European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 05, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes Friday Mays 1989 can f play croquet aboard ship anyway from wire reports fans sipped Champagne and led cheers in greek As St. John s Colleg Ewon its Only official incr collegiate ath Letic event defeating the . Naval Academy in a Daylong croquet tournament in , my. The 6hour match played sunday after rain postponed it for a Day. Ended with the team capturing the Annapolis cup. The music of Vivaldi and Beethoven filled the air and some spectators alternated Between watching the game and Reading George Orwell s Down and out in Paris and  while the Academy turns out naval officers drilled in tactics and terminology St. John s produces a Small crop of literary scholars versed in Shakespeare and Socrates. Members of the two teams planned to meet later this week at a restaurant where the tournament trophy is kept. I see that As a step Forward in the mid Shipmen Johnnie relationship said George Turner of the St. John s team. Necessity is. Young inventors in Clovis n.m., have their priorities get your bed made keep your big brother from hog Ging the television and help grandma when you can. Students from kindergarten through eighth Grade displayed the fruit of their ideas in a program aimed at fostering inventiveness. One popular invention at saturday s award ceremony was the Bishop bed maker created by Jeremy Bishop of Sandia elementary school. His device uses a bed Width roller at the head of the bed. Lines fastened to the roller have clips at their free ends that arc clamped to the bedcovers. Cranking the roller winds the lines on the roller and pulls the covers tightly to the head of the bed. I invented it because i hate to make my bed Bishop said. I want to make an electric one with a  Lockwood elementary school fifth grader Ricky Thompson designed a key leu k for the on off switch on the family to set. He said he invented it because his 15-Ycar-old brother watches too much to and does t do his  Kristin Dickinson of Cameo Elemen tary re invented something that once was a laundry fixture a wringer mounted on a sink or Bathtub. My grandma has arthritis and could t wring out rags Kristin said. It s Good for Small kids  Nof fax exempt Don Johnson is Back on the Hook for a Vermont income tax Bill of More than $50.000. The state Senate s finance committee wednesday killed a provision of a new tax Law that would exempt entertainers from state income tax retroactive to Jan. 1, 1986, and applying to Johnson. The committee approved the exemption tuesday but 24 hours and dozens of Telephone Calls from angry constituents later the panel reversed itself. We realized we had been rather Hasty in this matter committee chair woman mar just Skinn Erington told her colleagues wednesday. The slate had billed the Miami vice Star for Money he earned in ver Mont while making the 1987 movie sweetheart s  backers of the exemption including gov. Madeleine Kunin said it would make filmmakers feel More Welcome in Vermont. Who believes what somebody believes Morton Downeyjr s account of a violent encounter with skinheads in a san Francisco Airport. I believe him Phil Donahue said tuesday during the recording of his show with the abrasive talk show Host As his guest. Downey told Donahue How he was attacked by skinheads who Cut his hair and Drew swastikas on his face. Police and Airport officials have suggested the incident was staged. Downey acknowledged rumours that his show May be cancelled because of the publicity surrounding the incident. Sure i m in professional jeopardy Downey said. And if i m lying i m in mental jeopardy and need a rubber  Nevada says they re married International Rock Star Jon Bon Jovi has married Dorothea Hurley a woman from his Hometown of Rumson n.j., according to officials of Clark county nov. Shown in a 1988 photo the two were married april 26 at the Graceland wedding Chapel in Las vegas nov., the officials said. The Rock Star s manager would not confirm the report. Smartness of senators a senator and a House representative waged verbal War wednesday Over whether a member of Congress is smart enough to match wits with the soviet military. The first Volley was lobbed by sen. James Exon a neb who criticized a Deci Sion by the House armed services com Mittee to hold hearings with soviet officials on crafting a . Defense budget. If the Congress can t make Deci Sions on National Security without Testi Mony and advice from soviet military planners then we arc in More peril than 1 had envisioned. To use an old wis Dom we have indeed met the enemy and it is us " said Exon a member of the Senate armed services committee. Shooting Back was rep. Los Aspin d-\vis., chairman of the House panel who said Exon apparently does t be Lieve senators can handle a Public give and take with soviet  Aspin announced monday that his panel would hold hearings with marshal Sergey Fakhr Omeyer former chief of the soviet general staff and now an adviser to Kremlin Leader Mik Hail Gorbachev sometime in june. That raised the ire of Exon who wondered Why Congress does t invite libyan Leader Moa mar Qadhafi to give us expert testimony on stopping  stars and stripes bookstores stars and stripes bookstores % America s #1 Catalon style a Complete selection of men a women s and children s apparel. Updated fashions 6 times a year so look to style for timely fashions plus a Broad assortment of Basic apparel needs and More. 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