European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday March 1,1986 30-year-old flight of fancy wins $50,000 Tor Massachusetts woman new York up a frail elderly woman who in the propeller plane Days of the 1950s envisioned High Speed Jet travel global weekend jaunts and Heli copter shuttles thursday won a 30-year-old contest on the future of air travel. Twa officials awarded Helen Thomas 80, of Cam Bridge mass., $50,000 As the Winner of the cosmic  the contest asked people boarding Twa flights in 1955 to predict what commercial air trave would be like in 1985. This is a Sublime moment for me said Thomas a self described aviation Buff who first flew As a Passen Ger in an open air biplane in 1928 wearing a leather Cap and goggles. Thomas with astounding accuracy predicted the typical commercial airline flights of today would cover 5,000 Miles and cruise at speeds of 700 Mph. She foresaw emergency air landings on Hospital roofs and weekend junkets to Hawaii Australia Rome an Cairo Egypt. At the time she wrote her predictions Dwight Eisen Hower was president children were wearing Davy Crockett hats and Elvis Presley was the new sensation. Thomas imagined there would be helicopter shuttles bringing passengers to airports cargo ships with 200,000-Pound payloads and Jet powered planes be cause atomic Energy would not be adopted to Commer Cial use. I did t think it would be As luxurious As it would be now she said ruefully of her Only major oversight. After All having flown in open cockpits i was Hesi Tant to predict the  Thomas who retired after working on scientific publications at Harvard and Radcliffe and the Massachusetts Institute of technology was one of 13,000 people worldwide who entered the contest. Twa claims it is the longest running contest in his tory and has entered it with the guinness Book of world  the entries were placed on microfilm in a corporate Safe at Twa Headquarters and forgotten until Contes Tants wrote a few years ago asking if they had won. Some of the More fantastic of the 13,000 entries envisioned science fiction scenarios. One predicted apes As pilots. Others foresaw a helicopter in every garage flying Saucer shaped aircraft or nuclear powered planes. Thomas said she had forgotten about it altogether until Twa officials recently called her to Tell her Shehad won. Two of the three runners up have yet to be found because they no longer live at the address on their entry forms said Twa president Richard Pearson. Pearson aviation author Robert Serling and former astronaut Pete Conrad were the contest judges. Runners up win free Twa flights anywhere in the airline s system. Moslem sentenced to death by judge held on Achille Lauro Philadelphia a a judge held hostage on the hijacked Achille Lauro cruise ship has sentenced a mos Lem minister to die for two murders rejecting an Allega Tion that he was prejudiced against moslem. A lawyer for Willie Salem Clayton 38, of Phila Delphia had asked common pleas judge Stanley l. Kubacki to withdraw from the Case and allow a new trial. The lawyer contended the judge might hold a grudge As a result of the hijacking last october by palestinian guerrillas. I be been offended by christians and offended by jews Kubacki said. Ill deny your  Clayton was convicted in two 1980 shooting deaths. A jury in May recommended the death penalty. Police dog from Amsterdam prefers his commands in dutch Lincoln neb. A a Pooch named Bullet Speaks in Plain old fashioned Woods and arts but the new est addition to a special police canine corps would like his orders barked to him in dutch. The highly trained $4,500 dog was born and raised in Amsterdam and does t understand English. And officer Paul Aksamit Bullet s handler Speaks very Little dutch. But both have worked to overcome the language Barrier since Bullet arrived in Lincoln feb. 15. Aksamit took the first step memorizing 21 dutch com mands. Some of them Are close to English words easing the task a bit. Zit Means sit for example. And Bullet will soon learn English Aksamit Hopes. To help him along Aksamit is giving Bullet commands first in dutch then repeating them in  i i ii � i i m tech then repeating them in  blamed Tor total Avalanche after 7% years letter in bottle Vail Colo. Up investigators say an englishman whose body was found buried under six feet of Snow apparently triggered the fatal Avalanche by skiing out of Bounds. The body of Derrick Holley 39, of Essex England was recovered thursday after specially trained dogs picked Aphis scent. Holley had been vacationing in Colorado since sat urday. Friends reported him missing wednesday afternoon. About the same time the Vail ski patrol noticed a fresh Avalanche path at the Bottom of a roped off area near the Fri denies probe of peace advocate Samantha Smith Boston up the Fri denies investigating the Date Samantha Smith the Maine schoolgirl who became a peace ambassador but is keeping secret 11 pages of mate rial containing her name because other people Are involved the Boston Herald newspaper reported Friday. Samantha Smith was not the target of an Fri investigation said Fri spokesman William Carter. She served her country Well is loved and is sorely  he said reports suggesting otherwise Are  san Francisco television station Kron to had re Quested All material the Fri has about Samantha under the Freedom of information act but the Fri refused to release 11 documents claiming they were classified for National defense or foreign policy reasons. The requesting news Agency was informed the with held 11 pages of information pertained to other individuals organizations or events Carter said. Samantha was 10 years old in 1982 when she wrote soviet Leader Yuri Andropov about her concerns of a pos sible nuclear War and was invited to visit that country in 1983. She subsequently became an International figure. She her father and others died last August in a plane crash As they returned to Maine from filming the television series Lime Street in England with actor Robert Wagner. A spokesman for sen. William Cohen a Maine told the Herald the senator checked with the Fri and was told the files contain tangential references to Samantha in documents about other groups and  but rep. Don Edwards d-calif., who chairs the House subcommittee on civil and constitutional rights said the Fri should be out catching spies. Not wasting their time on peace organizations. And Little girls wonderful Little girls like Samantha  base of Vail Mountain just East of the new Vista Bahn express chairlift. The ski patrol using a scent dog and Long poles probed the slide area before halting the search for the night. Tracks going into the out of Bounds area were Evi Dence the Avalanche was triggered by a skier said Rich teeters a Vail associates spokesman. His tracks go right to where the Avalanche  an autopsy was scheduled Friday in Glenwood Springs but officials said Holley probably was killed by the Impact of the Avalanche rather than by suffocation. Up photo protesting apartheid Amy Carter daughter of former president Carter standing joins a sit in at the administration build ing of Brown University in Providence . The students were protesting failure of the University to completely divest itself of stocks in companies doing business in South Africa. Answered from West indies Evesham . A a schoolgirl s letter in a bottle has floated hundreds of Miles from new Jersey to be answered by a Man in the British West indies. But the trip took 7te years and the schoolgirl is now a 21-year-old Hairdresser. It s weird said Leigh o Neill. I m overwhelmed. I can t believe after All these years somebody would  the reply came from an australian Engineer Colin Watson who came across the bottle while photographing wildlife on a grand Turk Island Beach. Drive less car backs in circles across Highway until out of Gas Fredericksburg a. A a Highway was blocked for an hour and a half while a drive less car backed up in circles at about 35 Mph until it ran out of Gas. Police said the Early morning traffic was Light and the car did t pose a threat so they decided to just wait for itto run out of Gas. We just sat Back and watched it run said officer . Dunn. Good thing it did t have a full tank of  d probably still be  police said the incident started when Percy b. Truslow stopped at a convenience store to buy a cup of Coffee. While he was inside his 1972 Ford Sedan apparently slipped into reverse and rolled backward out of the parking lot possibly hitting a bump that could have nudged the front wheels. It then began to Circle across the northbound lanes of . 1, police  was charged with failing to set his car s hand Brake. Construction worker survives 8-Story plunge from roof Pensacola Fla. Up a teen age construction worker who backed off a roof and fell eight stories to an Asphalt parking lot where he landed primarily on his feet was Alert and talking Hospital officials said. Sidney l. Allen 18, was reported in stable condition at Baptist Hospital where he was being treated for fracture sin his Back wrist leg and ankle. Doctors said Allen also suffered internal injuries in the tall but no head injuries. Deputy Sam Reitzammer of the Escambia county sheriffs department said Allen and another roofing company worker were taking measurements at Ocean Breeze West condominiums when Allen fell off the Edge of the roof. He backed off the top of the building he and another Guy were measuring. He just backed right off and he rolled two times in the air during the 80-foot drop reit Zammer said. He landed primarily on his feet and then the rest of he weight went onto his butt and hip Reitzammer  s Lucky to be  _ a Hospital spokeswoman said Allen was Alert and talk ing when he arrived at the Hospital by helicopter