European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 1, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars ant stripes metro july w7 subway line into Northern Virginia opening to serve of Washington pm ufers by Patricia Koa Washington to lab Washington the worlds newest subway opens it first line into Northern Virginia making highs red rail transit available for the first time to thousands of suburban the new Blue Extension and other transportation Chimes bump nude his year including a subway Extension into Maryland this tall promises to revolutionize travel habits of the Washington areas two million for 14 the Washington metro Polinn area transit but str known As has operated a five mile with seven Solinto in downtown for about passengers each Kin the line was considered a shake Down of the Many new concepts designed into the the operation of 26 stations along in Miles of rail will provide a major Chal inking both Northern and commuters for the first Lime with the major Federal employment cent Hoffert Kennedy Nal Onul air space lady Marks her 20th year Ala api the first lady of space cock rated her 2plh birthday wednesday at the Alabama space and Luckel where she lives in it Glass miss a Squirrel Monkey who was captured from inn junkets n Ieru a Lii she was about 6 months is about 75 to 80 years old in human the animal was billed As the Kirst lady of spate when she Madu her journey ii lop a Jupiter ballistic missile May As a precursor to manned space Rode to an Altitude of 100 then splashed Down in the Atlantic where she was her a Rhesus Monkey Nam cd died when doctors truth to remove medical but the flight proved that primates could survive spare Able has been stuffed and put on display at the National air and space museum in about to children were on hand for miss Bakers birthday which included a cake and letters of congratulations from space program officials and some members of miss Baker and her big stuffed themselves with their Reg ular meal of cottage then scampered blinking at camera screaming kids and popping one visitor was Charles who was in charge of the data office at Cape canaveral when miss Baker blasted Thomason said he remembered watch ing the two monkeys inserted in the Jupiter nose Cone in a Cylinder not much larger than on of ice waste we were All concerned that shed make her flight As he said Carter Wilt nominate attorney for Post Washington Lap president Carter said he will nominate Gerard Smith to be the special representative for nuclear nonproliferation issues and representative to the International atomic Energy a Washington waa director of the arms control and disarmament Agency from 1969 to 1972 in the Nixon and was chief of the delegation to the strategic arms Jimila lion port and the the Blue line begins at Akk stadium in Eastern runs the Ca Pitol Hill area and where it crosses the lied then goes under the Potomac River to Northern Virginia and a series of slops that includes the Commer Cial area of Arlington the Pentagon and National officials expect More than riders a Day in a matter of own though hours i ii continue to be Short 6 to 8 p weekdays there arc no dark Corners to Harbor crime in the spacious railings protect most Walls riot Graffiti artists monitored by two the trains Roll quietly Over rubber cushioned the new line is Only one of Era major changes scheduled in july for Tho cites bus and Rait transit a sophisticated electronic far collect ing which some predict will cause Wilt be used on the also going into effect will be around Hemlock reduced bus and rail fares for elderly and handicapped persons and a dime increase to 50 cents for rus hour buses in washing biggest Shalt Eup involves Traa furs Between t ruins and More Thim 500 of 7io Hilt routes will be revised so most Homes will end their routes at subway Sta changing them is the biggest change in my Urban transportation in the country Cody Metros Community services metro has tried to ease the transition by providing free rides on the new set Ting up the new fare collection system Early on an optional basis and changing the bus routes in two Steps As Well As paper ing the area with two million metro owner manuals Anil other literature to explain whats coming on july 4 the subway will stay open until to make it easier for the Holiday in Mali be a big barrel at each Sta Tion into which users will throw a Flat so corns Ifan Stihl that the Channi Uver in integrated bus rail system will be a Public relations night everybody likes hut nobody likes he a Lul of people Are going to be unhappy because their travel habits will metro Genera manager Theodore Luis says the opening of the Blue plus the Extension of the downtown red line into the Maryland suburbs should improve Metros image among officials in the seven suburban jurisdictions which joined Washington to form the network and set up a regional transit although the system is still working out some minor bugs like jammed squeaking brakes and occasional the biggest problem by far is in the Early when construction was just starting on the there were enough Federal and local funds to give metro the decision making authority it needed without intense scrutiny from the councils that govern the but the Transil authority fell heir to a failing area bus system in 1972 and Learned the hard Way what most other transit sys tems know that fares Are not enough to cover operating in the Cost of subway construction shot from an original estimate of billion to com plete the full 100mile system to the current estimate of More than As deficits county and City councils walked at providing the funds out of their main source of Revenue the prop erty tax and almost every financial Deci Sion by the metro Board waa preceded by delays and hair pulling lobbying at the local its not surprising that its easy to get a regional said this authority has no pot of Money to hand out unlike the Atlanta or san Francisco area systems which Are financed by an ear marked sales tax it comes out of the Gen Cra funds of the jurisdictions its sort of a Miracle that anything has gotten after much the jurisdictions agreed on a plan that pro Vides funding for about 60 Miles of hit pro posed one of the lines left out of that Flat Minn plan would run through Fairfax and City officials won a court judgment ordering metro to pay Back the s3 Mill Ion it contributed to the the Federal government is Balking it was Only two weeks ago that metro obtained Federal support for a 112 million in Terest payment on construction Bonds due Friday but with the condition that metro take another look at the red line Exten Sion it plans to build through in the Northern metro paid the interest Bill from Money committed to other with the Hope that a replacement appropriation will be forthcoming from just a Little squirt Twoy Earold William Cameron of win has Lound in the Garden Host time honoured method or lowering summer immigration shows heart yugoslav wins time to find missing mate Tupil Yugo slav who says she cannot find the american she married in Switzerland in burst into tears when an immigration judge gave her two More months to find Maria who works in the Tallahassee Democrat circulation said she met her Andrew Douglas Arlin of while he was in the army in West after their she her Hus band worked in Germany for a private she came to the last summer and lived with her parents inlaw at nor her husband was to join she said she moved to Tallahassee to get a Job and planned to meet her husband at port but he has not been heard from since he entered the at new York last she has been looking Tor him since she and immigration authorities have been extending her visa so she could continue the Artis said the couple had not had any arguments before her husbands disappear Ance and she does not think the fact she is White and he is Black has anything to do with the she has asked her inlays for any information they might but she told the court she is they know Noth they worry very much about she does not want to go Back to Yugo she because everything is so immigration judge Neal Foster said wednesday immigration authorities May extend arils stay in the beyond the two but if they choose not to she May be deported without a