European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday May 16, 1989 this mom s gift being freed from elevator new York a a woman out for a pre Molher s Day dinner was trapped in an elevator for 21 hours where she said she prayed cried and even ined esp before writing out her will on 50 business cards. Finally. Debby Mel said she knew help was on the Way when she heard her i 5-year-old son calling her. I m lying Down in the elevator cry ing and crying and i hear this. Voice saying. Mommy Mommy. Mommy Vav Hon of hear a kid s voice Mommy on Mother s Day. You thank  one said. Mel. 39, of Manhattan was taken out to a restaurant saturday night by her twin Sisler. Gerry who always treats her to a pc Mother s Day dinner. When the restaurant was unable to find her aspirin for her headache. Metz left to Sec if she could find some Al her show Dom a Block away where she de signs corporate gifts such As key rings and smocks. When the elevator door in the office building closed the Light shut off and the elevator failed to move. After praying crying exercising and trying to Contact her sister through esp. Met finally wrote out her will on her business cards because she had no other paper. My sister and my son finally went through my entire apartment and found an extra set of keys to my office building and my son had a vibe that i was locked in the elevators she said by Telephone from her Hospital bed sunday. They finally got Over there around 3 o clock this  she was rescued by police and paramedics and admitted to St. Clare s Hospital in Good condition but suffer ing from dehydration and a 100-Dcgrcc fever. Metz also bloodied her Knuckles push ing inc emergency Bell and broke her watchband banging on the elevator door. I m going up in the elevator to get an aspirin because i have a headache and then i have to listen to this alarm for 20 hours she said. Her sister had waited in the restau rant for two hours thinking she d got Busy with business Calls and then strolled by the office building. The door was locked so she went Home and called her Nephew. The boy had t seen his Mother either so at about Midnight they started calling hospitals and walk ing the streets looking for her Metz said. Once they found the keys to her of fice building and realized she  the elevator they called police to get her out. Ecu said police were unable to Fig ure out Why the elevator got stuck. Mat counts contestant gave a Stock answer and won stateside pet Wolf freaks out mauls son of its owner Washington a overcoming bad lighting and computer problems. 13-year-old Albert Kurz of Holland. Pa., became the nation s sixth mat counts Champion by calculating the Price of a Stock. 1 be finals in the Junior High school math Competition sponsored by Nasa the National society of professional engineers and other organizations capped nine months of local and stale contests entered by More than 700.000 students. A local of 224 male whizzes All but 30 of them boys made it to the countdown rounds in Washington. As the Winner Kurz lakes Home a $10.000 scholarship a Gold medal and a personal computer. He will also spend a week at the . Space Camp in Huntsville ala., and on monday he was to meet president Bush. Lenny no of Chapel Hill. N.c., and Robert Klein Berg of Wales Center ., the second and third place finishers received scholarships of $6,000 and $4.000. Respectively. They will also visit the space Camp As will no s three colleagues on the top scoring mate team from North Carolina. No calculators Are Permil cd in the Competition. Students use Pencil paper and their minds to figure out the problems. The 10 finalists viewed problems on computer monitors and punched by cars to indicate that they a Cre read with answers sometimes even before the master of ceremonies had started Reading the problem to the Audi ence. There were a number of tense moments some be cause the lighting made it hard to see who had hit his Buer. And the last round was delayed by a computer malfunction. Kur fended off All challengers with lightning fast answers to questions such As the Diagonal of a cube is inc Square Root of 27. What is the volume and if y equals x minus 2. For what value of x will y attain its maximum value the answers 27 and 2. The winning problem posed the following question the Price of a Stock increased 10 percent and then decreased 10 percent before it was sold for $99. What was the original Price of the Slock Kur gave inc Correct answer of $100. I spent nights from 3 . To 10 . Studying and it really paid off Kurz said after his Victory. When asked How he could figure problems so quickly he replied i can t do them on paper because my hand s Loo shaky to write. I Don t know i just do  up male counts inner Albert Kur. Talks to reporters. Kurz said his Mother is a housewife and his father a civil Engineer. He said his hobbies include basketball pingpong and computer games. Matici Hunts is described As the Only National math coaching and Competition program Lor Junior High Schof students. It is designed to stimulate students int com in math before they must make course Deci Sion thai May affect their career choices. York a the Mother of a 3-year-old boy mauled by her pet Wolf said she thought the Ani Mal was docile. I think it was an Accident. The dog freaked Oul and the baby got  said Susan Rajinski. Timothy Rajinski remained in critical but stable condition sunday in the paediatric intensive care unit at Staten Island Hospital. An examination of the wolfs remains indicated that the animal did not carry rabies the health depart ment said sunday. The boy was attacked saturday afternoon while alone in his Mother s backyard said police spokesman sol. Pete Berry. Police did not know what caused the animal to attack. Bill Mann a Friend of the child s Mother beat the animal to death with a Bat. Rajinski said she got the  Wolf part husky from a Friend three weeks ago because her Friend s neighbors complained about its howling. Prisoners locked Down during Power failure la Orange. By. A an unexplained Power failure left several buildings Al Kentucky state reformatory without electricity for a Day. But there were no problems reported among the 1.500 inmates officials said sunday. Prison spokeswoman Kathy Mcdaniel said various buildings in the prison Complex began experiencing periodic Power failures saturday afternoon. At 7 30 . Every thing went Oul she said. Liy that time inmates at he prison near Louisville had been fed so All were sent Back to their living quart ers for a  two softball players in  Killed by lightning Randolph  A lightning struck and killed two members of a softball team As they sought shelter under a tree during a thunderstorm authorities said. The lightning which struck on sunday afternoon. Also injured four people who were released from a Hospital after treatment authorities said. Killed were Harry Nelsonjr. 30. Of Salamanca and Terry Tislau 29, of North Warren pa., authorities said. 22,000 los Angeles teachers going on strike los Angeles a the Union representing 22,000 teachers called a strike monday Over salary demands and classroom control a move that will Cre ate chaos for 600,000 students in the final weeks of school. The education process will come to a Complete Hall said Don Schrack spokesman for the teachers Union United teachers los Angeles. The first picket lines formed at about 2 . Mon Day when about 30 teachers marched in front of District warehouses in an attempt to Block teamsters Union Drivers from delivering food later in the morn ing. For too Long teachers and students have been at the end of the pecking line i Sicad of at the front where they should be said one of the pickets Leo Hilda Brand. A fifth Grade teacher at Garvan a elementary school. Last minute talks in the nation s second largest pub Lic school system failed to resolve longstanding differences resulting in the Call for the City s first teachers strike in 19 years. Among the issues was the demand of the teachers fora 21-percent  hike Over two years. We arc talking Back and Forth All the time and proposing what if whal if " said Wayne Johnson president of the Union. I think we will keep pushing but it May take More time than we be  Board of education president Roberta Wintraub. Speaking for the majority on a deeply divided school Board said the District would not Budge from whal she Ler Mcd one of the Best contract offers for teachers in inc nation. The lines on this Issue have been clearly drawn. And the Ball is in the Union s court she said. The strike deadline was pushed up two weeks from May 30 to May 15, when superintendent Leonard Brillon refused to authorize  for Ica Chers who failed to turn in final grades. About 500 hastily hired substitutes and another 500 administrators with leaching credentials lined up to teach the District s 594,000 students. Five weeks remain before inc summer vacation and the strike  to create havoc at the schools w Ith High absenteeism and urge and unruly class rooms and with students final grades determined by substitutes. We arc really hoping we can keep our schools open As safely As possible and to thai end of course the District will be working night and Day Wintraub said