European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                New England led . In 84 income Friday september 13, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 Washington up new eng land residents had the highest incomes in 1984, As the Northeast benefited from High technology and service business Success and the Sun Belt remained mired in Oil prob lems government economists report. The new England Stales recorded a per capita personal income of 514,421 last year ,632 above the National average or si2,789, the Bureau of economic analysis said tuesday. It was the second year or leadership for new England s six states. They do very Well at applying those technological innovations developed at new England  government analyst Rudolph Depass said. Income for All states increased 9.4 per cent in 1984 compared to 5.2 percent in 1983. The latest year s improvement still amounted to 6.2 percent after the effects of inflation were subtracted. Every state except Alaska recorded in creases beyond the inflation Rale last year. Despite almost no change from 1983, alas a s Oil supported income was still the highest of any state $17,487 per capita with Connecticut the second highest at $ 16,556. The next highest paid Region of the United states with a 114,007 per capita annual income was the far West which last led the nation in 1982. It includes California Nevada Oregon and Washington. In third Nance was the Mideast Region from new York and Pennsylvania to the District of Columbia. The other five regions were slightly below the National average with the great lakes fourth at $12,740, the Plains states fifth the Southwest sixth the Rocky Mountain states seventh and the Southeast eighth. The 12 Stales of the Southeast include several affected by the slump in the Oil Industry that has taken a lot of the Shine from the Sun Belt in the last two years. The Southeast includes Mississippi perennially last on the income list in 1984 the per capita income in Mississippi was $8,777 $4,012 below the National average. Many agricultural states showed misleadingly Strong rates of income growth de pass said with South Dakota up 13 percent and Nebraska gaining 12.3 percent for example. The increases were the result of the com Parison with 1983 when the worst drought in 50 years severely Cut farm incomes. De pass said. Much of their 1984 gain was merely a return to Normal helped some what by extra income from the govern ment s payment in kind commodity Swap program. Space is their classroom teachers Christ Mcauliffe left and Barbara Morgan pin on their Nasa credentials it Houston on their first Day to the Johnson space Center. The two teachers arrived monday to Start train ing for the shuttle program. Mcauliffe has been chosen o make shuttle flight and Morgan is her alternate. Miss America confess ans reveal their a secret pasts Atlantic City. . A if the country was stunned to learn that a miss America had posed nude what will it do when it learns miss Texas does t like cats and miss Nebraska once locked two Basket Ball referees in a janitor s closet in interviews with More than half the 51 women competing this week to become Mill America 1986, most contestants said they d led squeaky clean lives and All promised there was nothing in their pasts that might haunt them if they won the Crown. Pageant officials and several contestants said in Light of recent events some women probably scrutinized their lives before entering pageants. The 64-year-old pageant reeled under two blows in the past year Vanessa Wil Liams gave up her Crown in july 1984 after nude pictures of her were published in a men s Magazine and it was revealed at last year s pageant that miss Ohio Melissa Lindley once was charged with shoplifting. Bradley who maintained her innocence pleaded no contest and the charges were dropped. The response of miss Louisiana Carol Carter 20, of Shreveport was typical of this year s contestants i have no nude photos no dark dreary  but some admitted there were memories that made them Blush. Miss Nebraska 22-year-old Julie mus Burger. Of Lincoln said that As a Sophomore in High school she and another member of the Junior varsity basketball team impulsively locked the closet door behind two referees. About an hour later when they could not undo the padlock they confessed to the coach she said. Samantha Mohr miss Georgia said she Learned a Tough lesson about broadcast journalism when she lost her Job As a television weather girl at age 19 because the Sta Tion was sold. It really hit hard said the 23-year-old from Columbus a. A couple of contestants said their idiosyncrasies might disturb some folks. Weapons $14 million in cocaine on dead parachutist in Tennessee Knoxville Tenn. A a former narcotics agent who was heavily armed wearing a bulletproof Vest and carrying s14 million Worth of cocaine fell to his death Early wednesday when his Parachute failed police said. I got up to shave and looked out my window and saw him said Fred Myers 85, who discovered the body in hit drive Way. It looks like he jumped out with too heavy a  the victim was identified As Andrew Carter Thornton ii 40, of Paris by. Police had do further information about the Man. He was carrying 75 pounds of cocaine in a Duffel bag As Well As two automatic weapons several knives and rope and was Wear ing night vision goggles. Thornton was partly through a five year probation for a Misdemeanour marijuana conviction in Fresno calif., in 1982, said Charles Webb chief of the Federal Proba Tion office in Lexington by. Lexington metro police chief John Mcfadden said Thornton was a narcotics offi cer in the department from 1970 until 1973 when he resigned. Knox county medical examiner Randall Pedigo Laid Thornton appeared to have been dead for eight hours when the body was found at 8 45 . He had bags attached everywhere said Ralph Johnson 63, a neighbor of Myers who notified authorities. There was a trickle of blood from his nose that had dried on each Cheek. Other than that he looked of Johnson said. He was lying on his Back with his Knap sack half under  metro narcotics squad it. Jerry Day said the Man was aiming for this area and there was probably someone supposed to meet  detective Charles Coleman said the death appeared to be an Accident. He had several ids on him All differ ent said Coleman. The victim s main Parachute apparently failed to open and the Reserve Chute had been deployed Coleman said. Tony Acri assistant special agent in the Atlanta offie of the . Drug enforce ment administration Laid the Mountain passes and Clandestine airstrips in Appala Chia provide Good cover for smugglers hop ing to beat a Dea crackdown on drug paddlers in Miami and other ports. Acri s office which oversees activity in Tennessee North Carolina South Carolina and Georgia said cocaine is smuggled into the appalachian area and picked up by colombians and other groups and distributed from there. It s a big  he said the area s Access to interstate highways appeals to smugglers looking for Quick getaway and distribution routes. Our records. Show that we be had a considerable increase in activity in Eastern Tennessee. In some cases we be noticed some people from other areas moving in and bringing their drug business with them. The geographical Region is a favorite spot for Small aircraft activity. And smuggling said Acri. He said each kilogram of cocaine is Worth about $40,000 wholesale and 10 times that much on the Street. It was just a matter of time until we had something like this said Day. He said agents found Brown wrapped bundles of co Caine each the size of a football inside the Duffel bag. The nearest Airport is downtown Island Airport about three quarters of a mile away. A spokesman there said no planes landed overnight. Parachuting expert Rick Snow of Knox Villa asked by police to help in the investigation said the dead Man appeared to be an expert jumper because the Chute was an expensive make. I Don t care for cats said miss Texas Jonna Fitzgerald 21, of Greenville. One contestant admitted to a Brush with the Law. Twenty three year old Lea Schiazza miss Pennsylvania of Philadelphia said she was mortified when she got a Speed ing ticket shortly before the state pageant. Miss Colorado Linda trimmer 22, of Denver confessed to stealing a piece of Candy at age 5. Miss new Jersey Toni Georgiana 21, of Pennsauken said she had no fears of Skele tons if she becomes miss America on sat urday night. Georgiana went to court to defend her  against allegations that she was not a resident of new Jersey. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept. 13, 1945 . Lord Louis Mountbatten received the formal surrender in Singapore of All japanese forces in Southeast Asia and the East indies. The Allied commander of Southeast Asia told a press conference that while his troops would undertake occupation duties in the area for the present the civilian administration in the French and dutch possessions would be re established. 30 years ago today. Sept. 13, 1955 the French Cabinet in Paris approved the plans of Premier Edgar Faure to bring a settlement to strife torn Morocco. 20 years ago foday. Sept. 13, 1965 major elements of the . 1st Cav div airmobile landed in South Vietnam according to . Military officials in Saigon. 10 years ago foday. Sept. 13, 1975 Secretary of state a. Kissinger told Congress the pro use of americans in the Sinai is Dif from the involvement of american technicians which paved the Way for . Military operations in Vietnam