European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes thursday september 8,1988 British boy i is youngest of swim eng so Channel Dover England a an 11-year old English boy crawled ashore at shake spare Beach on tuesday and set a re Cord As the youngest person 10 swim the English Channel the Channel swimming association said. Thomas Gregory age ii years and 333 Days Brake the record Sel in 1979 when Marcus Hooper made the crossing at age 12 years s3 Days. Both boys belonged to the Ellham swimming and training club or Lon Don 78 Miles Northwest of Dover All 1 want to do is have a 48-hour Kip sleep Gregory said As he came ashore at 5 . 11 hours and 45 minutes after setting out from Cape Oris net France. Gregory surpassed Hooper s Lime of reformer from Page 1 14 hours 37 minutes said association Secretary Audrey Scott. The boy made his crossing two weeks after brazilian Renau camera Gondi 20, diedduringabidtoconquerlrie21 Miles of water separating England and France. The boy s parents Nick and Mary Gregory met him As he arrived exhausted on the Dover Besch. Also on the scene was his sister Anna who Bat swum the Channel three times on six per son relay teams Tor the Eltham club. We Are Deug Ted with his efforts said mrs. Gregory who allowed her son to take the Day Oit from school to make the swim. It s made All the training also on tuesday Tony Hogendorp a native of Edmonton Alberta Canada failed in his attempt to swim the Channel abandoning the attempt about five Miles from France. The 22-year-old, a Soldier with the Royal Canadian horse artillery based in West Germany just ran out of Gas said his coach Jim Ritchie. Mrs Gregory said her son Thomas started swimming at the inc of 3 and be an serious training for a Channel swim when he was seven. In 1987. He was Able to swim the 10-mile length of Lake Windermere in Northwest England. The water stayed rial on tuesday in Ideal wind free sunny weather said a spokesman for the coast guard in Dover. The youngest Girt to swim the Channel is Samantha Clare Druce also British who was 12 years 119 Days old when she swam from England to France in is hours 27 minutes according to the guinness Book of world records. Thomas Gregory usually was done with a lot of paper and pencils. And cafe scr. But such methods required lots of eople putting in a lot of time two la Ngi the military Likely could not spare n time of War. Essentially 11 e system stores the dimensions and i Nti Guralson of the ship then matches the t to the size and shape of the cargo. The computer also figures Overall weight Issri Button aboard the ship to help Consu c smooth sailing. It used to be More of an Art Dickey said of loading ships. But this allows the computer to do it with the size and Sieight of most modern combat equipment considered the Mili tary s system of bar codes does not use a window scanner Pike those that Grace Many supermarket checkouts. Instead workers wave an electronic Wand Over coded labels attached to tanks other equipment. Information on in codes is fed from the Wand into a compiler which keeps track of whether the equipment is loaded aboard a ship being received at port or transferred to not Eicr location. You always Krie a what you have and where you Are. You re not guessing said Dickey who Vas involved in Stow ing 1,050 pieces of equipment aboard the last Scal Ift ship Algol As part of this year s return de forces to Germany exercise. Mack takes gop Senate nod in Florida demos face Runoff by the associated press rep. Connie Mack Iii Defeated former . Attorney Robert Merkle in Florida s Republican Senate primary tuesday while democrats sent slate insurance commissioner Bill gunner and rep. Kenneth buddy Mackay into an acrimonious Runoff. And in Nevada conservative sen. Chic Hetchl easily won the Republican nomination for a second term setting up a Battle with gov. Dick Bryan who trounced three challengers in the demo cratic primary. Hetchl 59, Defeated Larry Scheffter owner of a graphics business in Hender son. Wajih 13 percent of precincts report ing Hecht had 8,333 votes or 86 percent Scheller had 653 Voles or 7 percent and 743 voters or 8 percent favored none an option listed on the Nevada ballot. Bryan 51, who is serving his second term had 6,522 Voles or 72 percent. Pal Rick Fitzpatrick had 711 votes or 8 per cent Manford Cave Rock Manny beats had 442 votes or s percent Larry Kepler had 179 Voles or 2 percent and 1,153 voters or 13 percent chose in Florida with 76 percent of the precincts reporting. Mack had 307,710 Voles or 61 percent to Merkle s 197,656 Voles or 39 percent Gunter 54, who was an unsuccessful Senate nominee in 1980, lopped a six candidate Field with 256,873 Voles or 36 percent far Short of the majority needed to avoid an oct. 4 Runoff. Mckay 55, was a surprisingly Strong second with 198,470 votes or 28 percent. Mack 47, had drawn Campaign sup port from president Reagan and former National Security aide Oliver North. Elsewhere in Florida 10-term demo cratic rep. William Chappell of Ormond Beach captured 70 percent of the Vole against primary challenger Charley Rob erts a retired army Veteran. Death toll rising in greek ship blast Athens. Greece up an explosion tuesday ripped open and Sank a Tanker docked at a shipyard near Athens killing at least two men injuring a dozen others and trapping an unknown number of workers coast guard officials said. A spokesman said the coast guard does not expect the death loll to noted six or seven. The 81,000-ton Angel of greatness of the Angelikoussi shipping company exploded us Sank in the Harbor tuesday morning. "".,. Coast guard officials disputed Emit ice. Reports from the Piraeus port authority " that said 10 men had died. The coast guard said two bodies had been recovered along with the remains of other a Piraeus port authority spokesman said workers were trying 10 Rescue an unknown number of men believed trapped in the sunken Tanker. The spokesmen after initially saying t of mat bad died in the fiery explosion said later Thi t two bodies had been re covered from the Harbo the spokesman said 12 workers were rescued and taken to hospitals where they were being treated for bums. Campaign 88 How me plates appear to be shaping up two months before the election Emu Anion cd toss up s leaning towards Bush Dukakis hecklers from Page 1 used development of the stealth bomber so called because of its ability to escape radar detection. Meanwhile agreement appeared set for three debates this fall two be tween the presidential candidates and one Between the vice presidential candidates although agreement on the time lad format for them has not been been cached Dukakis Campaign chair Man Paul Braun Buquid. The heckling in Oregon was some of the most i Leuc either candidate has faced. To at the Portland shipyard. Bush was booed when he said 18 million new jobs were created during the past six years of the Reagan administration. As the crowd chanted Union bus Ier Bush Conli cd to speak telling the workers the democrats Are trying to mislead you. Things Aren t going 10 get worse unless they get later in the Day Bush got a polite reception from an audience of about 500 people at the non Union Fluke manufacturing co. In Everett Wash. Dukakis was speaking to a polish american audience in Niks when protes ters shouted what about abortion the crowd irid to drown them out by chanting we want Miku As other protes ters shouted you re a baby "1 respect your right to disagree with me said Dukakis. That s what a democracy is All about i would Hope you would respect my right to when the demonstrators refused to quiet Down several of them were forced out by Othera in the crowd Osome 1,000 people. Dukakis repealed his position that be ii opposed to abortion but thai in the last analysts it s up to the woman in me exer Cise of Kcf own conscience and religious beliefs 10 Mth Elhat Dukakis was feb red la caned an appear Ance in Columbus Chut later in the Day when a Surprise Federal. Aviation administration safety inspection of his Campaign plane prevented his scheduled departure from Chicago
