European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Sunday december 20, 1992patient backs pot use for aids treatment Panama City Beach Fla. A the Sweet smell of marijuana wafts through the air at Kenny Jenks Home and a bottle of government Issue joints sits on a Coffee table. As the nations Only surviving aids victim with government permission to smoke marijuana Jinks said he Hopes president elect Clinton will allow others to do the same Jinks who contracted the aids virus from Haemophilia treatments said he smokes marijuana to alleviate nausea and vomiting caused by aids and his medication. He credits it with extending his wife a life after she got aids from him. His wife barbra died in March. In the past year Jinks has travelled the country handing out information and speaking at conferences on behalf of the marijuana aids research service a private group that believes marijuana should be legally available As a Medicine. A your major goal is to have marijuana on a prescription basis like any other drug where the decision would be be Tweer a he doctor and the patient a said Jenk 0. Jenks group also is pushing for reactivation of a Federal program that allowed marijuana smoking on a Case by Case basis As experimental treatment of symptoms of cancer aids blindness causing glaucoma paralysis muscular dystrophy and chronic pain the program stopped accepting patients in March but Jinks and others already enrolled were allowed to continue legally smoking government supplied marijuana cigarettes. Emancipation proclamation leaves vault for display Washington a handled with White gloves and under careful guard the fragile original of the emancipation proclamation was removed from its darkened vault Friday in preparation for a rare five Day exhibition. Bearing Abraham Lincoln s fading signature the civil War document that proclaimed the slaves of the South free Hasni to been displayed in More than a dozen years. It w ill go on exhibition Dee. 31 through Jan. 4 in the National archives where the Constitution and declaration of Independence Are displayed. The exhibit Marks the 130th anniversary of the proclamations signing on new year s Day. 1863. Because it is so vulnerable to damage particularly from exposure to Light the document Hasni to been shown to the Public since 1979, and display is being strictly limited this time. Quot we consider the emancipation proclamation one of the treasures of the archives a said senior conservator Catherine Nicholson. Quot the Only Way we can keep it Safe for the next generation and the next Century is to he very moderate in our  although it is commonly remembered As the instrument that ended slavery that Wasny to fully accomplished until the 13th amendment to the Constitution was ratified in 1865. Lincoln s document declared slaves to he free in areas of the confederacy not under i Nion control at that time and thus meant the Northern Catherine Nicholson a senior conservator at the National archives looks Over the emancipation proclamation on Friday. Army brought Freedom with every subsequent Advance through the South. Quot it was momentous Quot said John Hope Franklin a Duke University professor who has written a history of the emancipation proclamation. Quot there was no turning Back after that. There was no Chance slavery could survive after  Nicholson wore White Cotton gloves As she and other officials of the National archives displayed the document to the press in Advance of the exhibit. The document is normally kept in the diplomatic vault a Cool airtight chamber. Archives officials brought it to their conservation Laboratory where a display of filtering Glass was being prepared so that it May be exhibited vertically allowing both sides of each Sheet to be seen. The five Page document is written on the front and Back of two sheets of paper and the front of a third. The display Wilt Mark the first time the entire text has been available for viewing at one time. The pages have been treated with chemicals to halt acidic deterioration and placed in protective plastic. But the ravages of time Are apparent. A a we be been in touch with some people and we arc hopeful. The Clinton administration can make the government keep its Promise and open the program Back up a Jenks said. A the people understand the Issue. It s basically the bureaucrats and politicians who do not Jenks said. A most people understand trying to relieve people s pain and  the . Public health service closed the program on the grounds that alternative treatments including a Pill form of marijuana a Active ingredient known Asma Rinol were As Good or better than smoking the drug said Agency spokesman Rayford Kytle in Washington. The drug enforcement administration also in t sold on the medicinal qualities of smoking marijuana. Administrator Richard Bonner likened medical marijuana advocates to a Snake Oil  number in t up yet for this tiny town West Chesterfield mass. Apr it May not be As notable As 90210, but people in this Hamlet think their 01084 zip code is Worth fighting for. The postal service planned to shut Dow n the West Chesterfield Post office following the retirement of postmaster Jean Shaw who ran the operation in the front room of her Home. But the thought of losing the 55-Box Post office As a Community meeting place was too much. So was the idea of trekking two Miles up a Steep Hill to a combination funeral Home Post office that serves the town of Chesterfield in the Berkshire Hills. A it Means a lot to us to be Able to preserve our own zip code and identity a said Susan Riley who led a committee assembled to protest the postal services plans. A we done to have anything else left that identifies us As West  Riley and other town leaders offered to run a Post office themselves and the town reached a tentative agreement to take it Over. A i surveyed everyone in town and there Wasny tone person who did no to want to do everything they could to keep our Post office Quot Riley said. A one Man even offered to shovel the walk every  the postal service had tried to suspend service oct. 31 on three Days notice by invoking emergency rules but townsfolk cried foul and got a reprieve. Postal officials have agreed to continue service in shawls Home pending negotiations with the town. Under the plan the Post office would move across the drive to a on room town building that currently houses the assessor s office. A Coffee pot and bulletin Board will keep the Post office the Community meeting place. Fugitive caught after 33 years paid a terrible Price Toledo Ohio apr a Man who dodged authorities for 33 years after walking away from a prison farm says he never would have left if he had know n that he would soon have been eligible for parole. John Kalasansky 67, was arrested dec. 11 after City officials checking old records discovered that the retired Man was also a convicted robber who fled from prison in 1959, Kalasansky was known As John Kalasoski to friends and neighbors a who considered him a Model citizen. He said his past was something he hid trom everybody he came in Contact with a even his wife whom he met 24 wars ago. T a paid a terrible Price. I just kept it to  he said m a Telephone interview Friday from Marion correctional institution. Quot i did t want to get anybody in Tumble. 1 did t want to put anybody s lives in jeopardy. I just suffered in  because he feared incriminating others Kalasansky said he has t talked to his brother or sister in 33 years he spoke to his wife Geraldine on Friday for the first time since his arrest. They did no to discuss his past. Quot remember Honey i love you Quot she said crying. Kalasansky said he escaped from a prison farm in the Northwest Ohio Village of Green Springs because he did t know How much time he had to serve before being paroled. Quot Back then they did t Tell you when you were setting  he said. Quot i wanted to see my family. Had 1 known that 1 had a Little bit of time left before my parole hearing. 1 would Haxe stayed but it s too  Kalasansky had served live years of a 10-xear to 25-year sentence for aggravated robbery when he escaped in March 1950, his lawyer Alan Kirshner said he was Tii go before the parole  the following january but state prison spokeswoman Sharron Kornegay said prison officials had miscalculated and Kalasansky actually would not have been eligible for parole until 1961. F now he Isnit eligible until october 1994, Kornegay said Kirshner plans to ask the governors office to reduce the sentence. Kalasansky and a Cousin were convicted of participating in a robbery at a Cleveland convenience store at which an employee was wounded. 1 Xmas broke and did no to have any Money a he said. Alter escaping Kalasansky hitched a ride to Toledo where he took the name John Kalasoski. He stayed at the salvation army for a few months then got a Job at a trucking company. He retired in the mid-1980s. J49. N in Kalasansky s first marriage ended in divorce in l e and his first wife had a son he save he has t Sci h More than 40 years