European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday february 17, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 7 a float from the Krywe of Zulu organization moves past Mardi gras crowds tuesday in new Orleans. New or sons takes it easy after excesses of Mardi gras new Orleans a pounding Heads replaced pounding hearts As the City sobered up and simmered Down wednesday putting Mardi gras and its raucous revelry wedge of new Orleans mounted police staged the City s last Parade. Followed by Street sweepers the offi cers chopped Down Bourbon Street at precisely mid night bringing the curtain Down on the biggest party of the year in the City known As the big easy. It was about time in the opinion of new Orleans native Marilyn Nonenmacher. I be been at it 64 years she said. A my life. And believe me anyone who makes it until Midnight is glad to see Lent and a Little restraint get one death marred this year s carnival. A 29-year-old virginian fell put of a hotel window said police sgt. Gilbert Johnson. The victim s identity was not immediately released. Before Midnight when fat tuesday subsides into Ash wednesday More than a million people packed the French Quarter for one last pre lenten Binge of drinking dancing and debauchery. I m 73 years old and i be seen things in Public Here that i never even saw in private before said Fred Jef Ferson a retired grocer from pcs Moines Iowa. The lascivious showered strings of plastic beads on women heeding pleas to base their breasts. Costumes ranged from profane to posh silly to satirical. Clarinet St Pete Fountain and his half fast March ing club Sas Hayed Down one Parade route in tutus tuesday a roller skating baseball Bat toting Tonya har Ding made her Way through the crowd. A half dozen people including a baby dressed up As a bloody body part and carried signs proclaiming them to be the John Wayne Bobbitt i m totally amazed said Connie Matthews of Akron Ohio. You d think we All knew each other. It s a very Friendly ., British towns flip to Flapjack tie Liberal Kan. A with two hips of a Flap Jack a British woman evened the score of a 44-year-old trans Atlantic grudge match. To Mark shrove tuesday women in Olney England and in Liberal run a 415-Yard course with a Pancake in a Skillet vying for the right to Call their country the Winner. This year Claire whittle did it in Olney in 1 minute 2 seconds or 4 seconds off the record. In Liberal the Winner was Lisa Biddle with a time of 1 minute 7.2 seconds. The towns Are now tied 22-22. Shrove tuesday known in Britain As Pancake Day was the last Day for unhindered merrymaking before the Start of Lent. Making pancakes was a Good Way to use up eggs and fat that the faithful Are supposed to do without during Lent. People All Over Britain still eat pancakes on shrove tuesday. There Are several theories about How the race came about but it started in Olney. One theory dates to 1445 and a harried housewife dashing to Church with her frying pan in hand. Another is that a Pancake was taken to Church for the Bell ringer to persuade him to sound the beginning of the Day s celebrations Early. Olney and Liberal began competing in 195q. Each woman who competes flips her Pancake once at the Start and once at the finish. Asked if she trained hard the 34-year-old whittle gasped Are you kidding i hate running but i did it for earned about $525 for cancer research. Remains of 4 Vietnam mias identified Washington up the remains of four americans missing since the Vietnam War have been identified the Pentagon announced tuesday. The names of army 1st it. Byron k. Kulland and army spec. Ronald p. Paschall were released. The identities of the third Serviceman and one civil Ian were withheld at their families request. Sources who asked not to be identified said the civilian was a Pilot for the Cia sponsored airline air America. Kulland 24, was from new town . Paschall 21, was from Alder Wood Manor Wash. They were killed in South Vietnam s Quang Tri province in april 1972. Kulland Paschall and the third Serviceman were on a search and Rescue Mission when their transport Heli copter was struck by heavy ground fire. A helicopter gunship escorting the stricken helicopter reported that it was last seen trailing smoke but going Down in what appeared to be a controlled descent. But the escort gunship itself was driven off by gunfire that shattered its canopy. Subsequent searches failed to turn up any Trace of the downed helicopter and no radio Contact could be made. The Pentagon gave no details on the loss of the civil Ian whose remains were recovered by a vietnamese american search team last August. The servicemen s remains were recovered by a similar Effort a year ago. These latest identifications reduce the number of americans missing in Southeast Asia to 2,234. Car dealers convicted in Money laundering sting from wire reports Washington a Federal jury convicted five car dealers and managers of laundering drug Money but acquitted six others tuesday. The four month trial in . District court resulted from an undercover operation aimed at revealing Money laundering by Washington area Auto evidence demonstrated that the convicted defendants. Sought to enrich themselves by accepting Large amounts of Cash they believed to be drug Money in payment for automobiles said a statement from . Attorney Eric Holder or. He said the convicted car dealers and manager Shad agreed to sell vehicles to undercover officers who they thought were drug dealers. They also agreed to Register the vehicles in names they knew to be false and to use the false name when preparing a required government form for Cash purchases of Over $10,000 or to fail to fill out the form at All. From Pigsty to prison Houston Call it pig Justice a 200-Pound porker named Mona had her snout wrapped around a fleeing suspect s leg when police lamas pleaded guilty monday to car theft burglary and drug Possession stemming from . Lamas and a companion broke into two Homes and fled in a stolen pickup truck authorities said. They drove through a radar checkpoint and were pursued by officers. The two ran the truck off a Road and ran away. The companion ran into a Home and Vas chased off by an 87-year-old Man who fired several shots at him. Lamas ran into a backyard an jumped Over a Fence in the dark. He landed in Mona s Larry Mcdougal said lamas who had no criminal record will have to serve about a year of his 10-year prison sentence. Wheat to run for Senate Kansas City to. . Rep. Alan wheat kicked off his Campaign for the Senate on tuesday saying health care and safety will be two of the biggest issues before , 42, a six term democratic congressman representing Kansas City and Rural Eastern Jackson county wants to become the first Black person nominated for statewide office in Missouri. He is seeking the seat being vacated by sen. John c. Danforth a Republican who is retiring after three faces Jackson county executive Marsha Murphy state rep. Steve Carroll and St. Louis attorney Gerald Ortbals in the democratic primary in August. The Only announced Republican is former two term gov. John Ashcroft. City s aids cases Peak san Francisco the number of new aids cases in san Francisco has peaked and should decline dramatically by 1997, officials said tuesday. The City department of Public health said the annual number of new aids cases peaked at 3,326 in 1992 and is expected to decline to 1,204 annually by 1997 in the City hit Early and hard by the epidemic. The number of people living with aids also peaked at 9,109 in 1992, and should fall to 6,460 by the end of 1997, the department said. The figures reflect the dramatic reductions in new his infections which occurred a decade ago and which were achieved As a result of successful prevention campaigns waged in san Francisco during the past 10 years the department said. The average incubation period Between infection with his and development of aids is 10 years. Carter Center gets funds Atlanta the Carter Center has won a $1 million Grant to support its efforts in resolving conflicts around the Charles Stewart Molt foundation will donate the Money Over three years to support the work of former president Carter and his staff the Center announced Atlanta based Center has arranged talks Between warring parties in Ethiopia Eritrea and Sudan As Well As monitoring elections in Panama Nicaragua Haiti the dominican Republic Mexico Guyana Paraguay Zambia and Mott foundation a private philanthropic group is based in Flint Mich
