European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday August 13,1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 col. Tom Parker pauses while conducting a Media tour of the Elvis suite atop the Las vegas Hilton i Fotel. Presley s manager recalls Happy years with Rock Star Las vegas Nev. A col. Tom Parker says he s shedding no tears As the both anniversary of Elvis Presley s death approaches. There s nothing to cry about everything is too Happy said Parker the Homespun huckster credited with igniting Presley s meteoric career. Parker 78, of Madison tenn., recounted the Happy years with the Man dubbed the King of Rock n Roll As he took the Media on a tour of the Elvis suite atop Thelas vegas Hilton hotel. Dressed in a Jean jacket that he said he got from Presley six months before the Star s death Parker whose title is honorary recounted his first meeting with the Tennessee teen Ager. Standing in a ballroom overlooking the glittering trip where Presley once ruled Parker became angry when asked if he had seen Presley s drug problem com ing on and if anything could have been done to head it we re Here to Honor his memory Parker did t hear the question Presley died aug. 16, 1977, at his Graceland Man Sion in Memphis. He was 42. Court records showed head been Given nearly 200 prescriptions for drugs in the year before he died and doctors said traces of 12 to 14 drugs mostly pain killers and depressants were found in his body. Asked about rumours of a rift Between him and the Sands of Tim in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Aug. 13, 1947 the wartime Headquarters of former nazi Field marshal Herd von Rundstedt near bad nauheim Germany from which he reportedly directed the Battle of the bulge was destroyed by 2,000 pounds of int. 30 years ago today. Aug. 13, 1957 a plane flying world War ii veterans and their wives Home from a convention in Britain crashed and bunted near Quebec killing All 79 aboard it in Canada s worst Ever aviation disaster. 20 years ago today. Aug. 13, 1967 the air Force officially con firmed for the first time thai it was bombing communist target daily in Laos and had been doing so for More than three years. 10 years ago today. Aug. 13, 1977 the army expressed sympathy and compassion for Antoinette Stovik but declined to reverse the world War ii conviction of her husband pvt. Eddie Slovik. As a deserter and denied her j70.000 in insurance benefits. Famous Star before Presley s death Parker said Elvis told him it will always be Elvis and the i m the spokesman for him now that he s gone Parker said adding and it helps me sell some of suits Between Parker and the Presley estate were settled out of court in 1983. Parker received $2 Millionth sever his connection with the estate and give its managers full control of the Elvis business. Parker said he planned to open a museum sometime next year featuring Memorabilia he collected from the Lime he became Presley s manager in 1956. Entertainer Wayne Newton who began a tribute to Elvis at the Las vegas Hilton on tuesday night appeared briefly with Parker and re counted his Friendship with Presley. He said he first met Presley in 1964 on a movie Loi at Paramount. Or c i of Rcd a Wjera Daling the same girl he recalled declining to name the girl. The Hilton was Presley s entertainment Home in Las vegas and he packed the 1,600-seat showroom for each of his 700 performances Over an eight year run said los vegas Hilton president John Giovenco. Asked if the Star had doubts about his career in the last years of a life Parker said Presley once complained of being too fat. told him look at Kate Smith " Parker respond Lonetree s espionage trial opens Quantico a. A a military prosecutor said tuesday that Marine sol. Clayton Lonel rce betrayed his country because he loved a soviet woman and wanted to avenge he government s treatment of american indians. In his statements he admits what is obvious that hews helping the soviet Union Marine maj. David l. Beck said in opening arguments Al Lonetree s court mar tial on a Olal of 13 espionage and other charges. The accused gave away documents and viol information important to our intelligence and our National defense interests Beck said. Lone rec the first Marine Ever to be tried for espionage is accused of revealing the identities of Cia agents to the soviets and of giving them embassy door plans during his slim As an embassy guard in Moscow. Defense attorney Michael Stuhff described lonctrce25, of St. Paul min As a Patriot who wanted to become a double agent and gave nothing of value to die soviets. He said Lonetree s mistake was that he tried to Lakeon the Kab dealing with a Man named Sasha who prosecutors say is a Kab agent. Deck said Lonetree became involved in espionage after beginning a secret love Altair with a soviet woman who worked As an inner prefer in the embassy. The defense acknowledged the love affair but said spying was not involved celibacy is something i Don l think was reasonably expected by the Marine corps Stuhff said. He said the woman led Lance acc to believe she was scared of Sasha so he tried to go after Sasha himself. He tried to set up a blackmail attempt against Sasha in Vienna Stuhff said. It was t successful but he tried to do the defense contended that Beck brought up dual motives of sen and revenge because there was no real motive in a Case it says is based largely on misguided official theories of a nest of spies among Marine guards at the Moscow embassy. Four other marines who worked at the embassy have been investigated for illegal activities. Charges Amsl one Cpl Arnold Bracy have been dropped. Shaft sgt. Robert j. Stuffl Cacam and sgt Kenneth j. Kelliher Are expected to face court Manial proceeding later on charges that include lying to government officials. A military court has not yet determined whether fourth guard Cpl Robert j. Williams should face cart a Stifil on chars it of making false statement Sand impeding the investigation. Tuesday s proceedings began with defense attorney William Kunstler claiming the government has t kept its Promise to take Lone rec out of solitary confine ment. Beck said Kunstler s complain was the first he had heard since Lonetree s confinement was apparently re solved in court last week. The military judge Navy Cape. Philip f. Roberts told Beck to find out what i being done with Lone acc at the Brig. Governor takes blame for state in Colorado Highway tragedy Denver Jap Goy. Roy Romer named a top level team tuesday to investigate the Accident in which a seven ton Boulder that was accidentally pushed off a Colorado Mountainside by a state Road Crew smashed into a tour bus killing seven people. Eight people remained hospitalized two in critical condition. A state geologist who followed the Boulder s pin bait game path Down the Mountainside said the Odds against the tragedy occurring were if the Boulder had been travelling a Little faster or a Tittle slower. Or if the bus had been going a Little faster or a Little said geologist de Ekl Knap of the Colorado Highway department. Romer said he was personally accepting responsibility for the slate and if there arc people out there who have any need i m going to meet that he said he would in bureaucrats be the process for claiming damages against the stale adding that if the stale s Legal limit of $400,000 on compensation for the Accident is not enough he will ask the legislature for More Money. He also declared a state of emergency so that the state could use si00,000 in contingency funds to trans port relatives of the victims to Colorado. Six people were killed instantly when the Boulder 6 feel High and 4 feet across and estimated by slate engineers to weigh seven tons rolled Down a Mountainside below 11,315-foot Berthoud pass on monday and ripped out the right Side of a Gray line Lour bus. Another person died at Denver general Hospital the 28 passengers were taking Gray line s Circle tour thai loops through Rocky Mountain National Park. The Boulder dislodged by a Colorado Highway department maintenance Crew working on the Mountain Side rolled through several Hundred feet of Trees before it hit the Highway and the bus. It was like a pin Bull game. The Speed was variable. It would hit a tree and then slow Down. Then in would Start up again Belknap said. The dead were identified As John Kyj Wicen 54, of Denver Arlene Johnson 61, of a Cuvillo. Minn. Sol sic wart 67, and his wife Gladys in her 60s, of Moul Lon Ala Annie Hayes. 99, of Anaheim calif., and Keith Walters 55, and Kathleen Walters 60, both of Mowson Australia
