European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. December 28, 19b6 the stars and stripes Page 5 jews Light 1st of 8 hanukkah candles by the associated press jews across the country began Cele Brating the eight Day hanukkah Holiday Friday with the lighting at Sundown ofic first Candle on inc candelabrum that symbolizes the festival of lights. In new York. David Goldfarb a jew ish cancer patient who was allowed to leave inc Sovil Union in october planned to leave his Hospital bed to Cele brate his first hanukkah in 63 years. Goldfarb 68, said his memories of hanukkah when he was 5 years old in inc Ukraine consisted of candles singing and gifts of Money and apples. In the Chicago suburb or Highland Park iii., a rabbi concerned about the effect of a nearby Santa House on jewish children opened his own Druid cd House shaped like he four sided top that is a traditional toy of hanukkah. Rabbi Vosco Schanowitz said jewish children were going to the Santa House 10 Sec Santa Claus and Tell him want they wanted for Christmas. The Dreidel House was not intended for Homes saturated in Judaism All year round. Christmas does t mean anything to them he said. Unfortunately inc majority of jewish people have assimilated to some  members of new York s Lub Avrich hasidim an orthodox jewish sect used a Utility company s Cherry picker to kindle what they called the biggest Mono Rah in inc world a 32-foot version of the nine Branch candelabrum. The ninth Candle is a Shamash used to Light the others latkes the potato pancakes tradition ally Eaic during the Holiday will be distributed free on sunday we want everyone to taste the tradition said rabbi Shmuyl m. Bulman. Hanukkah commemorates inc Victory of the jews Over the syrian greeks in 165 . The jews Solook their Temple in Jerusalem and  it by rekindling is candelabrum. According to tradition the jews had Only enough Oil 10 bum one Day but it miraculously lasted eight Days. Another Candle is lighted with each night of hanukkah. In pcs Monics rabbi Moisuc Kaso Witz said inc state attorney general s of fice had agreed to allow a two hour Dis play sunday of a 20-foot menorah outside the state Capitol. Kasowitz had sought without Success in Federal court to put the menorah on state property for the entire Holiday. The attorney general s office said the display would violate the constitutional separa Tion of Church and slate. The rabbi argued thai Christmas Trees and other Christian religious articles were displayed at inc statehouse rabbi Chaim Copland of Columbus Ohio planned to hit the Road in a Van with a menorah on its roof bringing inc Holiday to jews in smaller Ohio cities that have no synagogues. The whole function of hanukkah is to illuminate the environment and that s what we re trying to do Here illuminate the environment with Light and warmth Capland said. Film actress Elsa Lanchester Dies at age 84 los Angeles a Elsa Lan Chesler the elfin actress who portrayed the Bride of Frankenstein and who was paired with husband Charles Laughton in 1930s films like the private life of Henry Vii " and Rembrandt died Friday. She was 84. Lan Chesler died of Bronchopneumonia at the motion picture and television country House and Hospi Tal in Woodland Hills said Hospital spokeswoman Jean Ferris incapacitated by heart problems since suffering a stroke in 1984, Lan Chesler was admitted to the Hospi Tal dec. 17, Ferris said. She had no living close relatives and lived in the los Angeles area Ferris said. The actress had asked that no funeral service be held and that no information be released about inc disposition of her remains Accord ing to inc spokeswoman. Billy Wilder who directed her in witness for the prosecution in 1958, said that Lanchester and laugh ton were the Best actors he d Ever directed. Lanchester was nominated for oscars for her roles in the i9j9 film come to the stable and witness for the  the actress played a wide Range of character roles and critics said she was at her Best in eccentric or comic parts. Hur Best remembered performance May be the monster s male in the 1935 classic the Bride of  .1 t _. E a Yijin choler Flop acid in her last movie role she parodied an Agatha Christie mystery character in the 1976 detective spoof murder by  in All. She appeared in More than 50 British and american movies including David Copper Field 1935 the spiral staircase 1946 Mary pop pins 1964 and Blackbeard s ghost 1968. Though her marriage of More than 30 years was outwardly Happy it was revealed after Laughton s death in 1962 that he Union survived despite his homosexuality. Lan Chesler described first to Laughton biographer Charles Higham and then in her own Memoir How she Learned other husband s homosexuality soon after their marriage. There followed a Long series of Homo sexual liaisons by Laughton and affairs by Lanchester. Bom Elizabeth Sullivan in Lewisham England on oct. 28, 1902, Lanch Csir began her life in show Busi Ness at age 16 in children s theater in London s Soho District and danced Wilh Isadora Duncan s troupe in Paris. Her first film appearance was in 1927, in the British movie one of the  she caught Laughton s Eye while appearing in a stage play in London in the late 1920s. The couple first appeared on stage together in London in or. I to Chack and were married in 1929. They moved to Hollywood in 1934 and became United states citizens in 1950. Baby Jesse Back Home pending custody hearing Jesse went Home with his parents on Christmas eve Hospital spokesman Dick Schaefer said Friday. Sepulveda and Binkley have moved from Pasadena to of Nanna 40 Miles East to be near Lorna Linda where Jesse gets regular checkups. Initially Jesse bom Wilh a fatal heart select last May was rejected by the Hospi Lal As a heart transplant recipient but right to life activists and a roman Catholic priest called the news Media alleging that Loma Linda Calif. A baby Jesse is Back Home with his parents after they wan support from Loma Linda University medical Center to regain custody of the infant heart transplant recipient a spokesman said Friday. Unwed parents Deana Binkley and Jesse Sepulveda had relinquished custody of their child last Spring to allay con Cerns that they might be unable to pro vide the Post operative care transplant recipients require. Sands of to in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today., dec. 26, 1946 Gloria Swanson silent screen Star filed a 513,400 Suil in Hollywood against her fifth husband millionaire Yachtsman William Davey for paying no Alimony since the court ordered him in april to pay her $300 a month for life. 30 years ago . 28, 1956 Black leaders called for unprecedented Defiance of bus segregation Laws in Birmingham ala., and Tallahassee fla., despite arrests and outbreaks of violence 20 years ago today. Dec. 28, 1966 responding to a new York times query the defense depart ment conceded that american bombing raids on North Vietnam had inevitably damaged civilian areas. The times had reported dec. 25 that . Raids had caused extensive damage to two Hanoi area towns. 10 years ago today. Dec. 28, l j76 a strike by Miami Beach hotel workers forced thousands of vacationers to make their Awn Beds and serve i hair own food. About 6,100 Union hold employees went on Sirit against seven tourist packed reasons. Inc decision was based on the fact that inc baby s parents were Young and unmarried. The Hospital denied thai but agreed to accept the infant As a transplant candidate when the parents relinquished custody to grandparents Alfredo and Edna Sepulveda. Publicity surrounding the Case led to a Michigan couple s decision in donate the heart of their brain dead child to baby Jesse. Surgery was performed in june. Loma Linda University medical Cen Ter will advise the court thai it supports the return of Legal custody of baby Jesse 10 his natural parents Schauf Craid. The Center s rcc9mmendalion was based on medical criteria Eva lulled bythe Center s Newborn heart transplant subcommittee Schauf Craid. A Superior court guardianship hear ing was scheduled for March a spokes Man said but he added that he did not think it would be needed. The agreement with the Hospital will be made final Neil week he said. Hottest new eatery in town does t allow any smoking Pontiac Mich. Up patrons at the Adams Landing bar and restaurant won t have to look for the no smoking Section. The whole place is off limits to smokers. Operating on his belief that Public sentiment is growing against cigarettes owner Larry Adams opened his new non smoking establishment three weeks ago in the Pontiac Oakland Airport in suburban Waterford township. After a slow Start he said business has been doubling by the week for what May be the first establishment in the de troit metropolitan area to totally ban smoking by  s definitely a Market inc 43 year old businessman said thursday in an interview with the Del roil news. The fact is that fewer people Are smok ing today and wore Are becoming concerned about the effects of second hand , an in smoker said customers and employees both like the policy. On of his waitresses Tina Coe was ordered by her doctor to quit smoking three months ago and was delighted to get Ajob in a smoke free environment. A lot of people said you can t open a bar because when people drink they wan to smoke Adams said. Well that s True for about 30 percent of the Popula Tion bul 70 percent Don t. So the Competition can take our 30 percent smokers and Well take i hair 70 percent non  Debbie Adams inc owner s Niece said she has taken cigarettes fro customers who Haw lit up despite the Large signs Al each Entrance none have complained so far she said