio station ism where he worked for 47 years As Well As making radio commercials his family said. He was also a member of the country music do Hall of Fame. A Grant was a real pillar on the grand Ole opry a said Jerry Strobel opry stage manager. A the sort of bridged the Gap Between Hank Williams and Patsy Cline and Jim Reeves. Up to the present Day performers the Reba Mcentire and Garth Brooks and Clint  his widow Lorene Turner said the opry was her husband s life. A the said they re his kind of people Down to Earth people a she said