European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages the stars and stripes tuesday May 20, 19fl6 swamping the Competition Hosl the Rob Lutr tried by jockey Lee Gludd taps for i free Flop world record dirt me of 21 feet 5w inches during sunday s annual Cilin county jumping Frog Jubilee in Angels Camp Calif. The distance is determined by How far the Frog goes to the hops. The jockey jumps pounds and shouts behind the Frog u . La its Sylb year it Competition stems from Mark Twain s the cute by turf jumping Frog of Calt Fena county � cold Irish tra Story about a Champion Frog hat was loaded Down with Buckshot. Rosle did most of be work but Giudici got to take Home the 11,500 first prize. Statewide threats delay 2 Amtrak trains searchers find no explosives by Ibe associated press bomb threats delayed two Amtrak passenger trains and forced travellers to wait up to three hours in Las vegas ner., and san Diego while authorities searched the train Sand baggage for explosives. No explosives were found in either incident sunday authorities said. In oils tint incident a caller to the los Angeles Amtrak office said Jour passengers wearing body bombs would Board the desert wind at be 7 . Lai vegas Stop said Scott Harris u member of the Lai vegas fire depart ment s bomb squad. The caller demanded is million he said. The desert wind was bound for los Angeles from Salt Lake City. The second threat came at about 3 . Sunday in san Diego when a Man called sheriffs deputies and said there was a bomb aboard the train scheduled to leave the station there for los Angeles at 4 45 ., said a san Diego police sergeant Joe Ayala the nine coach train and the baggage of 3io passenger were searched by a sheriffs Deputy and a dog trained to find explosives. The train was delayed two hours. Meanwhile a southbound train with Iso passengers aboard bad to wait a few Miles outside the san Diego station while the search was conducted. It arrived hours tale. It would t make Struse to have two trains Side by Side when one May have an explosive aboard said Amtrak conductor . Nunan. In Las vegas the desert wind was delayed thru hours As searchers went through Luggage and lockers inside the station and checked each of the approximately 135 Passen Gers. They went through hand Luggage but conducted no body searches. Both trains eventually arrived in los Angeles without incident. Effie Cardiges 43, of los Angeles was one of he de Sert wind passengers temporarily stranded at the Down town los vegas depot. We look the train because the airline scares you with bomb threats she said. I can t believe  Charles 0, Roebuck Iii chief of on Board services Tor Amtrak s desert wind said a couple of passengers complained about the delay but it s belter to have complaints than to have the train blow up outside of Lai vegas. 1 mount Hood survivor has legs amputated 2nd in critical condition Portland Ore. A doctors say it was either amputation or his life and so they decided to amputate the lower portions of the legs of Giles Thompson one of the survivors of the climb up mount Hood that claimed nine lives. Thompson 16, lost both legs below the Knees in a one hour operation sunday night. He and if year old Brinton Clark were the Only two to survive after eight people were rescued thursday from a mow Cave on the Mountainside. Clark remains hospitalized in Crit ical condition. It was a difficult decision to make but it was either amputation or Bis life said or. Leo Marx a member of the medi Cal team treating Thompson. The Longview Wash., teen Ager was returned to the Cor onary care unit of the Providence medical Center after sur Gery where doctors said he was showing signs of improvement according to spokeswoman Barbara Hood. His arms and legs look Good at this Lime and his family i with him Hood said. Hood raid the doctors did not mention whether they were still considering amputating part of one of Thompson s arms that had suffered muscle damage. Or. Peter Fisher described Thompson s condition before the surgery sunday night As stable ish with Short periods of worsening and be cautioned that the boy is not out of  he said Thompson also was suffering from lung infection and had excess fluid buildup in the lungs. He also said he remained sedated to ease pain and to keep him from excess moving about about 30 percent of the muscle tissue in each of Thomp son s legs below the Knees already Hud been surgically re moved because it i dead from Lack of blood circulation due la extended exposure to the cold Fisher said Cereal City must again seek longest breakfast table record Springfield. Mass. Apr the Battle for brag Ging rights to the world s Lun fast breakfast table shifts to Batik Creek. Mich., fallowing this City s Pancake feast at a table stretching nearly a half mile Down main  Creek which Bills itself Cereal City Asho Home of a Clogg co., had held the title until sunday and officials there vow they la out distance Springfield s table and tale the top spot again this summer. Battle Creek earned a place in the 1980 record books under a listing for longest breakfast table for the 2,000 fool table used june 9, 1979, by 17,000 people. Belter known As the Birthplace of basketball Spring Field put together a 2,500-foot table sunday and dished out pancakes not Rice Kris pies in shifts to some 25,000 people. It s been kind of a Friendly Challenge said Todd an Good chairman of the world s longest breakfast table contest in Battle Creek. 5 people Hurt 28 arrested at Cedar est near Michigan state East Lansing Mich. A five people were injured and 28 revellers arrested when � party near the Michigan state University Campus became unruly police said. About 1, 500 people hit the streets for the Cedar fast saturday night and sunday morning in an area across the red Cedar River from the University s Campus said Easl Lansing police department dispatcher Jerry Jupin. One person who nearly drowned in the River was taken to a Hospital for treatment Jupin said. He said he did not know the person s name. Four other people were treated for cuts and bruises mostly from thrown bottles Jupin said. He said there was minimal damage most of it to Street Algots and poles bicycles and Street lights. Charges against the 28 who were arrested included Dis orderly conduct Drunken driving and malicious destruction of properly he said Tennessee governor predicts soaring salaries for teachers new York a teachers salaries could soar As High As 170.000 if they go along with a plan requiring increases Tennessee gov Lomar Alexander said sunday. The whole problem boils Down to whether the teachers largest Union and the teachers themselves can accept our finding ways to pay some teachers More than others based upon their a Liliy and their productivity said Alexander chairman of the education project of the National Gover nors association if they can do hat i to info teachers can look Forward to salaries of , $60,000, 110,000 a year and Amer ican taxpayers will pay  he said on Abc to s meet the  mount St. Helens still rumbling on 6th anniversary of eruption Vancouver Wash. Dpi a steaming 830-foot nigh lava dome rumbled and Shook from mild earthquakes in the Mil wide Crater atop mount St Helens sunday the sixth anniversary of the Volcano s cataclysmic  top of the Mountain literally blew up on a sunny morning May 18, 1980. Erupting with such Force that 220 Square Miles were levelled with the Force of an atomic bomb authorities said 57 people died in the eruption. Which sent Ash booming so High into the atmosphere thai i travelled around the world. Some 1,300 feet was blown off at the Summit in the Gigantic eruption six years ago and scientists Sav a lava dome swelling up out of the Crater will Over the centuries. Eventually rebuild tree Peak. High water level on Lake Erie has owners praying for Sunshine a supcri�7 Taigan. Huron. Onto  vese precipitation coupled with u Lel higher thin it j few this