European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 06, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday september 6,1989 crime does t pay but fast food firm does Conway Ark. A meals for prisoners in the City jail come from Mcdonald a but that s Justine for inmate Charles e. Wilson he won $1,000 in a promotion run by the fast food Chain. I be never won anything Wilson said monday. Wilson 33, of Brooksville. Fla. Is apparently the biggest local Winner in the National Mcdonald s in Stant Winner promotion in which game pieces Are peeled from soft drink cups said Bob Kennedy assistant manager of the Conway store. Wilson s chances of winning were 476,000-Lo-l, Kennedy said adding that the restaurant Sells about 1,000 drinks a Day each bearing a game piece. City officials said Wilson is apparently the Only prisoner in the jail to Ever win a fast food promo Tion. Wilson was arrested thursday and is awaiting extradition to Carthage mo., to face a charge of pos session of a controlled substance that was filed i february a spokesman for the Jasper county to sheriffs department said monday. The extradition which Wilson is not fighting should be Complete in a few Days officers said. On sunday night Wilson said he finished his meat and noticed the game piece on his soft drink cup. I was t paying any attention. I thought 1 might As Well pull it off it was something to do Wilson said. Thought maybe i d win a hamburger and they d pick me up an extra  however i pulled it off and said do Whatt i had to look at in a Bunch of times. I kept think ing instant Winner it s got to be $1,000," he said. It s pretty Good to be sitting in jail and win $1,000." Wilson asked a patrolman Lynn Carter to look at the game piece. It said bigger than life instant Winner of $ 1,000, " the patrolman said. The prisoner had a real big Grin on his face Carter said. He was just Short of jumping up and Down. As far As i m concerned it s his. He pulled it off the cup Carter said. I m quite sure there will be no controversy Over who la get it. He s in jail but you re still Happy for  Carter said a restaurant spokesman told him forms would have to be sent in to verify the win and allow Wilson to claim the prize Money. We told him if we had to we d handcuff him and take him up there Carter said. Needless to say he s real excited and Mcdonald s is  Kennedy said it might take up to eight weeks to process the prize claim. Too bad i won t get in in time for my lawyer Wilson said. Blood shortage forcing . To turn to european sources stateside new York up people in the United states arc becoming increasingly dependent on Europe As a source of blood for transfusions following surgeries accidents and cancer treatments a published report said tuesday. Imports of foreign blood supplies although still relatively Small Are increasing because the United states is no longer Able to meet All its blood transfusion needs from Domestic supplies the new York times reported tuesday. For some time regions of the United slates with a blood Supply surplus have shipped extra Stock to areas facing shortages. However in recent years surplus blood has not been sufficient to compensate for All shortages the times said. The new York area has been the greatest importer of european blood so far. Of the 12 million units of blood transfused in inc uni cd states each year about 280,000 arc imported from Europe including More than 250,000 units imported by manhattans new York blood cd . Most of the imports have come from West Germany and Switzerland bul those countries cannot increase their blood Export Levels so new York will soon begin importing from the Netherlands As Well the newspaper said. The Detroit area has also been using some imported supplies or. A. William Shafer executive director of the american red Cross Southeastern Michigan chapter told the times. Nelson Groh an official with the american red Cross in Washington told the times that his group projects it will import 30,000 units of blood from West Germany s bavarian Region this year. Those units will be distributed to Detroit Wasington d.c., and the Wilkes Barre and Scranton areas of Pennsylvania Groh said. Blood transfusions a critical part of american Medicine arc needed by about 2 percent of americans each year. In recent years demand for blood has risen while the number of americans who donate blood has remained steady at about 6 percent of the population the times said. Approximately 40 percent of the population is Eligi ble to donate blood. A decline in Community spirit in Many regions and the expense of collecting blood arc the Mam Factor contributing to the decrease in Domestic supplies the newspaper said. In some instances importing blood supplies from Europe is less expensive than collecting blood domestically. For instance the new York blood Center pays$57 for every unit of blood it collects in Europe com pared to $75 per unit for Domestic supplies. In the Early 1980s, when disclosures that the aids virus could be transmitted through blood transfusions appeared blood donations dropped by about 10 per cent in the new York area. Or. John Adamson of the new York blood Center told the times. However blood donations in the new York area have begun to increase although homosexual men another people with a High risk of developing aids arc asked not to Volunteer blood Adamson said. Bakker s prison treatment unfair minister tells evangelist s followers Orlando Fla. A a minister told a gather ing of Jim Bakker s followers that the evangelist has endured unfair treatment in a prison psychiatric Wing including strip searches Handcuffs and denial of toilet paper. A prison official confirmed tuesday morning that Bakker had been handcuffed and strip searched but said he was Given toilet paper. No matter what he has or has not done it is unfair to give him that Type of treatment when he asked to go to the Hospital the Rev. Roy Hathern told More than 100 people sunday in Bakker s Orlando to Stu Dio. . District judge Robert Potter suspended Bak Ker s fraud and conspiracy trial thursday and committed the pal founder to the Federal correctional institution in Butner n.c., for psychiatric evaluation after hearing testimony from or. Basil Jackson Bakker s psychiatrist that the evangelist had suffered a breakdown Potter told jurors in Charlotte n.c., that he did not know How Long the trial would be delayed. Jackson said monday from Milwaukee that he was told Butner officials had stepped up their evaluation of Bakker. If that s True then it s conceivable one of their male professor rebuffed in Effort to join society Oswego . A a male College professor attempt to join an exclusive women educators society has been rejected on a technicality. . District judge Howard Munson said Harold Nash s motion for summary judgment on the society s admission policies cited Laws applicable to employers and not to private groups Munson dismissed the motion and halted at least people could come Back into court tuesday or wednesday to certify that he s ready to come Back into trial he said. Harthern said he spoke to Bakk cys wife Tammy Faye by Telephone shortly before the service began about her visits to her husband at the prison. Tammy s concern is that Jim s constitutional rights arc and have been violated said Harthern adding that Bakker wears prison garb is held in a cell with a Concrete floor and at first was denied toilet paper and a Pillow. Brian Bledsoc a spokesman at Butner declined to comment tuesday on the Progress of the evaluation. But he confirmed some of mrs. Bakker s account say ing that Bakker was handcuffed during her visits and was strip searched afterwards. When he leaves the unit and goes for visits. That is Standard operating procedure for that unit Bledsoc said. But Bledsoc said Bakker did have toilet paper in his prison cell. Bakker was not Given a Pillow his first night there the spokesman said. It s Standard in All these cases to first observe a person and observe his condition before giving them something they May Hurt themselves with he said. Said she would refill the motion. Nash an education professor at the state University of new York s Oswego Campus said the group has rejected his applications because of his sex. Neither men nor women can have it both ways these Days Nash said. It seems to me that applying was the reasonable thing to do in the spirit of equal  soviet student takes aim at . College degree Atlanta not an 18-Ycar-old soviet woman who will Start classes at Emory University this week is apparently the first soviet citizen to seek a degree from an american College. The woman Olga Grushin arrived in the United states Over the  is the first soviet individual to pursue a full american degree said Gregory Gurin director of the president s initiative on exchanges at the . Information  s Case Breaks All precedent said or. Ellen Mickiewicz a professor of political science at Emory who nominated Grushin for a full scholarship. There have been soviet citizens who have studied in this country for a year or for a semester with exchanges and now it seems that the time has come to have a soviet enrol As a Normal  Columbia University offered admission and a scholarship to another soviet student Anna Meytina of Leningrad in 1987, but she had to give up her soviet citizenship to accept the offer. Beacon finally goes out of name of Wichita paper Wichita Kan. A the Wichita Eagle Beacon is now the Wichita Eagle laying to rest a newspaper name that survived nearly 117 years. With the sunday editions the newspaper dropped the word Beacon from its name. Its publishing company retains its corporate name the Wichita Eagle and Beacon publishing co. Inc. We re not changing the name. We re shortening the name said executive editor Davis Mernett or. If we were changing it to the Gazette or something i Punk that would cause a stir. And it should. We re just drop Ping the name of a newspaper that has t existed for nine  Wichita Beacon which like the Eagle was founded in 1872, was last published As a separate afternoon newspaper in october 1980. Reid Ash publisher of the Knight Ridder  newspaper said a question about possibly Chan Ging the name was included in a recent Reader poll. Almost no one said they cared. So we think it s a Safe and sensible change he said