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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, November 4, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 5 the stars and stripes tuesday november 4,1986 63 store workers fall ill after White Mist fills air Turnersville no. A Sily three depart ment store employees stricken by what one woman called a White Mist were treated at a Hospital As officials tried to determine Wal caused Ibe sickness. More than 200 shoppers and 47 Bra Lees employees were evacuated from the Black horse Pike store Sun Day afternoon after workers in the front of the store near the restaurant began fainting feeling ditzy and vomiting. Gloucester county health investigator Ken Diluigi said officials suspected a release of Ireon. A Gas used in refrigeration Bra Lees District managers declined to comment. Food server Terri la Bacewski told the courier Post of Camden that she could not breathe in the res  saw a White Mist floating in the air but 1 didst smell anything Labaczewski said. It got really hot in the store Back by the Grin. I sat Down and then passed out Diluigi said samples of the air were sent to a Laboratory for analysis. He said he did not know when tests would be completed. No customers required treatment said assistant fire chief Howard Deveney of the Grenloch fire co. The victims were released after treatment at Kennedy memorial Hospital in Turnersville a nursing super visor said monday. Wii vets return to Atlantic City for Camp Boardwalk reunion Atlantic City no. A several Hundred world War ii veterans resumed to this resort sunday for a reunion or those who underwent Basic training Conval sced or were stationed Here during the War. The reunion dubbed Camp Boardwalk revisited recalled the in when the resort was transformed into a major Basic training Center with troops housed in hotels and the Boardwalk transformed into a Parade ground for daily marches. Reunion spokesman Bill Elliott said be was pleased with the response to the event the thing that i think is most impressive is Noi jus the numbers. We re talking about people in their 60s who might have More difficulty getting around he  there an amputees a quadriplegic he said. A number of disabled people who Conval sced her during the War Are making the extra Effort to come  s very  More than 500 people attended a sunday evening banquet featuring entertainment by Singer Peart Balky and her husband Louis Bellson. And his orchestra. Also to entertain during the three Day event that ends tuesday arc Patty Andrews of the Andrews Sis ters and actor Donald o Connor named the National honorary chairman of the reunion Elliott said. Estimates Are that 350,000 men and women in the military spent sometime Here during the War. Patients and troops were entertained by Many celebrities including president Reagan and his former wife actress Jane Wyman who were in a celebrity Parade on the Boardwalk in 1944. Elliott said veterans have cast Voles for their favor Ite entertainers of that period and the results have been combined with other polls to choose performers for induction into a go s Choice entertainers Hall of Fame. Among those selected were comedian Bob Hope the Andrew Sisters glean Miller and his band and enter Tainer Betty Grable. A Fife show of civil War siege focuses on caves of Vicksburg Vicksburg miss. A a new historical attraction is telling the Story of the civil War siege of this Confederate stronghold from the viewpoint of families who huddled in caves during the 47 Days of bombard ment. The plight of civilians of the Mississippi River City mostly women and children who sought shelter in River Bluff caves has largely been ignored says Ken Smith who put together the new presentation. The vanishing glory has been drawing rave re views from tourists and historian drawn to the Vicks Burg National military Park and other historical Sites the visitors Are really moved by it said Blanche Terry assistant director of the old courthouse museum. Smith said that was his intention. Most people hear about one army fighting another army he said for Many civil War buffs that por Tion of the Story is very Good but that s Only half toe  Smith uses period lithographs and photographs As Well As recent photographs from local Battle re enact ments to depict conditions in the City during Union Gen. Ulysses s. Grant s siege. The narration for the slide show provided by 15 projectors is based largely on journals kept by women who fled with their families for shelter in the caves and by soldiers and officers on both sides. The caves did not provide total Protection from the shells whistling overhead. Mary Loughbom Rongji wrote in her journal of a Mother who placed her child inside a Cave but a mortar Shell hit with such Force that it penetrated the Cave and crushed the child. In another journal Virginia Rockwood recalled "1 have seen wheelbarrows of arms and  soldiers and civilians alike Well hungry. With dour costing $5 per Pound and molasses $10 a gallon Many were forced to it pea bread a mixture of Field Peasand Cornbread that was said to be dark and Tough and barely digestible. Finally the Confederate forces surrendered and Grant Rode into the City on july 4.1b63. Stateside boy 5, critically wounded by Friend who found gun Chicago a a 5-year-old boy taking Bath at Bis grandma real i borne was that in the head and critically wounded sunday by a 2-year-old Friend who bund a pistol in a Dresser draw. Alpha Thompson was listed in critical Condi Tion talc sunday at the water children s Center to the University of Chicago hospitals spokeswoman Laid. Two year old Brendaa Bell who lived in the same building and also was visiting Alpha and his brother s grandparents found a is Liber handgun in a bedroom drawer while the other boys were bathing said police sgt Fred Bonke. When Brendan brought the gun in to the Bath room it went off Bonke said. Maryland officials urge Aid for disadvantaged Baltimore a Maryland should Fua Rantee All of in disadvantaged High school graduates free admission to College or Job Tor one year the stale s lop education officials have recommended. As Many As 100,000 Maryland students could be eligible for the slate guarantees Taid David Holbeck state icon of superintendent. Horn Beck developed the proposal with Sheldon , stale commissioner of higher education. The Point ii u make available  to kids who do not have Opportunity now Holbeck said. The Mange to etude non be said would be we re going to hand Yon a tided to higher education or a  it Cowboy film fest Cut Short after protests of racism Elpaso Texas a a Cowboy film Festi Val was edited Down to one film after hispanic Sand indians denounced the event As a promotion of a racist an  that remained of us Western film Festi Val was one free showing sunday of Silverado a Western released last year. The festival was to have run three Days and feature out of town speakers and a program of old  the local hispanic umbrella group Al con Rilio de Elpaso and the tigua indians objected to the films portrayal of indians As Savage an hispanics As being bandits or Lazy Aid b co Cilio chairwoman Patrica Royal Sutton. Bridge Marks 50th year with prayer for 29 dead san Francisco a the Bay Bridge s 50th birthday party began with a prayer and the casting of a Wreath in memory of the 29 men who died building the ils Milesian in the 19301. More than 300 people including 100 who worked on the Bridge gathered on treasure it land for the 15-Mimitc ceremony sunday. The Bridge opened nov. 12,1956. La was an adventure said Al Irby 80, retired steer Worfler from Redding who Worton on the san Francisco Bridge and dozen of others. The Bay Bridge is the Biggert Bridge a Man could Ever work  the party in t Over. A Parade of autos is set for nov. 12 and a fireworks display nov. 13. British Soldier killed at Germantown reburied Philadelphia up a British Soldier thought to have been one of the first casualties of the Batlle of Germantown during the revolutionary War a buried sunday with military honors to the haunt ing strains of bagpipe music. Researchers believe the Soldier was a member of the 52nd regt of British infantry that was guarding the outskirts of the British army on oct. 4, 1777, when american revolutionaries charted the Encampment outside Philadelphia. The Man could not be identified. Ape players sunday led a procession of British and american military officials Down a tamhane lined Walkway at Northwood cemetery playing going Home and amazing Grace As the 18lh-Cen Tury style coffin was slowly lowered into the grave the burial is a symbolism of those who gave their life in any War said Mai. Peter Stone of the British officers club of Philadelphia. The Man died and a buried on the spot of Bis death. Now that we Hare found him we can five him the proper military Bonon he deserves the Soldier i body was discovered last year by work ers who were Dearing the tile of an of port office. The Man buried in a shallow grave was thought to be t victim of foul play until a medical examiner inspected the Bones and decided they were very old. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania identified the Man As a British Soldier because of four buttons bearing the numbers "52" Fand Ataa Sarthe remains. Numbered buttons adorned Taco Owuor Tome British Soldkin during the  the researchers also determined toe my Dick ilweenmand40yeanoldandbetweesfcet.j and 5 feet 8 inches tall Marks left on the 1 rated be was a Strong Man with t too Czofaj the s2nd real had been deployed to to tember 1774 and later fought in the Batuta e ton and Concord on aptitl9,1775, a a t on june 17,1775. On oct 4, 1777, Ike s2nd let up Picur outskirts of a Force of 10.000 brith Trofi. Fish were attacked that morning by 8,000 Ai under Gen. George Washington  
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