European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday May 30,19bb hackers linked in electrifying ceremony mount Vernon . Up two computer he Kors sanctified their electronic Romance saturday exchanging wedding vows with a lung it Strmic preacher in an Intima of ceremony at ind cry electronically by friends As tar away As France and Australia it was a link different because we did t talk Roseanne Naira Flord said after is changing vows with Joe Mai aria in what a belie cd i be the first wedding Conis Octol Over a com Puter bulletin Board. Normally when in get married you talk we did t. Hut i m just As married As if we did even though kept making typing errors she said. It was a lot of fun., but to Chon Csc t would t do it again she said. I d just  from his computer terminal in new York City the Rev. Marc Mauss que ried the couple Over a Tolu phone connection his wards appearing on a Large video Monitor in he mount Vemon ., offices of the executive network3$ he typed. And now if you Joe Malacria and to Del Ralford have at present logged in Tor the purpose or being joined in Legal Wedlock please signify by typing yes " the preacher instructed. "Joe?""yes." he typed stealing a glance at his wife to be. "ro7""yes." two a Dos and a Brief Benediction later two words flashed across the screen throw r1ce1" and then Vou May kiss the  the kiss was real As were the pop of the Champagne corks and the Mist in the Bride s  arc moving to the Pocono mountains the honeymoon capital of the world for a permanent Honey Moon the Bride said. We Are leaving  atmosphere is electric and you could say everyone feels connected to what s going on said technician Eric mams. We had 14 Winic Susej logged in Over their computers. Including som Fine in France and someone in Australia. Idon t know How the pay their phone  he  executive network is a computer bulletin Board thai allows computer users to communicate with each other Over Telephone lines. On computer screens each letter of each wedding vow appeared simultaneously As it was typed into the bulletin Board. Pct afford and Malacria both in their Lale 40s, met by computer in sep tember i9b7. After Detrafford joined the bulletin Board and sent a Blind Mes Sage. Their wedding invitations were an open message on the group Chat Mode of the executive network. It is believed they Are the first couple to marry by bulletin Board. Joe was one of the people who responded and we Kepi talking she said of their Romance. The relationship progressed from the computer to the Telephone to meeting in person but we never stopped Send ing messages ctr Arford said. Head Broad shoulders and 1 needed someone to cry  they became in the Bride hailed the computer Bulle tin Board As a Good place for shy people to  re both very shy she Laid if it was t for the computer we would t have met. I live on one end of Yonkers and he lives on the other. Where would have met him in the supermarket when the couple decided to gel mar ried. Executive network officials asked if the to would have the ceremony through the  first my kids had a hard time understanding Why i wanted Ihbe tort of wedding dlr afford did. But Iii definitely is not a farce. The Bullet inboard members Are As important to me Ai Tome people i be known for 20 Yean. Prairie Home companion returns for visit Middlebury Al. Apr the folks in Lake Wobegon must be wondering what in the world has gotten into that boy. Garri son Keillor has taken to the City. A Prairie Home companion the most popular show on Public radio is coming Back k my Ranly. But the endless Corn Fields arc shadowed by skyscrapers and All those norwegian Bachelor Farmers Are rub Bing dhows with the homeless. One year after it ended us 13-year run Keillor s uniquely personal show will be broadcast saturday from new York radio City music Hall Miles and worlds apart from ils former Home in m Minnesota. And while the new show finds Keillor still fantasizing about Lake Wobegon Hie link town that time forgot it reflects his fascination with his new Home. New York City. The new show a on Lime special being called the 2nd annual Farewell performance made ill non broadcast debut with three performances Over the weekend at Middlebury College. There also will be three shows in new York including the saturday show that is to be on radio and Cable television. When his faithful audience last heard from Keillor it was june 13, 1987. The nation s most famous shy person Wai saying Farewell to a Prairie Home companion his Eclectic mix of music and wit that had been broadcast live from St. Paul Minn. It simply i time logo he had said. Detailing his plans to move to his wife s native country Denmark and return to writing. Keillor s move to Denmark though lasted Only a few months. He found it difficult to live in a land so foreign with n language with those strange word that sound like singing  Keillor simply became homesick. But he opted against moving Back to Minnesota. Instead he headed to the big Apple although Keillor said Friday he is rus tier than he thought after a year away it i Clear his wit remains Sharp. Some Kcal forums squinting at the audience after the opening of the show he said people had told me you d put on weight i Donl think you have he described the month of March As the month cod designed to show people who Don t drink what a hangover u luxe. He a iced a one year moratorium on publishing to give people Lime to Rea Whai f already been written. The author of the Busl Selling Lake Wobegon Dayi suggested creation of a Federal Prate stabilization program to pay a writers not to write during that year. He said the motto of the new York times is the world is not chaotic in b Rugby reasonable people and we know  Keillor said he does not have any plan to Clum a Prairie Home companion to weekly broadcasts. Austin mayor loses re election bid Austin Tsas a former City councilman Lee Cooke handily Defeated incumbent mayor Frank Cooksey in his bid for a second three year term Best ing the mayor by More than 15 percent of the vote in a weekend Runoff. Turnout for saturday s election was put Al about 20 percent by City clerk Elden Aldridge who said it s a lower turnout than anything we have had in a number of years. 1 would say it s lower because of memorial Day weekend and people scattered Here and there Wilh All the ballots in Cooke had 36,985 votes or 58.4 percent to 26.30s votes or 41,6 percent for Cooksey. Cooke 43. A former president of this capital City s chamber of Commerce captured 40 percent of the vote in the May 7 non partisan primary to Advance 10 the Runoff against Cooksey 54. Who ran second in the Field of ight with 32 percent. At Issue in the Campaign were the City s sagging Economy and rising lairs and Utility rates. Austin was caught in an economic downturn several months into Cooksey s first term and fairly or unfairly the business Community regarded him As their mor Tal enemy said Dean Rindy Cooksey s Media adviser. Frank had the misfortune to get elected mayor of Disneyland just when the Power not Cut off Rindy said. During the Campaign Cooksey tried to emphasize his accomplishments Many of them in the Environ mental area such As the passage of Bonds to clean up sewage discharge and the implementation of a water shed ordinance. Cooke meanwhile blamed inc downturn in the Economy on Cooksey and said the City Council with Cooksey in the Lead was not doing enough to keep the budget in Tine and attract businesses to Austin. He ii reported to have spent 5364,000 on his mayor Al bid compared to 5272,000 by Cooksey. Crime rate held steady in 87 Washington a theft or violent crime struck one out of every four american Homes in 1987, about the same rate recorded in the previous two years the Justice department reported sunday. The Bureau of Justice statistics said 23,9 percent of White Homes. 2j.8 percent of Black Homes and 30,1 percent of h hispanic Homes were hit last year by some sort of crime. The National average was 24 percent. Homes in the Northeast were the least affected 19 percent while those in the West were the most vulnerable at 29 percent. The rates were is percent in the Midwest and 24 percent in the South. Since inc Bureau began collecting crime data on a household basis in 1975, when crime struck one i three Homes the rates have never shown a year to year increase and dropped substantially Over the longer term. Bureau director Steven r. Sch Csinger noted that there was greater improvement among White House holds than among Black ones. From 1975 to 1967, the rate dropped 25 percent for White Homes whereas the decline for Blac Homes was 15 percent. The difference was due Pri Marily to the fact that thefts from Black Homes failed to decline while inc reduction in other Lyp Cosof crimes was about the same for both White Homes and Black Homes. The household rates Are derived from the nation Al crime Survey which has interviewed about 99,000 people 12 or older from a Sample of 49,000homes around the nation. A Phao american Type fun Young Mer atm of the Mannl duet troupe from the Soviel Union get a a Csc out of the Alpine slide in Slowe Al Ettac inure is Waring us endow ill is. Visit us gave in Rwm bin Tun Tor some Good old american Type fun. The Plucenik Shtir finl . Performance saturday night