European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes monday september 18, 1978 taking in a Boarder Kim Eby 16, says skateboarding is More fun if it s shared with someone who does t have a Board. Here she takes along her dog inca for a ride at Shoreline Park near Santa Barbara Calif. A photo attempt to duplicate Houdini escape stunt nearly costs Amateur s life Kalamazoo Mich. A an Amateur magician trying to duplicate a stunt by the late Harry Houdini nearly drowned saturday As 600 persons including his wife and two Small children watched. John Mcnees 26, was revived by two Kalamazoo fire department paramedics and was listed in Good condition later sat urday at a Hospital. Mcnees a Cook at a Kalamazoo restau rant who uses the stage name Merlyn Jonns was bound in chains and put in a Canvas bag that tied at the top then was placed in a Pine Box and lowered into about 11 feet of water. He had said he could escape in a minute and a half. But after the Box had been under water for nearly three minutes announcer Dan Blasius shouted bring the Box in. Bring the Box lines from a Crane lifted the Box out of scale wags grab Art Frosinoni Italy a daring thieves climbed the Walls of the medieval Castle at nearby Fum one for the second time in two months and made off with More than $100,000 Worth of Art objects police reported. The Lake. When the crate was opened Mcnees was slumped in one Corner with blood trickling from his nose. He had freed himself from two of the chains and the Canvas bag and had unscrewed at least one of the crate s screws. During an interview later in the Hospi Tal Mcneese said he lost consciousness As he tried to free himself from the crate which was filling with water from Small holes in its Side. The stunt was staged to promote the 7th annual cavalcade of magic to be presented next month in this Western Lowe Michigan City. Among those watching the stunt were Mcnees wife Peg and their children 5 year old Michael and 22-month-old Molly. Small plane crash kills 5 in new Jersey Trenton . A a single engine air plane crashed in dense fog soon after taking off from Trenton Robbinsville Airport killing five persons and injuring the Pilot police said. The six seat plane crashed in the Woods and caught fire near a farmhouse just beyond the runway in suburban Washington township according to police. Stateside hoax fell on Alabama visit from Farrah Birmingham Ala. A then there was the Story about Farrah Fawcett majors coming to the thrill of her fans was Short lived when a press release announcing her arrival was found to be a hoax. A press release sent out by the foundation of Alabama said that the actress and Model would appear a Walker College Leeds Community Center Hoover mall and at several barbecues on behalf of the , if it is True half of Walker county will go up in smoke said a spokesman forthe College. But a Check with the better business Bureau found such group and a look in the dictionary found the following Subr Eption n., 1. The fraudulent concealment or misrepresentation of facts Soas to gain a favor esp. An ecclesiastical they had sinking feeling about the Craft Tampa Fla. A take some Chick in wire styrofoam and Concrete. Mix it All together and what do you get a 200-Poundcanoe. People think it should go straight to the Bottom but it does to says Steve Stanley 23, an engineering student at the University of South Florida who with Friend Tom Nesman built the Craft in 9 months. The Canoe is 12 feet Long 30 inches wide and 18 inches deep. It s got a name Nessie in Honor of the Loch Ness monster. Stanley reports that Nessie floats Only about six inches above the water line. But we did t sink. Paddling was easy once we got it moving. It just sits there for a minute. Then it moves right / presidential aide defends Carter s image Atlanta a presidential image polisher Gerald m. Rafshoon said Here that president Carter is a damned Good presi Dent who has fallen victim to a perception people who Don t know Carter and who depend on the Media for an image of him see him As weak indecisive and out of touch a one term president with a Lousy staff. And a bungling approach to the Congress Rafshoon said. This just in t Rafshoon who in july left his own Ader Tising businesses in Atlanta and washing ton to join Carter s staff said Carter s successes so far show that he is Tough and a Tough minded Leader. A Strong decisive manager a responsible and compelling chief of Rafshoon made his remarks to the at Lanta City forum a business oriented group. As Carter accomplishments he cited improvements in the unemployment rate projected reductions in the Federal budget deficit the Panama canal treaty and the Mideast arms Sale. Shaken bus Driver pursues teens roses Job Union City Calif. Up bus Driver James Gibbons got his revenge at the Cost of his Job. Gibbons 29, was driving a City bus when a group of teen agers driving by flipped a Milkshake on his vehicle. He made a u turn with his passenger loaded bus and chased the teen agers around the City for More than 30 minutes. He finally caught up with them and was allegedly holding onto a 15-year-old girl when police arrived. The bus Driver was cited for two illegal a turns and was also fired. No action was taken against any of the teen agers. Legionnaires disease strikes 2 More in y. New York up the health department said it has found two More con firmed cases of legionnaires disease bringing the total to eight. Health commissioner Reinaldo Ferrer said the number of suspected cases also has risen climbing from 118 to 124. As additional data is received and processed these figures will continue to change a spokesman said. Of the two new confirmed cases one was reported recovering at Bellevue Hospital and the other already has reported Back to work. 2 who rowed to Alaska return the easy Way Seattle a sea Lions and schools of Humpback whales were their compan ions As Ginger Cox and Tish Davis rowed their 20-foot boat on a 1,000-mile journey that ended too Seattle area women set out from Seattle june 22 in a four cared open boat and arrived sept. 2 in Skagway Alaska nine Days ahead of schedule. And they Cre ated a sensation in the tiny logging and fishing Many residents turned out Davis said that they almost Sank the 4ock."the pair returned to Seattle the easy Way on an Alaska state ferry. Our Only regret said Cox 23, is that even in travelling just 20 Miles a Day there were really a lot of places we would really have liked to have stopped and the moment though it s Back to classes at Dartmouth for Davis a 21-year-old senior in physics and astronomy and a member of the rowing team. Cox a Dart Mouth rower who graduated last Spring with a degree in wildlife biology is looking for a Job. I think both of us would like to try our hand at fishing said Davis. Michigan to build toxic chemical disposal site Lansing Mich. A Michigan plans to build a disposal site for dangerous Chemi Cal wastes at a Cost of $50 million to $100 million. Officials of the state department of natural resources said that the facility would Bethe first state owned project of its kind in the United states and that it was needed to Han dle the huge amount of toxic chemicals generated within the facility would include an incinerator and a Clay lined Landfill for handling danger Ous materials. It also would have waste treatment equipment so some chemicals could be reclaimed for reuse
