European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Thursday August 25,1994 Veteran leaders face showdown by the associated press two Veteran congressmen easily turned aside primary challenges in okla homa for the Chance to succeed sen. David Boren whose seat is key to re publican Hopes of gaining control of the Senate. In contests tuesday voters picked candidates for governor in South Carolina Oklahoma and Alaska in the Oklahoma Senate race demo cratic rep. Dave Mcgurdy and Republican rep. James Inhofe won their Prima Ries for the right to finish the remaining two years of Boren s term. Both congressmen gave up Safe seats to run for the Post that Boren a demo crat is leaving to become president of the University of Oklahoma. Republicans Hope to gain control of the Senate where democrats hold a 56-44 majority. Final unofficial returns showed Inhof beating state rep. Tony Caldwell 78 per cent to 22 percent while Mccurdy won 65 percent to 35 percent for corporation commissioner Cody Graves. Make no mistake Mccurdy said late tuesday. I will continue the legacy of David Boren in representing this great state and the mainstream values that working men and women in  Inhofe called for Republican Unity and said the contest with Mccurdy was about taking the control away from president Linton. In South Carolina former state rep. David Beasley trounced retiring .rep. Arthur Ravenel by a margin of 58 percent to 42 percent for the gop gubernatorial nomination. Republican gov. Carroll Campbell cannot seek a third consecutive term. Beasley urged his former gop rivals to rally behind him in an attack on the Bill Clinton democrats in this  in the democratic Runoff it. Gov. Nick Theodore squeezed by Charleston mayor Joseph Riley or. 50.5 percent to49.5 percent. Theodore warned Beasley that he was t running against Clinton who i widely unpopular in South Carolina. You Are running against Nick Theo teen training to be youngest to top Everest Middletown . A mountaineers talk about How the trek up mount Everest separates the men from the boys. Fourteen year old Mark Peetz Erdoesy t plan to be left behind. It does scare me sometimes when i think about it but i know. I la be Safe said Mark who is training to be the youngest person to scale the world s High est Peak. You Don t take any chances. More than 375 climbers have reached Everest s 29,028-foot Summit since sir Edmund Hillary and tensing Norgay of Nepal scaled the Himalayan Mountain on the Tibet Nepal Border in 1953. But 109 have died. And Hillary says the boy might be better off staying Home. I Hope his parents Are Happy with what he s trying to do and that he comes Back alive Hillary said from his Home in new zealand. I personally think if 1 was his parents i would think it was an unwise thing to  Kenneth and Christine Pfetzer support their son who wants to climb Everest next Spring when he turns 15. I feel that i can t refuse him because it s a Chance of a lifetime. If i ask him to Dore a South carolinian who believes in South Carolina values Theodore said. However Riley refused to concede Early wednesday saying he was entitled to a recount if the final margin is 1 per cent or less. In Oklahoma s gubernatorial primary former Justice department official fran Keating easily Defeated four others for the gop nomination. He got 56 percent of the  29 percent for his nearest challenger. On the democratic Side it. Gov. Jack Mildren was in a sept. 20 Runoff with state sen. Bernice Shedrick after failing to get a majority of the vote. Mildren had 49 percent to 37 percent for Shedrick an two others trailed. Former democratic rep. Wes Watkins is running As an Independent in the nov. 8 race to succeed one term democratic gov. David Walters. Walters announced last year that he was t seeking a second term two weeks after pleading guilty to a Misdemeanour Campaign Law violation. In Alaska a crowded Field of Candi dates vied to succeed gov. Walter Hick Al who announced last week that he would not seek a third term. Businessman Jim Campbell captured the gop nomination defeating former Anchorage mayor Tom Fink by 50 per cent to 47 percent with 88 percent of precincts reporting. Tony Knowles another former Ancho rage mayor won his second consecutive democratic nomination defeating for Mer it. Gov. Stephen Mcalpine and for Mer state House speaker Sam gotten. Knowles had 43 percent Mcalpine 31percent and gotten 25 percent. It. Gov. John Coghill easily won the alaskan Independence party nomination and Green party candidate Jim Sykes will Complete the four Way race.". Hickel a longtime Republican was first elected governor in 1966, then re signed in 1969 to join the Nixon administration As Secretary of the Interior. He was re elected to a second term in 1990 on the alaskan Independence party line then switched Back to the Republican party in april. Mark Pfetzer. Eyeing mount Everest put it off he could lose that Chance to be the youngest to make his Mark on the world Christine Pfetzer said. Glenn Porzak past president of the american Alpine club reached Everest s Summit at age 41. He said he would t let an adolescent attempt the climb. A tractor trailer carrying a giant Telescope Mirror leaves Erie pa., on tuesday. Giant Telescope Mirror jams interstate on Earth Pittsburgh a a giant Telescope Mirror that will help untangle the secrets of the universe was Tan gling earthly traffic As it crawled by truck along a Western Pennsylvania interstate. Cars and trucks were backed up South of Erie on tuesday morning As the wide Load crept along the two southbound lanes of interstate 79 at Little More than 10 Mph. The Load is so wide that planning the two Day move took two years said state police sgt. Michael Britvich. The 24-ton, 27-foot-wide Mirror built by Corning inc. In Canton n.y., was taken by Barge to Erie. From Erie it was being trucked to Wampum 40 Miles North of Pitts Burgh for three years of grinding and polishing in a converted underground Limestone mine. It will then be in stalled in a huge Telescope to be completed in Hawaii by 2000. Hundreds of spectators filled Park ing lots and lined roads along the route to get a look at the big Mirror. Bob Lindgren owner of a restaurant on the route said regulars poured out of the building to watch the Mirror pass. The morning Coffee club met out it the parking lot this morning he said tuesday. Since the Mirror blocked both lanes of the interstate motorists were forced to creep along behind it for Miles. The truck planned to pull Over at rest stops to allow motorists to pass. The Mirror is so big and so delicate that even ambulances were prohibited from passing. After processing the Mirror will be taken to Hawaii where it will become the major Lens of the advanced Suburu Telescope. The Telescope is sponsored by Japan s National astronomical Observatory. Psychiatric patient awarded $4.2 million after losing Leas. \  a " in of w i a six k i. A i. , t _ _ York a a social worker handed subway tokens to a mental patient and told him to move to a different Hospital. The patient jumped in front of a subway Tram and lost his legs now a judge has awarded him $4.2 million. Hector Manuel Rivera 43, will use the Money to move himself and his Mother out of their subsidized Home his attorney Robert , said tues Day. The Money also will buy equipment such As a motorized wheelchair and will  for Rivera to live in an institution when his Mother no longer can care for him Tessler said. State court of claims judge Albert Blinder ordered the Manhattan psychiatric Center a state run Hospital to  Rivera., Rivera a paranoid schizophrenic was recommended for hospitalization be cause he suffered from hallucinations. He told his lawyer that the Devil told him to leap in front of the train in 1976. The Case was decided in Rivera s favor last year. Blinder had Only to de cide the size of the award. The attorney for the Hospital could not be reached for comment