European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday september 25, 1978 grounded by medical mix up it. Col. Russell Tilton a National guard Pilot with dozens of lifesaving missions to his credit has been left al 12,000-mile journey most Blind after a doctor poured a Caus tic liquid into his eyes instead of Eye drops during a flight physical. A cabbie s Holiday ride nears record for taxis Colorado Springs Colo. Up Alabama taxi Driver Charles Seagull Dailey is on the ultimate cabbie s Holiday a Marathon 12,000-mile journey to set the record for the world s longest taxi ride. Dailey 55, takes a taxi vacation every three or four years paying fellow Driver Freddie Hamby to chauffeur him around the country through Canada and into mex Ico on different jaunts. The guinness Book of world records says the record is 6,752 Miles. We should pass that monday. But we Are going on for 12,000 Miles or so to make it hard to break. We Don t want to have to do this again next year said Hamby 34, saturday. The Lanett ala., cabbies plus Mechanic Herbert sedinger loaded up a taxi Pur chased from their employer and took off baby delivered half hour after Mother s mishap death Cardiff Wales a a baby girl was delivered by caesarean Section within half an hour of the death of her Mother in a Street Accident doctors said. A spokesman for Cardiff Royal infirmary said mrs. Karen Brown 19, was dead on arrival after being killed in a collision with a truck As she cycled Home with the weekend shopping. She was eight months pregnant and doctors decided to try to save her unborn child. The baby weighing 4 pounds sva ounces was transferred to a baby care unit at University Hospital Cardiff where a spokesman said we have great optimism for her  from West Point ga., earlier this month. The 4-year-old beige cab had 100,700 Mileson it at the Start. It s got a big Pink Circle on the top so helicopters can see it. It s run real Good. Only problem was a busted  tank in truth or consequences n.m., but that happened in front of a Radiator shop so begot it fixed Quick said Hamby. Daily mileage has averaged 400-600 Miles Hamby said with the cab getting about 20-25 Miles per gallon. He said he could go farther each Day but each time he gets Over 55 Mph Mechanic sedinger taps him on the shoulder. He says to me slow Down i Don t want to have to fix this thing " said Hamby chuckling. Included on the itinerary Are stops in eight american cities that share the  West Point and a solicitation of votes from mayors of those cities on pictures of Alabama girls for a local Beauty contest. Hamby said the ride has been a Long one despite sedinger s ability on the Harmoni Ca an am pm radio and a cd. He said that after the first week the cabbies ran out of things to say and started repeating them selves. The current record of 6,752 Miles will be broken somewhere Between the Southern Colorado City of Colorado Springs and Sioux Falls s.d., the next Stop on the trip. But the ride will continue until the 12,000-mile Mark is made. Seagull loves these rides Hamby said. He is now talking about going to South America on the next one. But i m not going. I be had enough. I m married and have a family and when you get homesick it gets pretty  stateside austrian sentenced for attempted hijacking Atlanta a. A a judge has imposed a 20-year sentence on Nikolai Wisch Newsky an austrian native convicted of attempted air piracy last month in the hijacking of a . Domestic Airliner on Christmas Day 1977. . District judge Charles a. Moye  Wischnewsky 32, to 20 years for attempted air piracy and five years forsaking a false statement that he had a bomb and would blow up the aircraft. The sentences Are to run concurrently. Benefit to Honor guide dog that s going Blind Sacramento Calif. A the Rev. J. P. Sanders guide dog is going Blind. The 8-year-old Labrador retriever named min go is losing his sight to cataracts which veterinarians at the University of califor Nia at Davis discovered in August. Sanders who has been Blind since youth must give the dog Back to his original owner and get another animal from guide dogs for the Blind. Sanders said he plans to visit Mingo at his new Home on the Sali Nas farm of Robert Johnson Mango s pre Vious owner. A Benefit dinner in Mingo s Honor has been scheduled for oct. 8 with Money raised going to guide dogs for the Blind. Marine gets 55 years for killing teacher Quantico a. A a 21-year-old Marine Corporal has been sentenced to 55 Yea sat hard labor for the murder of an american school teacher while he was a guard at the . Embassy in  d. Rousseau of Farmington n.m., was sentenced by a military judge after pleading guilty to the slaying of Dorothy Layton 39, in her Home in Morocco last  also will receive a dishonourable discharge be reduced in rank to private and will forfeit pay and allowances. . Scientists withdraw from Russ symposium Stanford Calif. Up a Nobel laureate chemist at Stanford University and a group of other american scientists have withdrawn from an october symposium in Russia. They were the latest of Many groups of americans to withdraw from the symposium on Macromolecular chemistry in pro test of the soviet Union s treatment of it sown scientists. Paul j. Flory of Stanford said the scientists were protesting the outcomes of the trials of dissidents Yuri Orlov Anatol so Sharansky and Alexander Ginzburg. Teenager sets record for Cafa Ina swim Rancho Palos Verdes Calif. A a 17-year-old boy has set a new record for the 44-mile round trip swim Between the Mainland and Catalina Island 16 hours 42 minutes. John York who had to be pulled from former Usia employee Humphrey leaves jail Alexandria a. A Ronald l. Humphrey 52, a former . Information Agency employee convicted of spying for communist Vietnam was freed from Pris on after serving 7m months. His release was approved at a perfunctory hearing before . District judge al Bert v. Bryan jr., pending the outcome of appeals which May go As far As the supreme court a process attorneys estimate will require two years or More. The judge attached no conditions other than to specify that Humphrey appear i court if ordered to do so. Humphrey has been confined to the Alexandria City jail since his arrest last Jan. 31, unable to raise bail of $150,000 originally fixed by Bryan. The judge recently reduced it to $75,000, and the Money was raised quickly from Church groups in a Campaign coordinated by the Rev. Or. George w. Hill pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church in Washington. 2 killed in Colo plane crash Aurora Colo. Up an f-101 fighter interceptor in route to Florida from Portland ore., crashed Friday on Takeoff from Buckley air National guard base killing both crewmen. A Buckley spokesman said they had stopped at Buckley East of Denver to re fuel in route to Tyndall fab near Panama City Fla. He said they left Portland air National guard base about three hour earlier. The water of the Catalina Channel just Yards from Shore and hospitalized in a Sim Ilar attempt last year was Chilly but in excellent condition after the successful swim according to his Mother Dottie York. Plans to special Dolly Parton will Star in her first television special in the fall of 1979. A coun try music association female vocalist of the year in 1975 and 1976, Parton has broadened her Appeal to become Well known in the popular music Field. This year however she again won country music association honors. Up photo