European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes wednesday september 25, 1985 these Guys have some teams ouf of Kilter from press dispatches tic Pel ribbing about the Kilts they Wear but the five bos in inc held hockey team at Northampton High school say there s no reason Why real men can play the game. We would t be Here if we could t take it said Richard Pushkin shrugging off shouts of hey Guys Nice Skirls that greeted them when they took the Field Long with the girls in traditional Field hockey kills. Although other coaches have threatened to boy Cott their games and some spectators Are amused coach Mary Ferguson said she stands by her boys. They arc All seniors. They like the game and have wanted to play since they were freshmen and just decided to do it this year Ferguson said in Telephone interview. They Are All mature class individuals and i Hope they come out of this the same Way with All the trouble people arc putting them to. Field hockey is a Man s sport in every other country in the world but in the Pushkin an ice hockey player played the entire season opening game Ana was credited with an assist As Northampton prevailed 1-0 Over an All girl Holyoke High school squad. I think it s great said senior goalie Debbie Mansfield. Last year Northampton s All girl squad won Only one game in 12 starts she said. Three of the boys started and two saw limited action in the opener. Since Massachusetts highest court struck Down league restrictions in the late 1970s, Public schools have been prohibited from sexually segregating sports teams unless they sponsor teams for both sexes in the sport said Sherman Kinney associate executive director of the Massachusetts interscholastic athletic association. We be had some girls try out for football and isolated cases of boys on volleyball and Field hockey teams but we be never had As Many As five on one team before Kinney said. I Don t think it s fair said Holyoke coach Terri Pudlo. Our athletic director was talking about walking off the Field. The boys Don t know the game but their Speed and strength is an intimidating thu hex a play a hmm tuft Craig Kirouac Alan Wolf officer for the various base clubs. The Leoc after handling her claim for about a year told her she had t filed it soon enough she said. So Farrell and Caroline c. Charlie Stockton 57, another former waitress at the chiefs club filed suit in . District court saying they had been forced out of their jobs because of their Ages. They named the department of the Navy which oversees the clubs on military bases As defendant. Collecting Brecht show a leg her legs were Strong enough to carry Mary Farrell through i7 i years As a cocktail waitress in Navy clubs most recently the chiefs club at Norfolk Nas in Virginia. But she says those legs weren t Young enough or shapely enough to pass Muster last year when the Boss decided to hire younger waitresses and put them in miniskirts. As a result Furrell said she was forced out of her Job just six months shy of retirement. Karroll. 65, said she filed an age discrimination complaint with the equal employment Opportunity commission on the base. The complaint was against John Curtin the former mess management East Germany and West Germany plan to co Publ ish a collection of More than a thousand works of Bertollt Brecht the author of the three Penny spokesmen for East Germany s auf Bau publish ing House and West Germany s Suhrkamp publish ers said the agreement for the joint project Fol Lowed years of negotiations Between communist and West German officials. It is the first such cultural agreement Between the two countries spokesmen Elmar Faber of auf Bau and Siegfried unsold of Suhrkamp told report ers. Brecht fled Germany in 1933 when Hitler Cameto Power. He eventually went to the United states where he lived from 1941 to 1949. He returned to East Germany where he died in East Berlin in1956. The prolific author wrote More than 30 operas Pip to Ekhard Pushkin Ken cd Anabeh Craig Hoy word. And plays 1,300 poems and songs 150 other pieces of prose in the form of diaries and letters and three novels. He is probably Best known for the three Penny opera written in 1928. Only a Little More than half of Brecht s works have Ever been published and the spokesmen de scribed the agreement to print All of them As a Gigantic undertaking that will fill some 30 books of about 700 pages each. The first seven books arc slated to go on Sale in 1987, with completion of the project planned for1990. Firehouse s neighbor Burns a House next to a fire station in Coal City w.v., burned to the ground because firefighters did t have enough water pressure to fight the Blaze officials said. Had there been enough water we would have been Able to save the House said firefighter Dane Gillespie. Firefighters emptied one pumper truck and had to go to Sophia about five Miles North to refill the tank. Bob Adkins who owned the House estimated damages at $50,000. He said he had just bought the House and was remodelling it. Officials at the Raleigh county Public service District which supplies water to the area decline comment
