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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, February 18, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday february in 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 Lemon club invites car owners to sign up laton1a. By. Al1 Lemon owners of the world unite lie As obnoxious As necessary if you be been muck uth a l and car Jusi Don t shoot in or beat Illo death says the american Lemon club which had its inaugural meeting monday. Keen after these people. Put everything in writ ing. Don t let up said pal Trimble president or the group. "1 it it moist in your car. Hang signs on your car saying where you bought your Lemon. Don t Lei them of like the dealer did to me thai it s All in your  about a third of the 100 people expected at Mon Day night s first meeting of the american Lemon club showed up despite icy streets. La s and by on lop of anxiety said in rec Owen of Dayton explaining Why he showed up. Owen said the 2-year-old car he Houglun in 1983 often leaked and had Power windows thai would t go up. He traded it in .1 year later but his new car has had problems turning up "1 can Goon and on he said. Before the meeting co founder 1 aul o Connell said he had received numerous Calls from people interested in joining. The phone s really been ringing o Connell said. I no sooner Pui the phone Down than in rings again o Connel has a file with thousands of newspaper reports of Lemon owners taking action Inlo their own hands and shooting their cars driving them through showroom windows or beating them to death. Don t do any of thai Trimble said. You could land in jail. We can organize parades through the dealer s lot. That real effective if they have been ignoring  Trimble said she knew she had a problem with her 19x4 car the Day she bought in. I got it Home and the engine sounded like it was  she said. I lifted up the Hood looked around and then closed it. When 1 dosed in some paint flew  my rear View Mirror fell off when 1 was driving. I had to drive with my left hand and hold the Mirror who my right she said. When i wanted to shift i had to put the Mirror in my  then there were bad brakes a faulty transmission non functioning Windshield wipers doors that leaked when in rained headlights thai burned out in a Flash and a speedometer that worked Only pan time. I got a speeding ticket in Newport so i brought All of my work orders and repair Bills to coun. The judge threw out my ticket. He said this lady Hai enough problems Trimble placed newspaper ads last August and threw a Lemon party in the parking lot of her Beauty Supply business in Erlanger she served lemonade Lemon drops and Lemon cookies and 01 traded enough interested people to form the club. She said her club is join ing with six others around the country to urge Congress to create a National Lemon Day. We d like it to be in the summer Trimble said. That Way we could have a picnic and a Parade of  but the Parade might be Shon she said because after one Block All the cars could break Down. Two marines Aba rejects proposal held following f or tobacco and ban / 9-ton Joyride Honolulu apr two marines arc in custody after apparently taking a 19-Lpn amphibious assault vehicle for a Joyride through the streets of suburban Kailua on saturday 1 Marine spokes Man said. The pair. 3 Lance Corporal and a private first class stationed at the Kaneohe Marine corps air station were taken into custody Early sunday when they returned to the base the spokesman said and Are being held in the Pearl Harbor naval base Brig pending Limner investigation the vehicle crashed through a Fence Al the Kaneohe Marine corps air station and travelled through about 5 Mijes of streets in Kailua including a residential Street and a Busy Boulevard he spokesman said. In came to a Hall after losing one of its tracks when in sideswiped a car on a two Lane Highway connecting Eastern Oahu with Honolulu and struck a guard rail. New Orleans up the Amer ican har association refused monday 10 join the nation s doctors in calling fora ban on tobacco advertising. The House of delegates the  governing body turned Down the Mea sure proposed by members of the new York state bar. It would have thrown the association s weight behind the Call for a tobacco and ban. Broadcast advertising of cigarettes has been banned for 15 years but the Ameri can mtg Iii association and surgeon general c. Everett Koop the nation s top doctor have advocated a total prohibition on ads for tobacco products. While the position taken by the National lawyers group is Teefy symbolic ii will certainly be brought up during debate Over such a ban. Rep. Mik Synar d-okla., last week introduced legislation in Congress to ban tobacco advertising in newspapers magazines and on billboards. Henry Miller in introducing the Mea sure called Toh eco inc worst killer in the history of the country and said it causes a variety of cancers and heart Dis ease. He said some 350,000 people a year die from cig Arcile smoking in America and to replace them the tobacco Industry needs to attract teen age smokers. Miller who said the tobacco Industry spends $2 billion a year on advertising attempted to disarm opponents to the measure by saying a ban on advertising would not violate the first amendment s guarantee of Freedom of the press or Lead to similar bans on products viewed As harmful such As alcohol and red meat. Or. Roben Mcafee representing the american medical association said the health consequences amply justify our goal of a tobacco free society. I ask you on behalf of inc medical Community. To approve this Resolution he said. Opposition to a tobacco advertising ban Wilf be viewed by Many As disregarding Public health  go Farb leaves Hospital praises . Health care new York a a soviet ref Ulcnik who arrived in the United slates for medical treatment last october after Moscow had denied his release for seven years left a Hospital monday and praised his care. America prolonged the period of life for me. It is Clear soviet geneticist David Goldfarb 67, said after his release from Columbia presbyterian medical Center. Noting thai Over a four month period . Doctors removed a cancerous tumor from his lungs halted a foot infection and fitted him with an artificial leg Gold far b said i was a physician during world War ii and i know what the out come of my life would have been if i had stayed in Moscow . Industrialist Armand Hammer arranged Goldfarb s release from the so Viet Union last october through the for Mer soviet ambassador to Ine United Stales analogy f. Dobrynin. Wheelchair bound prisoner flees after overpowering guard fort Myers. Fat. Up a prisoner who spent seven years in a wheelchair jumped from the chair overpowered his guard and escaped while returning to prison from a medical Center in a Van prison officials said monday. We had never seem him walk said Avon Park correctional institution superintendent Dale land Ress. He had been in that wheelchair for the seven years he was in  Robert Irvin Blackmon 43, fled Date Friday after forcing the Driver of the Van to take him to fort Myers. Backmon was serving 3 life sentence for killing his wife in Escambia county in 197�. He was in a wheel chair when he entered the prison system and Jimmy prevail Avon Park prison classification superintendent said records show he had suffered a gunshot wound to the hip leading prison offi dals to believe he was a paraplegic. Landry a said Blackmon was taken from a on Park to Highlands regional medical Center for a rays after complaining of breaking an ankle when his wheelchair Oer turned. He said the inmate was accompanied by a guard a medical technician and a Minim Iun Security prisoner driving the Van equipped for wheelchair patients. He said i to group has returning to Avon Park when Blackmon jumped out of he wheelchair and grabbed the guard s service revolver forced the Driver to head for fort Myers. On the Way he changed Inlo the guard s uniform. Undress said Blackmon was walking with a decided  after heroic deeds a 26-year-old pregnant Homan Johnella Hodges col lapses outside her South Side Chicago Home sunday after sating her Mother to mid Nephew from their burning apartment. Hodges returned twin to lad her Mother Miry Hodges Leftus other family members out of the fire. She died later to local Hospital  
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