European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 Exchange operation May spoil veterans bid for legion office new a some members of american legion Post 9 say there is one candidate they will never support for Post even though the air Force Veteran won medals in the korean but other legionnaires Are eager to vote for Bridgette Poi who was a Man until she had a Exchange operation 12 years people often hear about me and they says who has been vice com Mander of John Coleman Prince Post since running unopposed last they Call me the but that not what i photo Post 9 vice commander Bridgette Poi decorated korean War Veteran and widow of Marine sergeant Georgia copter on mercy flight crashes 2 dead a a helicopter a mercy Mission clipped a Light and killing the Pilot and a medical the went its nose dipped and it proceeded a Normal Way when it struck the said Terry Gilley of the Duluth police who saw the monday night crash in the parking lot of the Joan Glancy memorial the operated by metro ambulance service of lifted off from the cleared parking lot about to take a Burn victim to an Augusta said Sheryl Jackson of the Gwinnett Hospital the Burn victim suffered no further injuries in the Jackson she identified those killed As Pilot Harold Payne Browning and Charles Danny an emergency medical j in a woman grew up As a boy named Bobby she will not reveal her family name resolved years of self doubt about her gender with a Exchange operation in she lived in taking the name Bridgette Rosalind the first name because she liked it and the second because she admired actress Rosalind Russell and mar ried Richard a Marine corps sergeant who was killed in Vietnam in in she returned to Southeastern Connecticut where she had grown though she want sure people would accept she joined the legion Post two years with eligibility from air Force service in Korea where she was decorated with four but there was dissension among the i checked her military records and found this was perfectly District commander Frederick treat but some of the men just didst want to go for one member was barred from the posts lounge for a month for verbally harassing and another threw Down his membership card and treat people were rough on her in the begin Ning because they thought she was someone says new London City clerk Clark Van Der he is a member of Post 9 in new a Navy town in Southeastern everyone has their some who oppose her bid for commander nominations will be taken in with the election in july say its not because of her sex no she Hast been around Long says Post member Miles but its not because of the sex i dont go for but i do think Shes run Beautiful events for the she just needs another year under her member Thomas Ralston says Poi would make a great Shes got this club Back on track As vice Poi has organized fundraising events for the staged a Lawa Dorder night honouring a local police and is working on a memorial Day Parade and a Beauty As she says she wants to bring professional wresting shows to town and re Cruit More Vietnam veterans into the there has always been cronyism at the legion and when i broke i Felt a change was taking says having a female commander would be nothing new in Connecticut or Dennis National spokesman for the american legion in said numer Ous posts around the country Are composed solely of women who served in americas War time armed but this is something Brand he Helens May erupt again soon up geologists returning from mount the Volcano that killed 57 in said the lava dome inside the Volcano Crater was continuing to expand and that a possibly explosive eruption might occur we dont know whether some thing is going to occur in two four Days or perhaps six Days or Long geological Survey spokes Man Steven Brantly Brantley said six geologists who worked in the Crater reported the lava dome was continuing to swell at increased rates on the order of a few inches per he said this indicated another Dom building eruption was we Are looking for a rapid and systematic increase in the number of earthquakes beneath the Volcano and increased rates of swelling in the lava dome Over the next few he the Federal Agency issued an advisory on monday night warning of renewed eruptive activity within the next two weeks or possibly sooner at the Southwest Washington which blew its top in a huge eruption five years ago and left 57 people dead or instruments placed on and around the 80story dome of lava on the Volca nos Crater floor were measuring Dis placement across a crack atop the Brantley All of these things indicate activity at the Mountain is continuing to increase Brantley scientists said any new explosion should be far smaller than the May blast that ripped the top feet off the devastated 200 Square Miles of Forest and spewed tons of Ash into the some of which eventually circled the Japan Italy pact okd Tokyo a italian minister of Commerce and Industry Renato Altissimo and his japanese Keijiro my have agreed that their countries should expand Trade and Industrial Cooper an International Trade and Industry ministry official voters reject ministers motion adulterous school officials beat recall a voters have rejected a bid to recall two school Board members who had faced opposition because they live together but Are not Sandra Kay Lambert Defeated the re Call bid by while Clinton Ogle won by election officials the tally was Complete except for a few Absentee ballots that probably would not change the election officials the couples living arrangement had an gered some local Church we just want people who Are upright and moral to Lead said the Jerry Warren of the Sheridan Nazarene one of the recall disagreed i believe its a waste of voters Money to put this item on the voter turnout in this town of was heavier than theres been a steady Stream of school Secretary Linda Paterson said tues Day afternoon As voters cast ballots at the town High id say theres More interest in this election than some of the Ogle and saying recalls should be based on Job performance contended that a successful recall could open any volunteers private life to Public Ogle and Lambert said they started living together before their divorces be came a Mechanic in a ply Wood has served on the school Board for nearly seven years and Lam a Secretary at the for less than two i dont believe that my living with some one whether on the school Board or not has any Adverse effect on my performance As a school Board Ogle has the ballot statement urging ogles recall said he had failed to respond adequately to the needs of the Sheridan school District and violated accepted Community standards for elected school District officials by Leav ing his wife and family and openly living in an adulterous the statement said ogles conduct is detrimental to the school District and its children and contributes to a confusion of values in the minds of the children and to the demoralization of parents and teach the statement against Lambert was Simi but the word adulterous was both statements were submitted by War