European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday june 7, 19bb the stars and stripes Page 5 Fri checks tips on mystery boy s identity Elpaso Texas a people from across the nation called the Fri sunday with tips they Hope will solve the mys Tery of an unidentified hearing impaired boy found wandering the streets of Jua rez Mexico. We re receiving phone Calls from concerned citizens offering assistance said Fri spokesman Terry Kincaid we re receiving phone Calls concerning possible identities of additional missing children. And we re going to Check All of them Kincaid added at this Lime we re kind of at the mercy of he Public to provide us with some additional leads As to the identity of his Young the boy appears to be 7 or 8 years old stands 4 feet 6 inches tall has dark Blond or Light Brown hair and a freckled while completion. He has communicated through sketches repeatedly drawing a picture of a plane crash since he was found in men Ico last november. In my initial interview with him we were Able to establish that he was involved in a plane crash and his parents died and his Little sister died Luis Torre a caseworker with he Texas department of human services told Abc nightly news in an interview broadcast sunday it was not much to go . Air Force representatives Are re viewing pictures of the crash drawn by the boy in Hopes of recognizing the Type of aircraft and where it May have crashed Kincaid said. The boy called Sabat because he was found on a saturday or Sabado in Spanish bears some resemblance to a boy who was kidnapped from Decatur 111., in october 1985, officials said. Kincaid said the Center for missing and exploited children in Washington d.c., provided a description of he miss ing boy and is forwarding copies of his footprints which arc expected to arrive monday Law officials think he resembles a boy from Illinois who was reported miss ing about three years ago or a boy from a military family which lived in Alaska Torre said. Officials said the boy who originally was described As deaf mute is hearing impaired and not talk bul can form some one syllable words. The boy has been in a child protective service Center since be was found on the streets of the Border City of Juarez. But investigators suspect he May be from the United Stales because he prefers Ameri can foods is familiar with . Currency and is a Whiz at video games which arc unknown to Many mexican children. Social workers from Mexico and �1 paso have Learned the boy comes from an area where there is knee deep Snow heavy rainfall mountains and Trees his father who May have been a military Man was missing four fingers on his right hand and had a Mustache. The boy s Story has received National attention since thursday when the Dos released a report on him. We have had communication with the air Force this morning Kincaid said sunday. They have offered their assistance in reviewing records pertain ing id possibly downed aircraft thai have not been located. They re going to review those records and compare those records with some of the information and details specifically the few numbers that have appeared on Sabal s the boy pictures of a crashed air plane include the numbers Iso 23" written under the air plane. During an interview Friday the boar pointed to scars on his left knee stomach and Back and then pointed to a drawing of himself walking away from the crash. The boy s scars led doctors to believe that if they had been caused by a crash it would have been two to three years ago. Bul Kincaid said authorities Are not sure inc drawings pertain 10 the boy. We have no idea How much of his sketches Are his own idea or his imagination or maybe re creations of popular television shows he said nuns who backed right to abortions won t be expelled Charleston . A roman Catholic Church officials have backed Down from their threat to expel two nuns who support women s right to abortions. The nuns order the general government group of the Sisters of nut re Dame Denamur said in a Slat cent from Ramc hat it will not proceed with the process to dismiss Sisters Barbara Ferraro and Patricia Hussey. We re elated Hussey and Ferraro said in a statement. This is an enormous Victory the nuns who run a shelter for the homeless in Charleston have been under the threat of dismissal from their order since signing an oct. 7, 1984, advertisement in the new York times that said a diversity of opinion exists among committed catholics on the Issue of abortion. They were among 24 nuns and four priests who signed the and. All the other nuns and the priests later retracted their statements and none of them has been punished or disciplined. Hussey and Ferraro still could face disciplinary action by the Vatican s congregation for religious and sacred institutes which oversees religious orders. Shevardnadze arrives in . Soviet foreign minister Ednard Shevardnadze talks to reporters upon arrival at new York s John of Kennedy Airport sunday. Severd Nide is one of 25 world Leaden who will attend � United nations Spe Cial session on disarmament starting wednesday. The soviet official speaking through in interpreter told reporters that soviet official attach great importance a the session. Celebrities help celebrate cancer survivors Day by the asm Ial cd press athletes and entertainers who refused to let cancer Slop their careers helped celebrate National cancer survivors Day sunday. I be tried to let people know there is life after cancer said olympic Gold medallist Jeff Blatnick. I be dedicated myself to showing what a person can do and helping other people believe they can do the the Observance was organized by the american cancer society and coping a National Magazine for cancer patients. Blatnick who won a Gold medal in wrestling at the 1984 olympics in los Angeles joined about Iso cancer survivors and 400 patients at he regional cancer censer in ene a. Blatnick overcame two bouts Wajih Hodgkins disease in 1982 while training for the los Angeles games and in 1985. He is now in remission doctors said his Fine physical Condi Tion helped in his fight against the Dis ease according to . Drexler spokeswoman for Hamel health system inc. And the St. Vincent foundation two hospitals in Erie. Skier Diana Golden an olympic Gold medallist and an amputee was the Star attraction at an Observance in Norfolk mass. So Many people equate the word cancer with death said Golden 25, who lives in Lincoln Mas when she in t on the Road As a full time Amateur skier. What we arc saying is that s not necessarily Golden who prefers crutches to a prosthesis lost her right leg above the knee to Bone cancer when she was 12, she won a Gold medal in the giant Sla Lom in the disabled division demonstration event at the Winter olympics in Calgary this year. Comedian Steve Allen also a former cancer patient agreed to address an Observance at the Rush cancer Center in Chicago. There Are Over 100,000 cancer survivors in the Chicago area said or. Jules Harris the Center s director. Allen was diagnosed As having Colon cancer in 1985, he is in the same fortunate category As president Reagan in that they had the same kind of surgery for the same kind of cancer with happily he same re sults his spokeswoman Christine Cody said. Neither Man seems to have suffered any subsequent ill More than 600 people Over half of them cancer survivors turned out at a donated clowns cartoon characters and a robot for children and inc army donated a tent it was wonderful Gannon said. I have never talked to so Many upbeat people in my five hour picnic at Flor Ham Park n.j., Lois m. Gannon chairman of the new Jersey division of the american cancer society said. Three bands volunteered their time the great adventure amusement Park Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago foday. June 7, 1948 a crowd of angry polish ukrainian displaced persons stoned and booed russian optic cars when they visited their Camp in Western Germany. The offi cers made the visit attempting to persuade the internees to return to their homelands. 30 years ago today. June 7, 1958 Secretary of stale John Foster Dulles said Russia faced a Choice of giving its satellite countries More Freedom or resorting to oppressions that would increase the likelihood of 20 years ago today. June 7, 1968 . Flags flew at half staff in a worldwide tribute to sen. Robert f. Kennedy who died from an Assassin s Bullet. 10 years ago 7, 1978 stocks reached a nine month High in inc fourth busies session in the new York Stock Exchange s i86year history with institutional big Money boys pouring billions of dollars into securities
