European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 19, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes sunday March 19.1989 try a fun killer quake if you re in los Angeles from wire reports in Ink Angeles where a mortuary is a lop tourist draw and the curious pay to visit Sites of celebrity suicides a new theme Park ride celebrating a Catas trophic California earthquake fits right in. Never mind that the earthquake simulated in uni Versal studios1 new the big one could kill 14,000 people seriously injure up to 55,000 others an cause $ 17 billion in property damage. It s an entertainment attraction not a sociology  said Sidney Schinberg president and chief operating officer of Mca inc., Parent company to the theme Park in Universal City a suburb of los Angeles. I think this is fun. We Don t think this is in bad taste or we would t have done  like the popular Tours at Forest Lawn memorial Park and the celebrity suicide and murder junket run by the local grave line Tours the Universal studios earthquake attraction which was to open saturday is inherently married to the loss of life. The ride has been touted As the scariest thing to hit California since 1906" when a quake struck san Francisco and killed 2,000. Mother nature s fiercest demonstration of her Power another promotional teaser read. Advertising for the disaster attraction includes a Bil Jbard in Whittier just a few blocks from several buildings levelled by a 5.9-magnitude quake and a 5.,1-Magnitudc aftershock in october 1987. Eight deaths including deaths by heart attack were blamed on that quake As were 200 injuries and $358 million in damage. Named after the huge temblor seismologists say will hit California within the next 30 years univer Sal s big one was built in an enclosed set at a Cost of si4 million. Its original opening Date in novem Ber was delayed because of design problems. Set in a san Francisco subway station the big one features a violently shaking platform on which Universal studios Tram cars sit a runaway subway car littered with bodies erupting sidewalks a burst propane tank a 60,000-gallon Wall of water collapsing ceilings sparking transformers and several other disaster related effects. Boing your Teeth Are clean Brace yourself for a new invention a businessman has come up with Flavoured rubber bands that release fluoride Inlo the in ouch. Jeff fasnacht and his company Midwest orthodontics of Columbus ind., have secured a $266,000federal Grant for research on the rubber bands for braces called Ela Tomeric ligatures. Fasnacht said the product would have the same effect on Teeth As if the patient brushed three times Aday. The company is awaiting approval from the . Universal studios new attraction features a quake smashed subway station and collapsing Street. Food and drug administration before the product hits store shelves. Tol Bouffi runner honoured an activist who got Florida to pass a Law waiving tolls for disabled Drivers has been named 1989 disabled american of the year. This is the most important recognition i be had said Beverly Chapman of Orlando flu. She was miss wheelchair America in 1977 and has received numerous local awards. There arc 38 million disabled americans Many of them outstanding individuals and to be selected above All the others is overwhelming she said. Chapman 40, has been paralysed almost totally by muscular dystrophy. She breathes with the help of a Respirator attached to her wheelchair and drives Avan equipped with hand controls. In 1986, she began running Tollbooth in an Effort to gel the Highway authority to accommodate disabled Drivers who had trouble tossing coins Inlo toll baskets. Last year the legislature passed the Beverly Chapman act which waives tolls for severely disabled Drivers at All state Tollbooth. Not going to try Hamlet he May not look like Robert Redford or act like William 1 Lurt but capt. I of Albano says there s still a place for him in the celluloid world. Albano who was in Jefferson City to to promote Book for children has made guest appearances on "227," Miami vice and the Hollywood squares since retiring from professional wrestling in 1986. If you know your Means you know who you arc you Don t fall in love with yourself and think you re Laurence Olivier there s plenty of work if you re will ing to be  Albano said of his acting career. Albano was promoting body smasher a Book by Jan Stacy about a Cia agent who goes under Overas a wrestler to Battle terrorism. 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