European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes May 1985 faces w i aces ancient piece of manuscript to be auctioned the Only surviving fragment of what could be the oldest manuscript written in England was discovered by Acci Dent at Washington Folger Shakespeare officials the which was discovered last served As the binding on a pair of late 16thcentury English medical books and is a Tea no later than 650 officials a leading auctioneer of will sell the piece for the Library on june 25 in the Money raised from the auction will go into an endowment fund for the Purchase of other books and manuscripts for the the fragment is made of the skin of a is beaten very thin and is composed of two sewn of a 36leaf its our feeling that its Worth Between and said Jay who works in the manuscript department of so Thebes office in new its in pretty bad condition and its but the last time a seventh Century manuscript came onto the Market was in a sense nobody knows what it will bring at he but any interested institution should be dying to have the manuscript had been sewn to the medical books As a a practice Dillon said was pretty com and was discovered last october when a Folger employee was rebinding the its a remarkable Dillon there Are Only eight other seventh Century fragments of manuscripts from the British of All of this is the Only one from the written in is in a very rare script called Irish he Philip associate director of the Folger Shakespeare which deals primarily with mate rial from the 16th and 17th said the fragment will be auctioned because its Way out of our we Felt it should be in an institution where scholars would be More Likely to handle Knachel Princess who Princess of gets mixed reactions from pupils As she visits the Battersea arts Centre in god likes Rich folks better on third of the people of Britain have had some sort of religious experience and most of them were in the High income a Gallup poll if you have Ever suspected that god smiles on the the powerful and the you May be said the which carried the poll some form of religious experience was reported by 44 percent of professional and managerial 35 percent of White Collar 29 percent of Blue Collar and 28 percent of the which did not mention a margin of said that Gallup asked people have you Ever experienced or been aware of a presence of whether you Call that is beyond your everyday self the discrepancy Between the classes is less to do with income than with cultural perception of suggested David director of a religious experience research project at Nottingham the better educated somebody the More in touch they Are with the language and concepts of religious the More Able they Are to recognize and express these he one one child Universal acceptance of the on child even in Rural resulted in a Sharp drop in last years population growth rate in chivas most pop Ulous the official Xinhua news Agency said in quoting Yang the Agency said Sichuan natural growth rate fell to per taking into account births and that compares with per thousand in 1983 and an average of 21 per thousand Over the past two the province introduced family planning after when its growth rate was per crawfish Are wreaking havoc on Texas farms they swarm at night by the crawling into ruining Farmland and building Clay Mounds that can wreck farm machinery and topple its the annual invasion of creeping a phenom Enon that creates a Nightmare for Farmers and cattle officials say is growing worse every its like a horror movie or said Hal Brock District conservationist for the department of agriculture in crawfish Are land dwelling crustaceans that few East texans know much except that they live in water and Are sometimes called Cra daddies or but by any they Are As Welcome to Farmers As six foot Federal and state officials studying the problem say crawfish Are one farm near Lufkin had crawfish Mounds per and the animals have infested acres in Angelina according to Federal its not a National its sure hurting the said Mike Whiteman of the Angelina county Extension the invasion occurs each Spring As Prairie crawfish swarm from their holes by the they build tall Mounds of Clay that Harden under the hot Texas Sun and can damage tilling or mowing there murder on lamented Paul do a Ford tractor dealer in the Mounds Are so bad that the Hay mowers just wont work in Whiteman said Prairie crawfish Breed in 10 East Texas counties and in some parts of they Are nocturnal creatures that live underground most of the year and surface in Rainy weather to build their Mounds and raise the built by females during mating look like tiny volcanoes and can reach 18 inches in they contain 40 pounds of dirt during the the crawfish live in water filled Cav erns beneath the by the creatures Retreat below Seal the entrances to their subterranean colonies and Stop building so efforts to control the creatures have and there is no government approved pesticide that can be used on some Farmers fight Back by pouring crushed Mothballs or burning motor Oil Down the the crawfish Arent but their tunnels can tractors have been known to Tumble into the Cav erns when the ground above the holes collapses under their Whiteman said he once saw a fronted loader fall into an uncovered crawfish if you get a really Rainy theres no Way to drive a tractor across those Dubose till Cave in and sink out of Whiteman said he once considered raising the Prairie crawfish for but they Arent even edible their tails Are too and the taste int he a photo Hope holds 82nd birthday Bash Bob Hope came Home to London for an Early 82nd birthday Celebration with a Prince and string of celebrities but he had a hard time finding any takers for his birthday at the end of the birthday gala at the Lyric Hope Cut the huge Blu frosted cake decorated with american and British flags and first tried to tempt Prince husband of Queen Elizabeth with a but the laughing Prince started backing off the comedian then went up to his wife of 50 who put her hands up in mock Hope finally found a taker world middleweight Champion Marvin Hagler who earlier recalled that Schoolboy Boxer Hope was known As the Canvas Kisser from Hes still in the fight game delivering knocking them out wherever he Hagler asked at a party later Why nobody wanted his birth Day Hope chuckled and said i dont know it but actor Michael Caine said the problem was they lit the candles too Early and the icing on the cake caught fire and nobody wanted to take their the which raised for the princes Duke of Edinburgh award scheme to Aid youngsters attracted a Star studded cast including Debbie Brooke Julio Crystal Gayle and Charlton Hes but it was the Surprise appearance of actor Caine who recalled that Hopes donation had saved the youth club in South London where Caine got his Start in act ing about 40 years ago that stole the if id known when he was 14 that he was going to be that big a i would have adopted cracked the who was born in Eltham in Southeast London and who moved to Cleveland at the age of said the minute that i arrived Here i Felt at Home there were so Many american i love being Back in we dont have any Royalty in Pur country but please dont Tell Ronald Rea he might want a Hope a photo Brooke flashes a Grin at 606 82nd birthday Celebration in