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Show la 2A The Salt Lake Tribune, I m I ' ' ; ll ( Sunday, April 28, 185 Spotlight: t , First Stop: Economic Summit in Germany Reagan Begins European Trip This Week Centlnqed From A-- l were never Identified, Kohl chose a small military cemetery In his home district,, Because American dead were removed from German soil at the end g of World War II, the cemetery at contains no Americans to whom Bit-bur- Reagan and Kohl can pay tribute, and most of the 2,000 German troops who lie there fell in the last great German offensive of the war, known to Americans as the Battle of the Bulge. More than 70,000 GIs fell, Including 86 who were captured, disarmed and led Into a field near the Belgian town of Mal- - medy to be gunned down by soldiers of the German 1st SS Panzer Division. Nazi soldiers from that 8S combat unit and others also are buried at whose principal connection to America today Is the community of Bit-bur- U.S. 10,000 military personnel and their families assigned to the nearby air base. The link is hardly as strong as the still sharp memories of those who lost brothers or buddies in the Battle of the Bulge. Nor does it conceal the letters "SS carved into 49 Bltburg graves, reminding three generations Hitthat it was the Schutzstaffel lers special guard that carried out the starvation, torture and extermination of 10 million men, women and children who, because they were Jewish, gypsies Russians or other Eastern Europeans, were branded enemies of the Nazi state. After the first sterm of outrage from Jewish and veterans' groups, g Reagan tried to compensate for by agreeing to visit a concentration camp, a stop he had originally ruled out as Inappropriate and inconsistent with his goal of reconciliation. The fury has not subsided, but the White House has made clear the president has committed himself to visit Bitburg as an act of friendship for Kohl, who he: been a loyal Reagan supported In tl.e Atlantic Alliance and who has staked much of his own political capital on the symbolic gesture paying homage to his nation's dead. Se on May 5, the day after the summit meeting ends and just 40 years after Germany began negotiating its surrender to the Allies, Reagan is West Germascheduled to criss-cros- s ny, flying from Bonn to pay tribute to victims of the Holocaust burled in a row of mass graves at the site of the Bergen-Belse- n concentration camp, then on to Bitburg to picnic with U.S. and German military families before driving out to the cemetery. Although Reagan plans four major speeches in succeeding days in West Germany, Spain, France and Portugal, including a widely televised address to the European Parliament at Day, what he says Strasbourg, on or does at Bitburg -- - or whether he finds some alternative to that stop may produce whatever memories come from his trip to Europe. Jimmy Carter ' achievements. Our goals were admirable, We never ducked an issue just because it was unpopular, and we had failures and disappointments but we never blamed tnem on others, he said. . As for his place in history, Carter said, "I think history will treat me OK. I did the best I could.r Wynton Marsalis and Miles Davis , trumpet standouts of different generations, met backstage at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival despite their disagreements on jazz style. At the meeting, which came between their separate, performances recently, Davis, who has been in the music business more than 30 years, presented one of his abstract drawings to Marsalis, back-to-bac- before services and burial Saturday. He had been classified as MIA for 42 years. Lt. Peattie Finally Home From Pacific , Resting by Mom Who Never Gave Up By Robert Barr Associated Press Writer First Lt, Francis BEACON, N.Y. G. Peattie has come home from the Pacific,, home from a unmarked grave, to rest beside the mother who nevr gave up hope. before he was buried Saturday, his bribes tears stung nearly as hard and as often as they had 42 years ago, 7 when Peatties disappeared in th Pacific. For two years, there was silence. Later, his relatives learned the bomber Jiad been shot down by Japanese fighters over New Britain, an island near New Guinea. But of Peatties whereabouts there was no word. flis mother refused to believe he was dead. She died in 1971, still hop- - ing. IShe never gave up hope he was coming back. Never, said Peatties wife, Helen Peattie Ormsby, who remarried in 1947. I accepted it, but Frincey never did. Hurts a Lot 'Tm glad he's back, even though it hurts a lot," she said before her high school sweetheart was buried in the satfie plot with his parents. It's like it happened yesterday, said Mrs. Ormsby. She had barely gotten over her second husband's death in 1983, she said, when Peattie s grave was identified. The flood of new emotion was confusing. 1 think people want me to say that I was pining away for these 42 years, it CLIP she said Friday. "He was not constantly on my mind, no. "I go to bed at night and wonder, Which husband am I crying for? Frank Peatties return was fronttown on page news in this blue-collthe Hudson River north of New York City; so was his disappearance in 1943. The town lost a fireman, the baseball team lost an intimidating fastball, Alps Sweet Shop and Ner-rie- s soda fountain lost a dependable customer. Best Man Captured He had a funeral in his hometown because of the persistence of Jose Holguin, best man at his wedding and sole survivor of the crash. Holguin, the navigator, saw the 7 crash as he drifted to earth by parachute, said a prayer by the bodies, and was captured by the Japanese to spend 26 months as a prisoner of war. ar Now 64 and a high school vice principal in Los Angeles, Holguin went looking for his buddies. He found the wreckage of the Naughty but Nice, then ferreted out records that led him to Honolulu, where the remains of five crewmen were taken after the war. unThere, in graves marked he found Peattie; 2nd Lt. Herman H. Knott of Astoria, N.Y., Staff Sgt. Robert E. Griebel of Riverton, Wyo., and Staff Sgt. Pace P. 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Why wasnt I there? he said. You ask yourself it's been asked of me why disturb the dead? Why bring them back after this time span? "But I think maybe it's a good thing. It fills voids. Look at the Vietnam war, all the MIAs. Thousands of people are really torn up to this day. They don't know whether their relatives are dead or alive. This does close the book, it makes a complete Story " ' Stevie Wonder stung officials at Resorts International Late-nigstar David also bowed out of his weeklong engagement several days ago citing other commitments. Julio Iglesias has earlier announced he was postponing his July shows until December. Wonder made his Boardwalk debut two years ago to sellout crowds at resorts. The CHICAGO (AP) Firefighters pulled a man's body from the rubble left by in explosion at a tool and die plant Saturday, boosting the death toll to three with 15 injured, authorities said The Friday night blast and fire at the Tool and Engineering Co. on the South Side could have been caused by a natural gas leak, said Deputy District Fire Chief Daniel Mull About 50 workers were at the plant when the explosion occurred About 125 firefighters were on the scene as flames shot through a section of roof on the three-storbuilding The blaze was visible two miles away in downtown Chicago 200-fo- While the explosion is being investu have tigated, Moll said "it appears been a natural-galeak " He said some of the buildings occupants reported smelling gas before the blast s However. Ed Joyce of Peoples lias citys other top summer attraction, Fifth, Oldest Implant Patient Artificial Heart Recipient Given a Military Burial m U.S. Poll Would Tell Reagan Ameri- cans are almost evenly divided on whether President Reagan should have agreed to visit a German military cemetery, but a majority believe he should cancel the visit, according to a Newsweek magazine poll released Saturday. In a nationwide telephone survey of 633 adults, 40 percent said Reagan was right in agreeing to visit the cemetery at Bitburg, where Nazi SS soldiers are among those buried, while 42 percent said he was wrong. Eighteen percent had no opinion. Asked if Reagan should still visit the graveyard in light of the controversy that has arisen over the trip, 55 percent said no and 36 percent 3aid yes. Nine percent By Robert Lee Zimmer Associated Press Writer Jack C. Burcham, LEROY, 111. the worlds fifth and oldest permanent artificial heart recipient, was given a military burial Saturday in his hometown before 150 mourners, including his widow and four children. The Rev. Bruce Calbreath, who delivered the eulogy, said the retired railroad engineer "ventured into places weve never gone. Burcham, who was a paratrooper in World War II, died Wednesday after a large blood clot squeezed part of the Utah made Jarvik-- 7 mechanical heart and interfered with its pumping, 10 days after it was implanted at the Humana Heart Institute in Louis- had no opinion. The poll, conducted by The Gallup Organization, had a margin of error of 5 percent. ville, Ky. Weve watched and waited, and now are broken-heartetoo, Calbreath said. You and I will miss him. Maine Wants Sears to Report The Life Span of Appliances - state prosecutors are charging Sears marketwith illegal ing techniques. They allege that shoppers are lured to eight Maine stores by falsely advertised sales offers and then encouraged to buy more expensive products. Sears calls the complaint preposterous. Tierneys office also charges that Sears pressures customers to buy maintenance contracts on purchases As the AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) state of Maine gets set to square off against the world's largest retailer in a sweeping consumer action, Attorney General James E. Tierney is challenging Sears, Roebuck & Co. to teil customers up front just how long those appliances are supposed to last. This isn't an academic exercise," candidate says Tierney, a would-b- e for governor who describes himself as a long-tim- e Sears patron. Were going to come out of the case with a more precise definition of what an implied warranty is. consumer complaint In a scheduled to go to trial on May 13, big-tick- six-pa- Let-term- Tribune Wires and Photos 55 - Casino-Hot- in Atlantic City, N.J., with his cancellation. Dont Go to Bitburg, NEW YORK (AP) suit. Marsalis, who is devoted to pure sound, appeared in an Davis, who uses electronic sound for which the younger trumpeter has k criticized him, wore his usual bolero costume. all-whi- that merely duplicate warranty rights, both expressly stated and implied, which come with the product. Sears says that isnt so either. But the most controversial issue in the case, to be tried in Kennebec County Superior Court before Justice Donald G. Alexander, may be the states effort to win for Sears custom-'er- s some of the same pledges of product reliability that the retailer obtains from its manufacturers and suppliers. Sears attorney John J. O'Leary Jr. says the attorney general is seeking to establish that Sears products "ought to last for a specific period of time and the implied warranty ought to cover it. "What they're after is something I don't think thats ever been done or he said. The state wants to argue that "every given appliance is going to last a given period of time. said O'Leary. Because of a variety of factors, including use patterns, That just isn't rt Body Pulled From Blast Rubble At Factory; Death Toll Hits 3 - s and n.ii Lv Marl is '.UtMl.i ki u U rV Henry Garcia of Los Angeles, who will be buried in May. No trace has been found of four other crewmen. One of 70,000 Peattie was one of about 70,000 Americans listed as missing in action in World War II. Military cemeteries here and abroad have more than 151,000 tombs marked unknown. k who is 23. While all was harmony backstage, the two presented their usual contrast to the audience. V-- E Helen Peattie Ormsby kneels at casket of first husband, 1st Lt. Francis G. Peattie, could while in the White OK." me will treat history Club, said dereguPress to Minnesota week the this Carter, speaking lation of private enterprise, normalization of relations with China, the Camp David agreement between Egypt and Israel and ratification of the Panama Canal treaty were his administrations most notable Jimmy Carter says he did the best Job he House and predicts that Bit-bur- Associated Prtss Laserphoto Stevie Wonder Wynton Marsalis & Coke Co. said there was no indication of a natural gas leak. The factory manufactures aluminum parts and metal castings for automobiles and uses natural gas furnaces to melt aluminum chips for forging, workers said. Light The body found Saturday morning was identified as Ljubifa Mirkovic, age uncertain, of the Chicago suburb of Cicero, said Mark Meeley of the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office The other dead were Vincent Moreno, 45, of Chicago and Dragan Colako-vi- so " The stale is asking for court orders to bar what it says are deceptive trade practices, and for Sears to offer to refund the proceeds from service c suburban Berwyn, said police officer George Cadogan Three of the injured were admitted to University of Illinois Hospital and 11 others were treated and released. The three patients remained in serious condition Saturday, said Nursing Supervisor Barbara Spontak One fireman suffered minor injuries. said Tom Murphy, a spokesman for tiie department of contracts that duplicate existing warranty rights. Maine filed Its complaint against Sears in March 1984 In lengthy pre trial proceedings, prosecutors have obtained tens of thousands of documents, most of which have been guarded from public view by a court prntecive order 1 Yet, his hopeful, courageous spirit is with us still, American Legion members provided military honors, including a rifle salute and the playing of taps." The flag covering his coffin was given to his widow, LaVonne, who was at graveside. People lined the streets to watch a procession of more than 40 cars from the funeral home to the cemetery in this corn and soybean farming community of 2,700 residents. "Everyone knows he'll really be said LeRoy Police Chief missed, James Sandage. He was friendly and outgoing always smiling and always talking to people. You cant replace someone like that. Burcham suffered a heart attack Oct. 9 that left him barely able to move or breathe. Dad didnt have long to live . and he didn't want to live the way he son Jack B. Burcham said was, shortly after his fathers death. This was a chance." After the April 14 implant, Burcham developed serious kidney problems that required dialysis, a proce. dure which, combined with may have helped produce the clot, doctors said. The fatal condition, called cardiac tamponade, arose when Burchams thinned blood oozed from leaks throughout his chest cavity and lungs. The clot that formed squeezed the left upper chamber, a remnant of Burcham's natural heart, and prevented the mechanical left ventricle, a lower chamber, from filling up with blood, according to Dr. Allan Lansing, Humana Inc. medical spokesman. The first artificial heart patient, Dr. Barney Clark, died March 23, 1983, at a Utah hospital. Actress Faces Divorce On 1st Anniversary - AUSTIN, Texas (UPI) The husband of actress Amanda Blake, longtime star of the Gunsmoke" television series, filed for divorce on the eve of the couple's first anniversary. Austin City Councilman Mark Spaeth, who has been ill for a year and announced in February he would not seek another term on the council, filed the petition Friday in an Austin state district court. The two were married April 28 1984. Blake, best known for her role as Miss Kitty in "Gunsmoke," is living and working In Hollywood. She has formed a company to produce television films in which she will appear. In his petition. Spaeth said the couple's marriage has become insupportable because of discord or con- flict of personalities . . , that destroys the legitimate ends of the marriage." The marriage was the third for Spaeth, 45, who owns a real estate investment firm, and the fifth for the actress |
