European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday August 10.1987 lawyers panel debates surrogate Mother contracts reproduction cases san Francisco a giving birth is no business proposition and surrogate mothers cannot be held 10 Normal standards of contract Law several Lega scholars agreed at i he american bar association National conference. In family Taw there is no place for an absolutely conclusive agreement with respect to a child George town University professor Patricia King said fonday. The panel discussion focused on la baby m Case i which a new Jersey couple paid a surrogate Mother j10.000 to Bear a child Tor them following artificial insemination with the father s sperm the surrogate Mary Beth Whitet Iead decided to keep the baby after giving birth but a Superior court judge ruled against her turning the child Over to Wil Liam and Elizabeth sick. The couple who had hired Whitehead. The judge also denied while head Visita Tion  d permit a surrogate to change her mind King said adding that a sperm donor Loo who has relinquished All rights to ice the child after birth should be allowed to change hit mind if a judge decided it was in he child s Best interests. University of Florida professor Stanley Ingber called the denial of a surrogate Mother s claim to a child the equivalent of kidnapping. Tearing the baby from her  but new Jitney attorney Gary Skoloff who rep resented the stems defended the judge s decision. Skoloff urged the adoption of Legal standards for licensing surrogate parroting agencies and for making stateside artificial Comet exploded Nasa Over a. Coast by Boston Dpi a email artificial Comet was exploded Iso Miles Over the Virginia coast in an Experiment that May show what happens when Rea Comet debris is Ricks Earth s atmosphere. A canister of 300 pounds of water Carbo dioxide nitrogen and panic late matter the Tuff that of Mcox Are made of was explode three minutes after it was launched in a two stage sounding rocket from Nasa s Wallops is land flight facility in Virginia. The Experiment was quite successful Laid Dempsey Bruton Nasa project Engineer shortly after he explosion. Of course they won know the results until later when they get the data from i he satellites press group files lawsuit against Florida s new tax Tallahassee Fly. A a lawsuit challenging the imposition of Florida s 5 percent sales tax on advertising and newspaper Sain has been filed by the Florida press association. The suit filed in Leon circuit court claim that the tax unconstitutionally restricts free speech and interstate Commerce and discriminates against several types of businesses. In effect they Are taxing free speech because you have to Par the government to get a paper said attorney Gregg Thomai who represent the1,400-mrnibcr press group. The suit is one of Many filed against the la that was applied to advertising and Many other services such As Yard care Pel grooming leg Alfees and accounting fees. 8 Railroad workers fired in Wake of derailment Eugene. Ore. Api the Southern Pacific Railroad Hai dismissed eight members of a maintenance Crew blamed for a derailment injure a spokesman for the Railroad said. Eight can from a 102-car freight train jumped the tracks telling the trestle on fire and causing s 7 50,000 in damage spokesman Kobert Melbo  workers were members of a Crew working on the trestle m Omen is before the Irain crossed Melhor said. At a closed hearing in july they were jut used of leaving unsecured rails on the trestle he said. Their contracts binding on both  couple in their right mind would contract with a surrogate who could renege on the agreement so loft said attacking proposals by feminists and others to leave the decision in the surrogate Mother s hands. He said proposed Laws allowing the woman a Grace period after birth to decide whether to claim the child would be the end of surrogate  saying that about 15 percent of . Married Cou Ples cannot have children Skoloff declared the Only viable alternative to surrogate parenting is adoption and there Are just about no children available for adoption. Banning it is totally absurd. The. Only real option is  panel Moderator Lori Andrews of the american bar foundation said Only two states have Laws on surrogacy. Louisiana has banned enforcement of surrogate contracts and Arkansas says contracts Are binding if the surrogate Mother is unmarried. She said imitation has been introduced in 33 states. To avoid future baby m cases Skoloff said states need a dear Cut Law requiring licensed agencies to examine prospective surrogate parents establish the fee for bearing a child and make the contract binding. If a couple did not go through a licensed Agency he Laid some kind of penalty would be appropriate but not taking the child  baby m Case is scheduled to be argued before the new Jersey supreme court on sell 14, Whitehea has appealed Superior court judge Harvey Sorkow i decision in favor of the Sterns. Of Joure m Tut us mar tiny in. I d rip i i unp10 but far attn. To Nam Jub. Her Bykov am a tool j a turn. Sim. A twi 91  a i a Mimi my Toni Vlf it h to it a.  ice Flat to of thai Fla Lewis declares telethon Olive despite serious problems faced Las vegas nov. A entertainer Jerry Lewis is angered by speculation that fund raising telethon Are a dying Breed and says his annual labor Day extravaganza is alive and Well after nearly a Quarter of a Cen Tury. Lewis who started his telethon for the muscular dystrophy association in 1965, worries about the reported de Mise of some television fund raisers such As the Marrh of dimes telethon. I feel sorry because the recipients of those telethon thai have fallen by the Wayside Are the Coldren Lewis said. They re the recipients of this wonderful announcement that there will not be a telethon for the March of dimes he said what about the birth defects children where does that leave them i just Hope the management that has decided not to do a telethon for the March of dimes has knotty resource to raise Money for the  his comments came amid Trade reports this summer that telethon Are in trouble because of rising production Cosu waning viewer interest and television stations concerned about a growing number of telethon consuming prime time hours. Or morale Nina on got Little nerve wheat finl surfaced Lewis said. They of i with to. And we be got a stood ii Lewis admitted the report have caused conc jct Anamong corporate Spomon who contribute Mimm to the new York based muscular dystrophy  Are showcased on big annual in some con the reports it. Good thing v them. Some of these people put up $1 no Lobai to so Raif Floii in front Money to build a  said the to Poon and the stations treat worried about 1987, but they Are worried about 1981.Lewis says he will have More than 200 nation line when his show is telecast from Lai vegas on sent  did he 11 equally concerned about bit ads victims of my solar dystrophy who Haw Doper him a their hero and took to him to provide Umaner Camps wheelchairs Crotchet care acid a  Jerry Lewis labor Day telethon n Goa uttered the Gnad daddy of the fond raising phenomenon. The show collected a record jk096.773 last september using a network of 196 nations across  21 telethon have raised j404 million. His courtship of corporate sponsors and other contributors has pushed the total raised for the mad since 1966 to nearly $1  said he and mad executives scrambled to find Strong stations to replace Fox broadcasting co. Outlet sin new York City and los Angeles when Fox announced it was dropping the telethon in those Market earlier this year. New stations arc now on Tine in both key markets he said. Sex Pilot seeks Model plane record Edwards fab Calif. Up a world War fighter Pilot saturday chased the Model air plane world Speed record held by the soviet but he will have Lovail to icam if his homemade aircraft passed the Mark of23mph. Gene Sidwell 66, a roofing contractor guided his radio controlled aircraft for two hours in front of Oft coils of the air Force flight test Center and the National aeronautics and space administration who limed the flights with special cameras. Sidwill s Bullet shaped -1-foot Model was trying to break the record of 213 Mph set by soviet citizens 16 years ago. Regulations of the acid my of Model  sanctioned the flight require that the new re Cord be at least 217 Mph. Sidwell was optimistic but air Force officials mid his plane missed the Mark. The air plane just did t reach the right Speed air Force flight lest Center spokesman Don Haley said. It attained 201 Miles an hour and it needed to attain217," Haley said his figures Ere estimates from unofficial sources but because it Jinn l get close to 217, it did t set a new  the official Speed will be set by analysing film from the cameras. Sidwell however was confident his creation hit 217  Craft went up three times Between 6and8a.ni. Flying a 200-meter course about 10 times each trip Sid who said. The official Speed will be calculated by averaging the times Over the 100-meter distance. A record would fulfil a dream for Sidwell. A fighter Pilot in world War ii who has flown radio controlled punch for 25 years raced them for 15 years and decided five years ago to try to take the Mark from the soviets