European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday May 20, 1977 to Tennis series May be probed Washington t Pil the Federal communications commission is consider ing a probe of the heavyweight championship of Tennis series because the matches were not Winner take All Asad Vertise the Washington Post reported series was televised nationally by lbs and funded partially by the network it was recently revealed the Money in the matches was divided Between participants beforehand and did not go exclusively to the commission has a real interest in this an unidentified commissioner told the acc spokesman refused to confirm the existence of inc inquiry. The acc As a matter of policy for judicial reasons makes no comments on investigations or whether they Are in he commissioner a Tennis Buff told the Post he was incensed because he was duped into thinking the purses went exclusively to the winners. But before we can really investigate it. We be got to have some evidence that lbs knew what was going the commissioner series featured a feb 2.1975 match Between Jimmy Connors and Hod Laver. An april 26, 1975 match Between Connors find John Newcombe. A fun. 28.1976 match Between Connors and Manuel Orantes and a March 6. 1977 Cunt esl Between Connors and Hie Wussler. The lbs president who was Nee. President Lor s�j1s at tin1 time said hi1 Dill not wish i in moment a whether chs had or Iii knowledge of the than Cial arrangement Wussler said lbs is conducting an investigation of the Mailer. Hi.1 said financial arrangements an nut the concern of the network when in buys broadcast rights but it has a journalistic responsibility to report accurate purse arrangements. Lbs commom tailors at the co mors Nas Tase match referred Tii the Winner take All format during the first part of the match but then dropped the reference Toile purse Asil progressed. Bill Riordan. Promoter of the matches said he never told Wussler about the financial arrange ments. Barry Frank now chs vice president or sports was a promoter of the Connors Laver match and is involved in litigation against Riordan Over the promoter s fee. At that time Frank was an executive of trans world inner National. A broadcast and film company a Morilan said Frank knew Hie financial arrangements Tor he and in co Mhz matches Ami Maha a known of he Oiler match term Frank unavailable for Eniti Innel. Ford tells Middle East to keep powder dry Washington in i up former presi Dent Ford thursday urged All parties to keep their powder dry in the Middle East and to discard any thought of drastic action As a result of the israeli election. That election is certainly a Surprise to Many Ford said when asked his reaction to the defeat of the labor party and the Victory of the rightist liked bloc in tuesday s balloting but the problems in the Middle East Are so serious the consequences Are so important to the world As a whole that i Hope that responsible people will tons Down their rhetoric and that All parties will keep their powder dry that is m the bust interests of the world As a made the comments while talking to reporters on i visit to Congress disease not identified 270 ill on cruise vessel Atlanta map the sitar cruise ship fair sea headed for St. Thomas in the Virgin islands on thursday with about 270of its 900 passengers suffering an unidentified illness the National Center for Dis ease control 25,000-ton Turbine steamship one of the largest cruise ships operating out of the United slates left its los Angeles Home port May 7. Tins is the third recent cruise where passengers and crewmen aboard the fair sea have become ill with an unidentified malady the cd said. A spokesman for sitar said inc vessel will leave on another two week cruise from san Juan on saturday but that the 900 persons from throughout the United states who have booked passage will be told of inc present Telegram from . Bland president of sitar was sent thursday to about 300 travel agents who booked the passengers. For the past month an unusual number of passengers aboard the ass fair sea have experienced symptoms of a mild gastrointestinal illness the Tele Gram says in part. Since the possibility exists thai a Simi Lar situation May recur on your forthcoming cruise both sitar and the . Public health service agree that you should be aware of the facts As we know them before you leave the Telegram . Robert Gunn of the cd Bureau of epidemiology said a report from an epidemiologist aboard the ship indicates that about 270 passengers and about 14 of the 450 crewmen have become ill. None has been hospitalized and none has required treatment with re assuming this is a continuing problem of the first cruise Gunn said in an interview. We re running viral tests now from the first cruise. The curve of the epidemic implies that a common source is involved what the source is. Or what the organism is we Don t he said. Gunn patients usually Are ill for a couple of Days and some of them run Low Grade think it is a virus but if the trans Mission of the virus has been by food or water it has never been he Moron a representative of sitar. Said the fair sea will sail from san Juan at 5 . Saturday. We and the Public health service thought it Best to notify the passengers what they might expect he next two weeks will take the pair sea Back through the carib can and the Panama canal to California. Carrying out an unusual request a wooden crate containing a 1964 Ferrari car with inc body of Sandra Llene West seated inside it is lowered into grave at a cemetery in san Antonio. The burial meets a request in the will of the wealthy woman. A photo oilman s widow buried in Ferrari san Antonio api Sandra Llene West a wealthy California widow was buried thursday just the Way she wanted in my lace Nightgown and in my Ferrari with seat slanted 37-year-old widow of a Comfort tex., oilman was placed in a 1964 baby Blue Ferrari enclosed in a Large Gray painted wooden crate she died March 10 in her Beverly Hills Home in California the crate measuring 6-by-8 by-17 feet was brought to the Texas cemetery on a Flut bad truck. Several Hundred onlookers saw a yellow Crane Hal the crate from the truck bed. Put in next to the truck then Deposit it into the grave. Concrete was then poured on top of thebon in the grave los Angeles county officials watched the burial to insure that in was carried out according to a court order. The court had Given its official approval to the unusual burial request West was buried next to her husband ik.1 West or. Who died in 1968. A spokesman for the Public administrator s office who watched the preparations for the burial wednesday night procedure complied with the court order. Mrs. West s body had been entombed temporarily in a mausoleum after funeral services last March. Funeral Home director Porter a Irma said he was not aware of any family or Retat Ives of at inc burial California authorities have yet to give an official cause of death. An inquest is Tohe held next month
