European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday. August 29,1987 l arc Psi co a photo smithsonian Munem of natural history official Sally love displays the con i is winning cockroach. Florida cockroach encroaches on texan s territory As Champ Washington up the new Winner a darkly tanned floridian with drop dead looks has claimed his throne Al the smithsonian institution sending last year s Texas bred Champion into retire  triumphed Over 2.000 others contest officials said Al a news conference thursday and during his reign this year 4,000 to 5,000 people per Day will troop by to pay their respects to Admire his body and unobtrusively to see if they could Ever Mea sure up to his incomparable physical dimensions. There was no Talent or Iron pumping Compeli Lions involved in the glorious Victory. It was just i Host vital statistics a magnificent 2.087 inches from his head to the tip of his Abdomen. He is the Winner of inc first National cockroach contest and he made his debut at the smithsonian institution s insect zoo in the museum of Naira history where he will be enthroned in a Glass show Case next to 50 Creepy runners up. The extraordinary Roach had no reaction to his crowning. In fact he was dead when he was entered in the contest by mail several months ago. The Star was discovered by one Laine Snyder 10, on a Beach in Hollywood a. Contest officials said the lad spent weeks looking for the Paragon of Peri Planata perfection. The National contest was sponsored by com Bat pcs control systems a division of american Cyan amid co the company and a local affiliate awarded Young Snyder s 1,500 and an All expense paid trip to Washington. Contest coordinator Michael Bohdan said the Competition was Only open to dead  of the species per Planata americana the american cockroach. Males and females of any age were eligible and Bohdan said this year s unusually dark male Winner was probably about 2 years old. Last year the contest was open Only to texans bul this year. Bohdan said his company had 14 regional judges accepting entrants from All Over the United slates. Bohdan said the company now is considering making the contest International because the american cockroach lives worldwide and some for Eigners believe they be seen bigger and belter abroad. Stateside air plane aborts Takeoff because of Bird in engine Lexington by. A a Piedmont night bound for Washington d.c., aborted tis Takeoff from inc grass Airport because it Slick a Bird company officials said thursday. " was a Bird in the engine said Leslie Rowland Public relations representative Al Piedmont s head quarters in Winston Salem . In s  Mike Flack executive director of Blue grass Airport said the 737 never icel the ground during the incident wednesday night. Mechanics found inc problem and Llie air plane went on to Washington thursday morning. No one was injured in the incident Flack said. 1 Man killed 1 injured in cattle truck Accident Amarillo Tunas a a cat lie truck Over turned thursday Al an interstate 40 interchange spill ing steers into Rush hour traffic and killing a person inside the truck officials say. Another person in the Ruck was seriously injured said police who scurried to Tasso the cattle thai blocked All lanes of the  have 25 to 50 head of cattle spread throughout Amarillo at this time said police spokesman Ralph Fletcher. We have both our sheriffs departments involved police and people from the Amarillo livestock auction on horseback looking for  re searching on foot in pickups and cars it does t make any difference. If you Vegol a rope we will throw you out  tractor trailer Rig flipped Over near an exit ramp and rolled Down a shallow embankment. Potter and Randall county authorities were summoned to round up portable pens. Broken legged Moose doing Well after surgery North Grafton mass. A Lucille an affectionate 3-Monlh-old Moose successfully underwent surgery to repair a broken leg say surgeons at Tufts University s school of veterinary  was Back in a Bam just hours after the sur Gery thursday on her left front  think she looks pretty Good said Lisa Shively 23, a University of Maine graduate student who is raising the  Sedgwick director of the veterinarian school said the fracture was complicated and was re paired with a steel plate. The Moos will be watched continually for the next several Days to make sure she keeps off the leg. Lucille was Only a week old when she was found on anew Hampshire Roadside and taken to the University of Maine for study. She lives there with nine while tailed Deer and two Caribou calves and is being studied for wildlife foraging habits. San Francisco Bay area hit by minor earthquake Berkeley Calif. A a Small earthquake Shook the san Francisco Bay area thursday night but no injuries or damages were  earthquake which struck Al 10 16 p.m., was entered about three Miles North of Berkeley and measured 3.2 on the Richter scale said Alberto Michelini a research assistant Al the University of California s seismographic station. Applicant rate at medical schools plummeting Chicago a the number of applicants to medical schools is Plum meting possibly because students fear a glutted Market and record debt upon graduation medical officials say. The number of medical school applicants dropped 4.8 percent in 1986, and is expected to drop another 9 percent this fall according to the american medical association and the association of american medical colleges. First time enrolments in medical schools in 1986 were Down for the fifth straight Ivar while the average debt among the majority of medical students who borrow to finance their educations hit an All Lime High of j3j.499. The 117.2 percent jump in average indebtedness for graduates Over the past six years is the result of Sharp declines in Federal funding for medical education and advanced training said a new re port by the association of american medical  percent of 1986 medical school graduates went into debt to finance their educations according to the report by Paul Jolly and colleagues at the Washington  group. Their average debt of $33.499 com pared with an average of ji5.421 Bor rowed by 1980 graduates said the re searchers whose findings were published in Friday s journal of the american medical association especially hard hit Are minority Stu dents who Are More Likely to be in debt before medical school and to need to borrow More than non minority students to Complete their training the research ers said. Overall 1,570 fewer students applied to medical schools in 1986 than in 1985, for a Toia of 31,373, said an accompany ing report by researchers at the american medical  enrolment in the nation s 127 accredited medical schools for 1986-87 was 66,142, said the report led by Anne e.  number of applicants is expected to drop 9 percent this fall said Robert a Beran assistant vice president for Stu dents and education Al the association of american medical colleges. There s been a lot of speculation about what the reasons Are for the de  Beran said thursday. It s extraordinarily difficult to identify any one  said however that students May believe there Are top Many doctors which is in keeping with a report issued several years ago predicting a doctor glut by the 1990s.and student May be discouraged by news reports about malpractice insurance rates that have soared so High some doctors have quit practising Beran added. Also the practice of Medicine is be coming less individualistic with More government regulation and More doctors working in managed care systems that have corporate like structures. Thoie per Coplion May be jus enough to mate a student say. Gee Whiz i really Don t want to do that " Beran said