European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 15, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes Friday March 15,1991 faces a no places wants to have hot tourist trap from wire reports entrepreneur will Herron believes a giant Roadside thermometer will put some sizzle in the Noi so hot tourist Trade in Baker Calif. Herron says his proposed 134-foot-tall, red and Black thermometer would compel motorists to Stop in the desert town by advertising one of its better known features searing heat that often soars past 100 degrees in the summer. The thermometers height denotes the hottest temperature Ever recorded in the United states 134 degrees registered in nearby death Valley in 1913. Herron 66, says his development company even will cover the estimated $750,000 Cost. Not everyone in Baker is hot for the idea soon to be considered by the san Bernardino county planning commission. A we rely on tourism and when people see How hot it is it la just make them want to stay in the Comfort of their air conditioned cars Quot said businessman Steve Baumgarner. Herron notes Baker once was the last Oasis for travellers bound from los Angeles to Las vegas 90 Miles Northeast on interstate 15. Over the years however the town has lost its share of desert traffic to glitzy casinos lining the Calif Omla Nevada Border 50 Miles away. Quot i know it s Tacky a Herron said. A if its a mistake then they can write a Here lies an idiot on my Tombstone. But it might work. Besides its my  a a. A Quot Brando autobiography random House reportedly has agreed to pay Marlon Brando a seven figure sum for his autobiography. A. A the Book will finally reveal the Man behind the legend a Harry Evans publisher of random House said in the new York times. The reclusive actor has agreed to Complete the Book by 1993. The exact amount he will be paid was not disclosed. Evans said the Book will focus on Brando a troubled private life and his career. The Actoris son Christian was re Brando gently sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting to death his half Sisters Lover Brando has starred in such movies As a last tango in Paris and a apocalypse  he won oscars for a on the waterfront Quot and a the  s a strict vegetarian a High school Junior in Mah Capac n.y., says she lost a $700 scholarship to live and study in Japan because she a a strict vegetarian. Laurie Warnecke a 17year-old Honor student at Mahopac High school won the scholarship for a 10-week trip to Japan through youth for understand-., ing a Washington based student Exchange program. But the group  find a vegetarian Host family for Warnecke and the japanese base of the organization ultimately rejected her program spokeswoman Kate Perrin said monday. Warnecke said she has been accepted by a vegetarian family in Denmark but must pay for the entire trip herself.$1 million offer refused prison bound Leona Helmsley offered to put up $1 million to pay for a ticker tape Parade planned in new York for operation desert storm troops but was turned Down. Mayor David Dinkins said he wants the Parade to be a a a people a  after Helmsley was told of Dinkins decision she decided not to give  like a Glacier Ronald Reagan a official biographer admits he can to get a Good fix on the former president. The Best Edmund Morris can do is compare Reagan to a Glacier. In remarks printed in the newsletter of the White Burkett Miller Center of Public affairs at the University of Virginia Morris described Reagan As a the most mysterious Man i have Ever  a it is impossible to understand  Morris who won a pulitzer prize for his biography of Theodore Roosevelt started work on Reagan in 1985 but says he went through a Long period of depression because he did not understand the first thing about Reagan despite All his research. A i Only came out of this despair when i found out that everybody else who had Ever known him including his wife is equally bewildered a he said. Home a Day late  leaving pageant after nine years As emcee of the miss America pageant Gary Collins has Sung his last Quot there she is a pageant director Leonard Horn said a new Host has not been selected. He refused to say whether former Host Bert Parks who appeared on the pageant s 70th anniversary show last year would be  assassination film Dallas county officials voted tuesday to allow Oliver Stone Access to the Texas school Book depository to film a  his film on the assassination of preside Mckennedy. Kevin Costner plays James Garrison the former new Orleans prosecutor who maintained the shooting was a conspiracy Between the Cia and the Fri county commissioners agreed to permit use of the a depository s vacant seventh floor but Stone and co producer Clayton Townsend said they would press for filming from the sixth floor from where Lee Harvey Oswald shot the president. That area is now a historic site. See saw Golf course former University of Texas football coach Darrell Royal bought Willie Nelsons Golf course and country club intending to sell it Back to him someday. A a in a going to sell it Back to Willie anytime he wants it a Royal said a and he wants it  the internal Revenue service seized several of Nelsons properties to help Settle the singers $16.7 million tax debt. Royal bought the Pedernales country club Complex for $117,350 at an auction. Nelson Mike Wallace recovering non smoking Princess Mike Wallace of �?o60 minutes was feeling Fine and going Home to new York wednesday a lbs spokes Man said Wallace 72, fainted tuesday while aboard an Mem grand airlines flight awaiting take off at los Angeles International Airport. He spent the night in a Hospital As a precaution before heading Princess Diana takes a Tough stance against smoking. A you will find that there is no smoking in my House and no ashtrays either a the Princess said wednesday to an anti smoking group on Britain s seventh annual no smoking Day. Diana is married to Prince Charles heir to the British throne. New . 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