European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 6 the stars and stripes april 1978 Many memories Helen Rushing can recall events of Over 100 years Shes celebrating her 113tb birthday at with cake and ice up photo ifs All True what they say about me in j j 3 up Helen Rush born eight Days after president Abra Ham Lincoln was celebrated her 113th birthday saturday with a Small party among nursing Home and Church its All True what they say about me Gusty winds cow efforts of Chip tossers a Gusty winds frustrated dung slingers hoping to set a new distance Mark at the ninth annual world championship cow Chip to growing contest Here the which were blown All Over the outdoor Arena by stiff northwesterly failed to top 140 some of whom came from As far away As West earned the dubious distinction of setting the poorest Marks since last Art Koster of threw a Chip 190 feet in route to his championship this year his Best Effort marked at less than 99 winners saturday were mens vip John Elk first with a loss of 137 mens Bob first with a 139foot women Patty first with an 85foot women Nancy first at 81 in 113 Rushing i guess Ive lived so Long because i have Faith in god and never did drink Rushing said she had no special plans for her in just going to rest and visit with friends and thank god for this Long she and i want to go to Rushing was married 100 years shortly before her 13th her wed Ding night is still Clear in her i was just a she the bed fell Down that first a nurse at the colonial nursing Home where Rushing has lived since said the centenarian is still Able to Al though sometimes she needs a Shes the oldest resident the nurse she still goes to Church every sunday and wednesday both in the morning and Rushing said she likes to spend her Days working on 1utf she year i think i made three or four Rushing was born in Choctaw in her father was a Cherokee her Mother died when she was when she was bushings husband and three of her four children died of typhoid she survived the fever and 23 operations since that Ive outlived All my relatives she the lord didst want and the Devil  have liner United states for Sale api the luxury liner United states is on the Block again the maritime administration has an worlds most powerful laser passes test los up the pm Alamos scientific Laboratory has Coo firmed the successful testing of what is believed to be the worlds most powerful the eight beam which delivered combined beam equal to is trillion Watts for less than a billionth of a is a key element in the labs fusion reaction re search scientists believe fusion can generate Energy found in May Bebej much of the worlds enemy of the 15trillionwatt compares with the National i generating capacity of half it who a Wallop i saw a Wallaby in the Santa up the tippers at the ambassador Taven May no matter How Many they Bey did not really see a Kangaroo stick his head in the that was no that was a the difference Between i plats is difficult for most a the Wallaby then branded 1 continue f who had been chasing uhf since be escaped from to two 3 suits filed in Chicago Over Oil spill Chicago up three class action suits have been filed against two of its subsidiaries and Royal dutch Shell Cor for the r the Northern coast of France on March the suits wed in Cook county circuit court on behalf of a group of 1 charged the Oil giants allowed the Tanker Amoco Cadiz to operate it known the ship was unsafe and a menace to 1 the Cadiz broke up March 16 off the coast of creating the onto the suits contend the spill caused severe and permanent damage Waters of Brittany and its Marine the suits were filed by Chicago lawyer John Kennely on behalf of 1 hotel Des Brittany ferries and the owner of six fishing mistakenly bombed Navy fug of be Sera san Diego up the Navy has lost a ship to an attack by the a seagoing the was decommissioned and will be sold for the Navy the Cree was attacked by mistake in the Pacific 18 by a flight of Navy Jet fighter the pilots had mistaken the tag for the abandoned ship the togs Crew set adrift several Miles away As a practice three Scopo und bombs i seriously damaged the vend yelled into a radio to held knt by two More coming although one bomb non Pfeil eral decks and exploded near f none of the Crew was blast opened the manned Pomps for bom i towed Back to san Woody Allen finds Book about him inti new York a Woody whose films have brought laughter to Mil int smiling about a biography he claims he never Allen and Eric who collaborated with the comedian in earlier filed suit Here against Drake publishers civil rights activist Thomas Turner Dies Washington a Thomas w a biologist and for much of this Century a civil rights died of pneumonia at Providence Hospital he in he was attending graduate school at Catholic University when he was named by Booker Washington to teach biology at the Tuskegee Institute in Ala he later became Active in the National association for the advancement of col ored people and chaired its first citywide membership drive in Washington in he held Many honors in biology and civil rights and for Catholic Church activities former Marine is arrested Washington a former Marine who wanted president Orter to review his military discharge has been arrested at the White House when he Vetu Jed b after a Public Scuta secret service spokesman said Elmer of los Angeles was w a which put out the Book 1 biography last april both claimed that the i was unauthorized and righted material lifted by i Rie from books Allen and i Carter Anne now Depew j relay of a lbs aide to taking Over some of the Garet White for Public