European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday september 13, 1978 a Sailboat in the governor s cup race glides past the world Trade Center s scrim lines towers in new York City. A total of 125boats were competing. A photo assistant coach killed 16 injured Whitman mass. A a series of lightning bolts struck a High school s rain dampened athletic Field during football practice elect routing an assistant coach and causing minor injuries to 16 other per sons. Fashionable guests to strip for Charity St. Louis up guests invited to a glittering Ball saturday night will be asked to take off their clothes. The fashion group of St. Louis sponsoring the Benefit Ball plans to sell the clothes to promote the arts. The organization said it believes its clothes off your Back Ball is without precedent. It is expected to draw about 500 couples. We want Fine clothing and jewels and furs said one of the organizers Nanette Wachter. Perhaps a woman has a Fine cocktail dress she feels she has worn too often. We d love Wachter said guests will not be asked to undress until they Are ready to go Home. The evening includes supper and dancing. At the end of the evening the stripped guests will leave with pieces of paper giving the amounts for income tax deductions. Those amounts will be provided by a Neiman Marcus appraiser. Because Many guests will not want to leave in the nude the sponsors will provide plastic bags to Wear Home. Dennis m. O Brien 29, was pronounce dead at the scene monday after the Light Ning struck him and set his clothes on freon the Whitman Hanson regional High school entered the left Side of his head and i think his right foot went into a puddle an grounded then the left foot grounded said or. John c. Angley a medical exam Iner. Fourteen student players the head coach and another assistant coach were injured by other bolts of Cox a Sophomore soccer player said players ran for the school when the bolts began striking near the Field. I was running Down the Field and lust before i reached the Gate i heard one Bolt land behind me Cox said i did t turnaround to see where it landed i just started running said that As he ran through the Gate a second Bolt struck the Fence about afoot and a half from where he was running. I Felt the heat and got scared and just grabbed my head and ran into the school Cox said he did t realize that members of the football team had been injured until he reached the school. Kids were screaming get an ambulance get an ambulance " he said. Michael Shay a football player said players and coaches were knocked to the ground All Over the was knocked to the Field and was stunned but never lost consciousness. My feet were stateside Carter to nominate 10 As . Session aides Washington a president car Ter has announced that he will nominate 10 persons including sen. Abraham a. Ribi coff d-conn., and James b. Pearson r Kan to be the representatives and alter Nate representatives to this year s . General Assembly delegation is headed by Andrew Young the ambassador to the United nations. In addition to Young and the two Sena tors the representatives include James f. Leonard jr., Deputy . Ambassador tothe United nations and Seth Charles mom Jian a marketing executive with the for motor co. Wall crashes Down crushing 16 Motel units Las vegas Nev. Up a four Story mock Wall under construction was blown Down by a Gusty desert wind crushing 16units in a Motel. No one was injured. The Wall was part of a parking ramp be ing built at the circus hotel and Casino next to the Westward to Motel on the la vegas strip. Earl Mcniven chief Deputy inspector for the Clark county building department said the construction work appeared to have met engineering and safety Stan Dards and an inspector was assigned to be on the site during said the collapse appeared to have been caused by vacuum and wind Force that whipped though Southern Nevada. The National weather service reported gusts near 40 Mph. Westward to vice president Hans Dor Weiler estimated damages to each room at about $15,000. Ford has toll free phone for reporting troubles Detroit up Ford motor co. Has opened a toll free Telephone network for owners of Ford or Lincoln Mercury vehicles to report incidents of transmissions jumping from Park to network based in five regional Cen ters will remain open until oct. 11, a for spokesman said. The company announced earlier it was setting up the toll free system in response to charges by Federal safety officials that automatic transmissions in nine million Ford built cars and trucks May have a defect that causes them to slip or jump from Park to reverse while the engine is number of injuries and deaths have been reported As a result of such incidents. Federation of Blind to sue Western airlines grand Junction Colo. Up the National federation for the Blind of Colo Rado has voted to sue Western airlines for refusing to allow a Blind woman to choose her seat on a Mcgeorge 45, of Denver told the group s convention she boarded a Western plane in los Angeles with her partially Blind husband and her seeing Eye , who had been in California consulting with a cast member of the Tele vision show Little House on the Prairie said a stewardess told her she and the do would have to move from their window seat to a Bulkhead seat where the Anima would be out of the Way. Mcgeorge said she refused to move an asked the stewardess to show her the fed eral aviation administration regulation requiring her to sit in a Bulkhead seat. The stewardess called police and my George and her husband left the plane and boarded another after officers threatened to remove her bodily from the seat. Rizzo wants 3rd mayoral term in Philadelphia Philadelphia up Mayo Frank Rizzo has announced that he will seek a third term and will Campaign Dayan night for a change in the City charter that would allow him to do said that six months ago he had decided that i could Best serve the inter ests of the people As a private he said he changed his mind because became convinced of the frightening alter natives for the majority of the people inthe Type of candidates that were available to run for Are More divisive than my straight talk will Ever be he said the people of the City have the right to choose whether he should be elected for a third term. He said the provision in the City charter that prevents this was written to meet the needs of another , a career policeman who Rose through the ranks to become police com missioner campaigned on a Law and order platform when he first ran for mayor in1971. He won a second term by stressing he had kept taxes Down during his first fou years. Cars weren f Means of be Safe Deposit vaults Shreveport la. Up Robert Nettles had just finished playing a Nice Little game of All night poker then he strolled out to his car. The crashing sound of his stomach prob ably could have been heard for blocks. The $22,000 he said he won at Louisiana Downs race track and neatly stuffed under the front seat of his automobile was Nashville ark., Man had placed the Money in his automobile that was parked outside the House with five other cars. None of the other cars was said the thieves apparently knew he had the Money and followed him fro the track earlier in the Day. Officials dedicate 902-acre National cemetery Calverton . Up Federal officials have dedicated a 902-acre National cemetery described As the largest in the nation and the first National cemetery for Mally opened in a Quarter of a 800 attending the ceremony was Max Cleland administrator of the Veter ans administration. He told those Assem bled for the rites that the Calverton Ceme Tery is a place of Beauty where despair can be dissipated and Hope on hand were representatives of several veterans organizations who heard Leland Call the formal opening truly a historic a administrator said Calverton was the first National cemetery dedicated in 25 years. It becomes the 104th cemetery in the National a system
