European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday. November 16, 1987 the St tis and stripes Page 7 lawsuit claims gag landed Bride in Hospital bed Colorado Springs Colo. A like Many brides Shari schonning has a videotape of her wed Ding reception but her tape in t stashed away among her mementos. It s in the hands of her lawyer. Shari schonning who said she is in physical therapy for Back injuries nearly 14 months after a fall from a horse at her reception filed suit Fri Day in Pueblo District Conn against the owner of the tavern where the parly took place. As mrs. Schonning recalled it in court papers the first him that her wedding night might not be so Blissful came when she saw the horse standing next to her at the reception in Bloom s tavern. It was eating her wedding cake. Before she could focus on Why a horse was in the tavern she said someone had lifted her onto its Back amid cries of we re Gonna ride off into the Sunset with the ride ended at the door when the Man Spir iting the Bride away for ill to Duck and Thuv landed on the floor she honeymoon to Las vegas and Vermont was cancelled and she spent most of her wedding night in the hos Pital mrs. Schonning said in an inter View Friday with the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph. And someone stole their wedding gifts and Money from a table in the tavern owner Jimmie Dale Bloom a longtime family Friend had volunteered to give mrs. Schonning and her husband William the recep Tion after their Church wedding on sept. 27, 1986."it was a Beautiful wedding every thing 1 hoped for mrs. San owning followed was the horseback ride and fall. Mrs. Schonning who is seeking unspecified damages in the suit said she awoke in an ambulance spent seven hours in the Hospital and was told her spine was severely dam can t ski or do any of the things that made me and my husband want to be together she said. She said she can t help her husband with his landscaping business As she had planned because she can t lift More than 15 to 20 pounds and inc couple had to hire someone. _ mrs. Schonning also Saiu Iii Maui Cal Bills have run into inc thousands of dollars they have no insurance to cover them and creditors arc calling. Bloom was unavailable for com ment the newspaper said. Convicted mom fires attorney in child abuse Case fort Lauderdale Fla. A a Mother convicted of forcing her 17 year old daughter to dance nude in nightclubs has fired her attorney less than three weeks before her scheduled sentencing. Attorney Kenneth Whitman said he would ask Broward county circuit judge Arthur Franza for an emergency hearing to learn whether Theresa Jack son made a knowing and competent Jackson was convicted oct. 30 of procuring sexual performances by a child child abuse and forgery. The state argued that she was guilty of the mental child abuse charge because she forced her daughter Tina Mancini to dance in nude bars. Three months after Mancini began working in Early 1986, she killed herself with her Mother s pistol. Jackson 41, is scheduled to be sentenced on dec. 3. She s in a critical state and she s just fired her advocate said Whitman. Who has represented Jackson for 19 months. Whitman said said Marsha Moore Jackson s Best Friend delivered a letter to him saying he was fired. Jackson is being held at Coral Ridge psychiatric Hospital in fort Lauderdale for Obser vation after a suicide threat. Whitman said that according to Moore he was not dismissed sooner be cause you Don t change surgeons in the Middle of surgery Moore who testified on Jackson s be half said she and Jackson had agree that Whitman erred in portraying his Cli ent As mentally ill. Terry has problems nobody s denied that she said. But Terry s not congressman 2 sons sued Over failed Thrift Knoxville Tenn. A a Feder Al Agency has sued a congressman his two sons and other former officials of a failed Thrift maintaining that they negligently allowed a financier and his associates to make fraudulent Loans. The Federal savings and loan insurance corp. Filed the suit Friday in . District court asking $15 million against rep. John j. Duncan jr., r-tcnn., his two sons and 13 other former officials of the Knox Federal savings and loan association. The suit claims Duncan s sons. Crimi Nal court judge Jimmy Duncan and Joe s. Duncan and some of the other defendants engaged in a 1981 conspiracy by which control of the Thrift was surren dered to financier . Butcher or. In Exchange for elimination of Joe Dun can s debts to Banks controlled by Butch or s brother Jake Butcher. The Butcher Brothers banking empires failed in 1983. On nov. 16, 1984, Knox Federal was declared insolvent and closed. The Thrift had made numerous Loans to Butcher associates and had extensive dealings with Butcher controlled financial institutions. . Butcher who built the $1.5 Bil lion City and county Bank Chain is serv ing a 20-year prison sentence for bankruptcy and tax fraud. Rep. Duncan said saturday that Crimi Nal courts already had ruled that there was no conspiracy in the takeover. Anybody can file a civil lawsuit he said. There was no conspiracy and there Are really More grounds for a Law suit against the Federal savings an loan corp. For their mismanagement after they took Over Knox he said he lost $50,000 on deposits at the institution. Joe Duncan was convicted earlier this year of filing a false tax return and sentenced to six months in prison. Judge Duncan also said there was no basis for the lawsuit and that the defendants were not involved with any of the bad Loans made by . Butcher and his associates. Out off control a photo a firefighter is silhouetted against out of control names that destroyed a two Story apartment building in Nome Alaska. No one was injured in the Mil lion Dollar Blaze but 19 people were left homeless in sub Zero tempera Tures. The cause of the Blaze was not immediately determined. Coseo. I n inn Nuu Mauc us Maiuu Gorbachev May missionary considered for sainthood talk to Congress Washington not Robert c. Byrd d-w.va., the Senate majority Leader has formally invited Mikhail s. Gorbachev to address a joint session of Congress while he is in Washington next month for the planned Summit meeting with president Reagan a spokesman for Byrd said. The invitation is contingent on soviet willingness to permit Reagan to address the soviet people on Side has formally accepted the proposal but White House aides and so Viet government representatives have expressed interest in the two leaders addressing each other s countries. The two leaders have agreed on reciprocal television appearances in the past. On Jan. I 1986, they exchanged video taped new year s messages. Carmel Calif. Up the re Mains of Junipero Serra a missionary buried at the Carmel Mission Basilica since 1784, were exhumed by Church officials As part of the process that May result in sainthood for him. Sena who founded Carmel and eight other missions in California was declared venerable the first of three Steps to sainthood by pops John Paul ii in 1985.the Pope earlier this year was thought to be considering declaring the franciscan priest beatified during his visit to the grave or sept. 17, but did not do officials now say Serra could be beatified by Early next exhumation formally known As canonical recognition is a routine pre cursor to beatification and is performed to guarantee that the remains Are authentic. Monsignor Samo an american priest serving in the congregation for the causes of saints in Rome told the los Angeles times before the exhumation that in the event of beatification worshippers will want to Pray at the grave so it is important that the grave contain Serra s is very Little doubt the remains Are genuine Sarno s remains were positively identified once before in 1943, for arc ecological and canonical purposes Sarno said. Also identified then were the remains of Juan Crispi. Serra s longtime associate who was buried alongside the , who had been buried in a red Wood coffin was reburied in a Copper cof Fin. That coffin was examined Friday and resumed to its vault in the restored mis Mission was closed to the Public during the exhumation. Bishop Thaddeus Shubsda of Monterey who was present for the examination refused to comment be cause of instruction from the the Rev. Noel Francis Moholy the chief Backer of Serra s cause in the United states plans to go to Rome later this month with the results of the exhumation and with several relics to continue his lobbying congregation will be meeting then to consider whether the Healing of a St. Louis nun 25 years ago was miraculous and can be attributed to Serra s int Erces the congregation agrees that a Mira Cle took place it would then Forward its recommendation to Pope John Paul ii around Only real opposition to Serra being named a Saint comes from native Ameri cans who said inc missionary exploited their ancestors by using them As slave labor during the construction of the missions
