European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 04, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 a the stars and stripes saturday april 4,1992 three members of Little Theresa Ann Campo Pearson s family a her father Justin Pearson her Mother Laura Campo and her grandmother Susan Clarke a sit at the infant s graveside in Hollywood Fla., on thursday. Baby Theresa had purpose grandmother says at funeral Hollywood Fla. Apr a baby whose nine Days of life with a partially formed brain renewed debate Over How to define brain death was buried thursday. Her grandmother said Theresa Ann Campo Pearson had made a lasting contribution to life. A i really believe she was sent for a purpose a Susan Clarke said. A it just does no to make sense to let something so Beautiful pass by without helping Quot we loved that baby a said the infants Mother Laura Campo. The baby was buried at Hollywood memorial gardens in a Section called the Garden of innocence. Theresa was born March 21 with Anen Cephal in which the brain fails to develop beyond the Stem. Babies with the condition who Arentt stillborn die within hours or weeks. Her parents wanted her declared brain dead so that californians set Sacramento Calif. Up californians recycled beverage containers in record breaking numbers last year returning 80 percent of All cans and bottles covered under the 5-year-old program. The department of conservation said thursday that recycling rates Rose to 85 percent for aluminium cans 71 percent for Glass bottles and 56 percent for plastic containers. For the first time since the program began in 1987, the Overall recycling rate reached the 80 percent goal set by the legislature. Quot plastic and Glass recycling has increased Many fold since this program began Quot said Edward Heidig director of the department. Quot californians recycling program is on target because Leupp Ariz. Apr Navajo pupils got the last laugh on a Candy company that printed an Indian joke on its wrappers a the company apologized thursday and agreed to print a joke by the youngsters on future wrappers. Sunmark inc., a subsidiary of Nestle Usa delivered an apology to students at Leupp boarding school on the Navajo reservation in Northern Arizona. The seventh and eighth graders agreed to Call off a local Boycott of Nestle products and halt a Campaign to persuade american indians nationwide to join the protest said teacher Linda Minas. Quot the kids feel really Good about what they have done a Minas said. The joke was Quot Why were the indians the first in her organs could be donated for transplants. But a judge ruled that the existence of such automatic reflexes As breathing and the heartbeat which Are controlled by the brain Stem indicated brain activity. The state supreme court agreed monday. The infants parents removed her from life support and she died that a parents donated her Corneas for research after she died. Doctors said they were too underdeveloped for transplant. No Effort was made to remove any organs because doctors said they would be too damaged by the time she was pronounced dead. Campo and the infants father Justin Pearson planned to keep pressing their Legal Challenge in Hopes of giving parents of Ane Cephalic babies the Chance to help other infants needing transplants said the parents attorney Walter Campbell record business government and environmentalists have forged an effective working Alliance. However we have to continue our efforts to build secondary Heidig said Alt of the beverage containers returned under the program were absorbed by recycling markets despite concerns that record return rates might overwhelm the demand for used containers and Force some to be dumped in landfills. He attributed increases in Glass recycling to state programs designed to strengthen existing markets for Glass and stimulate alternative markets. A using surplus funds from unredeemed deposits the department has been issuing financial incentives to end users to encourage them to Purchase More used Glass rather than wasting Virgin raw materials a Heidig said. North America they had it appeared on wrappers of some Laffy Taffy. Nestle spokesman Richard curd speaking from the company a Glendale cajif., Headquarters said someone at Sunmark had already spotted the joke As offensive months before the company heard from the students. The printing plates were destroyed he said. The pupils will be allowed to review two other Indian jokes on wrappers and will get to submit their own joke curd said. The company also promised to Send the youngsters a Batch of Candy once their joke is printed Minas said. A the kids said a we should get some Candy out of this a she who killed daughter wins suit against doctor from wire reports Middletown Conn. A a Man who fatally Slabbed his 7-year-old daughter received $290,000 to Settle his lawsuit against a psychologist who saw him several hours before the slaying Ronald e. St. John said in the lawsuit that Matthew d. Mermelstein failed to take proper action on april 15, 1988, after St. John told him he was having a breakdown. St. Johns attorneys said Mermelstein should have notified a psychiatrist ensured that St. John was Given drugs or hospitalized him. Later that afternoon St John stabbed his daughter Jillann several times in the Chest with two Kitchen knives after cutting up a chocolate easter Bunny for her in their Southington Home. St. John was found not guilty by reason of insanity and is housed at Whiting forensic used to grow pot Cedar rapids Iowa a a Man used an elaborate system that included a Tunnel and a Railroad Boxcar to hide his marijuana farming authorities said. Eugene Myers 48, grew 400 marijuana plants inside his Bam in a secret room that could be reached Only through an adjoining building the Federal drug enforcement Agency said in court papers. The Entrance from the other building was hidden behind plywood. Some of the plants were growing in the Boxcar reachable by a Tunnel from the hidden room the Dea said. The outside doors of the Boxcar were welded shut. Myers was charged in Federal court March 24 and released tuesday on $50,000 Bond. The Dea said the operation could not be seen from any Vantage Point including that of Myers neighbor county sheriff Neil Becker. Agents would not disclose How the farm was flees in inner tube Miami a a Man who fled Cuba in an inner tube and was carried by currents to a deserted Island in the Bahamas was rescued after using bits of trash to write a a help and a a sos in the Sand. Five Days after leaving his Homeland Fernando Rodriguez Fernandez heard the noise of an engine. It was a plane flown by a member of Brothers to the Rescue a group of Volunteer pilots who search for rafters. The Pilot spotted the signs contacted the coast guard and within hours Rodriguez was on his Way to Miami. He was released wednesday by immigration officials. Rodriguez said he sailed from Cuba at dusk March 22 in a homemade raft fashioned from a tractor inner tube. A i decided to do it alone a he said. Quot if i drown then i ends in probation Shalimar Fla a a 45-year-old woman accused of having a six month sexual relationship with a 12-year-old boy has been placed on probation. Pam Mouer a child care worker was sentenced wednesday to 10 years probation and ordered to pay $500 in counselling Tor the boy whose family said he remains infatuated with her. A the child is distracted from school can to sleep and thinks of nothing but his former Lover prosecutors said in court papers. Judge Robert Barron also ordered Mouer never to see or talk to the boy again. She pleaded no contest feb. 13 to performing a lewd act on a child. She has since separated from her husband who has custody of their 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old . Tax Rollback wins of Trenton . A the new Jersey state Senate gave final legislative approval thursday to a 1-cent Rollback in the state sales tax but gov. Jim Florio said he wanted to see How the republicans who control the legislature would make up the $608 million in Tost revenues before he approved or rejected the measure. If he decides to veto it he faces an almost certain override. Taffy maker apologizes to navajos
