European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday november 6, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 5rites held for Iowa massacre victims Iowa City Iowa apr University of Iowa faculty and students held a Day of mourning monday when a funeral and memorial services replaced classes two Days after a vengeful former student went on a shooting spree. Gang la who received a . In physics killed Thiec professors an administrator and a student whose dissertation was honoured Over his last Spring. A sixth victim was seriously wounded. After the rampage la killed himself. A we All truly feel the Shock and dismay As with the families Over the loss of our loved ones a said Henry Mcgill 20, an engineering student from Marion s.c., who presided Over a memorial ceremony on Campus. A it is Midnight at the University right now a he said. Flags were at half staff on Campus and classes were cancelled for the Day. More than 500 people grieved at a funeral for a slain administrator. Several Hundred attended other memorial gatherings. A the injuries we have suffered Are devastating. We cannot make sense of this a we Are out of our depth a said Hunter Rawlings president of the 28,000-student University. Elsewhere on Campus hundreds of students and faculty observed Brief periods of silence and placed wreaths near the shooting Sites in memory of the victims. A University wide service was scheduled thursday at Carver Hawkeye Arena. La 28, opened fire with a .38-Calibcr pistol at a weekly physics and astronomy department meeting shooting two professors and Lingua Shan the student whose dissertation was selected Over Luis. He killed a third professor in his office and then returned to the first shooting site where he finished off a victim who was still alive. He then moved to another building where he kilted t. Anne Cleary an associate vice president for academic affairs. La had filed a complaint with Cleary Over the honors nomination process. He also shot Miya Rodolfo Sio son an assistant who remained in serious condition at University hospitals. The other slain victims were the departments chairman Dwight Nicholson professor Christoph Goertz and associate professor Robert Alan Smith. University of Iowa students from left Clarissa Ramos Dave Pasley and Larty Grieve during a memorial service held on Campus monday. A Janet me arson suspected in latest cases of Church fires Winter Haven Fla. Up a investigators said monday that they believe two weekend Church fires were the work of an arsonist but that they had not linked them to 23 other fires in North and Central Florida. The first Winter Haven fire broke out at the Cypress Cathedral Church at 3 30 . Saturday and the second was reported an hour later at the first Church of Christ scientist located less than a mile away. Bill Sigler assistant Winter Haven fire chief said he did not know How Long it would take the state fire marshals office to Complete tests on the evidence. A it depends on How Long it takes the fire marshals lab to run them but its Likely when they Are done the fires will go from suspicious to incendiary a he said. Sigler said that he has no evidence to show the Winter Haven fires had any connection with the other fires in the state but that the possibility is being investigated. Sigler said damage from the two weekend fires was estimated at about $2,000 each. He said the first fire burned itself out before it was discovered and the second was extinguished by fire fighters. A suspicious fires also occurred at four churches in Gainesville one in Lake City and one in Ocala. All but one of those most recent fires have been ruled As arson. In All there have been 23 arson or suspicious fires in Central and North Florida since july 1990. The . Bureau of alcohol and firearms has posted a $25,000 Reward for information about the fires. Along with the Federal Reward the Florida advisory committee and crime trac an Alachua county Agency Are offering $1,000 each for information that would solve the Case. In the stars and stripes10 years ago nov. 6,1981 Buckingham Palace announced that Princess Diana was expecting a baby. The baby would be titled a Prince or Princess of Wales and would be second in line to the throne.20 years ago _ nov. 6,1971 a Secretary of defense Melvin r. Laird reportedly told South vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu that . Withdrawals from Vietnam would be stepped up immediately to Send thousands of troops Home for christmas.30 years ago nov. 6,1961 a voice of America told soviet listeners that Quot the testing of nuclear weapons by your government has been taking place under conditions which exposed you. To grave  meanwhile a University of Hartford Conn biologist said the increase in birth defects and children a cancer might be linked to atomic bomb tests.40 years ago nov. 6,1951 the United states Britain and France asked the United nations to investigate whether conditions in East and West Germany would be suitable for holding Quot genuinely free elections Quot throughout the entire country. Stamp increase to 30 cents rejected Washington a the . Postal service on tuesday rejected a Penny increase in the Cost of first class postage even though a majority of its governors favored raising the 29-cent rate. A unanimous vote was needed to increase the stamp Price to 30 cents. Postmaster general Anthony Frank said the failure to raise the rate to 30 cents Means that a America will Likely see another postage rate increase in Early 1994. Frank said that increase is expected to be 3 to 5 cents. Tuesdays vote ends the rate Case which began More than 18 months ago when the postal service requested a 30cent first class rate. Instead the rate was set at 29 cents by the Independent postal rate commission. The postal service twice asked the rate commission to reconsider and twice was rejected. The failure to override that action ends the matter a postal service spokesman said. Sen. David Pryor d-ark., chairman of the Senate subcommittee that oversees the mail Agency urged the governors monday not to raise rates. He contended that an increase was a unnecessary and not in the Best interests of the postal service or its  the push to raise he rate to 30 cents began when the rate was 25 cents. The Independent postal rate commission approved the 29-cent first class rate in a Complex decision affecting All classes of mail. That rate termed a Penny foolish by Frank was instituted under protest in february. Since then the postal service twice has asked the rate commission to reconsider the matter insisting that the 1-Ccnt difference costs it $800 million annually. The commission refused to go along although it did agree to some other increases that will bring in an estimated $300 million for the Agency. The second rejection placed the matter Back in the hands of the governors the residentially appointed Board that supervises the postal service. Once before in 1981, the Board overruled a rate commission decision. In that Case the commission approved an increase from 15 cents to 18 cents and the postal Board later raised the rate to 20 cents. Before the increase in february mail rates had last risen in 1988, Frank has said he Hopes the postal service will have to raise rates Only once More in this decade. When the postal service replaced the old Post office department in 1971, it was directed to operate like a business breaking even Over the Long haul. The massive tax subsidy that had been used to hold Down postage rates was phased out. The postal service has had five surplus years and five loss years in the last decade finishing 1989 about $61 million in the Black but falling $874 million into the red in 1990. Pastor becomes oldest to get new heart Dallas apr a 71-year-old minister said monday that he a doing Fine and Hopes to be preaching again soon after surgery that made him the worlds oldest heart transplant recipient. The Rev. Earl Oldham received the heart of a 23-year-old donor during a four hour operation at Baylor medical Center on saturday. Oldham suffered from cardiomyopathy a degeneration of the heart muscle. A i was delighted. It gave me Hope that i could finish doing what i enjoy a serv ing the lord a said Oldham pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in grand Prairie a suburb 11 Miles West of Dallas. He has asked or. Peter Alivizatos the hospitals director of cardiac transplantation for permission to preach in two weeks. Quot he said he thought that might be a Little premature a Oldham said laughing. A 70-year-old patient had previously been the worlds oldest heart recipient according to the International registry of heart transplants. Oldham a attitude and health made him a Good candidate for the surgery Alivizatos said. A the had a Pristine body other than the isolated heart problem a Alivizatos said. A the was aggressive and motivated a far better than Many younger  most transplant programs consider age 65 the limit for heart transplants. A we should serve patients not regulations a the doctor said. A if we were going by the regulations we never would have done it. And that  have been