European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes sunday april 1, 1990air bags credited with saving 2 Drivers in head on car crash Culpeper a. Apr two Drivers escaped with minor injuries in what is believed to be the first crash involving two cars equipped with air bags and Chrysler corp. Plans to film a commercial at the site an official said Friday. Two 1989 Chrysler a Barons driven by Ron Woody and Priscilla Vansteelant both of Culpeper crashed head on March 12 on Virginia route 640. Both cars were totalled but Woody and Vansteelant suffered Only minor injuries. 1 there s no doubt in my mind the air bags saved them both Quot said state police trooper . Dawson who investigated the Accident. The cars were travelling at Between 35 Mph and 45 Mph according to the Accident report. Vansteelant was cited for failure to drive to the right of Center. Tim Hurd a spokesman for the National Highway traffic safety administration said the crash is believed to be the first Accident involving two cars equipped with air bags. Beginning with the 1990 Model year All cars Are required by Federal Law to be equipped with either air bags or automatic seat belts. All Chrysler Domestic models Are equipped with air bags. Jim Witherspoon Culpeper county chamber of Commerce executive director said Friday he has been contacted by is productions a California firm commissioned by Chrysler to make a television commercial about the air bag crash. Igor Stalew of is productions said the company is waiting for approvals to film the commercial at the site of the crash and will have definite plans on monday. Quot its an amazing demonstration of the Way air bags can protect a said Chuck Hurley vice president of communications for the insurance Institute for Highway safety. Quot its proof of a lot of work Over the last 20  the Institute is holding both crumpled cars in Fredericksburg where a crash investigation team will examine the Speed of the cars the change in velocity and other clues As to How the air bags performed during the crash. Hurley said the Institute plans to interview the Drivers As part of its investigation. When Woody and his wife Kimberly purchased their car last november the air bag feature did not enter into their decision they said. Stateside Bush pops in on Marine class before or and re round of Golf president Bush tees off Friday at Quantie a. Quantico a. Apr president Bush dropped in unexpectedly on a Marine corps officer training class Friday and quickly assured his audience As it snapped to attention that he mainly wanted to play Golf. No matter that it was cold and blustery out and had just stopped raining. The commander in chief briefly toured part of the base before leading a caravan of 11 Golf carts that roamed Over the base Golf course. Quot in a not pretending this is anything other than r and r rest and recuperation a the president joked to about 180 attendees of the Marine corps command and staff College. A i wanted to at least pop  the audience which included mid level officers from the Marine corps and other services had jumped to attention when the president entered the room. He praised the military for its role in december a Panama invasion and said a we never have been blessed with finer students in ail of our services than we Are today. Keep it up the country is  the Marine base at Quantie sprawls along the Potomac River about 30 Miles South of the nations capital. At one Point Bush a world War ii Navy torpedo bomber Pilot referred to himself As Quot an aging somewhat out of touch naval  Bush said that a respect for our armed forces around the world has never been  on the Golf course Bush was asked by reporters if he had received a response to thursdays letter to soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev on the lithuanian situation. Bush raised his Golf club in the air and said Quot a and  later on the 18th Hole he told reporters Quot what i said does no to. Require any  after overshooting the 9th Hole Bush muttered a ooh god a and then said to the other players Quot id like to apologize for using profanity on the last Hole. I feel very badly about it and i done to know what came Over  just a step ahead of time in their selection Lenexa Kan. Apr thieves who stolen s7 a of athletic shoes from a delivery truck wend a ahead of their time they chose a Type of Shi is y on Sale at area stores. Of w the 57 pairs Worth about $ 1,300, were taken re truck parked behind the office of the athlete a store in Lenexa a City of 18,000 on the per Kansas City said police detective Mike Siebers about two hours after the theft was discovered two men walked into an athletes foot store in an City Kan., and asked to Exchange a pair of shoes in did t fit. Store employees notified of the Len theft recognized the shoes. A police found six More pairs of the shoes in a car in the stores parking lot but 50 pairs still Are Missim. The two men were released pending further  plans to nominate new coast guard Leader Washington apr president Bush said Friday he will nominate rear adm. William j. Kime to be commandant of the coast guard. Kime is commander of the 11th coast guard District with Headquarters in Long Beach Calif. He is a graduate of the coast guard Academy As Well As Baltimore City College and the Massachusetts Institute of technology. If confirmed by the Senate Kime would succeed adm. Paul Yost who is  Boeing 747 flies last trip after 21 years Seattle up a the original Boeing 747 that ushered in the age of the jumbo Jet made its final flight before going into retirement at the museum of flight in Seattle. The red and White 747 was christened a the City of Everett when it rolled off the Assembly line in Everett wash., on sept. 30, 1968. Following certification it made its first flight feb. 9, 1969. Its final flight was a Short round trip Between Boeing Field in Seattle and Paine Field in Everett. The 747 was first announced by Boeing in april 1966. Pan american world airways became the first Carrier to place orders for the Jet buying 25 of the planes for $525 million. That amount would buy Only four 747s today Boeing  says manuscript Hemingway a last Story Amherst mass. Apr a Handwritten manuscript crisscrossed by revisions has yielded a previously unpublished Short Story by Ernest Hemingway that probably was his last the professor who deciphered the work has said. A a it a very exciting a said Donald Junkins who teaches English at the University of Massachusetts. Quot in a positive that this is the last Short Story that Hemingway Ever  Junkins has titled the Story after the first five words of the manuscript a Philip Haines was a  the Story is scheduled for publication in the april Issue of a the Hemingway review a published by the English department of Ohio Northern University. The Haines Story is set in Paris and explores How the title character throws away a marriage for a doomed , cub freed months after painful escapade Albuquerque . Apr a Bear and her cub were returned to their Mountain Home seven months after she suffered a 7,200-Volt Shock and Burns when she fell drugged by tranquil Izer darts from a City Utility pole. Scott Brown a spokesman for the state department of game and fish said the release went off without a hitch thursday afternoon in the Sandia mountains East of Albuquerque. The cub was released first then his Mother. Officials from the department the . Forest service and the City zoo assisted in the release. The Mother Bear a just took off after being freed Brown said. She stopped about 25 Yards away he said until the cub caught up with her. A she looked Back at All the people and started wandering up the Hill like she should a he said. Quot i guess our last Hope is that they Are going to mind their business now stay up there stay out of trouble a said or. Bret Snyder a veterinarian at the Rio Grande zoological Park. Brown said the Mother Bear was fitted with a radio Collar so biologists could Monitor her for the next couple of weeks. The Bear had wandered into Albuquerque a residential Northeast Heights last aug. 14 and climbed a 25-foot Utility pole. When wildlife officials shot her with a tranquil Izer gun she fell brushing a transformer and suffering the Shock and Burns. Pictures of the dramatic fall were broadcast nationally. The cub had been captured in town the previous Day. The bears were taken to the zoo and slowly reintroduced to each other to give the injured female Lime to heal. She had suffered extensive damage to her skin and Muscles on her Hind legs. The Mother Bear weighed i04w pounds when brought in for treatment but was up to 188 pounds thursday Snyder said. S the cub grew from 15 pounds to us pounds. A a he a fat but he a also matured a lot a Snyder said. He said zoo Crews tried to keep Contact with the animals to a minimum. Quot when they sensed humans they Wen into the Dens so we did no to see them at a for several weeks a he said. Quot they Only came out at night we thought that was a Good sign that in y were staying