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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 5, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes wednesday september 5,1990 faces a no place Kentucky town to celebrate col. Sanders birthday from wire reports in 1956, Harland Sanders threatened with financial ruin by the Advent of a new superhighway left his Little restaurant in Corbin kv., and took his idea for Kentucky Fried Chicken on the Road. On sunday the 100th anniversary of the fast food legends birth the owner of that original restaurant is bringing a Little bit of col. Sanders Back to Corbin. After almost a decade of i planning one of the colonels first restaurants has been turned into a museum by John r. Neul whose company Jan inc., owns 87 Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises. Its Neal a Way of honouring the White suited entrepreneur whose Home cooked meals served to hungry travellers at a Southeastern Kentucky service station spawned a fast food Empire that now boasts 8,000 outlets in 58 countries. Sanders the museum is housed in the colonels third restaurant where he developed both his Finger Licking Good secret recipe and the pressure cooker method that gave birth to the fast food Era. Built in 1940, the Harland Sanders cafe and motor court were on old . 25, then one of the main North South routes across the United states. But plans for interstate 75 threatened to divert travellers around his restaurant and Sanders saw the end of his life a work. Sanders who at age 65 already had guided his business through the depression and world War ii had enough Confidence in himself and his product to take his idea on the Road. He loaded his car with pressure cookers and bags of spices and built his Empire one handshake at a time. Sanders who died in 1980, obtained the a a colonel appellation in the 1930s from Kentucky a then gov. Ruby Laffoon who named him a Kentucky colonel a honorary state title in recognition of his contributions to the states cuisine. He started franchising his restaurants in 1952. By 1964, when he sold the business to a group of investors that included future Kentucky gov. John y. Brown he had More than 600 franchises in the United states and Canada. The company which was bought in 1986 by Pepsico inc. For $840 million now has annual sales of about $5  misses hot turn a Bathtub speeding Down a Hill at 50 Mph veered out of control and slowed into a crowd of spectators injuring seven people on monday italian police said. Eight bathtubs equipped with wheels a steering wheel and Auto style brakes were entered in Serai cd a s sixth annual Bathtub race. The races route ran Down a Steep Hill and ended in a Central Square of the town Inland from the coastal resort of via Reggio in Northwest Italy. Police said a tub driven by Luciano Silvestri 18, was travelling about 50 Mph when it ran off the Road at a curve and crashed into the crowd. Six women and Driver Silvestri sustained injuries in the crash but there were no broken  Torso trouble an Oregon sculptor whose work shows life size nude male torsos skewered by huge swizzle Sticks is accusing officials of Portland s Art quake festival of censorship because they wont display his pieces. Mike Randles said his sculptures were rejected because they portrayed male nudity. But Art quake officials said they refused his work because it was different from slides of the sculptures he submitted earlier for approval. Randles admitted the sculptures were not identical to the slides but said the slides showed less mature work. The graduate teaching fellow at the University of Oregon at Eugene said the slides depicted the male sex Organ transformed into a Rifle. He described the final work As a life size nude male torsos skewered on grand swizzle  the news at school students returning to . Bryan elementary school in Miami tuesday found a computerized phone system to keep their parents posted when they Are disciplined forget their Homework or get notes to take Home from the teacher. The memory Call phone mail system allows parents to Call in for messages from their children a teachers or leave messages for teachers any time of the Day. It also allows teachers to Contact parents immediately with Good or bad  smoking aids Issue the Marlboro Man is no longer Welcome in Greenwich Village in new York where angry homosexual activists said a huge billboard advertisement was an attempt to counter a Gay sponsored Boycott of Phillip Morris products. The giant Marlboro and with the cigarettes familiar Cowboy figure Riding High Over rooftops in Sheridan Square was covered by a Banner Reading a Boycott a in big letters and a Stop Jesse Helms Stop homophobia Stop  Marlboro cigarettes and Miller Beer both Phillip Morris products have been the subject of a Boycott sponsored by the aids coalition to unleash Power or act up in protest of the company a support of sen. Jesse Helms . Helms has been an outspoken foe of explicit aids prevention programs in addition to recently sponsoring controversial legislation to ban National endowment of the arts Money for works including homoerotic  coed time again men joined the student body at tiny Colby Sawyer College in new London n.h., tuesday for the firs big Apple Man a wholesaler near the alsatian Village of re que Whir France uses this wire sculpture to advertise his varied Stock of apples. He claims he can provide customers any variety in any Quantity in any season. Time in More than 60 years. Marches sit ins and the seizure of an administration building by protesters ensued after trustees voted 22-1 in april 1989 to open the school to men. But a mood of acceptance prevailed As students arrived for the Start of the fall semester at the 525-student College with Many women welcoming their 79 new male classmates. Maria Francesconi a Junior nursing major from Cheshire mass., said she accepts the change although she demonstrated against it last year. A we All had the summer to adjust a she said. A a there a a lot less anger Here and a lot More excitement  freshman Dean Heide of Ringoes n.j., said he a comfortable at his new school. A my biggest fear was that we  be wanted a he said. A but after talking to the girls in a not  Colby Sawyer which admitted men from 1837 to 1928, plans to have equal numbers of men and women by 1995. Twenty nine percent of this years 240 freshmen Are men and 12 of 40 transfers Are male. Dear Abby we just received an invitation to the wedding of a friends daughter. It was addressed to a Tom and Mary  included was a response card to fill in a number of people attending a would it be proper to write in �?o3�?� to include our grown daughter who lives at Home part time due to a Job situation i think she will be very disappointed if we done to include her. How should this be handled please answer soon. A mrs. Jones dear mrs. Jones it would be improper to include your daughter a or to write �?o3�?� on your response card since Only you and your husband were invited. And i wish response cards would not ask the number of people attending. It is often mistaken for an dear Abby a invitation to include children or others who were not expressly invited. Bottom line Only those whose names Are on the envelope Are invited so do not put anyone on the spot by phoning to ask a Are the children included a dear Abby i am going crazy trying to figure something out. Is it possible to have an aunt who is younger than you Are and if it is possible please explain How it can be. Thank you. A going crazy dear going its possible and Here show an aunt is the sister of your Mother or father. Right let us say that when you were 5 years old your fathers Mother who is your grandmother gave birth to a baby girl whom she named  Well because Paula is your fathers sister even though she is 5 years younger than you she is your aunt. Got dear Abby will you please do me a big favor and print the following message in your column a if you see someone in a shopping mall a or on the Street a and this person has a child on the other end of a Leash please keep your Mouth shut a i am the Mother of two very Active boys. They Are 13 months apart the oldest is 4/i. I have nobody to leave them with so when i go shopping i take them with me and yes i put them in harnesses for their own safety and my peace of mind. Every time i take the kids out in Public with their harnesses on i get dirty looks and Nasty comments from strangers who say a those ainu to dogs lady a they a children a maybe if you put this in your column people will realize that i keep my kids on a Leash because i love them a not because in a mean. A a Loving mom in Durham . Dear mom Here a your letter. Done to worry about dirty looks or Nasty comments. I wonder How Many people Reading this wish they had had their kiddies on a Leash when they broke away from them and ran into the Street in the Middle of traffic  
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