European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday january 27, 1988 the stabs and stripes Page 3 country Star Travis corrals 4 music awards los Angeles a the night belonged to cd dish Washer Randy Travis who go four american music award trophies hut winners ranging from blues artists in Hwy meal hands also scored with the pub Lic. The 15th Annii friary edition of the presentation shown monday Niche on Abc to also Recagni cd the Talent of Anita a Laker Whitney Houston and Paul Simon the Only Oiler multiple winners with two apiece. Luther Vand Niss. Octa Mcentire Janet Jackson Michael Jackson the cd ulry band Alabama and hard rockers Bon Jovi also were winners reflecting the con Trast in musical tasks of the 20,000 people polled nationwide i s just countr music. Try to sins pm with As much emotion As i i an Travis said backstage. Travis was voted top male country Singer his album always and forever was picked Best country up. And ins single and video forever and Ever amen were judged the favourites in those categories. Travis a Lender in the return to simpler traditional country music has been coiled a Cross Between Merle Haggard and George Jones. Hill Foyil executive director of the Academy of country music said Randy s strictly a traditionalist. He s what we Baker won favour it female soul rhythm and blues Singer and favorite album in that category for her nearly 2-year-old rapture . Houston was honoured As favorite pop Rock female vocalist her i Wanna dance with somebody who loves me " won favorite single in the same from Hie phrase often used by multiple win Ner Lionel Kichie. She shouted this is when the won her second trophy. Last year Houston won seven american m sic awards. Me entire won tin Rii virile country female vocalist category and accepted via satellite Hook up from a Nashville recording who did t attend won favorite pop male vocalist. His Graceland won a top pop Rock semite Sinatr Whitney Houston verite pop Rock album. No show Michael Jackson Winner of 11 previous american music awards won in the soul it Iylym and blues single category other winners included Bon Jovi for favorite pop Rock group Cameo for favorite soul rhythm and blues group and Alabama As favorite country group. For Alabama it was the group s sixth american music award in that category and 11 in Overall Janet Jackson who like brother Michael skipped the show won the combined pop Rock soul rhythm and top country Singer. Randy Travis blues favor Ilc video category for when i think of won for favorite male soul rhythm and blues male surf Rock group the Beach boys was presented with the special award of Merit. Award ballots were sent out nationwide to people selected by Herbert Altman communications research inc. Voters were selected on the basis of age sex geographic location and ethnic origin. Results of the voting were tabulated by peal War Wick Mitchell and co. Accounting firm. A Cool million pounds Volunteer Workun Tat spectators ret in Luli etl in u Snow Bull right at South Lake Tahoe calif., after Amateur sculptors completed 50-foot-Io-Incb snowman fat t new orld record. The previous Lull 1 a atm in Imit a a 47-Fiml a Minn sculpted t engineering students at Dart Mouth Counge , . The Tahoe colossus weighs More thin Mil lion pounds its builders say. Slayer of police officer reportedly schizophrenic Dallas a a vagrant Man who fatally shot a police officer was a Schizo phrenic whose family had sought to have him committed for mental help a newspaper reported tuesday. Carl d. Williams 34, hallucinated and believed his family was not Only persecuting him but also was preventing him from succeeding according to court records tiled by the Dallas morning news. On saturday. Williams shot and killed officer John Chase 25, with the of incr i revolver police said. Williams was shot to death by other officers. Williams once lived in his family s stately North Dallas Home but spent his last night in the Union gospel Mission. Mis father Carl u Williams is a mid dle school principal. His Mother Marie is a Blue Cross Blue shield employee Williams declined to discuss his son As a child the younger Williams struggled with school world but was an Aridath Lutc who seemed eager to succeed according to the newspaper. He was picked As a promising athlete an student Leader and As most handsome boy in North Dallas High school. Williams family remembers finding him at the foot of his grandmother s bed with a hand saw laughing and talking to himself the newspaper said. They recall Williams threatening to shoot his father with a .22-Ealibcr Rifle. But friends remember a different Man. He was very easy to get along with very motivated very inclined to do Well said Charles Longoria 36, who played on the football squad with Williams. Two years after graduating from High school Williams was arrested on at tempted kidnapping dropped out of at least one Community College enlisted with the Navy and served in Vietnam. He was honorable discharged after 15 months because of Williams Chute unnamed he came Home from the sen ice he was never the same person he Wai like a tramp said jetty fac Turner 71, who had known Williams since his child Hood Williams was in jail in Dallas for misdemeanours at least four times. His Long est sentence 30 Days was for burglary of a motor vehicle. Records Don t show the outcome of the charges in i�7b, Williams parents sought Mohave him committed the news reported. We have been in prison with him living with us Locking him up in his bed room when it s time to sleep. We cannot leave him alone with the Little one or alone in the House the elder William wrote in a petition for his son s commit doctors who examined will am agreed he suffered symptoms of Sci of Prenta and said he could he a danger to himself or others the newspaper said. He stayed in treatment centers three different times once voluntarily. I m afraid or. Williams is Only on of Many out there who get into the Mhor system and we have no Legal control Over them said Drian Crews. Attorney for Dallas county mental health and mental retardation Center
