European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes monday september 8, 1980 Hitchhiker delivers his daughter in a truck s cab Landsdowne. My. Up a Massachusetts Hitchhiker delivered his daughter in the cab of a tractor trailer and said the infant had a gentle Jonathan Goodrich Newman 22, and his wife Laura 32, were hitchhiking to Florida from their Home in Amherst mass., when their trip was interrupted by the birth of their daughter the Way out of Amherst we bought a Book on natural childbirth. I started Reading it to Sec what to do right after i delivered her. Apparently we did it right Goodrich Newman said. La. Launches two year Bicentennial festivities los Angeles a with mariachi music speeches and a mass singing of Happy birthday the City of los an Geles launched a two year Bicentennial Celebration with the news thai it May have supplanted Chicago As the nation s second largest City. Kickoff ceremonies on historic Olvera Street where he City was in september of 1781 also featured a religious Cere Mony and presentation of gifts by the City s 15 councilmen for preservation in a urge Lucite time capsule shaped like a Lollipop. A bomb How to publishers won t be prosecuted Milwaukee a the Justice department has agreed not to prosecute anyone involved in the progressive Magazine s publication last year of an article detailing the Workings of the Hydrogen bomb. As part of the court settlement the Justice department also agreed to the release of More than 90 percent of the affidavits and documents filed in the Case and classified by the government As secret. Truck manufacturer files under bankruptcy Laws Farmington Hills Mich. Up while motor corp., one of the nation s leading manufacturers of heavy duty trucks and a major full line farm equip ment maker has filed for reorganization under Federal bankruptcy Laws. The petition by while motor and five wholly owned subsidiaries brought under chapter 11 of the Federal bankruptcy code was tiled in is. District court in Cleveland company officials said. Under the action while win continue its business operations while the company s management works with creditors under court supervision to develop and implement a reorganization plan. Automakers buoyed by slight increase in sales Detroit a Domestic car sales Are still below last year s Levels but manufacturers say they Are encouraged by a slight increase in sales and a puzzling drop in imported car sales. The five major . Producers said they delivered 486,420 cars in August compared with 697,025 in the same month last year a 28 percent drop. The percentage comparison is based on sales per Day because the 1979 month had one More Selling Day. Though it was the worst August for Domestic manufacturers since 1967 daily sales of 18,708 against 19,157, Wilh vans no longer counted As cars the seasonally adjusted annual Selling rate picked up to 6.6 million compared Wilh 6.4 million in july. The who makes secret appearance in Cincinnati Cincinnati up in isl shrouded in secrecy the British Rock group the who spent two Days in Cincin Nati giving depositions in lawsuits Lem Ming from the deaths of 11 Young Coo cart goers last year. On dec. 3, the 11 were crushed to death a a crowd thai had gathered at riverfront stadium prior to a performance by the woo rushed the doors to get seals. Lead Singer Roger Daltrey guitarist Peter Townsend bassist John Enow Lille and drummer Kenny Cooea met with attorneys wednesday and thursday. The families of the 11 dead said the four band members asked that their visit do be publicized became they feared their personal welfare would be in number was nothing but payoff big Pittsburgh up the winning number or was it non number drawn in the Pennsylvania number lottery was 000. Officials said it was the first time 000 had been drawn since the state initiated the drawing March 1, 977. The triple zeros also Cost the state a bundle of Money officials said because so Many people had them. The total payoff was $1,498,550, or 148 percent of the $1,015,266 in sales receipts. Idaho has highest percentage of millionaires and it was t Oil Rich Texas steet Rich Pennsylvania or movie Star Rich califor Nia that had the greatest concentration of Munoo Aorta. It was Idaho. Don holler a economist for Bobe state University uld the figures could be deceiving because Buur paper Muu Ott alow la Idaho nay have vast land hold Ings but they Don t have the Cash flow Ofa millionaire. Boise Idaho a Idaho May Havethe highest concentration of millionaires in the country but an economist Hen says Many of them have pretty poor in a Survey released by is. Trust co. Of new York City estimated the nation s millionaires defined As those with More than is minion in assets grew 10.3 percent in 1980 to 57442. Gorilla s death won t slow zoo insemination plan Memphis Tenn. A officials at the Memphis zoo Are ready to try artificial insemination on animals again despite the death of the first Lowland Gorilla born As a result of the Breeding technique. This was a regrettable loss zoo director Charles Wilson said As be announced the death of 3-Day-old Kwanza. But we obviously want to try again we have Learned so much this the 414-Pound infant s death was blame Don viral pneumonia. Miss America Susan Powell of Oklahoma. Crowned by last year s Winner Cheryl Prewitt new miss America shares spotlight with Black woman Atlantic City . Up miss Oklahoma Susan Powell won the 1981 miss America pageant saturday night but shared the spotlight with the first Black woman in pageant history to reach the finals miss Arkansas Lencola Sullivan. Another Black contestant miss washing ton Doris Janell Hayes made it to the semifinals. The Only other Black contestant to reach the semifinals in the 54-year history of the pageant was 1976 miss Delaware Debra Lipford. The first runner up was miss Alabama Paige Phillips at 17 the youngest Contes Tant in the pageant who will receive a $15, 000 scholarship. Of my god exclaimed Powell when Host Ron Ely the former television Tor Zan who replaced Bert Parks As emcee announced her name. Wearing a White strapless Long sleeved gown the Green eyed Powell 21, of Elk City okla., blew kisses to the crowd of 23, 000 As she walked along the runway. I love you she told the audience repeatedly blowing kisses and waving. As miss America 1981, Powell will get More than $100,000 for appearances advertisements and promotions and May parlay tier Triumph into further Fame and glory As other winners have in the past such As Bess Myerson the 1945 miss America who is running for the \ s. Senate from Newyork. Ely went almost unnoticed As he Sang there she is your miss Parks was dethroned As Host of the pageant in a move by sponsors that aroused a storm of protest from his millions of fans. A Soprano Powell who stands 5-foot-4, weighs 110 pounds and is 35-24-35, Sang a comic aria from the Telephone an opera by Gian Carlo Menotti in the Talent com petition. Powell follows in the footsteps of Oklahoma winners norms Smallwood who was crowned in 1926, and Jane Anne Jay Roe who was crowned in 1967. Miss Mississippi Donna Pope and miss new Jersey Theresa Hanley tied for Sec Ond and third runners up. They will split scholarships of $10,000 and $7,000. The fourth runner up was Sullivan who will receive a s5.000 scholarship. The other semifinalists were Jeanne car Uso of Connecticut Cheryl Flanagan of new York Terri Eoff of Texas Cathleen Vernon of Ohio and Hayes. The presence of Sullivan and Hayes Gen crated some tension including reports of racist remarks being made toward Hayes. Hayes. 22, of Tacoma wash., told a local newspaper she was Riding in the Parade that opened pageant week festivities when someone shouted of go take a Bath. Miss Washington. You re too dirty to be in Tho Parade. The incident angered sensitive pageant officials. America is ready and has been ready for a Black miss America said Albert Marks jr., pageant chairman. I Don t think miss America should be judged by the color of her skin. The bookings for a Black mis Samerica would be the heaviest in Hayes said if she had won it would help the image of the pageant. I think it would be Good to have a Black miss America to prove once and for All it is not a racist there have been just 10 Black contestants in pageant history. The pageant was a debut for Ely a the master of ceremonies. Parks had held the Job for 25 years but was fired by pageant officials who wanted to give the Competition a new look for the1980s. Other winners during the three Day preliminaries were miss Alabama who per formed a vent Ollquist act in the Talent com petition and Pope who who won the swimsuit Competition. On wednesday. Mus new York Cheryl Flanagan 18, of Rochester won her Talent division with a dance routine. Hearing set for Menten the Hague Netherlands a the dutch supreme court has set oct. 27 to hear Pieter Menton s Appeal against a 10 year jail sentence for his part in the Slaugh Ter of jews in wartime Poland the Justice ministry said
