European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1981 the stars and stripes Page 7 faces places More than 700 scientists met in new for an International Confer ence on last years total solar eclipse and some said that studies showed that eclipses do not harm animals or plants in any the researchers said that tests conducted on monkeys and rats during the which plunged several areas of the world into showed minimal effects on heartbeat blood pressure and body longevity secrets on her 113th Fanny Thomas said the secrets of her Long life were Apple sauce three times a Day and no husband to bother listed in the guinness Book of world records As the oldest documented living the retired businesswoman recently died in san follow ing a bout with in a birthday interview last Thomas said her one of her longevity secrets was Apple sauce three times a i eat Ordinary she i have three meals a Day and i dont eat what i dont and being a spinster was another of her she told me she never and so she never had a Man to bother said Margaret director of nurses at the nursing Home where Thomas the social Security administration acknowledged former slave Charlie Smith As the oldest living american at 137 years of age at the time of his death in but the guinness people said their research showed the Liberia born Smith to have been Only Thomas became the oldest documented living the guinness publishers last 25 at 113 years and 215 Thomas sold was in the real estate business and ran a fruit ranch in relatives a Nice place to visit the town of Birthplace of prime minister Margaret has been voted the most Boring town in Brit Ain by listeners to a popular British broadcasting radio All done in the award was presented to the towns Paddy listeners to the program were asked to vote for the town which was blander than Blandford and More moribund than Mac residents of actually a fairly bustling town of in Lincolnshire and in which thatchers father was a joined in the fun by sending in votes for Rock deletion the grateful dead Rock group agreed to alter or delete references to sex and drugs from a videotape of an october performance at radio City music the new York City claiming damage to had obtained a court order prohibiting the order was lifted under the which also applied to a promotional poster of two skeletons lean ing on the music Halls switching careers de too tall a defensive end for the Dallas cowboys who gave up foot Ball for a while to try has a new career Ive been singing for mostly in said in where he is plugging his first sin Funking on your actually he Doest sing much on the mostly its me rapping with Dis he Ive heard some other Peoples first releases and they we rent that in in that he 6foot9 and 270 gave up boxing seven months ago to return to the if singing and football he can Al ways fall Back on Hes appeared in three including a Small role in priorities celebrities concerned about welfare benefits recently joined destitute mothers in new York to denounce government spend ing actress Mary Tyler former Bella Abzug and writer Gloria Steinem want the state government to increase welfare Steinem said 87 percent of new York residents on welfare Are women and de pendent children women in Ameri Ca Are Only one Man away from she said in reference to women forced to go on welfare when their husbands shop clowning around a woman and her brother face up to five years in prison after pleading guilty in los Angeles to Selling reproductions of Clown paintings by comedian red Skelton and forging his Laura and Roger of Bermuda admitted they made copies of the comedians paintings and falsely Repe seated that he had signed Skelton paints oils of clowns and Sells autographed postal inspectors said they seized More than copies of Skelton paintings at Roger kibbles Home and at a rental Stor age assistant attorney Mark Bonner said the paintings could have sold for More than the kibbles could be imprisoned for up to five years and fined up to peking sifting ducks a Young chinese woman posing either As a foreign correspondent or a business woman caused consternation at 14 peking restaurants last month by ordering elaborate banquets for which no one showed the peking evening news the paper said she turned out to be Tsui who worked in a peking phonograph Needle it said she acted deliberately to disrupt social using a name card she obtained by the evening news reported that on posing As a foreign she went to the Don Gaishun just off peking main shopping to order a banquet for 53 guests at a Cost of a it want until the banquet was set out and no guests arrived that the restaurant Learned it had been the paper at another she ordered a banquet for 60 guests at a person us ing the name miss Sulina of the Hong Kong Kowloon trading the paper apparently her Only material gain came at the Hongxing Lou where the paper said a waiter brought her lunch and told her she could pay later after she or dered a banquet for 27 Ball reduced to nothing a judge in has released Philip Berrigan and three other jailed peace activists on their own recognizance after reducing their bail from to and then to Berrigan and seven other people were jailed 9 following a breaking and vandalism at a missile components Plant operated by general electric in King of four of the eight were re leased earlier after posting common pleas judge Vincent Cirillo reduced bail for the other four from to under an arrange ment that did not require them to Post any but merely to sign a the four saying the same arrangement should apply to the other 300 inmates in the Cirillo released the four from jail without