European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes february 1981 stateside five sevens net vegas Slot player Las up David Young walked Inlo the Flamingo Hilton laughed at the plastic pot of Gold display near the then started pumping Silver dollars into a Slot ten minutes five sevens lined up on the machine and a Man in a red coat told Young he was the Winner of the largest Slot machine payoff Ever its one of those things you dream said a 34yearold los an Geles you look at the plastic pot of Gold when you come in the Casino and but i didst pay any i was playing the machine for a few minutes and winning a when after about 10 i pulled the handle and five sevens lit i was ecstatic because i thought id won then some Guy with a red coat told me id won Over a Quarter of a latest patents string less birth control Aid entire school getting meningitis vaccinations Houston a the entire student body and staff at a City elementary school Are undergoing vaccinations As local and Federal health officials have failed to find the cause of a statewide outbreak of men an unprecedented six cases of Beningo Coucal meningitis have been reported in one classroom at Dodson elementary a health department spokesman said the decision to vaccinate everyone in the school was reached after a meeting among representatives of the health the Atlan abased National centers for disease control and the Baylor medical the decision was the spokesman because More than one in peo ple have been stricken the criterion set by the medical Community for use of vac ten including a Dodson have died in Texas from the disease since the beginning of the year and a total of 51 cases have been reported in the investing More report shows new York a foreign invest ment by american manufacturing Compa Nies increased by More than 50 percent from 1979 to according to a report released by the conference in its foreign investment the Board composed of a Cross Section of american businesses said manufacturing companies announced 252 foreign invest ment projects in up from 159 in Dollar figures were reported for 54 per cent of the totalling More than the report said Western Europe continued to be the main site of american manufacturing Trie latest Survey said american firms significantly escalated investments in giving their North american neighbor 20 percent of All investments last up from 9 percent in the top three countries for american in vestment were the United kingdom with 30 and Ireland and Japan with 19 Large families have trouble finding Homes to rent new York a families Are hav ing an increasingly hard time finding apartments to american demographics Magazine the Magazine said a random Sample made by the department of housing and Urban development found that More than on fourth of the nations rental units do not allow up from 17 percent in the based on interviews with tenants and landlords in february and March found that restrictions mount with family the Magazine the Magazine cited Hud findings that because of the growing number of no children a on child family can choose from 64 percent of All available units a family with two children from 55 percent and a family with three children from Only 41 no figures were Given for larger Fame growing Cost of dialysis worries researchers Seattle a kidney dialysis is costing taxpayers so much Money that panels of experts May once again have to decide whose life is Worth researchers the expense of treating the country kidney disease victims threatens continued use of the life sustaining a Trio of researchers said in the journal of the Ameri can medical at some it would seem to us unlikely there would be sufficient Money to take care of All the people needing Christopher director of the Northwest kidney Center in Seattle and one of said in an dialysis averages a year per patient and could Cost the nation billion by the researchers number of childless women May increase to 30 Washington a if the decline in childbearing rates the number of american women who choose not to have a baby could reach 25 percent or 30 according to some experts on american Fertility but other experts say that the downward trend will they say that the recent increase in childlessness is a temporary postponement of births that will be made up in the next few the debate on the future Fertility of american women was published in a census Bureau study by Martin Oconnell and Carolyn in percent of american women who completed their childbearing years had chosen not to have a according to the College students prefer cosmopolitan new York up College Bookstore managers Stock their shelves full of news week but most students prefer Playboy and a Survey the Survey by College store executive Magazine showed students were Reading Cosmo Politan and Playboy More than any other Magazine on the newsstand orders from College bookstores were highest for Many of the Bookstore owners wont Stock Playboy at All because it offends highbrow students or said Marcy associate editor of use a Trade others keep it behind the the students buy it she said other magazines popular with the College crowd include National mad and a kind of science horror comic Book called heavy Washington up displayed alongside the More mundane gadgetry were a guitar without cultivator gloves that look like Eagle talons and a birth con tool device that flashes a red Light when a woman is All three Are among the latest in Paten Ted inventions part of a today nation Al inventors Day exposition at the Patent and trademark More Patent applications were received last year than Ever officials the government granted about 23 percent to Independent Thomas Edison still holds the Al time record with Paul who proved Man could Fly using Only his muscle Power with his pedal powered aircraft Gossamer Condor was named inventor of the year Sun Day by the association for the Advance ment of invention and innovation As part of the Maccready is perfecting a Sola powered air plane with an electric four inventors were added to the Hall of inducted posthumously were Nicho Laus August who developed the Gaso line and Chester who in vented the electro photographic process that made the office copier also inducted were Charles Stark drap a Massachusetts Institute of technology scientist who developed gyroscopic balance and Harold Stephen who discovered the electronic concept of negative inventions displayed at the exposition included a guitar with no which looks and sounds like a but synthesizes the notes and six Blades Are and Finger positions on the fingerboard Are the same As if there were a big difference it never needs an exercise Cycle that rewards the energetic rider with a movie on a screen above the handlebars but Only As Long As the pedals keep a table that fits around child Auto safety so the youngster can play and not bother the a device to facilitate Sandwich Prepa ration by almost instantly toasting a longitudinal Hole in buns or even loaves of which can then be filled with Chili or meat balls for a spill proof a set of cultivator which look like giant Eagle talons but which the inventor says makes preparing Garden Earth a for those who dislike contraceptive a Battery powered birth control stolen viruses can defoliated stunt Trees Kansas a stolen vials of freeze dried viruses could defoliate and stunt the growth of some Trees and crops throughout the Kansas City a Canadian Forest pathologist the vials along with materials rep resenting 10 years of research were Sto Len last month when Stan Navrat ifs Van was taken in the suburb of who was conducting research on acid air pollution and Forest Dis said Only about 10 percent of the materials have been More was the loss of 20 vials containing freeze dried powdered viruses that could harm the growth of Cotton Wood and Poplar As Well As some veg fruit Trees and he the the primary Poplar of this has been stunted by up to so percent and completely defoliated at mid summer by the Navratil i would feel much better and safer if they the vials were found and returned to me before the pathologist not ing that the infectious agents could be car ried Over a wide area by insects or he said the viruses would remain alive unless destroyed by burning or Chemi Cal the Czechoslovakia born a professor at Canadas Lakehead said in a Telephone interview the theft threatens everything Ive Ever my research is i cant continue my contracts to do the research Are in jeopardy and my University contracts Are also being he fires kill five in two children in Michigan by the associated press an arsonist using a flammable liquid set a fire in a apartment killing two mothers and three of their while children playing with matches May have sparked a fire that killed two children in officials the Brooklyn fire quickly engulfed the four Story apartment House sunday night and trapped the two women and three Chil Dren on the top officials when i heard the people screaming the building was already on said a Man who fled the Maria and her 6yearold were pronounced dead at the fire officials she was being visited in her apartment by the other Vic Olga and her Daugh and when the fire the children were found on the stairs leading from the fourth floor to the fire department spokesman John Mulli Gan flames and smoke apparently stopped them from getting to the he chief fire marshal John Regan declared the Blaze the work of an arsonist after investigators found that the Flamma ble liquid had been poured All Over the first in Pontiac fire marshal Bobby Cone identified the children who died in the sunday fire As Kishandra Les and her 3yearold their 20yearold Marilyn suffered smoke inhalation and was in Crit ical condition at Pontiac osteopathic hos Cone another woman in the House and her daughter and son were treated for smoke the fire marshal said the which be Gan around 10 probably was caused by children playing with