European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 12, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday july 12,1986 replica of ear a plane makes Brief flight Stratford Conn. Up aviation buds Friday towed a crude Bat winged air plane a few feet into the air with actor Cliff Robertson at the controls in a step toward challenging the Wright Brothers claim to the first pow ered manned flight. A crowd huddled on a Small Airstrip and cheered when the replica of Gustav Whitchead s 1901 plane was lifted while tethered to a flatbed trailer at Sikorsky memorial Airport. The flight of the replica was the lat est in a series of preliminary tests Lead ing up to a powered flight in three or four weeks. Morgan kaolin manager of Sikorsky Airport said the replica plane travelled about 18 inches off the trailer bed for about 3,000 feet or More. The flight took place about 5 30 a.m., before the Airport opened to regular flights. It handled admirably a Good steady flight no up and Down at about 35mph," kaolin said. Baum would have been proud a bystander said of the spectacle refer ring to showman and former Bridge port mayor . Barnum whose great est show on Earth circus was Winter Din the neighbouring City. A group of Whitehead backers claim the German immigrant made a half mile powered controlled flight in 1901in and around Bridgeport before the Wright Brothers made history at Kitty Hawk . Their flight took place on the windswept outer Banks in Decem Ber of 1903. History kind of passed him White head by and he was t recognized for his Genius Robertson said explaining Why he asked to be at the controls. Robertson who lives on Long Island and is Commodore of the Long Island sound association is a Pilot who jumped at the Chance to Fly in the Craft organizers said. The Whitehead controversy has prompted some Good natured sparring Between Connecticut and North Carolina. The Connecticut legislature this year passed a Resolution calling on the smithsonian institution in washing ton d.c., to open a formal inquiry into the Whitehead claim. North Carolina responded in kind Ina state House Resolution passed this week supporting the Wright Brothers place in history. Connecticut state sen. George  of Stratford one of White head s most ardent supporters said after the flight that he was concerned about the carnival atmosphere sur rounding the test. It s just another Static test said Gunther who did not bother to attend the Early morning event. He said organizers perhaps should have waited until the Craft was ready to Fly under its own Power but added the plane flying at All is important. That Little Guy Whitchead had nothing to go on but they say his de sign was far in Advance of what the Wright Brothers had Gunther said. As for North Carolina Gunther suggested the state might want to drop its first in flight slogan from its License plates. Someone suggested that from the Way they Are acting instead of first in flight on their plates they should have first in fright " Gunther said of North Carolina s reaction. William o Dwyer an organizer of the tests added you can t legislate away  o Dwyer of neighbouring Fairfield became interested in Whitehead s claim 20 years ago and has amassed voluminous materials to support it they be made gods out of the Wrights o Dwyer said. Reagan May assist wife s anti drug Campaign Washington up president Reagan thinking maybe he could help is considering joining his wife crusade against drugs with a series of anti drug speeches White House spokes Man Larry up cakes said Friday. Up cakes also said discipline and drug testing have reduced drug abuse in the military by two thirds since 1981, when testing began. First lady Nancy Reagan who has fought to keep Young people from Start ing to use drugs with her just say no program is delighted about her Hus band s prospective involvement in the Campaign said her press Secretary Elaine cons pen. White House aides several times have discussed the question of a series of pres another actor from dynasty ill with aids los Angeles a aids which killed dynasty a Rock Hudson has afflicted a former member of the to series cast actor Paul Francis Keenan. Like Hudson Keenan 30, who appeared in five episodes in 1982 and eight in 1984, is speaking out strongly about the disease and the need to help victims. But going beyond Hudson s revelations Keenan said he contracted the disease through sexual Contact with another Man. I Don t believe that aids is some thing to be ashamed of something that i should have to keep a secret said Kee Nan who found out he had aids about seven weeks ago. He did keep his homosexuality a secret when he was working in image obsessed Hollywood the actor said during Telephone interview thursday from new York City where he was recently hospitalized at St. Clare s Hospital and health Center. When i left los Angeles about i years ago i decided i would t do that anymore he said. Keenan who played Todd Chand Leron the daytime to soap opera Days of our lives portrayed stable hand ton Driscoll on the Abc to nighttime soap  his last acting Job was the male romantic Lead in the 1984 lbs to movie summer  id tial speeches on the subject Spca Essaid but they have not yet presented a proposal to the president. Calling administration anti drug efforts very Active since Heagan took office Speakes said the question now a whether the president wants to step into the spotlight and  further emphasis on combating  he said or. Carlton Turner Reagan special assistant for drug programs Al ready has presented to senior aides comprehensive program of presidential involvement which might focus on some of the 300 Bills introduced in con Gress to tighten drug controls or on Pri vate sector involvement. Scakes said aides have discussed series of presidential speeches before his mid August vacation in California an again after labor Day. Speakes said the new emphasis on drug abuse has nothing to do with the recent cocaine related deaths of sport stars Len Bias and Don Rogers. In recent weeks news Media have focused on the widespread availability of a potent new form of cocaine known As  on wednesday sen. Alfonso d Amato r-n.y., and Rudolph Gulia no the . Attorney f9r new York disguised themselves and immediately we Reable to buy crack from Street vendors in Manhattan. Crispen said mrs. Reagan had asked for everyone s help and she would be Happy if her husband joined the  she thinks it s great Crispen said. They certainly talked about her involvement and the questions she had. He thought maybe he could  the press Secretary said mrs. Reagan will not step aside for the president to speak out on drug abuse we like to think she s the Mother of a Good cause. It s still her  Speakes cited figures from Turner s of fice showing that since 1981, drug abuse in the military has dropped 67 percent because of discipline and drug testing begun that year. Officials said another reason for the drop in drug use in All branches of the military from 26 percent to 6.5 percent was reverse peer  crusty but healthy organisms App Hub or. David Balkwill a Micro biologist to organisms that were discovered 700 feet upset traditional scientific theories Florida state University in Tallahassee below the Earth s surface. The Discor about organisms being unable to Chw examines a Perl dish containing Micro cry of the subterranean microbes has below the Earth s crust