European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 06, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes Friday september 6, 1985 races n places wheelchair victim reaches out for dreams7 from press dispatcher after four months during which he went through i4 pairs of gloves in protect his blistered hands. Michael King ended his Cross continent wheelchair trek by rolling to the . Capitol Steps in Washington and proclaiming you re Only As handicapped As you let yourself  this Day has been a Long time dreamed for i guess said the tanned and muscular King. 26, after his Road Crew and a police escort had accompanied him to the final Slop of a 5.605-mile journey. He said the trip from Fairbanks Alaska helped raise some 530.000 for rehabilitation centers around the United Stales. King began on april 29. Using up six sets of tires and 14 pairs of gloves before casing his 22-Pound wheelchair which was designed for racing into the parking lot beneath the Capitol dome. La was met by about 50 friends and Well wishers a Battery of reporters and photographers and representatives of the White House the House of representatives and of District of Columbia mayor Marion Barry. King of Coc Ramille pa., who lost the use of his legs after a car struck him on his motorcycle seven years ago said he hoped the trip helped inspire the disabled and others to reach out for your goals and  there still is a Challenge that keeps going for me every Day. Which is to live my life the Best thai i can and to reach out to others and to encourage them to do the same thing he said. You can still make something of your life in Spile of difficulties and circumstances that come along to each one of us at different times in our lives. Some Are worse than others some take a Little More to get  King said he is enrolling at inc University of Penn Sylvania in the fall to pursue a graduate degree in social work. The toughest part of the trip May have been the beginning said King who said he averaged about 40 to 45 Miles per Day. The Start of the trip was pretty rough because i was t feeling As Well physically As i had hoped to be. I wore some pretty bad blisters on my hand which tended los Tow me Down and got me frustrated he said. But once i got Over the Start and got into the routine of in i be been Able to keep a positive  he was really in the bag when Mike Mulligan put a bag Over his head for a joke As he visited his sweetheart s office in Orlando Fla. Six gun toting sheriffs deputies and a helicopter swooped Down on him. Someone who  leave his car put on the bag and pick up another containing Flowers for his girl Friend called the authorities thinking he was up to no Good. Me w As just going to be cute and come Back and say Flowers for Stacy then take the bag off his head said his Girlfriend. Stacey Herrell. It s All so dumb he was just trying to be Nice. Whoever called the cops was really stupid. It s real  Mulligan 26, could face Misdemeanour charges. A 1951 stale Law passed to control activities of the Kun flux klan prohibits anybody Over 16 from wearing a Hood on someone else s properly without permission. Somebody could have gotten killed said sheriffs Michael King sgt. Gary Durrence. Everyone thought it was a big joke but it was l funny. If someone had anything that looked like a gun it could have been devastate  Equine overabundance a pair of stallions running Loose in the rugged foot Hills of the Rocky mountains have turned a Herd of horses into a rapidly multiplying menace threatening valuable grazing country property owners say. Somebody turned a stud Loose although nobody is owning up to it said Hank Gilsmer. President of the sudden Valley land owners association in Cascade Mont Grismer s association has run an advertisement that it will round up All male horses in the area and castrate them which is permitted by Montana Law. But he said that will solve Only part of the problem for the Herd that grew from a dozen marcs in 1973 to As Many As 100 will still rgra2c the land and May still reproduce. It s becoming a Nightmare said Grismer adding the Herd could triple in size in the next three years. That area just can t support  new wheels Tor Weleetka when the cily of Vve Lictka okla., last needed a police car police chief Ronnie Porter got one by Mak ing a televised plea on the tonight show with Johnny Carson and he  however a Drunken Driver smashed into the donated police Cruiser last month putting the City s police Force on fool again. This time Porter turned for help to the cily of Tulsa about 50 Miles to inc North and a Deal on a surplus car Al a bargain Price was approved. "1 Gol to thinking big cities have surplus cars Porter said. Tulsa officials said they had a i9si Ford Fairmont Replete Wilh lights Siren and 70,000 Miles about to be sold for surplus. Porter said the Price $750 was right. The Tulsa cily commission approved the Sale. Police and fire commissioner Roy Gardner said the Sale was for a Good cause the infamous chief of police of Johnny Carson  the a Cecetka police department cannot buy a new Cruiser because its budget totals Only $35.000, Porter said. After the chief made his televised pleas in 1983, a Toronto Man donated a used Cruiser. Porter said that it was impossible to catch speeders because his dilapidated police car could t travel fas Ter than about 35 Mph. After the car came from Canada inc old one was Donald to the town of Morris after tornadoes in 1984 destroyed the Morris police Fleet. I think they put a new motor in it. Painted it Black and White and they re still driving it Porter said. Joe Bob cancelled controversial drive in movie critic Joe Bob Briggi won t be appearing at the University of texts this fall because officials fear his lectures might be offensive. The film committee of the Texas Union the Campus student activities Center began efforts last Spring to bring former Dallas times Herald columnist John Bloom who writes under the Joe Bob name to the University this fall for lectures on film criticism. But Stephen Bearden Texas Union film program adviser said controversy surrounding Bloom and opposition from minority student leaders has caused the program to be shelved. It grew into a program a Little bit out of hand he told inc daily texan newspaper. The Joe Bob Briggs column now distributed by a newspaper Syndicate was cancelled by the times her Ald last Spring after Black leaders protested a Bloom parody of the we Are the woiid1 song being used to raise funds for african famine Relief. Just a trim thanks for his Long standing Effort at giving students the right haircut whether you wanted one or not members of the Reserve officers training corps Lake their hats off to Barber Frank Leek of Golden Colo. A group of cadets from the Colorado school of mines surprised Leek at his Barber shop by marching in with a decorated cake and a plaque. According to it. Col. Charles Nichols head of mines Roth program. Leek has been doing haircuts for the future army officers for 25 years so he has Cut an awful lot of hair for  International Herald Tribune time Magazine . News an world report  a today reporting news that makes thed1fference Newsweek the stars and stripes