European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes wednesday december 7,1938 group issues warning to credit card abusers from press dispatches a warning Label Tor credit cards has been developed to help shoppers re mind themselves not to overspend Dur ing the Holiday season. The non profit National Center for financial education a consumer group based in san Dleon is oftring the red self stick labels for $ i to credit card owners trying to keep a lid on spending this month the Label read warning Over use can be dangerous and can be attached to the backs of credit cards. They promote better spending which the Hopes will Lead to More Money regularly put aside Tor Sav Ings and investments said Loren Dunt a the group s president such warning labels should be on every credit card Dunlop said the Nofe which pro motes Wise spending and financial plan Ning by Consumers is determined o fircht Holiday season and campaigns by major card companies that encourage credit spending. Undaunted spirit Samuel Pisura who at 16 escaped from a nazi concentration Camp has received the. 1988 Elle Wiesel hold caul remembrance award for exemplifying the Triumph of she human Pis for a lawyer in Paris accepted the award from tic Israel Bond Organiza Tion in new Yuri on sunday in the name or the children of the holocaust and in Honor of those who survived. Born in Bialystok Poland Pisar was sent to aus limit at the age of 13 and later to Dachau from which he escaped when lie was 1g. More than 30 of his relatives died Al the hands of the nazis. Beethoven by the score conductor Lorin Maazel led three orchestras through All nine Beethoven symphonies in a 12-hour, 45-Minule Marathon in London to raise Money for deaf children. Maazel is wearing formal tails and a pair of comfortable shoes lifted his Baton to begin the Beethoven Odyssey at to . Sunday he conducted the Royal philharmonic orchestra the philharmonic and the London symphony orchestra Al London s festival Hail taking Only Brief intermissions to change musicians and symphonies. Organizers said they hoped to raise More than $37,000 for the Beethoven fund for deaf children which provides musical speech therapy to schools in great Brill a. Beethoven wrote most of his symphonies and Many other masterpieces after he began to lose hearing completing his final symphony when he was dear. Santa Caus sees red Santa Claus traded his red suit for the Legal variety going to court in so dewy Australia to demand that he be paid As much As the elves in his department store. Terry Miller a pan time actor said his cives earn about $21 an hour while he Only gets an hour. The daily Telegraph of Sydney thought Heller s Gripe was worthy of editorial comment saying the Prospect of Santa going on strike was unthinkable and asking who would deliver the presents if Miller did t. The Story was the Lead front Page article with the headline dough or no hoho to says Santa Chris Mas free arrives a 50-roat-tall, 50-year-old Balsam fir from the Huron Manistee National for ests in Michigan was erected monday on the West Side of the capital in Washington d.c., is this year s congressional Christmas tree. The tree carried from Michigan on a flatbed truck and hoisted into place by a Large Crane was a seedling when the Lores was founded said Barbara Ander son spokeswoman for Huron Man Isicc. 149 and going Strong a Wispy White haired Man living in a Remote Village in India believes he is 149 Yean old the times of India re ported recently ,. Narra Hal Rathet was sur referee in the grasp referee Jerry Markbreit gets squeezed Between a pair of Beefy nil veterans involuntarily hugging Tampa Bay s Vinnie Tosta Vorda after being knocked into the quarterback by a Toffalo i Dorri Tullay. Rounded by five generations of his family when he was interviewed in Bork had 500 Miles Southwest of new Delhi the newspaper said. The 1989 guinness Book of world re cords lists the authenticated longevity re Cord of 120 years 237 Days for a fief a Chiyo in ii of Japan who died in 1986, the times of India said the illiterate Farmer reckons his age by the Region s great famine of is56, when his Mother Lold him he would have to leave Home. I could not have been less than 16 years otherwise i would not have been paid the wages paid to an adult labourer then Rel thaw said. The times said Rachwa s memory was Sharp but because of his Village s isolation he was unaware of great events. He did not know about world War and world War ii and had no concept of a bomb. Stars and stripes bookstores Ulk o a of of / u4 a
