European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 24, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 a the stars and stripes sunday May 24, 1992fac�s n places Justice Thomas has a heart for letter writing class in . Thomas from wire reports last october just after Clarence Thomas was confirmed As a supreme court Justice Sheryl Siegel suggested that the children in her fourth Grade class write to him. The youngsters at Public school 116 at 210 e. 33rd St. In new York took up the idea and sent a Batch of letters a totally unedited by me either for grammar or Content a Siegel said. A we expected to get a thank you form letter in instead six months later they received a note from the Justice suggesting that if they were Ever in Washington they should come to visit. So on Friday in High excitement 35 10-Ycar-Olds and 14 parents boarded a bus at 6 . At 1 30 . They were in the West conference room of the supreme court building. They presented Thomas with a giant Gavel and had a Chat with him in which he encouraged them to study two hours a Day and to avoid watching too much television. A we had a whole hour and a half with him a Siegel said As they emerged from the meeting. One of the students Jesus Mercado wanted to know if Thomas had Ever been left Back. A i can to say i was exactly left Back but i had to repeat the 10th Grade because i changed from a Black school to a White school a the Justice said explaining that he had not had the required latin. Molly Lindenbaum asked a do you live in a luxury House a a no a Thomas responded. A i can to afford a luxury House. I am not a basketball player but i am moving to a bigger Anita Hill a the Law professor who was the focus of the hearings the children had All watched on television a never came up but Alexandria Richards asked a How come you Are on to so much and the other justices Arentt a the Justice said he would just As soon not have had All the All Nasty boys a nationwide search is on for a a real kids to play 5-year-old Dennis the menace opposite Walter Matthaus curmudgeonly or. Wilson. Movie producer John Hughes said he does no to want another Macaulay Culkin whom he made famous in Home alone. A i done to want somebody who has Learned How to act yet a Hughes said thursday in Chicago in announcing the search. A i want a kid who a Learned How to be a kid. Well take care of the producers of the Warner Bros movie want boys Ages 5 to 7, who Are asked to submit videotapes up to five minutes Long with a photo. Hughes and producer Dick vane will choose children for auditions. A it would be much easier for us to get a Small 9-year-old,�?� said Hughes. A a you a get a lot More hours out of the Day you a get someone who could read so script changes take an hour but you a lose the the movie is based on Hank Ketcham a cartoon about the mischievous boy with the Blond co lick. Filming begins this summer in Chicago. Release is set for 1993. Matthau will play the retired postal worker who lives next door to Dennis and is the boys favorite target for his vexations. A this 5-year-old boy drives him crazy but he desperately needs this 5-year-old boy to drive him crazy a said Hughes. A the can to Tell the kid that he loves him. Hank Ketcham said if Wilson did no to have Dennis head be dead within a year.olympian feels racial Bias olympic Gold medallist Al Joyner has put his athletic career on hold citing the stress of a confrontation with police soon after the los Angeles riots. A i just train a Joyner said at a news conference Friday flanked by his wife sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner. A this Isnit like i pulled a muscle or had a bad Day. This is Messing with my Frame of Joyner who is Black says he was twice ordered out of his sports car at gunpoint handcuffed and told to Kneel on the sidewalk following two traffic stops May 8 in Hollywood. Riots erupted april 29 following the acquittals of four Whites in the police beating of a Black Motorist. Joyner a 32-year-old hurdler and triple jumper accused police of racial harassment. Police say he was stopped for routine questioning in traffic offences. He was not taste of politics eighteen year old Crown Prince Haakon of Norway presided Over his first government meeting in Oslo approving More than five dozen resolutions before the 15-minute session adjourned. A there were a lot of Motherly hearts beating in there a prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland one of nine women in the 19-member Cabinet said Friday. The Prince stepped in for his father King Harald a who was visiting Spain. Norway a figurehead Monarch formally endorses government decisions. Ann Landers dear Ann Landers in our Little town recently there was a mock Bank robbery. Three Law enforcement officers from another City carried out the fake Holdup for the purpose of keeping the Bank a employees on their toes. These a a robbers put ski masks Over their faces pulled empty guns on Bank employees and ordered them to lie on to it be floor. They then took Money out of the Bank vault and fled with a Teller a 11 mum a As you can Well imagine the people who worked in a die Bank were terrified. They responded to the situation by pushing the alarm and calling the police As they i a 1 _ a an Tkv a Nnoli Amoh Lanai a. Had been instructed to do. Three policemen caught the a a robbers a few blocks from the scene. The problem with this Zany piece of theater is that Only four employees knew the mock robbery was going to happen. The others thought it was the real thing and were frightened out of their wits. As a result Many employees became physically ill and emotionally upset and had to go Home. I am appalled that the employees were subjected to this trauma. What is your opinion of such a Drill no name please i live Here Mcpherson Kan dear Mac when i read about that mock Holdup i too was appalled. How Lucky that no one in the Bank had a gun. Those out of town police officers masquerading As bandits could have ended up dead not to mention the hapless customers whose bad Luck it was to be in the Bank at that time. Whoever thought up that idea gets the strudel in the Noodle award of the year. Dear Ann Landers i just finished Reading the letter from a the big a a who complained that her husband was a Workaholic. She asked a when does the fun begin a you replied a the fun started for your husband a Long time ago. Workaholics would rather work than play which is Why they do it. Mates of workaholics must make their own of. So that takes care of the spouses. Now what about the children my father was a Workaholic. When i think about my own childhood All i can remember is a ghost for a dad. He figured if he brought Home the Bacon and put it on the table that Sall there was to being a father. Its hard to get it through your head when you re growing up that your father would rather work than spend a Little time with you but after a while you get the message. Suddenly you re grown up and the picture changes. You re an adult and if your father happens to be around for More than 20 minutes you done to know what to say to him because you realize the Man is really a stranger. Please Ann Tell those workaholics who Are putting in 12 and 14-hour Days that they should ask themselves what they Are giving up a and if it is Worth it. A casualty of the Job in Providence dear casualty your message is one that All up and coming overachievers ought to memorize and tape in their hat bands. There Are no free lunches in this life. We All pay a Price for whatever we get. Sometimes the Price is too High but we Don t see the Bill until its too late. And unfortunately All sales Are final. C creators Syndicate dear Abby it All started Christmas Day 1981, Over a family discussion about abortion. A dozen of us were present including a Amy a her psychologist husband and their two Young children. Amy was three months pregnant at the time on monday morning dec. 27, we found All the Christmas gifts we had Given Amy and her family in two plastic bags left on our Doorstep with a note stating a a done to Contact us we will Contact imagine the Shock i cried for Days. Later i Learned that amyl a husband had understood me to say that i wanted Amy to abort her three month pregnancy Abby i am of a conservative nature and would never even think of aborting a grandchild unless the pregnancy threatened our daughters life. Eleven years later after Many letters i am still trying to convince them of the truth. Amy now has six children. We hardly know the last three because she refuses to Contact us except through letters. They live Only 130 Miles away. We Send their children birthday cards and gifts that Are a put away a still gift wrapped a and not Given to the children. Communication with them in the past 11 years has been minimal. We finally wrote to Tell them that we had to get on with our lives As we Are approaching our 70s, and if they want further Contact with us they owe dear Abby us an apology. It appears this was a mistake As there has been no response. Our relationship with Amy until 1981 seemed Normal and Happy. Perhaps you can give us some advice As to How to proceed. We Are baffled As Amy has always been a very religious person. Frustrated beyond belief dear frustrated you say that Amy has always been a a very religious person. What kind of religion permits a daughter to Damn a and disown a her parents without proof of wrongdoing your daughters behaviour is not Normal. Something a or someone imagined or real a appears to be controlling her. Unless you have a clergy person physician or very close Mutual Friend who will intervene on your behalf you May have to write off Amy and her family. Dear Abby How would you like to have dinner at a relatives House and later see the hostess drying dishes with her husbands undershirts Well that happened to me and when she saw the look of horror on my face she said a ooh dear i must have grabbed these shorts out of the dryer by mistake a i was speechless. Then she said a what difference does it make if you dry dishes with a dish Towel or undershirts you throw them All in the Washer together Abby would you eat in a restaurant if you knew that the Cook threw the napkins and Kitchen towels in with undershirts and socks dish rag Daisy in Willow Creek Mont. Dear Daisy no. Even though the Washer dryer process sterilized the garments the thought of eating off dishes that had been dried with a Many a undershirts is Apt to depress a persons appetite. Dear Abby i am writing to you because of your reference to a a Highfalutin rooting tooting son Vagun from Arizona named ragtime Cowboy Joe a a song that was popular in the �?T50s. It reminded me of a Story i heard a Long time ago about some trouble that occurred in Israel. It seems that in the City of Haifa a Man went on a rampage and shot and wounded the mayor whose name was Newton. He then proceeded to ransack All the shops in the downtown area. Little was known about this Man except that his name was Joseph and he was a part time Farmer whose Mother had joined a religious order in Spain. Because of the aforementioned facts an All Points bulletin was issued for a Haifa looting Newton shooting son of a nun from Barcelona Par time Lowboy Joe. John h. Skelton Houston c Universal press Syndicate
