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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday february 22,1990 in 2100, Well still lust talk about the weather Washington a americans in the 22nd re Iury will be working and living in space perhaps talking to extraterrestrials and buying replacement body pans while shopping from Home a Survey says. But kids will still have to go to school and humans still won t be Able to turn a Rainy Earth Day into a sunny  of a Survey of 12.300 Junior and senior High school students were released tuesday at a National society of professional engineers press Confer ence in the Library of Jefferson Junior High school. The Survey was conducted in december by the society s National engineers week committee and science world a Scholastic Magazine distributed in  percent of the students predicted a Nacri cans would be working in space in the year 2100.sixty-three percent said they would be living in space  for shopping. 17 percent said it would All be done from Home. The remaining 83 percent said most of it would  24 percent believed engineers or anybody else would learn to control the  whether people would still go to schools to learn things in the 22nd Century. 68 percent said yes. Roughly a third of the students. 33 percent said the average lifespan of a human being would be 100years. Eighteen percent said it would be Only 80 years but 11 percent said it would be More than 125  students divided about evenly on whether people will be Able to buy artificial body parts Suchias Knees while shopping from their Homes. Fifty one percent said yes. 48 percent  the question of How people will travel. 48 per cent said by individual Jet propelled vehicles. 30 per cent by passenger cars on magnetic Fields and 18 percent by recreational  slight majority. 51 percent believed car Thlmas will be communicating with extraterrestrial beings in the 22nd Century. Ten percent said aircraft will be Able to travel at four times the Speed of sound compared with 12percent who said they would reach the Speed of Light. The students were also asked How tall the tallest buildings would be. Twenty four percent said 300 stories. 28 percent 500 stories. 17 percent 1.000 Sto Ries and 32 percent even higher. Frank Ramirc-7. 15, of Whittier. Calif., submitted along with his answers a drawing of a High Speed automobile powered by magnetic invitation. As you can Sec. It runs on a totally different kind of Power and the Driver docs not need to worry about friction too much a pc cd. Stopping distances or a lot of dangerous stuff he said. When asked How students would learn. 4fi percent of those responding said by computers but one Stu Dent suggested taking smart  you know we thought about that a Long  said David Butler chairman of National Engi neers week. Crewman saved by Kennedy Dies of natural causes at 84 san Diego a Patrick Henry Mcmahon. The wounded Sailor towed to safely by John f. Kennedy Afier a japanese warship crushed their it boat during world War ii. Has died of natural causes. He was 84. Mcmahon died sunday at a convalescent Home i Northern san Diego county where he had lived for the last 15 years. He thought the world of president Kennedy recalled him  said Mcmahon s Stepson. William h. Kelly of Pascagoula. Miss. The president saved his  nicknamed  Mcmahon was the oldest member of he pt-109 Crew because he enlisted in the Navy adage 37. Mcmahon. A native of Wyant iii., was assigned Topt-109 As a machinist. He served under Kennedy then a 26-year-old lieutenant Junior Grade and skipper of the Craft. Over the years Mcmahon often told the Story of the night of aug. 2, 1943, when the Crew was patrolling Blacken Strait in the Solomon islands. A japanese destroyer burst out of the darkness and smashed through the boat slicing it in two and in Stanlly killing two of the 13 crewmen. Mcmahon suffered Burns on his face Chest armsand legs and could t swim because of the pain Kelly said so Kennedy put him across his Back and kept him there by clenching the strap of Mcmahon s life jacket in his Teeth. Members of the Crew held onto a Plank from the sunken boat until they reached Plum pudding Island four hours later. A few Days later with the help of Island natives american forces rescued the pt-109 survivors. He and Kennedy stayed in touch after the War and through Kennedy s presidency Kelly said. Mommy s fhe big Star in this cast while she gets plastered los Angeles a the latest thing from trend setting Southern California is a unique memento of childbirth thai goes beyond delivery room movies a plaster cast of pregnant mom s bulging belly. I thought i had heard of everything. Now i know i  or. Arthur Wisol. A Torrance obstetrician and gynaecologist said after hearing about or. Stork s orig Inal pregnant Tummy cast kit. Available by mail order for j 19.95 plus $3 for shipping. The kit was the brainchild of Fred Scoblic 43. And his wife. Dionne. 39. Of suburban Sherman Oaks. It comes with everything needed to make a Mold of the Mother to be s Lummy Gauze Piaster markers and Blue and Pink ribbons. Sure in s a giggly thing. Everybody reacts the Way you do. They  Scoblic said monday. We be had so much fun with ii All this time and we decided in arc was some economic potential Here. The phone has been ringing off the  the Kils went on Sale just iwo weeks ago. And Scoblic was unsure How Many orders he d received. The idea for casting a pregnant belly blossomed while mrs. Scoblic was expecting her first child. I was amazed at How it changed she said la Gol so  her pro Minem Lummy was captured in plaster at her baby Shower and the ceremony was the hit of the party. I s Only difficult because everybody is laughing and the plaster does t Sci Well Wilh a moving Slom  Scoblic said. After ii dries guests sign the plaster Shell. They write things like. Keep out front and it s been a Long time baby " Scoblic said. The a comics Hung the finished products for both of mom to be Leslie Lightfoot Lesler watches As kit Origi Nator Fred Scobie spreads plaster in los Angeles. Their children Dave 4, and Jim 3 on the Wall in i hair Den. We have them hanging next to inc Deer anglers. It s really a trophy said Scobie. In is really cherished the kids Are fascinated by this. They know they came from mommie s Tummy and it s just Beautiful to watch  stateside 2 killed in refinery fire As 100 Are evacuated Whiting. Ind. A two people were killed tuesday and about 100 were evacuated when an Oil refinery s loading station for liquefied Petroleum Gas caught fire officials  ordered the evacuation because they were concerned about the potential fora Chain reaction causing explosions at the Amoco Oil co. Refinery in the midst of an industrialized heavily populated  Lake county Coroner s office and Amoco officials confirmed the deaths of the two people both of whom worked for the Oil company. The victims names were not immediately  Tanker truck Drivers were injured and reported in fair condition. The fire occurred shortly before 10 . In a loading area about a mile from the main refinery building Anda half mile from the storage area said Lisa Houghton. An Amoco spokeswoman. None of the 500.000-gallon storage tanks caught fire she  fire was the worst at the refinery since an octo Ber 1988 explosion at an Asphalt Plant killed three workers and seriously injured a fourth. Savannah educator wins Runoff for City Council Savannah. A. A an education adminis Trator Defeated a dentist in a Runoff election tuesday for the City Council Seal held by a lawyer who died in december in a spate of Southeastern mail  Hardwick. Assistant Dean for the coastal Georgia Center for continuing education received1.467 Voles to 1.127 for dentist Phyllis Mack in the race to succeed Robert  2,594 voters represented a turnout of 29.4 per cent in the Council District. Hardwick 62, led a Field of eight candidates in the first election Jan. 30. But did t get the 50 percent minimum needed to win the race forcing a Runoff. Robinson represented the City s 5th District a pre dominantly Black area which runs through Savannah s historic victorian District. He was killed by a mail bomb dec. 18 following the mail bomb assassination of Federal appeals judge Robert Vance in Mountain Brook Ala. Bombs were also sent to a Federal courthouse in Atlanta and the Jacksonville fla.,office of the National association for the advancement of coloured people but were safely removed. Man killed by Bullet fired from apartment above Rochester   
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