European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes monday april 14, 1986 poor loser wants court to cancel gambling debts from press dispatches Toshi Van Blitter of of Al Macero calif., was game but very unlucky and lost More than $3 million at two Nevada casinos where her checks started bouncing. Now her attorney Tom Van Horn claims the debts Aren t legally collectible in California and wants . District judge Bruce Thompson to cancel $265,000 in gambling debts run up by Van Blitter. He told Thompson Friday that California policy applies in this Case and that the policy is gambling debts arc not legally collectible. Not so said Harrah s lawyer Leo Schuering. He argued Nevada Law which holds that gambling debts Are legally collectible should apply in this Case and asked Thompson to deny the motion for a summary judgment. Thompson allowed attorneys for both sides to submit additional Legal briefs and said he will make a ruling then. Van Blitter according to her lawyers lost several million dollars at Harrah s Over the period of a year and More than a million at Harvey a both at Stateline Lake Tahoe. Van Blitter wrote 32 checks totalling $325,000 to the casinos but they bounced. About $65,000 of the debt is owed to Harvey s and the rest to har Rah s. The Harvey s Case was not argued Friday. Van Blitter filed suit initially in Cali fornia to cancel the debts and to get a refund on the Money she lost on grounds the clubs took advantage of her incompetence in playing the game. The suit charged the casinos wrong fully and negligently failed to suggest she learn to play Blackjack by attending schools or classes. Both casinos then filed suit in Federal court in Reno to collect the $325,000 in bounced checks and the cases have been merged. That s me up photo Cosby gets kidded the Crew of the Cosby show put one Over on the Star during the taping of the show s final episode last week. The script called for Bill Cosby and to wife Phylicia Rashad to be in bed when Young Keshia Knight pull Iam who plays daughter Rudy knocked on the door. Cosby called Cosby to her to come in but was shocked when in popped magnum  Star Tom Selleck carrying Keshia. Selleck Shook Cosby s hand and had a kiss for Rashad. When the cast came out to take bows before a Sec Ond taping of the episode Selleck made another Surprise appearance coming out with a Cigar to take Cosby s Bow for him. Life with lbs president Johnson s daughters say he agonized Over Vietnam War protests and on his deathbed asked for forgive George Burns Points with Pride to a sign bearing his name after eight Block Long Hamel Road in los Angeles was renamed for the 90-year-old entertainer. Moments of our lives in the White  he was always there for the big events said Luci Johnson Turpin the wife of a to Ronto banker. But for the four years Robb he lived after he left Washington it was then that we had the Small moments and i treasure  Turpin and her sister Lynda Johnson Robb wife of former Virginia gov. Charles Robb spoke at a Hofstra univer sity symposium on the Johnson administration. Turpin said Vietnam often left lbs looking like a Man with a knife in his Groin and both said the presence of the secret service was one of the major drawbacks of being a president s daughter. Robb said agents took her to the Hospi Tal to have her first child and that the doctors panicked when the secret service Man said he had to go up to the delivery room with me. 1 told the doctors that the secret service Man might As Well come along because he had been there for every thing  Springsteen sues pub Rock Star Bruce Springsteen has sued a Seattle pub s owners for copyright infringement Alleg ing his hit song cover me was played in the Tav Ern without per Mission. Springsteen the doors music co., and . Harms co. Filed a joint suit Friday in . District court against Terry if Fin and his wife Springsteen Kathleen owners of the islander pub on Bainbridge Island West of Seattle. The suit alleges the pub gave Public performances of Springsteen s song and others that Are covered by copyright. It says the Giffins violated copyright Law because they Don t have a License from the american society of compos ers authors and publishers pays song writers when their compositions Are played by other bands. Giffin said he never bought a License because he does t agree with asap s methods. They Nail us instead of the bands he said. The bands Are the ones who select the  lights out of disco studio 54 has been closed again. The nightclub once the Center of new York s disco scene and hangout for celebrities has closed indefinitely because owner Mark Fleischman can no longer get liability insurance. Studio 54 opened in 1977, but closed when its founders Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager were convicted of skimming receipts and went to prison. The club never sparkled quite As brightly in its second incarnation. Regular Price 10.95 our Price $8.50 regular Price $16.95 our Price $13.25 regular our Price total savings regular Prii Lar Price $10.95