European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 6 the stars and stripes wednesday. October 15,1986 a a Walton John Kluge h. Ron Perot Dave Packard Warren Brett Leslie Wexner we Marf tycoon sf7/ tops list of wealthiest new York up Sam Moore Walton the Small town retailing giant who drives a pickup and shuns publicity increased his Fortune from $2.8 Bil lion to $4.5 billion to retain his title As the richest american for a second year Forbes Magazine re ports. Walton a bunt Onville ark., resident whose wealth comes primarily from his Wal Mart Chain of discount stores easily headed the fifth annual list of the 400 richest americans. The Magazine released the list on monday. In second place with assets of $2.5 billion were h. Ross Perot the Dallas businessman who sold his electronic data processing corp. To general motors corp. For $1.5 billion in 1984, and John Kluge founder of metro Media corp. Among the 56 newcomers to the list were designer Ralph Lauren $300 Millio Chicken King Frank Perdue $200 million and television producer Dick Clark $180 million. Another celebrity who made the list television Host and producer Merv Griffin whose wheel of Fortune game show propelled him to the upper reaches of the wealthy questioned the accuracy of his estimated $235 million wealth. I would suggest it s a Little off. It s too Low Griffin said of the Forbes estimate. I heard it on the radio and i almost fell out of my  there Are 26 billionaires on the list up from 14 last year. It took $ 180 million to make the elite 400, up from $150 million in 1985. New York with 90, had the largest number of residents on the list followed by los Angeles with26 and Dallas fort Worth with 25. Manufacturing remained the leading source of wealth followed by real estate Media and finance. Walton was born in Kingfisher okla., but so Little is known about him that his age is a secret although it is believed he is in his late 60s. He began his career in 1940 As a . Penney management trainee then operated a group of Ben Franklin stores with his brother before opening his first Wal Mart in Rogers ark., on july 2, 1962. Known for his love of Small town life Walton makes a practice of tooling around in a pickup truck. He has resisted suggestions he move his head quarters from Bentonville an area known As Wal Mart Valley. Gen. Mahaffey Dies of cancer at Walter Reed Hospital at 52 by Richard Halloran Washington not Gen. Fred k. Mahaffey considered by Many of his fellow officers to be one of the fastest rising stars in the army died of cancer tuesday at the Walter Reed army medical Center Here. He was 52. Until the final Days of his illness Mahaffey commanded the readiness omd with head quarters in Tampa Fla. Under his command of were most of the army a Jeand air Force combat units stationed within the Continental United states. Before that assign ment Mahaffey had been the army s Deputy chief of staff for operations and plans a Posi Tion that often marked an officer As a potential chief of staff. He was promoted to full general when he was 51 Yea sold becoming one of the youngest full generals in the Modem history of the army. .,.-in 31 years in the service Mahaffey earned a reputation As a forceful commander and As a skilled Metic Ulous operations officer. A soft spoken Good Humoured Man with a twinkle in his Eye he was popular with superiors and subordinates alike. Gen. John a. Wickham jr., the army s chief of staff called Mahaffey a great Soldier and an inspirational  the army he said grieves Over this untimely  in the Vietnam War Mahaffey commanded a Bat Talion in the 9th inf div. He commanded a brigade in Mahaffey Flap Toto the 101st airborne div at fort Campbell ky., in 1975and the 3rd inf div in Wuerzburg Germany from 1981 to 1983. Mahaffey won three Silver stars two distinguished flying crosses and four Bronze stars for valor in com Bat. He also held the distinguished service medal the army s highest noncombat award and four legions of Merit for exemplary achievement. Fred Keith Mahaffey was bom Jan. 4, 1934, in Cle vis . He was a graduate of the University of Den ver and earned a master s degree in International affairs at George Washington University. He was commissioned from the Reserve officer training corps in 1955. In other assignments Mahaffey was an operation officer in Vietnam a division operations officer in the 101st airborne assistant commandant of the infantry school at fort Benning ga., and Deputy commander of the combined arms combat development activity at fort Leavenworth Kan. Survivors include his wife the former Jane Garnet and four daughters Lorrie Ann Selene Julie Anne and Melissa Jane. Departure of last Barber trims town s happiness Stafford Kan. A life Here just in t the same since the last Barbershop closed. Just two years ago there were three Barbers in this town of 1,400 people but two have retired and the third left about six months ago. To some residents that s More traumatic than the recent toss of a couple of restaurants a molasses Plant and More than a half dozen other businesses. The Stafford City Council voted monday night to help anyone interested in becoming a Barber obtain financing from the Stafford Bank and the Small Busi Ness administration. Walton increased his Worth 60 percent in the last year from $2.8 billion to $4.5 billion by keeping to his philosophy of concentrating on Rural areas. There was a lot More business in those town than people Ever thought he once said. Rounding out the top five were David Packard co founder of Hewlett Packard $2 billion investor Warren Buffett $1.4 billion and Leslie  of the limited inc. $1.4 billion Chare of women s fashion stores. Left off the list was investor and trans world airlines chairman Carl t. Icahn whose $175 Mil lion net Worth left him a near miss. Although several Rockefeller remain in the 400, David Rockefeller former chairman of Chase Man Hattan corp., was the Only one in the billionaire class. Big losers were the Hunt family of Dallas. Marga ret Hill Hunt was the Only family member to Remaina billionaire while Nelson Bunker Hunt saw his wealth Sag by 55 percent in the past year to $400 million. Brothers William Herbert and Lamar were Worth $350 million and $250 million respectively. Stateside cobra brings excitement to backyard in Florida Buckingham Fla. A it did t take Long for a Man moving a pile of lumber in his sister s backyard to realize that the 4-foot-Longblack-and-White reptile at his feet was no Ordi nary Garden Snake. Within a second it flared its neck said John Van Hue. I said that s a cobra everybody jumped Back. I just had on Tennis shoes and shorts and there was a cobra at my feet the spitting cobra which Van Hise 33, found sunday was picked up monday by the Florida game and fresh water fish commission and was taken to metro zoo in Miami the deadly asian Snake probably leaped from someone who keeps reptiles according to game commissioner it. Kathleen Kelley who said it did t look like it had been in the  bomb threat interrupts yom kippur services new York a a telephoned bomb threat interrupted services for several thousand yom kippur worshippers at Temple Emanuel the world s largest jewish House of worship. Services resumed after police searched the premises monday and found no bomb in die Temple at fifth Avenue and 65th Street in mid town Manhattan. People were told to leave both the Temple main Sanctuary which holds 2,500 people and. Its Lowenstein Sanctuary. The neighbouring pakistani consulate Wai emptied shortly thereafter and police closed it streets for a Block along fifth Avenue and 6sul Street