European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes f thursday september 7,1989 Flag is top priority at legion convention by the Baltimore Sun Baltimore the american legion convention opened tuesday with an emotional Issue the american hag. By an overwhelming voice vote thou Sands of legionnaires assembled in the cavernous convention Center passed a Resolution calling for a constitutional ban on desecration of the Flag. Then they filed upstairs to a specially prepared 80 line Telephone Bank and called their representatives in Washington. For one Day at least expressions of concern for the Sanctity of the Flag Over whelmed such issues As declining fund ing for a hospitals the effect of agent Orange and the status of servicemen missing in action. The Flag is lop  said Thom As Mcney. A 56-year-old korean War vet eran from Philadelphia. A third floor room had been converted into a phone Bank Complete with photocopied lists of congressional phone numbers fact sheets on the Flag Issue and 80 telephones set to Call Washington. Organizers said they expected to log sever Al thousand phone Calls to the politicians by wednesday. What docs America mean what rep resents America it s the Flag not a a Hospital Mcney said. We fought to represent the Flag not one state or another state. We want this Flag  minutes earlier thousands of Assem bled veterans had loudly voiced the same opinion. They cheered and applauded As the chairman of the legion s american ism committee Gary Sammons. Read resolutions that condemned both the despicable Chicago Art Institute Stu Dent who put a Flag on the floor As Art and Gregory Lee Johnson the communist who burned the Flag at the demo cratic National convention in 1984. The main Resolution called for a constitutional amendment to protect the Flag which the legion called a Beacon of Hope to the oppressed Peoples of  the motion was seconded by Dan o Connor of new York who said that the american people were tired of letting some Coconut or some stupid Crackpot or even some intellectual jackasses Igno rant beyond common sense mutilate the Flag without punishment. There were no dissenting no votes. High school offers offer prizes of of Safe stud ends Milwaukee a an inner City High school i offering lottery prizes including a 1984 Pontiac sunbird to students who improve their grades avoid absences and Don t get detentions. Officials say the unique approach being implemented this week at North division High school should provide motivation for Good grades and  want to reach a special group of students and encourage them to come to school said Milwaukee county sheriff Richard artison organizer of the pro Gram. The prizes offered in the lotto Are tangible with immediate benefits but the benefits one receives by attending school Are  a student can qualify by raising his or her average by 0.25 of a Point and have a Grade Point average above 1.0. There also must be no Home room or class absences and no detentions in a six week grading period. Honor Roll students those with an average of 3.0 or higher arc automatically included. Every six weeks the school will announce the win ners of various prizes such As watches bicycles and radios. A drawing for the major prize a car is to be held twice a year. The Pontiac was donated by a car dealer. Titan ii launched successfully Vandenberg fab. Calif. A a Titan ii rocket carrying a classified satellite was Sucic fully launched from this coastal base an air Force spokes Man said. The space Booster took off at 6 48 . Tuesday from the Western space and missile Center 150 Miles Northwest of los Angeles said master sgt. Bruce Ziels Dorf. Other details of the Mission were not released. Retracing Earhart s route australian flier Nhy Kennard gestures at the Hatchl son kan., Airport tuesday As she describes the flight she s embarking on. Kennard plans to retrace former Atchison resident Amelia Earhart s route in her Effort to Fly around the world. Earhart vanished Over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. Paperwork launched to give inmate his lottery win Conway Ark. A a prisoner who won  in a restaurant promo Tion was escorted to the Post office in Handcuffs tuesday to mail paperwork to receive his prize. Police spokesman Kerry Pool said one person complained that inmate Charles e. Wilson was not entitled to the Money since the taxpayers bought the meal that enabled him to  but most people were Happy for Wil son who is being held for extradition to face a drug charge in Missouri Pool said. Mayor David Kinley agreed i thought it was great usually it s some Rich dude that wins the Money in a con test like that not someone in need like this  Wilson 33, who was arrested last week while hitchhiking had finished munching on a jail provided Mcdon Ald s fish Sandwich and French Fries Sun Day night when he decided to Peel a game piece from his coca cola. I thought maybe i d win a hamburger and they d pick me up an extra one Wilson said. However i pulled it off and said do what it s pretty Good to be silting in jail and win $1,000," Wilson said monday. A Mcdonald s spokesman said Wilson s Chance of winning was 476,000 to 1. Officers fetched paperwork for Wilson to redeem the prize Pool said. But the prisoner had to sign in person to Send the game piece to Mcdonald s by registered mail so he was escorted to the postal counter a Block from the jail Pool said. The Check is going to be mailed to his Mother in Illinois since or. Wilson does t know what his Home address is going to be for awhile Pool said. Wilson paid his own postage Pool said. After signing the forms Wilson was taken to the Faulkner county jail since the City jail is a Short term holding facility Pool said. He was expected to have a hearing thursday he said. Unlike the City jail which sends out to Mcdonald s for All prisoner meals the county jail docs its own cooking. 14 crammed into car survive 70-foot plunge by the los Angeles times Compton Calif. In what authorities describe As a Miracle 14 people jammed into a car survived a70-foot plunge into a gravel pit with most suffering Only minor injuries. A 1971 Oldsmobile carrying three adults and ii Chil Dren careened off a Road in complot a suburb of Losangeles and Down into the 70-foot-deep Rock Quarry about 9 20 . Monday after the Driver swerved to avoid hitting another car that had abruptly darted in front of the Oldsmobile detective Michael Markey of the Compton police department said tuesday. Markey said no one in the Olds Delta 98 was Wear ing a scat Belt when it went off the Road. It s a Miracle that nobody was seriously Hurt Markey said. I m really surprised. The car did t Roll Over either. It just went Down and landed on All four  five of the victims were hospitalized in stable to fair condition at Martin Luther King  Hospital in los Angeles. Vanessa Burns a 34ryearold passenger from comp ton suffered the worst injuries ankle and Jawbone Frac Tures said King Hospital spokeswoman Paula Wauls. Burns was listed in stable condition. A 6-Ycar-old girl was treated at and released from King Drew. Another five victims including the Driver Geneva White were taken to Harbor University of California los Angeles medical Center. White 32, of Lynwood suffered scratches and minor Back injuries Markey said. She was listed in fair condition. The third adult. Deborah Gatson 34, also of Compton was listed in fair condition at Harbor Urcla with minor cuts. The other victims also were listed in stable to fair condition. Three other victims were treated at and released from the Domingucz medical Center. Spokesmen for the hospitals would not release the identities of the children aged 9 months to 16 years old