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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 6, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes Friday january 6,1989 soviet claims credit for smallest piloted plane Ever from press dispatches what weighs 103 pounds is 9.8 feet Long and stands 3.3 feet High probably the smallest piloted plane in the world says the soviet news Agency Tass. Tass credits Viktor Dmitriev from soviet Kirghizia As Developer of the Craft which is said to have a minimum Speed of 26 Mph and a maximum of 80.8mph. Tass says the plane uses about .8 Gallons of Gas an hour and needs Only 98 feet of space for takeoffs and landings. Dmitriev says Tass has developed several mini planes and says his newest creation could be a big help for geologists rangers and Farmers. He has been invited to bring the Craft to an air show at Paris Lebourget Airport where the tiny plane will be Dis played with another soviet Pride the Oriya dream an225, which it Calls the world s largest plane. Westmore and gets Ace retired Gen. William c. Westmoreland has been first Many times in his career but it took him about 30 years of golfing before recording his first Hole in one. Westmoreland 74, made the shot on monday using a 6-Iron on the 142 Yard third Hole at the Yea mans Hall club in Hanahan s.c., near  Laws of probability finally caught up with me he said. I figured if i played Long enough i d have to get  Westmoreland former com Mander of . Forces in Vietnam gave credit to Luck not athletic  was not a very Good shot he said. Then it suddenly Dis appeared. I was curious still Westmoreland not believing it was a Hole in one. But it turned out  rescuer of miss inauguration a Man who helped Rescue George Bush from the Pacific Ocean More than 44 years ago is recuperating from Back surgery and will have to skip the presi Dent elect s inauguration Jan. 20. It s a $32 million party and i can t go Dan Moody of Albany calif., lamented tuesday. Moody 71, said he received an invitation to the inauguration but can t even ride in a car until Jan.30. The retired electronics technician said he last saw Bush on sept. 2, 1944, off the Bonin islands South of Japan. Moody was a torpedo Man aboard the submarine Sinback. The Sinback rescued the Crew members of a dozen or More downed . Planes that Day Moody re called. Among them was Bush the youngest Pilot in the Navy. Moody said he believed All living Crew members from the submarine were invited to the inauguration. Mighty expensive dish chef Albert Grabham of Haverfordwest Wales cooked the most expensive dish of his career new year s Day his restaurant s profits from the night before. Grabham hid the Money collected on saturday night in an oven but forgot about it the next Day when he turned on the oven to Cook lunch. The smell of burning Pound notes wafted through the new House hotel in West Wales before Grabham realized what he had done. By the time he reached the oven More than $360 had gone up in smoke. Borge s birthday party danish television and newspapers paid tribute tuesday in Copenhagen Denmark to Victor Borge the danish born pianist and comedian who marked his 80th birthday. Borge a naturalized . Citizen who is still revered in his native land was reported to be spending a quiet birthday at his vacation Home in Christiansted St. Croix in the former Dan ish West indies. With him were his wife five children and eight grandchildren As Well As Niels Joergen Kai ser director of Copenhagen s Tivoli amusement Borge Park. Borge described Kaiser As his Only Friend be cause All the rest disappeared from  babies waiting for names there Are about 35,000 babies just waiting to be born in Louisiana. Officially speaking that is. The babies Are alive and kicking As far As their parents Are concerned but they Don t yet exist in state records. That s because budget cuts have caused a three month backlog on the issuance of birth certificates in the state. We Are waiting for the paper to come in. We expect it to come in in about a week said Gwen Bach Stewart spokeswoman for the department of health and hospitals. What we plan to do to get caught up is to print 6,000 to 8,000 a week to Knock out the  state Law requires the office of vital statistics to Send the parents of All newborns a free birth certificate. Normally about 2,000 of the certificates Are sent each week. No More Nickel Coffee five cents won t get you a cup of Coffee at Wilson Cain s Coffee shop in Myrtle Beach s.c., anymore but patrons have been Over tipping for 25 years any Way Cain says. Cain raised the Price of his Coffee to 50 cents a cup on monday. I have Given you Coffee for 25 years at five cents a cup. Due to inflation it s time to Start paying for Coffee. The new 25-year Price will be 50 cents Cain told customers in a sign posted behind the Cash Regis Ter. I swore i d never do it said Cain who s also a City councilman. It s the clientele i be got that looks at me and says hey your Coffee is too cheap they forced me. Most of them would leave a tip that was greater than the Cost of the  Selleck suit going to trial a libel Case brought by Tom Selleck s father will go to trial against a supermarket tabloid which claimed Robert Selleck gave his son s love secrets to the publication the California state supreme court has ruled. The court on wednesday unanimously upheld a lower court ruling reinstating Robert Selleck s libel lawsuit against Globe International and upholding his status As a private figure which makes it easier to win a libel Case. The lawsuit stems from a december 1982 Issue of the Globe that carried the front Page headline Tom Selleck s love secrets by his  the Story on an inside Page was headlined Why Tom Selleck can never be a Happy  it said Robert Selleck had described his son As shy and ill at ease with women and quoted the elder Selleck As saying Tom s relationships with women in his life Are always disappointing because he s just not the person they think he should be. He s shy and sensitive not rough and  kids experts answer your top 20 questions it coping with stubbornness the key to coping with your child s occasional bouts of stubbornness at any age is to remember that they Are temporary and can be surmounted by both of you. As parents we need to learn How to ride the Waves of  behaviour and avoid being locked into frustrating and fruitless Power struggles. This upcoming Issue of parents Magazine explains the underlying causes of stubbornness and offers Steps to be taken to reduce stubborn behaviour. Also in this Issue paediatricians answer 20 nagging questions the ones you forgot were afraid to ask or did t have time to ask questions  As How Long do germs live on toys is it All right to give a child a Bath when he s  and Are ear infections contagious parents Magazine is available for $1.95 at most bookstores stars and stripes bookstores stars and stripes bookstores it it m too Fth o90 m it  
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