European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page the stars and stripes sunday february 11, 1990 fact places oho complainer forms we re Fec up group Krom wire reports a businessman in Franklin Ohio whose portable signs were outlawed says he s fed up with being fed up. So he plans a March meeting to organize his fellow gripes. Andy Kopp Iii 39. Decided to form the we Recd up group after pondering All the belly Ching he s heard from folks As they linger Over Coffee at local restaurant. Nobody Ever docs anything about he said. The group s first meeting is scheduled March 2 in Franklin a Lown about 20 Miles South of Dayton. Kopp was irked when several communities including Springboro and the Dayton suburb of Ketter ing. Banned the portable signs thai Kopp s company makes and Sells. Thai got me awfully fed up. Hey. A lot of things do Hal to me. Let s see. Zoning ordinances . Expense real. Laws hat Slop sidewalk sales. So i started talking to people1." he said. We need to gel people involved to show them that the count get them registered to Kopp said. So far. I be got about 10 people inter ested " they dig Sandy Sod the Michigan House of representatives dug the idea of an official slate soil and gave the nod to Sand Kalkaska Sod. House members United 86-14 wednesday in Lan sing to Honor the Kalkaska soil. The Bill now goes to the Kiaie Senate which approved a similar measure last april. Without a Siale soil we would t have a stale tree we would t have a stale Bird we would t said rep. Richard Sofio of Bessemer the legislation s sponsor. Backers of the Bill Hope thai gov. James Blanchard will approve it on april 22 Earth Day. A real bang up artist so somebody about Terry Button s artwork and they la Tell of he docs a bang up Job. He uses guns instead of a Paintbrush. Sullen blasts holes in sheets of Copper to produce images of the Southwest such As covered wagons and out lines of Texas. The fort Worth Man says he is particularly fond of shooting out pictures of longhorns. I Lake a Pencil and sketch Oul a design on a Sheet of sullen said. Then i set the card Hoard on a Sheet of Copper and shoot out All the dots around the Sutlon. 41. Says he Gol the idea from boyhood memories. He save he s sold 80 pieces in three years for up to $125 apiece much of it sold through a Western Art Gallers in . Lawmakers rap about Bill three lawmakers got Down Gol Funky and Gol news coverage when they performed a rap song to promote legislation they introduced in the alas Ahouse of representatives. Word Hal the Irio would sing a song write in by rep. Kay Brown of Anchorage Alla eld reporter and camera Crews in the Capitol at Juneau. The legislation they promo cd is called the waste reduction. Recycling and planning a the wrap act for Short. Proving thai they were inexperienced rap singers. Brown and fellow dam Coralic reps. Fran Ulmer of Juneau and David Finkelstein of Anchorage Sung a Cappolla. They Kepi a Cal by rapping their hands on the table. The song which cells of the need for More Recy cling included the following verses garbage running Over landfills shutting Down where to put the garbage from villages and towns reduce it. Reuse it Recycle it again. Garbage is a resource so let us now Sapphire is their destiny since Seattle is known As the Emerald City in Washington state maybe Tacoma should dump it longtime motto As the City of destiny and become known As the Sapphire City says mayor Karen i said she s had enough of a smokestack image and embarrassing Aroma of Tacoma themes in National news reports. The idea of Sapphire was brought up by a psychology professor last summer. Christine a Hansvick of Pacific lutheran University said she found a largely negative self image of the City and that residents identified with Gray. She suggested the Sapphire a Blue gym Stone As an antidote you can Sec the image wherever you she said. We have Blue skies Blue Waters and a dome with a Blue roof referring to the Tacoma dome the City of destiny a motto attrib used o new York newspaper columnist George fran Cis train during the Railroad Boom in 1886. Would show the Community s determination to project a fresher face she said. Idol letters flood Hospital Rock Star Billy idol won t be feeling too lonely in his recovery from a motorcycle crash. His fans have seen to tidal wave of mail has started said Ron Wise spokesman for Cedars Sinai medical Center in los Angeles. His room is Slatting to look like a Flower s condition was upgraded from serious to fair thursday after seven hours of surgery for compound fractures to his right leg and a broken right allegedly ran a Stop sign tuesday and sideswiped a car police , 34. Will probably stay at the Hospital for two weeks Wise said. Filmmaker discusses drugs Spike Lee creator of do the right says Japan prize Winner the Winner of the 1990 Japan prize protes Sor Marvin i. Mini by of the Massachusetts Institute of technology holds an artificial hand for robot experimentation in is Brook line mass., Home on thursday. Minsky is a leading researcher in the Field of artificial intelligence. He s the Only filmmaker criticized for not showing drugs in his movies. Critics complained that his 1989 film dealing with race relations in new York City was unrealistic be cause the streets were clean and the characters weren t shown using drugs. Lee made the remarks in Rochester n.y., at the University of Rochester on wednesday Are not the unique Domain of Black peo ple Lee said Black people have to make their own mov ies to be in control of their own image. Blacks know a lot about the White world because we re a minority living in it he said. But whiles on t know anything about Black culture. What Blacks docs Steven Spielberg know Quincy Jones Michael Jackson maybe Prince they Aren l regular Black is a closed Community and they re Oul of dear Abby the lady i am dating is a single mom divorced with a a year old son. Sean demands and gels her Aitemon constantly. We cannot plan a dinner movie or trip Wilhour considering scan. This lady is Numero Uno in m life Bill i feel like a third class Citi in in her life. How can we Ever have a Quality relation ship if 1 get Only the leftovers i have discussed this problem with two child psychologists and neither one of them gave me a satisfactory solution. Please comment. Getting the leftovers dear getting your lady Friend appears to be a very caring Mother which says a great Deal about her character. Were she to put you before her 5-year-old son at his stage of your relationship i Mould question her priorities. Don t View your time with her As leftovers simply because you Are not Numero the lady appears to be a class act. Dear Abby dear Abby whal can i say to a Man i love whose by Cash Lurns me off and whose tech arc in terrible condition he is neat and clean in every other Way but he has neglected his Mouth for Many years. I am 42 and he is 48. I live in California and he lives in Virginia and flies Here every other weekend just to be with me. He says he loves me. Bul i could love him a lot More if his by Cash and Lech were taken care of. I Don t know How logo about Lelling him this. Maybe if you put this in the paper i could Cut it out and Send it to him. Virginia lady dear lady i am printing your letter. If your Friend misses it or chooses to ignore it you must Ell him that because you care about him he absolutely must see a dentist assure him that dentistry has come a Long Way in the last 35 years and it is no longer the painful ordeal in was when he was a boy which was probably the last time he saw a dentist or a dentist saw him. Dear Abby no problems Here today just happiness and burst ing with Pride in 1985. A Young Man wrote to you. Wondering if he should go Back to College. He said i am a 36-year-old College dropout whose lifelong ambition was o be a physician but it will take me seven years and in seven years i will be 43 years your answer. And How old will you be in seven years if you Don t go Back to school Abby that made a tremendous impression on my son who was 29 years old at the time. Danny had been toying with the idea of going Back to College to study ornamental horticulture and landscape design but he thought he was too old to be going to classes with students so much younger than himself. Well Danny clipped that column and went Back to College and every time he became discouraged he would read it again. As you can imagine it is now yellow and worn and finally had 10 be wrapped in plastic to hold it together. This morning Danny Anderson graduated from the University of Tennessee with honors thank you thank you thank you Danny s mom Knoxville dear mom congratulations this column is for Danny. Have it laminated for him
