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Stakes ride in the billions
French Airbus vs. Boeing
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PARIS — When three Americans
landed on French soil in August to
complete the first trans-Atlantic bal
loon crossing in history, the French
went wild.
Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson
and Larry Newman drew crowds
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wherever they went during their
brief stay in France. Pictures of
them and their balloon were
spl ashed on front pages and
magazine covers. The French
awarded each of them the
Aeronautics Medal, the Youth and
Sports medal and the Grand Medal
of the City of Paris.
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Two Cheese and
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Onion Enchiladas
Whipped Potatoes and
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Vegetable
Patio Style Pinto Beans
Roll or Corn Bread and Butter
Tostadas
Coffee or Tea
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Italian Candle Light Spaghetti Dinner
SERVED WITH SPICED MEAT BALLS AND SAUCE
Parmesan Cheese - Tossed Green Salad
Choice of Salad Dressing - Hot Garlic Bread
Tea or Coffee
FRIDAY EVENING
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Cole Slaw
Hush Puppies
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Tossed Salad
Choice of one
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NOON and EVENING
ROAST TURKEY DINNER
Served with
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Cornbread Dressing
Roll or Corn Bread - Butter -
Coffee or Tea
Giblet Gravy
And your choice of any
One vegetable
United Press International
BIGLERVILLE, Pa. — Ed Got-
walt, true showman that he is,
wanted to make a lot of children
happy this year by arriving as Santa
Claus in an unconventional way —
in a hot air balloon.
Instead he ended up stuck in a
tree about 50 feet above the ground
in full costume and beard.
Gotwalt was stranded for more
than two hours Sunday on top of the
trees after the balloon got snagged
on branches and deflated.
Gotwalt, 42, had hired balloonist
Jeff Dull, 23, and took off shortly
before noon from rural Walnut Bot
tom, about 18 miles west of Carlisle.
“We were flying over the
mountain range toward my store
and hit a downdraft (that) sucked the
balloon down, actually, and we
crashed into the trees,” Gotwalt
said.
A plane passing overhead saw the
deflated balloon and notified au
thorities.
Using a complicated system of
ropes, ladders and pulleys, a state
police rescue crew secured Gotwalt
and Dull and lowered them to the
ground.
"I ho, ho, hoed all the way down.
I really did,” Gotwalt said.
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France and the United States —
which means back to yet another
bitter competition with billions of
dollars at stake, this time in the
short-range passenger jet market
with the Franco-German A310 Air
bus pitted against the Boeing 757
and 767.
Four years ago, it was the Gen
eral Dynamics F16 vs. the Dassault
Mirage FI for the sale of 348 jet
fighters to Norway, Denmark, Bel
gium and the Netherlands for $2 bil
lion. With potential orders antici
pated up to as much as $10 billion, it
was the “arms deal of the century. ”
The Americans won, flaps down.
Last year, it was the Concorde
and French efforts to win landing
rights for the supersonic jetliner in
New York. The British, co-builders
of the Concorde, fidgeted nervously
while the French all but accused the
Americans of trying to torpedo the
Concorde, not because it was noisy,
but because the United States had
nothing to match it, the U.S. Con
gress having scuttled plans for an
SST (supersonic transport) years be
fore.
The French won the battle, al
though they may have lost the war.
For the Concorde has proved to be a
financial albatross for the French
and their British partners.
The new battle involves the A310
Airbus and the Boeing 757 plus its
latter and smaller version, the Boe
ing 767.
The A310 Airbus is to be man
ufactured by Airbus Industrie, a
predominantly French and West
German consortium with Spanish
minority participation. Forthcoming
production of the 757 was an
nounced by Boeing a few days after
Airbus Industrie’s decision to
launch the A310.
According to industry analysts,
the non-communist world will need
2,(XX) to 3,000 such 180 to 200-seat
medium-range planes in the coming
years, as domestic airlines keep ex
panding. With each such jetliner
costing approximately $25 million to
$30 million, the stakes are in the
tens of billions of dollars.
France, the moving spirit behind
Airbus Industrie, does not expect
the European consortium to be able
to win more than one third of the
orders at best.
Hotdogs could take
unique turn-o-rouni
United Press International
DENVER — The man who brought the world perfumed bora
manure and fiberglass burial vaults says he is now ready to bring
America the round hot dog.
Darwin Hiddleson, 61, said the inspiration for the circular hot dog
came to him 10 years ago in a dream resulting from a bad experienw
at a California drive-in movie with chili dog stains.
“The kids were hollering for chili dogs. Then it just seemed there
was chili over us, the kids, the upholstery. And it squirted allovermy
new white Palm Beach suit," Hiddleson said. "There must be a better
idea.”
The better idea was the doughnut-shaped hot dog, known as the
“Rock-O” in honor of Hiddleson’s nickname. It fits on a hamburger
bun and has a hole in the middle for sauerkraut, chili, cheese or other
trimmings.
At the time of the dream, patent attorneys told Hiddleson and his
wife, Sally, the time for round hot dogs had not yet come.
“Think up a better hot dog and you’re immediately branded as
some kind of nut,” he said. But last spring, Hiddleson resigned as
chief embalmer at Olinger’s Mortuary to devote himself to promoting
Rock-Os.
He has designed an adaptor to convert vertical hot dogs into circu
lar hot dogs and has begun negotiations for supermarket sales as well
as franchise operations.
“With good promotion, schoolkids’ contest for the best Rock-0
stuffing and so on, we could franchise this for $250,000 or $300,000in
each and every state,” he said.
Hiddleson’s other inventions — the perfumed horse manure and
fiberglass burial vaults — had mixed reviews. He made 8100,000
from Thoroughbred Perfumed Horse Manure, but bombed out on
the caskets.
Singles like home-buying
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WASHINGTON - Young, unmar
ried men and women increasingly
are buying houses to prove to their
employers they are stable and reli
able, a mortgage insurance company
president says.
Singles have moved so decidedly
into the housing market, said
Jackson W. Goss, president of Tiger
Investors Mortgage Insurance Co.
of Boston, that he predicts they will
make up 20 percent of all home pur
chasers during the next two years.
"We predict that approximately one
out of every five homes sold in 1979
and 1980 will be purchased by sing
les,” Goss said. “This is quite a de
velopment when one remembers
that 10 years ago singles repre
sented less than 4 percent of the
market and that five years ago the
same group counted for one of every
18 buyers,” he added.
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Highlights of the survey:
—Young singles said owning
home indicated to their peers,
ployers and business associates
credible picture of stability,
was particularly important in con
vincing employers that singles
stable people.
—Young people are quite as
of the tax saving and equity invi
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