European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 8, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday december 8,1991 Joseph Cicippio greets Well wishers who welcomed him Home Friday with a ceremony on his brother a front Lawn. T Hometown turns out to cheer return of sex hostage Cicippio pages a the stars Ano Stripe Highway patrol thanked after rescuing teens from wire reports Murfreesboro Tenn. A the Tennessee Highway patrol went to the Rescue of a crowd of Little tourists and just in time. Fifty students from Dekalb county Middle school visiting the municipal old fort Park on nov. 15 discovered that the Park s restrooms had been closed for winterizing and repairs. One of the teachers with the group went to the patrols nearby Drivers License testing Center and said the youngsters were starting to squirm. A so we just told them to come Over and use ours a said Highway patrol Chi. Phyllis Henley. The students were so relieved they later wrote thank you letters to the Center. Last week Henley and her four co workers received the letters and a certificate signed by the students teachers. The certificate lauded the Agency for its a High Standard of excellence in restroom Spiker sentenced Pontiac Mich. A a judge has sentenced a former High school student to six months in jail for spiking a teachers Coffee with the drug Ltd. Oakland county circuit judge Deborah Tyner also sentenced Linda Marie Conflitti 18, to three years probation at fridays hearing court spokeswoman Bonnie Wojciechowski said. On oct. 29, a jury convicted Conflitti of poisoning the Coffee of Robert Heffernan her former English teacher at Troy Athens High school in suburban gets Boot Tampa Fla. A a Jolly looking Man with a White Fluffy Beard was asked to leave a christinas festival after organizers decided he looked too much like the person who had been brought in to play Santa Claus. A we try very hard not to have More than one Santa. Because kids go to one area and see a Santa and then go to another area and see one and we Felt that would be very confusing a said Mart Pieper executive director of the festival of the Trees that was held at the Florida state Fairgrounds. �?o1 was flabbergasted a said Bill Scott the Santa look alike. A love never had that happen before. It Hurt my the 53-year-old school bus Driver said he sometimes works As a Santa Claus adding that his natural resemblance to the gift giver from the North pole delights children everywhere he , 81, gets probation Houston a an 81-year-old woman was placed on five years probation for fatally shooting her daughter during an argument. The punishment is the state minimum for murder. A jury handed up the sentence for Ocie Brown on thursday in state District court. Defense attorney Charles Freeman contended Brown shot Grade Brown Lewis 48, in self defense. Brown told police that Lewis barged into her Home on aug. 26,1989, and began going from room to room As if seeking things of value. A a she a always stealing from me. She do anything a shoplift forgery a Brown said in a confession. A she forged on my Light Bill. It just got me madder and madder a cause she got on my nerves so i reached under my Pillow and got my .22 Lewis had a criminal record that began when she was 15 and had been sent to prison twice for shooting people Freeman acquits former chief Stroudsburg a. A a jury acquitted a former police chief Friday of stealing More than $50,000 in coins from City parking meters. The Monroe county common pleas court jury deliberated an hour and 45 minutes before finding John Pansy not guilty of three counts of theft and two counts of Money laundering. At Pansy a Home Federal investigators found thousands of dollars in Chance including marked coins that were placed into the parking meters. Defense attorney Jim Swetz said prosecutors had presented circumstantial evidence too weak to justify a conviction. Norristown a. A Friday was a Joseph Cicippio Day Quot officially and by Universal sentiment in a Hometown Salute that Drew hundreds of Well wishers to see the sex hostage and serenade him with god bless America. A a it a been a Long time since in be been Back Here a Cicippio told the cheering crowd gathered on his brother a front Lawn in this Philadelphia suburb. But nothing has changed there is no better place in All the the 61-year-old Cicippio was abducted by pro iranian shiite muslims on sept. 12,1986, As he walked to his Job As acting comptroller at the american University of Beirut. It was the Day before his birthday. On monday he was set free and he returned Home thursday night. Some schoolchildren presented the former hostage with a cardboard cake crowned with five yellow candles a one for each year Cicippio spent in Captivity a and led the crowd in singing Happy birthday. Mayor William Deanglis proclaimed Friday a Joseph Cicippio Sarasota Fra. Apr the biological parents of a girl who was switched with another couples baby shortly after birth Are raising charges that the Man who raised their child beat her. The girl is 13-year-old Kimberly Mays the focus of a three year Battle Between Robert Mays whom she knows As her father and Ernest and Regina Twigg. The Case was the subject of a Abc miniseries switched at birth. Tests show the Twiggs Are Kimberly a biological parents. She and the Mays biological daughter were switched at Hardee memorial Hospital in Wauchula shortly after birth. The switch was not known until after the girl raised by the Twiggs of Langhorne pa., died of heart problems in 1988. Since then the Twiggs and Robert Mays have battled Over Kimberly. Wales mass. Apr the generosity of a retired scientist is improving education in this Cash strapped Community where three teachers and a principal aided by Parent volunteers were teaching 200 students. One Large room at Wales elementary school was filled with 75 kindergarten first and second graders and a single teacher. But that changed last week. School officials said a Cambridge Man who asked to remain Anonymous donated $3,600, enough for the school to rehire a second Grade teacher. A it just lifted our morale so much a said Joseph Difabio the school s principal. David Roach superintendent of the Qantas qua re seated beside his wife Elham and surrounded by his five Brothers and his six surviving children Cicippio smiled throughout the morning Celebration. On his hands were special gloves designed for victims of frostbite an injury suffered while he was held hostage. Cicippio told the crowd How Happy he was to be free. He also touched on the years he spent in chains and How he was shifted 20 times from one secret place to another taken each time in the trunk of a car. Cicippio said he is often asked Why he did no to leave Beirut when others did. A i did not want to be the last american to leave the Aub Campus a he said. A that reason it Cost me five but he did no to dwell on his 1,908 Days of imprisonment and when the Celebration ended Cicippio waved his arms and led the children in singing god bless America. Later in the afternoon Cicippio received a Telephone Call from president Bush. Cicippio said he plans to stay with his brother Tom through the end of the year while planning his next step. In court documents and at a hearing thursday the Twiggs attorney tried to Lay the Legal groundwork for something they previously agreed to do without a shared custody of Kimberly. The Twiggs said Mays stopped their visits with Kimberly last year. They Are bringing up allegations that Mays berated and beat his daughter during the mid-1980s. Mays attorney Arthur Ginsburg said thursday that the allegations of abuse Are lies from Mays a vindictive sex wife. Mays married the woman after the Mother of his child died of cancer. He said Mays has been a Loving father who should continue to shape Kimberly a life. The Twiggs attorney John Blakely countered that psychological experts who counselled Kimberly in the 1980s May Back the charges and a indicate that Kim a life with or. Mays is not the Camelot that he has led everyone to Vional school District said Friday that he Learned the Man was interested in making the donation on nov. 27, the Day after voters rejected a tax increase. The failure of the referendum forced the Little elementary school to Lay off most of its teachers. The Man made the donation after visiting the school monday Roach said. The donation restores teacher Nancy Hutchinson to her second Grade class of 36 students until a second referendum set for Jan. 3, asking voters to approve a $160,000 increase in school taxes. Wales a Community of 1,300 East of Springfield suffered from three years of state Aid cutbacks mid has exhausted its Reserve funds. Custody Battle intensifies for girl scientist bails out school District
