European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 1, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 14 a the stars stripes sunday september 1, 1991faces no places red Fox gets task of Clearing Berlin Park of excessive rabbits from wire reports Berlin Park officials have turned to a Fox to reduce the Rabbit population that has boomed since the demise of the Berlin Wall. About 10,000 hungry rabbits have been gnawing through Flower Beds decades old Trees in the City scentral Park so authorities now Are waging what they Call Quot an environment Friendly Battle against them. A the number of rabbits has doubled in the past two years after the Berlin Wall was removed a said Norbert Bernhard of the tie Garten Park department. Before the Wall tumbled on nov. 9, 1989, rabbits found Little food in the Walls Broad death strip which was heavily sprayed with herbicides to provide armed Border guards with a clean line of fire. But since the Wall has gone the death strip has become overgrown with tender Young vegetation to butt serves As food for Berlin s rabbits. A they Are eating Trees Flowers a everything Quot Bernhard said. A even the volume of Rabbit fees is becoming a to solve the problem authorities have introduced Simson a 2-year-old red Fox that was trapped released in tie Garten Park last Winter. Quot we arc not allowed to use Poison in the Park so when i heard about Simson it seemed the perfect solution a Bernhard said. A we observed Simson he was a Clear Success catching on average one Rabbit a Day. Quot Simson will get help when the department releases an additional three foxes in the Park this Winter. Bernhard said authorities Are relying on Simson his friends to cat More than 1,000 rabbits a year a if percent of the tie Garten enters plea fitness guru Jack Lalanne pleaded no contest Friday in san Luis Obispo calif., to an alcohol related reckless driving charge. Lalanne s attorney entered the Pica to what prosecutors Call a a wet reckless Quot violation a less serious offence than the driving under the influx acc charge he faced. Deputy District attorney Karen Medeiros said that under the plea agreement Lalanne was ordered to pay a Fine of $525 was placed on court monitored probation for one year. Me also was ordered to attend traffic school. Medeiros said that if Lalanne had been convicted of Drunken driving he could have been jailed for two Days fined $1,0110 placed on probation for three years. Tie had an option of taking a trial dragging it out getting a lot of publicity or pleading it out Quot she said. Lalanne 7b, was stopped june 6 by a California Highway patrol officer who noticed his car weaving in the northbound lanes of Highway 1 about 10 Miles South of Morro Bay. Lalanne s blood alcohol Content registered 0.08 percent a the Legal limit a when he took a breath test that has a 0.02 percent margin of error Medeiros overturned an appeals court in Chicago has overturned the tax evasion convictions of twin Sisters Lynette Harris Leigh Ann Conley of Milwaukee who were accused of taking Money from an elderly millionaire in Exchange for sex. Harris Conley 36, were convicted of taking a total of nearly $1 million from David Kritzik a suburban Milwaukee millionaire not reporting the Money As income both women had insisted the Money was in the form gifts. Dennis Coffey Harris attorney said Friday that the worst is Over for his client. A a Good Deal of this is behind her but we still have some irs problems to resolve a Coffey said. Neither woman was available for comment Friday. The twins have appeared in Playboy two films. Kritzik who founded the treasure Island discount store Chain died in june 1990 at age 89.Preston charged Singer Billy Preston was charged Friday with cocaine Possession Misdemeanour sex offences stemming from an encounter with a 16-Ycar-old Day labourer. Preston whose career included a stint playing keyboards with the beatles in the 1970s, could be imprisoned for three years if convicted. Along with the single felony count of cocaine Possession Preston was charged with four misdemeanours child annoying exhibiting pornographic material to a minor Possession of an instrument to smoke a controlled substance being under the influence of cocaine said District attorney spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons. Quot the 44-year-old Singer songwriter free on $10,000 bail is scheduled to be arraigned sept. 19. Preston was arrested aug. 18 after the 16-year-old told sheriff s deputies that Preston had picked him up that morning in Malibu calif., at an intersection known As a gathering spot for Day labourers. The teen Ager said Preston began smoking cocaine showing him pornographic pictures. Speaking in Spanish. Preston allegedly began discussing How much the teen Ager was to be paid. Preston then allegedly took the youth to his Malibu Home where the boy began cleaning out a shed. Deputies said Preston grabbed the youth but he fled ran to a neighbor s House to report the incident. In the Early 1970s, Preston played the piano Solo on get Back other beatles hits. From 1972 to 1974, Preston had four Solo hits two of them Chart toppers will it go round in circles nothing from nothing. He also wrote the Ballad you Are so Beautiful recorded by British Rocker Joe Cocker. I Ann Landers dear Ann Landers in August 1988, you printed a bit of comic material that had been sent to you by a Friend in Washington . You said a the. Author is the piece i refer to was about a dog named sex. 1 am the person who wrote it. Will you kindly acknowledge this in your column sincerely yours Morty storm Brooklyn n y. Dear Morty storm it is my pleasure to give credit where it is due. The piece was hilarious. In a sure my readers who already have seen it will enjoy it again. Those who Haven to Are in for a big laugh. Here it is a dog named sex everybody who has a dog Calls him Rover or boy. 1 Call mine sex. He a a great pal but he has caused me a great Deal of embarrassment. When 1 went to City Hall to renew his dog License i told the clerk i would like a License for sex. He said a a in a like one too a there said a but this is atlog7�?T he said he did no to care what she looked like. Then 1 said a you done to understand i be had sex since i was 9 years he winked said a you must have been quite a when i got married went on my honeymoon i took the dog with me. 1 told the Motel clerk that i wanted a room for my wife me a special room for sex. He said a you done to need a special room. As Long As you pay your Bill we done to care what you i said a look you done to seem to understand sex keeps me awake at the clerk said a funny a i have the same one Day i entered sex in a contest but before the Competition began the dog ran away. Another contestant asked me Why i was just standing there looking disappointed. I told him i had planned to have sex in the contest. He told me 1 should have sold my own tickets. A but you done to understand a i said a i had hoped to have sex on he said a now that Cable is All Over the place its no big Deal when my wife i separated we went to court to fight for custody of the dog. I said a your Honor i had sex before i was the judge said a this courtroom Isnit a confessional. Stick to the Case then 1 told him that after 1 was married sex left me. He said that a not unusual. It happens to a lot of people. Last night sex ran off again. Spent hours looking around town for him a cop came Over to me asked a what Are you doing in this Alley at 4 of clock in the morning a 1 told him that i was looking for sex. My Case comes up Friday. Dear Ann Landers would you mind printing one More letter to give readers an idea of How much a billion is 1 thought 1 knew until i read this piece in the Farmers almanac if a company had started in business in the year . 1 with $1 billion in capital lost $1,000 each Day it would still be in business today almost 2,000 years later. That company would not go broke for another 800 years. That is just one billion. The savings loan bailout is going to Cost taxpayers $160 billion. Can you believe it a. Johnson Tampa dear . Yes i can believe it. But that a Only the latest projection which May be on the conservative Side. Have a Good Day. If possible. C creators Syndicate editor s note Abby is on a two week vacation. Following is a selection of some of her favorite past letters dear Abby my problem is my husband s driving. Whenever another Motorist Breaks one of the Highway Courtesy rules Ami cuts in front of my husband or passes him when another ear is coming in the opposite direction my husband has to get Hack at him. Hell pull up real Elisc to him or hell immediately pass him to let him know that he is not going to let him get away with anything. Sometimes he does no to like the Way a True Driver is driving so hell Start playing games with him. I get scared half to death beg him not to take such foolish chances hut he insists that he a going to Quot teach them a we be had a few minor scrapes several close culls but nothing really serious yet. He argues that he is a Safe Driver but to me that s not Safe. What a the matter with this 33-year-old baby How can 1 make him realize that that kind of driving is not Safe a worried in Oregon dear Abby dear worried part of my definition for maturity is a the ability to Bear an injustice without wanting to get your husband Isnit mature. Just keep on nagging him to let the other Guy have the Road a unless he a trying to beat him to the cemetery take you with him. Dear Abby i am 29 years old have seven kids am pregnant again. In be never been married but in be been engaged twice in be been pinned several times. Done to Tell me i should have been More careful because i was careful but nothing seemed to work with me. A doctor put me on birth control pills i followed his instructions but i turned up pregnant anyway. The doctor said it must have been the fault of the pills so he put me on another Brand the same thing happened. I be used other methods including marking the Calendar but they All failed. I must be one of those super Fertile types. I Don t want any More kids after this at least not until i get married but i done to want an operation to make me sterile because i might meet a Guy who wants a kid of his own then what will i do is there a method of birth control that is positively sure done to Send me to a doctor. They re the ones who got me into this fix. Fertile Myrtle dear Myrtle when it comes to birth control the Only method that s 100 percent effective is self control. You done to say who a supporting All those kids but if we taxpayers Are you owe it to your country to visit the planned parenthood people turn off that baby machine. Dear Abby i have two big Good looking sons one is 16 the other is 18, they be been fighting each other even since they were old enough to swing their arms. The 18-year-old just bought a car drove past he brother walking Down the Road he even Stop to give him a ride. 1 he 16-year-old, who Sas big As his brother keep it his clothes in better shape so the older one helps him Selt to his kid brother a clothes without asking. The boys tight cuss each other out like a couple of mule skinners. Who can t they act like brothers�?T1 dear mom a West Virginia mov they do. Cain Abel. C Universal press
