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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, January 14, 1992

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 14, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday january 14, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 3 David Rufkahr stands beside the popular Bartles amp Jayms wine cooler and in Alfalfa  heroes of wine and now Only a Happy memory Bend Ore. Apr Frank and de the lovable hayseed hucksters for Bartles amp Jaymes wine coolers Are out of work. And nobody even told them a thank you for your  a it was a hell of a ride while it lasted a said rancher David Rufkahr who portrayed Frank Bartles the one who did All the talking in the popular seven year and Campaign. The end came without fanfare. Rufkahr who lives just outside Bend did no to even get to keep the Straw Fedora and suspenders. A a that Sall theirs a he said. A a it a Down there in creative  officials of Ernest and Julio Gallo which produces the wine coolers  comment on the end of the Campaign. A a they re going in a different direction i guess so they released us a said Rufkahr whose last contract expired nov. 1. A they always informed us in writing before then that they were going to use us. But they did no to Send us any notification this time so i kind of got the feeling it was fading away a he said. Rufkahr who got the Call shortly before Christmas saw it coming. A a that a what they told us when we first started a he said. A a a you make a National commercial its usually Good for six  it just kept  the Campaign helped make Bartles amp Jaymes the nations top Selling wine cooler. Franks Deadpan trademark comment a and thank you for your support a became part of the american lexicon. Rufkahr and Santa Rosa calif., building contractor Dick Maugg who played the reticent de Jaymes shot their last commercial in april. In that spot Frank has laryngitis which forces de to talk. Rufkahr a face May be Well known across America but the commercials did no to make him All that Rich he said. A we was doing All right a he said. A i made Good Money but i did no to make fabulous  put at 6 despite truce Belgrade up a the ethnic forces in secessionist Croatia held fast to the 15th cease fire of the yugoslav civil War monday after weekend violations reportedly resulted in the deaths of at least six people and injuries to four others. The Leader of the main serbian rebel enclave in Croatia meanwhile appeared to indicate his readiness to hold negotiations with his erstwhile principal natron communist president Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia on resolving their open feud Over the proposed deployment of . Peace keeping forces. State run news reports in Belgrade and the croatian capital of Zagreb said there were no major violations monday of the 10-Dav-old cease fire brokered by . Special envoy Cyrus Vance Between Milosevic croatian president Franjo Tadjman and the serb dominated Federal army. The cease fire is the main condition for Vance s plan to deploy 10,000 . Troops and police in the Anrce croatian areas where the bulk of the republics 580,000-Strong serbian minority resides. Milosevic Tadjman and former yugoslav defense minister Veljko Kadijevic a four Star general agreed two weeks ago to the plan which would require a total withdrawal from Croatia of the serb dominated Federal army. Army chief of staff col. Gen. Blagojo Adzic who was named acting defense minister after Kadijevic resigned last wednesday reaffirmed the military a support for the cease fire plan Over the weekend. It s All right to be wrong again says Corrigan 85 Galveston Texas a he a been called a wrong Way Corrigan for More than half a Century. Now it might As Well be a wrong  the 85th birthday of Douglas a wrong Way Corrigan the Galveston native who flew across the Atlantic in 1938 and called it All a big mistake will be commemorated by the City Council at its next meeting a one Day late. The Council is scheduled to proclaim a wrong Way Corrigan Day on Jan. 23. A supporter had requested recognition of the Pilot last thursday too late to get the item on the Agenda that Day. Corrigan who lives in Santa Ana calif., said the mistake is appropriate. A Well that a Nice of them a he said. A i done to mind if they re a Day  aviation officials nearly 54 years ago had denied Corrigan permission to Cross the Atlantic but authorized him to Fly Cross continent to California. Twenty eight hours after leaving new York he touched Down in Ireland. He blamed faulty compasses and became an instant  Churchill Stalin photo printed London up a a British newspaper published a photograph of a notorious document said to show How world War ii leaders Winston Churchill of Britain and Josef Stalin of the soviet Union planned to carve up Eastern Europe. The Independent newspaper reported saturday that the document surfaced during the making of a four part series on Churchill to be broadcast beginning wednesday by the British broadcasting corp. The newspaper said that although Only a photograph of the piece of paper that passed Between the two leaders had been found there appeared no doubt it was authentic. In Road to Victory Winston s. Churchill 1941-1945, British historian Martin Gilbert described How Churchill then British prime minister produced what he was said to have called a a naughty document at a meeting with Stalin. The meeting took place oct. 9,1944, in Stalin a study at the Kremlin in Moscow. Gilbert said Churchill produced what he called the a naughty document a setting Down a list of countries noting the percentages of soviet and Allied interest. The document was interpreted to mean that Romania would fall 90 percent to Russia and 10 percent to a the others Greece would be divided at a ratio of 90 percent to great Britain a in Accord with the  and 10 percent to Russia Yugoslavia and Hungary would be divided 50 percent each Ana Bulgaria would go 75 percent to Russia and 25 percent to the others. Churchill was said to have written the names of the countries and the figures and then pushed the piece of paper across to Stalin who made a Large Blue Check Mark across the top with a thick Pencil. The Independent said Churchill wrote in his memoirs that the paper Lay on the table for a while. Then he suggested it be burned. A might it not be thought rather cynical if it seemed we had disposed of these issues so fateful to millions of people in such an offhand manner a Churchill reported himself As saying. A no a Stalin is said to have responded. A you keep  the original paper disappeared but two photographs were found recently among Churchill a  s famed Silver service returned Home Jefferson City to. Apr the Missouri Selant Silver service was sentimentally welcomed Home yer the weekend no longer needed aboard the stately battleship that will be decommissioned this Spring. A massive punch bowl stood in Missouri a Capitol presenting the 317 pieces of Silver that became one f the major show and Tell items on the ship. Some of the Silver came from an earlier Missouri lat served during world War i. The state purchased a icon set As a $10,000 gift to the Navy in 1947. Gov. John Ashcroft spoke of the ships imminent Dis Patch with remorse and Pride. A the Mother of All battleships As it could be called will soon be out of action a Ashcroft said As he Shook hands with capt. Albert Kaiss the ships commander. A from Boise to Boston even in Baghdad respect for the uss Missouri is Universal a the governor said adding that the Silver will be put on display. The Missouri the last battleship built by the United states was launched in january 1944. Twenty months later world War ii ended when Japan surrendered on the Missouri a wide deck in Tokyo Bay. The ship which is nearly As Long As three football Fields saw action during the korean War before its decommissioning in 1955. The Missouri was recommissioned in 1986, its nine guns augmented by Tomahawk missiles and High tech defense systems. Its 16-Inch guns shelled iraqi targets during the persian Gulf War. In 1986, Kaiss took charge of the Silver which had been in the states hands since the first decommissioning. The Silver has since travelled More than 200,000 Miles aboard ship Kaiss said  
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