Discover Family, Famous People & Events, Throughout History!

Throughout History

Advanced Search

Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, October 9, 1977

You are currently viewing page 6 of: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, October 9, 1977

   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 9, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday october 9, 1977 chutzpah phone service expands Here s pie in the Eye for 25 Bucks and up Philadelphia a what Heights chutzpah Rachel Borden creator of the chutzpah phone service says the pie s the limit. The Philadelphia housewife who last year began making phone Calls for people for $5 now hand delivers chutzpah pies to the face of your Choice for $25 and up. I be thrown several at sex boyfriends you know like when girls want them Rachel Borden. Talks a great game thrown at their sex boyfriends. I do the throwing. I do everything. I love it said the 30-year-old Mother of two. People can pick their flavor but every body so far has picked chocolate Cream pie. I be thrown about eight. The worst thing that happened to me was when a Guy threw one Back at me she said. Chutzpah is a yiddish word for Gall and Borden showed she had it when she began the phone service last february. For $5, Shell chastise your Mother in Law prod your Boss for a raise or play cupid. About 2vfe months ago Borden addled chutzpah Grams to her repertoire written messages also hand delivered for $25 and up depending on delivery technicalities. About four weeks ago i delivered one at veterans stadium. I hopped Over the Fence in the Middle of the seventh inning. The message was for Mike Schmidt but he was t playing so i gave it to Richie Hebner instead. It was a get Well message from a fan who paid me $100 to deliver it. Richie Hebner was really Sweet about it. He was such a pussycat she said of the 6-foot-l, 200-Pound Philadelphia Phillies first base Man. The phone service began at the urging of Borden s husband Gene who suggested that since she liked talking on the phone so much she might As Well make Money doing it. Mrs. Borden said she has made about $8,000 to Date including $2,000 for Selling rights to use the name chutzpah phone service to a Dallas housewife and a new York City attorney. In spite of the new offerings the phone service remains the Backbone of the $250 a week Enterprise mrs. Borden said with Romance on the minds of most clients. Mrs. Borden said the pie throwing serv ice she started about a month ago has just about stretched her chutzpah idea to its limit. I Don t think there s anything else i can chutzpah ize at this Point she said. Battered1 wife cleared in murder of husband Charlotte . A in what a lawyer called a classic Case of the battered housewife a Charlotte woman was fined $500 and Given a 10-year suspended sentence for shooting her husband to death with a .12-gauge Shotgun after he repeatedly beat her. Public defender Keith Stroud said Eileen Bartosh 27, lived through pure hell until she killed her husband last july 28. He poured scalding water All Over her body. It very seriously burned her and he would t let her go to a Hospital or doctor for treatment Stroud told judge Kenneth Griffin on thursday. She had bruises on every limb of her  he said mrs. Bartosh was a prisoner in her Home Ever since her marriage to Gary Bartosh 36, in March 1976. Bartosh never let her out of his sight the attorney said. Mrs. Bartosh was indicted for first degree murder but prosecutor Joe Dozier agreed to accept a guilty plea to voluntary manslaughter. He said he Felt a prison sentence might vehicle thefts in Italy Padua Italy up More than 16,000 trucks trailers and vans were stolen in Italy this year trucking confederation president Giovanni Lombard told a study meeting. Be appropriate As a deterrent to others who might commit similar acts but my gut reaction is this Guy deserved what he got. It s purely a Jungle Type feeling. It s the Way a Man feels if someone does this to a  mrs. Bartosh told police she killed her husband after he hit her repeatedly in the head and knocked her unconscious. He had been screaming at me How he was going to kill me she said. She told police that after she regained conscious Ness she picked up the Shotgun walked into the bedroom and shot her husband. She said she dragged the body outside and left it under a pile of Sand and old tires. Three Days later she visited a Friend in new Orleans who advised her to turn her self in which she did. She said she married Bartosh because i thought he was a really interesting Man. By the time i found out i did t have any business being there he would t let me  Stroud said mrs. Bartosh was unable to leave her husband because she feared for her life. At one Point he said he sister sent police to the Bartosh Home. Bartosh sent his wife to the door to speak with the officers but held a pistol to her Back and threatened to kill her if she told the truth about him Stroud said. Mrs. Bartosh was driven to this act by her husband s abuse Stroud said. Her scars will be with her the rest of her  stateside labels warn of grocery cart danger to children Washington a the consume product safety commission has adopted a voluntary program to place warning Labelson grocery carts to caution parents about the dangers the carts pose to  panel voted unanimously to instruct its staff to work with Industry in develop ing the voluntary Label program. The panel said there were an estimated 12,500 injuries last year associated with a category of devices that includes grocery carts shop Ping carts and Luggage  carts have caused injury to children left unattended in them or who hang on tothe sides or play around them. The number of injuries is Small com pared to other categories such As bicycles. Commissioner Barbara Franklin said the Hazard seemed to be not so much from the cart itself but from human input i misuse and abuse of the carts and from children playing around them. Cop wants no credit for collaring elephant Houston up traffic cop Wanda Boehm says she has received More than enough attention for stopping a runaway elephant and has no interest in any citation serious or otherwise cooked up by her cohorts. I think it has been overrated she said. I really Don t want a  the diminutive traffic officer a 2-year Veteran who is too old to be asked her age happened to be in the Vicinity when three elephants broke from a downtown circus Parade. One of the runaways , a 9,000-Pound Indian elephant stormed confusedly through a funeral parlor garage As Boehm and her partner drove by. The garage was wreck. I jumped out of the car and chased it and grabbed its trunk. About that time the Trainer came up. I just grabbed it by the trunk and it stopped. That s All. I was not frightened at the time but when i saw the news. " How did she know to grab the trunk if you were going to grab an elephant where would you grab him that s the  and she asked  be Given where credit was due. It was a Nice elephant As elephants  dropping halloween has t ghost of a Chance St. Louis up school officials in suburban University City dropped a Hal Loween Celebration because of its religious connotations. They soon discovered they had a hot pumpkin on their hands. Gene Schulze principal of Flynn Park elementary school had planned an imagination Day or what he called an educational version of halloween. He said students were to dress in costumes of historical and fictional characters. Schulze said he made the plans because of the Board of education s new policy prohibiting the Celebration of religious oriented holidays. He said halloween could be construed As religious because it is All Hal lows eve the eve of the Christian feast of All saints Day. Schulze was besieged by Telephone Calls from irate parents opposed to dropping the halloween Celebration. Eventually schools superintendent Irene Lober ruled the new religious Holiday policy does not apply to either halloween or to Valentine s Day. It would be easier to remove English and mathematics from the curriculum than to remove halloween said Schulze. Funeral Home plans cheaper night burial offer Nashville Tenn. A the funeral Home that introduced the High Rise mausoleum concept has another idea night burial. H. Raymond Ligon president of Wood Lawn memorial Park says his Home has t performed such a burial in the ground yet but it has done three night entombment in its five Story mausoleum. A spokesman said the Home is ready to do a night burial As soon it gets its first re quest. Ligon says it would be better at tended and cheaper than a Day burial. If this thing gets going i m going to say that we would be Able to perform the burial More cheaply. It costs $200 for a ground burial and i d say we could do it at night for $125," he said. You eliminate expense and labor. You Don t need a tent to Shade the people from the Sun and you Don t need All the decorations. We could just string up some lights from the generators we use to operate the mowers that trim around the  Woodlawn s two year old mausoleum is designed to accept construction of another 15 stories. It houses about 1,200 bodies on one floor. The other four Are vacant. Blame placed in Sinatra Mother plane crash Washington up government investigators say the plane crash that killed Frank Sinatra s Mother probably was caused by a breakdown in communications be tween the Pilot and air traffic controllers a problem behind a number of recent Acci dents. The Gates Learjet crashed into a Mountain in bad weather Jan. 5, 1977, killing mrs Natalie Sinatra 82, a Friend mrs. Ann Carbone of Cliffside Park n.j., and the Crew Donald Weier 36, and Jerold Roley 43, both of Las vegas. The Board determined the probable cause of the Accident was the flight Crew s misinterpretation of an instrument flight rules clearance issued by the Palm Springs departure control and subsequent air traffic control instructions. Contributing to the Accident was the controller s failure to detect the aircraft s Devia Tion from the route of flight contained in the air traffic control clearance and the flight Crew s failure to recognize their proximity to the High  Lance getting Book movie offers lots of mail Atlanta a two weeks after he  mrs  Saih Cha i i thai resigned As Federal budget director Bert Lance is getting Book and movie offers an truckloads of mail his wife says. Labelle Lance also said she s grateful to Yolanda Betbeze who owns the House they rented in the Georgetown Section of Washington d.c., for a reported $18,000 a year. The Landlady Tore up our last two months rent checks and cancelled our lease mrs. Lance said. She did that an then said she was proud to have the lances in her  As for the future Lance s wife said Bert has All kinds of wonderful offers everything from Book and movie contracts to business. We Don t know where we will be but i m pushing for it to be Atlanta or Cal noun. I Don t think Bert is going to make any decision Between now and   
Browse Articles by Decade:
  • Decade