European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Tuesday november 29.199 Cool . Warms up for Yule with Parade los Angeles a the 63rd an Nual Hollywood Christmas Parade rang in the Holiday season angeleno style led by the sunglass wearing University of Southern California marching band an featuring dozens of celebrities. Organizers estimated that 1 Millionee pfc jammed the 3.2-mile, Palm tree Ned Parade route sunday. Police did immediately have an estimate sgt. Ann Young said. Happy holidays merry Christmas everybody grand marshal Louis Gossett or. Told the crowd As the Parade go underway. Later actor Scott Baio added a Happy new year As the Hollywood High school band played Joy to the my f. F world. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago nov. 29,1984 president Rea Gan s budget advisers striving to re Duce the Federal deficit without Rais ing taxes presented him with a variety of proposed Domestic spending cuts expected to anger Many special interest groups. 20 year Sago nov. 29,1974 experts of the organization of Petroleum exporting countries ended a three Day meet ing with a recommendation to main Tain Oil prices at current Levels. 30 years ago nov. 29,1964 howling mobs attacked the american British Bel Gian and Congo embassies in mos cow until mounted police scattered the demonstrators. 40 years ago nov. 29,1954 China rejected a . Protest against the imprison ment of 13 americans on charges of espionage returning the note to the British Diplomat who delivered it to the chinese. 50 years ago nov. 29,1944-. German reports described a major tank Battle on the Southern flank of the Western front claiming that the . 7th army had thrown 200 tanks into three thrusts on the Western approaches to the Northern Vosges mountains in France. 50 years ago today nov. 29 the . Submarine Arche fish sinks the aircraft Carrier Shinano off the japanese Island of Honshu. In the Philippines japanese Kamikaze pilots continue attacks on . Naval forces in the Gulf of Leyte damaging the battleship Maryland and two destroyers. Soviet troops Advance Northwest of Budapest driving German and hungarian forces from pecs and Mohnacs. Source 2194 Days of War. W. H. Smith publishers inc. The world almanac of world War ii Bison books corp., 1981 a the Holiday spirit was helped along with temperatures that were unseasonably Low by Southern California  was 5b in los Angeles at 6 . Earlier the Doo Dah Parade returned to Pasadena s Colorado Boulevard As a scaled Down but still irreverent Cele bration of wackiness. The latest Outing of the Doo Dah was More like its Early years before the bizarre spoof of the annual Rose Parade became an institution itself. The shortened Doo Dah included such entries As the bbl and Hibachi Grill team a flock of fluttering brides reciting poetry reptile costumed lounge lizards with cocktails and a rolling piano and the unseen Claude Rains memorial invisible Man Drill team. Contestant did whammy on game show Lebanon Ohio a it was big Bucks with no wham Mies. Paul Larson won $110,237 on pres your Luck which aired on lbs from 1983 to 1986. It was the most Money eve won on a single game show. With the recent Robert Redford movie quiz show reviving interest in the game show scandals of the 1950s, Larson s feat has received renewed attention including Story this week into guide. Press your Luck featured an illuminated game Board. The lights flashed around the Board As each player hit plunger to Stop on a Square. A player who stopped on a whammy lost the accumulated earnings. Larson videotaped the programs to Serif the lights moved randomly. After six weeks he determined there were six Pat terns of 18 numbers. I just memorized the patterns Lar son said. Pealing the late president the gardens Worth of Flowers sent to the funeral of president Nixon in april have a s00". And a 1 nose-peasin8p�tpo�. Above Caine Jones left and Chris Naughton put together the bags of classic Potpourri memorial petals & Fra Grances at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda Calif. One bag of the petals costs $20. Chicago a women in their40s should have regular mammograms and annual ones offer the Best Chance of Early detection of breast cancer re searchers said monday. Two studies both supporting yearly tests for women in their 40s, follow a decision last year by the National cancer Institute to withdraw its recommendation that women begin routine mammography in their 40s. The Institute said women should decide for themselves whether Totake the exam after consulting with their doctors. The american medical association still recommends that women in their 40s have routine mammograms. The Ama also has recommended that women Star with a base line Mammogram at 35. The studies were presented at the an Nual conference of the radiological society of North America by or. Linda Warren executive director of the screening mammography program of British Columbia. Or. Stephen a. Feig and or. Emily f. Conant of the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. Warren a radiology professor at the University of British Columbia in Van Couver Canada studied 150,147 women Between july 1988 and september 1993 about 34 percent of them were younger than 50. Overall she said 15 percent of the detected cancers were in that age group and almost 87 percent of the 150 cancers founding women m their 40s were in an Early Cura ble stage before the cancer had spread to the Lymph nodes the study found. Feig a radiology professor said recent research indicates that tutors in younger premenopausal women who Are still hormonally Active tend to grow faster. That he said makes Early detection among women in their 40s even More critical. Feig assisted Conant an assistant radiology professor on a three year study at the Thomas Jefferson Hospital. The conducted a retrospective analysis of 615 patients 40 and older diagnosed wit breast cancer. The study indicated that women who had undergone annual mammograms had the Best Chance of recovery and the most treatment options Conant said. Of the 615, 88 women in their 40s had cancers detected solely by mammography not self examination Conant said.,� official Dies from flesh eating germ of i it in ifs not tart j ,._a Aby Jeff special to the los Angeles limes thousand Oaks Calif. Califor Nia s first known death from the so called flesh eating bacteria was recorded Here sunday when a 50-year-old county offi Cial died a few Days after complaining of a severe sore Throat and leg pains. Thomas g. Lakin the Chancellor of the Ventura county Community College District died at los Robles regional medical Center. Ventura county senior Deputy Coroner Mitch Breese confirmed that the cause of death was flesh eating bacteria properly known As Necro timing Fasci itis. The disease is caused by a virulent sometimes deadly Strain of streptococcus and other bacteria. The Federal centers for disease control and prevention estimates that there Are Athrt-i500 to 2,000 cases of Necro timing fas Cliitis each year in the United states As Many As 30 percent of them fatal. Although friends said sunday that Lakin had complained of a severe sore Throat As Early As wednesday he did not seek medical treatment until Friday they said when he went to the los Robles emergency room