European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday june 5, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 7smoking cited in deaths at Rooming House Detroit a fire officials said wednesday that careless smoking was responsible for a Rooming House fire which started in the Homes Kitchen and killed 10 residents. Two other people were injured and five escaped unharmed when fire raced through the House on Detroit a West Side Early tuesday. Fire officials said the dead a four women and six men a ranged in age from mid-40s to 89, including some who were handicapped. All died of smoke inhalation. The Home underwent annual City fire inspections and fire officials said it passed the most recent one last year. However the Home was one of four owned by Janie and Robert Nelson that had its License to operate As an adult Foster care facility pulled by the state department of social services in 1978 because of fire health and safety violations department spokesman Chuck peller said. Under requirements As a Foster care Home for the handicapped the House had been cited in the 1970s for such violations As too few upper Story exits no fire escapes and too few fire extinguishers. It was allowed to continue operating As a Rooming House. There was no answer wednesday at the Nelsons Home. The couple said tuesday they monitored the Rooming houses closely Robert Nelson said he visited the Homes daily to supervise residents  of venue Kevin Mccready and Joanne Forbes May Well have a faraway look in their eyes As they Are pronounced Man and wife wednesday by Federal judge Paul Zakaib in Charleston . The newlyweds Are from Lurgan Ireland where Mccready a Catholic and Forbes a presbyterian feared a troublesome situation if they took their vows in Ireland. So they travelled to West Virginia where the grooms Grandfather grew up. King Elvis the younger posts stamp Victory. A a a a 1 a i. Fat to ii la it n i Elvis the elder was loser in contest. Memphis Tenn. A America has chosen its presidential nominees and now its picked its King. The Young Elvis Presley of Heartbreak hotel hound dog and the de Sullivan show has been elected by fans for a new stamp. On thursday the . Postal service announced that the design out polled the a old Elvis by a 3-to-l margin and will adorn the 29-cent stamp to be released next january. The results were announced at Graceland the singers former Home in Memphis that draws More than 650,000 tourists a year. His former wife Priscilla Presley was on hand. Voting was conducted by mail april 6-24, and postal officials received More than 1.1 million votes by prepared ballot or Post card. Most of the More than 5 million ballots prepared apparently ended up in fans scrapbooks officials said. The vote marked the first time that the postal service has asked the Public to select postage stamp Art. Officials commissioned two portraits the winning one that showed Presley in his a hound dog years cradling a �?T50s-style microphone the other represent theory about african origins questioned by the los Angeles times the a out of Africa theory of evolution which holds that Modem humans arose on that continent has been dealt a serious blow with the discovery of 350,000-year-old asian Fossil skulls with modern features. The discovery of the two presumably male skulls found in Yunxian China was disclosed in thursdays edition of the British journal nature. An analysis by University of California at Berkeley and chinese researchers shows that some aspects of the cranial Are associated with Homo rectus a forerunner of Homo Sapiens or modern people. Most notably the backs of the skulls Are angular. But other elements such As a Broad Flat face and High cheekbones Are characteristic of the earliest Homo Sapiens indicating that there was a transition to modern humans taking place in Asia at the same time As in Africa. The faces and Teeth also had some distinctly chinese features said Dennis a. Etler a doctoral candidate at us Berkeley a department of anthropology. He heard about the skulls while working in China and teamed with their discoverer i Qianyun of the Hubei Institute of archaeology to Analyse the finds. Etler suggested that modern humans May either have evolved in different regions independently or they could be the result of interbreeding during Large scale movements of people around the world. In either Case Etler said a a it a not a one Way  backers of the controversial Africa scenario said they Are not ready to discard their theory. Nevertheless they said that the new evidence raises important ques 350,000-year-old skulls were found in China. Tons about the so called a african even theory. Five years ago three biologists concluded that genetic material from a sub saharan woman living 200,000 years ago has been passed to everyone alive today. A my opinion is still that modern humans originated in Africa and spread from there a said University of Chicago anthropologist Richard Klein. A what Etler and i Are saying is you Start with people who Are very different they evolve differently and they turn out the same. I have trouble believing that. Ing him in his later years As a vegas showman when he favored by jewelled jump suits and capes. Critics objected to the projects $300,000 promotional costs but the postal service said it expects to make Money on the stamp As a collector s item. Elvis fans have argued for years that their heroes likeness should Grace a postage stamp. But others said the singers drug abuse made him a poor subject for such an Honor. The postal service said the stamp will re com a Presley a contribution to american music not endorse Lus Way of life. The Elvis stamp is the first in the postal services a legends of american music series. Stamps of Presley Only will be issued the first year. Presley began his climb to Fame in Memphis in the 1950s, Selling More records than any other entertainer. He died at Graceland in 1977 at 42. A this has the same effect As Graceland getting on the National Register of historic places a said Graceland spokesman Todd Morgan. A it makes the general Public who Arentt that informed about Elvis realize just now important he  truck crash kills 2 haitian workers Driver from wire reports Barney a. A a pickup truck jammed with haitian migrant farm labourers went out of control and overturned wednesday killing the Driver and two other labourers and injuring 14, officials said. The 17 workers most of whom were Riding in the Back were in route to pick snap Beans when the Accident happened near Barney just North of the Florida state line in Southern Georgia said Brooks county sheriff Richard  stable after surgery Raleigh . Sen. Jesse Helms r was in stable condition wednesday after undergoing open heart surgery his office said. A spokesman said Helms 71, underwent the operation at Rex Hospital in Raleigh. Doctors replaced his mitral valve with a pigs heart valve. Four coronary bypass grafts were also done