European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes tuesday May 19, 1992 third Mckinley climber Dies 3 others stuck without food Anchorage Alaska a the third climber in three Days died on mount Mckinley As rangers struggled in bad weather to reach three others stranded without food for five Days. Swiss climber Alex von Bergen 42, died sunday some 14,000 feet up the 20,320-foot Mountain North americans tallest Peak after suffering breathing problems said National Park service spokesman John Quinley in Anchorage. Von Bergen was among eight people climbing the mountains popular West buttress route Quinley said. The other seven were reported Well. Radio communications Between Park service Headquarters in Talkeetna about 30 Miles from the Mountain and a rest Camp at the 14,000-foot level were spotty Quinley said. A we Don t really know what happened a he said. Von Bergens Hometown was not known. At least one family member was with him when he died Quin Tey said. Mckinley about 130 Miles Northeast of Anchorage has received huge amounts of Snow during an unusually Strong Spring storm in the past week. Two other bodies were spotted Friday by climbers. It Wasny to known How they died but Likely they were killed in a fall or an Avalanche Quinley said. The fatalities were the first on the Mountain since 1990. Sixty seven climbers have died on Mckinley since records were first kept in the 1930s. Three South korean climbers at the 18,200-foot Elevation sunday were going into their sixth Day without food and also were without fuel to melt Snow for drinking water Quinley said. The groups Leader reportedly had Frostbitten fingers and Altitude sickness he said. A they arc in a Snow Cave and they Are in serious trouble a Quinley said. Attempts to drop food water and a radio to the three sunday failed when a Rescue helicopter was pushed Back by 60-70 Mph winds Quinley said. He said rescuers would wait for a break in the weather to try again. The bodies of one of the two spotted Friday was recovered by a helicopter and identified sunday. Quinley said both climbers were european names and hometowns were being withheld until their families could be notified. The second body several thousand feet higher up the Mountain could not be recovered because of High winds and inaccessible terrain Quinley said. About 1,000 climbers try to reach Mckinley a Summit each year and usually about half succeed. There were about 400 climbers on the Mountain during the weekend. Talk of the town dozens say priest abused them years ago by eve Epstein the associated press North Attleboro mass. A rumours circulated for 30 years but Young parishioners of St. Mary a roman Catholic Church kept quiet. Now the subject that was taboo in their childhoods has the town Abuzz. Emboldened by the work of a private investigator who was one of their classmates dozens of people have come Forward to say they were sexually abused by their priest. A Tor me it was the loss of innocence and the replacement of that with shame a said Dennis Gaboury 40, who counts himself among the victims of James a Porter. St Mary a is in a sprawling Complex with a Home for retired nuns and a school where students and altar boys said they were assaulted by Porter. He left the Priesthood in the Early 1970s, married and had four children. Many people in town remember him As a quiet priest popular with children. He oversaw the training of altar boys. Among them were Gaboury who lives in Baltimore and Frank Fitzpatrick 42, of Plainville near North Attleboro in Southeastern Massachusetts. Gaboury and Fitzpatrick say they were raped by Porter now 57, who lives in the St. Paul Minn., suburb of Oakdale. "1 remember when father Porter first came he was t like the other priests a Fitzpatrick said. A the was someone who acted warm and caring and like he loved  Georgette stocking who owns the Carousel restaurant said some of her customers weren to surprised when the silence was broken. A everybody heard rumours about what was going on but nobody said anything a she said. Fitzpatrick an insurance adjuster and private investigator was the first to speak out. He contacted classmates tracked Porter to Minnesota and said he taped two Telephone conversations he had with the former priest in 1990. The Man identified As Porter on the tape acknowledged molesting 50 to 100 children. Porter told Boston television station Wiz the same thing. No charges have been filed but the Bristol county Frank Fitzpatrick talks about his allegations of rape. District attorneys office is investigating. Repeated attempts to reach Porter were unsuccessful. A woman who answered the Telephone and identified herself As porters wife said a i am not making any comments. He is not making any comments. There is nothing to  in one of the conversations taped by Fitzpatrick Porter talked about receiving counselling and writing to Rome for a release from his vows so he could marry within the Church. A i guess i had quite a breakdown when it hit me All at once a said Porter not knowing he was being taped. A a done to think i took it  Farmers using Heads to avoid cancer , Minn. A hats off to Farmer Gary Rock who ignored scoffers and doffed several types of newfangled head covers in the name of science. A seed company this summer will offer Farmers two Caps designed to provide better Protection against skin cancer a Cowboy style and a baseball style with extended Bill and neck drape. A a banners at first seem amused that anyone is suggesting that they change their fashion a said Barbara Lee assistant director of the National farm Medicine Center at Marshfield wis. The Tenter enlisted Rock and four other Farmers to test hats with various cancer prevention features. A the Cap with the velcro Flap came out with the highest ranking a Lee said. A they liked it because it Wasny to drastically different. It is adjustable like the traditional baseball Cap and they also can modify it for indoor and outdoor  Rock liked that version hut also liked the pith helmet which was sturdy and allowed plenty of air circulation. Quot hut its no Good for working around machinery Quot he said.  claim Gotti was t Given fair trial from wire reports new York a hundreds of people marched sunday outside the Federal prison where convicted mob Boss John Gotti is being held claiming he did no to receive a fair trial on murder and racketeering charges. Beefy Young men with tattooed biceps and bullhorn kept some 700 people shouting a free John and a fair trial a for More than an hour. Chartered buses brought the protesters from South Ozone Park and Howard Beach in Queens and other neighbourhoods where reputed mobsters live a let him hear you a civil rights attorney William Kunstler told the crowd As he gestured toward the metropolitan correctional Center where Gotti is being held awaiting a june 23 sentencing hearing. Gotti faces a possible life sentence. Kunstler said recently that he has joined As adviser to the defense team that seeks to have the conviction of the Gambino crime family Boss overturned. The rally was organized by Lewis Kasman who runs a garment District business with Gotti.2.000 haitians picked up Miami a coast guard cutters intercepted More than 2,000 haitians in at least 20 overloaded sailboats in International Waters off the Caribbean Island nation Over the weekend a coast guard spokesman said. Some 2,106 haitian migrants were interdicted since Friday by coast guard cutters patrolling the Windward passage bringing to More than 31.000 the number picked up since oct. 29, Petty officer Steve Sapp said sunday. The migrants were crammed aboard a seaworthy sailboats. In one instance 288 haitians were rescued from a 40-foot Sailboat and on another occasion 291 were crowded onto a 60-foot boat Sapp said. All the refugees were receiving food and medical care aboard coast guard cutters. They were to be taken to the tent City at a . Naval base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba to be interviewed by immigration and naturalization service  protects dieters new York a a City ordinance to protect Consumers from false claims by weight loss centers went into effect sunday. The Law requires weight loss businesses to spell out in Advance their contract terms prices and potential health hazards. They must Post and give customers copies of a a weight loss consumer s Bill of rights warning that Quick weight loss can cause health problems and Long term loss occurs Only through a permanent lifestyle changes such As proper food and exercise. The Bill of rights also recommends that a would be Dieter consult a doctor before enlisting in any program lists the providers qualifications and says the customer is entitled to know the Price potential risk nutritional Content duration and other details of the . Reform figure Dies Bayonne . A Francis g. Fitzpatrick the Reform minded former mayor of Bayonne died of cancer Friday. He was 89. Fitzpatrick who lived in Bayonne since childhood was a Democrat who led a movement to eradicate corruption in the Hudson county democratic organization. Party regulars ousted Fitzpatrick from the Hudson county Board of freeholders in 1951, but he resurfaced in 1959 to become the commissioner of Bayonne the City Stop Post at the time. He succeeded in changing Bayonne a form of government to a Strong mayoralty and won the City a first mayoral election in 1962. Fitzpatrick remained mayor until 1974, when he became chairman of the county democratic party the final blow to the old regime. Ihen gov. Brendan t. Byrne appointed Fitzpatrick chairman of the new Jersey Turnpike authority in 1975, a Post he held until 1984