European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes sunday August 26,1990 candidate is Over sticker from wire report Oklahoma state treasurer Ellis Edwards was punched in the jaw recently after he stuck a Campaign sticker on a woman s purse. This is election time. I guess some people get hot about elections Edwards said. Edwards who is seeking re election said he asked Man at a banquet in Lawton if he could put a Campaign sticker on his clothing. The Man told him he was a Republican and did not want the sticker. Edwards is a Democrat. I asked his wife if 1 could put it on her bag Edwards said. She said Fine and i did and he became upset at that. I said if it upset you i m sorry " Edwards and Allen Gre son another democratic candidate for treasurer said Edwards bumped the Republican Man moments later while passing out stickers on the next Row. That was it. The Man shoved Edwards. Point that Guy hit me. I was t expect ing to be hit said Edwards. No charges were filed. Transplant doctor doctored the doctor who performed the world s first successful liver transplant underwent heart surgery in Pittsburgh last week. Surgeons began the coronary artery bypass opera Tion on or. Thomas a Starzl at 7 30 . Friday and finished nearly five hours later at presbyterian University Hospital where he has performed hundreds of transplants. Star i was in stable condition in the Hospital s in Tensive care unit. The surgery was uncomplicated and or. Starzl i doing Well said Gary Marrone who led the surgical team. Star/1, 64, performed the first successful live transplant at the University of Colorado in 1967. He also pioneered development of a medical team that performed 200 kidney transplants at Colorado Gen eral and Denver Veteran s administration hospitals. Miss Texas official resigns the Man who has been chairman of the miss Texas scholarship pageant for 20 years has resigned after reports of impropriety including off color re Marks to contestants. A Don Magness of fort Worth Texas quit the unpaid Job telling the miss Texas Board of directors that he was unfairly depicted in a life Magazine article As a dirty old Man who made lewd comments to pageant contestants Magness 58, has been associated with the pageant for29 years and will continue on the Board of directors. News reports after the life article detailed other complaints about Magness behaviour including an accusation from a former pageant director that mag Ness had attempted to influence the outcome of a gambling up close and personal bettors got close to the action As the world s biggest Roulette wheel goes into action at a Casino in bad Durkheim West Germany. The diameter of the wooden disk is 17.70 feet and the Board measures 154 by 178 feet. Management is seeking a place in the guinness Book of world records with the oversized game. Local pageant. Magness said he was leaving because he feared the negative publicity could have a detrimental effect on the current miss Texas Suzanne Lawrence who will compete in the miss America pageant in Atlantic City n.j., on sept. 4-8. Quint parents get financial Aid Raymond and Michele l Esperance parents of the nation s first test tube quintuplets and three other children Are getting financial help from Michigan to care for three nieces. We Are elated Raymond l Esperance said after it was announced in court that his Pontiac mich., Home had been approved for a Foster care announcement makes l Esperance and his wife eligible for about $1,000 a month to care for the three extra children. They had gone to Oakland county probate court hoping to Speed up the licensing process which began in april. The l Esperance began caring for the 6-, 10-and13-year-old nieces last year when the girls parents sought drug and alcohol rehabilitation. The l Esperance had quintuplets in 1988, believed to be the first conceived in Vitro and Success fully carried in the United states. Michele l Esperance who works in a Home for battered women said it costs More than $300 a week just to feed the family. Her husband is a Macom county corrections officer and holds a second Job in a tool and die shop. Charles to get Bone graft Prince Charles will undergo a Bone graft to repair painful fracture in his right Buckingham pal Ace has , 41, broke his upper right in two places when he fell during a Polo match june 28. The upper fracture is mending Well but the lower fracture has shown no sign of Healing a Palace spokesman spokesman said Bone from a hip joint would be packed around the fracture to stimulate Date of the surgery was not announced but the spokesman said the Pence was Likely to be hospitalized for a week to 10 Days. Jumping into marriage Tom King 9f Oak Hill w.va., plans to take plunge of a different sort on his wedding Day he says hell hurl himself off an 876-foot-High plans to wed Vivian Campbell on oct. 20 during the annual Bridge Day festivities at the new River Gorge Bridge. Then he plans to Don a Parachute and jump into the Gorge along with two groomsmen and several wedding guests. Bridge Day is the Only Day of the year people can legally jump off the Bridge one of North America s tallest. The event attracts hundreds of parachutist from around the world. King 39, and Campbell 34, both of Memphis,tenn., got engaged on Bridge Day last year. She is a registered nurse. Editor s note Abby is on a two week is a selection of some of her favorite past letters. Dear Abby i am a widow in my late 50swho has been keeping company with a Bachelor my age for three years. My problem is i still Haven t met any of his family members. He lives on a farm with his Mother and two Sisters. I be never been to his House because his Mother is senile and both his Sisters arc Cray. He does t work and says he has no income but he owns a Little property and drives a Nice car. He s asked me not to phone him because he has parly line which he says everybody listens in on and he does t want people knowing his business. I ast year his brother died but he did t Tell me until after they buried him because he said it was a private funeral and his brother As Cray i m beginning to think insanity runs in his family. If i weren t so darned lonesome i d forget him but dear Abby he does play a Nice game of Gin Rummy. How do you and your experts figure him Minnie in dear Minnie my experts suspect that your gentleman Friend is either married crazy or both. And my advice is to deter mine his marital status find another Gin Rummy partner or take up solitaire. Dear Abby i took your advice and acted like a liberated womanly calling up a Guy and arranging a Date with him. Well it just did t work out. You said a Man would feel battered to have a girl Call him and Tell him up front she thought they would enjoy each other s company. This Guy was flattered All right but his ego got to Betook much by the end of the evening. He could t buy the idea that i did t want to get him Between the sheets. 1 really did to i m afraid the average Man still likes to take the initiative w Hen it comes to dating. Or did i just happen to vet a Dud Mossl a wrong dear guessed i think you got a Dud. Just because a Man asks a girl for a Date does t mean he wants to take her to bed. And the same applies to women who take the initiative. Dear Abby i work for the Bureau of vital statistics. Since quite a few people have had sex change operations recently they have been requesting that their names be changed to agree with their sex change. We Are having difficult Yin writing to these people. They usually have their names legally changed be fore having the sex change operation. For example a Man named James Black has changed his name to Virginia Black. By rights he is still a male with a female name. When writing to him should we address him As dear or. Black since he is still a biological male or dear miss Black since his name has been legally changed Baltimore dilemma dear dilemma address him or iut by his or her a Al name
