European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars an stripes monday january 27,1986 cat Chat Climo Sphinx owned by Aline Noel of Paris has a nost to Rose meeting with nutty Ragnarok s sir Rufi Vivet per a doll owned by Karen huge at Madison Square Garden i new York. The inn woe among 1,000 compel ing in the International cat show Over he weekend. Hauge s Cal was chosen Best of Breed 8 killed at least 18 injured in pileup on fog bound Highway in Arkansas Marion Ark. A two tractor trailers crumpled like accordions and a car was crushed in a 27-vehicle, Chain reaction pileup in dense fog saturday that killed eight people and injured at least 13, police said. We kept hearing bang bang bang. There was a car Horn blowing and then we could hear the screaming said Marion Earnest manager of a service station near the Highway. The series of accidents an interstate 53 about four Miles North of West Memphis. Ark., began about 9 30 . Said stale police officer Howard Smith. Tic Highway across the Mississippi River from Mem Phis tcnn., runs parallel with the River into Southeastern Missouri. Large Industrial cranes were sent in to Clear the debris. Tog had formed rapidly West of Marion during the morning. It was some sort of a Freak temperature inversion is the Way we understand it said a stale police Corporal Larry Patterson. Someone attempted to slow Down and some one else ran into him and it was a Chain reaction from the vehicles included eight tractor trailer rigs loaded with pipe wire and charcoal Patterson said. Two trailer were crumpled together and burned. A Load of pipe came Loose from a Jac knifing tractor trailer and smashed a late Model Sedan in which two peo ple died. Along with the Sedan a Small foreign car was crushed and it burned. All available emergency Crews were out there Smith said. Beverly Wilkes of Hayti mo., said she was driving South on 1-55 headed for Memphis when she ran into a Wall of fog. You could t see very far. I know there was a car and a truck slapped on the Highway she said. I moved Ever to the left and something hit me from behind. Then some thing else hit her car was knocked onto the grass along the Highway. I saw a Man and a woman running so i just followed them. 1 could t see anything. I could just hear cars hitting and hitting and hitting. 1 could see the flames and i kept hearing these cars running Earnest said he was working inside the station when he heard a Boom. We stepped out Here and heard it go Boom again. It sounded sort of like a gasoline Lank Patterson said is people including one in critical Condi Tion were treated at hospitals. Some of the injured were flown by helicopter to the regional medical Center s Elvis Presley trauma Center in Memphis. Nursing manager Rosie Randolph said one of those admitted was in the Center s intensive care unit. Mary Alice Wajiha nursing supervisor at critic Den memorial Hospital in West Memphis said the emergency room treated 11 people and one person underwent surgery. Teen completes walk across . Los Angeles up a London teen Ager walk ing to raise Money for famine Relief in Africa completed her six month trek from new York to the West coast saying the nation s fume filled second largest City Fayona Campbell 18, who launched her journey last August reached the Steps of City Hall Friday and was greeted with an official Welcome from the los Angeles cily Council. Supporters said that Campbell is the first woman to walk across the United slates and that she set a woman s Speed record for walking the distance. Although she found the United Stales fascinating Campbell said she almost abandoned the trip twice once when she encountered subzero temperatures in Texas and again in the Homestretch when she arrived in smog filled los Angeles. I had to Wear a handkerchief Over my nose she said "1 was almost overcome by All the fumes it Campbell whose 3.000-mile Cross country trek was sponsored by a soup company said she plans to slay in los Angeles until she can locate another sponsor
