European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes sunday february 2,1986 battleship is old stick in the mud eight tugboats Friday tried for three hours to Tow the world War ii battleship Wisconsin from its pier at the Philadelphia naval shipyard but gave up because the 45,000-ton ship was stuck in 28 years Worth of Sill. We were Able to Rock her Back and Forth a Tad but it looks like we won t get her out before next thursday at the earliest said shipyard spokesman Al Peers in. The Wisconsin which has been tied up at the Sam pier since it was decommissioned in 1958, is to be Lowed 2,000 feet to another wharf. There it is to be modernized and put Back into service by i9s8 As part of a build up that Calls for a 600-ship Fleet. Part of the problem in moving the Wisconsin i that a world War ii aircraft Carrier the Shangrila had been tied up next to it for years Petersen said. It acted something like a Snow Fence blocking in the Silt. It also prevented us from taking soundings around the Wisconsin to Check the depth he said. The Shangrila has Heen moved and Navy officials will decide in the next few Days whether to dredge the mud from around the Wisconsin Petersen said. Actress leaving to series leave role a actress Lisa Hartman will Cathy Geary Rush on lbs tvs knots Landing at the end of this season the show s producers announced. Madman s departure is by Mutual consent with Lorima productions executive producer Dru Jacobs said Friday in Loa Angeles. Hartman 28, who has just signed a singing contract with Atlantic records wanted to be free to pursue her music career and it was Felt the Story lines for her character had been exhausted Jacobs explained. Hartman said she Hopes the writers Don t kill off her character so she can return later if she wants to. Town has Hyphen Tomy in la Canada Flint rugs calif., the Hyphen is out but Birds Are in. City Council members performed a successful Hyphen Tomy but attempts to sever the City from its peafowl population failed. Action on removal of the Hyphen Between la Canada and Flintridge was postponed two weeks ago be cause two of the five Council members were absent. By god we re All Here and we re going to do it mayor Barbara Pieper said when the ordinance was called up on the Council s Agenda. You mean we can perform the Hyphen Tomy asked councilman a baby Smith. The vote was Quick painless and unanimous. We be slashed the dash proclaimed Pieper. The Hyphen crept into the City official name after voters approved incorporation in 1976 but before in corporation papers were filed in Sacramento. It bothered City leaders but until last year a atly citywide vote would have been needed to change the name. Then the Law changed requiring Only a four fifths majority vote by the Council. But while Council members were Quick to axe the Hyphen they refused to banish the City s peafowl. Some residents of the los Angeles suburb have complained about the Birds whose numbers have grown in recent years. My Patio s always a mess Bill a curdling told the Council before it voted against funding a trapping program. Handicapped learn magic magician David Copperfield worked some special magic for the disabled by leaching simple tricks to patients and therapists at memorial regional rehabilitation Center in Jacksonville Fla. Copperfield introduced rehabilitation experts to project magic a program he developed four years ago As therapy for the disabled. "11 helps patients gain manual dexterity and it boosts patients self esteem by giving them a skill a lot of Able bodied people Don t have he said. Copperfield showed that with a touch of misdirection and a Little theatrical flair patients can make a rubber band jump from one hand to another tie a knot in a rope without letting go of the ends and make a Pencil mysteriously stick to a hand. Governor debuts As actor California Cor. George Wenlu Mubin is making bisecting debut in the television series hotel m which he plays what else a governor. In a scene filmed in the sound stage hotel s lobby Deukmejian discusses a news conference with the hotel manager played by James Brolin said series production manager Blair Gilbert. He was very Good Gilbert said. He had Cue cards but did t use the Republican governor who is up for re election this year was in los Angelat week for an All Day briefing on California s film Industry. He received $361 for his efforts the minimum scale allowed by the screen actors Guild. Fired for posing nude a Glasgow by radio station employee who appears nude in the current edition of Playboy Magazine says she has been fired for Baring All. Us Hammond. 23, was fired by the owners of radio stations Way am and we go pm Doris and Moena Sadler whose son station Engineer Reginald Sadler had encouraged Hammond to try out forthe picture layout on broadcast employees. Hammond said Clovis Sadler initially told her she was dismissed As a program assistant because he could t stand the publicity but later said the fir ing hid nothing to do with Sadler said Hammond was making too Many mis takes and her appearance in Playboy prompted fre quent Calls to her disrupting her work. & � poster denounced this Potter purportedly of a Nicaragua Freedom fighter named Maria it Dittl buted in Florida bythe Miami bated democratic Nicaragua Crohn hat been denounced by the ,-tupported federation of democratic Nicaragua at Tow then tic Hammond said she had been receiving about is Calls a Day from around the nation since she appeared in the Magazine wearing Only socks and jgfn1"around her Abdomen while seated at a weightlifting Bench. Pavarotti Given staff Ionthe performance by Tenor Luciano Para Otto Ati Louisville ky., earned him a Large Token of thanks from the Kentucky opera a 5-year-old stallion for his farm in animal was donated by opera Board member . Pavarotti had expressed a wish to own on tit farmin Italy a Fine Kentucky Breeding stallion when de tails for the concert were finalized said open general director Thomson Smillie. Pavarotti 50, performed with the Louisville or Chestra before about 13,000 people in Freedom Hall. Read All about it Home delivery of stars and stripes at no extra charge. Keep up with news and sports. Enjoy your favorite comic Sand columns. Profit from travel tips and consumer advice. Stare and stripes is delivered to mailboxes in most government housing areas for just $4.50 per month. Start your Day with stars and stripes. Complete this form an drop it off at your nearest stars and stripes Bookstore or mall to stars and Stripe Apo 09211attre sales promotion mum Sun t Sliwi. I hum Pitt me we i sex get too no Nimo 1 will Pat the Home delivery Carrier when he comes to collect of or no nou Momm
