European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 01, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 stateside the stars and stripes monday. May 1. 1989 nicotine patches Heip smokers quit clinic reports a Rochester. Minn api More than three quarters of people trying to quit smoking were Able Todo so for six weeks with the help of nicotine patches researchers Al the Mayo clinic have reported. In i preliminary study that stared last fall. 24 of .11people who wore nicotine patches had stopped smok my. Said or. Richard Hurt director of Mayo s smok ing cessation Center and one of the investigators. The Silver Dollar sic patches release nicotine slowly through the skin into the bloodstream. A control group in the study wore patches not treated with nicotine and Only 12 of 31 participants quit smoking. Hurt cautioned that a Long term follow up study is needed but he said the Patch could be a tool to help people Stop smoking. Soviet satellites blinding . Scientific instruments Washington a radiation from soviet nuclear reactors powering spy satellites has been blinding scientific instruments aboard a us. Satellite experts report. The blinding and its source have been known since i Iso. But the . Government classified the data As secret until last August scientists said in a series of five articles in science Maga inc. The . Solar maximum Mission satellite was launched feb. 14. I Jan. To us St Ignatc among other things naturally occurring Gamma a s in cosmic rays. Its instruments Are being blinded sometimes eight limes a Day. In Gamma Rass from the soviet satellite realtors the scientists said. 1 he blinding Means thai much of the data sought by die  satellite could not be gathered. Doctors divorce rate among lowest study says Chicago a contrary to widespread Opin Ion. Plin simians marriages Are among he most Stablein the United states according to a new study based on census Plata. The proportion of physicians who were divorced in i Iii was significantly lower than the proportion of men and women in other occupations who were i Vok cd. Said the study published in the journal of the american medical association. Liui compulsive personality traits among physicians result in Many having discordant and unhappy marriages even those that Don t end in divorce suggests a report accompanying the study. Colt industries announces firearms division is for Sale Hartford Conn. A i Colt firearms maker of the gun thai won the West has been placed on the auction Block. A 3-Ycar-old strike by hundreds of Colt workers and the recent loss of its contract to make m-16 rifles for the military its Mam business have hampered the company. Hul officials Al Parent company Colt industries said those problems did t Force a Sale. It s a going business and it s profitable and of course it has a history of Quality products company spokesman Michael g. Dunn said Friday. New York based Colt industries is Selling the fire arms division so it can concentrate on its aerospace automotive and Industrial service operations Dunn said. The Colt company was founded in Hartford in 1836 by Samuel Colt the inventor of the first successful repeating pistol. 6 ticket holders still failing to claim part of super Jackpot Middletown. A. A six winning ticket holders for the $115.5 million Jackpot still had not come Forward when super 7 officials closed their offices for the weekend. The missing numbers arc Worth s8.1 million each. Eight of 14 winning tickets from wednesday s head line grabbing Jackpot had been turned in. The thrill of instant wealth attracted interest from As far away As new zealand lottery officials said. Ticket sales were spread  said George an Dersen lottery Deputy executive director. We Hope everyone checks their tickets and we get a full set of  each of the 14 Jackpot winning tickets is Worth $8.3 million Over the next 26 years. The annual payment be fore any taxes is $317.524.67 for each ticket. The first payments will be handed out in two weeks at the local retail outlets where the tickets were purchased and after completion of an extensive computerized validation pro Cess said lottery spokesman Terry Murphy. Consolation winners Learned Friday night that Matching six numbers in the april 26 drawing paid$4,842.50 and five numbers paid $275.36. Jackpot tickets matched seven of the 11 numbers drawn. Winners have a year from the Date of the draw ing to turn in their tickets or the Money returns to the lottery fund and is lost to the Winner. About i percent of Al the big prizes go unclaimed lottery officials said. Winners Are Given an extensive counselling session including advice on financial planning consulting an attorney estate planning the annuity from which the prize is drawn Over the 26-year payout and How to handle the  Tell them to face the Media Tell the Rulh be As open As they wish and if they Don t wish to answer a personal question they need not do it Andersen said. Typically they re real Good at  Many of them arc in a whirlwind of Shock and Surprise we have All this prepared in a folder and hand it to them Andersen  initial eight claimants include a number of joint ticket holders. On the list Are 14 workers from a wind Ham Ohio Brick factory a Mother and two grown Chil Dren from the Johnstown pa., and fort Montgomery n.y., areas two Erie pa., men who work at a general electric Plant two couples and a Man from Morgantown,w.va., where the three men work Al West Virginia University s maintenance department a woman from Washington pa., who is a sales representative for an Industrial company a five member family from East Windsor no. A 74-year-old widow from Lebanon a. And a chiropractor and his wife from new Brighton a. Who s first for the who these two taking snug shelter from cold rain weather Amy Yan Koliu left and Barbara Priscu both of new York City peer happily from their tent outside Radii City music Hall. Hie iwo were at the front of a Friday night line of fans wailing to buy tickets for a concert of the Rock group the who. The tickets for the group s first concert since 1983 were logo on Sale monday morning. Belated Honor goes to first Block West Point Grod Trio Casville a. Api the first Black to graduate from West Point was honoured by Georgia More than a Century after his achievement. A Marker at the grave of Henry flip per was unveiled last week by attorney general Michael Bowers who called Flipper a hero and said in was time a righted this great  for the descendants of Flipper it was t the first time they have waited for recognition. Ripper graduated from the Academy 112 years ago. He was court Martiale 108 years ago but the army overturned the conviction 12 years ago and named part of the West Point Library alter flip per. Gwinnett county teacher Ray Mac Coll battled for 18 years to win the recognition and Flipper s Niece Irsic King of Valdosta tried to help her Uncle gain a hearing during the last years of his life. King said she was pleased by the Cere Mony but wished the honors had come while he was alive. Flipper was born into slaver in Thomasville. He moved with his family and their owners to Atlanta. Afler the civil War. He attended Atlanta univer sity and won a nomination to West Point. Flipper who graduated from the acad Emy to 1877, commanded an All Black cavalry regime in in Oklahoma. He then was put in charge of the fort Sill Coni emissary. In i ssi he was charged with embezzling $3,791 and with conduct in becoming an officer. Flipper s court martial Mac Coli said was plagued with racism and irregular ." he was acquitted of theft but convicted of unbecoming conduct. Alter Flipper was exonerated in 1977, West Point dedicated a bust 9f him atthe Academy and named a portion of the Library in his Honor. The Academy also established an annual award in his name for the Cadet who survived the greatest hardship. In 1978, Flipper s body was removed from an unmarked grave in Atlanta where he died in 1940 at the age of 84.he was re buried with full military Hon ors near his parents Graves in Thom Asville