European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 04, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes sunday february 4,1990 faces a places parents be suspicious of straight a report cards from wire reports Waterbury conn., school officials arc warning parents to closely inspect their children s report cards after a youngster persuaded a clerk to hand Over a stack of Blank report cards. Officials say the heist happened when someone identifying herself As a High school teacher called the City s general accounting office and said she needed 65 Blank report cards. A teen age girl then showed up at the office and announced "1m Here to pick up the report  a clerk handed Over a Slack of Blank report cards. School superintendent Guy Diblasio advised parents that All official report cards Bear the names of the mayor the City clerk and the comptroller. Cards without the names May be part of what Dibiasio is calling  partridges stay out officials arc hoping that a Good tree trimming will do what inflatable snakes Poison Corn Christmas lights and a Sticky coating for tree limbs could not do keep Birds out of the Pear Trees in Saltwater okla. City  Carl Weinaug said the Community has spent thousands of dollars during the past four years to make Birds fed unwelcome. Now the City commission has approved a proposal by Winfrey Houston of a downtown merchants group that the 47 Trees be trimmed significantly tomake them unattractive to the Pear pests. Although the Trees May be unattractive to people for a Short time Houston said that was a belter alter native than 10 gel rid of the Trees. The Trees height will be slashed nearly in half to about 12 feet. As a More permanent solution the Board voted to lest Dwarf Pear Trees. Mother knows Best actress Singer Belle Midler won t let her 3-year old daughter. Sophie watch television cat junk food or stay up Laic because she does t want her to be jaded at 8." i be got to say we re on the pompous Side she said of herself and her husband Harry Kipper in a interview in Usa weekend. Al first. I thought. Well gee everyone s going to think i m a Jerk and then i thought i Don t care what they think i want her to have a foundation in things the world considers Good and artful she said. Midler said she nixed television because the program Ming is Loo violent and the commercials arc too sexual. The divine miss a whose fashion sense leans heavily toward the outrageous says she also plans to Send her offspring to a school where uniforms arc required. I be had enough of these trendy  she said. Hiz Zoner for a Day for just $20. You can be mayor for a Day at Wray Colo. The Power and prestige of governing this North Eastern Colorado town of 2.200 is available for a $20 donation to the Wray rehabilitation and activities Center. You Don t have to be a resident to qualify. More than 60 Days have been sold said Mike Wisdom head of the recreation Board. Mostly peo ple arc buying their  he said. Getting ready soccer legend Pale practices some Steps with a member of Rio de Janeiro dance group As he prepares for Brazil s carnival season which will begin on feb. 24. Dan Wisdom a Navy officer in Hawaii and the Board chiefs brother purchased the mayor s duties wednesday and declared it Pat your neighbor on the Back  Lee Remick honoured Lee Remick who played Jack Lommon s alcoholic wife in the 1963 film Days of wine and roses for which both actors were nominated for Academy awards has been chosen to receive the Jack Lem Mon award for her contribution to performing arts. The award created in 1988 by Boston s Wang enter for performing arts is presented annually for outstanding contribution to the performing arts by a current or former resident of Massachusetts. The first award was Given to Yoyo a the cellist. Remick a Boston native and a pan time resident of Cape cod also has received six Golden Globe nominations and five mentions for emmy awards. Lemmon. Who was born in Andover has won iwo Academy awards. Message from country fan country music fan George Bush has taped Brief remarks that will be aired March 7 on Cable television s the Nashville network the Tennessee based station said tuesday. The president s one minute comment taped in the White House will be broadcast during a two hour special honouring the station s seventh anniversary spokeswoman Nancy Neil said. Bush appeared on the network s Nashville now music interview show when he was vice president in 1988.More than 70 country music stars will appear on the anniversary show. He could t wait for jury if Michael Leonard Jackson had waited a few min utes More he could have walked out of court a free Man. Bui he did t wait and he is now a wanted Man. Jackson 26, of Pensacola fin., left the Escamila county judicial Center Jan. 24 just before jurors found him innocent of burglary and theft. Circuit judge Nickolas Geeker ordered his arrest last week for failure to appear in  and his lawyer Gary sullies had returned to the courtroom after being told the jurors would announce their verdict momentarily. The lawyer said that before the judge and jury filed into the court room Jackson asked if he could go to a snack bar in the building to get his Girlfriend. When he went downstairs he did not return sullies said. Cop cough robbing Bank a policeman who worked in the burglary division held up a Bank himself but was captured when iwo bystanders chased him Down authorities in Helsinki . The 27-year-old officer was supposed to be on duty at the Lime police  said the officer whom they did not identify by name robbed the Post office Bank in suburbans poo wednesday with a civilian accomplice. The officer tried to flee alone in an unmarked police car. But two bystanders hopped into their own car an chased him. They caught up wild him several Miles away and blocked his vehicle the authorities said. The policeman fired three shots at his pursuers with his revolver but no one was Hurt. Police declined to say How much Money was stolen but said it was All recovered. First lady fond of Jane Jane Fonda a longtime favorite target of conserva Tive politicians can count a Republican among her admirers. First lady Barbara Bush praised the actress former portrayal of a woman who teaches an adult illiterate in her new movie Stanley &  she believed the film gave a Good depiction of the Laubach method of teaching Reading says Bush s press Secretary Anna pen1/.Bush Speaks frequently on the topic of literacy and promotes pro literacy groups. In the movie Fonda caches a Brilliant inventor played by Robert de Niro to read. Dear readers if you re holding a grudge Don feel guilt. Many of us Are. But you need not hold it forever. And now would be the Ideal time to Bury the Hatchet. Did you know that there is an International forgiveness week Well neither did i until two years ago Hen Alice Parent of Fresno calif., wrote to Tell me about it. It takes place in late january or Early february. This year it is from feb. S through feb. 11. So be a sweetheart and forgive somebody. Or perhaps it s you who needs to be forgiven. Robert Muller former assistant Secretary general of the United nations wrote this Beautiful piece for inter National forgiveness week decide to forgive decide to forgive for resentment is negative. Resentment diminishes and devours the self. Be the first to forgive. To smile and to take the first step. And you will Sec happiness Bloom on the face of your human brother or sister. Dear Abby be a ways inc first do not wait for others to forgive. For by forgiving you become the master of Fate. The fashioned of life. The doer of miracles. To forgive is the highest. Most Beautiful form of love. In return you will receive untold peace and happiness. Here is the program for achieving a truly forgiving heart sunday forgive yourself monday forgive your family. Tuesday forgive your friends and associates. Wednesday forgive across economic lines within your own nation. Thursday forgive across cultural lines within your own nation. Friday forgive across political lines within your own nation. Saturday forgive other nations. Only the Brave know How to forgive. A Coward never forgives. It is not in his nature. Many years ago . Before column found this particularly poignant description of forgiveness by George Roemisch forgiveness is the fragrance of the Violet which still clings fast to the Heel that has crushed  dear Abby my daughter who is 14, baby sits often and is paid More and More often by Check instead of Cash. I Fin this maddening since it Means she s unable to have the Cash in her pocket until i make a trip to the Bank if Haven t the Cash in my Wallet. I Seldom have reason logo to the Bank and it s a nuisance to make a special trip each time she baby sits. My request is that parents who hire baby Sitters put aside the Cash to pay their Sitters. My teen is embarrassed to request Cash and says Shell die if i do. Giving the Sitter a personal Check is unfair to the teen Ager and her parents alike. A baby Sitter s mom dear mom your request is reasonable. Car list not available the final instalment of the latest Bremerhaven car list was not available for this edition be cause of technical difficulties