European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 07, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes wednesday. February 7.1990 doing on easy Fask in 25 comply cafe Steps from wire repo Tsok. Here s the Challenge screw a lid onto a Glass Jar if that sounds simple you la never win the eighth annual Rube Goldberg Competition at Purdue University which Aims to turn the easiest tasks into amazingly complicated  the spirit of Goldberg the cartoonist who specialized in drawing complicated machines that per formed mundane tasks this year s teams must use at least 25 Steps to affix a two piece lid onto a pint size Ball Canning Jar. The lid has to be Light enough so that the Jar can be turned upside Down without spilling. The task must be accomplished in five minutes or  of the feb. 17 Campus contest will com Pete against winners from other colleges and universities on March 17 at Purdue in West Lafayette ind. David Oliver student chairman of the Competition said he expected four to six teams at each level. Past challenges have included sharpening a Pencil and preparing an egg for frying. To year of gets exclusive ten year old Sarah Lawing went where no other journalist had gone before in obtaining an interview with Tom cruise on the set of Day of  his new movie about a race car Driver. When she heard that cruise was filming the movie near her family s farm in Long Creek. . The reporter for Long Creek elementary school news and weighs wrote the actor seeking an interview according to this week s people mag Azine. The Star of born on the fourth of  rain Man and to gun had turned Down previous interview re quests but gave Sarah her first. Her Only pc Cruis Evious Story about a really big Snowflake had not required an  the five minute interview cruise said he first became interested in acting at age 7 and said rethought very strongly about living in Long Creek in southwestern North Carolina. Recall As much detail from a  judge cries fowl a Man appeared in a Seneca Falls. N.v., court monday with a rooster tucked under his Arm and told the judge the Bird was the Only Legal counsel he could  judge cried fowl. David Ashley was charged last month with raising poultry without a permit but his Case was postponed until he could get a  Ashley appeared in court with the rooster Village Justice Gordon Telor told him to get rid of the Bird. It was the Only Legal counsel i could afford. Ashley told the  Don t think he could  Clor said. Sure they can. They speak to me All the  Ashley said. After removing the Chicken Ashley told the judge he could t afford a lawyer. He also told Tetor he would represent himself but was t ready to go to trial. Tetor adjourned the Case until March 5. Ashley and his wife. Lynda have about 20 Chick ens at their Home that they say arc pets for their two children. She spent 10 Days in mail in october after refusing to seek a permit or gel rid of the  Ashleys applied for a permit in november but the Village Board turned them Down and gave them10 Days to remove the chickens. Ashley was charged after the couple failed to remove the Birds. Newsworthy affair two Waco Texas television news anchors who were reported missing last week and then turned up together in new Mexico have resigned from the Tele vision  a Wax to anchors Wendy Sheldon and Mike Reeder resigned Friday during their first meet ing with station executives since they left in january said Virgil Tater the station s vice president for  s husband. Jan Rigby reported her miss ing Jan. 26, when she did t show up for work. Rig Byis production manager at the station. Sheldon anchored weekday  began looking for Rceder a weekend an Chor when a company car he checked out Jan. 26was found at Hillcrest Baptist medical Center. They were found at an Albuquerque n.m., hotel the following monday. The Case gained National notoriety when the syndicated television program current affair broadcast the Story. Lui rum Ariail i Aumai in. 9�wij not listening could help Meese wins debate letting your spouse s words go in one car and out the other May indicate a Happy marriage. Laura l. Stafford an assistant professor of communications a Ohio state University said her study showed that strangers recall More of their conversations than married couples. It appears obvious that at the Early stage of a relationship you arc listening closely to what a person is saying and forming impressions and evaluations asking yourself. Do i like this person " Stafford said. By the time you arc in a stable marriage you Are no longer forming impressions and evaluations of your spouse not on a routine basis anyway. So you Don t former . Attorney general Edwin Meese ii and Andre Gratcheva soviet Deputy minister for International affairs debated at Oxford. England on monday night on the relative values of the . Constitution and  motion proposed by Mccase at Oxford univer sity s venerable debating society that this House believes that the values of the american Constitution not of socialism will shape the world in the comin Century was carried by 351 votes to 235. About 1.000 students packed Oxford Union to hear the speeches. The debating society is a training dear Abby Henry not his real  Andi have been friends for More than 30 years. My wife passed away four years ago. In the last four years. Henry and his wife have invited me to their Home for Din Ner on special occasions such smother s Day. Father s Day. Birthdays. Thanksgiving another holidays. I m like family during a recent argument. Henry said that he and his wife had discussed the fact that in All the years the had entertained me. I had never reciprocated their hospitality by taking them out to dinner and because of my failure to reciprocate they have decided that i am a cheapskate Abby. I have never gone to their Home for dinner without bringing them a bottle of Good wine or a Box of the Best Candy. Every Christmas i Send them a  question would you Call me a cheapskate please answer in your column As a Friendship hangs in the balance. Hurt in West Palm Beach dear Hurt you indicated that Henry revealed that he and his miss Hula hoops miss Angelica of Czechoslovakia perform her speciality with a circus in Munich West Germany. She keeps 28 Hula hoops in motion simultaneously during her performances. Ground for politicians and a hotbed of talk wit and showing Oft Superman sued two writers say Superman in the form of Christopher Reeve violated the precepts of truth Justice and the american Way by taking their plot Lor Superman  Barry Taff and Kenneth Stoller arc suing Reeve Cannon films and Warner Brothers fora reported $45 million and the Case is scheduled to go before a jury in los Angeles on april 16. The plaintiffs say they sent Reeve their idea about super Man saving the world from nuclear holocaust and disarming nuclear weapons. But Reeve who not Only starred in the movie but was credited with developing the Story line says whenever really read the Taff slow scr proposal and Dis cussed it with them Only to be polite. His lawyer says Reeve came up with the idea on his own alter narrating a Public television show on world peace. J dear Abby wife thought you were a cheapskate during an argument. Obviously that remark was intended to Hurt you which it  t write off a 30-year Friendship because of some thing that was said in anger. Level with Henry. Tell him his cheapskate remark Hurt you and Clear the air. Then offer to take them out to dinner because you be often been a guest in their Home. Even the most hospitable people appreciate dining out occasionally. Dear Abby your youth is showing regarding the guest who wore her hat during the meal in my grandmother Day i m 75 even the hostess wore a hat As she sat Down to Tea or lunch with her guests. I Well remember grandmother getting All halted up for such an Occa Sion. She also wore a hat and a veil to go shopping even if it were for Only a loaf of bread. Milk was delivered to our Doorstep. This was in England non sequitur All through the Blitz in London 1940-41she slept in her Corset in Case the House was bombed and she might have to run out into the Street. Marjorie Worthington Ocala Fla. Dear Marjorie Rumor has it that sir Winston Churchill had always slept in his birthday suit but through the Blitz he wore pyjamas in Case he had to leave the House in a hurry. You British Are very proper people. Dear Abby May i address that Small portion of your readers who Are insensitive to the Point of being cruel Why do you think that a the parents of a new baby want to hear about your neighbor s 6-month-old son who was a victim of crib death b the wife of Man scheduled for surgery wants to hear about this fellow at work who went into the Hospital for a minor operation and died when they gave him the wrong medication c the son of a woman recently admitted to a Nurs ing Home wants to hear about the dreadful Home you aunt Tillie lives in and How miserable she is there Abby. We All Deal with our anxieties in our own ways. Please Tell your readers that if they have no words of encouragement kindly enough dear anxiety thanks for a gentle reminder to people who shoot from the lip without realizing How their words can affect others. And add to your list women who upon meeting an obviously pregnant woman can t resist describing in detail the nausea of morning sickness and the horror or labor pains. C Universal prs Syndicate