European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday july 26, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 7 cerebral palsy victim overcomes Handicap cripple working on first million Seattle i a John Ribelin. Crippled by cerebral palsy since birth fell lift out when he was a youngster some turned to business and now is work ing on making his first million dollars. When i was in Grade school i used to watch the other kids play baseball basketball and football i could never join recalled Ribelin. 24. Then i discovered i could buy things to enter Tain myself and have he left school after the sixth Grade to work for his father a logger at Callam Bay on the Northern Edge of washing ton s olympic Peninsula. At 16, discouraged Over his inability to play musical instruments he turned the Handicap into a profit by managing a Rock band at 22. He retired from the music business and opened a used car lol in port Angeles. A Lucky car Deal led him to land in vestment. Now he controls $800.000 Worth of property has recently vacationed m Hawaii and just ordered a $28,000 Cus Tom built luxury convertible. His goal is to make a million dollars by the time he is 30 the first Mil he adds with a Grin. He attributes his Success to drive and a Good horse trading anything John wants to do if he wants to do it bad enough hell do it. That s just John says Wendy Gree 22, his longtime Friend and assistant. Zibelin s instinct for horse trading proved itself three years ago when he advertised a fancy car he owned m a Seattle newspaper. A Kent land investor. Grant Wiley saw it and offered Zibelin some land in Exchange. A Friendship and business partnership evolved. Wiley helped set up John Ribelin enterprises in Lynn Wood a Seattle suburb. Gree said Ribelin has had to endure taunts about his affliction but shrugs it off As ignorance. I Don t feel sorry for him she said. Because if he gels in a rut of self pity he might waste his life that would be a shame because he has such a Mary and James Everett head for the Jersey Shore on a honeymoon after the matrimonial Cycle their wedding on the motorcycle in Hamilton township . Their travel attracted Many a startled double take from passing motorists lip photo child proof Cap May not be firm ordered of recall vitamins Washington Lupin Miles Labora tories has been ordered to recall and refit 15 million bottles of its one a Day Vita mins because the child proof Cap does t � Ork right the consumer product safety commission said was the first Lime a company has been ordered to make such a recall under the Poison prevention packaging act. A Feder Al judge in Elkhart. Ind. Ordered the action after the cps took the firm to court Hen it refused to make the correction voluntarily. The problem with the Caps on the one a Day plus Iron multiple vitamins the Agency said is that the Cap is not Likely to a closed right and re secured after use. A Caps made or Miles by another com Pany failed a Federal test under which 90 percent of adults tested must be Able to a and then res cure any child proof Cap. Ii the Caps Are not replaced in Normal a the child proof Cap required on prod up such As aspirin and other drills and quids would be rendered useless. The apothecary style bottles affected by the order have a retail value of is million and Are All still in the company s hands either at two factories or 10 warehouses they contain 60. 100 or 130 tablets per bottle Cambodia s official combat reports differ Bangkok Lap Cambodia appears avg Samoian --.njune. The Agency said it May Cost the company from to to fix the Caps " the cps said another 3 to 4 million bottles May be already sold and in the hands of Consumers those Are not affected by the recall but the cps urged parents who have the product to secure the top lightly and store it out of the reach of children the bottles affected by the order Are located at Miles factories in Elkhart. Ind and West Haven. Conn the 10 warehouses Are located in los Angeles Kansas City. Kan. Elkhart. Mecha Mosburg. A. For est Park. A. Columbus. Ohio. Arlington Texas. Wes. Haven. Conn. Milwaukee. Ore. And Denver spokesman for the army commissary system said patrons May return the Vita mins for either a refund or replacement with another Brand an air Force commis sary system spokesman a d a decision would be made after the system runs its own tests on the capstan cafes Europe spokesman said that and customer who wishes to return the Mere Randise for a refund do so rail systems under attack from critics Washington Conrail is literally giving away an Esti mated s180 million yearly to outside con tractors for wreck Clearing work. Terrie go said Conrail could perform the same work for $20 million a year including so 5 million to Purchase 30 Mobile cranes needed to Clear wreck debris John i. Sweeney a Conrail vice presi Dent. Told the committee however that Conrail figures showed the Railroad spent Only s8 1 last year to pay contractors to Cut Cir wrecks on its 17. 000-mile Sysu is said Conrail has its problems bet drum a Rille Ati of widespread mis 6 killed 4 injured in Australia crash Melbourne i up six people were lulled and four seriously injured when a Light italian built aircraft crashed into six houses near Melbourne i Essendon air port the plane overshot the runway on take off the australian broadcasting commis Sion said the crash was the worst in Mel Bourne s aviation history
