European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday september 11, 1978stateside _____._�-------------$150 million suit filed against Firestone new York up two men have filed a $150 million civil suit in Federal court charging that the Firestone rubber and tire co. Deliberately failed to warn the Public of defects in the Firestone 500  plaintiffs who Are seeking class action status for their suit contend Firestone demonstrated a callous disregard for human life when it did not warn the Public of defects it had discovered in the tire through research and tests the two plaintiffs Richard Feinstein of Jericho ., and Jerome Meyrowitz  York City both own cars that came equipped with the steel belted radial tires. The two said some 15 million firestone500 tires still Are in use across the country. According to court papers Firestone 500tires were manufactured with inferior materials and Are subject to blowouts tread separations steel Belt separations and sidewall blisters and cracks. Alleged Speed trap nets $24,458 in 6 months producer Star of landmark film Jack Warner poses with the late Al Jolson right Star of the jazz Singer the Warner Brothers film that ushered in the Era of the talkies. A Heber City Utah a the police Force in the tiny town of Soldier Summit frequently accused of operating a Speed trap collected $24,458 in traffic fines Dur ing a six month period last year an audit  Summit located about 90 Miles Southeast of Salt Lake City has a police Force of about a half dozen for us 23 Resi  county attorney j. Harold Call released the results of the audit saying head requested it because of numerous complaints that a Speed trap was being operated in the town. The major portions of the fines collected was used to  police and Council salaries and to Purchase and maintain police car said Bruce k. Heraas manager of the state uniform accounting division in a letter to Call last Spring. I found no evidence of wrongdoing Dur ing the period by any town official Call said. Most of the checks made out to Mayo George Schade and councilmen were for Small sums. Last of movie tycoons Jack Warner Dies at 86  Post strikers will resume negotiations los Angeles a Jack l. Warner a Man who Rose from a Nickelodeon opera Tor to become the last of the movie tycoons died saturday. He was 86.Warner died at Cedars Sinai Hospital of an inflammation of the heart said Hospital spokesman Robert Powell. He had been mouse traps planners of huge project san Francisco a an Orange bellied mouse has become a bit of an Obsta Cle to construction of a $2 billion Power Plant in California. The san Francisco Bay conservation and development commission was told last week that 13 of the endangered Salt Marsh Harvest mice and several nesting areas were found at a proposed Power Plant site in suisan Marsh in Collinsville about 50 Miles East of san Francisco. Planners for Pacific Gas and electric co. Say the property is one of four Sites be ing considered for a 1.6 million kilowatt Coal fired generating Plant. A report prepared by the development commission staff said the site should be rejected if the Plant would significantly dam age the habitat of the mice. Earlier this year another tiny animal made headlines when the u.s.,supreme court blocked a Tennessee Valley authority dam that threatened the Snail Darter an endangered  White a Power company spokes Man said the Salt Marsh Harvest mouse and the Snail Darter Are two different Crit  biologists say we can mitigate the situation by moving the Little Fellows some where else he said. We re not going to wipe them off the face of the Earth. They re found in every Pickle Weed Marsh around the  mouse is distinctive because of its Orange belly and because it forages on Salty Pickle Weed and has an unusually High tolerance for Salt. Hospitalized since aug. 13. His wife Ann was at his bedside at his death. Warner and his three Brothers formed Warner Bros in 1903. All three of his Broth ers preceded him in death. Harry the eldest died in 1958. Sam Warner died in 1927, the Day before the opening of the the jazz Singer the Warner produced film that ushered in the Era of talking pictures. Al Bert Warner died in retirement. Warner achieved a reputation As a hard headed businessman who made very few wrong decisions. His pictures won him a reputation As a Cool headed showman with remarkable  Brothers first theater opened in new Castle pa., with a showing of the great train  the theater was a converted store and was called the by  it took a $150 loan and 99 chairs Bor rowed from a nearby undertaker to launch the  Warner still a boy in school visited the Bijou on Friday and saturday nights to sing with coloured slides Between reels. The Brothers started making pictures in 1917. Thirteen years later their Fortune was reported at $230 million. In 1927, they produced the jazz Singer with Al Jol son. Jack Warner said in later years that was the film that gave him the most Satis faction of any produced under his com Mand during the More than half a Century he headed the studio s production. That period saw John Barrymore in the silent Don Juan Edward g. Robinson James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart As the symbols of the gangster Era the Dick Powell Ruby Keeler musicals with the then unheard of Geometric dance staging of Busby Berkeley Paul Muni As Zola Gary Cooper As sergeant York Bogart again in Casablanca and the newer films my fair lady with Rex Harrison co starring with Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton each receiving $1 million to play the professor and his wife in who s afraid of Virginia Woolf three of Warner s productions won of cars As Best pictures of the year. They were the life of Emile Zola 1937 Casablanca 1943 and my fair lady 1964. In 1958 Warner won the coveted Irving Thalberg award for his service to the Industry. New York a the new York Rostand its striking editorial and commercial employees have agreed to resume contract negotiations wednesday but no talks have been scheduled Between Pressman and the City s three major newspapers according to a Federal  Pressman s strike shut Down the Post the times and daily news a month ago. Sporadic talks have been held by the strikers and newspapers without  other unions that have no current contracts with the papers have respected the Pressman s picket lines and the paper handlers and machinists have officially struck All three papers. In addition truck mechanics have struck the news and the newspaper Guild representing editorial and commercial employees is on strike against the Post. Key West residents have a blackout again key West Fla. A the lights went off in key West again less than two weeks after engineers proclaimed their re pairs had ended an annoying month of rotating electric  new series of blackouts came within a Day of a consultant s warning that Ever piece of City electric system s equipment needed repair. The breakdown was in a water pump atthe Stock Island generating station. The generating station is the main source of Power for 30,000 key West residents and for inhabitants of the 50-mile Chain of is lands to the North. This station out of service for a Mont earlier this summer went Back on line at half us capacity two weeks ago. Optician pedals 187 Miles to deliver glasses Peoria 111. A talk about service. Marie Jostad s optician bicycled 187 mile from St. Louis to Peoria to deliver her new glasses. I thought he was joking said Jos  it was no joke. Leonard Leighton left St. Louis and made the trip in three Days. I feel fantastic said Leighton 50."thank the Good lord there was no  Jostad used to work for Leighton and always had him fit her glasses. When she move to Peoria about five years ago she continued to have Leighton do the work. Leighton said he delivers glasses to customers in St. Louis by bicycle and figured Jos Tad s order was an Opportunity for a Road trip. His plans did not include a Bike trip Back to St. Louis. ? 8-year-o/d Farmer is w. A. Spitting Champ you just put All the juice you got Intuit said Minear of Sandyville who has been practising since age 9.state agriculture commissioner Gus Douglass who grows tobacco on his Mason county farm but says he Seldom Chews it took fourth place by spitting 16 feet 9 inches on his second try. Charleston . Up Kevi Minear an 18-year-old cattle Farmer is the Winner of West Virginia s tobacco spitting contest. Wearing a Straw hat he shot the juice 19feet 8 inches on Hin third try at the opening of the governor s food and agriculture exposition. Mccracken withdraws from met for 78- 79 new York up Tenor James Mccracken has withdrawn from the metro Politan opera for the 1978-79 season Les than two weeks before he was to have opened the season in the title role of Tannhauser an opera company spokes Man  s almost unprecedented action which took place in the midst of a rehearsal left met management with the problem of finding a Quick replacement forts first night Star. The spokesman said Richard cassily had agreed to sing the first three Tannhauser of the season inner York and Jess Thomas will sing the last  close to the situation said that the 50-year-old Indiana dramatic Tenor was angered that John Vickers had been cast to sing the title role of otello in the firs Public service broadcasting live from the met program of the season. Otello is considered to be one of me Cracken s greatest roles and the current production of the opera was designed As a vehicle for him