European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday March 23, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 Cleveland gets Down of Rock i Roll beat Cleveland a this much maligned City reverberated to a Rock beat As people donned Bobby socks and Saddle shoes for a Rock v Roll birthday Bash with Bill Haley s Rock around the clock blaring Over radio and television stations and the governor boo Galo oing on stage. Rock Pioneer Chuck Berry spun records Friday and Chubby checker originator of the twist was in town As Clev Elanders boasted that their City was built on Rock Roll. The Celebration marked the 34th anniversary of what has been dubbed the first Rock v Roll concert and was part of the City s Effort to lure a proposed Rock v Roll Hall of Fame to the shores of Lake Erie. It also doubled As a Pep rally for Friday night s basketball Duel Between the Cleveland state Vikings and Navy in a semifinal of the Mcaa tournament at the Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford . But the Pep rally turned out to be in vain. At the Rascal House a pizza parlor and tavern raucous cheering turned to silence Friday night As the Cleveland state team failed to score in the closing seconds and lost to Navy 71-70. Earlier Friday s festivities included a Moon dog Coronation Ball ii in the concourse of the City s land Mark terminal Tower where Berry Singer of go Cleveland go among others played records for sold out crowd of 3,500. Down the Street hundreds of people turned out for a Rock v Roll birthday Bash with Chubby checker and Rock author and new York disc jockey Norm . Among those at the party was Diana Davis 26. The twist was a Little bit before our time she said. But we met Chubby checker and i m thrilled. We got  nightclubs and taverns participated in the birthday Bash with such activities As Jitterbug Hula hoop and limbo contests a James Brown lookalike and lip sync contests cakes and special drinks. The festivities got off to a rocking Start with a noon time rally in 25-degree weather on Public Square where the Day was proclaimed Rock v Roll Day in a photo easter egg Hunt eleven year old Mary by searches for beeping easter eggs during a Blind children s Hunt in san Francisco s Golden Gate Park. About 20 children participated in the event. Chubby checker file photo Chuck Berry file photo the City and throughout the state. We re going to Send a message All across this coun try that Cleveland is rocking and rolling today said gov. Richard Celeste a Cleveland native. It s going to reach All the Way to the Meadowlands in new  what a combination said Celeste who Drew cheers when he Boga looked onstage to the music of local Rock band. State sen. Lee Fisher of Cleveland who said his favorite Rock group was the turtles told the crowd that the earthquake that Shook the state in january was really the Ohio legislature shouting  we gave it not Only to this country but Cleveland gave Rock to the world and the Rock is still beating in Cleveland declared rep. Mary Rose Oakar. Cleveland May be better known As the place where the Cuya hoga River was once so polluted that it caught fire the City that declared municipal default a few years ago or the butt of put Downs on the David let Terman show. But Rock historians consider the late disc jockey Allan freed s Moon dog Coronation Ball held in Cleveland on March 21, 1952, As the first Rock concert. Freed is also credited with giving the Public the phrase 11 1 Rock n Roll. That concert also foretold some of Rock s Stormy future so Many people showed up that police shut it Down Early vowing that nothing like it would eve happen again. Freed went on to Fame As a radio personality at stations in new York and was among the first 10 people inducted earlier this year into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. Cleveland is one of several cities vying for a Hall of Fame proposed by the new York based Rock v Roll Hall of Fame foundation a record Industry supported organization. A recent Telephone poll conducted by the newspaper Usa today Drew 110,315 Calls at a Cost of 50 cents each supporting Cleveland s bid for the Hall of Fame. That was a 5-1 Lead Over Memphis tenn., the haunt of Elvis Presley and other rockers. And when a petition supporting the City s bid for the Hall of Fame circulated recently it picked up 650,000 signatures in a metropolitan area of about 1.5 million. Massachusetts Louisiana fires kill fireman 4 Young Brothers by the associated press fire swept through a Street of Homes in Massachusetts killing one firefighter and four boys died in a Louisiana Blaze that police said started when their father put gasoline in a kerosene Heater. A South Boston firefighter died Friday after he was trapped under a toppled tree when the front Wall of one burning House collapsed suddenly officials said. The fire in South Boston displaced 27 adults and eight children in the Middle of the night but All found shelter with friends and relatives said red Cross spokeswoman Jennifer French. Apparently it s a close knit neighbourhood and they were All cared for she said. Fire commissioner Leo Stapleton said the fire apparently started in the basement of one House and quickly spread to three Story tenements on either Side along a Street where houses Are about 10 to 15 fee apart. Embers blown by an icy wind also ignited the roofs of two buildings on the next Street and two houses on another Street a Quarter mile away. School committeeman Joseph Casper who operates a funeral Home in the neighbourhood said he saw flames shooting about 20 feet into the air. It was like one big mushroom Cloud of flames. No smoke just flame he said. If they firefighters had t got Here As quickly As they did the whole Block would have  Mercer Street looked like it was Daybreak said neighbourhood resident John Rogers 33. Helping fight the fire was station officer Dennis Mcgrath of the Dublin Ireland fire department who with 17 others from his department had come to Boston for the St. Patrick s Day Parade. As a firefighter whelp All firefighters he said. Investigators did not know the cause of the fire but treated it As an Accident. In Henderson la., Bay Phan a vietnamese Immi Grant was Able to get two of his children to safety but the flames were too intense for him to Rescue four of his sons aged 6 to 13, said police chief Fred Hayes. Hayes said the fire started thursday night when Phan put gasoline in a Heater in the attic after it ran out of kerosene. It blew up. He tried to throw it Down the stairway but it hit the door he said. Hayes said Phan and his wife Phuong suffered Only minor Burns. The rescued boy and girl were in stable condition with Burns Friday at the University medical Center in Lafayette a nursing supervisor said. Hayes said the family also had been left homeless in Early february when their Mobile Home burned. Phan was not charged in the february fire and no charges had been filed against him in the fatal one although it is under investigation Hayes said. 2 vacationing students killed falling from balconies Daytona Beach Fla. A two College students on Spring break in Florida have died after falling from hotel balconies. Laurain Day Buffington 20, of grif Fin ga., died thursday trying to Cross a Balcony railing on the return trip to a room she shared with three friends police said. A student at Gordon Junior College in Barnesville ga., she was the sixth person to fall off a Balcony Here since january. The other five suffered minor injuries. Less than seven hours later Rory Savas 19, of Wauwatosa wis., died in Sanibel a Gulf coast town when he fell from a hotel Balcony there authorities said. Savas sister Penny said he was a freshman on Spring break from the University of Arizona in Tucson. Police said he apparently leaned too far Over the Balcony railing while spitting tobacco juice. Last year three College students die Din Daytona Beach after falling from bal conies and City officials had vowed to prevent such accidents this year. It was Windy. Which May have accounted for her losing her balance detective Steve Thomas said of Buffington. It s a tragedy no doubt about it and we hate to see it happen said police it. . Jenkins. But it happens almost every  after the 1985 Balcony deaths Daytona Beach officials and the Motel & hotel association of the Daytona Beach resort area inc. Launched a Campaign to Edu Cate students about the dangers of Balcony climbing. One hotel Penrod s Plaza was Given a zoning variance this year to Seal its bal Cony doors and windows normally prohibited by fire codes. One of last year s deaths occurred when a guest fell from a 14th-floor Balcony of the hotel