European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes wednesday May 27, 1992 after 10-year Effort group May reach icy Wii plane Chamblee a. Apr adventurers burrowing through the Greenland Icecap expect to reach one of six buried p-38 lightning fighter planes this week a almost 50 years after they crash landed during world War ii. Quot our Mission is to bring that plane to the surface and bring it to the United states this summer Quot said Atlanta architect Richard Taylor who has led a decade Long series of expeditions to recover the planes. Quot it will either come out to be a Fine plane that will easily be made flyable or it will be a Ball of tinfoil a he said. The men left for Greenland on May 3 from Chamblee an Atlanta suburb. Working in temperatures of 10 degrees below Zero with 80 Mph winds they drilled Down to a p-38 called Delta. It is buried under 250 feet of ice. They expect to touch it today or thursday Taylor said saturday. There Are 16 men working at the site where eight air planes crash landed in 1942. The six fighters and two b-17 bombers were flying to England As part of operation Bolero an attempt to get aircraft to London in the first months after the United states joined world War ii. Because of weather and phony radio instructions from a German submarine the planes turned Back ran Low on fuel and crash landed 10 mites from the Greenland coast. All 25 Crew members were rescued by dog sled. The planes eventually were buried by Snow that compacted into ice. The Greenland expedition society headed by Taylor and pal Epps owner of Epps air service in Chamblee is trying to bring the planes Back. Members made their first expedition in 1981 and located the planes in 1988. They had hoped to Fly them off the Icecap. But their Hopes were dashed in 1990 when they reached one of the bombers named big stoop. The plane was badly damaged by movement within the ice and the team brought Only pieces of it Back to Atlanta. Returning this year the searchers had to dig out their base Camp from under 25 feet of Snow. They erected a work tent Over the p-38 site and used a Steamer 4 feet in diameter to Start drilling a Shaft to the plane. Quot that Means we can Send somebody Down to evaluate the condition of that air plane a Taylor said. Quot the bomber was in terrible shape. We figure we hit the bad one and the rest of them Are  the team then will bore two More 4-foot holes through the ice and melt out the ice Between them. Workers plan to dismantle the p-38, a Long Range twin engine fighter and haul the parts to the surface. The society plans to hold a party on the Icecap july 15, the 50th anniversary of the squadrons forced Landing. 3 sought in Chicago slaying wounding of band managers Chicago up a police on monday were looking for three men in a shooting at a posh Gold coast hotel i hat left the Road manager of the grammy award winning group Boyz ii men dead and an assistant injured. Authorities interviewed at least 20 people in the shooting that left Roderick Roundtree 36, of Canoga Park calif., dead of multiple head wounds. The assistant tour manager for the rhythm and blues band was shot in the knee and listed in fair condition after surgery Northwestern Hospital administrator Shirley Jackson said. He did not want to be identified she said. The two men were shot in or near an elevator on the 27th floor of the guest quarters suite hotel on the North Side police it. Rich Stevens said. The gunfire followed a disturbance on the 27th floor. It and the 26th floor had been booked by the Philadelphia based Boyz ii men and rap Star Hammer with both groups in town following performances sunday night. The men responsible for the shooting apparently created a disturbance Stevens said knocking on doors waking people and talking loudly. A there was a lot of commotion a lot of people talking and Yelling a a said a hotel guest. Quot the Only words i could make out was a Lay Down. ,. Like somebody saying a Lay  thought somebody was in a fight. I no idea somebody was  members of Boyz ii men Are shown with Roderick Roundtree Cente who died in a Cal cafe hotel. Stevens said he had no information to indicate the suspects were looking for members of either band. Quot it appears to be a random sort of a thing at this Lime but we re still investigating a he said. Parents hide sick child cite religion Topeka Kan. Apr a couple who took their seriously ill daughter from a Hospital will come out of hiding Only if they can treat her according to their religious beliefs friends told authorities. Members of John and Nada Encisco a religious group said sunday that the Encisco would come Forward Only on the condition that 1-year-old Ellen Encis co not be returned to the Hospital said group member Dean Huckins. No agreement was reached. Huckins a member of the practical ministries group has said the groups Bible based beliefs include natural Healing. The Encisco took their daughter from St. Francis Hospital and medical Center on May 17, where she was taken by state officials two Days earlier after a relative told police she appeared malnourished and neglected. Doctors reported the girl was near death and predicted she would die within 24 hours after her parents took her from the Hospital. Huckins and other members of the group met for 90 minutes sunday at the Shawnee county courthouse with an assistant county prosecutor and Topeka police detective Randy Hendrix. Police it. Patti Kaeberle would not give details of the discussion including whether the Encisco face criminal charges. Huckins has not said whether he knows where the family is. A picture of the baby was delivered saturday to a newspaper along with a letter in which the father describes his daughter As Quot Alert and on the Road to Complete  Encisco said he and his wife initially cooperated with Hospital doctors but became worried when it appeared that her condition was getting worse. He said that after taking the baby out of the Hospital his wife a immediately began nursing Ellen and included Well Mastic Ted dates figs and raisins in her  by the following evening Quot Ellen a bowels were returning to Normal Quot the letter said.  firefighters Battle flames swamps winds from wire reports Perry Fla. A firefighters slogged through swamps monday As Gusty winds scattered flames of a 750-acre Forest fire one of several blazes that blackened More than 4,000 acres of wild lands across Florida Over the memorial Day Holiday. The fire in Northern Florida a Taylor county started sunday probably sparked by lightning said Kenny Thomas a state forestry official. Firefighters were trying to establish firebreaks but their tractors were bogged Down in the swampy land he said. Helicopters were called in to drop water on the fire. A Gusty winds compounded firefighting difficulties. A because of the wind the fire fingered out in several directions a Thomas said. Weekend fires also were reported in Dade Osceola Collier Gulf and Escambia  workers end strike Oklahoma City a Wilson foods corp. Workers in four states have approved a contract that settled a three week Long strike. Members of the United food and commercial workers Union in Oklahoma City voted 150-12 in favor of the settlement saturday. The vote in Logansport ind., was 431-361 in favor of ratification. At the Wilson foods pork Plant in Cherokee Iowa the contract won 374-55. A Plant in Birmingham ala., voted As Well but the final tally was not immediately available. A the contract was ratified. We re Happy a said Hub Johnson manager of a Wilson foods slaughterhouse in Logansport ind. He said some workers were called Back to work at Midnight saturday and production shifts were to begin reporting tuesday. The agreement was reached thursday after three Days of negotiations in Chicago. Details were not  flies plaguing . Amherst . A Highway workers trying to catch mosquitoes in this Buffalo suburb got an unpleasant Surprise this month when they found their traps overrun with Black flies a the mosquitoes nastier Cousin. About 2,000 Black flies were caught in Mosquito traps said Mark Clement a Highway department Foreman. Quot we be never had anything like this a Clement said. A they All seemed to Hatch at  the Black Fly a a traditional late Spring Scourge in the Adirondacks a has cropped up this year in isolated pockets near heavily populated areas. Besides Amherst higher than usual numbers of Black flies have infested other densely populated Buffalo suburbs and areas of southwestern new York. A was anyone who has any experience with Black flies knows they Are horrendous vicious and draw blood a said state health department spokesman Bill Fagel. The insects resemble Small House flies but their bite leaves a stinging itchy wound that takes weeks to heal. They Are the insect equivalent of Poison Ivy experts said. A a it a said that Black flies Are basically All Teeth a said Jacques Berlin a health department entomologist. A when they bite you you know it and you know it for  mucks up of miss new Orleans a a leaking Barge spilled 2,100 Gallons of Oil monday into the Mississippi River the coast guard said. Petty officer Mark Sedwick said the leaking Barge Hollywood 3021, was moved across the River for Transfer of the remaining Oil to a storage tank. Booms were floated around the Tanker Barge to prevent further pollution of the River As it was moved Sedwick said. The leak of no. 6 crude Oil began about 3 . As the Barge was sitting across the River from the Shell Oil refinery he said. Hollywood Marine of new Orleans assumed responsibility for the spill and hired Riedel Peterson a local contracting company to clean it up Sedwick said