European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday september 16,1989 contest is All wet Diane Willis grimaces As she comes up with a hand Ful of water while Doug Ruf Crry makes a catch Dur ing a water balloon tossing contest this week in Indi Anapolis. Local television reporters and news anchors competed in the wet v wild contest to help kick off an area United Way drive. Bush reaffirms opposition to weapons ban Washington a president Bush on Friday lamented the horrible loss of life when a Man Withan assault Rifle went on a rampage in a Louisville ky., printing Plant but said he still opposes legislation to ban such weapons. If you have somebody who is deranged and i Don t want to prejudice this poor soul but if he was de ranged. 1m afraid you re going to have incidents like this Bush said. In a luncheon interview with out of town reporters the president was asked what he would say to the families of the victims of thursday s rampage by a Man who used an ak-47 assault Rifle and other weapons to shoot 20 of his former co workers killing seven of them and himself. I would Tell them i feel horrible about the loss of life i would Tell them we must do everything we can to enforce Laws hat arc already on the books Bush replied. The president has banned the import of foreign made assault rifles into the United states including the chinese made ak-47. However Possession of the weapon is not a Federal offence and Bush has taken no Steps toward proposing curbs on manufacture of such weapons in the United states. Bush answered a wide Range of questions with a group of reporters after a luncheon in the state dining room. On his anti drug plan he said he was ready to bar gain with the democratic led Congress to conic up with a Compromise that will fund the program. Bush also acknowledged that overlapping responsibilities and missions of various Law and drug enforce ment agencies sometimes interfered with effective enforcement. He said that his drug policy director William j. Bennett was working on better coordination to try to Cope with the bureaucratic Competition that exists. 1 can t Tell you we be got it whipped i can Tell you we be made the president reiterated his decision not to press for a tax increase to help pay for his War on drugs. A tax increase would be counterproductive he said. Wag of a sea dog honoured for War exploits Barnegat Light . A sinbad was a hard drinking old Salt a legendary Sailor promoted for battling German a boats and court Martiale for being three sheets to the wind with his snout in the Gutter. Mongrel or not sinbad the k9 Sailor was a Lucky Charm for Crew mates aboard the . Coast guard Cutter Campbell which faced numerous world War ii Bat Les without a single loss of life. On Friday sailors from almost a dozen Stales gathered around their com Rade s Seaside grave to Honor him with laps and a Headstone placed atop the coast guard s most famous dog 38 years after his was As much a member of the Crew As any one of said George Furth. A Veteran from Lakehurst who served with sinbad. He was there for All the Battles and he was there for All the drinking he sailed the seven at their first reunion in 1986, sinbad s human companions got the idea of Hon Oring sinbad. They mulled it Over and finally finished the memorial this year. Sinbad served aboard the Campbell for 77 dog years from 1937 until he was retired in 1948 to a coast guard station along the new Jersey Shore. He had his own bunk and personnel file where his exploits were documented along with his promotions and demotions. He would appear at Roll Call with life jacket in Mouth dropping it to bark his reply when his name was yelled his Best friends remembered. But what stands out most about sinbad was that he lived a dog s life like a True Sailor. He was found in the Bronx one Day passed out in a Gutter said Nicholas sle Pich a former gun Captain aboard the Campbell. He was totally inebriated. Woman saw his const guard lag and called us and we sent a jeep out to gel him. Then we had to Send another jeep to get the Guy who was supposed to pick u p sinbad. We figured the two got into a drink ing in the taverns near the Navy Yards in new York City s Brooklyn Borough and Boston s old Scollay Square sinbad would hop atop the bar Stool and Woof Down a few whiskers with Beer chasers St catch Sailor s dog talks were documented in a 1943 life Maga inc article that was condensed in Reader s digest. Universal pictures made a War years documentary on the plucky Pooch an when we showed it at our reunion there was t a dry eve in the place Stepich said. Drinking like a St. Bernard however did not come without its Price to the barrel chested Mutt. Sinbad made chief dog. The highest rank the animal could attain in the coastguard and the Crew partied till Dawn. But a few Drunken binges had him busted Back to dog first he retired however sinbad went out top dog mostly for his bravery and for keeping the Crew Safe. The idea was that nothing would Hap pen to anyone while sinbad was aboard Stepich said. We had a few men wounded but nobody killed. Even today i begin to wonder How that sinbad s closest Brush came when the Campbell took on six German a boats. The coast guard ship rammed and sunk the last of the enemy vessels but bobbed powerless in the sea for three Days afterword. About 100 men stayed aboard along with sinbad. As the Campbell its engine room flooded was towed perilously Back to main thoughts were that you were pretty much closer to god than at any Lime in your life Stepich said. God and pulitzer winning author Robert Penn Warren Dies Warren Stratton it. A Robert Penn Warren win Ner of three pulitzer prizes for fic Tion and poetry rooted in his native South and the nation s first poet laureate died Early Friday at his summer Home. He was 84. His wife author Eleanor Clark told a family Friend that Warren died in the Middle of the night. A local doctor was with him As Well As Clark and their daughter Rosanna. Andrew King a family Friend who is also the town clerk and treasurer said Warren had been suffering from cancer for three years. Warren had been writing right up until this summer Kin said. He was one of truly All around men who made great contributions in All Fields. He was a great poet Fine teacher and did something to revolutionize the modes of teaching literature said Cleanth Brooks who with Warren developed what came to be known As the new Brooks also called Warren a wonderful Man and a wonderful born in Guthrie ky., on april 24. 1905, Warren grew up hearing tales of the civil War from his two grandfathers who had both been Confederate soldiers. But he lived the last three decades of his life in new England. The novel All the King s men was Warren s greatest Success in fic Tion. It won the pulitzer prize in 1947 and became an Academy award win Ning motion picture. He said it was not about Huey Long but about the myth of the swaggering populist governor of Louisiana. Warren was the first Winner of pulitzer prizes in both poetry and fiction. The poetry prizes came in 1957 for promises poems 1954-1956," and in 1979 for now and then poems 1976-1978," his other awards include the presidential medal of Freedom the nation Al medal for literature and the Gold medal for poetry from the american Academy and Institute of arts and let ters. He was also among the first recipients of the Macarthur foundation unrestricted Genius he was appointed poet laureate in 1986, assuming a largely ceremonial title that Congress had tacked on to the Post of consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress. Funeral arrangements were pending
