European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes sunday september 23,1990reason prevails Over regulation from wire reports the cookie monster soon will ride again in Jefferson county to. So will goofy the smurfs and other cartoon characters that had been taken off about 30 school buses earlier this month because of a state regulation allowing Only safety signs on the buses. Cartoon signs help youngsters find their buses especially Early in the year when they Are unfamiliar with their route numbers said state sen. Jay Nixon who had complained about the Rule to Missouri education commissioner Robert Dartman. The Rule a makes people believe that government is run by a Bunch of idiots a Nixon added in a letter to Hartman the state Hoard of education agreed with Nixon and changed the policy. A the restriction on signs is a Long standing outdated policy. It needed to be changed a Dartman said. Nixon said he expects the signs to go Back on buses this  plans 4th marriage trumpeter a1 Hirt will make his fourth trip Down the aisle when he weds Beverly Essel in her Hometown of Minnetonka Minn on dec. 29, according to his son in Law Ron Caron. Hirt has known Essyl a recent widow and a former dancer with Horace Ilc ids band for 40 years Caron said. Hirt who won a grammy award in 1963, has recorded More than 50 albums and ran a nightclub in the French Quarter of new Orleans for 22 years until a sluggish local Economy forced him to close it in 1983. Now on the Road with a five piece band Hirt is looking for a new Home in new Orleans for himself and the group Caron said. Hirt 68, divorced his third wife Zide Jah Chc Hirt in May 1989.mres flunk taste test Field rations issued to . Soldiers in operation desert shield flunked a taste test by some Youthful would be gourmets. Twenty two third graders at Saint Paul a school in Burlington City n.j., about 60 Miles Southwest of Newark sampled meals and were turned off when they had to squeeze the ready to eat entrees from Brown plastic pouches. A take your Choice a 8-year-old Brandi carnival said after sampling Beans in Tomato sauce and cheese and crackers. A a everything a  another youngster Mike Barclay said he liked what he ate but Wasny to sure what it was. A a it a great. What is it beef with Gravy a he said of an entree of dried pears saltines and a Brownie. The tasting was part of an English project that involved writing letters to american soldiers stationed in saudi  trying again after a rare failure play write Neil Simon is ready to try again. Simon closed his last play a a Jake a women a in san Diego rather than take it to Broadway As scheduled. But his new work a lost in Yonkers a is Broadway dear Abby in december of 1987,1 sent six Christmas cards to american servicemen through a operation dear  i received an especially Friendly response from 1st it. Tom Malone who was stationed in Germany. 1 answered his letter and we became pen pals and really got to know each other Well through our letters. When Tom came Home on leave in May 1988, we met for the first time. It was love at first sight and on Jan. 7, 1989, we were married yesterday Tom left for duty in the Middle East and the possibility now exists that these Brave men and women May still be in the Middle East for the Christmas holidays. If so it would be wonderful if they could be remembered through another a operation dear Abby letter writing Campaign. Thank you Abby for All you be done to make sure that the men and women in the military Are not forgotten during the holidays. Yvonne Malon imposter Twenty six year old Charles James Daugherty fooled teachers and classmates at Coronado High school in Colorado Springs colo., posing As a teen age girl and even making the school cheer leading squad before being unmasked after eight Days. He enrolled under the name Che yen Wetherley and told school officials that he had been studying under a Tutor in Greece. Bound in february. A a play that does no to work spurs you on to get Back to the typewriter much More than a hit does a Simon told the new York times. A when you have a hit you want to rest on your laurels. When i fell off my horse with a Jakes women a i wanted to get Back on real quickly. I think in a Back on the right  a lost in Yonkers a which is not autobiographical like a a Jake a women and the Brighton Beach trilogy will be tried out at the North Carolina school of the arts in Winston Salem. Its about two boys who live with their grandmother during world War  going on with film Spike Lee says he wont be intimidated by racists who have plagued the filming of his latest movie Quot Jungle  police Are guarding filming locations after vandals broke out windows at the Floral fantasy a new York Flower shop and threatened its owner for allowing Blacks to use it for the movie. A fall in a trying to do is make a movie in the Beautiful Borough of Brooklyn a Lee said. A a in a going to continue to shoot the  a Jungle fever is about the relationship Between a Black Man and an italian woman in Brooklyn a Bensonhurst Section which was the site of a racial mob killing in 1989 that polarized the  not funny to Allen Veteran comedian Steve Allen says he does no to find anything Hinny about televisions trend toward stronger language and adult oriented themes. Allen lashed out at current television trends in an opinion piece published in the los Angeles times. The Quot flow is carrying us All along right into the sewer a he wrote. A the very sort of language parents forbid their children to use is now being encouraged not Only by any thing goes Cable entrepreneurs but the once High minded networks a said Allen who hosted a 1950s comedy variety series. A shows that depict children and others using vulgar language Only Point up the collapse of the american family he said. A the Best humor when it is not simply purely playful says something witty and Wise about the issues it confronts a said  Ford Home for Sale one of former president Fords childhood Homes is on the auction Block. The grand rapids Mich Public museum decided to sell the House after years of unsuccessful efforts to raise Money to renovate it turn it into a museum or to find a Long term Benefactor. Bidding will open at Only $3,000, but museum officials have estimated the House would Cost $51,000 to renovate. Interior Walls and ceilings Are cracked or deteriorated and the House needs major plumbing and electrical work. Ford lived in the House from 1923, when he was 10, until 1930. He has endorsed the Sale which wont take place before mid october. Ford lived in eight houses in the City he came to at age 2. Pm knife writing memoirs after nearly 20 years of thinking about it Walter Cronkite has sat Down to write his memoirs. A a it a definitely not an expose of lbs although i spent 40 years there a Cronkite said from his House on Martha a Vineyard. The chapter he is working on will serve As the material for the Theodore h. White memorial lecture that Cronkite will deliver nov. 15 at the John of Kennedy school of government at Harvard. A a it son the Media and politics an examination of what we re doing to each other a Cronkite said. The Book is to be completed next year and published in 1992, said Ashbel Green a vice president and senior editor at Alfred a.  by Tough love new York mayor David Dinkins told a group of clergy and children the tale of a Petty thief reformed by Tough love a himself. Dinkins described How As a child he stole reflectors from a License plate to decorate a a skate Scooter a which he described As a two by four and a Soapbox with skates on either end. He said a police officer a who happened to be an african american caught me because i was the slowest and the  the officer told his Mother and grandmother who were a crushed that their Nice Little boy could do this terrible  he said they did not usually spank him but this time a they took All my clothes off stood me in the Bathtub and beat me with  dear Abby , because of you i can count myself among the proud sorority of army wives. Dear Yvonne congratulations to you and Tom. Please read on dear Abby in be read Many letters from the army and Navy top brass commending you for the morale boosting Man generated through a operation dear  you deserve a whole Bunch of Atta girls for your efforts. This morning As i watched the news it occurred to me that a Blitz of mail would lift the spirits of those serving in the Middle East 8,000 Miles from Home in a hot and hostile environment. How about it Abby can you Check with the military honchos and ask if an Quot operation dear Abby a desert shield can be mounted mail from Home is a terrific morale Booster. I am a Long married woman in my mid-50s who Isnit interested in a Romance but if you can get the go ahead for the project and publish the address i Promise to Send 10 letters of encouragement and appreciation the Day it appears in your column. Jean putt los Angeles dear Jean thanks to sgt. Mary m. Ratliff immediate clearance has been received from the Pentagon. We Are advised that Only cards and letters can be flown to those men and women serving in the Middle East a that the military is not equipped to handle packages of any kind. I Hope my readers will respond again. Service organizations schoolchildren grandparents retired people veterans a anyone who has the time and heart to write a please participate in this patriotic morale boosting Campaign. Address your cards and letters for the army air Force and marines stationed on land to any service member operation dear Abby a desert shield Apo . 09848-0006. For the Navy and marines on ships any service member operation dear Abby a desert shield Fpo . 09866-0006. Universal press Syndicate