European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday August .25, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 7 firm auctions off ashes of customer s Mother from the associated pres Chesapeake a. Gloria Torres did t pay her storage Bill on time and lost virtually everything including her Mother. A Box containing the ashes of Torres Mother was among the items auctioned off by Bunny Rabbit self storage after Torres and her husband Jose did pay their $55 monthly rent. X i be lost everything Torres said. I be Jost my  storage lot sent a notice to the couple warning them that their belongings would be sold but the Date of the Sale was incorrect. When Torres tried to pay her Bill she was a Day late. Property manager Melissa Johnson said the error in the Date was corrected in a second letter. Torres said she Riever received it. Foo Trace leads to tragedy Birmingham Ala. A Foo Trace that Baganas a Challenge during a wedding reception ended with the loser allegedly shooting the Winner to death outside a  said Harry Hal Mason and James Mays agreed to the race with $20 going to the Victor. Both had attended a saturday night reception for Princess and Melvin Coleman married earlier at the City s botanical , who was wearing wedding attire and dress shoes beat Mays who was wearing Tennis  later Mason was shot in the head. Mays who fled in a car was charged with murder but was still at Large tuesday police said. Blast kills explosives worker Spanish Fork Utah a blast at a explosives factory tuesday levelled a building killing one worker and injuring two others. The dead Man was identified As Arthur f. Dix 38", by the Trojan explosives company. The identities of the two injured men were not immediately available. Police said they were treated at a Hospital and  men were involved in a repair maintenance and Salvage operation at a building at the Plant company spokeswoman said. The cause of the blast was not immediately known. Pupils May get uniforms Sacramento Calif. California Public schools May require pupils to Wear uniforms to help keep out gang colors and symbols under a Bill signed tuesday by gov. Pete , the wrong combination of clothes can get you killed in some districts Wilson  schools already had authority under a Bill signed last year to ban gang colors but Wilson said the uniform measure will be More effective. Decisions about uniforms or dress codes Are made by local school officials. Abortion Law modified Baton Rouge la. The Louisiana legislature on tuesday passed a Law allowing taxpayer funded abortions for rape and incest victims obeying Federal rules that threatened Testate with the loss of billions in medicaid Money. The Senate voted 28-8 for the measure. The House which has walked at the legislation in the past passed it in a 59-40 vote. The measure no goes to gov. Edwin Edwards. Because of its ban on funding abortions for rape and incest victims the state had been faced with Theiss of $3 billion in Federal medicaid Money used to provide health care for 600,000 people. Purchasing Reform pushed Washington the Senate has approved legislation to streamline Federal purchasing procedures. U unapproved by voice vote tuesday night the Bill would change the Way the government buys $200 billion Worth of goods annually. _ the biggest changes would be at the defense department which accounts for three fourths of government purchases. The measure would erase scores of regulations and paperwork requirements to encourage agencies to buy commercially available items rather than custom made ones. It also would encourage the government to rely More on computers to buy goods faster and less  House is expected to approve the measure. Watchdogs find waste in trashy Navy efforts Washington a More than 20 years after maritime countries signed a treaty to prevent pollution from ships the. Navy is still looking for ways to Stop tra Shing the seas knew study shows. The interim study from the general accounting of fice Congress investigatory Arm detailed the Navy s attempts Over 14 years to develop an environmentally Friendly system of garbage disposal for ships. From 1979 to 1993, the Navy spent $26 million on garbage processing research but about half the Money went to projects that eventually were killed or altered said the study released tuesday. A promising plastics processor is not scheduled for installation until 1998, it said. Moreover the Navy is re thinking its entire garbage project after estimating total equipment costs from 1992 to 1999 could reach $901 , Navy ships continue to toss some Gar Bage overboard. Plastics Are stored for later disposal on  of taxpayer dollars have been wasted while the Navy plays Roulette with the environment said sen. Joseph Lieberman d-Conn., who requested the report with rep. Gary Franks a Conn. The request came after a Connecticut contractor complained that the Navy abruptly cancelled its con tract to build trash compactors. The Navy argued that the processor now being devel oped would not have been possible without earlier costly research. We have gotten some very important and useful technological advances out of this Money said it. Bill Spann a Navy spokesman. The Navy is not required to comply with the 14-year old treaty until 1998. Its trash Odyssey began in 1979 when it awarded contract to design a compactor. Last year the Navy cancelled its compactor research after deciding it Wasno longer needed the study said. The Navy began developing a shredder to crush an Cut Metal and Glass into pieces that would sink to the Ocean Bottom in Burlap bags. That project was modified this year to shred Only plastic wastes. In 1985, the Navy started developing a Puller to tear and grind food paper and cardboard wastes for pump ing overboard. That was suspended after the Navy decided it would require a change in Law. The processor now under development would shred heat and compress plastics into disks to be stored for disposal in landfills or possibly recycled. A final Gao report is due in october. A hats off to an old timer Veteran Liberty ship John w. Brown attracts an Admir ing Salute from Kurt Vanconant and Christine judge As it anchors at Boston s Charlestown Navy Yard on tuesday for five Days of Public viewing. The old work horse one of Only two remaining seaworthy Liberty ships was produced during world War ii along with More than 2,700 others of its kind to carry weapons heavy equipment and supplies in the War Effort. Killer elephant rampaged year ago Altoona a. A the elephant that killed Trainer at a show in Honolulu went on a similar ram Page at a circus in Altoona last year damaging a build ing and terrifying thousands of children the circus owner said. -.v.". G1." the elephant named tyke caused about $10,000 in damage to the Jaffa mosque when she charged through an entryway to the Arena april 21, 1993, and ripped away part of a Wall said de Migley owner of the Rhode Island based circus America. About 3,000 children were attending a circus Ameri Ca performance at the  s handlers said she became agitated when someone walked behind her. That also appears to be what set her off at saturday s circus International show m Honolulu. A Jat that show the 9,000-Pound elephant crushed Trainer Allen Campbell to death when he came to Thea id of a Groom she attacked after the Man walked be.-. Hinder. Tyke then bolted from the Arena attacked a circus employee who tried to Stop her and roamed City Street for 30 minutes before police destroyed her. On tuesday the group animal rights Hawaii and four people who witnessed the rampage sued the elephant s keeper and owner the circus the promoter the City and me state of  lawsuit seeks unspecified damages for physical and emotional injury and distress allegedly caused bythe incident. It contends that the circus its promoter and the elephant s owner intentionally permitted the abuse of animals or were grossly negligent by failing to supervise untrained employees tending the  state is liable because it violated its own Laws by permitting circus animals to enter Hawaii without quarantine and the City is liable because it permitted keep ing the elephant in Captivity according to the  the Pennsylvania rampage Migley had said tyke would be Given a week s  tuesday he said the elephant had All the tendencies of a  was a mistake for tyke to be presented in a Cir Cus he  s brother Walt said the Trainer had told tyke s owner John Cuneo that the elephant was not fit for  denied that saying tyke was Allen Camp Bell s favorite elephant