European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes monday december 18, 1985 Mike Douglas regrets working for firm under investigation i Hornix. Ari. A Mike Douglas says he did t know what he was getting into when he accepted $25.000 a appear in an advertisement for a company accused of bilking would be investors in Porta ble phone service. ,1 government info racy says. Douglas giving a deposition in los Angeles last week said he was paid $25,000 and was promised at least $25.000 More assistant Arizona attorney general Chuck Johnson said. He said he thought it was going to be an Industrial training film not an advertisement even though the con tract said advertisement " said Johnson who has hied civil suit against officers of american National cellular inc. And an administrative complaint against Douglas. No criminal charges have been filed. My opinion and impression was that he was candid certainly regrets being involved in this and would like to do his Best to make amends Johnson said. The state will demand that Douglas hand Over an Money he made on the project Johnson said adding we car Lionly think he should no profit by his role with Ameri can National a in the los Angeles office of Douglas manager Kappll Coyne & co., said Early Friday a spokeswoman for Trie entertainer was not immediately available for comment. A civil suit filed by Johnson last August in Maricopa county Superior court in Phoenix claims that american National cellular violated state securities and consumer fraud Laws in offering to help investors apply for cellular phone licenses that the Federal communications commis Sion plans to allocate by lottery. The suit which claims there were sales of unregistered securities and sales by unregistered dealers seeks an in Junction against the alleged violations repayment of Money paid by customers and unspecified civil penalties. The company has denied any wrongdoing. Douglas is not a party to the suit but is named in an administrative Casc and do Sis proceeding before the Ari Zona corporation commission which regulates securities. The government claims he appeared in videotaped and printed sales materials Anil made 20 statements that tend to deceive Johnson said. According to Johnson. Douglas said in his deposition tuesday that he had a lawyer review the contract but got Mike Douglas the script Only one Day before shooting started. He denies Ever having known of the principles of the company Johnson added lie said it was sort of a Normal course of things. He s done Industrial films for companies and this looked like the same kind of the administrative hearing on Douglas has been postponed until at least Jan. 20, Johnson said. In addition to the state actions a Federal Trade com Mission complaint filed in los Angeles last month accused the application preparation service of misleading investors about the chances of winning a lottery. . District judge William Ria froze the company s assets in response. Separation surgery impossible for Bright and Happy toddlers Narragansett . A Ruth and acre a Cady share an undo sri cd heart and other organs but the playful 20-month-Oid siamese wins also share an oversized spirit. They sneak toys from their 4-year-old sister s room Chase the family dog with their specially designed Walker and generally keep their parents hopping. The twins joined Chesl to Chesl from Collarbone to Navel have readily apparent personality differences such As pc Rena s near constant desire to cat. If you give something to Ruthie first Shell give itto Screna because she knows Verena has to have things first said their Mother Marlin a 33. Screna almost always gels her Way and Ruthie does t when they re drawing with crayons Ruth opts for Orange and Screna prefers purple. Their father Peter 30, who moved the family to Rhode Island from Durango colo., in september to become a culinary instructor at Johnson & Wales col lege in , described his Shock at the twins birth. I was scared when they were first born. It s not something we knew was going to happen he said. At first he expected they would just Lake the upstairs at the Hospital take them apart and there would be stitches for a but. While their shared intestine and liver would note a problem in separating the twins their single heart made that surgery impossible. Fears that Ruth and Verena could die at any moment because of problems with their heart which has three Chambers instead of the Normal four sub sided As they grew. A critical blood vessel to the heart tiny when they were born has grown to Normal size. Maybe someday Down the Road they la find a Way App no Murlene cd of name Anscott ., holds her 20 month old siamese twins Ruth left and Screna. To separate them their father said. We re meanwhile the girls Are Bright and Happy the parents say. Reaction from neighbors and others when the twins Are taken out has been All positive but at first the cads weren t used to new in glanders Reserve in contrast to the openness of people they knew in Colora do. These Guys Ruth and Verena Don t feel uncomfortable. It s Only other people s attitudes that makes things uncomfortable their Mother said. Stateside i officials undecided about Fate of Jaguar that killed keeper grand rapids. Mich. A a Jaguar that lulled i pan time animal keeper at a zoo apparently escaped its Cage by pushing open a motorized door City officials said Friday. The 200-Pound South ame i an male Jaguar mauled i Cylc Booth. 30, in a service area at John Ball Park zoo animal was Tranquili cd after its escape and re turned to its Cage but City manager c. Stevens Bernard mid officials were undecided Friday about its Fate. Preliminary autopsy results showed Booth died of a fractured neck and puncture of a major artery said or. Steven conic Kent county forensic pathologist. Booth of Kent City had been a seasonal zoo employee for five years. Northwest Orient to begin new flights to Boston Frankfurt Minneapolis up1 Northwest Orient airline will offer non Stop service three times a week to Boston and to Frankfurt beginning june 5, airline officials have Orient also plans to boost the number of non Stop flights Between Minneapolis and Frankfurt co four times a week. With three Boston non slops and a fourth Minn Eapp Lis St. Paul non Stop a week to Frankfurt. Northwest will operate daily service to this important european cily said Thomas Koors Northwest Orient s executive vice president of sales and marketing. Columbia Law school s Dean named new president of Yale new Haven Conn up Mcnno c. Schmidt jr., Dean of the Columbia University school of Law and a constitutional Law expert has been named Yale univer sity s 20lh president. Schmidt 43. Was appointed to succeed retiring a. Bart Icett Giamatti who plans to step Down june 3.0 us head of the nation s third oldest University founded in i Schmidt is a graduate of Yale. I70i. Jury awards $200,000 to Man whose wife hanged herself Grafton i. A a $200,000 damage award was an unhappy Victory for a Man whose wife hanged herself after Reading an erroneous insurance report that said she had a brain tumor. I m glad i won Robert Stafford said. But when you re leu alone at 85. You re really he said the award granted by a Federal court jury in St. Louis never would compensate him or the loss of his wife Pauline 79, who became despondent after seeing the re port and committed suicide Jan 14. Stafford filed suit in March against or. Raymond Cohen and neurological Medicine inc. Of suburban St. Louis. Efficiency award promised for improving 1986 ceremony Washington a president Reagan handed out awards for improving government efficiency and said next year he will give one to somebody who can make in ceremony More efficient. As Constance Horner director of the office of person Nel management read the names of 32 winners of the award for senior civil servants Reagan handed them framed certificate. But when she read the name of Stanley m. Silverman director of the office of the comptroller at the . Information Agency it turned out the Only person remaining to receive an award was somebody else. Silverman had already received his certificate but Thad another Winner name on it. Photographers at the ceremony noticed several certificates were Given to the wrong people. Next year i la be giving one to someone who straight ens this out Reagan said. Owner of san Diego padres gives funds for peace Institute South Bend ind. A Joan b. Croc. Owner of the can Diego padres and an activist in the nuclear Dir Man tent movement has endowed e j6 million Institute for peace studies at the University of notre Dame University president Theodore m. He Burgh announced. The endowment from Kroc the widow of Ray a. Kroc and inheritor of the Fortune he created As founder of Mcdonald s restaurants is one of the largest personal gift sever received by the University he Burgh scid
