European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 30, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday october 30,1991weeping father recounts muggers attack new York up a in halting sobbing testimony the father of a slain tourist from Utah testified at the murder trial of four youths accused of attacking his family with knives on a Midtown subway platform. Sherman Watkins 47, became lost in grief while on the stand monday his head buried in both hands As he mumbled a Why Why. I cannot understand Why they killed him he was such a Good  the Watkins family was in town for the . Open Tennis tournament and was headed for dinner sept. 2, 1990, when they were attacked. Brian Watkins died while trying to defend his parents. Watkins testified that a weight 10 or 12�?� Young men attacked his wife two sons and daughter in Law Yelling and brandishing two knives. The marketing manager from Provo Utah told the state supreme court jury that he himself was knocked Down and wounded with an Orange handled Box Cutter As one of the youths ripped out $200 from his pants. His son was grabbed from behind and stabbed with a Silver coloured knife. Watkins said he Brian his other son Todd and Todd a wife Michelle followed the laughing youths As they fled up the subway stairs. But Brian collapsed near a Token Booth. A a a Briana a been stabbed a Todd told me. We tried to get someone to help us a the father testified. A Michelle asked that i give Brian a Blessing. So i gave him a Blessing then went outside to a phone Booth to Call the  his mortally wounded son was still alive when police and an ambulance arrived. Brian whispered a a a i done to know Why they did thatty me. I done to know Why they would do it to anybody a a Watkins testified. The Young Man died about 45 minutes later at St. Vincent a Hospital. Within half an hour police took the father through the neighbourhood in a police car and they spotted two of the attackers he said. The victims Mother Karen also was expected to testify about the mugging. Justice Edwin Torres a judge with a Tough reputation has said testimony against the first four defendants to be tried in the Case will last at least six weeks. In opening arguments earlier monday attorney Dana Hanna representing defendant Emiliano Fer court employees Cany a Model of the subway station where Tennis fan Brian Watkins was fatally stabbed in 1990. Zandez said his client was not picked out of a lineup by the Watkins family because a the was not present at the fatal stabbing. Fernandez confessed to participating in the subway attack because he was a lied to tricked fooled and pressured by police Hanna said. Officers told the suspect that the Only Way he would be allowed to go Home was to make a self implicating statement the attorney said. Defense attorney David Touger said his client Ricardo Nova was not read his Miranda rights and was denied other rights by police who never told him they were investigating anything but a an Accident in the  each of the eight defendants is from Queens and 19 years old. Each is charged with felony murder and robbery. Also among the first four to stand trial in the Case Are Pascal Carpenter and Johnny Hincapie. A separate trial is scheduled for remaining defendants including one who is also charged with intentional  defendant Yuli Gary Morales allegedly wielded the knife used to kill Brian  employee lands $24 million Jackpot Columbus Ohio up Charles Pease jr., Winner of Ohio a $24 million super lotto Jackpot plans to take the Money and move to Japan. Pease a civil Engineer at Andrews fab near Washington was introduced monday As the mysterious Winner of the oct. 12 drawing More than two weeks after the fact. Pease after learning he had the Only winning ticket made a Surprise trip to Japan to inform his wife Cynthia a major in the air Force stationed in Japan since mid july. A i told her one Day when i was talking to her a give me your room number and building number so when i win the lottery i can Knock on your door in the Middle of the night and Surprise  and that a what f did. I just bought my ticket flew Over there and knocked on the  he said he did no to come Forward to claim the winnings sooner because he did no to want to ruin his Surprise visit. Pease a winning ticket actually was bought by his sister Dottie Pease and a Friend of hers Thursa Stair both of Germantown md., they were in Columbus to get treatment for their dog at the Ohio state University school of veterinary Medicine. Pease had Given them $100 to buy five weeks Worth of tickets. They purchased the tickets at a carryout store in suburban Westerville. The numbers however were hand picked by Pease. He also had three other tickets from the same drawing with four numbers each and two with three numbers earning him an additional $234. The winning numbers were 3,4, 9,19, 41 and 46. Pease had played his birthday March 4 3 and 4his wife a birthday sept. 19 9 and 19his year of birth 41 and his wife a year of birth 46. Pease will receive $706,153 each year for the next 26 years after state and Federal taxes Are withheld. He said a about one third of it ill give to relatives and  a like Cynthia and i said there a enough Money for her and my Brothers and Sisters and to support our families for the rest of our life a Pease said. A but then i plan to live to be 100, too and in a Only 50 right  he said he plans to quit his Job at the end of the year and move to Japan where he will become a a  after his wife a communications officer retires in 1994, they plan to return to the United states. A a we la buy a big re attach a car to the Back of the re and spend several years touring the United states and maybe even Europe a Pease said a trying to find where in the country we d like to Settle Down and buy a  City near . Calls new area code absurd los Angeles apr overwhelmed by californians love affair with facsimile machines cellular telephones and beepers los Angeles has been forced to add yet another area code to the metropolitan area. Starting saturday More than 2 million residents will answer to area code 310, the metropolitan areas sixth code. And a seventh is on the Way. All that will be left of the original 213 area will be Hollywood Central los Angeles Montebello and Maywood. And not everyone is Happy with the new 310 designation. The City of West Hollywood a All two Square Miles of it a will be sliced in half by the new code. A in a City this tiny. How is somebody going to know that if you want to dial one Side of la Cienega 1 its 213 and if you Call the other Side its h0?�?� said mayor Paul Koretz. A personally we think its just  get Pacific Bell and the state Public utilities commission said aligning Telephone lines according to City boundaries would be too expensive. New area codes traditionally Are added because of population growth. But the 310 code is the prod i technology a an explosion in the numbers of fax Chines personal computers pagers and cellular phones in Southern California. The approximate million get customers have 3.7 million Telepo numbers said get California spokesman Dan Smi u including new York and san franc have added area codes for the same reasons. The new area code joins 213,714,805,818 and 6 serving the los Angeles metropolitan area. A Sev will be added in november 1992