European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday april 28, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 7 senator requests probe of do p travel processing Washington a the Pentagon spends More Money processing travel orders than it does on the travel itself and at least one senator wants to know Why.  sen. William Cohen a Maine a member of the sen ate armed services committee requested a congressional investigation tuesday of Pentagon travel practices. While the foibles of the Federal bureaucracy Are Well known this Case May set a new Standard for wrongheaded Ness he said. Vice president Al Gore s National performance re View of wasteful government practices found that the Pentagon spends $2.3 billion per year to process $2 Bil lion Worth of travel vouchers. The report was cited by body fumes group of rescuers in a. City Pittsburgh a Garden chemicals May have caused the body fumes that sickened a dozen paramedics and Hospital workers who treated a76-year-old Man who had collapsed a Coroner says Frank Kulczynski collapsed while working in his Tomato Garden monday in Mckeesport Southeast of Pitts  said Kulczynski bled from his Mouth and sores opened on his skin As they tried to revive him. Allegheny county Coroner Joshua Perper said the Man s skin began to Peel after his death. An autopsy performed tuesday showed Kulczynski apparently suffered a heart attack Perper said however there also was blood in Kulp Zywiski s stomach and in a portion of his Small intestine leading Perper to believe that other factors May have contributed to the Man s death. I think it s a combination of events Perper said. A final cause of death will not redetermined until results from toxicology and bacterial tests Are available Perper  was the second Case of toxic body fumes reported this year. In Riverside county calif., a female cancer patient died in february and emitted noxious fumes in an operating room. Six people were sickened by the fumes. The cause of the fumes. Has not been  the Pennsylvania Case. Two hos Pital technicians and two paramedic were hospitalized overnight and re leased tuesday. Eight others were treated briefly monday night. Their complaints included dizziness irritated eyes rashes and difficult breath Cohen in requesting the investigation. In addition to being clearly wasteful and unnecessarily time consuming the defense department s proc Essing system May be squandering this extraordinary amount of Money to obtain inaccurate and useless data Cohen said. A Pentagon spokesman said the Clinton administration is working on reducing travel processing costs. We Are aware of the Issue that senator Cohen has raised said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity. We re moving in that  the Pentagon has said it can save about $1 billion Over five years by replacing the 3,900 clerks who pro Cess travel orders with an automated . One emergency worker said Kulczynski smelled like chlorine while another compared the Man s odor to  said he thought the Chemi cals that Kulczynski was using contributed to his death. In memory of crime victims outside the state Capitol in Sacramento calif., Linda Dabb is sur rounded by mock White coffins and red roses placed there tuesday in symbolic mourning for victims of violent crime. Dabb represented the California corrections peace officers association organizer of the fifth annual victims March on the Capitol. Families and friends of crime victims from throughout the state attended the memorial. Man critically burned in vat of boiling cheese Linden . Up a new Jersey Man was fighting for his life tuesday a Day after falling headfirst into a vat of boiling cheese. Terry Haskins 19, suffered extensive Burns when he tumbled into 4 feet of boiling cheese in a vat at the Ca Pitol food co. In Linden. Police said Haskins lost his balance while mixing the cheese in a stainless steel vat which is 20 feet Long and 10 feet High. He was dragged from the vat by co work ers and airlifted to the Burn Center at St. Barnabus Hospital in Livingston. Hospital spokesman Jackie Goldman said Haskins was in critical condition with Burns to his face and left Side of his body. Study casts doubt on need for some kids a r surgery from wire reports Chicago the most common operation on american youngsters in which drainage tubes Are inserted in their ears after infections May be unnecessary in tens of thousands of cases researchers reported wednesday. About 670,000 tube insertions were done in 1988, the latest year for which . Figures arc available according to the study which found that about one fourth of All such operations May be uncalled for. Some surgeons disputed the study published in the journal of the american medical association. Small plastic tubes Are surgically placed through the eardrum to Drain fluid and relieve pressure that can build up after ear infections which plague two thirds of american children by age 2. Unrelieved pressure is painful and can cause hearing damage or  "-.,-.   the operations can cause complications such As scarring of the eardrum which also can Lead to hearing damage. Case of purloined Python Pasco Wash. In a chilling tale of thievery Bolice say someone stole the carcass of a 12-foot burmese Python from Janice Zumwalt s  adopted the 85-Pound Snake and named it Lucifer three years ago after the Benton Franklin humane society found the reptile abandoned at a vacant House. ./\.-. A but Lucifer was Only 7 feet Long then and As he grew so did his appetite. Zunwalt was feeding him two to three 7-Pound rabbits every two weeks and worrying that he might make a meal out of her 4 year Ola son Amel. She said a taxidermist told her freezing would be a humane Way of disposing of the Snake so on april 8 she tucked Lucifer into a Burlap and plastic wrap and placed him in her Freezer. I she planned to have him skinned and sold for Snak Sidn goods. It a $1,200value $100a foot Zumwalt  on sunday she noticed Lucifer was missing. Franklin county sheriffs deputies Are hoping someone might have seen a suspicious character dragging a Guhn sack through Zumwalt a neighbourhood Hunt Law expiring Concord  another Symbol of the cold War and the Days of anti communist Witch Hunts is falling by the Wayside. New Hampshire s subversive activities act is being repealed. The Law is to be abolished june 21 under a Bill signed Friday by  Merrill. The 1951 act stemmed from the Days when americans suspected of communist activities were blacklisted from jobs and mistrusted by neighbors it outlawed the communist party and othe organizations considered threats to National Security and required loyalty oaths of All stat workers and political candidates. Critics say that rather than rooting out communists the Law was a tool for the government to violate people s civil rights and harass them for having Liberal political views. Legal files strike Back Denver Therese Curtin went above an beyond the Call of duty when firefighters had to Rescue her from the clutches of some High tej file  was working in the filing room at the Hall & Evans Law firm monday when the electronically operated files made their move and trapped her. The units which Are on tracks stretch almost to the  co workers called the fire department after they failed to free her. We re involved in All kinds of rescues but we be never had to Deal with something like this said capt. Don Macia of the metro fire department. She was in the Center of the console and somehow they the file units closed on  several unsuccessful attempts to release the files firefighters pried them apart with the jaws of life Hydraulic equipment normally used to Rescue victims caught in crushed vehicles. They were off the tracks Macia said. They were  Curtin was t seriously injured but she decided to Call it a Day