European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 1, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday january 1, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 3-year-o/d s first phone Coll saves Mother Shreveport la. A a 3 year old boy using the Telephone for the first time saved his bleeding Mother s life by calling the operator and asking her to reach his father at work. The doctors said if i had Laid there much longer i would t be Here today Liz Pendleton 29, said Friday from he Hospital room. She said she Felt sick tuesday and woke up Early wednesday in severe pain and unable to move Haemorrhaging from a ruptured fallopian tube. She called to her son Jason who was sleeping on the Couch near the Tele phone and told him he would have Roget help. He told me of Mommy you can just wait until tomorrow to go to the doctor " Pendleton said. He just could t see  she said she convinced him she needed help right away and he Fol Lowed her instructions. She made an of with her thumb and forefinger and explained where the Button for the operator was on the Telephone dial. Tell her your mama s very sick she told Jason. Then Jason told the operator that his daddy worked at Arkla  in the com Puter room. Pendleton told Jason the phone number and spelled their last name and he repeated it to the opera Tor she said. When the operator got Randy Pend Leton 33, on the line Jason said daddy mama s very sick. You re going to have to come  he called for an ambulance and rushed Home. His wife was taken to Schumpert medical Center where she had emergency surgery. Doctors said she had lost three pints of blood an was near death. Jason Pendleton hugs his Mother Liz in her Hospital bed after his Telephone Call for help saved her life. Pendleton said Jason had never used the Telephone before but handled the situation like a Veteran caller. He knows his numbers. But he s Only in 3-year-old preschool she said. He catches on real Quick. He s 3 but he acts like he s about 7. He never got nervous. I was trying not to get him upset. He took it like  Bonny Baker the South Central Bell operator who took the Call said she does t often get emergency Calls fro children. A lot of times when you do it s children playing a prank which at first i thought he was doing Baker said1 Fri Day. But she said it quickly became obvious that the situation was serious. You could Tell there was definitely something wrong she said. Now Jason is enjoying the attention that comes with heroism. Yesterday when the newspaper was up Here he was telling them All about it shaking their hands and every thing his Mother said. He s going to think his picture should be in the paper every  Stephen Dillard is led to a police car after going on an 80-mile rampage in which he hit More than 20 cars and injured two people. Trucker rams 20 cars in 80-mile rampage Hondo Texas a a trucker rammed his tractor trailer into More than 20 cars seriously injuring at least two people during an 80-mile Chase Fri Day that snarled san Antonio morning Rush hour traffic authorities said. Stephen Odell Dillard 41, of co Lidge ga., was charged with Possession of cocaine and was held in the Medina county jail under $50,000 Bond while authorities in other counties prepared other charges against him. The Chase began shortly after 8 . On interstate 10 near Comfort about 40 Miles Northwest of san Antonio said state trooper Alvin Schacht. The Rig carrying vegetables from Cali fornia to Florida sideswiped a vehicle driven by Robert Etlinger who was run off the Road but then pursued the fleeing truck Schacht said. Troopers police and at least 10 other Drivers pursued the tractor trailer before it stopped at an interstate 35 rest area near Natalia Southwest of san Antonio. The Driver got out of the cab and Citi Zens surrounded him until pursuing offi cers arrived. Troopers said they found 4 to 5 Grams of cocaine in the cab. Dillard was charged with Possession of a controlled substance a felony punishable by two to 20 years in prison. Gunman killed after threatening to explode bomb Omaha neb. A a gunman who took eight hostages in a Beauty Salon and released All but one during a 24-hour siege was shot and killed by a police sniper Friday after threatening to detonate bomb in a suitcase. Michael Fane 21, of Iowa City Iowa was shot by a police sniper about 2 45 . Friday at the Beauty Salon police chief Robert Wadman said. A bomb squad was called in to Deal with the suit Case. It did not explode when they at tempted to detonate capt. Michael London said. All indications that they had at the time was that it had the Mak Ings of a bomb. I can t Tell you whether there was an explosive device in there  police believed Fane had a 9mm pistol but found he had a 9mm look alike Pellet gun. London said Fane was shot while try ing to pick up a package he demanded from police that was placed by the door. About 6 this morning negotiations deteriorated seriously because they found out at that time there was a great likelihood there was a bomb or the Mak Ings of a bomb or a bomb apparatus in suitcase London said. Police sealed off the neighbourhood and the gunman released four people including a Young boy police said. After negotiating through the night he freed three women Friday. His final hos Tage a woman was apparently unharmed. The gunman negotiated undisclosed demands with police a department spokesman said during a Friday news conference. He would not say what the demands were but he did say the gun Man had not asked for Money