European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 04, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pogo 10 the stars and stripes saturday june 4, 1977 Washington court ruling breach of Promise us is limited Olympia. Wash. Api the washing ton stale supreme court has updated the English common Law concept of breach of Promise to fit the modern idea of marriage the result of that Complex experience called being in  in a 7-2 decision announced thursday the court ruled that if you get left at the altar in Washington you can sue for pain impairment of health humiliation and  but you can t sue the reluctant Bride or Groom for loss of expected financial  the court noted that in 17lh Century England most marriages were contracted for material reasons. Hut today the court said marriages generally Are not consid ered property  specifically the court ruled that . Stanard. A Secretary for the Spokane City planning commission is entitled to try to recover at least part of the damages she is seeking. Stanard sued Raymond Holm for $100. 000 or impairment of health and $566.666 for financial Security after Bolin refused to marry her. The Case had been dismissed by Spokane county Superior court judge Donald Olson who said modern marriage engage ments Don t reflect legally binding con tracts. While courting Stanard. Part owner of a Chain of 31 service stations told her he was Worth More than $2 million and prom ised her she would never have to work again. He offered a life of travel and sup port of her two teen age boys and her Mother she said. After Bolin and Stanard bought a Home Stanard put her own Home on the Market sold her furniture and gave notice at work. But just before the wedding Date. Bolin said he had changed his mind. This came As a great Shock to plaintiff and caused her to become ill and lose sleep and weight the court said. Stanard s attorney said his client was in her 30s and Bolin is in his late 40s or Early 50s. The court conceded that the breach of Promise concept often is used As an instrument of blackmail and the state should not encourage a person to marry when he or she has begun to have second  but the criticisms do not justify an out right abolishment of the old Law and the injured party should have an Avenue of re dress said the court. Josephine Salas works As a Cable splicer for the Southwest Bell Telephone company in Dallas. And she takes Pride an and lib for women s lib in her work and her sex if not her command of the rules of grammar. Or docs she feel she is twice As Good As any male worker the addition of two let ters to the men working sign is her inspired Handiwork. I i retailers show May sales gain new Yolk api the nation s major retailers on thursday reported healthy sales Rains or May. Crediting such factors As unseasonably warm weather Strong Mother s Day sales and Genera consumer buying Confidence scars Roebuck is co. The nation s larg est retailer said sales for the four weeks ended May 28 Rose 17.1 per cent to a record $1 353 billion from $1 156 billion a year ear  Arthur m. Wood noted the in crease was the largest percentage gain since june 1973. He said sales were Strong at scars stores throughout the country with double digit increases in All lines of merchandise. The Chain benefited from unseasonably warm weather in the Eastern two thirds of the nation he added. Montgomery Ward 4 co. A unit of Mobil corp., said sales Rose 15 per cent to $333.9 million from $290.4 million in 1976. Chairman Edward s. Donnell said Cata log and retail sales were Strong because consumer buying Confidence was continuing through the Spring season. Strength was evident in All operations except in Irons Wear  said f. W. Woolworth s president. Edward f. Gib tons. Loos cd by excellent Mother s Day related sales and the Early movement of summer merchandise sales in . Wool Worth and a x co divisions and the Kinney shoe corp were very Strong f w. Woolworth co. Reported sales of $114 85 million up 7 5 per cent Over last years l85 88 million. K Mart corp. Owner of Kresge and k Mart stores said sales gained 21.4 per cent from Sill i 2 million in May 1976 to $742.1 million during May. This was the Best month so far this year a spokesman said j. 0 Penney co. Reported a 6.4 per cent gain to s.vj.1 million from $557 million last year unlike the other retailers the com Pany said Consumers continued to show restraint in apparel and other soft line purchases although there was Good sea Sonal response to sportswear and athletic footwear Dayton Hudson corp said sales Rose 12.7 pit cent to $145.4 million from $129 million a year eat her. California based Carter Lawley Hale stores inc said sales for the period Rose 4.4 Pur cent to $96.5 million from $92.5 million. May department stores co. Of St. Louis said sales gained 8 8 pit cent to $165.5 Mil lion from $152 1 million the eucharist Bishops in . Vote to change practice of priest placing Host on the Tongue new York aim roman Catholic Bishops in the us voted thursday to break with he ancient Church practice of distributing holy communion on the Tongue of the worshipper. The Host will now be placed in the cupped hand of the communicant. Tin custom had already own revived in 43 other countries. The Bishops decision came amid opposition to the change in some sectors of the Church the decision came As the result of a mailed Pul of 29 Bishops absent from a Bishops meeting last month in Chicago where a 171 to 71 vote of those present for the change my nine Short of the two thirds needed for passage 18.1 of All 274 Active bus crash kills 8 pakistanis Islamabad. Pakistan api eight persons were killed and 28 others injured when a bus plunged into a Ravine 125 i irs Northwest of Here Bishops. But the mailed ballots 16 Yesnes eight noes five were not returned brought the favourable total to 190 seven More than needed the negative total was raised to 79 a spokesman for the Bishops in Washington. Do. Said the custom of distributing communion on the Tongue will remain the Rule until papal approval of the new option is received this seemed almost certain since it already had been Given in the other countries. In dioceses where Bishops choose to authorize it worshippers will have the Choice of receiving the Host either on the Tongue or in the cupped hand introduction of the new practice should be preceded by Thor Ough instruction on Christ s real presence in the eucharist and on the reverence due the sacrament the spokesman emphasized the practice of distributing communion on the Tongue of the worshipper developed in the ninth Century in a time of growing distinction Between clergy and laity. Only the hands of the priests were deemed fit to touch the consecrated bread but the contemporary resurgence of emphasis on the importance and dignity of the laity stirred the movement to return to the Anginal practice of receiving the Host in Thi hands As More mature and dignified. Power of press crushes escaped con Minneapolis Lap Dale Shams by told the Man on the Street interviewer that the crime he would commit if he could get away with it was Bank robbery. It s the fastest Way to get a lot of  he said his statement was the fastest Way to jail it seems Shavinsky was and Escapee from the Glenn pm county workhouse. Where he had been sent in 1976 after he pleaded guilty to simple robbery he was apprehended after his picture along with his statement on robbing Banks appeared in the popular Minneapolis n a  Skyway news Hon Cpin District judge Allen Olisky read the paper. He said Shavinsky s name rang a Bei and his answer about the robbery struck a  a City attorney called what Shavinsky did aggravated