4 640 DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1980 Teen lovers make suicide pact; 1 honors it "There is nothing whatsoever in the book about a suicide pact or about 90 mph crashes through concrete walls. The premise is about this world: The world we see with our eyes is not real, it is illusory. "There is a section about walking through walls. A messiah is leading a follower on, telling him he could learn miracles if he wanted to. The idea about walking through walls is to understand the nature of reality.
As we learn what is true, we are not bound by illusions." Dr. John Eisele of the King County medical examiner's office said a note, signed by Jason and found in the car, was "sufficient evidence" that the cause of his death was suicide. The note said: "I want all my possessions to go to the Goodwill (Industries) so they could make someone else as happy as I am right now. P.S. Except for my leather jacket.
Please give that to my friend (name deleted by authorities) Bye, Jason." Mercer Island, Wash. (Special) The talk of suicide and reincarnation was only a game for some bored teenagers in this wealthy suburb of Seattle. But not for Jason Perrine and Dawn Swisher, who forged a suicide pact, apparently after reading a pop philosophy book, "Illusions," by Richard Bach, the best-selling author of "Jonathan Livingston SeaguIL" Jason, 16, was buried yesterday, and Dawn, his 15-year-old girlfriend, was in serious condition in a hospital. The "game" ended at about 5 a.m. on Monday.
Jason, a handsome, dark-haired youth who loved sports, and Dawn took Dawn's sister's 1972 Chevrolet Camaro and, with Jason at the wheel, drove 90 mph across a five-block straightaway into the North Mercer Junior High parking lot The car jumped a curb and burst through a steel-reinforced concrete block wall of the school gymnasium, shot across the floor and embedded itself into the opposite wall of a locker room. She 'can'f remember anything' Jason was killed instantly. Dawn, facing death at that blazing speed, apparently had a change of heart and dived under the dashboard at the last second. Firemen used blowtorches to cut her out of the tangled mess of twisted steel. She regained consciousness in Overtake Hospital only yesterday after suffering a concussion.
Doctors quoted her as saying: "I can't remember anything. An accident? I don't know about an accident" Friends said the young couple hatched the suicide pact after reading "Illusions," with the firm belief in life after death. Bach said yesterday from his home in Oregon: kiwi 1 Urn I Site- 1- nun ill tiiftMiiaiiMiiiifi-iWiiinfrtiiTiiiffri'-nynni-i'niiiiJ 'fiif mn t- iri--TMifiiriinriin)nWrtiniiTr imnnfoff "j--Hrmi iiir inrrii-- -m rrann kumo Daily Now Jessie Carter Bronson (photo left) tries on uniform she wore on her first flight. In 1930, the then Jessie Carter (standing, 2d right 50 years off plane old hospital ity RON CLAIBORNI Fifty years ago today, four young registered nurses boarded a Boeing Air Transport plane bound from San Francisco to Cheyenne, Wyo. They had only vague instructions to take care of the handful of passengers and "do what has to be done." The idea, considered daring at the time, was a great success.
The nurses, who were called sky girls, were the first airline stewardesses. Jessie Carter Bronson, 72, one of the original sky girls, was here yesterday for a special ceremony to commemorate the historic experiment in commercial flying. It was sponsored by United Air Lines, which Boeing Transport later became. The ceremony at the Plaza Hotel was highlighted by a fashion show of flight attendants' uniforms over the last 50 years and models of uniforms of the future designed by such top couturiers as Bill Blass, Bill Haire and Edith Head. "I was working in a hospital in San Francisco and a rumor was going around that they wanted nurses on airplanes," Bronson recalled.
"We couldn't understand what they wanted with nurses on airplanes. I knew nothing of planes. I never thought of them much." "They didn't know what to tell us," said Bronson, a native of California and now a resident of Hawaii "They said, 'Do what has to be What had to be done turned out to include helping with the luggage, ministering to sick or worried passengers, checking tickets, making sure there was lots of gum and bolting the wicker passenger seats to the floor of the cabin before the flight Bronson remained a stewardess for a year and a half and then went back to nursing. Stewardesses quickly caught on with the other airlines. By 1950, male flight attendants had become common.
And now some things do progress they are all called flight attendants. Today there are about 125,000 of them worldwide. mi piwiw ai iryni puecu wiui wuwr fy gins uneyonno, wyo. Find NBC exec an apparent suicide A newly promoted program director of NBC-TV apparently committed suicide last night in his Rockefeller Center office, police said. He reported- ly was found with a plastic bag over his head- and a bottle of pills on his desk.
He left two letters behind, police said. Poliee identified the dead man as Joel Friedman, 54, and said he was found at 11 p.m. in his ninth floor office at 30 Rockefeller Center by a security guard making a routine check. One of the letters on his desk was addressed to his boss, Executive Vice President Richard Sonnenfeld, the other to his wife, Laury Anne, Mid- Town North stationhouse police said. "I can't take it, I can't deal with success," one of the letters read, according to police sources.
Friedman, promoted one week ago, was responsible for previewing all network programs and for the film- tape library, a network spokesman said. Pat Doyle, Tom Raftery Eggs aire dleDoveiredl A bus station asks: Wanna buy a duck? Washingtoa (AP) Nancy Christiansen wasnt looking for a baby duck or even a duck egg. But she found hundreds of eggs and they soon turned into a lot of ducks. Christiansen, the manager of the Trailways bus station, was- looking for lost packages as part of her daily routine and heard a strange sound coming from a box in the baggage room. "We opened it up and we saw four or five chicks that had been born," Christiansen said.
She called other workers to help out and they began opening a shipment of 90 dozen duck eggs that had been sitting in a corner of the station for up to 10 days. The eggs had incubated in a warm corner of the room and nature took its course. The eggs had been shipped from New Jersey to the Mekong Center, a Vietnamese grocery store in nearby Arlington, Va. Lee Nguyen, owner of the store, said he had ordered the eggs for a friend with a farm in Charlottesville, but had been unable to pick them up. Many of the baby ducks were saved, although some born at the bottom of the cartons apparently suffocated.
A lesson: Before progress comes pattneinice Ricky Casuso, the 15-year old Bushwick High School student whose family has been profiled in a Daily News series on Brooklyn's Bushwick section, is visiting Washington this week to get a firsthand glimpse of government at work. Here's another report on his trip, which is being sponsored by The News. By RICK CASUSO Spclt Correspondent of Tho Now Washington Being a reporter is rough because you always have to plan your next move. It's like playing chess. When Rep.
Frederick W. Richmond didn't show up at our Close Up Foundation breakfast I lost one of the big interviews I was counting on. So I told myself Be a pro, plan your next move. By the end of the day I had met Sen. Jacob Javits and my congresswoman, Shirley Chisholm.
They're real people and you could tell they really like what they're doing. If I could vote, I would cast my ballots for them. We met Javits in this room ia the Russell Office Building thj held, the 7 Watergate hearing burning down on it and how we try to keep my house up very nice but things get worse and worse. "How long will it take to tear down the abandoned buildings?" I asked the senator. He told me it will take until well after the election, 5 maybe another two or three years, before anyone could even begin to answer that Then my teacher, Mr.
Levyne, got my classmates, Daniel Byrd, Kelvin Hardy, and Nilsa Badillo and took us over to Shirley Chisholm's office. Til level with you," she said. "It's going to take billions and billions and billions of dollars to tear everything down and build it up." 1 left thinking that not too much was going to happen in the poor neighborhoods around New York. But she' ws, very nice, andj real people" She hear what was going on so welL One of the people from the Close Up Foundation told us that it was the senator's 76th birthday so we all sang Happy Birthday. He blushed and he didnt know what to say.
I liked him and I felt food for him. Well, I was nervous. 1 didn't know what to say. I never iiexpected to be that close to him. So, thought back to my 'btock airain.
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