European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 21, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday december 21, 1992 . The stars and stripes Page 5cities Selling guns seized by police los Angeles apr guns confiscated by police arc being sold by cities trying to ease budget crunches a practice that has appalled some activists working to curb inner City violence. The latest City to sell guns is Inglewood where 42 people were shot to death last year. Nearby Compton also plagued by crime has been returning confiscated weapons to the Market since 1989, and Santa Ana in Orange county has been Selling seized guns since 1986. A thirty three thousand Ante. As a year die by gunfire a said Joseph d. Mcnamara a former police chief who halted gun sales during his tenure in san Jose. A no civilized society even one in the midst of a civil War has that Many people dying a said Mcnamara now a research fellow at the Hoover institution at Stanford University. A a we re adding fuel to the fire a said Compton councilwoman Patricia Moore. The practice Isnit Universal the City of los Angeles and the los Angeles county sheriffs department have firm policies against reselling guns. I dirty three thousand americans a year die by gunfire no civilized society even one in the midst of a civil War has that Many people  a Joseph d. Mcnamara a a it a better to take the guns off the Street a said . Jeff Springs of the sheriffs information Bureau. Officials in the cities that resell firearms defend the practice As a Way to raise Money. They destroy notorious and illegal weapons such As assault rifles cheap handguns known As saturday night specials and guns involved in a a sensational murders. But standards vary widely among cities and the process does no to Stop Large numbers of handguns rifles and shotguns from returning to the Market. Inglewood sent More than 200 guns to be sold this in the stars and stripes 10 years ago dec. 21,1982 a a House Senate conference committee dealt a blow to president Reagan s defense buildup by refusing to approve production of the my multiple warhead nuclear missile. 20 years ago dec. 21, 1972 a the United states kept up heavy bombardment of North Vietnam a heartland As the . Command reported the loss of one b-52 bomber an a-7 attack aircraft and seven airmen. 30 years ago dec. 21,1962 a French president Charles de Gaulle bid Farewell to the supreme Allied commander Gen. Lauris Norstad presenting the general with the grand Cross of the legion of Honor in a Paris ceremony. 40 years ago dec. 21,1952 a c-124 Globe master jammed with servicemen going Home for Christmas crashed just after Takeoff from Larson fab near Moses Lake wash., killing 90 of 119 on Board. 50 years ago dec. 21,1942 a . Servicemen who had drifted for Days in the wintry North Atlantic after their ship had been torpedoed described their ordeal and their Rescue by Royal air Force planes. R world War ii 50 years ago today dec. 21 1 a 9 a 4 �2 j More a soviet troops push More than Halfway Between the Don and donets Rivers on the Southern front Hitler rejects appeals to order the German 6th army to try to break out of the Stalingrad pocket Britain s 8th army runs into the Axis rear guard at Sirte Libya. In Burma Indian troops capture Alethan Yaw in an Advance Down the Mayu Peninsula source 2194 Days of War w h Smith put Fishers inc. World almanac Book of world War ii Bison books corp. T 981 a victorious sailors Jan Santana skipper of the Public Spana sprays his Spanish Crew with Champagne in Miami on saturday after winning the 4,500-mile route of discovery Iii yacht race. The contest began nov. 28 in Huelva Spain where 18 yachts followed Christopher Columbus 1492 route to the Bahamas and completed the race in Florida. Stepmother charged in killing London by. Apr a pregnant woman enlisted another persons help in killing her 10-year-old Stepson because she worried he would steal attention from her baby according to a grand jury a indictment. Stephanie Baker the victims Stepmother and Susanne Baker both 22, were indicted Friday on murder kidnapping and Corpse abuse charges. The women Are not related. Both pleaded innocent at their arraignment Friday. The boy Scotty Baker was taken thanksgiving eve from his school by a woman police believe was Susanne Baker. His charred strangled body was found six Days later. The boys father Donnie Baker told police his wife was two months pregnant and feared Scotty would take attention from her child. He gave authorities diary entries in which she allegedly expressed her jealousy and desire to see the boy dead. Warren Scoville an attorney for Stephanie Baker called the death of her Stepson a a tragic  month although it also destroyed More than 300. The City anticipates earning $50,000 from gun sales this fiscal year according to a police department memo. Santa Ana destroyed Only about a dozen weapons seized by police in fiscal 1991-92, said it. Chuck Magdalena. The remaining 832 guns were auctioned last year bringing in $54,000. Such resales Are not new although the practice is spreading. Hawthorne has been reselling confiscated weapons for at least a decade. The City of Ventura began reselling in 1990 Alhambra began this year. Other cities that sell guns include Fullerton. Santa Monica and Pasadena. Usually the weapons Are sold each july to licensed dealers nationwide by Roger Ernst amp associates a Modesto auction House that specializes in property confiscated by police. According to an Inglewood police department memo More than 100 California Law enforcement agencies Send their seized firearms to the firm. Sex charges hit Seminary paper reports fond do Lac wis. A eight former students at a roman Catholic preparatory school say they were sexually molested by friars who gave them alcohol and showed them erotic magazines. T he Milwaukee journal reported sunday. Most said the incidents occurred in the 1970s and were reported to school authorities. One student claimed an incident occurred As recently As 1987, the newspaper said. Two former students who entered the Capuchin order one in 1989 and one this year said they received about $4,000 each for therapy after promising to keep the incidents confidential the newspaper reported. It. De Sheppard with the fond do Lac county sheriffs office said complaints the office had received from former students have been under investigation for a week. No charges have been filed he said. St. Lawrence Seminary operated by the Detroit based Capuchin province has about 30 friars and 200 students. The Seminary boarding school on mount Calvary East of fond do Lac has operated since 1857. The Rev. Kenneth Reinhart head of the province since 1987, told the associated press he knew of some of the allegations a but i cannot acknowledge All of them a he said. The newspaper said it interviewed eight men who attended the school. Two accused friars have left the school at least two have died and one still worked at the school the newspaper said. The number of friars accused could not immediately be determined. Michael Rocklin 30, of san Diego told the journal he had More than 50 sexual encounters with a teacher Between 1976 and 1979. He also reported sexual Contact with two other friars. In another incident he said he was at a Capuchin pre novitiate House in Detroit at age 17 when a priest entered his room and had sex with him. 6 Doe workers identified As Jet crash victims Billings Mont. Apr six passengers killed when a government plane slammed into a warehouse were identified saturday As regional workers for the . Department of Energy. The Pilot and co Pilot also were killed. The Cessna citation 550, owned by the department of Energy hit a Billings school District warehouse Friday afternoon Killim ewer one aboard. Three people in the warehouse escaped uninjured although the crash severed natural Gas lines and sparked a fire that gutted the building said fire a Apt. Lorren Ballard. Five of the planets passengers were employees of the Western area Power administration and the sixth was under contract to the a enc. Which is a part of the Doe. Western area Power officials in Golden colo., identified the dead As Dale Corey 51 Gary Miller 45 Robert Nord Meier 3 1 Richard Schirk 53 Magdalena a a monday Tafoya 41 and Tracy larger 28, All of Billings. Erger was the contract worker. The pilots were identified As Curt Schwarz 39, of Westminster colo., and Dan Arnold 22, of you Scille culo