European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes february stateside its like mud but with Gravy Ohio a Ohio self proclaimed potato capital is preparing a Spud wrestling exhibition for the Mantua potato festival in the Portage county population gained notoriety last year by dumping 023 pounds of mashed potato from a Cement mixer onto Jackson then adding 55 Gallons of Gravy to highlight its this the potato mix will be dumped onto an elevated stage on main and female and celebrity wrestlers will grapple in the said Kathy festival publicity the festival begins 11 and runs through police apologize in loud praying incident los Ang fees up a rabbi and 12 students who claim they were physically and verbally abused while being arrested for praying too loudly received an official apology from police chief Daryl Gates issued the apology to rabbi Shlomo Cunin and 12 students who were arrested on charges of disturbing the peace last a citizen had complained about noise coming from the jewish the rabbi claimed a dozen officers had their night Sticks out when they entered the school and that he was rendered unconscious by a police choke the men also claimed an officer greeted them at the station with the we have ovens waiting for and that there were other Antisemitic Gates described the incident As conduct which is not consistent with the policies and procedures of the los Angeles police de the department regrets that these arrests evacuees return Home after Gas truck Accident Barnegat a about 500 residents of the settlers Landing Section of this Community have re turned to their Homes after an overturned truck carrying liquid natural Gas was right police the truck was carrying some Gal Lons of said police chief de about half the fuel was transferred to an empty and the owned by transportation of was right de and continued to its destination in a said the situation is Back to he nearby residents were evacuated from their Power was Cut and an Elemen tary school was closed after a pressure valve on the truck blew out releasing a substantial amount of the fuel into the said Power was shut off to the area to prevent University uncompromising standards rewarded Washington a a new York investment Bank has Given to Georgetown University because it was moved and impressed by the University decision to return a donation from the government of we made the gift because we wanted to show our respect for the principles and standards uncompromising standards that Georgetown has evidenced by re turning the said the Bear Stearns the Timothy president of the said the new gift will be used for undergraduate student i am at once surprised and he said through a Healy has announced that the University had returned a gift with in interest to Libya because it no longer wanted its name associated with the coun try Radical which he accused of using violence and terrorism to further its Pepsi cola Plant fined because of noise level a the Pepsi cola bottling Here has been fined by the Federal occupational safety and health administration for allegedly exposing workers to High noise Patricia director of the Wilmington Osha said the Plant was cited for failing to use engineering controls that could have reduced noise and failing to give workers hearing she said noise Levels in the Plant were High enough to cause hearing damage among the Plant was fined an additional for allegedly failing to have adequate guards on Clark fire department sued House Burn a the Rae Volunteer fire department is being sued by a Homeowner whose dwelling was destroyed when officials told firefighters not to fight a Blaze there because he haunt paid the fee for Harry Petroff and Farmers Union Mutual insurance have filed suit for including in punitive accusing the department of wilful and malicious violation of a statutory duty to fight the firefighters were called to pet offs House on the Day after the family moved they began putting out the but then were stopped by department officials because Petroff had not paid the budget cuts to restrict College students Grants Washington up education Secretary Tyrrel Bell said the administrations budget cuts would restrict Grants to College students so that a student from a family of four with an income of or less would be in a budget briefing for said the figures were rough but he said in general the eligibility limitation bused on the family income of the student would be Cut about in the Case of a student from the typical family of the limit is now about there will be comparable cuts depending upon family income and new kid on Block sweeps 5 major grammy awards new York up a few years Christopher Cross was Back Home in Texas making a he stood triumphantly on the great stage of radio City music the Winner of five grammy awards attesting to the megabucks and respect he has quickly earned in the re Cord and a 30yearold father of one who wrote the hit complained that he still sings like a my voice never said the rotund protege of the Doobie Brothers Poprock its a Sweet he but it never lost its teenage to win his grammy wednesday Cross had to overcome at least two local sentimental favourites new Yor born barbra Streisand and Frank Sinatra of nearby and overcome them he Cross sweep of the major grammy was Complete record of the Best album of the Best song of the Best new artist of the year and Best instrumental All for his debut the wins left Streisand with Only one award co Winner with Barry Gibb of Best pop vocal performance for a duo for Guil who failed to did not win in any of three categories for which he was nominated for his trilogy in the new kid on the Cross for seven i made a its a Feather in my he cradling one of the Golden gramophone handed out by the member National Academy of recording arts sciences at its 23rd annual staging of the comedian Rodney Winner for his comedy album no took the whole thing a lot less pointing to his grammy and theres a Guy in my neighbourhood who wants to melt it Kenny Loggins and Bette Midler Cap tured Best pop vocalist Loggins for the hit single this is it and Midler for the Billy Joel was named Best male Rock vocalist for his Glass houses with Pat Benatar winning in the female category for crimes of Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet who paid their dues around Detroit for years before gaining National won their first for Best Rock group the two englishmen and an american who work in were awarded the grammy for Best Rock instrumental in rhythm and the winners were George Benson for give me the night and Stephanie the former Star of the Broadway show the for never knew love like this Benson also won in two other categories of jazz and rhythm and the bebop influenced Manhattan trans Fer quartet grabbed honors in the jazz fusion category for its stylized rendition of jazz pianist Bill who died late last received two posthumous grammy in the jazz category for separate i will say goodbye and we will meet Singer Ella Fitzgerald and the count Basie orchestra also won one grammy Anne Murray received a grammy As Best female country vocalist for could i have this dance and George Jones won As Best male country Singer for he stopped Lov ing her Roy Orbison and emmy Lou Harris won for Best country in the gospel the album the lords the Blackwood Brothers and Shirley Caesar were the big classical music winners were violinist Itzhak Perlman and the recording of Alban bergs receiving four and three awards respectively in separate cat Christopher Cross Best new artist hispanic chief removed Over cuban refugee housing a the director of new jerseys office of hispanic affairs has been removed from his Post after it was disclosed he housed 13 cuban refugees in a single room Over his Trenton Jose will retain his but will be transferred to a federally funded Energy assistance program for Low income persons in the state department of Community according to department spokesman Paul the departments ethical standards com Mittee concluded Agosto made a very Seri Ous error in judgment in handling the cuban Alpaugh but the department is awaiting results of an investigation from the state commission on ethical standards before considering further action on Alpaugh the Trenton times reported Agosto received from the puerto rican con Gress of new Jersey to care for the refugees who arrived in new Jersey in
