European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 1, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes wednesday thursday january 1/2,1992 a investigator Frank Trogdon Points to a Model of the Imperial food products Plant where 25 died in a september fire. Plant owners fined $808,150 for fire that killed 25 in . . New mayor inaugurated in scandal plagued office from wire reports Columbus Ohio a Greg Lashutka was sworn in monday As mayor of Columbus replacing Dana Rinehart who did no to seek re election after admitting to an extramarital affair. Lashutka 47, takes Over As mayor today. Lashutka a Republican Defeated Ben Espy a democratic City councilman in november. Lashutka was City attorney from 1978 to 1985. He had been in private Law practice since then. Rinehart announced he would not seek reelection shortly after he admitted having an affair with Brenda Dodrill who was City human services director. He was mayor for eight years. Bail refused for pair Providence . A Federal judge monday refused to set bail for two men charged in connection with an International Money laundering ring. David Izzi 34, and Vincent a a Mickey Hurley 34, will remain in prison pending trial prosecutor James h. Leavey said. The judge let stand a magistrates ruling setting bail at $300,000 for a third Man Anthony Demarco 41. The three All from Cranston Are described in Fri affidavits As supervisors of a ring believed to have laundered up to $500 million for the Cali cocaine Cartel of Colombia. / parole denied again Frontera Calif. A parole was denied for the eighth time monday for sex Manson Camuy member Leslie Van Houten who was convicted of murder in the 1969 deaths of Rosemary and Leno Labianca. R Van Houten 42, the youngest of Charles Munson a followers was denied another parole hearing for two years said Jim Dowling spokesman for the state Board of prison terms. The Labianca were butchered aug. 10, 1969, the night after actress Sharon Tate and four others were murdered by other members of the Manson family. Van Houten admitted stabbing Rosemary Labianca once. She also was convicted of conspiracy in the murders at the Tate Home. She is imprisoned at the California institution for women 30 Miles Southeast of los Angeles. Sentence overturned Carson City Nev. A Nevada a supreme court overturned a killers death sentence after he claimed the judge nodded off during the penalty hearing. The court monday reluctantly ordered a new hearing on whether Frederick Paine should get the death Penally after a to news Crew videotaped judge Bill Beko with his eyes closed during part of the proceeding a year ago. Paine 21, had been sentenced to die by injection for killing and robbing a Las vegas cabbie. Beko denied falling asleep and said he had cataracts that made his eyes sensitive to the Light. Actor in head on crash Potomac my. A the Lead actor in the television sitcom tech was involved in a head on car crash that killed a Washington woman authorities said monday. Montgomery county police said Phill Lewis 23, of West Hollywood Calif., was driving saturday in the Washington suburb of Potomac. Police said the car crossed the Center line and struck a car driven by Isabelle Durarte 21, whose address was listed As the portuguese consulate in Washington. Lewis played tech Gibson in the half hour lbs to show. The character was a Black music teacher at an All White private boarding school. The show premiered in september before it went off the air and production was suspended in october. Lewis and Durarte were taken to suburban Hospital in Bethesda where Durarte later died. Lewis was treated at the Hospital and released. Police said an investigation continues. Raleigh . Apr owners of a Chicken processing Plant where 25 people died in a september fire were fined $808,150, a state record monday for Locking doors and violating other safety codes meant to protect workers. State labor commissioner John Brooks said the Fine sends a message to employers that the state wont tolerate similar conditions in other plants. Criminal charges Are also a possibility he said. But the Al Cio said the Fine was Low when compared with Federal occupational safety and health administration actions for recent Industrial accidents. In a statement released after mondays announcement the labor organization said the state bears responsibility for failure to protect the plants workers. At mondays news conference to announce the penalty Brooks denied the state was responsible for inspecting the Imperial food products Plant prior to the sept. 3 tire which also injured 56. The Plant had not been checked by state or local inspectors in the 11 years it operated. After the fire investigators found 83 violations at the Plant said Frank Trogdon who led the states investigation. A reporter asked him if the Plant was a Deathtrap. A Well obviously it was a he said. Among the 54 wilful or most serious violations were locked exit doors unmarked exits inadequate emergency lighting and work stations that were too far drug Boss found Newark . Up a new jerseys first trial under a Federal Law allowing the death penalty for drug Kingpins who kill ended abruptly with the defendants death in an apparent suicide authorities said monday. Bilal Pretlow 21, was found hanging by a bedsheets sunday in a Shower at the Union county jail in Elizabeth. Federal prosecutors charged that Pretlow and his lieutenants recruited teen agers from an Elizabeth housing project to peddle cocaine and marijuana and used murder to protect their operation in the Eliza principal demoted in Lake Forest Iii. Up a suburban Grade school principal who encouraged teachers to cheat on standardized achievement tests was removed monday from her $69,000-a-year position at Cherokee elementary school. The District 67 school Board voted unanimously at a special administrative hearing to terminate the contract of Linda Chase. Chase will not however be fired outright. Instead she will be demoted to a teaching position. From exit doors. Trogdon said More doors were needed in a cooking room where the fire broke out when Hydraulic fluid sprayed onto natural  flames heating a 26-foot cooking vat. The flames and smoke trapped some workers in an area with no doors and sent others running to two locked exits. Many of the workers ended up dying of smoke inhalation in a cooler with no outside exit and Loose hinges on the door. Imperial closed its plants in Hamlet and Cumming ga., after the fire Ana has disconnected the Telephone at its former Atlanta Headquarters. Attorney . Gardner who has represented Imperial food products in civil court filings did not immediately return a phone message left at his office. The Al Cio said it welcomed the action but noted that Federal Osha penalties for other recent Industrial accidents have ranged from $2.8 million to $10 million. The $10 million Fine was imposed in october in connection with the May 1 explosion at an Angus chemical co. Plant near Sterlington la. Eight workers were killed and 120 others were injured. The civil penalties Are not related to any criminal charges that might be filed Brooks said. State Bureau of investigation director Charles Dunn said that an investigation to determine if criminal charges Are warranted could be completed next month. Hanged in jail Beth Newark area. Pretlow was charged with ordering the deaths of a former gang member who had allegedly turned informant and of the teen age Girlfriend of a drug dealer who stumbled on a stash House. If convicted he faced the death penalty or Fife in prison with no possibility of parole. Assistant . Attorney Kevin Mccarthy said his office will be monitoring the investigation into Pretlow a death. The . Marshals service and Union county authorities will handle the investigation cheating scandal Chase was suspended with pay nov. 27 after being accused of pressuring teachers to inflate achievement test scores. In hearings the school Board proved five of eight charges against Chase. Chase apparently told teachers to erase test answers and pushed teachers to fill in answers encouraged cheating gave teachers copies of the tests months before the test dates manipulated the difficulty of the tests and gave teachers class assignments on test questions