European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes tuesday december 20,1988 f Ace s i places Christmas card bears chec a for 1930s groceries Nam Sullivan sold her grocery store in the 1960s and retired in Oklah Fima Pil Bui we Stilt has a file Cabinet full of bilk due her front the repression years i Jit week she got a is do Check in a Christmas card from it family that charged its groceries Al her More in Ratlift City okla around i935. A note said. Daddy wanted me to Send you Iblis on Iofi debt we owed  "1 opened it and i did t know what to say Sullivan said. She still has the records but she no longer expects  1 did t expect this one either she said. The Bills Are past due because the sullivans Nora and her Lite husband j,e., opened the store in rat lilt City which she still Calls Ralliff Corner in 927. Unfortunately the store and he depression started Al the same Lime. But j.e., she said was the kind of Man who could t stand to see people go  some paid some did to some still Haven t. Buzz off say of or idioms thousands of Buzzards have come Hack to Winter in Coconut Creek flu., and some peo complain that the ugly Birds have returned in unprecedented numbers. We joke and Sny the Birds arc coining the Birds arc coming " said George Gerbr a Orcsi Donl of the township condominium Complex. But he says the Birds Are no longer a joke because they have come in such numbers. They Dine a dumps soar Over Parks congregate Al High rises and even visit some of the mansions in nearby Palm Beach. Mill i Incus a retired distributor of Christian dior clothes built a dior dressed scarecrow on the Lawn near his building. The creation worked on some of the by Zards. But Pincus says when a maintenance worker knocked it Down by Accident the Birds at tacked and lore it apart. "1 guess they thought it had  Pincus said. This Lime i m going to build one and dress it in  change of heart Only the most ruthless of robbers would steal the Grinch who stole Christmas. But steal him they did until their consciences caught up with them. _ a pair of northeastern University students who identified themselves Only us Eben Czar Scrooge and Kriss Kringle on saturday returned the 6-foot Green Grinch they had pinched two Days earlier from a que Lily inn in downtown Boston. Initially we were going to hold the grind for a Large Ransom the pair said in a note but. We decided to pumping Iron it oven your old Terra Kennedy at George town Del., who prefers lifting weights to playing with Dollt str Kat a Posa after placing third by Bench proving 75 pounds la a Competition in Millsboro Del. Sofia also Wen a medal As the youngest competitor. Return the Grinch hoping the Quality inn would donate 1100 to the Charity of your Choice in the names of myself and my partner and the  hotel spokeswoman Doris Pike said All was forgiven and that plans were in the works to donate the Money. According to the children s storybook by or. Sew the Grinch that stole Christmas the dour Green character makes off with a town s Christmas decorations. But the Grinch relents and returns the Booty to who Villa. Cold weather friends although International Falls minn., on the Bor Der with Canada Bills ils Eif As the nation s ice Box the world title is held by a town in Siberia. So says mayor Jack Murray if you can t beat pm. Join pm. Murray Hopes to Sci up a sister City relationship with the siberian Village of  which according to a history Ohhi Region has recorded temperatures As Low its 90 degrees below Zero. I just thought it would be Good Public relations and some Good publicity to go with things we re doing Here said Murray whose City is trying to further promote itself As a cold weather testing site for products ranging from clothing to car batteries. Thai s Evert though its record Low is a Mere 46 degrees below Zero. Getting priorities straight when voters elected candidates to this year s North Carolina general Assembly they May have considered the political right and left but they left out a dominating Center says inc coach of the legislative basketball team. Voters have got to be a Little better informed about whom they re voting for said inc coach rep Date a Lamont they re not looking for quickness and youth and jumping  in november the team lost its top rebound or and top scorer. It faces rebuilding before the annual con test against legislators from South Carolina. Rep. Bobby Ethridge the team s 6-fdot-fi Center and top a Bounder was elected stale superintendent of Public instruction. Rep Bui Alexander the team s leading scorer lost a bid for re cd Calion. Diamont says it May be time to expand the qualities residents look for in Thrif lawmakers. Vic need to do some recruiting. Hud some sex basketball players and get them to run for the general Assembly he said. Fortress Lennon pop musician Julian Lennon has purchased a Home atop the Santa Monica mountains near los Angeles formerly an army radar station Complete with 13-Inch-thick Concrete Walls the son of the late John Lennon closed escrow last week on the one acre property said the prop erty s former owner Richard Somers who said he bought the Sile in 1967 for $30,000. Somers would Only say that la Orion paid Between ii million and is million for inc property which has a gated Road and a 3so-Degrce View of inc City. 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