European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse A Peter Stackpole one of the first photographers for life Magazine stands among the ruins of his Oakland Hills Home. Research lifetime of work lies among ashes of Oakland fire Oakland Calif. Apr As a Forest fire raged in the Hills above his Home pulitzer prize winning writer Richard Ofshe got in his car took a last look at 20 years of research in cabinets lining his garage and left. A it got burned up a Ofshe says succinctly. A i probably lost a Quarter million documents and a lot of he was t alone. Novels a 70,000-slide Library of Art history and a life a work in photography were among the casualties when fire ravaged the wooded hillsides where Many writers scholars and artists had gravitated Over the years a i looked around the room and i thought of what do 1 take a recalled Art historian Georgia Wright who bundled what she could of her slide Library into her car. She left behind a enormous drawers i even get out the door without her slides Wright had to cancel a course she was giving. Life Magazine charter photographer Peter Stackpole was Able to haul out works boxed up for a show in Oakland but lost decades Worth of negatives. A every few moments i think of something. It s hard to believe i can to just go Over and grab it a Stackpole said. A those who lost work were Quick to say their losses were nothing compared with the 25 deaths caused by the oct. 20 fire which levelled More than 3,000 Homes. Still trying to recapture a lifetime of work is hard. �?o1 done to know what to say except that its pure agony Quot said journalist Deidre English who lost manuscripts for two books and three years of research for a television documentary. A i feel almost no grief about robbers kill 3 Vallejo Calif. Apr gunmen robbing an armoured car company warehouse killed three workers execution style before fleeing when other employees stumbled onto the Holdup a police chief said thursday. A special state Justice department team helped police search the warehouse and surrounding area and the Edi also was called in to assist the investigation of wednesday nights killings. Investigators have determined that two or More gunmen were involved in the slayings at the Loomis armoured inc. Warehouse where Drivers drop off Money collected on their runs for Deposit in Banks police chief Jerry Galvin said. Galvin said he could t say How much if any Money was taken. The cold blooded nature of the killings puzzled police Galvin said. A i can say they were executed. They were defenceless at the time they were shot. You can conclude from that that they were bound a Galvin said. A was to Why they my personal possessions my clothes furniture and even my English former editor of Mother Jones Magazine Isnit sure How much she can do Over again. A a in la try to recreate what i had but i know that in fact ill create something new a she said. Novelist Maxine Hong Kingston lost a Book length manuscript but she a philosophical about the loss put in perspective by her fathers death a month earlier. The Best Selling author of woman Warrior and China men is inviting people to help her retrieve her a Book of peace a which was partly about Vietnam veterans by writing to her about experiences that might be germane. Wright also is moving Forward working on a videotape project she had started. She luckily had time enough to grab some computer disks and notes for a biography of a French revolution pamphleteer. Wright and her husband David an Art history professor at the University of California at Berkeley also lost a a tremendous collection of a a there a nothing left Only some Metal a Wright said. A even ones flatware it just gets crusted. It looks like something coming out of the excavations of a what you be lost is the conversion of a part of your life into objects or expressions a said Ofshe who shared the 1979 pulitzer prize for Public service reporting for his work on syn anon the cult based in Northern California. A a you be been robbed of the time it takes to do that. The problem is you done to get the time Back. You done to get another 20 warehouse were executed i can to even speculate on that sort of an the robbery was interrupted when another truck pulled up Galvin said. Through an open warehouse door two Drivers returning from a delivery saw an employee lying on the floor and Money bags in the doorway. They left and called police Galvin said. Galvin declined to release any other information provided by the witnesses saying it could jeopardize the investigation. Loomis officials declined to discuss the details of the company a Day to Day operation. The dead were identified As Dennis Jacobson 29, of Vallejo Alphonso Lontayo 25, of Vallejo and Martin Mccumber 49, of Fairfield. A Loomis truck was the target of robbers in Fresno in september when two men fatally shot a Loomis guard As he delivered Money to a Check cashing outlet. Two men were arrested.f-16 Trainer crashes kills 2 in Utah desert from wire reports Hill fab Utah a an air Force f-16 Jet fighter crashed thursday in Utah a Western desert killing both people aboard. The aircraft a a Model training Jet went Down Over the Utah test and training Range said tech. Sgt. Neil Werenskjold. It the plane was assigned to the 419th tac fighter Wing the air Force Reserve unit at Hill were no steal Omaha neb. A a burglar got a big Surprise when he or she opened a bedroom closet and found two uniforms Complete with Omaha police chief James n. Skinners name tags. A we speculate that the burglar probably panicked at that Point and departed the premises a Skinner said thursday. A i think that once he saw that uniform Well he figured it was time to nobody was Home when the burglar broke into the chiefs Home. Before leaving the burglar took some Money and a new portable police radio and . Aiding refugees Washington a the United states is providing humanitarian assistance to about 700 haitian refugees Many of them housed at a . Military base in Cuba. Those who qualify will be Given Asylum officials said. State department spokesman Richard Boucher said 480 haitians were brought ashore from coast guard vessels to the . Naval base at Guantanamo Cuba. More than 200 other haitians remain on coast guard vessels Many of them picked up wednesday from their makeshift boats. A the haitians Are receiving temporary humanitarian assistance in the form of medical care food and lodging a Boucher said. A we continue to work with the . High commissioner for refugees and a number of other countries to find a solution to this the refugees Are fleeing military rulers who overthrew democratically elected president Jean Bertrand Aristide in Early shipments halted Washington pan am has joined other . Airlines and has agreed to Stop shipping parrots macaws and other tropical Birds an environmental group said thursday. A pan am was the last piece of the . Airline pipeline providing wild Birds to the .,�?� said Rodger Schlickeisen president of defenders of wildlife. A we Are now waiting for confirmation that this embargo represents a permanent policy on the part of pan in Miami pan am spokesman Jeffrey Kriendler said he had not heard about an agreement a but i know our policy is not to accept defenders has campaigned against transporting the Birds into the United states because of concern for wild Birds acquired As pets. The organization said that 8 million Birds Are captured each year but that half die during capture and land up for bid Calhoun a. A the government plans to auction about 50 acres in North Georgia in an Effort to collect $2.64 million in debts from former Federal budget director Bert Lance. The property is listed As collateral on Loans made in the Early 1980s by United american Bank of Knoxville tenn., to a company controlled by Lance. The Federal Deposit insurance corp. Obtained rights to the collateral after the Bank failed in 1983. The vacant land to be auctioned dec. 3, is not part of lancers nearby residence. In july Lance agreed to pay the Agency $2.64 million to Settle a 1989 lawsuit related to several United american Bank Loans. The Odic said this week that it had not received the Money. Lance s attorney Bobby Lee Cook said he did not know whether Lance planned to pay the debt before the auction. Lance 60, works As a financial consultant and political adviser
