European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 5, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 c the stars and stripes thursday september 5,1991 Dottie West Dies at 58 of Auto wreck injuries Nashville Tenn. Apr country Singer Dottie West died wednesday morning of injuries suffered in i car wreck Friday on the Way to perform at the grand Ole opry a Hospital spokeswoman said. The 58-year-old Singer songwriter who won country music a first grammy for a female vocalist died at 9 43 . Cd said Barbara Cramer spokeswoman for Vanderbilt University medical Center. West died during a third operation to repair her liver which was severely damaged in the car Accident. She was probably Best known for the hit song country Sunshine and duets with Kenny Rogers who praised her wednesday As someone who a Sang emotions rather than words. Her career spanned More than 25 years and yielded Solo hits like Here comes my baby the 1964 hit that won the first grammy for country music performance by a female vocalist. Her late 1970s duets with Rogers produced a series of hits including every time two foots collide and what Are we doing in love. In a statement wednesday Rogers said that when West a Sang about pain she Felt pain when she Sang about love she Felt love and when she Sang about Beauty she Felt that Beauty. While some people Sang words she Sang  Rogers had gone to Nashville on tuesday to visit his Friend and told her she would get better and they would record together. In recent years West a financial fortunes had tumbled and she was forced to file for bankruptcy in 1990 with More than $1 million in debts. New York apr Rice University a Century old Texas school known for top flight engineering and science programs Heads a list of the nations 100 Best College buys in a Magazine Survey. Money magazines second annual Money guide which goes on Sale for $3.95 at Newsstands monday called the Houston University the nations Best Overall tuition value after analysing 1,011 colleges and universities. The top 100 list had 56 private schools including the Massachusetts Institute of technology Yale Stanford and the University of Chicago which charge More than $16,000 in tuition but Wei a nonetheless judged As excellent values. Rice with a $1 billion endowment charges its 3,900 students $7,700 in tuition plus $4,900 in room and Board roughly half the expenses most Ivy league students pay until 1965, it charged no tuition at All. Rice was founded in 1891 by Cotton Baron William Marsh Rice whose dream was to establish a first rate College open to All regardless of Means. Rice a engineering business and science programs rank among the nations Best. On the Cost Side the Survey rated schools based on los Angeles apr a comic claiming he lost Money in a collapsed savings and loan Bank swatted Charles h. Keating jr., its owner with a powdered wig tuesday during a break in Keatings trial. Keating was hit with the wig outside the courtroom where he son trial on 20 counts of duping Lincoln savings investors into believing High yield High risk Bonds were Safe. Lincoln a $2.6 billion failure was the biggest Ever. Many elderly investors a including at least one who committed suicide a lost their life savings on Keatings junk Bonds and the Case has become a Symbol of the nations a amp a disasters. A this is for America Quot yelled comedian skip e. Lowe pulling a powdered blonde wig from a tote bag and swinging it at Keatings head. A the Jerk he killed people a said Lowe a Short 62-Ycar-old. Lowe was unable to reach the head of the 6-foot-5 Keating with his wild swings. The irs held an auction of West a belongings during the annual country music fan fair this summer. West attended signed autographs and bid on some of the items. West underwent emergency surgery the night of her Accident and again monday to repair deep cuts in her liver. Neither operation successfully stopped the bleeding surgeons later said. She had been driven to the Opiyo by George Thackston 81, who also was critically injured in the Accident. Thackston a wife Billye Ruth said West a car had broken Down and she asked him for a ride. West was born oct. 11, 1932, the eldest of 10 children in a poor farm family in Mcminnville outside Nashville. She began songwriting in 1961, starting out with other struggling artists like Willie Nelson and Roger Miller. West a image was High heeled boots skintight pants Low Cut blouses and West Western hats. But she once told an interviewer that she at first turned Down a duet with Kris Kristofferson on help me make it through the night because the lyrics were too suggestive. Eventually she made the record. Tuition. It used out of state charges for Public schools to make them More comparable to private institutions. In measuring educational Quality the Survey used such indicators As student to faculty ratio average Scholastic aptitude test scores Library Quality graduation rates percentage of graduates who earn doctorates and the number of graduates who make Standard amp poor a Survey of 70,000 top corporate executives. Cooper Union which topped last years Survey dropped out of the top 100 this year. The new York City school remains an a unbeatable bargain at $300 a year the Magazine said but offers degrees Only in Art architecture and engineering Harvard which has a policy of not publicizing sat scores and other data used in calculating the Money standings did not make this years list. The other schools in this year s top 10 Best buys were new College of the University of South Florida Sarasota Trenton state College . University of Virginia Charlottesville University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign California Institute of technology Pasadena state University of new York at Binghamton University of Washington Seattle University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Texas at Austin. But he connected twice with Keatings shoulder sending showers of powder into the air. In an interview Lowe said he lost a Large amount of Money he made entertaining troops in Vietnam. A Friend who said she toured with him Margee Mcglory said she lost $50,000 and Lowe lost $100,000 on Bonds sold by american Continental corp., Lincoln a Parent company. It was the second physical confrontation with Keating during his month old trial. At the end of the trials first Day a 72-year-old woman who lost $5,000 on Lincoln Bonds pushed her Way to the front of the court and grabbed Keating by the lapels shouting a you took All my Money away a like Lowe the woman was led away by bailiffs but not arrested. Keating cringed briefly at the attack tuesday but quickly ducked Back into court and regained his composure.  in three states picket first Day of school from wire reports teachers in Pennsylvania Rhode Island and Michigan spent the first Day of school on the picket lines tuesday and More than 35,000 students stayed Home. In Dallas meanwhile More than 2,000 High school students and supporters marched on school District Headquarters tuesday in a Daylong protest of teacher layoffs. Some 225 teachers were Laid off last week due to budget cuts from reduced state Aid and 100 More Are facing Pink slips this week a school spokesman said. But a strike was averted in Seattle when teachers voted overwhelmingly tuesday to accept a contract offer one Day before classes were to open in the states largest school  killed in shootout new York a two Staten Island neighbors were in custody wednesday after a shooting spree that ended in the death of one Man during a dispute Between the families Over a pet dog police said. Brian Collins 34, was charged with second degree murder and weapons Possession in the death of neighbor Christopher Merola 21, said police spokeswoman sgt. Mary Wrensen. The dead Many a brother Ralph Merola 29, also was arrested on a weapons charge As Well As reckless endangerment for shooting at the alleged killer a but instead hitting an innocent bystander. Police said that the violent clash entered on the Collinss pet dog and his urinating on some backyard bushes.3 deputies charged los Angeles a three los Angeles county sheriffs deputies and a computer technician have been charged with systematically stealing credit cards from motorists District attorney Ira Reiner said tuesday. A working in teams Over a three month period these deputies used their badges to systematically steal More than $55,000 from unsuspecting citizens a Reiner said. Computer technician Mario Rendon 35, of Alhambra and the deputies a Steven Switzer 31, of Glendale Brent Mosley 27, of Rancho Cucamonga and Edward Perez 35, of Rialto a Are charged with a total of 56  impaled worker rolling Hills estates Calif. A construction worker plunged More than Halfway Down a 46-foot excavation pit tuesday before being impaled on a steel reinforcing bar. The incident occurred about 12 45 . At a construction site where a drilling company was excavating holes for the foundation of an apartment building. The worker whose name was not immediately released was taken by helicopter to county har Bor Urcla medical Center with the steel bar still embedded in his shoulder. He was reported in stable  Back in prison Madison wis. Jeffrey l. Dahmer who admitted killing and dismembering 17 men and boys was transferred tuesday from Milwaukee county jail to a state prison when his probation in a molestation Case was revoked. Dahmer must serve the rest of a five year sentence for child molestation at the Columbia county prison in Portage 40 Miles North of Madison said Michael Sullivan Deputy Secretary of the state department of corrections. Dahmer 31, a former factory worker was arrested after police found the remains of 11 dismembered bodies in his Milwaukee apartment july 22. He has since been charged with 15 counts of first degree intentional homicide. An arraignment was set for next tuesday in Milwaukee county court. Dahmer served 10 months of his sentence before his release. Rice tops Survey of colleges offering most for your Money Keating swatted with powdered wig