European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday May 25, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 5 face of a ors voted girls favorite husband is boys new York a actress Farrah Fawcett majors has been voted the person american girls in grades one through 12 would most like to be while her husband edged president Carter As the boys Choice ladies Home journal  boys picked Lee majors the Magazine said in its june Issue because As one sixth grader put it i d sure like to come Home to her every  Magazine reported on a National Survey it conducted of 1.000 youngsters who were asked if you could be any famous person in the world today who would you be the girls picked in order after Fawcett majors Marie Osmond. Lindsay Wagner Nadia Comanici Toni Tennille Olivia Newton John barbra Streisand Cher Barbara Walters and Kate  boys chose majors Carter John Wayne. Elvis Presley Gerald Ford Henry the Fonz Winkler evil Knievel 0. J. Simpson fran Tarkenton and Elton John. Ford co. Enters minibar Market in . With German built fiesta Detroit a Ford motor co. Entered the mushrooming . Minibar Market monday previewing a West German built front wheel drive car that looks like the Volkswagen  s new fiesta built at the firm s Saar Louis Assembly Plant in Germany will go on Sale in the United states sometime in August said Ford officials. A Price has no been announced but company officials have indicated it will Cost somewhat less moving firm frauds bilk americans out of $20 million a year inc says Washington a american families who use moving companies to take their belongings to other states Are Over charged $20 million a year because of fraudulent practices by some companies the interstate Commerce commission said monday. Inc chairman Dan o Neal who announced a crackdown on such practices said Many moving families lose More than$500 per trip because of Ripoff practices in which the customer pay s for a heavier Load than is actually  Neal said some movers have been caught adding bricks steel ingots old engine parts packing crates and even people to trailers and vans to make the Load heavier and the Bill  inc also is studying proposed legis lation to tighten penalties and is cooperating with the military traffic an management command which is conduct ing a similar Campaign against fraud unmoving military families. The inc also said it is going after Phon agricultural cooperatives which use the co operative Label to avoid rate weight an safety regulations. Some of these truckers have been caught running narcotics the inc  a news conference. O Neal showed a film made by undercover agents in Santaclara. Calif., where workers staggered under the weight of Iron and steel bars a they were loaded onto trucks about to be  film also showed Fork lift trucks placing huge pallets of bricks and other objects too Large to be lifted by hand ont trucks for weighing along with the House hold goods that were being shipped by the  one Case a Large packing crate filled with weights was placed out in the open on the Gas tanks behind the cab of a tractor trailer  Neal said unscrupulous truckers weigh their vehicles Load them with the goods to be moved then add other weight at warehouses or terminals. Then the whole Load is weighed. This Gross weight less the weight of the truck is the weight the customer pays for. But the extra weights Are removed before the trucker actually makes his  inc regulates the rates charged by interstate shippers and the biggest consideration is weight although there Are charges for special packing. O Neal called this practice of weight bumping loads a flagrant and despicable consumer Ripoff but said it is Only on of the frauds worked on unsuspecting householders on the move plane misses Berry pickers Verona. Italy in Pil at. Italians Arfi in tar aircraft crashed 30 Yards from a group of Strawberry pickers near Verona and although the Pil to was badly Hurt Only one peasant s clothes were singed by burning Metal. Reportedly another bumping technique that has been used in some instances is to slip the scale operator or weigh master afew dollars on the Side in return for a false weight ticket o Neal said. O Neal said the inc also has undertaken an All out offensive against Sham Agri cultural  he said there arc hundreds of such shippers who have Little or no connection with Farmers but who enjoy the exemptions Farmers Are allowed under the Law for moving their goods to  Shannon chief of the inc s enforcement Bureau said some of these ship pers stopped under the new crackdown have been found to be carrying Contra band including  would not give details on the narcotics cases because they Are still being investigated but he said the inc i cooperating with Canadian authorities indicating an International drug  Neal said Drivers from the Sham co Ops have been involved in i number of Seri Ous accidents. Coop Drivers Are not subject to the department of transportation s safety  said the Sham co Ops have nothing to do with Farmers and they arc no hauling farm goods they re hauling any thing at  he said the names of far leaders arc frequently used without their knowledge by operators falsely claiming to be running farm  said letters had been sent to 250 officers and directors of Sham co Ops warning of the crackdown. He said their names were not released because Many Are believed not to know their names have been listed As operations  Neal said the enforcement drive was aimed at operations which were illegal by statute and should not affect legitimate co  drive against weight bumpers which Shannon said affected about 9 percent of All interstate moves will feature in creasing Federal surveillance of the weigh ing of household goods shipments. O Neal said help was being sought an received from the  majority of companies and  Neal said customers should make arrangements to be present when their ship ments Are weighed but he conceded that one customer in the California investigation had watched her goods go to the Scales and had come away convinced the weight was Correct even though it was More than she had expected. The Dandy of time than the Rabbit which starts at $3,600.the fiesta which comes Only As a Hatchback will be among the smallest cars sold in the United Stales. It is a few inches Shorter and several pounds lighter than the Honda a acc  rivals include the vow Rabbit Honda Chevrolet Chevy the Toyota Corolla and Dat Sun b-210. Plus other japanese an european imports such As Plymouth Arrow Dodge Colt. Subaru. Mazda gland Renault s be car. The Chevy the is the Only . Built mini car although vow will begin assembling rabbits in the United states next , Ford s debut of the new imported Small car at Napa calif., coincide with a temporary shutdown monday of three Domestic Small car Assembly plants caused by flagging  for the week Are the Mustang ii Plant in Dearborn. Mich., the Pinto Bobcat facility in Metuchen n.j., and the Maver ick Comet Plant in Kansas City to. About5,700 hourly workers have been Laid off at the three facilities. Workers in Metuchen were Laid off last week Loo. Ford officials said the firm will rehire 600 hourly workers at Metuchen in late june when it boosts Pinto production by about 50 per cent from a rate of 512 Assem Blies a  fiesta like the Rabbit has front wheel drive an engineering trend that i being revived because it allows for More room in the passenger compartment. The car is expected to average 33 Miles to the gallon of gasoline. That compares with a 34 . Rating for the Rabbit. Ford plans to sell about 100,000 fiestas year for the . Market. The company has ruled out building the car Here unless demand reaches 500,000 a year. May 25, 1m7 col. Hugh b. Hester food and agricultural chief for the Ameri can government announced that the american and British zones of Berlin would receive 1.5 million tons of food products from the . To help relieve the food crisis in that  25.1957 in Taipei chinese mobs attacked the . Embassy and wrecked other american offices to protest the acquittal of a . Army officer who had killed a chinese window Peeper. May 25, 1967 the . Department of transportation tested its new experimental $1 million train on a 21-mile run be tween Trenton and new Brunswick. . The train a prelude to last Pennsylvania Railroad service Between new York and Washington was determined Safe it speeds of 15c . A festival of fragrance Frey Opper sniffs u Lilac at Highland Park in Rochester n.y., the site of the in Quai Lilac festival. The Rochester Institute of technology graduate Stu Dent was among ubut 200,000 visitors to the Park during the festival. The parkas 535 species of lilacs on 1,600 Bushes and officials say that it s the world largest publicly maintained display of the fragrant Flowers. Lt1 photo