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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars  monday april 3,19b9 of retiring Steve Canyon with full honors 3ayton, Ohio a air Force col. Sieve can on a comic strip character who perhaps hns done Smuch for the morale of his service As any one is tiring after a career full of military honors. A serve is planned monday on the Ohio stale University so Nous in Columbus to Honor the comics Page hero or bled by Dayton native and Ohio state graduate Millon Mcaniff. Caner died Apsa 1, 1988, at the age of.81. The last Sieve Canyon ship appeared in sunday newspapers june 5 of he Sarto year. \ ".--. Air Force personnel step arc a biography and list of Canyon s exploits and ill present it to the us Vars ii an exhibit will be set up in the journalism school s Library recently dedicated to can its Mem Ory. ,. Through Steve Canyon. Milt Cunnif did a lot to keep up the spirits of fliers and the air Force said 1st it. Lynn Ellen Bryant. He really became a part of air Force lore and people  Ohio state spokesman Leon Rubin said the presentation was the air Force s idea. Canyon is said to have attended Ohio stale before joining the army air corps the predecessor of the air Force in world warn. Bryant said the air Force went through All inc old Canyon Cumie strips compiling a personnel re Cord for the character through his. 1988 retirement. People at Mcgwire air Force base in new Jersey and in new York have dedicated a lot of time Energy and imagination to the  she said. Wear very Happy and honoured to do something thai will be seen by Ollices and is going to  Canyon s service record includes decorations citations movement orders for each base family data All sorts of Good stuff.1 she said. The air Force decided that since his cart Ord was so varied the Char Acter should be assigned to the office of special investigations a that also allowed us to say certain things were classified Arjit we Cound l discuss them Bryan. Said. A Thea of Force will present a modern uniform with Ca Nyeri s insignia rank and Nam imag. Along with a Relief mint certificate for Canyon and his wife Stem a of Smith. A display will hold his medals and rib Tab on. Ausler a bunks  a pc Imperia Vienna. Austria not Vienna  countries including can pro Zilavy for in the Days she Lay in born honors dusted off ils Imperial finery saturday Tolay to rest Austria s , paying a tribute to a woman who remained True to her lost Crown and to the late emperor through seven decades of exile. For the. First time since inc 600-year Aubro Llu Garian monarchy was  1919, the ornate Black Imperial cat Falque borrowed from the museum at Schonbrunn Palace rolled past the old palaces and baroque temples of Central Vienna to the Imperial burial vault. There under the Capuchin Church Zita. Pm press of Austria and Queen of Hunan. Was Laid 10 rest among the caskets of the hapsburgs. Empress Zila. As she remained known through Herlong exile died March hat in the Swiss nunnery where she lived her last years. Married in 1911, crowned in 1916, exiled in 1918 and widowed in 1922 with eight children she  in Ada Anil he United Stales. In was Only in 1982, after her 90th birthday Turkl Zila was allowed to visit Austria. An  people turned out saturday  a Thunder Shower Fri that interrupted a Satui Day As the firs i strains of Mozart s tie Quick echoed through St. Stephen s ca1hj dra1, millions More watched funeral on television. The Vienna boys choir a 3fcin the Capuchin Church while Eardman and Bishops prayed for our Lister the press  f the service was Larnid to the moment 67 year ago on soil 1, 1922, when Zila s husband the emperor Charles. Died on the Island of Madeira. His body Svitil there awaiting trans r in vifrttla11 for most of those who came saturday As for ii thousands who passed by pm stale it War above All a Chance to Louch a  history to reconcile a Scal do Fown present with a grand and extravagant past. A a s the Bells of is. Stephen s tolled princes and Dukes in formal mourning attire Farmers in feathered Caps and multicoloured National j costumes Mem Bers of Catholic student clubs in embroidered Caps old soldiers in antique uni forms members of ancient orders in flowing capes All joined in singing the old Imperial Anthem god protect our Kai ser and our  the Many tongues of the old Empire thai had covered most of Central Europe Irving cd in the great Church and the Hrc cts outside mostly German and it a Galiari but also croat czech pol ish Anlian slovenian. Thousands of hungarians were Here evidence of a new fascination with the monarchy thai has come with the loosen ing of the so Vul Bonds. V i Princess Zita of Bourbon Parma in 1892, she married the Archduke Charles in 191  thus became embroiled in the tumultuous last years of emperor Franz. Joseph s reign. The pm porch s heir Rudolph had committed suicide his wife. Empress Elizabeth had been murdered and his next heir Franz Rudolph was the victim of the murder Al Sarajevo Yugoslavia  world War thus the succession passed. To Franz Joseph s Nephew Charles who in 1916 reluctantly became inc emperor Charles i of Austria and soon after King Charles in of Hungary. History records that Zila did what she could to Hel p i n the losing Battle to Mclain the thrones and in 1918, refusing Loab ,1 the  Inlo exile As a Republic was formed. After abortive efforts to recover the throne they were sent into exile on Madeira Captain from Page 1 Hart Wood to fact Misdemeanour Chari  
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