European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday november 23. 1985 19.7 million  habit during smoke out by the associated press on a a set aside to  the cigarette , smokers in Maryland sampled cold Turkey Iee Cream. New Jersey students threw cigarettes into a coffin and . I Wing shed his villainy to help a woman have a smoke free Day. I was the ninth annual great american smoke uni thursday a a on which Mil Lions of smokers gobbled ice Cream licked lollipops and grilled their Teeth to go at Leasi 24 hours without a puff. The american Caneer St Cicely w hich sponsored the event said a preliminary Surv showed 19.7 inti Iun of the nation s estimated 55 million smokers tried to quit up from ik.5 million in a preliminary sur vey last year. The cancer society s goal was to get one in five smokers 10 quit for inc Day. And the poll of 2,172 households indicated More than one in three tried to quit. The num Ber of those who succeeded won t be known until next week. To help tie smokers the cancer society encouraged non smokers to adopt their friends Lur  to provide moral support. One of those who chose to adopt a smoker was actor  Hagman who plays .i.k. Fwing in the prime time soap opera  flagman spent the Day with ire Tehen Orzhen. A Santa Monica. Calif., nurse whom he escorted around he Dallas set and tix k to lunch and a rally to keep her mind off smoking. Texas University football coach prod Akers was also adopted by his Arch rival Baylor football coach Grant Caff. Their teams will meet on the football Field saturday. Caff sent Akers a survival kit filled with Green and Gold items to help him Stop smoking. Green and Gold of course arc inc Baylor school colors and the items included lollipops a growl Towel to Chew on and a shirt that says kiss me i Don t  actor Larry flagman scowls while crushing a cigarette belonging to his adoptee Gretchen Orzhen of Santa Monica calif., during thursday s great american Smo Coul. In Denver gov. Richard Lamm of col Orado commemorated the Smo Coul by signing an executive order that bans smok ing in stale buildings including the state universities. Around inc nation non smokers went to great lengths to get smokers to quit. In Troy mich., map communications inc. President and general manager  Hanson put a Crisp si00 Bill and a note saying thank you for not smoking in envelopes for each of his 30 employees. It s a Little eccentric i guess but i really do appreciate inc fact that the peo ple Don t smoke and the great american Smo Coul seemed a Good Lime to Mccog Nie that said Hanson whose staff is voluntarily smokeless at work. In i Lendall calif., the dancing cancer cites entertained at a rally. They performed wearing cigarette pack costumes that car ried Brand names Slayco false  less and do Merit in Maryland an ice Cream store Chain offered a Cone of Turkey Flavoured ice Cream to anyone who turned in cigarette packs. In Many communities businesses held cold Lurecy lunches for employees. Smokers in Washington slate were bombarded by an and Campaign thai urged them to eat carrots instead of smoking. The think Carrot Campaign included Carrot vendors w to took to Seattle streets in a Send up of vendors who distribute free cigarette samples. Students at Union county College in Cranford . May have been surprised when a float with a Satin lined coffin appeared on Campus. Students were encouraged to throw cigarettes into the coffin. In Rhode Island in wheel great Graffiti vans rolled to schools businesses and shopping malls where non smokers and quitters signed their names on the giant trucks. Barnes Hospital in St. Louis made a costly anti smoking sacrifice. It banned tobacco sales in vending machines and in the gift shop a move thai will Cost it $35.000 a year. In new York City the cancer society concentrated ils efforts in the Black Community of Harlem where u cold Turkey rally was held. Harlem was chosen because Urban Blacks arc less Likely to be aware of cancer s warning signals than whiles said Tina Moschis of inc cancer society. Doctors joined the  no Campaign in Buffalo n.y., where they erected an 8-foot-High re prescription Symbol and then signed it As a pledge of quit smoking and gel others to quit. In rapid City s.d.,  school students wrote 200 letters urging parents and other relatives to Slop smoking. One of inc letters said dear mom and dad i wish you would not Ever smoke because i love you Loo much. And Don t want you to die so try not to buy cigarettes any More. Please please Don t smoke anymore of please please please love  romanian circus acrobat goes Home pregnant Girlfriend says Shell follow new York up a romanian circus acrobat returned Home rather than defect to the United states and remain with his pregnant american Girlfriend but the woman he left behind says she will follow him because i love  the acrobat Andi Gcorge Csc. 24, who told the immigration and natural Alion service he had no desire to defect. Thursday night flew from Kennedy Airport to Frankfurt Ger Many on inc first leg of his journey Home. In Phoenix ariz., his Girlfriend Sherri Meyer 21, said thursday night she plans to join him in Romania As soon As she can finish the necessary paperwork and consult doctors about her unborn child due in january. I love him Meyer said. I m not sure if i m going to survive Over there either bul i m going  Charles Sava an immigration official in new York said the acrobat never wanted to defect despite claims by Meyer who provided the tip thai prompted the ins to detain Georgescu wednesday before he could leave the country. He steadfastly expressed the desire to return said he feared no reprisals and he had no apprehensions about leaving of his own Accord Sava said. He never expressed the desire to slay in inc uni cd  Tim Carlsgaard an aide to sen. Dennis Deconcini d-ariz., spent More than iwo hours speaking with Gcorge Csc at the ins office in new York thursday. Georgescu did not ask for Asylum de Concini said. He twice called Meyer in Phoenix and Carlsgaard was on the line Wilh them for a while. A . Official in Washington who asked not to be identified said Gcorge Csc was leaving the country to ditch Meyer and when she found out she raised a ruckus by calling Deconcini. Meyer said thursday she had spoken Wilh Georgescu by Telephone and he had Given her the option of joining him in to mania or staying in the United states. Meyer had Lold officials Gcorge Csc called her tuesday and said he was afraid he was going to be Scal Home before his visa expired. Meyer then called the ins the police and Deconcini s office. Gcorge Csc has been travelling on a work visa in the United states for nearly iwo years As an acrobat with the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey circus. His contract Wilh the circus was due to expire in two weeks. The ins has been criticized recently for twice resuming a soviet Sailor to the rus sians after he jumped ship in new Orleans. Cicoro Csc would have been the third romanian to defect in recent weeks. He was detained at new York s Kennedy Airport at 7 50 . Wednesday. The acro Bat was sitting in the lounge of the Airport when ins officials found him. The officials took him to the ins can scr in Manhattan to question him Aboul whether he wanted to defect. Consumer prices up 0.3% Washington a rising food and Aulo Mobil costs sent american consumer prices up 0.3 percent in october the government said Friday breaking a string of five consecutive 0.2 percent monthly in creases. Even with inc gain last month re Tail prices have risen Al an annual rate of just 3.3 percent so far in 1985, and analysts anticipating the october spurt in the labor department s consumer Price Index cautioned against Reading too much into Friday s report. Donald Ratajczak of Georgia state University head of an economic forecasting project that specializes in wholesale and retail Price inflation said the acceleration in inflationary pressures appears to be temporary and should become subdued again Early in 1986." Whites protest Blacks in Philadelphia neighbourhood Philadelphia up a mob of about 300 whiles chanting Cal it con verged at a racially mixed couple s Home in a second night of protests against Blacks by residents who say they Don t want i Csc people in our  the mostly to can age crowd thursday night shouted profanity and threats Al inc Home of Gerald and Carol Fox one Day Afler some 400 people proc Slid Al inc Home of a Black couple three blocks away. Both families acc Cully moved into the Blue Collar nigh boyhood in soul Wesl Philadelphia. We re not going to Slop until we gel what we want Francis Marigliano who look part in both actions said thursday night outside the Fox Home. We Don t want i Csc people in our  the foxes who have two Young children remained behind locked doors and drawn shades thursday night. Occasionally some one inside the House would peer through the curtains prompting a burst of jeers from the crowd. No violence was reported but the crowd remained for hours after police and Community leaders tried to disperse them. By 11 . Thursday the efforts of the officials and inc effects of an icy wind had whittled the crowd of 300 to Aboul 30 Sev eral vowed they would Clurn Friday night. The truth is we Don t want any Black people in this neighbourhood said a mid dle aged Man who refused to give his name. 1 his is one of the last while neighbourhoods the incident thursday night came de Spile an agreement Between City officials and Community leaders to halt further demonstrations after inc proc so wednesday outside the Home of Charles Williams an Marietta Bloxom. City managing director James White assisted by members of the City s crisis intervention Center said he worked to Dis Perse inc crowd using leaders of inc  White said he planned to meet again Wilh Community leaders Friday. Williams a shift manager Al a fasl food restaurant recently purchased a iwo Story Brick Row House in the area for $21,000. He could not be reached for comment but his wife Marielta 24, said in a Tele phone interview i knew in was going to happen. 1 had an