European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday january 17, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 winds ground pedal powered plane Edwards Ali. Calif. A winds so wiping llii1 Ilert thursday halted test softer wiper High Eagle pedal plane which deign in belie will Sci a distance record for human powered Fli Flohl. The wind and dark Clouds Over Edwards dry Lake Bedi ddn i Bode Well for the Daedalus project s plans to Complete testing and try for the record before Theca of january when the students and professors must Murn to Massachusetts in Vituli of technology for the next Aca Demic semester. Wadi were at 1.2 Mph thursday and winds up to 17 Mph were Likely for up to five Days. Said. Les Reinell on spokes Man for un1 National aeronautics and it Tiv administration. A try at Selling a distance record has been tentatively set for Jan. 21 Al Edwards. Despite its 112-foot wingspan and pro Plemo Tail length of29.fi feet Rifae Miche lob Light Eagle weight Only 88 pounds. Too fragile and Clumsy to Fly in any Windover 3 knots or about 3.45 Mph Ibe plane had in tit in inc cavernous confines of the Mace Inutile hangar at Nasa s Dryden Ligart  a acidity project manager John s. Langford. 29, an Mit graduate student emphasized that breaking the 22-Miie distance record was leu important than fathering performance data to be used in designing an other plane 10 Fly 69 Miles from the is land of Crete in he Mediterranean Seato tile greek Mainland. That s the route mythology says Daedalus hew with Wing or leathers and Wax. The Taic is 35 centuries old. The Mit plane is made of plastic mylar film a synthetic cloth called Kev. Pilolli Lois Mccallla and Glenn Tremml will try far a distance record in their human powered aircraft a aria is polystyrene foam and Thorn car Bon fiber. The engine is human. This plane has already made a flight that is the fourth longest human pow ered Light that s Ever been made Lane Ford said. That night by Lois Mccallin 30, covered 4.9 Miles in i8 minutes Las tuesday. The three longer flights were made by the Gossamer Albatross in which Pilot Bryan Allen set the record by crossing the English Channel in 1979. The air plane has made nearly 70 nights nearly half of them at Edwards where the spacious Lake bed has allowed the project engineers to gather More data than could be obtained in previous nights in Massachusetts. Langford said Many of the nights were tiny hops for training the pilots who drive the propel Ler by peddling. Mccallin and Pilot Glenn Tremml 26, were selected because both Are Amateur triathletes As Well As pilots. Mccal Linis a computer analyst for a Boston Finan Cial firm. Tremml a native of Milford conn., is a medical student at the University of Connecticut. Bolger scarecrow from of Dies at 83 ios Angeles a Ray Bolger who As the rubber legged scarecrow helped Lead Dorothy Back hams in the 1 939 movie wizard of  died thurs Day of cancer. He was s3. Bolger the last survivor of the cheerful foursome that in duped Down the yellow Brick Road died at a los Angeles nursing Home according to family spokes Man Barry Greenberg. A Tiger s stage screen and television rarer spanned ii decades bul he was Best known for his role As the scarecrow in the 1 939 movie. As the Man of Straw. Bolger seemed a Boneless sack of rugs and Weed Hupping about merrily As lie searched for. A brain unaware of his own healthy re a Cravei of common sense. Kay Bolger was a gentleman a scholar a wonderful wit and a helluva performer said producer Jack Haley jr., Whoric father portrayed thetis Man. In 1979. Ray spoke at my father s funeral said hairy we were All touched when he mentioned How lonely to was to in1 finally All by himself on the yellow Brick Road. Now Dorothy and All her friends Are Back together  Utiger said in later years thai hi1 had no idea the movie would become a Hollywood classic. Oregon woman arrested for forging divorce papers Ray Bolger "1 knew that i was taking part in a strange kind or adventure he said. Everything had to be invented for the picture the effects the sound the technicolor. It was ail new. But when the reviews came out. It was a terrific disappointment. The picture got terrible notices. It was Only when the wizard of of came into the Home with television that it redeemed itself. Then it was no longer a picture it was an institution. After All the wizard Foz carries the message that there s no place like  Margaret Hamilton who played the wicked Witch of the West died in 1985. Judy Garland who portrayed Dorothy the misty eyed Sweet voiced girl from Kansas died m 1969 of an overdose of sleeping pills. Jack Haley the tin Man died in 1979. Bert Lahr the cowardly lion died in 1967. Frank Morgan who portrayed the wizard died in 1949. Raymond Wallace Bolger was born Jan. 10,1904, in Boston. As a dancer his first performance was in an Amateur show. He continued to study dancing and by 1924 was on he vaudeville stage where he met Gwen Dolyn Rickard whom he married in 1929. He was partial to the theater his wire told lbs news on thursday. He did More in the theater than he did in  Sands or time Roseburg Ore. A alarmed by the arrest of a woman charged with forging Divon papers about 4u people have called court and police Oft urls to determine whether their divorces arc Legal police mid thursday. Police arrested Delores Mcelmurry 42, on tuesday on a larges of first degree Briery and theft by deception in connection with two dive act cases. On thursday they Taid they bad identified five More invalid divorces handled by chit Nurry who police said had no formal Legal training but nonetheless and act Luck it could help people prepare divorce papers. Dolt Clive Hubert Boggs said about 40 Panicky people  Douglas county circuit court arid Roseburg no lice on wednesday to find out whether i hair divorces were Legal. Boggs said Mcelmurry has handled hundreds of divorces since 1976, filing same legitimately bul forging others using Lake docket numbers phony Signa Ture and stolen Stamps. We re in the process of compiling Alist to see where we stand and what we pc got he said. Police have contacted peo ple from us far away As Alaska Germany and Vietnam Boggs said. The Oregon bar association once or dered Mcelmurry to Slop filing divorce papers but be arranged to do a local lawyer s typing in return for use of his stationery police said. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Jan. 17, 1947 confusion and two governors reigned in Georgia As Herman Talmadge governor designate of the slate legislature occupied the executive offices in a pre Dawn coup forcing incumbent Ellis Arnall into makeshift offices elsewhere. Talmadge had been picked by the legislature to replace his father Eugene the tale governor elect. 30 years ago foday., Jan. 17, 1957 president Eisenhower ended a 4,500-mile tour of the drought stricken Southern Garcal Plains and asked Congress to earmark 176 million for Relief 20 years ago today. Jan. 17, 1967 in the worst such massacre of its kind Viet Cong guards hacked to death at least 44 civilians including women and children in two communist prison Camps sources in Chuon Thien province reported. 10 years ago today. Jan. 17. 1977 supreme court Justice Byron r. White refused to Block Gary Gilmore s execution by a Utah firing squad