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Show Provo I'tah, Friday May HERALD Page?6-T- HE 7 Girl's Blood Project And a College Dropout He's a 23-Year-- - Mayor Old Es-sc- to get a firsthand knowledge of business," he says, adding he will pursue his formal education later "I'm going to go back on the plan." He transferred to Lake Havasu City from a company store at Anaheim, Calif., in the latter part of 1977 and right away became active in I had a good opportunity life-lon- g he's single. "We're growing fast and we need some long-rang- fourth. In May of 1981 when he was 22 the council chose him to be the city's second mayor, making him one of the youngest mavors in the United flight. "I'm very excited. I want to go into medicine. I want to be a surgeon. I'm not sure what specialty yet." Miss Kusske said. "I was very pleased but surprised when e fishermen and others head to the bluegreen lake for recreation. And at all times of year visitors come to see the transplanted the city's famous landmark London Bridge. "We feel we're a year-aroun- resort," d nerman says. With two jobs, plus boating and flying hobbies, a Republican hasn't found the Bannerman time to advance his political career. But, he says. "I'm leaving the door open for politics." "A lot of people have asked me if I'm going to run for state office. (But) I've got to build my business career first. I've got to have that foundation... a building is only as strong as its base." On big weekends such as Memorial Day or Labor Day there may be as many as 75,000 people in Lake Havasu. In the winter, "snowbirds" flock to the sunny, rolling hills to get away from the cold. In the summer, boaters, out," Miss Both women will travel to Houston seven days before scheduled launch June 27 to work with the astronauts and prepare their experiments. Both need preflight medical data as well as data during and after the flight to draw con- clusions. The students will travel to Kennedy Space Center, Fla., for the Launch and to Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., for the landing. Mattingly. Lipoproteins are considered an important factor in heart disease. Miss Hauersperger, who attends East Mecklenberg County High School, plans to measure the effect of weightlessness and diet on the chromium content of the astronauts' blood and urine. Chromium is a trace metal important in the body's absorp- Ban- did find week in Washington. Miss Kusske. who attends Wilson High School, plans to check the effect of weightlessness, diet and exercise on the lipoprotein content of blood of astronauts Henry Hartsfield and Ken MARCUS BANNERMAN I Hauersperger said. John Jackson at Johnson Space Center in Houston said final approval for the experiments was expected next The girls were among 10 finalists chosen from 1.500 applicants seeking to have experiments carried on the fourth orbital flight of Columbia, scheduled for launch from Kennedy Space Center, Fla.. June 27. more." States. Surprisingly, his youth is more of an asset than a liability. "I have a lot of old grandmother types who astronauts during the flight. Simplicity was a factor in the selection of the girls' experiments for the say. Amy Kusske. 15, of Long Beach, Calif., and Karla Hauersperger, 17, of Charlotte. N.C.. were named winners Wednesday in a nationwide experiment contest sponsored by the National Science Teachers Association. planning," he says. "There are lots of communities with growing pains and we're trying to avoid them with sound planning." Lake Havasu City is a "planned" community and as such had the basics of irrigation and drainage districts, a sanitary district and a fire district when it became a city. "The only item we did not have was a police department." he says, adding it now has a force. Thirty four police officers for a city of 17,000? "At any given moment we could have 17.000 community liie. "It's a young community and I wanted to realI wanted to help the comly be a part of it munity," he says. The city incorporated in October 1978 and, in the following March, 24 people ran for seven seats on the first City Council. Bannerman came in third but. because nobody got a majority, there had to be a general election. He came in - (UPI) Sophisticated biological experiments devised by two teenage girls and involving the effects of weightlessness on blood content were given preliminary approval for the next space shuttle flight, officials i Es-sc- Shuttle-Boun- d HOUSTON say. You're just like my son,'" he says "Awl. because I'm so young, people don't hesitate to come up and talk to me." and there are a Visitors to Lake Havasu are often incredulous when million a year they meet him. "It has surprised a lot of people," he acknowledges. "They come to meet the mayor and he s so young. They think of young people hey know and think) he's not qualified for the position.'" During business hours Bannerman spends about eight hours a week on his mayoral duties. But nights and weekends he's constantly on the go, fulfilling the duties of his $200 a month office. Fortunately, it doesn't disrupt his home life LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. (UPI) Mr. Mayor in this resort community of 17,000 on the banks of the Colorado River is a college dropout all of 23 years old At an age when most careers are just getting started, that of Marcus D. Bannerman already is well under way, both in politics and business. He's also president of the Arizona division of o Wholesale Electric. Originally from Orange, Calif., Bannerman dropped out of college five years ago to join "I felt Is Miss Kusske's father is Dr. John Kusske, a member of the faculty at the University of California at Irvine. Miss Hauersperger's father is Richard Hauersperger, a planner with the city of Charlotte. The girls are following in the footsteps of Todd Nelson, a Minnesota high school student who put a box full of insects on the third mission of the space shuttle. Nelson tested the effect of weightlessness on insect flight. tion of food. The only requirements for the experiments are blood and urine samples from the astronauts, which the space agency already takes, and a log of exercise and diet to be kept bv the House Studies Runaways nun WASHINGTON (UPI) "Ann" was 12 when she ran away from home and her father's beatings. Three years later, she was a prostitute living in cheap hotels. It was then that writer Dotson Rader interviewed her for an article in Parade magazine on runaways. 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