European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 02, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday september 2, 1985 they did t say he could Fly Cowboy Kern Karlin of Shackl too Saskatchewan has some Anonas moments u he scramble to gel out from under Triga flying Bull called 78. Kartyn Alibi l May of tic airborne Bull Long enough during the recent Box Springs Rodeo near Medicine hit Albert to qualify for any of Ibe prize Money. Stateside three living former presidents Cost . Taxpayers $26 million a year Washington a american taxpayers arc paying More than $26 million a year to keep the United states three living former presidents in style the National journal reported saturday. Expenses include $200,000-plus for office rent $72,000for Telephone Bills and More than $9,000 each for Stamps. The annual pensions for former presidents Richard Nixon Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter run to $86,200 apiece but that is Only a Small part of the expenses for the former chief executives according to the account in the weekly Magazine. The biggest items Are the presidential libraries which Are expected to Cost $20.5 million to run in fiscal 1986. Secret service Protection which t Dixon has just Given a 11 years after resigning from office runs an Esti mated $3 million a year per sex president. The secret serv ice assigns 24 agents to each former president. Lawmakers have made repeated attempts to curtail the Cost of caring for former presidents which have Mush roomed from $64,000 in 1955 to More than $26 million in1984 and a projected $30.8 million in 1986. The Magazine said taxpayers have spent an estimated124 million for secret service Protection plus at least $3.5 million m pension and office payments for Nixon the Only president to resign. It said records of the general services  that office rent for the three living sex presidents amounts to about $79,000 a year for Nixon s Quarter in Manhattan Federal building $55,000 for working space next to Ford s Home in exclusive Rancho Mirage calif.,and $70,000 for Carter s Nib floor suite in an Atlanta Federal building. Former presidents Are apparently avid users of the Telephone. Last year Ford s Telephone Bill was $30,281, Carter. $21,589 and Nixon s $20.704. Postage came Tomore than $9,000 for each sex president. In the coming year Nixon and Ford Are expected to spend $31,000 Eachon travel and Carter $24,000," the Magazine said. Sen. Lawton Chiles d-fla., and rep. Glenn English d-okla., have mounted efforts in recent years to Cut Backon the former president Perks. The House in june approved by voice vote a Bill introduced by English that would require private sector sponsors to set up endow ments to help underwrite the operating costs of presiden tial libraries. And in july the House approved an amendment Byre. Bill Nelson d-fla., to a Treasury appropriations Bill that would gradually reduce the amounts former presi dents get for office and staff expenses from $300,000 during the first four year As private citizens to $250,000for the next four years and $200,000 thereafter. Despite its efforts to curb Federal spending Ibe Reagan administration has sought to exempt Reagan from the curbs on Library spending and to make the restriction apply Only to his successors. It has been estimated that the Reagan Library to rebuilt at Stanford University in California will Cost $45 million. The papers of presidents Herbert Hoover Frank Lin d. Roosevelt Harry s. Truman Dwight d. Eisenhower John f. Kennedy Lyndon b. Johnson and Ford restored in libraries bearing Cir names. Similar facilities Are planned or Are in the building stage for Nixon Anncarter. Taxpayers began providing staff members and picking up office expenses for former presidents 30 years ago after Truman complained that it Cost him $30,000 to answer mail and reply to requests for speeches and Public appear today Ford is said to make More than $1 million a Yea sitting on corporate Board and delivering about 30 speeches a year to business groups at $18,000 to $20000per appearance according to Barren s Magazine. It is a far cry from the 19th Century when one of the nation t most exalted Leaden Thomas Jefferaon died with $107,274 in debts. Civil War hero Ulyuse. S. Grant bankruptcy by bad investments but the memoirs that he before his death eventually earned novelist Taylor Caldwell Dies at 84 ssh Greenwich Conn. A Taylor Caldwell author of More than 30 Best Selling novels has died at the age of 84.Caldwell, who has lived in Greenwich since 1980, died Friday night of pulmonary failure caused by lung cancer a i aia Walls 33 navels. Her Hinnir. I a i i state medical examiner or. Hugo Virgilio said saturday. Two men 1968 great lion of Dot mrw � a ,5stai.ylor Caldwell in a non to. England on Jai and Kings 1972 and answer As a Man 1 mks ept. 7, 1900, she came to the United Stales As a child. To Amulet we Tyml i ii to n i Voi. She started her career As a court reporter and stenographer and later worked As a Secretary for the department an answer As Aher work were translated into 1 1 languages married Robert Prestie her fourth husband in wayward Buffalo roamed for 5 Days before capture Hays Kan.  a Buffalo once again roamed the Kansas Plains last week but its five Days of Freedom were ended by authorities with Tranqu Ilizar guns the Ellis county sheriff said. It was later Learned that the wayward Buffalo had escaped from a Farmer near lamed last monday and trav eled about 40 Miles in five Days before being subdue about two Miles Southwest of Hays. The Bison was first spotted by an Antonino resident who called authorities and the animal moved North until its capture. Authorities had the Buffalo in custody when Jack Dipman who owns a farm 10 Miles West of lamed called the Ellis county sheriff to say he had lost a  said that three of his Buffalo got Loose and he had caught two but the other one got away. Amtrak Engineer averts crash after youths pull track switch Elwood Iii. A the Engineer of an Amtrak train carrying nearly 300 passengers narrowly averted derailment after three youths broke into a control Box an pulled a switch that changed tracks for the clinic ago to St. Louis train police said. The Engineer slowed Down Ai be neared Elwood Southwest of Joliet because control panel Light snowed a problem might be coming up said police chief Wal Ter King. At the reduced Speed the engine and the first tar switched onto a siding and the Engineer said that if Tea train had continued at Normal Speed there Alcot certainly would have been a crash King said. King said three boys two aged 14 and one 15, we rearrested and would face charges of criminal trespass and criminal damage to property. They were released to their parents. Former Faa official sentenced for role in phony Billing scheme new York a a former Federal aviation administration official has been sentenced to three Yean in prison and fined $70,000 for what prosecutors called Fla Grantly abusing his official Powers in a phony Bilunka scheme. Eugene Metz a 27-year Veteran of the Faa and former chief of the electronics Section for the Faa s Eastern re Gion was convicted of conspiracy and filing false claim she was acquitted of a bribery charge. Metz 48, was one of four senior officials at the Faa regional Headquarters charged last january with defraud ing the government of a total of $1.3 million through phony invoices filed Between 1973 and 1982. Two others pleaded guilty and Are awaiting  fourth has yet to stand trial. New Jersey Man at 50, oldest to make Catalina Mainland swim los Angeles a Dale Petranech of ,n.j., a disaster specialist with the red Cross swam the 20 mile from Santa Catalina Island to the California main land in 14 hours and 28 minutes despite constant fatigue and periods of a orientation. We ran into some fog and got disoriented Petranech who at 50 is the olde to Man Ever to make the  Rcv awhile lre"T1" a