European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 Bruce lights up switchboards Washington a when the Telephone sys tem in the nations capital went on slow old timers remembered other such instances the 1981 shooting of president the 1982 crash of an Airliner into the the 1963 assassination of John nothing so calamitous on monday just Bruce Springsteen their thirst for concert tickets tied up the Telephone system for two hours about the amount of time it took to sell out the Robert Kennedy stadium for Springsteen 5 normally monday is the busiest calling Day of the said american Telephone Marty last monday from to our Lon distance facilities in Washington and had those same one week had Mil lion Calls in the on hour time the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone said Only that it handled several Hundred thousand More Calls than the effect of All this was on Andoff difficulty in get Ting a dial a delay in reaching Lon distance num and erratic it slowed some Calls to Federal reporters had trouble getting through to the White House press office and spokesman Larry Speakes blamed the ticket even the governments massive phone network experienced some but no serious there was some blockage for a Short period of said Paul costello of the general services adm Nistra the whole City is locked said a supervisor for the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone special services theres nothing we can do about one Guy Over at the Telephone company just told us the switching Center is tied up about the Way it was when John Kennedy was assassinated in said Charles director of the pentagons telecommunications by noon everything was Back to All tickets were gone in 90 in addition to those who called for thousands of fans spent the weekend on sidewalks outside ticket with some setting up Camp at the stadium right after the concert was announced last its just said Ralph director of management services for  in washing were Selling in excess of 400 tickets a weve got 35 outlets with 50 and every one of them is at the Hecht a downtown Washington depart ment store and one of the 35 ticket 568 tickets at apiece were sold to the first 71 people in line by the time the sellout was announced at the Washington show will open a tour that will in clude stops in and the Springsteen shows in Philadelphia 14 and 15 were sold out in less than six hours tickets at in tickets for 7 were gone in Little More than three lands safely walkers to get fair prosecutors say after hitting Deer Washington a a new York air dc9 jetliner struck and killed two Deer at Washington Dulles International Airport but managed to land safely despite a Flat tire and damaged Wing Federal aviation administration spokes Man Dennis Feldman said none of the 32 passengers and five Crew members on Board flight 141 was injured in the incident Sun Day Feldman said most Passen Gers apparently were not aware anything had the which was bound for new or leans after taking off from Laguardia Airport in new was never in danger of said airline spokeswoman Diane who was on Board the Baltimore a prosecutors in the Walker Case filed court papers monday denying that publicity has made a fair trial attorneys for John Walker a retired naval communications and his sea Man Michael have asked that espionage charges be saying publicity about the Case biased grand jurors and made it impossible for the two to receive a fair but assistant attorney Michael in a motion filed in District where John and Michael Walker face said publicity has been neither inflammatory nor unduly the amount of publicity has reflected the legitimate Public interest in the facts and nature of the As Well As its significance to related issues of National said the the the elder walkers and a fourth person Are accused of passing Navy secrets to the soviet most of the pre indictment publicity about Walker and his son that brought complaints from defense attorneys has consisted of reports of court Schatzow disclosure of any other information is frowned upon by the Schat Zow due to the significance of this the motion la enforcement authorities must report certain findings of the investigation to members of the government and Congress who have no la enforcement authority or if any of these people Are taking advantage of their legitimate need to receive this information to Foster Good relations with the press by leaking the the prosecution strongly condemns such the cannot Point to any prejudice or Bias in any Mem Ber of the grand let alone in enough grand jurors to vitiate the John Walker was arrested at a Motel in Rockville on May 20 after he allegedly left a bag containing classified documents at several Rural locations for pickup by a soviet his who was stationed aboard the was arrested two Days later when it docked at Norman Rockwell widow Dies a Mary Pun Derson a former schoolteacher who married Norman Rockwell at the age of has died in the House where the beloved american Illustrator died seven years she was her death closed the chapter on a 24year twi Lightyear Romance that was fairy just like Rockwell according to a close Katherine Herzog of the cause of Rockwell death was not immediately but another Friend said her health had been failing in recent she was  but in the last years she said David director of the Norman Rockwell museum at Stock Rockwell helped found the museum in in a Telephone interview de scribed Rockwell As a spinster school teach who had lectured generations of schoolchildren on grammar and modern she was with a wonderful sense of she spent 38 years teaching at the prestigious Milton school for girls in leaving in 1959 to write a grammar Book and to teach evening courses on modern poetry for the local one of her students that year was who had recently been when he enrolled in the course the second she this is More than casual in Herzog within two the couple she adored and he adored Herzog the marriage was like his very Loving and Rockwell died in november 1978 after a year Long Rockwell told a reporter at the time he didst die of anything but being 84 years in the years after his she threw herself into civic affairs and worked for nuclear disarmament until her recent Wood she is survived by a brother and three funeral services were scheduled for wednesday at Pauls Church in a photo Mary Punderson Rockwell and Painter husband in 1976 had a fairy tale Romance in their Twilight years police say victim of cancer committed suicide with Hammer a police detectives say a 52 year old cancer patient committed suicide by delivering 32 Hammer blows to his own but the mans wife and the Coroner say they Lake county Coroner Daniel who officially ruled that James Cool cys death in april was a Homi said he would stand by his initial the flexion of the Arm is so awkward that no one is going to try to hit themselves this he could not have hit himself that Many he would have passed out Thomas coolers 52yearold said she was dismayed by the homicide detectives i dont believe it was a ill never believe he did that to Cooley although Hobart police Stephen Ruttig says the Case is still under police reports show that the classification of coolers death was changed from homicide to in a May 9 the detectives it was our opinion that the wounds were self inflicted and this Case was a suicide and not a i think maybe they dont want an unsolved homicide in Cooley Cooley was undergoing chemotherapy for lung his wife and had received a Good report from his Cooley found her husband dead in a dark room of the family basement april according to police an autopsy determined the construction supervisor died of Blunt trauma to the Thomas said Cooley suffered about 32 head believed to have been inflicted by a claw Hammer found near his Cooley told police the House had been locked when she returned from a shopping and that nothing had been police said no signs of forced entry were four Hobart detectives filed reports showing that they began to have doubts that the death was a homicide about a month the detectives said they could find no motive for murder in the and that the wounds suffered by Cooley were too close together and at the same