European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 1, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 b the stars and stripes Friday november 1, 1991atlantic storm system lashes Northeast by the associated press a huge Atlantic storm threw towering Waves and Hurricane Force winds at the Northeast tossing boats around like toys and sending tides surging onto roads along shorelines and Inland riverbanks. A River Road is a River a sheriffs officer Edward Kane said thursday morning in Hackensack n.j., where water was 3 feet deep in the courthouse parking lot. ,. Four people were reported m Issing thursday including a air National guardsman whose four Crew mates were rescued from life rafts after their helicopter went Down at sea. From Maine to North Carolina Waves smashed seawalls flooded streets and Homes arid trapped people in cars. Winds of 70 Mph or More knocked out Power to thousands and churning seas eroded beaches As far South As Florida. The storm ravaged More than 1 h Seaside Homes in Maine including president Bush a vacation Home at Kennebunkport. Bush plans to interrupt a political trip to the West to inspect the waterlogged and debris strewn property saturday. While much damage involved vacant summer cottages thousands also fled year round Homes to shelters set up in schools from Massachusetts to Maine. A we had whitecaps going right through the Back Yard a said Mary Voelger who was rescued from her Home in Scituate mass., on a Backhoe As Waves washed through her House. A state of emergency was declared thursday in nine counties on the Massachusetts coast and in dare county on the North Carolina outer Banks. The 200-mile-wide storm formed earlier this week off Canada and is called a extra tropical because it did no to originate in the tropics. Its fury onshore was expected to Peak with High tide which was forecast at 4 to 5 feet above Normal in Many areas. R the National weather service said at 7 . Thursday the storm was wobbling South Southwest about 180 Miles Southeast of Montauk Point on the East end of Long Island. Forecasters said coastal flooding would continue thursday afternoon before the storm moved Back out to sea Friday. On the new England coast winds gusted to 78 Mph a Hurricane Force a and Waves As High As 35 Teet mrs. George Cobb wheels her groceries along a flooded Street in sea Bright n.j., where tides were 4 feet nver Normal. Slammed through seawalls and tossed boats onto Shore. The coast guard made dozens of rescues off several states and three guardsmen had to be saved from High seas after they went to the Aid of a Sailboat off Nantucket Island mass. The guardsmen and the three people aboard the Sailboat were plucked to safety by a coast guard helicopter. Four of five air National guardsmen whose helicopter went Down in Stormy seas were found floating in a life raft 60 Miles off Long Island Early thursday said air National guard it. Col. Rick Marino. The fifth guardsman was being sought. The helicopter went Down late wednesday As it returned from a Massachusetts Rescue Mission. At least one Man suffered a broken Bone and others apparently suffered minor injuries. The men attracted coast guard rescuers with a Strobe Light after floating for about six hours. Broadway producer Papp Dies new York apr producer Joseph Papp the Man who brought a chorus line to Broadway and tree productions of Shakespeare to Central Park died thursday after a Long Battle with prostate cancer his spokesman said lie was 70. Papp died at Home in his Greenwich Village apartment said spokesman Richard Kornberg. Papp was the fyn Der and guiding spirit of the new York Shakespeare festival which he started in 1054 in a Church basement on the lower East Side and later developed into one of the country a leading non profit Heaters. The festival a Complex of five Heaters and one movie House now located in the former Astor Library on Lafayette Street has sent More than a dozen productions to Broadway. Among its biggest successes were a chorus line the longest running show in Broadway his tory that championship season a revival of the pirates of Penzance plenty a musical version of two gentlemen of Verona Spieks and Bones for coloured Papp girls Drood and Cuba and his Teddy Bear. At the Public theater Papp produced such notable plays and musicals As Larry Kramer a the Normal heart. One of the first dramas to Deal with aids the original production of hair before it was revised and then taken to Broadway by a different producer George c. Wolfe s satire the coloured museum top girls and serious Money by English playwright Caryl Churchill and tracers about soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War. Among the playwrights Papp worked with a and produced on stage a were David Mamet Sam Shepard John Guare David Rabe David Hare Caryl Churchill David Henry Hwang Notzke Shang John Patrick Shanley George c. Wolfe and Vaclav Havel. In 1956, Papp started the free Shakespeare summer festival in the East River Park Amphitheater. It moved to Central Park when a flatbed truck that had toured City Parks with pappus productions collapsed near the Parks Belvedere Lake. When the delacorte theater was built in Central Park in 1%2 on the same site pappus company moved in presenting Shakespeare Lor tree each summer to thousands of new yorkers. In 1987, Papp began a Cycle of All of Shakespeare s 36 plays presented either in the Public theater Complex or in Central Park. A striking nurses in . Return to work by the los Angeles times los Angeles a striking nurses voted wednesday to return to their jobs at los Angeles county hospitals and health clinics but threatened to walk out again monday night in Defiance of a court order it they do not get an acceptable contract offer from county negotiators. The nurses vote came a Lew hours alter los Angeles county Public works employees w asked Oil the Job and Union officials reported that department of Public social service workers had voted to walk out too but have not set a strike Date. In addition Bakers for the county jail system walked out wednesday. The work actions were part of the a rolling Thunder or strategy of local 660 of the service employees International Union which Hopes to use the combined Power of its 41,000 members in various county departments to win significant wage and benefits in 21 separate contracts. Medical services were severely curtailed at six county hospitals and 47 health centers for the second Day wednesday although 70 percent of the county s 4.500 nurses reported for duty on the Early morning shift. More than 4 h nurses who remained off the Job wednesday morning met later and voted to obey the Back to work order issued tuesday by Superior court judge William Huss. Thev agreed to return to work immediately and resume negotiations with the county. The talks were to resume  body adding chapter to Maine history Augusta Maine a the body of Enoch Lincoln the dignified poet governor who helped choose the site for Maine a Capitol was buried in a Tomb facing the Granite building a Century and half ago. But his crypt is empty. The Case of the missing Bones puzzles historians state property custodians and sleuths who have searched for the remains of Lincoln and the three state officials who shared his crypt. A Quot he has not reported in As yet a said Earle Shettleworth jr., director of the state historic preservation commission. Sheila Mckenna who became intrigued with the matter while working As a history specialist in the state Library pored Over Augusta mortuary records and checked plot lists from every cemetery in the state.  found no evidence that the remains were moved. The last accounting of the bodies of Maine a fifth governor and a senator state representative and House clerk Laid to rest alongside him is in the form of a 1903 legislative resolve to repair the Tomb. According to the document Lincoln a remains were Well preserved in a metallic casket. The remains of the others were put i Mew caskets because the old ones were a decayed with age and  Lincoln s body was placed in the Tomb in 1842, 13 years after he died after catching a cold. Lincoln an Early advocate of rights for Blacks and women was a poet whose works included the 2,000-line our Village written while he lived in the Western Maine town of Fryeburg. Mckenna Learned that the state Bureau of Public improvements spruced up the Tomb in the 1950s. She figures that state workers cleaned the Tomb out and Forest to put Ever thine Back