European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 14, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday january 14, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 9 souvenirs Dot 42-year Trail of chauffeur caterer to vips by Effie Bathen Nurnberg Bureau it Orth West Germany Elvis Presley s underwear a pen from George Bush and a Glass paper weight from the army chief of staff Are just a few of the souvenirs Edwin Grimm says he s collected from passengers Over the years. Grimm a 60-year-old Furth native retired last month after 42 years As the chauffeur of an Eclectic collection of military and civilian vips who visited the Nurnberg area Over the years. During that time he has driven everyone from the King of Rock v Roll to the future president of the United states along with hundreds of other luminaries with names like Ligand Patton and Rockefeller. In the same period he sat behind the wheel of More than a dozen vehicles from a 1942 Packard with a brass Siren to most recently a Blue Volks Wagen bus logging in what he estimates was some thing More than 2 million Miles. Grimm said he polished the Packard s Siren every Day. He had to he said because the general he drove peered into it every morning and asked or. Grimm do i need a shave in addition to part time Groom Grimm played the role of drinking buddy bargain Hunter shopper and tour guide for visiting dignitaries and their wives. One four Star general flew in for what he called a special Mission 500 links of Nurnberg famed sausages. A startled Grimm hastily delivered the general Toa nearby Butcher shop. More routinely he treated passengers to Tours of the medieval Wall that surrounds Nurnberg delivering non Stop historical lectures along the Way. Even More routinely Grimm said his passengers expected him to show them what he Calls a fair time anything from a few hours in a nightclub to carousing until the wee hours. We had a lot of fun Grimm said in the slightly imperfect English he first Learned from the Ameri can soldiers who captured him in the waning Days of world War ii. The wives of Grimm s official passengers nor Mally preferred Tours of bavarian Crystal and porcelain factories. Always ask for or. Grimm he said the women had been told. He knows the Way How to go and what we  Grimm s duties also required a Little dealing with the Wheeling like the time he helped a Supply ser Geant Trade a truckload of military rations for Houseful of German furniture. He landed the Job of driving Elvis in 1974, when Presley visited the Nurnberg area for a week. Is Vince crawl Yedwin Grimm talks about his experiences. Grimm said he had to Man Euver the staff car through crowds of screaming girls and remembers at one Point asking his passenger for a song. He Sang love me tender right there in my car. As a matter of fact i still have a Small bag with his underwear Grimm said. They could be wort something  More recently Grimm has been using his spare time to Lead Tours through the Nurnberg courtroom where the nazi War crime trials were held. In be tween relating facts on the trial Grimm always manages to note that he played soccer with Henry Kissinger As a child. But we called him Heiner then he says. Of. Who. M tiv a. My a. To vc411vu 11a11i la ill Vlf 111wii, Juc Octavo. Cockpit tape from s. African Jet May help solve mystery of crash Washington a a cockpit recorder recon crashes retrieved the recorder last Friday from a depth ered by an underwater robot from the year old wreck of 14,800 feet with its $5 million Remote recovery t r t age of a South african airways Boeing 747 nearly three Miles deep in the Indian Ocean could provide the latest clue in a $6 million Effort to determine the cause of the crash that killed 159 people. The recorder s tape recovered from the Ocean last week was taken thursday by South african investigators to the National transportation safety Board in Washington where it was copied for use by the investigators. Safety Board officials said they Only provided equip ment for processing the tape and would have no role in playing transcribing or analysing it. The United states is providing technical assistance at the request of the South african government. Meanwhile the search continues in the Indian Ocean for other evidence in the nov. 28, 1987, crash including the flight data recorder which would include technical information on the last few minutes of the flight. The cockpit tape which officials said was flooded but has been cleaned and dried records All talk and other noise in the cockpit. Eastport International of upper Marlboro md., which was involved in deep water recovery of wreck age of the space shuttle challenger As Well As other air crashes o vehicle known As gemini 6000. Craig Mullen president of the company said the plane looks like it went in intact and hit at a High rat of  he said recovered parts show evidence that the plane May have been on fire. The South african government has refused to re lease the contents of a control Tower tape of Conversa Tion with the Airliner s Pilot who officials earlier said reported smoke in his cockpit before the crash. The government says contents of the conversation might be misunderstood or cause  the Airliner was on a flight from Taipei Taiwan to Johannesburg when it disappeared near the Island of Mauritius where it was to make a schedule Landing. Only 11 bodies were recovered and it look two months to locate the wreckage that Mullen said is strewn Over a Square mile of deep Ocean. The victims included taiwanese South Africa Sand japanese. The recorder Box about a foot Square was found lying by itself and was picked up As the gemini was preparing to bring a larger piece of the aircraft to the surface Mullen said. Soviets cast doubt on Story of quake Rescue Moscow a the official news Agency Tass Friday expressed serious doubts Over a Story it ran about six men allegedly pulled from the rubble in Leni Nakan 35 Days after the armenian earthquake. Regrettably we Are unable so far to confirm with full certainty the authenticity of the reports made by our armenian colleagues about the Leni Nakan Mira Cle nor can we categorically deny them Tass said. Friday s urgent dispatch was headlined one Al ways wants  Tass reported thursday that the six men had been rescued a Day earlier from the basement of a wrecked nine Story apartment building after being trapped for five weeks following the dec. 7 earthquake. The chief source of information for the Tass account was Aikaz Akopyan a 50-year-old electrician. Ako Pyan was quoted As saying he and the other men sur Vived because the basement was used to store canned vegetables smoked Ham stewed fruit and pickles. Soviet television broadcast an interview thursday night with Akopyan from his Hospital bed and the communist party daily pravda and other soviet news papers printed his account of the ordeal and Rescue. The Story was widely reported in the United states. But Tass said disturbing questions surfaced when armenian reporters began to Check into Akopyan Story. Why for instance a Day after the miraculous Salva Tion was it possible to locate Only Aikaz Akopyan in a Yerevan Hospital Tass asked in the dispatch 24 hours after publication of the first report. Where is the survivor s sister who failed to appear at the Hospi Tal on Friday though she promised to do so Artem Shakhbazyan a journalist with the state owned armenian news Agency armentress said in a Telephone interview that Agency reporters searched hospitals in Yerevan and the earthquake zone for the other five survivors Friday but failed to located them. Unclaimed a Offenbach West Germany warehouse personnel Are trying to locate service members and civil ians in Europe who have not claimed their unaccompanied baggage a v corps spokeswoman said. Baggage left unclaimed after 300 Days is subject to disposal. The following persons should Contact the Offen Bach warehouse Ito Box 44, Frankfurt military Community Apo 09710, or Call Frankfurt ets 320-5008 or7309. Baggage unclaimed after 60 Days Mark c. Blalock Lucia s. M. Kong Bert Boatright James r. Kreeger Martin Bryant Barry Lee Paul Bussell Gary Libano Arlene Butler Christine Mcdonald Rita Clinger Joseph Motley Patrick Coignard Walker Morris Angela Collins Damon Ohnheiser Condra Collins David Peacock w. Collins Santiago Robon Raymond Cooper Richard Ramirez Ricky Coulombe Phillips Randell Terrence Curtis Karen Rasberry Robert Dekoekkoek William Richart Catherine Egan Robin Riley Paul Fitzgerald Phillips Roberts Edward Garcia Alfred Rodriguez Daniel Geile Torres Rodriguez Monica Gonzales Lewis Ronald James Gooch Sandie Sloan Mark Goodwin Kent Smith Norman Hall Robert Smith Don Hampton Dean Sorenson Kenneth Handy William Springs Rodney Harris Ronnie Stephens Ray Hawkins Stephen Sutton Alan Hern Michael Tripp Gregory Hollenquest Keith Williams baggage unclaimed after 120 Days Jerry Bryant Charles Reynolds r. Cladwell Greg Runton Paul Foster David scale Gerald Lofgren Jamie Simley Harold Manuel Phillip Smith Stephen Mcgowen Renaldo Torez Sanchez Daniel Osborn James Weldon Eugene Otter Garret Werner afghan rebel car bomb causes death injury Moscow a a car bomb detonated by afghan rebels ripped through Herat Afghanistan killing and maiming about 20 people the official soviet news Agency Tass reported thursday from Afghanistan. Tass said the powerful explosive device was set off wednesday in the Eastern Afghanistan City by insurgents fighting the pro soviet government of president Najib