European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday february 10,1989 teen Ager Furns ouf games game of Oil Washington a Jeffrey Scott Campbell 15, won first prize in a Nintendo contest wednesday with a plot for a video game far too Complex for anyone older than 16 to follow. It involves the vast kingdom of Vandillia a peaceful and futuristic world that has been ruled by the Lockary dynasty for Ages and whose secrets Are locked in a sword of it involves a Queen who bore siamese twins who were Given robotic . It involves the Gate to the fifth dimension alien invaders who fall from the skies in a cosmic Exchange of civilizations a Rocky terrain crawling i Ith mutants and okra a six armed Kingi the judges declared that Scott s de sign for a new game carefully mounted in a notebook and illustrated with hand lettered text and drawings was the Best among the 10,134 entries submitted by youngsters from 8 to 15 80 percent of them boys. I had lots of ideas and i like to draw said Scott after winning. He is from Aurora Colo. Second place went to Michael Krier 13, of South Bend ind., in whose de sign for anatomic commando White blood cells Are the heroes and viruses the villains. In his game Gamma globulin missiles fight off attack bacteria monster bacteria and Sims clusters. Phil Loring 13, of Londonderry n.h., won third prize with an idea for a new kind of peripheral equipment to accompany the computer game. It would simulate a climate and an environment appropriate to whatever game is being played offering perhaps the suggestion of swirling dark Clouds when things go wrong in Scott Camp Bell s Lockary dynasty. The prizes were $3,000, $2,000 and $1,000 savings Bonds. Nintendo said it had no plans to put the prize winning games into production. The finalist entry that really caught Washington s political Eye did t win. It was voyage to the White House submitted by Kate Bellamy 12, of toc Coa a. In Kate s game George Bush has been elected president and now must journey to the White House to take his place As president. On the Way he must fight democrats by jumping on them and collecting Cash. At the end of level 5, Bush and Dan Quayle will fight Michael Dukakis and if he wins goes to the White House where the tax deficit is lowered and everything is in addition to Kate the other finalists were Scott Clark and Jef Kiesel both 15, a team from Crestwood by. Justin Balthrop 10, of Albuquerque . Norm Becht 15, of Bellingham Wash. Damon Fontenot 13, of Borger Texas Alex Jizrawi 13, of san Carolos Calif., and Chris Maycock 10, of Malvern a. Kentucky University feeling heat from state eases smoking rules Louisville by. A the University of Louisville scaled Back a smoking policy to satisfy Law makers in this tobacco growing state who threatened tout the school s budget. Details of the regulations which take effect March 1, were released wednesday. I believe they Are fair and equitable to our faculty staff and students said University president Donald Swain. We want to create an impression of even Han redness fairness and when the first draft was released j last fall it was attacked by rep. Donald Gedling chairman of the general Assembly s tobacco task Force. Commenting on the revised version Gedling said i could live with that without any problem. If it s fair to smokers that s what we want to look but House agriculture committee chairman Clay Crupper said he was t pleased that the University had adopted any regulations tuesday. I did t think they needed any policy. They could do it without any regulations Crupper said. Tobacco is a $2 billion Industry in Kentucky the nation s leading tobacco grower. Kentucky had the nation s highest smoking related death Fate in 1985, the centers for disease control reported Iii november. The american lung association of Kentucky declined to comment wednesday on the revised policy but the group s health education director said in no vember that he was embarrassed by legislators intervention. Swain said the three Page guideline omits a controversial Section under which impasses a tween smokers and non smokers would have been resolved in favor of non smokers. The policy now directs department Heads to discuss and Settle conflicts with employees and their supervisors. Smoking rates by amount of education in percent 01987 actual12000 projection did not graduate from High school High school graduates 133.1 some College 130.3 126.1 118.4college graduates 116.3 19.6 Chicago Tribune graphic source the journal of the american medical association another change involves open areas in which Many people work. The first draft prohibited smoking in such areas. The final regulation directs that such areas should be separated into smoking and no smoking areas if practical. Otherwise the area is to be designated smoking or no smoking by the department head after consulting with employees. As before the regulation prohibits smoking in most common areas such As Halls reception areas and auditoriums and in class rooms laboratories and areas where it would be a fire Hazard. It permits smoking in private offices rooms and apartments in residence Halls and University vehicles unless a non smoker in the vehicle objects and it directs that smoking and no smoking areas be designated in cafeterias. Spokesmen for faculty staff and students generally said they were satisfied with the changes. The revision took place largely behind closed doors and Swain defended that procedure. We made a conscious Effort to keep this from being a news item he said. The advice i got from All sides was to let the dust Settle let the emotions subside get the Issue out of the newspapers and off the television sets. Then after the Issue calmed Down we d have an atmosphere better for drug Money finances teens fling Berkeley Calif. A a 14- ear old boy took $ 120,000 in drug Money and treated Hij self and teen age friends to a three Day spending spree that ended with a trip to Hawaii authorities said wednesday. The Trio s life of Leisure ended when Kauai police alerted to their flight picked them up n a Beach Jan. 10 and recovered $ 111,000, police and school officials said. Berkeley police would not comment wednesday on the incident which was reported in wednesday s editions of the Oakland Tribune. According to Oakland municipal court records one of the boys said he found the Money and two bags of what he thought was cocaine in a false Bottor drawer at a rela Tive s Home. The 14-year-old left the drugs but took the Money Andran he told police. The teen Ager and some schoolmates set out to enjoy the Windfall renting a limousine to go to san Francisco where they persuaded the Driver to rent a room at the Mark Hopkins hotel the paper said. Rooms at the hotel Start at $ 175 a but Range up to $ 1,000, a hotel spokeswoman said. There was no Way to Tell which room the youths had she said after their san Francisco excursion some of the Stu dents returned Home and several Reco anted their adventure to school officials said Willard Jur for High principal Chris Lim. The other teen agers also said they bought stereo equip ment and made reservations through a travel agent to Goto Hawaii the next Day. The school then alerted the father of a 13-year-old girl thought to be travelling with the teen Ager who took the Money and another 14-year-old boy. The father filed a missing persons report with Oakland police who contacted police in Kauai. The flight had already arrived when we got the miss ing persons report. So we were looking for them when we got the report of a surfer in trouble in the Poilu area said Kauai police capt. Dennis Higashi. The surfer who was unharmed turned out to be one of the teen agers. The three were detained overnight an sent Back to their parents. Since their return the three teen agers have withdraw from the Junior High school said Lim. The principal denied the Tribune s report that the girl and the boy who did not take the Money went on the run after receiving an Anonymous death threat. The paper cited an unidentified school official As its source. Berkeley police said they had no information about any threat. Acting on the statement of the youth who said he took the Money police in California searched his relative s Home and found a bag containing drug paraphernalia but no narcotics the paper said. Kauai police however determined through conversations with California authorities that the Money came As a result of drug trafficking Higashi said. Stateside Senate approves Yeutter As agriculture Secretary Washington a Clayton Yeutter won sen ate confirmation As Secretary of agriculture on wednesday on a vote of 100-0, the latest in a Long string of Bush administration appointees to gain approval without a dissenting vote. Republicans and democrats alike praised Yeutter who served As special Trade representative in the Rea Gan administration. He has performed every duty he has Ever been assigned with great dedication and ability said sen. James Exon a neb. Rocket nose Cone misfire costs life of worker 66 Pueblo Colo. A a rocket nose Cone apparently being tested under High air pressure blasted through a factory building s ceiling wednesday night and crashed in a parking lot killing one employee police said. The 17,000-Pound nose Cone went through the Kai ser Aero tech building at the Airport Industrial Park and lodged four feet into the parking lot police Williams said. A 66-year-old Man who worked at Kaiser aerate Chwasz killed Williams said. From what i could determine. They were testing a rocket Cone under High pressure and something did t jibe quite right and it became disconnected Williams said. Gown caught on faucet strangles Hospital patient Niagara Falls . A a 25-year-old woman admitted to a Hospital for a minor operation was strangled in her private room in a Freak Accident authorities said wednesday. Niagara county Coroner James Joyce said the Wom an s Nightgown caught on a sink faucet and strangled her. It definitely looks like an Accident Joyce said explaining that the woman Diana Sims of Niagara Falls apparently fell or collapsed Early wednesday. Sims was found sitting in the bathroom with her Back toward the sink and gown around her neck about 5 a.m.,he said. Multinational manufacturing firms drawn to California new York a California has displaced new York As the state with the most multinational manufacturing companies the conference Board reported wednesday. California has 150 publicly owned manufacturing companies with offices abroad compared with 130 headquartered in new York according to the report by the organization of corporate executives. The report is based on 1988 corporate data of the foreign operations of 1,700 publicly held manufacturers. It said there Are 990 manufacturing multinationals with foreign assets of $126 billion up from 884 in 1987. New York still has More multinational companies with annual sales of $1 billion or More 44 compared with California s 24. But California has 66 multinationals with sales of $100 million or less compared with34 in new York
