European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday. June 23,1967 Wright helped a is reports say new York a House speaker Jim Wright intervened with Federal regulators on behalf of a longtime supporter whose savings and loan association was being investigated according to published re ports the Texas Democrat has been accused of helping several Well connected real estate developers facing Legal problems in his Home slate said the reports in news week s june 29 Issue and monday s editions of the new York times. Although there have been no charges of illegality Wright repeatedly twisted the Arm of Edwin Gray chairman of the Federal Home loan Bank Board which oversees the s4l Industry the reports said. . Officials told the publications that Wright tried to limit Federal efforts to regulate the Thrift institutions and blocked passage of a Bill that would pump More Money into an insurance fund for a is. The publications Laid Wright urged Gray to re examine the board1 action against real estate Developer Thomas Gaubert a prominent democratic fund Raiser and owner of Independent Ameri can savings association in Irving. Texas. "1 have done things As a result of his Calls that i would not have done and never did before Newsweek quoted Gray As saying. Spokesmen for Wright and Gaubert told the times that Wright was not seek ing special treatment for Gaubert. They also said Wright had made other Floru to protects is from what he considered questionable enforcement by the Bank Board. The Reagan administration wants $15 billion allocated for the Federal saving Sand loan insurance corporation which bails out weakened thrifts. Until april Wright insisted that s3 billion would be enough and said the folic was too eager to take Over Texas a is that could re cover on their own. For the first Lime in the folic we Are seeing recurrent attempts to use political influence to prevent folic from taking effective enforcement action against hopelessly insolvent thrifts folic Deputy director William k. Black told the times. Such interference from influential powerful members of Congress will in crease Flics losses he said. Some body s going to have to pay for the  Wright was always acting to help the Industry generally rather than any specific institution said his aide Marshall Lynam in another Case Newsweek said Wright told Gray he wanted the fsl1c appointed conservator of Westwood Sav Ings & loan in California to Call off Law suits seeking to foreclose on Loans made to 16 syndicates of Dallas real estate syn Dicalo Craig Hall. Newsweek said Wright made it Clear the bailout Bill would t pass the House unless the Board cased up on Hall. Halt old Newsweek i talked to Jim Wright and a lot of other congressmen anybody who d listen to get the Law suits pulled  a third texan helped by Wright was Don Dixon owner of Vernon saving and loan association in Vernon Texas Newsweek said. A Wright aide said the House speaker merely asked Gray to delay the takeover of Vernon for one week. The Contact was made in december and the folic did t act until March. By that Lime 96 percent of the Loans Vernon had made were delinquent Newsweek said. The next month Suc sold Dixon and six associates for allegedly defraud ing Mcmon of to million. Dixon s lawyer. Marc Levinson said Dixon s position is that he docs not owe folic any Money and if he does owe it is not 8j a mull of  Reagan Cas Nancy hottest Date As first lady Waltzes with Ballet Star Washington a first lady Nancy Reagan waltzed with Ballet Star Mikhail Barysh Kov at Ford s theater on sunday night As an array of  out for the historic landmark s annual Benefit performance. To the strains of Nancy and real live girl Nat with Mikhail Baryshnikov. They danced during a performance that included Arances by such stars As Don Johnson of Miami vice and Bea Arthur of the Golden  president Reagan watched with amusement As Baryshnikov held mrs. Reagan who was wearing a polka Dot and Sal Raon Dre with ruffles to the floor. The president later made a quip about a poll which showed majority of the men responding thought mrs. Reagan would be their Ideal Date. Joining his wife on stage at the end of the More than two hour performance Reagan said everybody knows that i m with us hottest Date around the one time actor said his first Outing with her was kind of a Blind Date. Things did t really diet. I told her i had an Early Call on the set that it would Bea Short evening. And she said the same  among others appearing in the command performance proceeds of which will be used to support the theater s production fund for the coming season were Singer Maureen Mcgovern Oscar winning song writer Sammy Cahn american music legend cab Gal Loway and country Singer Glenn Campbell. Other performers included american Ballet theater principal dancers Alexandra Ferri and Kevin Mckenzie magician David Copperfield comedians noon Crosby and Bob Nelson and jazz saxophonist David Sanborn. Mrs. Reagan was honoured for her role in helping to preserve Ford s theater. Johnson said that for six years her generosity has helped keep Ford s theater not Only a theater but a  turning toward the empty Flag draped theater to overlooking the stage where president Lincoln was assassinated april 14, 1865, mrs. Reagan said you can t come Here without feeling something. When you look up there at that to you have to have a certain Tummy freeze. And i Hope we can feel it for very Many years to  on Jan. 21, 1968, Ford s theater restored to its appearance on the night of Lincoln s shooting was dedicated and officially called the Ford s theater Lincoln museum. It is administered by the National Park service. 2 held in immigrant s shooting r1verhead, . Up two men were charged sunday with shooting and severely wounding a polish immigrant who was working 18 hours a Day at a service station to Cam enough to pay for an operation for his son police said. Trie victim Witold Wroblewski 37, was shot in the face through the Glass door of the service station by two men who tried to Rob the station june 4. He re Mains hospitalized. On sunday police arrested John Ray Rose 22, and William Tyrone Duff. 24, Al duffs Home in Riverhead and charged them with attempted murder police spokesman sgt. Michael Estrada said. The two were jailed without Bond. Police also confiscated a sawed off Shotgun and two shells from the Home. Rose a i Duff Are accused of shooting Wroblewski while trying to Rob the service station Wroblewski saw them coming and thought they looked pretty rough so he locked himself inside the station Estrada said. They fired a gun through the Glass and wounded him taking out one of his eyes before  police said Wroblewski came to the United states seven months ago leaving his family in Poland to try to earn enough Money to pay for an operation for his handicapped son at a Swiss clinic. He is a fellow who appear Cully works 18 and 20 hour Days and was sleeping in the Back of the service station Estrada said. News about Wroblewski s plight has prompted a Bank a local television station and a police robbery squad to establish a fund for him. A Hospital also offered to assume the Cost of his son s operation. Stateside Bank loses millions in suit gave rancher bad advice Yuba City Calif. A a Farmer who says he was Given bad financial advice by the Bank of America has won a$50 Mill Ion  jury awarded $20 million in compensatory damages and $30 million in punitive damages to rancher Robert Stanghellini and nil  Morris who represented Bank of America during the seven week trial said the Bank will Appeal the decision there were a lot of unfortunate circumstances the family had but they weren t the Faux of the Bank Morris Laid. Of Man it feels great Stanghellini said adding that the decision will save Tua 1,500-Krc Row crop operation from foreclosure Basque museum opened at Boise Boardinghouse Boise Idaho a the first Basque museum in the United Stales has been opened at a 121-Yenr-okl Boardinghouse where some of the first Immi grand stayed while seeking work in a new land like the basques who came Here this noose is sturdy said Asclia Garro Simplot who organized and financed the Elbrt to save the two Story red Brick building near the downtown Are. The building for generations housed basques emigrating from their seven native provinces straddling the pyrenees mountains in Northern Spain and Southern  House is worthy of remembrance for the Comfort and sheer it  said Simplot. Uke the basques who came Here it endured Boise is the Center of North America s largest concentration of basques. Treasure ship s seeds sprout after 365 years key West Fla. Up seeds recovered from the sunken Spanish treasure Galleon Atocha have sprouted after lying on the Ocean door Tor 365 Yean apparently preserved by a thick Coal ing of muck researchers said sunday. University of Florida botanists tentatively identified the 2-Inch seedlings As bids Alba commonly called beggar tick a Weed common throughout the topics. The seeds were found in an area of inner Hull planking toward the Bow of the Atocha Sai Dcorey Malcom an archaeologist with the Mel Fisher maritime heritage  theorize that the seeds were washed Down into the Hull when the decks were scrubbed and became wedged Between the 17 foot planks. When inc Royal Spanish treasure ship Sank off key West in a Hurricane in 1622, the Hull hit the Ocean floor first and was thrust into the muck although All the treasure is believed to Nave been recovered archaeologists Are still excavating the Shipwreck