European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday december 10, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 want a cabbage Patch doll borrow one los Angeles a there arc libraries Here where the Slaff never says hush and playing games i encouraged. Almost 8.000 children arc patrons of the toy Library ,. A Pranc make Loans from a donated Slock of35,000 Teddy bears Board games and other toys both used and new. Kids can borrow up to Ihrck toys a week and any number of books says Jane Donelson who has super Vised the program for 23 years. Children who return their toys in Good condition and on Lime for 20 weeks can choose one to keep from the Honor Cabinet she says. The program was started in 1935 by a los Angeles dime store manager who caught children stealing thread spools to make wheels for toy cars Donelson says. The Man s name has been lost she los Angeles toy Library network is the oldest Ami biggest of about 200 such programs in the country says Judy Lacu i executive director of the Lisa toy Library association in Glen View Iii. The patrons often come to the libraries As much to play is to Check out toys. All my friends come says Stewart Clancy 11, on a recent wednesday at the toy Library on Hoover Street. Like most of the toy centers it s on one afternoon a in the 10 by 15-foot storefront played with dolls Board games musical instruments and other toys. Donna Titley opened the Hoover Street Library two years ago still runs it and pays the s250-a-month rent out of her own pocket. She says the loan system caches children responsibility As Well As letting them use toys the would t otherwise have. Children rarely break a toy through misuse and most of those that disappear Are eventually brought Back by another child she says. The Only two limes i was Ever really ripped off were when parents came in and checked out the Best toys i had and never came the libraries arc financed by $82.000 in Federal stale and county Grants and by the Volunteer toy loan advis Ory Board s twice yearly rummage sales of donated goods Donelson says. Of Victory for fhe children Day care aide guilty of child abuse new York up a former teacher s aide has been convicted of sexually abusing five youngsters at a Day care Center in what prosecutors called the worst child sex abuse Case in new York City history. The stale supreme court jury in the new York Burough of the Bronx acquitted Albert Algarin 22, of the Bronx on charges of rape sodomy and sexual abuse against eight other children Ages 4 to 8. Still Bronx District attorney Mario me Rola called the sunday a Cuison a Victory for the children. We be been saying ail along there is sexual abuse going on and the verdict proves that we were de Mccarthy a spokesman for Mckrola said the Case was inc worst Case in terms of numbers of sex abuse of Chil Dren in new York City history. Pretty Strung testimony god Only knows Why the jury did not convict Algarin of inc Rusl of the charges he said. The testimony was or cloy Algarin. A former teacher s aide at the puerto rican association for Community affairs Day care Center in the Bronx sat impassively in inc courtroom As the jury read the Var Dick on the fifth straight Day of deliberations. The jury actually reached a partial ver dict saturday bul the judge ordered Ihm Back sunday to decide the rest of the charges. Jurors considered the Case for just Over three hours sunday before reaching a final decision. The panel found Algarin guilty of 23 counts of rape sodomy and sexual abuse child abuse in . In Matins of Camren reported 1961 82 63 64 85 project ton not reports of arouse dude neglect sexual Contact and non Contact experience. Congo t Tun Chat Sara emf cart of Mumm tar pram ton against five children including two counts of raping a 4-year-old girl named girl was inc first to Lesliy in the eight week trial that featured the first use of live closed circuit television testimony in state history. Tiffany testified with much coaxing by the judge and Hal she was sodomized in a bathroom Ai the Center an was told by Algarin he would do the same to her Mother if the girl told anyone. The panel cleared Algarin however of 32 counts of rape sodomy and sexual abuse against eight other children. The former teacher s aide was indicted sept. 20, 1984. For rape sodomy and sex Ual abuse of the 13 children Between april and August of 1984. Algarin now faces a maximum of 25 years to 50 years in prison. He was scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 9. Algarin s Mother Gloria angrily insisted her son was not guilty. He s innocent she said. I want Heads. It is very easy for them the jurors to Sil there and decide about some body is the Mother said. Algarin s lawyers said they plan an a peal. Testimony challenged another of Algarin s lawyers asserted the children s recollections of events were confused and contradictory making them unreliable witnesses. Many of the youngsters spoke haltingly and answered in incomplete sentences often replying Only yes or no to questions. Two other Praca workers Frank Lin Beauchamp 27, a teacher at the Cen Ter and Jesus Torres. 29, a teacher s aide also were indicted and Are awaiting trial. Beauchamp has been accused of sexually abusing a child in front of an entire classroom. Doctor says patient died from new cancer treatment Washington a an experimental cancer treatment Hal sparked an enthusiastic response "hT""011"5,bounced it last week has killed one Palien who received it a doctor at the National cancer Institute says. The therapy uses a hormone to turn the body s Orr injury while Wood cells Mlo Rov ing cancer killers that can destroy or dramatically shrink tutors even after they Ven Rosenberg director of sur wry at the National cancer Institute said Lunday that one death had been associate with the treatment. He strongly Ted la warning that the therapy carries potentially thai a who had canc Rhou his body. It was ii of the treatment and did a i developing the Ireat men. Amtrak train hits car kills 3 in new York Tivoli . A an Amtrak Pas Senger train travelling about % Mph slammed into an automobile at a crossing in this Hudson River Community killing All three people in inc car. There were no other injuries in the Sun Day afternoon Accident Al inc crossing which has neither warning lights nor a bar Rier said Duchess county sheriff Fred Scoralick. The train which was travelling from Al Bany to new York City did not derail and its passengers w arc transferred to another train to resume their journey said Amtrak spokesman Clifford Black. Scoralick said the car was driving South along a gravel Road parallel to the tracks As the southbound train approached. The Engi Neer saw the car and sounded a warning whistle bul the car turned across the tracks and was struck broadside. The dead were identified As inc Driver Kenneth g. Bacon jr., 31, of red Hook Sheila r. Roberts 23. Of Rhinecliff and Mark a. Staley 24. Of Rhino Buck. Sex Newsweek editor Dies Winter Haven Fla. A Ches Ter Lee Shaw 87, a journalist for five dec Ades who served As executive editor of Newsweek Magazine has died following a lengthy illness. A native of St. Joseph to. Shaw graduated from the University of Kansas in 1922 with a degree in journalism. He started his career As a reporter for the Jour Nal world in Lawrence Kan. In the treatment doctors remove cancer patients own White blood cells and grow them in test tubes with a hormone called Inierleukin-2, which programs the cells to seek out cancer. Then the blood cells Are put Back into the a aliens bodies where they arc bolstered further with injections of interleukin-2. The first hum a use of the treatment a ailed adoptive immunotherapy was reported by the cancer Institute in last week s Issue of the new England journal of Medicine. The journal reported that the researcher tested the technique on 25 patients with advanced spreading cancer that failed to re Spond to All conventional therapy. In 11 people with four different kinds of cancer the tutors shrank by More than 50 percent. The article however did not report the death from the treatment. H mentioned the treatment had a major Side effect severe fluid retention that can Lead to breathing failure. On sunday Rosenberg cautioned thai much research needs to be done before \nterlculun-2 can join the Lisl of Safe cancer therapies. Stallone and rambo in t he a Lovely couple Hollywood up Sylvester Small on and his rambo character won the \985 satirical sour Apple while Elizabeth Taylor Clint Eastwood and Bill Cosby were honoured by the Hollywood women s press club As the year s most newsworthy stars. Taylor and Cosby were not present sunday at inc 45th annual Golden Apple awards luncheon at the Beverly Wilshire hotel. Eastwood appeared and told the club members. It s great to be a Winner. I Hope the raiders do the same this the Raider did beating the dam Sci Siuwun 17-u in overtime. Eastwood and Cosby shared the award for most newsworthy male Star with Singer Bruce Springsteen the third nominee. All this for dancing with Diana Eastwood joked referring to the recent while House dinner for Prince Charles and Princess Diana. He then thanked the club members who voted for him saying he has found Hal inc press has to be on your Side to succeed in Hollywood. Taylor was chosen most newsworthy female Star Over Madonna and meryl so rep. Stallone won the sour Apple As least newsworthy Star in tandem with his rambo character. Belly White who presented inc award called Ihm a Lovely couple if in arc Ever was she promised to present the award a Green sour Apple 10 Stallone Ai the earliest Opportunity then took a bite out of the fruit As the audience applauded. Also nominated for Hal award won last year by to and John Derek were the couples of Ryan o Neal with Farrah Fewcell and Prince with Apollonia
