European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday. June 15,1988 Bill would provide athletes with data on College studies Washington a two basketball stars Lur cd congressmen introduced legislation monday re Quiring col Fuges to give prospective student athletes an idea How they la fare in the classroom As Well As on the playing Field. Sen. Bill Bradley d-n.j., and rep. Tom Mcmillan d-md., former teammates on the hew York kicks professional basketball learn introduced the student athlete right to Kotow the Law would require All colleges accepting Federal financial help to compile and report Scholastic Statis tics regarding student athletes. The data would be collect cd by the Secretary of Edu cation and made available to students and their parents Tor use in choosing a school. Bradley and Mcmillen said the act is aimed at encouraging High school students to consider academic standards not just athletic prospects As icy Chart i hair too often the sex basketball players said students pick a College on the unrealistic hop that they re on i hair Way to a career in professional sports. Bui since very few students make it to the pros picking a College by its academic credentials makes More sense according to Bradley and Mcmillan. Most people Don l get that ticket to the pros said Bradley who attended Princeton University on an Aca Demic and Mcmillen acknowledged that the Bill would do Little to Correct abuses by College athletic recruiters or to Stop colleges from holding athletes to lower Aca Demic standards than other students. But Mcmillen said the measure would assist Stu dents trying to make Well rounded judgments about their idea Here is to provide a snapshot. A bal Ance Sheet of the University s academic picture said Mcm Illen a graduate of the University of Maryland. The act would require schools to report graduation rates for All students with academic scholarships Bro Ken Down by sport sen and race. The education Secre tary would be required to publish the information. The Law also would require students to acknowledge reviewing a school s academic data before signing a letter of intent to enrol. Rep. De towns d-n.y., a co sponsor of the legis lation said if we can have reporting As to the on time arrivals of airlines surely we can let student ath letes know whether they Are Likely to receive a useful College Bush names 2 aides to Campaign staff Washington a vice president George Bush on monday named James Lake As his Campaign communications adviser and Sheila Tate As Campaign press Secretary. Lake a washing Len based political consultant served a similar role in the 1984 Reagan Bush Campaign and was press Secretary to president Reagan Early in his 1980 Campaign. Tate a former press Secretary to Nancy Reagan had been managing director of the Washington office of Hill and Knowlton a Public relations and advertising company since May 1987. Bush who appeared with the new aides at a Brief news conference in the old executive office building said having these two professionals will strengthen my Campaign the Campaign has not had a press Secretary since Peter to cloy a longtime Bush associate resigned As communications director and chief spokesman in mid May after clashes with other senior Bush aides. Bush said that As press Secretary talc would have full unhampered Access to him and other key Campaign officials. App Talo vice president George Bush introduces his press Secre tary Sheila Tate at a Washington news conference. Surfing Pioneer Swartz Dies at 71 los Angeles a Lewis Earl Hoppy Swartz the father of organized surfing and Developer of the judging system used on the professional circuit has died of a stroke while on his Way to a surf Competition. He was 71.Swartz collapsed while standing in line at a Lickel counter at the los Angeles Airport thursday his Long time Friend Dave Mclntyre. Said monday. As Swart wished his body will be cremated and the ashes scattered sunday at Redondo Beach. Swartz a 1930s surfing Champ who was a familiar figure on California beaches with his trademark str what was headed for a Western surfing association contest in Santa Cruz when he died. This 12-year-old kid walked up to me saturday and said Dave 1 talked to Hoppy last Friday where Shoppy " recalled Mclntyre. I just said turn around and look out there the Waves had been pretty Flat and they suddenly came up to 6 feel. 1 said he s out there " surfing was his whole life said Leroy Granis Pioneer surfing photographer who grew up with Swartz when surf boards were Llo pounds of Pine and Redwood. Swam started the United Stales surfing association in the Early 1960s. There is now an immense Hole m Amateur surfing on the West coast because he was really the crankshaft of organized surfing on the West coast said surfer Magazine publisher Steve pc Man. The sport will miss him. Surfing is really the Antithesis of organized social behaviour so it was hard to organize. But in had to organize to survive. Hoppy was always the Guy willing to do the dirty out of control car kills girl at bus Stop Washington a a 10-year-old Virginia girl holding her Mother s hand As they waited for a school bus was fatally struck monday by a car driven by a Man later charged with Drunken driving according to a published report. The Washington Post reported in tuesday s editions that Timothy Martin Cardwell 2of Warrenton va., was charged with driving while intoxicated and involuntary manslaughter in the death of Alrina Ferguson. He was being held on $26,000 Bond he just came toward us. 1 screamed of Mycol but before i could grab her away the car picked her up and. Dragged her said Carole Ferguson the girl s Mother. It knocked the Little ribbons out of her . A fourth grader was pronounced dead at Prince William Hospital in Manassas a. At 9 51 . After suffering massive internal injuries in the 8 27 . Accident said Sam Walker a spokesman for the Prince William county va., police department. Glenn Ferguson As saying. A preliminary hearing for Walker was scheduled for stateside police arrest Man carrying paint Ball firing gun Cerritos Calif. A a Man wearing Cam of ullage clothing and carrying a gun that fires paint balls was arrested by a swat learn that shot out his car s tires in a department store parking Tot. No one was who thought the gun was a High powered Rifle called monday to report Mark a. Lagana 29, or Lakewood was sitting in his car outside a faded store los Angeles county sheriffs Deputy Richard Dinsmoor said. A special weapons team spent three hour watching Lagana then fired three shots into the rear lires of his car As he started to drive away. Lagana surrendered immediately and is being held for psychiatric evaluation Dinsmoor said. John Wayne s stunt Man is buried in California los Angeles a friends and relatives gathered monday to Bury Veteran movie stunt Man Charles h. Roberson who for decades took Falls for John Wayne and even broke limbs on behalf of the , 61, died of cancer at mercy Hospi Tal in first doubled for Wayne in the 1949 film the fighting kentuckian. He retired in 1976 after working with Wayne on the actor s final film the also did stunt work for Gregory Peck Jeff Chandler Clark Gable and Ronald Reagan who sent him a Telegram after he became ill last octo arc retirement Roberson raised thorough bred horses on his ranch South of Bakersfield. He also was the subject of a Book tilled the fall guv by Bodic Thorne which later was the basis of the television series by the same name starring Lee majors. 1 dead 2 Safe in collapse of Cave in Park at St. Paul St. Paul Minn. A a woman trapped in the collapse of a Cave from which two male companions escaped was found dead and a fire official said dry weather May have contributed to the using shovels and backhoes found the body of Virginia Green 23, of Hugo in the rub ble of the Cave in a Sandstone Cliff near the Mississippi River on the City s Southeast Side. Recent dry weather May have contributed to saturday night s Accident m Battle Creek Park said District fire chief Warren Cook referring to the Fine powdery rubble of disintegrated Bryant 21, of St. Paul said the three were sitting in the Cave listening to a tape player when the Accident occurred i was in the Mouth of the Cave. Sand started coming and 1 heard rumbling and started run Ning Bryant said from St Paul Ramsey medical Center. Something hit me in the head. My legs were completely buried under Sand and suffered an ankle injury. Kevin seders irom 22, of St. Paul said he escaped without injury caucasian Rug auctioned for record $154,000 Bolton mass. A a carpet that sold for si54,000 has broken a world record for caucasian Rug sold at auction an official at the Robert w. Skinner gallery said monday. Spokeswoman Sarah Hamill said the Star kazak Rug attracted buyers from around the world to the Central Massachusetts auction on june s. The Rug. Measuring 7 feet 2 inches by 5 feet wide went to a , buyer for More than 10 times the Price estimated by the auction House Hamill said. She declined to identify either the buyer or the seller. A Skinner appraiser noticed the caucasian Rug in a bedroom of a Massachusetts Home he was appraising Hamill said. She said the family had hired the appraiser for other items and had not been aware of the Rug s Rug made nearly 200 years ago by female villagers m the Region of the soviet Union near Eastern Turkey had been in toe family for two generations Hamill said
