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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 2, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 Texas a an will hang to Moke Point Giddings. Texas a Woodrow Wilson is going to hang himself on a Gallows he and his wife built alongside . 290, but Only because it would Cost ii00 to hang someone else. Wilson plans to survive. The hanging sept. 20 is part of his Effort to prove thai outlaw Bill Longley also survived when he was hanged in 1878. 1l is Wilson s hypothesis that Longley paid off the sheriff put on a life saving harness under his clothing and walked out of his cof Fin after the hanging. He headed for Louisiana. I be got proof that he s buried and died Down there in Louisiana he said pointing to photographs of a grave bearing Longley s name. Wilson 67, said his hanging will be the highlight of what he Hopes will be he first Bill Longley Day. Wilson s decision to portray Long icy was based on pure economics. I had two men that would do it for is do apiece. Bui i be put a lot of Money in this thing Here. If i can save s100 i m going to do it he said. Longley a murderer and All around outlaw was around 30 when he died at least officially by the noose. Wilson whose Grandfather married Longley s Sis Ter claims his no Good Uncle died at age 71 from complications after prostate surgery. A Roadside sign near Wilson s homemade Gallows reads Bill Longley hang out dedicated to his memory and Giddings  i m not trying to immortalize him but this is Lee county history. It does t show no More Vio Lence than what to would. In 10 minutes on to i be seen two kill Ings said Wilson a junk dealer. Surrogate mothers denounce parenting contracts As slavery Washington a Mary Beth Whitchead whose unsuccessful fight to keep baby a made her the nation s Best known surrogate Mother is joining in a new coalition seeking to Stop the paying of women to have other people s children. Whitchead and other surrogate Moth ers in the coalition monday denounced surrogate parenting contracts As a form of reproductive slaver 1," and called for a Federal ban on the practice. The women joined by feminists and a Public policy group announced the coalition to warn of the Legal and emotional dangers of bearing children on behalf of others. The group being organized by the non profit foundation on economic trends will try to keep women from entering Surro Gate parenting contracts and help current surrogate mothers Cope with the birth of their children organizers said. The foundation s president Jeremy Rifkin. Said the group would also try to unite several Hundred surrogates into a National support network and would press Congress for a Law Banning All com Mercial surrogate parenting contracts. Such a contract upheld earlier this Belh Stem. Whitehead had agreed to be inset Ina cd with Stem s sperm and to turn the baby Over to the couple after its birth. However after the child was born in March 1986, she reneged on the agreement. New Jersey Superior court judge har vey Sorkow in a March decision said to be the first of its kind upheld the Validity of a is 0,000 contract in which while head agreed to Bear the baby for the childless Sterns. He also barred Whitchead from seeing her child but she was temporarily Given visiting rights by the new Jersey supreme court. That court is scheduled to hear argue baby one of the most controversial custody Battles in the United states was joined last year Over baby a one of about 500 children in the . Bom to surrogate mothers. In most cases the husband and infertile wife pay the surrogate to be inseminated with the husband s sperm and deliver a baby to the couple. Current rates Range from $10,000 to $25,000 or More. Variation the surrogate is inseminated with the husband s sperm but does not carry the baby. Instead once her egg is fertilized it is transferred to the wife s uterus and she carries and delivers a child not biologically related to her. Ments in the Case Cpl 14. Whitehead said she is optimistic the court will allow her to share custody of the baby she Calls Sara now legally known As Melissa a Lorn. I m her Mother and i always will be she  described the surrogate agreement she signed As violating nature s  Gina Corca an organizer of the coalition said Whitchead and other surrogate mothers Are being sold As products in a reproductive  Corca charged that the women mostly poor have been lured into Lucr Niiva sounding deals by unscrupulous breeder brokers. The real questions arc is reproductive slavery Good for women should we create a new class of breeders " Corca  the practice is banned Rifkin said it s going to become an emotional and Legal  joining Whitehead in the protest were surrogate mothers Patty Foster of Michi Gan who shares custody of her infant son and Alejandra Munoz of Mexico who said she has lost custody of her baby. Harriet Blankfeld in Cutie director of the National Center for surrogate Par enting said Whitchead and the others offer a one sided View of the  she called them three very unhappy people you re rial viewing the vast majority of surrogate mothers who arc quite con incl said Blankfeld whose Agency sets up surrogate arrangements. Whitchead a 30-year-old Brick town ship n.j., resident declined to discuss her recent separation from her husband Richard which she attributed to the stress of he court Battle. She said she would cling to her baby at least emotionally no matter How the Case proceeds. I m not going logo Sway. Win or lose i m her Mother. Her lawyer Alan Karcher said he expects the state supreme court to Rule by october. Uninhabited Nevada land Given county status Carson City Nev. A Bullfrog county got three county commissioners monday although it still has no residents. The legislature created Bullfrog county a 12 Square mite area in Southern Nevada in july As part of a program to fight the placement of a High level nuclear waste site in Nevada. Mike Melner who was named acting commission chairman by gov. Dick Bryan said the panel s tint Job would be to pass a Resolution opposing the nuclear dump. We want Washington to know that Nevada Speaks with one  said Melner. We do not want the nation s High level garbage dumped in our  Yucca Mountain 110 Miles Northwest of Las vegas trying for coup Over Playboy is one of three dump Sites being considered by the . Department of Energy. The other iwo Are in Texas and Washington stale. The county Nevada s i8lh, was carved out of a 144 Square Misc Section of nyc county and has no Resi dents. It s named after a mining District thai failed in 1909 to become a county. The slate does t want the dump but created the county to ensure that Nevada will reap financial Bene fits if the government places it Here. Under the Bill the tax rate in the new county would be is per $100 of assessed valuation the maximum under stale Law. The state run county could be cd peeled to receive anywhere from 18 million to 125 million in annual Federal revenues if the Nevada site is selected. The commission would distribute the funds to Nevada cities and counties. Commissioners of nyc county which stands to lose Federal revenues because of the new county already have said they plan a Legal Challenge of Bullfrog county. And Nye District judge Bill Biko has said there arc obvious constitutional flaws with the new county. Melner a lawyer served As head of the slate com Merce and human resources departments and also As a Deputy attorney general. Bryan also named Dorothy Eisenberg who is Active in the league of women voters and David Powell a former member of the stale judicial selection Corn Mission and stale Board of equalization As commissioners. Race crash kills Penthouse to reveal facts on Hahn new York up Penthouse Magazine has promised details of Jessica harm s hotel room Prysi with television evangelist Jim Bakker in its sept. 8 Edi Tion weeks before rival Playboy pub Lishes the former Church Secretary s Story. Washington Post reporter Art Harris wrote the Penthouse Story which is based on Many interviews with Hahn and on a 1985 affidavit obtained by the Magazine a spokesman said. Penthouse said in paid no Money to Hahn for ils Story due out sept. 8, but scheduled to appear six Days Early. Arch rival Playboy paid Hahn an undisclosed sum for her version of her de Cember 1980 sexual encounter Wilh the former pal ministry Leader an Mccoum her lawyer promises will stun the coun  to wanly eight year old Hahn a said she plans to remain in seclusion until Playboy goes on Sale sept. 28. The Penthouse Story traces the Saga of coerced sex at the Sheraton Sand key in Tampa fto., in lurid detail to its begin Ning a Glass of what Hahn then 20, said she believed was drugged wine. The disclosure of the encounter Wilh Bakker and the Rev. John Wesley Fletcher toppled Bakker from his pulpit and the leadership of the $ in million pal Praise the lord ministry in March Hahn met Fletcher in he mid-1970s when she cared for his children during his visits to Mau Abequa n.y., for Revi Val meetings. He was co boiling a icle icon with Bakker in Florida when he invited her loaned and paid her air fare Penthouse said. West Lebanon. . A a 46-year-old drag racer certified to race even though both his legs had been amputated died when his car went out of control and hit a tree ill the Lebanon Valley Speedway sunday slate police said monday. Ron Zanolli of Wisl Field. Mass., died when his braking Parachute either failed to open or did not properly deploy Ai the end Ota Quarter mile race said stale police sgt. Dennis Cody. Zanolli whose souped up Chevrolet Monza was equipped with hand controls was travelling Ai about 140 Mph when he crossed the finish line. Cody said  
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