European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 1, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 a the stars and stripes sunday., december 1, 1991 memorials for Jefferson Lincoln face massive repair by the Washington Post Washington a beginning monday parts of the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials will be shadowed by scaffolding and fencing while the National Park service undertakes a massive project to inspect document and repair the structures. The work will mar two of the City a most Scenic and photographed vistas a the Lincoln. Memorial framed in the reflecting Pool and the Jefferson memorial rising from the Edge of the shimmering tidal Basin. It also will limit but not Block visitors Access to the Interior of each. The $22 million project was planned even before parts of the carved capitals from two of the Jefferson memorials 42-foot columns crashed to the floor last year. A the memorials Are not falling Down. They Are structurally sound a Park service spokeswoman Sandra Alley said. A a Titis is to ensure that they Are there for future generations to preliminary studies of the two monuments released in april 1990, recommended the tests and repairs of damage caused by acid rain insects Jet fuel and other factors. James Kryn of the Park service who is overseeing part of the project said the detailed inspection also is expected to reveal More about a How the buildings appear and were the inner Chambers of both memorials a including the 19-foot-tall Marble statue of a seated Abraham Lincoln and the 19-foot-tall Bronze figure of Thomas Jefferson a will remain open to visitors throughout the work. Alley said. The work which will last three to five years will be the first time that the exterior of either memorial has been covered to any extent since the two opened. The Lincoln memorial opened in 1922 and the Jefferson memorial in 1943. 1 the Lincoln memorial and the nearby Vietnam veterans memorial Are the most popular National Park service structures with More than 1.2 million visitors a year. The Jefferson memorial attracts More than 750,000 visitors annually. Like the Capitol a. West front which was covered with scaffolding for three years in the mid-1980s, and the White House parts of which have been shrouded during the last five years for a to the Bones cleaning the two memorials Are required stops for virtually any tour of the nations capital. Many area residents Stop frequently at the memorials a often at night when their Stark simplicity is enhanced by Brilliant floodlights a to bask in their serenity and seek inspiration. Charles l. Cole gives Beverly Blake the daughter he never knew he had a kiss during a visit to her Home. Needle of Fate ends woman s quest Maywood Iii. Apr a woman s search for the father she had never seen ended when she was sent to draw blood from a heart patient and discovered he was the Man she had been looking for. Beverly Blake always carried a copy of her birth certificate with her fathers name Charles l. Cole. She searched for the name Cole through Telephone directories groups that reunite parents and children and admission lists at hospitals where she worked. A i would think a where is he what is he like what does he do a i knew the Man was out there Quot she said. Blakes parents were divorced before she was born. She had never seen a picture of her father. A was the years went by i got Ansier a she said. A i knew he was getting older and 1 did no to want him to pass last month the 41-year-old phlebotomy is was sent to draw blood from a patient in intensive care at the Loyola University medical Center in the Chicago suburb of Maywood. The Man was recovering from a heart attack and his Chart identified him As Charles l. Cole 69, born in Harrisburg 111. Because of the patients shaky health Blake said she did not immediately Tell him what she suspected. A i had the Needle and he said to me a Honey Are you a Good stick do you do your Job Well a a she recalled. A i told him yes but i was shaking. I was sweating. My legs were ready to Blake said she called her mothers brother and had him talk with the patient. The uncles conversation verified that the patient was her father she said. On oct. 7, Blake entered coleus room and called him a the said a cd Mon Over Here i jumped onto his Bea. We just held each other in his room until Midnight a she said. A i started living All Over again from that Blake said. Cole a former Marine who spent much of his life travelling the world said he never knew he had a daughter. A a it a a new chapter in my life a he said. A i feel wanted. I just wish i had known about her before Blake lives in a suburb near her fathers Maywood Home. A a we re not trying to catch up on lost time a Blake said. A a we re just thinking ahead about All the Happy time we have to spend Gas stove kills Hunters sleeping in Cabin from wire reports Greenwood . A fumes from a Leaky invented Gas stove apparently killed three Hunters while they slept state police said Friday. The three a a 20-year-old Man and two teenage boys a were found thursday afternoon in their cider Block Cabin in deep Valley near Greenwood. A there was an old Gas stove. It was invented. We also located a natural Gas leak. We think Between the two it just took All the oxygen out of the air a said state police Chi. . Schul. A a there a no suspicion of foul the men were last seen alive at 10 45 . Wednesday Schul said. The victims were identified As Darrell Molnar 20, of Follansbee and Michael Gay 15, and Brian Roupe 16, both of Falls on shoppers Paramus no. A a 20-foot plastic sign holding fluorescent lights fell off a Wall inside a crowded suburban mall Friday injuring a dozen Holiday shoppers police said. The sign came Loose in the food court of Garden state Plaza about 4 20 ., police sgt. De Tekele said. The sign and shards from broken Light tubes struck the shoppers causing minor cuts and bruises mostly in the neck and Back Tekele said. Eight of the 12 were taken to area in . Rise Atlanta a the number of Legal abortions in the United states increased 1.9 percent from 1988 to 1989, rising to 1,396,658, the Federal centers for disease control said Friday. The year 1989 is the last for which statistics Are available. In 1988, a total of 1,371,285 Legal abortions were performed. Nearly 80 percent of the women getting abortions were unmarried compared with about 70 percent in 1972. The number of abortions retried to the cd by state health departments is probably lower than the number actually performed. The health Agency based in Atlanta said the Alan Guttmacher Institute a private organization that obtains information on the number of abortions directly from abortion providers reported 1,500,000 Legal abortions in 1989. Women getting abortions were predominantly under 25, White and unmarried and had never had any live born children the cd said. They tended to live in a metropolitan area and Many were undergoing the procedure for the first fire kills 2 Chico Calif. A a fire in a camper killed a couple visiting their daughter for thanksgiving while they slept in the vehicle outside her Home authorities said. William Kent 77, and his wife Marge 65, died Early thursday along with their two dogs. The cause of the fire Wasny to determined but firefighters said they suspected a leaking appliance. Neighbors said they heard an explosion before the 12 20 . Fire but authorities said the natural Gas tanks in the camper weren to ruptured. The camper was in flames when firefighters arrived. The couple was visiting their daughter from the town of Orick on californians North coast near s Kitchen closed Honolulu a the state health department ordered a homeless shelters Kitchen closed Friday while officials investigated reports that people who ate thanksgiving dinner there suffered food poisoning. The department planned to test samples of food served thursday to More than 300 people at the Institute for human services. Some 40 to 50 people became ill shelter director Lee Keifer said. An undetermined number of people were treated at the shelter and local hospitals thursday night for symptoms possibly caused by the Batena staphylococcus health department spokeswoman Jennifer Styer said
