European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday May 12, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 7 Pentagon announces retirements postings Washington a Gen. Walter e. Boomer the assistant commandant of the Marine corps who was a commander in operation desert storm is retiring the Pentagon announced tuesday. The. Four Star general was in charge of the Marine and army forces that pushed through the iraqi forces occupying Southern Kuwait. Boomer 56, is due to leave sept. 1, a Pentagon statement said. Another senior Marine Gen Joseph p. Hoar is to retire on the same Date. Hoar succeeded Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf As the four Star commander in chief of the . Central come on sept. 1,1991. In that position the 60-year-old general was responsible for much of the near East and portions of Africa and oversaw the . Phase of the humanitarian Effort in Somalia. The Pentagon also announced that it. Gen. Robert b. Johnston has been chosen As co Menander of Marine forces in the atlantic., v. Johnston 57, was one of Schwarzkopf top staff officers during desert storm and was the commander of the . Marines in Somalia. He is serving As Deputy chief of staff for and Reserve affairs at Marine corps Headquarters. Also it. Gen. Charles c. Krulak has been nominated for assignment As commander of . Marine a corps forces Pacific. Krulak 52, worked with the Marine corps commandant Gen. Carl e. Mundy jr., on the plan to reduce the size of the corps and served As the general in charge of reviewing Marine cases in the Tail Hook sex abuse scandal. Krulak is the commanding general of the Marine corps combat development come in Quantico a. Two locomotives just like those that joined East and West 125 years ago were stars of tuesday s historic Flashback. 1869 East West rail linkup re enacted Promontory Utah apr two newly painted steam engines and the three ceremonial Railroad spikes used to link East and West 125 years ago were brought together tuesday in a re enactment of the ceremony that bound a nation together with a ribbon of Iron. Faithful copies of the Central Pacific a Blue Jupiter locomotive and the Union Pacific a Burgundy 119 Drew a crowd far larger and More sober than the 600 or so who witnessed the completion of the transcontinental Railroad on May 10,1869. A today we Are perhaps a bit relaxed about engineering and construction projects of the magnitude of the transcontinental Railroad but it was at that time one of the greatest achievements of the 19th Century in the United states or the world a said Philip of Anschutz chairman of Southern Pacific rail corp. The re enactment of the driving of the Golden Spike that completed the 1,776-mile line marked the first time that the Heads of the competing Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific a formerly the Central Pacific a were in attendance. Also reunited for the first time since 1869 were the three ceremonial spikes used to link the railroads at windswept Promontory Summit the a Golden Spike and a Nevada Silver Spike Quot were in loan from Stanford University in California and the a Arizona Spike a an amalgam of Gold Silver and Iron came from the museum of the City of new York. Addressing gov. Mike Leavitt arid about 12,000 others at the Golden Spike National historic site Union Pacific corp. Chairman Drew Lewis called the project a a ringing affirmation of the vision of our nations leaders a most importantly Abraham Lincoln who chartered our a nation putting behind it the horrors of the civil War viewed the project As a race. Union Pacific Crews driving Westward across the Prairies from Omaha neb., Laid 1,086 Miles of track. The Central Pacific inching eastward from Sacramento Calif had to blast tunnels and build countless trestles through the Sierra Nevada and completed just 690 Miles of line. The Central Pacific was further hindered by the lure of Gold and Silver in Nevada that drained Many workers so it hired cheap immigrant chinese labor. 2 killed 3 missing in copter crash new Iberia la. Up the coast guard said two people were killed and three were missing tuesday in the crash of a helicopter off the Louisiana coastline near Marsh Island in Vermilion Bay the coast guard said the Bell helicopter based in new Iberia contracted by Southern natural Gas co., was located in 3 feet to 10 feet of water 12 Miles South of intr coastal City and five Miles East of Marsh Island. Coast guard divers and a patrol boat from grand Isle were dispatched to the scene to attempt to locate the missing persons. They recovered a second body late tuesday. Kay Kirkpatrick of Southern natural Gas in Birmingham ala., said the helicopter left Erath for an offshore pumping station at 9 57 ., but did not arrive at 10 40 As aboard copter killed in night crash on freeway from wire reports Hacienda Heights Calif. A helicopter crashed arid burned on a freeway tuesday night killing both people aboard and causing a traffic Accident in which three people suffered minor injuries. The helicopter went Down tuesday night on. The Pomona freeway about 20 Miles cast of downtown los Angeles. A it was like Daylight. It was so Bright a a witness Margarita Estrada told Kcal to. She said the copter came Down so hard that it bounced. The two unidentified people aboard the Small private helicopter were killed said Cheryl Atterson a los Angeles county fire dispatcher Estrada said she saw two cars crash As the copter. Slammed into the sex studied Orlando Fla. A adolescents who Are Good students and go to Church arc just As Likely to have sex As students who have divorced parents and Low self esteem researchers reported. The researchers at Northwestern University medical school surveyed 1,000 Chicago area elementary and Junior High school students. They found that grades Church attendance self esteem and parents marital status had Little or no effect on a Jole scents sexual activity. Or. Michael Benson one of the researchers presented the results at a conference in Orlando of the american College of obstetricians and gynaecologists. He said that while the study was not a National Survey he believes the results would apply to most american adolescents. Fatigue blamed in crash Washington a Crew exhaustion is being blamed for the crash of a civilian cargo Jet last summer at the . Navy base in Cuba. The National transportation safety Board concluded tuesday that the probable cause of t he aug. 18 crash was a the impaired judgment decision making and flying abilities of the Captain and flight Crew due to the effects of at the time of the Accident the Board said the. Ilot had been awake for 23.5 hours the first officer or 19 hours and the navigator for 21 hours. This was the first time the Board has cited fatigue As the cause of a crash although it has noted it As a potential problem in other cases. The dc-8 Jet freighter operated by Connie Kalitta services inc. As american International airways flight 808, crashed Short of the runway As it tried to land at the . Naval base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. The plane was destroyed and the three Crew members were seriously May get break Washington a food packagers stuck with millions of dollars Worth of outdated packaging Are Likely to win a temporary reprieve from new food Labelling requirements. Food and drug administration commissioner or. David Kessler gave his assent tuesday to legislation that would give packagers until aug. 18 to use up already printed food containers that do not meet the Labelling requirements that took effect sunday Kessler told the Senate appropriations agriculture subcommittee that he empathized with the problems of businesses stuck with warehouses full of old up on gangs fort Worth Texas a a plan to hire gang Meri Ibers to act As Counselor in a City funded ant gang project was adopted tuesday. The City Council voted 8-1 to support police chief Thomas Windham a plan to combat rising gang violence. The chief Hopes that putting six savvy Counselor on the streets will steer youths away from the gang life. A gang members have not responded in the past to what we be been telling them. We believe this approach has a Good Chance of working Quot he said. Windham said the idea came to him last year when he tried to help gangs arrive at a truce. He said he found some gang leaders had a sincere desire to Stop the violence. Windham said six gang leaders will be selected for the project and paid $5 an hour for their time. I
