European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 its located Bright near never never land Boston a the town of Ripton seemed too Good to be and officials have sadly a knowl it the Community that wrote to the a con Gressman and other higher ups offering to be Home to a much spurned military project simply does not except in the mind of a hoaxer who apparently has struck someone out there has a Good sense of said Jim spokesman for Michael who received a letter from Ripton on i would have to say that Ripton is located Between East Over shoe and South right near never never last air Force Kenneth Small at boiling fab in Silvio and dozens of state officials started receiving letters signed by Robbins who identified himself As a Ripton in letters mailed from widely separated Springfield and Phillips said his town would Welcome the 30 or More communications towers the air Force wants to build on 600 acres in Western other most notably have fought to Block the Antenna saying it would destroy the scenery and wildlife of the Berkshire Phillips wrote that rip tons eagles could nest in the and asked Only that the government make pay ments to the Little town in lieu of taxes to help it provide like lies along a which varies in Elevation from about to feet above sea said the which Fea tured an official looking town Seal that claims Ripton was established in some officials in Washington and Hawley took the letter to heart and tried to Contact but found that Ripton does not exist in the records of the Post the phone the state elections office or the department of and its not on any it was a very authentic looking Letterhead and so i went to look it to see where Ripton could Earl chairman of the Hawley planning said and there was no i assumed it was a the letter did seem a Little i the that and the payment of Money in lieu of the government just Doest do this was not the mystery towns it recently turned up on the first draft of the 1986 state budget under allocations for Clearing several streams of it just slipped were not sure said August Schumacher state commissioner of the department of food and the department had asked for the Ripton the state Senate ways and Means committee is but no one is taking the hoax too its All Good int it Schumacher Richard director of the state division of fish eries and said he got a letter about two years ago from Ripton selectmen complaining that a Pond there should be cleaned and claiming that the town did not receive adequate police i wrote them Back and said i  find their Pond on our said who jokingly answered his phone tuesday As town manager of he said he had referred the police Protection complaint to another state Agency and let it go at i dont really understand but this Ripton keeps life he play closer attention to 1st amendment mistrial declared in suit against scientology Church a a saying courts must pay closer attention to religious declared a mistrial tues Day in a lawsuit that ended with a million fraud judgment against the Church of and ordered a new mul Tomah county circuit judge Don Ald Londer said he based the ruling on improper and prejudicial arguments made by the attorney for plaintiff Julie Christoffer son Titchbourne during the 11week trial that ended in More than scientologists con verged on Portland for protests for a month after the Jurys May 17 they claimed the verdict represented an assault on Freedom of daily concerts and news conferences were sometimes featuring celeb Rity including actor John Travolta and jazz pianist Chick said she was defrauded when the group claimed it could improve her eyesight and creativity when she joined it in she also said the Church of scientology lied about the Back ground of founder Ron she quit the group in Titchbourne Garry had said fraud was the Only Issue in the not religious but Londer said the jury was told improperly that information on the scientologists beliefs and practices could be used As a basis for punishing the he also said the jury was prejudiced by abusive language used during Mcmurry closing when the attorney called the Church of scientology a terrorist group and Hubbard a Londer said that courts already had determined scientology was a and that the Constitution prevents prosecution for ones religious i think the courts must pay particular closer where issues involving religion and the first amendment Are Londer Mcmurry said he had no comment on the Corea was among the 150 scientologists who crammed the courtroom tuesday and applauded the judges defense attorney Earle Cooley praised the and were confident there will be a different decision the next dying woman wish is fulfilled by movie studio san Francisco a a dying woman who wanted Only to see cocoon with her son got her birthday wish after the film studio delivered a videotape to her Hospital cocoon is a movie about eternal Irene who is dying of watched the film tuesday with her 11 year old who Lay on the bed beside her holding her they cried together in the scenes that were rather the scenes about and smiled together in the scenes about never having to said Rose sullivans in the fantasy released by 20th some elderly people stumble upon the secret to eternal life and become Youthful Christopher saw the movie a month ago and suggested that he and his Mother see it together when she became but who turned 47 suffered a relapse and doctors said there was nothing More they could Nobel said that Sullivan wanted nothing for her birth Day except to see cocoon with her videotapes of the one of the Summers Are not yet she there int anything you can get but my Little boy wants so much for me to see cocoon with but theres no Way because in so if Only 1 could see the picture with the Story reached the offices of 20th Century Fox through the san Francisco and a studio representative delivered a copy of the movie to Sullivan on Sullivan slept All Day monday to gather enough strength to watch the movie and for those two Nobel the Only thing that has kept her alive is knowing that this film is Bank robber kills 2 women in Texas flees with port Texas a a gunman forced two employees of a savings and loan association into the thrifts shot them both fatally and escaped with a police officer happened by the Bank minutes after the noticed no tellers and found the bodies in the said Jefferson savings loan association vice president Lloyd Branch supervisor Helen died in the and Diana Joy of port a died at Park place Hospital at the women were the Only people in the Thrift when the gunman they never got a Chance to set off an Patterson there were no witnesses and apparently the robber came in and marched into a room at the Back and executed said police Jim Lucky Landing for Larry no one was injured when this twin engine the wreck caused rus hour tra Flarry of said air plane was forced to land on interstate Fie jams that extended across the Ohio his engines failed shortly after Takeoff 65 in after its engines River into Southern the from