European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes thursday August 25, 1988 Dukakis Bentsen for Sale $300 takes pm both from press dispatches several of the democrats from last month s National convention still Haven t left Atlanta. Neither Dukakis nor Bentsen has been claimed. I think Jesse Jackson is still there and i think grits and Fritz Are still there too said k Thweatt Public relations manager for Georgia s Stone Mountain Park. Dukakis Bentsen Jackson grits and Fritz Are among the 11 donkeys the state Park acquired for publicity purposes during the democratic National convention. They have yet to find a new Home. The Park plans to keep two of the donkeys but the others Are available for $ 150 each. I shudder to think what would be happened to the Park if we had had the Republican convention she said. I can t imagine All those dogged by Lack of crime As police chief Roy Osborne explains it there just was t enough crime in Plainview Texas to justify keeping an officer who worked like a dog. There was no sense wasting his Talent the chief said of Lazer a 3-year-old belgian Shepherd. He needed to be moved someplace where he can be Lazer was shipped to an Elpaso Security firm. Our burglaries have been Down to the Point that we had t had much Call to use an animal in building searches. We d like to have used him More but we re glad we did t have to said Osborne who added that he missed Lazer. Bounces Back from fall a 3-Pound Yorkshire terrier survived a fall from a 12th-floor Balcony and May be walking again by the end of the week says a veterinarian in Myrtle Beach . It s really a Lucky dog said Earl Johnson who treated the Tan and Black dog named Missy. I did t think she was going to make it to Tell you the truth. It s a definite doctors said the dog had an 85 percent to 90 per cent Chance of total recovery. Her owners Roy and Ann Gipson said Strong winds created a vacuum that sucked the Small dog through a 5-Inch-wide opening in a guard rail. Women in fhe cockpit two women this week became the first female co pilots flying for West Germany s National airline Lufthansa. Lufthansa identified the two As 23-year-old West German s Evi Lausmann and Nicola Lunemann. Lausmann made her Maiden co Pilot flight on the route Between Frankfurt and Zurich Switzerland while Lunemann was assigned to a flight Between pilots Nicola Lunemann left and Evi Lausmann. Frankfurt and London the company said. Lufthansa is encouraging More qualified women to apply for Pilot training to help Deal with an expected increase in airline travel Over the coming years. Hole is big news in Kansas Kansas May not have towering mountains but it in t All Flat. It now has a sinkhole that is fast becom ing a tourist attraction. It s also a menace say officials of the state s Kan Sas corporation commission. They warned people to stay away from the sinkhole so they Don t fall in. The sinkhole in Southwest Kansas is 300 feet across 50 feet deep and promises to get bigger. Since it was discovered july 21, six Miles North East of Macksville a steady line of lookers has streamed to the site. People have crawled through the surrounding barbed wire to get a better View. Brief exposure after a Brief exposure in Greenville n.c., a nearly nude billboard character is Back with a change of clothes. Now there can be Little doubt that the character criticized by some for appearing to be nude is Cov ered up. In a new sign unveiled this week the Man wears a Bright red Bikini bathing suit. The Guy had a bathing suit before but it was hard to see said Don Pierce manager of Naegle outdoor advertising co. In Raleigh. Mermaid s Effing old Denmark s Little Mermaid staring longingly out to sea from her Rocky Perch in Copenhagen Harbor turned 75 tuesday. She was honoured with a gun Salute and a Laurel from the mayor. The Bronze statue was created in Honor of storyteller Hans Christian Andersen who died in 1875. It was based on his fairy tale of the daughter of the sea King who fell in love with a Prince and who was doomed to wait 300 years before she could turn Mermaid is perhaps the country s Best known lady barring Queen Margrethe ii. Coins found on Galleon a Spanish Galleon that Sank in a 1715 Hurricane off the Florida coast has yielded 888 Silver coins a Gold ring and other artefacts. We Don t have an idea of How much it s Worth until we actually see the coins said a spokeswoman for treasure Hunter Mel Fisher. At $400 each the 888 coins would be Worth More than $350,000. The find was made monday by Roy Volker a subcontractor working with Fisher a few Hundred Yards off Sebastian Inlet on Florida s Central Atlantic coast. Differs week memories the Money was gone but the memories remained locked in a purse stolen 35 years ago. Mary Ellen Thomas remembers the night of aug. 15, 1953, the she had just cashed her $120.25 pay Check for two weeks work As a cashier at the Cal Neva Lodge in Crystal Bay nev., on the North Shore Flake Tahoe. She was 22-year-old Mary Ellen Hall then and a new York Steak Cost $2.75. She remembers that it was her first summer away from Home and she had a get together with friends to celebrate payday. At evening s end she Rode Back to the hotel with a co worker who made some unsuccessful advances. He was so mad she remembers he snatched her handbag. But last week the owner of the Cal Neva Lodge presented Thomas with the handbag uncovered during remodelling. The purse was stashed inside a Wall. The 57-year-old retired teacher from Dana Point was tracked Down through her social Security number. I d like to think i be changed. I m not so naive Thomas said. 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