European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes Friday january 27,1989 co reef Way to put foot in Mouth from press dispatches nearly everyone knows that Judith Martin better known As miss manners the syndicated columnist is exceedingly Correct. Last week she saw an advertisement in the newspaper that a Baltimore jewelry store was having a Sale in her Silver pattern. Upon arriving at the store the arbiter of what s painfully proper told the jeweler she was looking for additional dessert spoons in her pattern and had been making do with the larger soup spoons ? of much of a hardship the employee said. It is for me Martin responded. �?uq1 up in the moment the Saleswoman joke who do you think you Are miss manners the easily recognizable miss manners looked at the woman unable to respond. And then it registered. Of my god the sales woman said. First time s the Charm ninety five year old Horace e. Nunley had been driving 65 years before he had his first Accident he hit a Georgia state patrol car authorities said. Neither Nunley nor trooper Douglas h. Ralston j8, was seriously injured in wednesday s crash near Villa Rica a. Nunley s car sustained front end damage and the patrol car was damaged on a Side according to police. Nunley was listed in Good condition wednesday afternoon at Tanner medical Center. I m sore on my right Side from my shoulder to my hip Nunley said. I m mostly bruised asked if he planned to replace his car or drive again Nunley replied not any time talk about your Low beams some people Dine by candlelight or enjoy walking m the Moonlight but Barbara and Tibor Mathony never expected to drive by flashlight. When the headlights on their truck failed in ice fog at nearly 60 degrees below Zero eight Miles from the tiny town of Tok Alaska the couple drove the rest of the Way with the guiding Light of a household Flash Light shining through the Windshield. It was like a White out and you try to wave the fog away mrs. Mathony said. We were trying to see a Little better and we turned the High beam on and All the lights went mrs. Mathony moved to Juneau in september and was in Fairbanks last weekend to get the last of her household belongings. She and her husband left Fairbanks on Sun Day in their truck towing a rented flatbed and carrying three dogs for the 600-mile trip to Juneau. It was minus 53 degrees when they left Fairbanks minus 57 when they stopped in the town of North pole and by the time they reached Tok about 175 Miles Southeast none of the thermometers could bread any More she said. There was Little traffic which made it easier to drive by flashlight when the truck s headlight fuse blew she said. Nobody was As dumb As we were to leave at nurse writer awarded a psychiatric nurse who turned to writing As a Hobby has won the Whitbread Book of the year award for his first novel the comforts of Paul Sayer 33, received the $34,000 prize from an 11-judge panel in London for his harrowing Story about Long term psychiatric Hospital patients who cannot speak. The novelist works with elderly patients at a hos Pital in North Yorkshire and his tale has been Lik ened to Ken Kesey s one flew Over the cuckoo s nest about inmates of a . Psychiatric institution. The total prize Money of $46,750 makes the Whit bread Britain s richest literary award. Sayer and four other writers had earlier won $2,550 each for being selected As finalists for the Whitbread in five categories first novel Best novel poetry biography an children s novel. Con f Bear of be alone Craig Matalon is searching for his lost Matalon of Tamarac fla., accidentally left Kinky s Cage open and the 14-year-old female out. She can t live alone he said. She d walk up to somebody but i Don t think anybody would know what to do with Kinky about the size of a Large House cat has Short Golden coloured hair big Brown eyes a Long Thailand Sharp claws. She looks like a Teddy Bear said Matalon who has owned Kinky since she was 2 weeks old. You can t help but to fall in love with this animal. I fee like i lost a the Kin Kajou a Raccoon like animal native to South America is about 9 inches Long and weighs no More than 10 pounds said a spokeswoman at the Broward county humane society. Glutton for punishment a Young Man pleaded guilty to robbing an Ameri can tourist and in a fit of remorse asked that his 12 year jail sentence be increased the official Philippines news Agency reports. The Agency said judge Leonardo b. Canares of or 35� Miles South of Manila immediately obliged Wesley Corpus request and added another year to the jail term. Corpus was accused of robbing an unidentified a head other time a Model concealed inside a plastic outfit and carrying a detached head shows off a Young designer s Marie Antoinette look during a Paris fashion show with a French revolution theme. American of a Gold necklace Worth $250. Took themselves hostage there was a jail break at the new $2.5-million Erath county jail in Stephenville Texas but sheriff David Coffee and his deputies were not upset. They were just relieved to get out. It seems Coffee and some of his deputies Acci dentally got locked in a hallway Between cells at the jail and had to stage a breakout to get free. The unplanned lock in occurred As the sheriff was showing off the As yet unopened jail s Security sys tem. When 4he door to the control room suddenly slammed shut All the doors locked automatically caving the keys inside the control room and the lawmen trapped outside. It took about an hour but the posse finally devised plan of escape. 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