European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday september 24, 1978 Swain meets Swine Stephen Burns talks things Over with Petunia during Hollywood taping of the one hour to special i l Abner As Debra Feuer looks on. Petunia is one of two pigs that were prominent in the al Capp comic strip of the same name. Burns and Feuer play the roles of i l Abner and Daisy Mae. Up photo Justice and compassion 48 House members ask Patricia Hearst release Washington up rep. Leo Ryan d-Calif., and 47 other House members Fri Day asked that Patricia Hearst s sentence be commuted to time already served and that she be released from prison. The request was made to attorney Gen eral Griffin Bell in a letter noting that Hearst has already spent 18 months behind bars. Certainly her time served is already longer than that imposed upon other per sons convicted of Bank robbery even with prior convictions the letter said. While the House members said they were making no judgment of her guilt or innocence they said the course of Merci Ful Justice and compassion would be Best served by freeing Hearst. Never before in the history of our coun try has such a bizarre set of circumstances what started the Blaze us anti fire posters san Bernardino Calif. Up the cause of a fire at a Forest service station in the san Bernardi no mountains has been determined Forest service officials say. A platform collapsed during the night dumping a Trail of combustible material Over a floor Furnace. The material fire prevention pos ters. The fire gutted the building and burned half the roof but there were no injuries. Led to such a tragic result a victim of a violent kidnapping participated in a Bank robbery under the direction and motivation of her abductors the letter said. We have no sufficient body of information to be Able to say that her behaviour should be judged differently than recent . Prison ers of War in Vietnam whose behaviour Pat terns were changed by constant threats of  meanwhile the san Francisco chronicle reported saturday that Hearst has signed a formal request to president Carter for clemency and it will be delivered to the Justice department in Washington on monday. Hearst s Home is in Ryan s congressional District. In an earlier letter to his colleagues Ryan said he had made a personal investigation of the Case after Hearst had written him to ask that he visit her. He said his own conclusion to seek her release had been heavily influenced by the comments of retired Fri agent Charles Bates who was Hearst s pursuer and  in the end miss Hearst is a Normal stable and Lively Young woman of 24 who reminds me very much of my own Daugh Ter Patty and who is almost exactly the same age Ryan wrote. I can Tell you with certainty that her incarceration will produce no More correction or rehabilitation he said. She is As capable of living in a Normal society As much As i am or you Are. The Only consideration left is the amount of revenge which society must extract from miss  Ryan said both he and Bates believe that Justice is Best served by her  stateside Carter names six for space medal of Honor Washington a president car Ter has named six astronauts to be the first recipients of the congressional space med al of Honor. Those named to receive the medal Are Neil a. Armstrong Frank Borman Charles Conrad jr., John h. Glenn jr., Vir Gil i. Grissom posthumous and Alan b. Shepard or. The president will present the medals oct. 1, during a visit to the Kennedy space Center at Cape canaveral Fla. The Date Marks the 20th anniversary of the National aeronautics and space administration. The award authorized by the Congress in 1969, is conferred to any astronaut who in the performance of his duties has distinguished himself by exceptionally meritorious efforts and contributions to the welfare of the nation and of  bulging Bank bag begets Bandit Bagatelle new Orleans up an unarmed Man entered the Bank of new Orleans and eyed the bulging Bank bag behind the coun Ter. Give me that bag the Man demanded of a clerk. You want this bag she asked. Give me the bag he repeated. The clerk then handed the unidentified Man a bag packed with 5,000 pennies $50 dollars. Police Are still looking for a suspect. This would be Man in Blue blew it Memphis Tenn. Up police said a Man charged with stealing a truck told them he Only needed the vehicle to get to Jackson Tenn., where he wanted to apply for a Job As a policeman. Officer Bob Gray said Henry Edward Jackson jr., 27, admitted taking the truck and asked if his arrest would affect his chances of getting the Job. Black group to take Over Mich Railroad Lansing Mich. A an agreement the 41.7-mile Kent Barry is establishing what is believed to be the first Black owned Railroad in the United states has been announced by the Michigan department of highways and transportation. The agreement allows a group of Black Detroit businessmen to assume control of the Kent Barry Eaton connecting railway Between grand rapids and ver Montville Mich. The line serves a Rural area primarily Grain shippers. Now run by Conrail the railway gets a subsidy of about $310,000 a year. Crawford appeals Russ currency conviction Chicago up Francis j. Craw Ford the International Harvester co. Mos cow sales agent convicted of violating so Viet currency Laws has filed an Appeal to his sept. 7 conviction. A spokesman for the Chicago based firm said that Crawford had consulted with company officials and filed the Appeal within the 7-Day limit which was set by the judge who sentenced him in Moscow. Crawford convicted of buying rubles on the Black Market was Given a 5-year sup ended prison sentence. He returned to the United states two Days later. Crawford 37, has indicated he is willing to return to Moscow but the soviets say he has been officially expelled and is not al Lowed to return. Truck Driver helps capture Tux Clad Escapee Cincinnati a most motorists apparently did t believe their eyes. But Doug Lewis who drives a soft drink truck was More practical. When he saw the Penguin walking along the Road he stopped and shooed it into a service station. There Lewis and Jerry Duvelius Cap tured it and Lewis took it Home. A flurry of Telephone Calls disclosed the Penguin s identity it was one of two South african penguins that had escaped from Kings Island family entertainment Center 10 Miles away. The other Penguin was hit by a car an killed. It could t have walked that far said Lewis of the non flying Bird. It had to come Down by the Little Miami  the Penguin is valued at about $1,500. I think Jerry negotiated some passes for next year said Lewis. Test May establish leukaemia life expectancy Boston a researchers say a genetic test that identifies abnormal Chromo Somes can help doctors predict How Long patients with leukaemia have to live. The test called a chromosome banding study shows when genetic material is mis placed in diseased tissue. Doctors at the University of Chicago examined 90 leukaemia victims of whom 80 were treated with conventional drugs. Among these patients they reported 43 had abnormal chromosomes. They found that patients with Normal chromosomes survived an average of 10 months while the ones with misplaced chromosomes died after an an average of four months. The study was published in the new England journal of Medicine. The researchers said doctors May want to take genetics into consideration when they decide How to treat leukaemia victims. Court refuses to halt Christie Book film new York a a Federal judge has refused to Block distribution of a movie and novel based on mystery writer Agatha Christie s Brief unexplained disappear Ance in 1926. . District court judge Lawrence w. Pierce has dismissed two lawsuits brought by the late writer s estate and by her Only child Rosalind Christie Hicks who argued that the defendants were infringing on her right of  named in the suit As defendants were Ballantine books which published the Book Casablanca records and film works first artist corp. And Warner Brothers inc. Both plots Deal with what happened when the writer disappeared from her Home on dec. 4,1926, and returned 11 Days later saying she had suffered amnesia