European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 16, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday october 16, 1990 the stars and stripes a Page 5colorado prep band s sizzling stroll fizzles grand Junction Colo. A the marching band at grand Junction Central High school has gotten cold feet Over doffing their footwear and hot footing it across a bed of burning coals this month. Band members had planned to attend a motivational seminar called a the firewall  it concludes with a Barefoot walk across burning coals reputed to be 1,200 degrees. Fire walking Counselor Michael Douglas said the feat would be painless and will show people that a they can shatter self imposed  a it motivates people to reach their Peak performance a said Douglas who has used the technique in his work As a drug and alcohol Counselor. However parents got concerned Over safety and liability and band Leader Gary ambrosier said Central High school principal Bill Lange decided if a student got Hurt the school could get m real trouble. A the last thing i want is a lawsuit brought against me and the school a he said. Ambrosier said he had hoped the experience would improve the band members marching and music and also their grades and their self Confidence. Ambrosier came up with the idea after seeing a video of the Mesa state College football team and coaching staff performing a similar feat last week after listening to Douglas two hour presentation. A if those Clunk Heads can go across i can too a ambrosier said. John Taylor a University of Colorado physics professor known As a emr. Wizard for his a physics for fun television show has walked on red hot coals numerous times. A i think the main Point is that these coals Are poor conductors of heat. As you stand on them briefly there Isnit enough time for the heat to Transfer into your feet a said Taylor. He said the key is to walk deliberately and not Dawdle. A you done to have to run but in be never heard of anyone standing on the coals a Taylor  in concert of All places at West Point by the new York times West Point . It could have been just another Bob Dylan concert Complete with sneering pointed lyrics jamming electric guitars and a few reflective ballads. But this time the Hall was packed with future army leaders. Dylan who galvanized the 1960s Antiwar movement played to a standing ovation saturday night at the Dwight d. Eisenhower Hall theater at the . Military Academy. Among the crowd of 4,020 were hundreds of vocal West Point cadets who were clearly in Bliss from the music. The clean Cut future officers in their Gray uniforms danced in the aisles shimmied their shoulders and pumped their arms in the air. Some accompanied the songs with riffs on imaginary guitars still others a ogled up and Down and a few just smiled As they mingled with civilian a a groupies in tie dyed to shirts. When Dylan played his most famous anti War song a a blowing in the wind a at the end of the concert Many of the cadets stood closed their eyes and Sang along. A a in be been Here for four years and this is the Best time in be Ever had a said Cadet Bob Dylan Steven j. Ravioli or. A to get cadets to unleash is really something and Bob Dylan did it tonight. We re not politically agreeing with Bob Dylan. We re just shifting All that stuff aside and enjoying his  this was Dylan a first appearance at West Point and its announcement several weeks ago was met with a mixed if muffled reception. No Public protest of the event occurred but Many at the Academy said friends and faculty had griped about the decision to invite a that hippie to perform on the eve of general Eisenhower a 100th birthday. Others were upset that the concert had been scheduled during the one fall weekend when cadets were allowed to leave the Campus. On saturday the Academy was almost abandoned As a majority of the 4,400 cadets were visiting their Homes. The Academy a cultural arts director William Yost said that he had hoped to schedule the event for Homecoming weekend but that Dylan had not been available then. Only through Chance was Yost Able fil0 to find an available weekend the radio City rockette postponed their performance at West Point for saturday a Date that Dylan was free. Yost said he had been trying to bring Dylan to West Point for several years and was ecstatic about the show. A we try to expose the cadets to a Broad Range of events everything from opera to George bums a he said. A Dylan is a figure who has had an important Impact Over the last decade. Theres no reason we  present  Dylan a representative said the Singer did not see saturdays concert As anything out of the Ordinary. A Bob Dylan is doing pretty much the same thing that he has been doing for the last 30 years a Dylan a press agent Elliott Mintz said. A the nature of the venue is not of great importance to Bob. He a just  but Many hard Core Dylan fans Shook their Heads in disbelief As they entered the auditorium walking under banners for the screaming eagles 101st airborne div a air assault and hell on wheels 2nd army div. They said the concert in a setting they variously described As a weird a a bizarre a and the a belly of the beast a had a special  than 100 felled by fumes in Las vegas Las vegas up a More than 100 gamblers and vacationers complaining of nausea and breathing difficulties were hospitalized sunday after being overcome by an apparent release of sewer Gas inside two Las vegas strip hotel casinos. The release of fumes forced the temporary closure of a basement recreational level of the Excalibur hotel known As a fantasy fair and the evacuation of rooms on the 22nd floor in the Paradise Tower of the Tropicana hotel Casino. A dispatcher for mercy ambulance said 107 people were transported to area hospitals in the afternoon and two ambulances remained on standby at the resorts into the evening. Hospital attendants said most of the people were treated primarily by administering oxygen and released. A it looks As if some sewer Gas backed up affecting the Excalibur and Tropicana a said Clark county health officer or. Otto Ravenholt. Ravenholt said sundays incident probably resulted from an overload of the sewer system. A it is More than Likely a Load of use when you consider the number of people the weekend brings to a couple of establishments like these. It May tax the sewer system capacity. If anything stops functioning you can have yourself a problem a he said. Traffic on the Las vegas strip at Tropicana Boulevard was snarled for several hours because of scores of emergency vehicles coupled with the usual heavy weekend traffic. The two hotel casinos Are located across the strip from each other and have a combined total of about 7,000 rooms. A it has been a sizable response to a relatively Mun Dane problem a said Ravenholt. A but the examination of How it came about and How it can be precluded will take Days or  a sewer line problem was reported East of the strip earlier sunday. A it May be related a said Ravenholt. The fantasy fair level a below Street area of the Excalibur hotel was evacuated sunday afternoon when scores of customers complained of nausea headaches scratchy throats and breathing difficulty. The problem was detected about noon at the Excalibur hotel and a Short time later at the Tropicana. Hotel spokesmen said the bad air in both hotels was cleared and operations returned to Normal within three hours. Emergency equipment remained on standby at both resorts four hours after the first patients were hospitalized. Black la. Candidate blames racial hatred for harassment Sands of time Shreveport la. A the first Black Ever to make a Runoff for mayor in Shreveport says he thinks racial hatred May have been the motive of whoever festooned his front Yard with toilet paper. A this makes me More determined to be mayor of this town a . Simpkins said saturday looking at the Yards of toilet paper draped through Trees and Bushes. A i think that this Speaks for just a Small number of people in Shreveport a Simpkins a Democrat added. A in my talking to people especially White people i feel that they would be appalled by  Simpkins said Anonymous callers have threatened to kill him or his wife Elaine unless he dropped out of the race. Some have identified themselves As Kun flux klan members he said. He said a woman caller woke him and his wife saturday and told them to look at their Yard then called again a few moments later spewing obscenities. Simpkins a dentist led the oct. 6 primary m which All candidates competed regardless of party with 32 percent of the vote and faces Republican City Council member Hazel Beard in the nov. 6 election. Beard said she was worried the incident would foment racial tension in the City. She said her family also has received threatening phone Calls and letters adding a a it a no secret that in be Long ago disavowed hatred in any  the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Oct. 16,1950 a the . Immigration service would admit German and italian War brides at least temporarily despite the strict new internal Security act officials said.30 years ago today. Oct. 16,1960 a sen. John f. Kennedy d.-mass., declared that vice president Richard Nixon a record of Public actions was a so changeable and contradictory that his political philosophy defies definition.�?�20 years ago today. Oct. 16,1970 a Exchange system employee Raymond Birch 46, and his wife 32, were sentenced to jail in Frankfurt for the sadistic treatment of their turkish housemaid who had been jabbed in the buttocks with a knife burned starved and repeatedly beaten.7 0 years ago today. Oct. 16, 1980 a the . Army a commander in Europe Gen. Frederick Kroesen said that if Usa eur were to go to War it would be with obsolescent weapons. He said that a the introduction of modern equipment was something owed to soldiers