European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 stateside the stars and stripes thursday april 24, 1986 woman spends 3 nights in cell after Deputy forgets about her Alexandria a. A a 25-year-old Maryland woman who was supposed to spend just a few hours in a holding cell Here ended up spending the weekend in the 8 by a i room with no food or bed because a sheriffs Deputy forgot about her officials say. Cassandra Jones who pleaded guilty to a Misdemeanour Friday afternoon in Alexandria s general District court was found monday morning by a Deputy conducting a routine Check of the courthouse sheriffs department officials said tuesday. My whole family did t know if i was alive or dead Jones said. I broke the Heel of my shoe banging on the window. I was banging from Friday until sunday when i passed officials said the room contained a wooden Bench a Light a water Fountain and a toilet. But Jones said the water Fountain was broken and she had to drink from the toilet. Jones was taken to Alexandria Hospital after she was found fed intravenously and released. Sheriff James h. Dunning said he Felt very badly that it happened. I m embarrassed and added that the court House is closed on weekends. Iacocca admits to being paid too much As Chrysler chairman Washington a Chrysler chairman Lee la Cocca who earned More than $1.6 million last year in salary and bonuses said he s probably overpaid but he added if the Board of directors wants to give him that much he s ready to take it. I m not a socialist. I believe in our economic sys tem he told reporters when asked about his salary and the fact that in the last five years he has made More than $15 million from Chrysler Stock. In salary and bonuses i m probably overpaid he added but he vigorously defended his Windfall profits from Chrysler stocks. Iacocca owns 52,543 shares of Chrysler Slock and has options to buy additional Stock under a compensation package he received in 1980 when for a time he worked As a la Day executive. According to Chrysler Iacocca earned $667,455 in Sal Ary last year and $950,000 in bonuses. Iacocca s salary and bonuses Are about the same As the chief executives of his two rival . Automakers. Roger Smith chairman of general motors earned $1.6 million last year and Donald Petersen chairman of Ford motor co., earned $1.7 million in salary and bonuses. Snowmobiling group rescued after 2 Days on Alaska Tundra Kotzebue Alaska a searchers have rescued five adults and a 4-year-old boy who were stranded for More than two Days on the cold and Windy Tundra of Northwestern Alaska. Some of the snowmobiles suffered from frostbite and were flown to the Public health services Hospital in Kotzebue said Alaska state troopers spokesman Paul eds Corn. Two of the snowmobiles stayed with the vehicles and planned to drive them Back to Kivalina with the help of the rescuers ground search party Edscorn said. The snowmobiles were spotted by a Rescue plane eds Corn said. The group set out from Kivalina on three snowmobiles planning to go to Point Hope a trip that usually takes less than five hours said state trooper Rudy Hecker. Airline Crews reportedly find anti terrorist course worthless Dallas a a mandatory anti terrorist training session was of so Little value that few pilots or flight attendants paid attention a Captain for a major airline said after a recent class. People were talking they were doing other things including Reading the paper the Captain told the Dallas morning news. I d leave for 20 minutes at a time and take care of business. I d come Back into a Bull session with tapes the instructor for the eight hour course entered the room Only to change videotapes said the Captain who was not identified. The newspaper interviewed a number of pilots an flight attendants who took the course recently. They de scribed the training As Boring and unhelpful and said the doubt they Are better prepared now to handle such a crisis the newspaper said in its report. Model Home for astronauts a photo a Workman extends his arms to direct Crane operators Huntsville Ala. The aluminium Structure which is 38 As a full size mock up of a module for a proposed feet Long will be used for designing the Interior a Nasa space station is delivered to a Boeing facility arrangements of the astronauts station. Innovative movie director Otto Preminger Dies at 79 new York a Otto Preminger the autocratic director whose 39 films included such innovative standards As i Anatomy of a murder and the Man with the Golden died of cancer Early wednesday. He was79., Preminger died at 12 42 . In bed at his apartment with his wife Hope and a nurse at his Side said a police spokesman sgt. Ron Severin. Preminger was born dec. 5, 1906, in Vienna Austria and earned a Law degree there in 1928. He came to the,._. U United states in 1935 and the Fol lowing year made his first . Film under your he also was on the faculty at Yale drama school until 1940, when he became a stage director in new York winning the critics Choice award and full Circle award for Broadway productions. Preminger was known As an inno Vator challenging the film Indus try s taboos in films like the 1953. J the Moon is Blue the 1954otto Preminger Carmen Jones a modern Day adaptation of Bizet s opera with an All Black cast and the 1956 Golden which starred Frank Sinatra and was one of Hollywood s first major films to depict narcotics use. He also appeared in four films including stalag 17," in which he portrayed the dictatorial commandant of a German prisoner of War Camp. The Moon is Blue an adaptation of a Broadway bedroom comedy ran without the motion picture production code Seal of approval because its screenplay contained the words Virgin and the Catholic Church gave it a condemned rating. But Preminger cleaned up at the Box office according to the 1986 Book inside Preminger s autocratic style As director caused some actors to rebel. He got headlines in 1959 with Anatomy of a murder a courtroom drama starring James Stewart and film new Comer George c. Scott. It was to have included Lana Turner but she walked off the set in a dispute with the director. Preminger claimed she did t like her costumes. According to inside Oscar the actress said she left because it was simply impossible to Deal with or. Preminger s unpredictable ill get an unknown and make her a Star Preminger vowed according to the Book. He cast Lee Remick As the woman who claims to have been raped by the Man her husband is accused of murdering. When the film opened time Magazine warned in scene after scene the customers Are bombarded with such no nonsense words As Intercourse. Contraceptive. Sperm Oogenesis. Sexual it added that even the least sensitive Spectator May find himself startled to hear in his neighbourhood movie House extended discussion of what constitutes mayor Richard Daley banned the film in Chicago but it was awarded the motion picture production code Seal. The film was nominated for the Academy award for Best picture but the Honor went to Preminger never won an Oscar. Preminger also provoked outrage when he announced that the writer of his next movie would be Dalton Trumbo one of the blacklisted Hollywood 10 during an uproar involving alleged communist sympathizers. Preminger worked with top Hollywood names and made an unknown Iowa girl Jean Seberg into a Star in in 1957. Perhaps his most enduring film was the haunting 1944 murder mystery Laura with starred Dana Andrews Gene Tierney Clifton Webb and Vincent Price. Other movies directed by Preminger included forever or v.sl7 i960 advise and consent,"1961 and the Cardinal 1963. His later films such As Kiddoo with Jackie Gleason and Carol Channg in 1968, were unsuccessful. His last major film was hurry Sundown with Jane Fonda and Michael came in 1967
