European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 21, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 12 the stars and stripes wednesday november 21,1990 faces no places Atlanta s games bid spoofs climate Issue from wire reports now that Atlanta has the 1996 summer games in the bag a local menus club has launched a Tongue in Cheek Campaign to promote the City As Host for the 1998 Winter olympics the Atlanta millionaires club has suggested activities including slalom tractor pulls snowmobile demolition derbies and contests to determine who is most guilt free about taking off work because of a few Snow flurries. The temperature a did no to Stop us from getting the summer olympics a said lawyer Tully Haze chairman of the Winter events committee. Quot we can to think Small Billy Payne who put together the winning proposal for the 1996 games will serve As honorary chairman for the groups unofficial Kickoff for its 1998 donations collected during the kick off will go to the Howard schools which help those in the City with learning disabilities. Hazell said the club would not let Atlanta a Winter temperatures with average highs in the 60s be a deterrent for the Campaign. A once we put our climate Issue behind us 1 think Atlanta has a lot of things to offer As the site of the Winter games a Hazell said. A first of All its generally pretty warm Here in february so you probably wont have to get All bundled up when you go out to watch the group gala poets amp writers is 20 years old not bad for an organization whose main industries Are poetry readings publishing directories of writers and agents and maintaining an information Center for writers and an Exchange that brings Young poets and fiction writers to new York. To celebrate the anniversary there will be a gala Ball at the columns on dec. 6, with Jacqueline Kennedy Onas Sis William Styron and Leonard Riggio president and chief executive of b. Dalton books As hosts. Poets amp writers helps writers Early in their careers and the organization enjoys the support of Many established writers. Among those expected to attend Are Wendy Wasserstein Erica Jong Calvin Trillin and about 600 others. A poets amp writers is a saintly Little service organization for writers across the country a . Doctorow said. A it tells them where the jobs Are the Reading gigs the Grants the competitions and it brings them news of each his window when a 5-year-old Mountain View calif., boy woke up and found a Drunken Sailor in the adjoining bed his reaction was natural a he got mom and dad. The youngster woke his parents at 7 . To Tell them a a there a a stranger in my other indeed a Man was fast asleep a fully dressed under the covers. The parents called police who came to the apartment and woke the uninvited guest. The intruder a 22-year-old in a Navy uniform told police he had no idea How head got there according to a report in the san Jose Calif Mercury news. Apologetically the Sailor confessed to having had too much to drink. He apparently climbed in an open window and went to bed thinking he was sneaking into his Moffett Field Barracks about half a mile away. The family did no to press charges and police let the Sailor go. The newspaper did not identify the family or the Sailor. Mountain View is about 45 Miles South of san s studies Grant actor Paul Newman has donated $10,000 from his Newman a own food line to is. Magazines educational resource program which is used by some 2,000 colleges nationwide the Magazine announce the periodicals program a the world of women was started years ago when women a studies began cropping up on campuses but educators found a there were no textbooks a publisher Ruth Bower said. Is. Was initially Given to the colleges for free to use in classroom studies for women a sociology and psychology courses. The program ran into trouble in 1989 when is. Ceased publication for nine months. Is. Was sold and retooled into an and free Magazine published every other month. It was relaunched in july. Since resuming publication is. Has sought donations to enable it to keep distributing the Magazine to colleges for at Home by the numbers Ganesh sit Tapiam takes a break from working on is computer at his Home in London. The 11-year-old, whose parents come from sri Lanka was hailed on monday As Hie youngest student in a British University. Ganesh attends a school with children is own age in Wimbledon but for mathematics goes to Surrey University in Guildford where according to the faculty he manages to cram a year s work into one Day a week among students nearly twice is ago. Free. Newman is just one of Many contributors most of whom ask to remain Anonymous Bower said. Newman a company based at Westport conn., donates All its profits to thai monkeys invitations have gone out and hundreds of monkeys Are eagerly awaiting their second annual sit Down Brunch Courtesy of a grateful hotel owner. Yon Yoot Kiewatt Anusorn owner of the lop Buri inn said he is spending $32,000 to throw the Bash a Complete with waiters menus and napkins a for about 600 monkeys. Yon Yoot offers the meal to thank the monkeys for the Success of his hotel in lop Buri Thailand a Small provincial capital about 70 Miles North of Bangkok. The monkeys who stay at the Buddhist shrine of wat Pra Kara Are symbols of Good Fortune and a prime attraction for tourists. He said he sent 60 invitation cards to the monkeys who grabbed them and leapt Back up the shrine. A we invite All the monkeys to attend a meal party on the occasion of the second anniversary of the lop Buri inn. On nov. 25 at 10 .,�?� the cards said. It will be a sit Down affair if Yon Yoot can keep the furry creatures seated at the 50 tables. A we will serve vegetarian food including american Fried Rice vegetable salad papaya various kinds of fruit and dessert a he said in a Telephone interview. A last year tens of thousands of people came to see the lop Buri monkeys eat the food we hosted for them a he said. Dear readers Here san update on my traditional thanksgiving column tomorrow is thanksgiving so Why not take a few minutes to count your blessings How a your health you have a few minor complaints Well thank god they re not major. Obviously you re still alive. You can probably think of at least one person who Isnit around this year. 1 can if you awakened this morning and were Able to hear the Birds sing use your vocal cords to utter human sounds walk to the table on two Good legs and read the newspaper with two Good eyes or even on Praise the lord a lot of people say a prayer for those who perished in a fire a flood an earthquake or an Accident How a your pocketbook thin Well most of the world is a lot poorer. No pensions. No welfare. No food Stamps. No social Security. No medicare. In fact one third of the people in the world will go to bed hungry tonight would you rather be in Poland the soviet Union or Iraq god forbid Are you lonely the Way to have a Friend is to be one. If nobody Calls you pick up the phone and Call Domebo dear Abby by. Go out of your Way to do something Nice for someone. Its a sure cure for the blues. Are you concerned about your country a future Hooray our system has been saved by such concern. If you done to like your elected officials you can go to work and vote them out of office. We still have the Soapbox and the ballot Box. Freedom rings you can still worship at the Church of your Choice or not worship at All if you done to want to. You can cast a secret ballot or criticize your government without fearing a Knock on the head or a Knock at your door in the Middle of the night. And if you prefer to live under a different system goodbye and Good Luck. You Are free to go. There Are no Walls or barbed wire fences to keep you Here. In closing ill repeat my thanksgiving prayer. Perhaps you will want to use it at your table tomorrow. Let one of the children read it a to heavenly father we thank thee for food and remember the hungry. A we thank thee for health and remember the sick. A we thank thee for friends and remember the Friend i6ss be for Freedom and remember the thu amp Vecdi a May these remembrances stir us to service a that thy gifts to us May he used for others. A and dear god please bless and watch Over our men and women in the persian Gulf and bring them Home safely a and soon. have a wonderful thanksgiving and May god bless you and yours. A love Abby . Special greetings to those of you in the military who wrote from Korea Okinawa Japan and the Philippines to Tell me you Are using my thanksgiving prayer. Dear Abby i just read the letter from a Kansas Sunflower a the Bride to be who wanted a Man instead of a woman to stand up for her at her wedding. Abby that was one of the most touching letters i have Ever read. She said a a Leone had seen her through the death of a Parent an attempted suicide and a bout with cancer and chemotherapy. Add to that 10 years of Loyal Friendship. What a Beautiful tribute to pay her Mother however objects to her Choice saying having a a Man of Honor would make her the laughingstock of the town. Abby who cares what the towns people think i done to know the Bride but i would love to Send her a wedding present. A a Man from Texas c Universal press Syndicate
