European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 06, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday february 6,1990 stateside Charles Dickens accused of haunting a. Banks Philadelphia a the Bank idlers of Christmas past arc haunting Charles Dickens. Dickens a namesake but not a descendant of the author who wrote of Christmas ghosts in a Christmas has been indicted by a Federal grand jury on charges of robbing three Banks and trying to hold up a fourth during the holidays. Dickens. 36. Is accused of taking $1,776 from a psf Bank on dec. 21. $2.316 from a Germantown savings Branch dec. 26 and $950 from the same Branch on Jan. 2, and $1.305 from a Home Unity savings and loan Branch. He also is charged with unsuccessfully trying to Rob the United Valley Bank on Jan. 2. Dickens has been jailed without bail after a Teller from an earlier Holdup saw him three weeks ago in front of a Bank. Court records show that other tellers have identified Dickens. Disney world admission hiked to pay for sights Lake Buena Vista. Fla. A Walt Disney world has raised the admission Price nearly 5 per cent for its three theme Parks to help pay for several new attractions the company has announced. The new prices will take effect sunday. Dis Ney world last raised its prices may1989. Customers will have to pay $100 for adults and $80 per child for a four Day pass to All Parks and $117 for adults and $95 for children for five Days. A single Day admission will Cost $31 for adults and $25 Lor children. The current Price is $29 for adults and $23 for children for a single Day $97 for adults and $77 for children for a four Day pass and $112 for adults and $90 for children for five Days. 13-year-old fatally shoots Mother to end her nagging Houston a a 13-Ycar-old told police he shot and killed his Mother because he could no longer stand her nagging. Linda Wallace. 28. Was pronounced dead at Ben Taub Hospital shortly after the shooting in her Home in fort Bend county said in Micic sol. Nancy sovoria. The boy was placed in Juve Nile custody. Sovoria said. The boy s sister and three Brothers Ages 6 to 12. Told police they were discussing Black history Wilh their Mother when the 13-year-old asked to go to the bathroom. When he did not return his Mother went to Check on him. They said. The children heard a Shotgun blast and their Mother walked into the living room clutching her these. Sovoria said. The boy went outside and wailed for police she said the boy told them. She was nagging me. And i could t Lake n Nancy Reagan smites at her sex president husband monday night in Orlando fla., As he accepts the first annual mouse of Hope humanitarian award. With them is the organization s founder Sura Trollinger. Humanitarian award presented Reagan by shelter organization Orlando. Fla. A former president Reagan praised the House of Hope for its work with troubled girls and received its first humanitarian award at a fund raising banquet sunday night. In presenting the award shelter founder Sara tool linger recounted the reagans involvement in inc House of Hope. While visiting Orlando in 1985. Reagan read an article about inc non profit shelter which receives no government Money and sent the Home a personal Check for ,000. In september 1987, he presented it with a certificate of appreciation in promoting children s safety and in 1988 he recorded a i rec minute videotape challenging Citi ens to look to the House of Hope As a Model for Homes for troubled teen agers across the nation. Trollinger founded the shelter in May 1985 with just $200. She started asking for Grants and bought the Home s current site with a Grant from the Philip Cros by foundation. " Crosby underwrote sunday s banquet so that All the proceeds of the $300-a-Platc dinner attended by 700 people will go to the House of Hope. The shelter which now houses 19 girls Ages 12 to 17, provides a Home and a Christian education. The girls must be willing to give up alcohol drugs Rock music and their Peers to begin a Christian life which includes counselling and discipline. Trollinger said. If 1 Ever saw anyone put by god on this for a purpose it was Sara Trollinger Reagan said. Reagan now 79, keeps in shape by pumping Iron los Angeles a on the eve of his 79th birthday and a year after leaving the while House former president Reagan says he s keeping in shape by pumping Iron daily and trimming Trees Wilh a Chain saw. Reagan remains Busy on the speaking circuit delivering speeches on issues dear to him. Such As a balanced budget Amend ment and line item veto Power for the president in dealing with budget issues. Reagan whose birthday is tuesday has embraced an Active retirement say ing he loves his return to California. Discussing his personal life in an interview with the associated press Rea Gan pointed to the Pacific Ocean and Channel islands visible from his 34th door office in the Century City Section. I be always said that a californian who is forced to live away from califor Nia lives in a slate of perpetual Home he said adding. It in t a place it s a Way of Reagan said he is sceptical about whether the cold War has ended and is hopeful american hostages in Lebanon will be freed. Age has t diminished Reagan s love of a self deprecating joke. Prefer to think of it As the 40lh anniversary of my 39th he said. He attributed his health to daily weightlifting in his basement gym and trimming Trees during monthly trips to his Santa Barbara county ranch. He s been swinging axes gripping Chain saws and even pole saws on the Majestic Oaks surrounding his Mountain lop Retreat 120 Miles Northwest of los Angeles. Now you can Sil there on inc Patio and look up there at a Grove of Trees visible from the House and you re not Only seeing those gnarled trunks but you re seeing the dappled Sunshine in there and the sky through the he brain surgery last year after he was thrown from a horse in Mexico. Rea Gan s hair has grown Back still Black but with a pronounced touch of Gray. He s also Riding again. Nothing is so Good for the inside of a Man As the outside of a horse he said. The former president said he and wife Nancy now own a $2.5 million Home in the Bel air Community. It was originally bought by friends for the couple s return to California. Like some of his exploits that Drew the Wrath of Congress the House Hunting expedition was a Covert Mission. If i went anyplace the press would have been in attendance and we did t want that publicity at the time he said. He said mrs. Reagan persuaded him to sneak up to the House. She said if i was willing to get Down on the floor of the car and go there the press would t be following or any photographers or anything so i did. I did t get up until we were in the driveway Reagan his Outlook about California is sunny Reagan s View about prospects for an end 10 inc cold War is somewhat Darker. He hailed time Magazine s Choice of soviet Leader Mikhail Gorba Chev As Man of inc decade but he said there is danger when foreign policy depends on the Success of one Man. If Gorbachev prevails in his reforms an Era of belter relations Between East and West might be in sight he said. I think we see something on the Hori Zon but we also have to remember this is the work of a Man who can be dismissed by the communist party if they Sec their Way Clear to do it Reagan said. We have to know that permanent changes have been made before we can say everything is in the Clear and the cold War is on the drug menace. Reagan said the War can be won this decade. The Way it must be done is. We must generate the programs in which the peo ple the customers turn away from the drugs not us turning the drugs away from customers he said. A major heartache during reagans administration was the capture of Ameri cans in Lebanon he said. Held longest of the eight americans is Terry a. Ander son chief Middle East correspondent of the associated press who was abducted March 16, 1985.Reagan is optimistic the hostages will eventually be freed. I have lived with that kind of he said. I think the obligation of the entire country is to come to the Rescue of any american who in any other part of the world is being denied the constitutional rights this country guarantees its declined to discuss aspects of the Iran Contra scandal citing pending Liti for his former National Secu Rity adviser John Poindexter Are seek ing Reagan s personal diaries in the Case a move the former president has resisted
