European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 06, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 b the stars and stripes . Saturday february 6,1993 jury weighs Uncle s Fate in videotaped discipline7 Santa Barbara Calif. A a Man who stripped beat and shaved his Niece in a soundproof obedience chamber while he videotaped the discipline saw the girl As a sexual fantasy a prosecutor says. John Shipman 53, a Burly Man with close cropped hair sat in court thursday scrawling on a Legal pad As Santa Barbara county Deputy District attorney Gene Martinez made the allegation and Deputy Public de fender Tom Allen rebutted jurors began late thursday then they recessed for the night. Deliberations were to resume Friday. The trial began Jan. 26. Shipman is charged with four counts of lewd acts with a child under .14. And 11 counts of rape with a for eign object lie testified that he subjected the girl to treatment similar to that he received As a child. Allen did not deny the girl was abused but claimed there was no sexual All of us arc Solomons. Not All of us can reason with our child every time. You Sec it in the grocery store people abusing their children. There s nothing sexual about it. It s just abuse pure and simple Allen said. He urged jurors to convict Shipman of child abuse and inhumane treatment instead of the More serious molestation charges. If convicted of All charges Shipman could be sentenced to 120 years in prison. Martinez said the lesser charges of abuse would carry a maximum penalty of eight years in custody. The videotaped sessions started at Shipman s up scale Santa Maria Home 140 Miles Northwest of los Angeles when the girl was 13, authorities said. It ended three years later when the secret videotapes were discovered prosecutors said. The girl now 17 and living in the los Angeles area with her Mother was sent to live with Shipman in 1988 after she ran away from Home. Shipman and his wife promised to discipline her and enrol her in school. During the trial the prosecutor showed the jury the John Shipman testifies in Santa Barbara Calif. Graphic 37 minutes of was seen ordering the nude girl to shout obscenities while he whipped nor As she Lay face Dow with her arms crossed in Back. Shipman said he resorted to stripping the girl an beating her when she failed to obey rules of the House and getting bad grades. He claimed he videotaped the sessions to show he did nothing wrong. He testified that he disciplined the girl in the Sam manner his father had disciplined him. Deaf dog answers to sign language Spokane Wash. A it was a match made atthe dog Pound but Seldom has a dog found a More suitable is a deaf Dalmatian. Everyone in the Eison Man family can hear but they All know american Sig language. Now that includes their dog who was taught to respond to nearly 30 signs. When the disc mans went to the animal shelter and came Back with Juliette then about 9 months old they were apprehensive about How to control the pet who had already gone through several we first got her she really was unmanageable Jody Eisnman said. Then the j.j., now 9, and Aaron 7 taught their pet Eisnman Learned sign language while preparing for her career working with developmentally disabled people. Her husband Michael a computer pro Grammer Learned sign language from her while the were dating to expand his linguistic skills. Marriage and a family meant their children would , too. So maybe it was inevitable that the youngsters would try it out on Juliette now 4 years old. Besides they had found conventional obedience train ing limited. We wanted to have her function in the Home As family pet More than teach her tricks Jody Eisnman said. The boys began with the Asl sign to sit two Fin Gers placed in a chair position Over the other repetition and a gentle downward push on the dog s haunches Juliette Learned to sit simply on seeing the sign. Experts said Many deaf people use sign language with their pets. The dog has Learned nearly 30 other signs helped along by clog biscuits when necessary. Now when someone makes the sign for out Juli Ette Heads to the door. When they sign where s your Bone the dog looks for her they sign i love you the dog snuggles her head against the signer. Sears neighbourhood saddened by Catalon s demise Carlinville Iii. A millions of american households arc filled with items ordered from the Sears Catalon. This town houses an entire neighbourhood where the houses themselves came from the big Book. As far As anyone knows the 152 houses on nine blocks that constitute the enclave known As Standar addition Are the world s largest Cluster of Homes or dered straight out of the Catalon. So the announcement by Sears Roebuck Ami co. Last month that the Spring Catalon would be its last stirred a particular wistfulness in Carlinville. Everybody feels sad this institution and part of America is going to be gone said Linda Mcgill who is acting director of the economic development corp. In this town of 5,400 and who lives in a Sears Home. Sears sold about 100,000 mail order houses from 1908 to 1940, primarily in the Midwest and East. For a few thousand dollars buyers got floor plans precut lumber nails paint doors Light fixtures everything they needed All delivered to the nearest Railroad Sta Tion. Scars even provided the mortgage services. It provided us an outlet for everything we offered said Greg Rossiter a Sears spokesman. If we could sell them a Home we could probably sell them every thing that goes in when Standard Oil co. Opened two Coal mines near Carlinville 75 years ago it suddenly needed Homes for its workers. The company ordered what it needed fro the 1918 Sears Catalon. Standard Oil erected the houses in Carlinville in Central Illinois and then rented the houses to its work ers. It s just a real neighbourhood still. It has that old feeling said. Danley Vlasich who recently sold her Sears House after 13 years. There Are Young couples with children and then there Are older the neighbourhood has a mass produced uniformity to it right Down to the Standard Issue two Trees in the front Yards. Rooms Are Small basements sometimes leak and most second floors Are unheated owners say. But the houses which go for $20,000 to $-10,000 today Are sturdy and require few repairs. Teen agers plead not guilty in shootings off mom girls front wire reports eust1s, tin. Two teen agers pleaded innocent thursday to charges related to the shooting deaths of two Young Sisters and the wounding of their Mother. Attorneys for Alphonso Junior Small 14, an Manuel Yon jr., 16, entered innocent pleas in the wounding of Dorothy Reid Lewis and the slaying of 1csmall and Richard Rick Rick Hunyard 18, were charged sunday with two counts of first degree murder two counts of kidnapping sexual Battery Auto theft and false imprisonment. Yon was charged As an accessory. The suspected murder weapon was recovered at the Home of one suspect said police it Carmine Aurigemma he would t say which suspect. Hunyard told detectives that he shot Lewis with a22-Calibcr pistol and that Small shot Jamilya 7, and1f Jasmine 3, after the family s abduction from shopping Center saturday night according to a police , 35, was recovering from two gunshots to the head. Plane should t have flown Marietta a. A Lockheed corp. Test plane that crashed wednesday at Dobbins fab killing its seven Crew members was on a routine ground test and should not have lifted off an investigator said transportation safety Board chairman Carl Vogt said the modified Lockheed c-130 plane a flying Laboratory owned by the aircraft maker was on its eighth routine test of the Day when it aircraft was not programmed to become airborne. This test did become airborne. Testing of aircraft by running ground tests is a routine procedure for air planes of this Type Vogt said. The plane was a four engine l-100, the civilian version of the c-130 military transport. It came to a Stop 25 feet from a Navy clinic after it crashed. Noone on the ground was injured. The test involved shutting Down the outer engine on the left Wing and testing the aircraft for steering ability and Power. The plane was going at full Takeoff Power but not full Takeoff Speed when i crashed Vogt said. He said that he did not know How High the plane lifted off the ground but that i appeared it did t go very High. Patient fighting infection Pittsburgh a 62-year-old Man who has not awakened since undergoing a Baboon liver transplant nearly four weeks ago is battling a intestinal infection a Hospital spokeswoman said found the infection and a leak in the Small intestine wednesday. They removed a piece of the intestine thursday and Are giving the Man antibiotics said Lisa Rossi a spokeswoman for the University of Pittsburgh medical Center. The unidentified Man the world s second recipient of a Baboon liver transplant was listed in critical but stable condition. He received the live Jan. 10. His condition is not getting better Rossi by Dav things change but Overall things have remained the same which is not air bag Tore Driver s heart Danbury Conn the Force of an air bag opening in a Low Speed Accident Tore a Hole in a woman s heart in september doctors reported Friday. Doctors said they think the pressure ruptured the Motorist s right atrium one of the heart s four pumping Chambers or. Gilead Lancaster of Danbury Hospital said. The 22-year-old woman underwent surgery forthe life threatening injury and was released from the Hospital after 11 Days. The bag opened when the woman s car struck a naked vehicle at less than 15 Mph doctors said in a nday s new England journal of Medicine. Lancaster and automotive safety experts cited in he article theorized that the injury was caused at least in part by the woman s failure to heed the manufacturer s instructions to Wear her shoulder Belt. Federal transportation officials cited in the article said the injury would be the first of its Type involving air hags which Are installed in about 6 million vehicles in the United states
