Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 28, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba For Peg free july 83 lots of storks Settle Down in Spanish town big Birds antics ruffling residents by Gary Abramson associated press Malpartida de Spain they ruined Isabel they knocked out Maxima Pedrera to they came close to commit Ting murder most fowl against the town storks by the hundreds have moved into building 450 kilogram nests on leaving their droppings everywhere and generally aggravating Many of the towns human the Long necked Birds have built 38 nests on the roof of the 16thcentury dozens of other built of twigs and stand on rooftops across look ing like giant soup hundreds of Stork Chicks clumsily Flap their wings in preparation for their first adult resplendent in White feathered bodies and Black Welcome each other by loudly clapping their red helped by their status As a protected the number of storks in Spain has quadrupled to some in the past a bigger Popula Tion than in any other Western euro Pean across a single Stork nest atop a Church Steeple often the highest spot in a Village is a com Mon but nobody recalls storks blanketing a town As they have Mal Partida and the reason int although Malpartida has Long had a certain Stork one Factor May be that farming has decreased in the area and thus so has the use of pesticides dangerous to said Lorenzo an ornithologist studying Malpartida Stork but the main draw in Malpartida May be the garbage dump for the nearby provincial storks find the pickings so Good that some Arent French Forest curbed storks and their nests crowd atop Malpartida Church bothering to Fly each Winter to Africa at the unassuming town seems More like a Busy with Mother storks circling and gliding Down with food bugs and leftovers from the dump for their the Stork population explosion there were 534 of them at last count is ruffling feathers in this South Western the droppings fall on us on the Way into there murder to get out of a dress and How they stink said who was the Vic Tim of a Stork Aerial roman town said a nest weighing nearly 300 kilograms tumbled off the Church clock Tower in narrowly missing him and a Friend As they walked mayor Antonio Jimenez leads Mal Partida pro Stork Jimenez likes to show visitors a framed certificate from the euro Pean heritage an environmental group based in naming Malpartida Europe Stork trying to drum up some Stork he has started an annual Stork Complete with a Stork photo some 200 photographs of storks from several european coun tries Are on display in the towns Cul Tural claims office flooded with Calls about dormant Swiss Bank accounts by Dafna Linzer associated press Tel Aviv a claims office set up to handle inquiries about Dor Mant Swiss Bank accounts that May have belonged to holocaust Vic Tims was flooded with hundreds of Calls in its first hours a dozen Telephone operators answered Calls nonstop throughout the Day More than three a minute in the but Only one applicant arrived in carrying a leather Satchel with tattered documents and family Dov came to the claims Cen tre after finding his uncles name on the list of account nearly All of Habers family was wiped out by the and while he was too Young to remember his a clothing Haber never for got his Roth of Vien Austria which appeared on a list of dormant accounts published Haber said he had searched for miss ing relatives but found no i looked for my Uncle after the i looked for everyone after the including my but there was no one said a retired Book keeper and former clerk in the polish army who fled to Switzerland during the second world the Swiss Banks released the names of holders connected with War Era accounts that have been left dormant to help heirs of holocaust victims Trace missing Bank the accounting office of Leary and the local affiliate of Ernst and plans to take Calls 11 hours a five Days a for the next six callers were sent a claims kit with application which were Avail Able in 10 most callers requested forms in romanian and most callers were not sure if their family was on the list and said they called because they Felt their name might be on future some to names of other second world War account holders Are expected to be released in other claims centres have been opened at Ernst and Young offices in Haber uncles name on list new York Switzerland Hungary and aus an estimated six million jews were killed by the Israel is Home to some survivors of the Holo Caust and Many israelis Are descendants of France French firefighters gained control Over Forest fires near the Mediterranean port of Marseille yesterday after a dip in winds that fanned the regions worst blazes in five the some of them suspected to be charred More than hectares of Forest and scrubland in two it took about firefighters backed by 350 fire engines and eight planes dumping water to control the firefighters spent much of yester Day dousing the fringes of smoulder ing the regions mistral wind had calmed to about 30 Kwh from 95 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