European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 08, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes monday january 8.1990 faces n places Lafe Parade does f defer mummers from wire reports thousands of mummers strutted and swished in feathers and sequins to shouts of Happy new year on saturday during their better late than never Parade in Gold painted shoes. The mummers usually stage their annual March on new year s Day but nigh winds forced postpone ment this year. The 12-hour Parade in Philadelphia Drew 20,000 mummers and a crowd of at least 40,000, police said. In keeping with the traditional theme song of dem Golden slippers most mummers wore Gold painted shoes As they bobbed and swayed in elaborate costumes. Mummers Joe Fieger 60, and Joe Bryson 56. Wore yellow dresses and twirled parasols during their Soth year As participants. Fifteen years ago i made a Promise to him that if he marched i would March Fieger said. What Idin t know was i might end up carrying  world s oldest human Jackson Pollard of Milledgeville ga., claims he was born on Christmas Day in 1866, which would make him 123 years old and according to the Guin Ness Book of world records the oldest living human. Georgia s coordinator of mental health services for the aging. Alyce Friend has mailed guinness in formation she believes backs Pollard s claim. Friend said guinness editors have expressed inter est in Pollard although Pollard himself is indifferent to the Honor. I m still living because god wants me to live. That s All he said. The social Security administration already con siders Pollard the oldest recipient of benefits Al though they list his birthrate As 1867. In 1986, gov. Joe Frank Harris honoured him with a proclamation congratulating him on his 120th birthday. New Anthem proposed of say can you sing the National Anthem most people can to says a congressman from Indi Ana who wants to scrap the Star spangled Banner As the nation s official song in favor of the less Strain ing America the  rep. Andrew Jacobs also says the poem penned by Francis Scott key after american troops repelled British forces at Baltimore s fort Mchenry in 1814 is unsuitable because it celebrates War and because the tune s origin is an old drinking song and an English one to Boot. Jacobs introduction of a Bill to make the change is nothing new. The Democrat has introduced the Bill getting a Long ago feeling Huntley Malone gets the feel of a 1815-Era Long Rifle at she and some of her classmates visit the site of the Battle of new Orleans. Juliana Wade Liefl and Bill Grisham talk with the visiting children during the first Day of festivities commemorating the 175-year old Battle against the British. Nine times in 12 years without gaining any appreciable support. It s not a burning Issue in my  Jacobs said. Man is dog s beef Friend a great Dane named miss Olca will be around for a while longer to guide her legally Blind master after the elderly Man saved her life. Joe Kerrell followed a veterinarian s instructions Over the Telephone when the 6-Ycar-old dog collapsed at the Home they share in Perdido key Fla. I was ready to cry-1 did cry said the 83-year-old Kerrell. She s my bosom  Kerrell called or. Cliff Owen a veterinarian in near by Pensacola after miss Olga fell to the door an stopped breathing. Owen instructed Kerrell to locate the dog s heart and press firmly. Kerrell pumped the dog s Chest for 20 minutes until Owen  was dead and or. Owen said i brought her Back Kerrell said. I could t get along without her. 1 think this is the most wonderful thing that Ever happened to  spoof gets a new life Carh Cnoc the junk car sculpture that spoofs eng land s prehistoric Stone henge has a better Chance of survival because of a City Council Vole in Alliance neb. The tourist attraction was threatened because its creator never fully complied with a special use per Mit granted when he built it outside this Northwestern Nebraska town in 1987, officials said. The City Council voted recently to exempt the 10.6-Acrc site from the City zoning boundaries. Coun Cilman Mike Dafney said by adjusting the Boundary the City dissociates itself from Carh Cnoc built by James a cinders of  sculpture consists of old car bodies arranged in a likeness of the famed Stone henge in England. Tower of Pisa closed nearly 3,000 tourists and local italian citizens flocked to climb the Tower of Pisa on saturday be fore its scheduled closure to the Public for the first time on record in 800  famous White Marble Bell Tower was scheduled to be closed to the Public at 2 30 . Sunday because the ministry of Public works ruled it was a danger to Public  of Pisa Giacomino Granchi ended weeks of wrangling with Rome authorities dec. 15, by agreeing to close the Tower. Dear Abby Pur Mother has gone from a Loving caring wife Mother and grandmother to a mean vindictive bitter woman. I am one of five children. Our parents raised us All in a Loving Home not poor not Rich. All five of us Are healthy and successful and have wonderful families. One would think our Mother would be proud and grateful for such a Loving family. She s not. There is nothing Good about life now. The problem our father was diagnosed eight months ago with alzheimer a and although he still has most of his faculties the disease is stalling to Progress. This has been a terrible blow to All of us and we realize that it has been a Strain on our Mother. Mother s Altitude toward dad frightens us. She resents him and treats him badly refusing to take him places when she knows he can t drive refusing to take walks with him when she knows he needs the exercise refusing to prepare the foods he likes and criticizing everything he attempts to do. We have offered to hire someone to come in and help but she refuses our offers. Dear Abby we have offered to stay with dad so she can get out but she refuses to leave the House. When our father s illness was diagnosed we pre pared ourselves to Deal with him. But How do we Deal with her have any of your readers found thai the caregiver sometimes needs Tient a More help than the alzheimer a the kids dear kids you arc right. It s possible that your Mother needs More help than your father. To find an alzheimer s support Kroup n Vur area or to get a free informative Booklet Send a postcard with your name and address to alzheimer s disease and related disorders association . Box 567s, department a Chicago Iii. 60680-5o7s. A final thought when a Loving caring person suddenly becomes mean vindictive and bitter there could be a physical reason. I urge you to put your Mother in the hands of a physician if possible one who specializes in geriatrics. Good Luck dear Abby please Clear up a family disagreement for me. I am inc Mother of identical twins. My husband s great aunt had twins and my in Laws arc sure that it is the male that determines twins. I have always been under the impression that the female determines the number of children in one pregnancy. Abby being a twin yourself maybe you can set me straight so i can explain this to my twins when they Are older. Twice As confused  twin k according Lodr. Ronald s. Ostrowski our genetics expert lie male determines the sex of the child but inthe Case of multiple births twins triplets quadruplets quintuplets Etc the credit goes to the maternal Side of the family. Interestingly enough Sisters of twins Are More Likely to produce twins. Brothers Are not but their daughters Are More Likely to have twins. Are you still with me the Bottom line multiple births Are hereditary on the Mother s Side. Confidential to you the ultimate in bad manners is to look at your watch while someone is  Forbes mag Azine c a Vertal press