European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 a the stars and stripes sunday March 29,1992 faces it place Graham to take Pope s message to North Korea from wire reports the Rev Billy Graham said saturday that he will carry a message from Pope John Paul ii when he visits North Korea. Quot the Pope has sent a special envoy to Sec me to give me a message to give them a Graham said in a Brief interview in Beijing a main entry Point to North Korea. He refused to disclose the contents. The Vatican does not have ties with North Korea one of the worlds few remaining hard line communist nations. Graham a Christian evangelist plans to Fly there tuesday to meet with government and religious leaders and preach at two churches. The trip is unusual because North Korea allows few visitors from the West and has Long suppressed religious activity. Graham said he talked with president Bush before setting out and would pass on some of Bush a remarks to his North korean hosts. But he said he was not carrying any official message. The United states does not have diplomatic relations with North Korea. Graham said there were a significant number of christians in North Korea before it came under communist Rule at the end of world War ii. But Many fled to non communist South Korea and it is not known How Many remain. He said both churches where he will preach a one Catholic and one protestant a were built recently. They Are the Only Christian churches in the  testifies for son country Singer Loretta Lynn took the witness stand last week in defense of her 38-year-old son Ernest who was later sentenced to probation rather than prison on a cocaine Selling conviction. Quot Ernest is not violent a Loretta Lynn said during 10 minutes of testimony in Waverly Tenn. A i never knew him to be involved in drug dealing and he a worked with me since the summertime when head get out of school a she said. Ernest Lynn a guitarist in his mothers band has had Legal scrapes before. After the hearing he said a a in be done my last courthouse show. In a a new  he was sentenced to eight years of probation fined $5,000 and ordered to serve 500 hours of Community service for Selling 1 Gram of cocaine to an undercover agent. He could Nave received 12 years in prison. Lynn was acquitted last year of aggravated assault charges stemming from a trailer Park gunfight that left a woman  sued by sex pal a former Navy buddy of rap superstar Hammer says in a lawsuit that Hammer owes him 2.7 percent science is fun president Bush obviously has said something very funny to my Nguyen of Cicero North Syracuse . High school during ceremonies Friday at the White House. The gathering was held to Honor winners of the seventh annual National science olympiad. Nguyen s school was honoured for a third place finish in the senior High division of the Competition. Of All his past and future earnings under a Deal the two made five years ago. Vincent Williams said he gave Hammer $5,000 in 1987 in Exchange for 2.7 percent of All royalties concert receipts and other earnings from his entertainment career but Hammer never honoured the contract. A notarized copy of the agreement was filed wednesday with the lawsuit in . District court in san Francisco. Lawrence Blake hammers attorney denied the charges. A Hammer has done nothing whatsoever wrong and in fact has helped Vincent Williams and been very generous to him a Blake said. Williams and Hammer whose real name is Stanley Kirk Burrell served together in the Navy. Williams later worked for bust it productions hammers music company. Two former members of the Oakland athletics baseball team who said they invested in hammers music career settled last year after charging that the rapper failed to Honor their contracts. Hammer was a Bat boy with the team. Last year Forbes Magazine listed Hammer As the nation s 19th highest paid entertainer with Gross earnings of $33 million for 1990 and 1991 combined. Dear readers if he had lived just a few weeks longer on March 22, Jay Phillips would have celebrated his 94th birthday. Jay Phillips was my beloved father in Law. What follows is an edited version of his obituary published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune Quot Jay Phillips 93, patriarch of the Phillips family and founder of the de Phillips and sons liquor distributing firm in Minneapolis who began his business career Selling newspapers for a Penny apiece and ended up a legend in philanthropy died wednesday at desert Hospital in Palm Springs Calif. Quot Phillips and his wife of 74 years Rose left Minneapolis for Palm Springs and planned to return april 1. He fell ill in Early february and died shortly after noon on feb. 26, apparently of congestive heart failure said his son Morton husband of advice columnist Abigail Van Buren. A Jay Phillips was president of the Phillips foundation which donated Many millions of dollars to cultural civic medical and educational causes. Dear Abby a Phillips Laid the financial foundation for mount Sinai Hospital the first Hospital in the twin cities with jewish doctors on its staff. He set up the John Najarian chair in surgery at the University of Minnesota and helped finance one of its main medical buildings the Phillips Wangensteen building to Honor his Friend or. Owen Wangensteen. He was instrumental in starting the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University in new York. A the helped establish the jewish Christian learning Center at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul and endowed a chair of jewish studies at St. Johns University in Collegeville Minn. Quot Phillips was honoured last May for a million Dollar gift to the . Holocaust memorial museum being built in Washington . That gift culminated Phillips lifelong dedication to sharing his wealth. A Phillips was years old when he came to the United states with his family from Russia. By the time he was 7, he was Selling newspapers making 50 to 80 cents a Day to take Home to his family. But he never went Home without stopping at a bakery to buy Day old Ann Landers dear Ann Landers the enclosed column appeared five years ago. The professors comments were remarkably accurate. Your readers might find this an interesting bit of foresight. . In Montreal dear . What a strangely prophetic col until. Here it is again with an invitation to american businessmen to Tell us what we can do to remedy this situation. Dear Ann Landers you recently asked who will run our country 20 years from now the answer is asian americans. If you done to believe me look at who is taking the top honors in High schools and filling Mit Harvard Yale Stanford and Cal tech. You Ann could exercise greater influence if your columns were More informative and less entertaining. . Long Island dear . You do my readers a disservice by suggesting that they want Only to be entertained. I Haven to lasted All these years because i am Fanny. Warren Bennis professor in the school of business administration University of Southern California agreed to respond to your letter. Here is his response a your Long Island correspondent May be right when he says asian americans will be running our country 20 years from now. A Japan which is about the size of Montana supports 115 million people. The largest automobile manufacturer in the world is not general motors it is Toyota. A in Japan students attend school 240 Days a year As compared with 180 Days in the United states. Many american students spend More time in front of the to than in school. A ninety seven percent of Japan s students finish High school. In Chicago it s about 50 percent and about half of those who do finish cannot read at a High school level. The illiteracy rate in Japan is less than 1 percent ours is about 27 percent a the same number of people die of gunshot wounds in a single Day in the United states As in an entire year in Japan. This says something about their culture and ours. A was far Back As 1970, Japan had the seventh lowest infant mortality rate in the world. The United states was 14th, most recent figures show Japan is second. We Are still 14tb. A even though Alt the spectacular economic Progress in Japan has occurred since world War a we should not feel threatened by what you Long Island perceive As the yellow peril. Competition is a healthy motivator. We have nothing to fear and much to learn from the  dear Ann what a the proper thing to do with the Beds and bedding when you have been an overnight guest for one or two nights do you make the bed up or do you leave it open and unmade or do you take the linens off the bed and leave them in a pile in a sure Many others would like to know the answer. Dear Salem fold the sheets neatly and cover the bed with the spread. C creators Syndicate bread for the poor and hungry men he saw on the Street. A Thomas p. Cook a longtime Friend said the amount of Charity in his heart was  he was a major contributor in establishing courage Center in Golden Valley Minn., rehabilitation centers for persons with physical disabilities a As Well As the Westside Center for Independent living in los Angeles Calif. His philanthropic emphasis on the handicapped was prompted by his daughter the late Helen Levin who was a quadriplegic As a result of polio. A few years ago a reporter asked Phillips Why he chose a career that earned him millions of dollars and then turned around and gave it away. Jay Phillips replied a i done to like the word a give a i say  a hairline separates people who make Good and people who done to and those who make it should help the ones who done to because they Are the custodians of worldly goods not the  a so dear readers whatever Fame and glory i have achieved As a dear Abby Quot must take a Back seat to the Punde i have in Beisig a Phillips. Thank you Morton for marrying me in 1939. 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