European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes . Wednesday september 21,1994 Espy reimburses . For jeep lease payments from wire reports Washington a agriculture Secretary Mike Espy whose travel is under investigation by a Independent counsel reimbursed the government about $6,200 in lease payments for a jeep he sometimes uses for personal transportation his. Attorney told the Washington Post. The paper reported tuesday that Espy kept the ear at the Jackson miss., Airport. The paper quoted Espy a attorney Reid ,.As saying Espy occasionally used the jeep to a ferry his children around and for official agriculture department business in Mississippi. Espy 40, a former House member from Mississippi is divorced and has two children. Espy reimbursed the department recently a he could not say exactly when a to eliminate any appearance of impropriety Weingarten told the Post   a Linton Friend subpoenaed Washington  Federal grand jury investigating the White House travel office has subpoenaed records related to president Clinton s Hollywood Friend Harry Thomason. T he White House said monday that a Federal grand jury wanted All its records a relating to Harry t Tomason or Darnell Martens excluding those records related solely to the  Martens co owned an aviation consulting firm with Thomason that sought a share of the White House hired air  House officials said they  know whether Thomason was a target of the investigation or if the records were simply related to a broader inquiry aimed at a former director of the travel office. A . A a Mia remains identified Washington a . Officials have identified a the remains of two . Servicemen who had been listed As unaccounted for from the Vietnam War the Pentagon said monday. Air Force it. Col. Richard d. Smith was the navigator on a b-57b aircraft that was lost near Plesku Vietnam on March 11, 1965, his remains were repatriated this year during a joint american vietnamese search. Smiths Home of record is Wichita Kan. He was born aug. 16, 1937. The Pentagon said the other Serviceman whose remains have been identified was a Navy aviator but it was withholding his name in deference to the family a wishes. Former lawyer executed Huntsville Texas  former lawyer who killed two prosecutors during a courthouse shooting rampage was executed by lethal injection Early tuesday Only 18 months after being sent to death Row. A. A a George Lott who represented himself at trial and through the appeals process filed no documents to halt the execution the second in Texas within a week. He made no final statement and was pronounced dead at 12 19 . Lott 47, refused to accept outside Legal help thwarting efforts by others to Block the execution. At a hearing last year Lott told a judge a i continue not wanting to have anything to do with lawyers. Thank  on july 1,1992, Lott stood up in a Tarrant county courthouse courtroom and opened fire with a 9 my handgun. Two attorneys were killed and three people were wounded including two judges. Circus Trainer arrested Lebanon Ore. A a circus Trainer accused of blooding an obstinate Young elephant with a sharpened Metal Hook during a performance was arrested on an animal abuse complaint. Pol lib arrested Bela Tabak 50, on sunday on a Misdemeanour accusation of animal Abus after police and game officials investigated the incident. He was released on $500 bail said Nancy Bitterman Lebanon police dispatcher. Tabak said he had to discipline the 15-month-old asian elephant named Mickey to keep it from stampeding and endangering the audience at saturday s show his efforts were videotaped by people m the audience. A what is Best to restrain the elephant or to let him rur Rover the Many children and babies who were around a Tabak asked. 409-Pound convict gets reprieve from Gallows by Paul Shukovsky Seattle Post intelligencer Seattle  Federal judge ruled monday that a obese killer May not be sent to the Gallows saying the polygraph of a key witness was improperly barred during Mitchell rupees sentencing and that hanging the 409-Pound Man carried too great a risk of decapitation. A a hanging that is Likely to result in decapitation. Is contrary to Public perception of standards of decency and would violate the . Constitutions ban on cruel and unusual punishment District judge Thomas Zilly said. Rupe 41, was convicted of shooting two Bank tellers to death in a 1981 robbery in Tumwater. In overturning the death sentence Zilly cited the trial court s refusal to admit a polygraph test that Indi rated a key witness against Rupe was lying. Before executing him the state must either success7"-fully Appeal Zilly a decision or persuade a new sentencing jury to impose the death penalty. In that event the state could Appeal the ban on hanging Rupe or attempt to execute him by lethal in Keetion. The Only alternative is life in prison in without parole assistant attorney general John Samson said a we Are talking another year perhaps two years before we can execute him a Samson said. A great catch a 17-foot great White shark weighing 4,500 pounds is hauled from the water at terminal Island near Long Beach calif., on sunday. The shark was caught 15 Miles offshore taking the two member Crew of the horizon 7 Ashing boat More than seven hours to reel it in. The trial court withheld the polygraph information because the witness nervousness Lack of sleep and hostility toward police made the test result suspect. Two experts told Zilly during a july hearing that the witness answers suggested he was lying about Bis involvement in the robbery. Rupe claimed at his trial that it was the witness who had committed the crimes. The polygraph results could not be admitted during the guilt or innocence phase of rupees trial Zilly said but different rules apply in the penalty phase. Thus he ruled they were excluded improperly and rupees sentence had to be overturned. Zilly a decision that Rupe May not be hanged was written to avoid setting any broader Legal precedent. It appears to apply Only to very obese prisoners awaiting the noose in the state of Washington. Rupe weighs nearly twice the maximum amount list cd in a state corrections department Chart for calculating How far to drop a person being executed. State officials had calculated that Rupe should be dropped 3 feet 6 inches. But Zilly concluded that there was  significant risk of decapitation at that drop length and that any reduction a would increase the risk of death by strangulation which would result in prolonged suffering prior to  a s. Youngsters on Quot it. Washington apr american children still eat too much fat and sugar and instead of working off the calories watch enough television to steal about two months out of each year a health Survey says. Prevention Magazine says two thirds of . Children failed its children a health Index a measure of Good health and safety in a study released tuesday. Its most surprising finding was that parents appear to be slacking off in the nutrition Battle even As their children get fatter. About 31 percent of children Ages 3 to 17 Are overweight an increase of 29 percent since 1984, the Survey said. A   but Only 50 percent of parents surveyed really try to limit fat in their menus Down from 64 percent in 1991. Only 49 percent fight sugar Down from 72 percent. What happened competing information on what a Best to eat might be overwhelming parents speculated prevention a Tom Dybdahl. A lots of people Are feeling a i might just As Well eat what i want  he said. But children also each spend 912 hours a year watching television equal to about two months of waking hours the Survey calculated. Yet parents report that 66 percent of children get 20 minutes of strenuous exercise at least three times a week. A   clearly parents need to be educated about the difference Between an Active child which is Normal and one who is physically fit a said prevention a managing editor Lewis  the surveys other findings a 41 percent of the families owning guns say the weapons Are a just hidden away and not locked up. A Only one third of All children and 13 percent 0i/ teen agers Wear helmets while bicycling. F the children a health Index is based on a Telephone Survey of 424 parents by Princeton Survey research associates. It has an error margin of plus or minus 5 percentage Points. Mayberry s Howard Sprague Star Dies los Angeles a Jack Dodson who played officious Egghead Howard Sprague on the Andy Griffith show and Mayberry ., died Friday at 63. The Pittsburgh born Dodson graduated from the Carnegie Institute of technology a drama department and went on to Broadway productions of our town you can to take it h us you and Hughie where he was spotted by Griffith. He began appearing on Andy Griffith in 1967, the year before the Star left the show. He continued on Mayberry  Until it ended in 1971. He made More than 150 guest appearances on such shows As the fugitive Hawaii five of Newhart Barney Miller Cagney s Lacey St. Elsewhere Matlock and . Law. O  we a Aiso had recurring roles As the father of Ralph Ralph on Happy Days and As a radio station manager on Home front. His movie credits included the get away 1972 and Pat Garrett and Billy the kid 1973