European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pm Ler 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. Quot it got burned up a Ofshe says succinctly. Quot i probably lost a Quarter million documents and a lot of  i be 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. Quot i looked around the room and 1 thought a of what do i take a recalled Art historian Georgia Wright who bundled what she could of her slide Library into her car. She left behind Quot enormous drawers i could t 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. Its hard to believe i can to just go Over and grab it a Stackpole said. Those who lost work were Quick to say their losses were nothing compared with the 25 deaths caused by the oct. 2d fire which levelled More than 3,000 Homes. Still trying to recapture a lifetime of work is hard. Quot i done to know what to say except that its pure agony a said journalist Deidre English who lost manuscripts for two books and three years of research for a television documentary. "1 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 Fri also was called in to assist the investigation of wednesday night s 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 Lime they were shot. You can conclude from that that Thev were bound Quot Galvin said. Quot As to Why they my personal possessions my clothes furniture and even my  English former editor of Mother Jones Magazine in t sure How much she can do Over again. Quot ill 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 Quot 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 there s 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 Quot said Ofshe who shared the 1979 pulitzer prize for Public service reporting for his work on syn anon the cult based in Northern California. Quot 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 1 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 Mccu Niber 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. U.s.f-16 Trainer crashes killing 2 in Utah desert from wire reports i Hill fab Utah a an air Force f-16 on a training flight crashed in Utah s Western desert i killing two pilots the air Force said. The plane a a Model training Jet went Down thursday Northwest of great Salt Lake on the i Utah test and training Range said tech. Sgt. Neil Werenskjold of Hill fab. The Jet was assigned to the 419th tac fighter Wing an air Force Reserve Squadron at Hill. Bill Hensley a Wing spokesman identified the victims As capt. Arnold a. Clarke 32, of Layton i and capt. Michael t. Sowell 28, of Hill fab. I clothes were no steal Omaha neb. A burglar got a big Surprise when he or she opened a bedroom closet and i found two uniforms Complete with Omaha to 1 lice 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. �?o1 think that once he saw that uniform Well he figured it was time to 1  _ 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  caves in kills 2 Salisbury mass. The roof of a Motel undergoing renovation collapsed Friday killing two people and injuring three others officials said. Police at the scene reported the deaths and said the victims were believed to be workers. The bodies were taken from the roof of the Al ran Cho Motel in body bags. Rescue work continued As a precaution but fire chief Robert Cook said it was believed that everyone was accounted  looking for some Fawn flem1ngton, . A Buck Deer with Large Antlers stormed into an ice Cream parlor startling workers who managed to lock it in a Freezer. A suddenly i saw my door burst open a said Ben narc read manager of the Carvel ice Cream store. The Deer with five Point Antlers ran past him and into a storeroom where his sister in Law was. They locked the Deer in the Freezer and called police. A the animal behaved very Well a he said. A it was standing majestically looking very  police first considered releasing the Deer through a Back door but dropped that plan when they realized the door opened onto a Highway police Secretary Carol Tissiere said. In the end a local animal control officer Tran a utilized the Deer and took it to some Woods on the outskirts of Flemington Tissiere said. Police kept an Eye on the dozing creature until it got up and ran away apparently uninjured she said. During their Breeding season male Deer sometimes do some unusual things including charging through plate Glass  s 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. I the property is listed As collateral on Loans i made in the Early 1980s by United american i Bank of Knoxville tenn., to a company con i trolled by Lance. I the Federal Deposit insurance corp. Of trained rights to the collateral after the Bank i failed in 1983. The vacant land to be auctioned i dec. 3, is not part of lancers nearby residence. I in july Lance agreed to pay the Agency $2.64 i million to Settle a 1989 lawsuit related to several i United american Bank Loans. I the Odic said this week that it had not received the Money. Lance s attorney Bobby Lee i Cook said he did not know whether Lance i planned to pay the debt before the auction. I Lance 60. Works As a financial consultant and i political adviser