European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday september 29,1977 import Idle eligible for special Aid i Washington a the labor department has certified nearly 5,000youngstown, Ohio steel workers As Eligi ble for special Federal assistance because their jobs Are being eliminated by import Competition. The decision Means the workers whose jobs will be phased out by the end of the year will receive retraining and special Cash allowances to supplement regular state unemployment benefits. A department spokesman said the work ers could receive up to $208 weekly in combined import related benefits and state unemployment insurance. The maximum Federal payment is $208, minus the amount of state insurance benefits. The government said the benefits were approved for 4,750 workers at the Camp Bell Stout hers works in the Brier Hill plants of the Youngstown Sheet and tube co. Which produced cold rolled Sheet and strip steel hot rolled Sheet and strip steel steel bar and bar products plate galvanized Sheet and pipe and  labor department said its invest gation showed that increased imports of these products from foreign steelmakers contributed importantly to the unemployment of workers at the Youngstown plants. Youngstown Sheet and tube announced the bulk of the layoffs last week. Several other major steelmakers have also announced layoffs at plants in Illinois new York Ohio and Pennsylvania citing import  South Chicago steelworkers Al ready have been granted special import related benefits and the labor depart ment said monday it is considering special benefits for 3,500 workers facing layoffs at Bethlehem steel corp s Lackawanna n.y.,  the Trade act of 1974, workers found to have lost their jobs because of Competition for imports Are eligible to apply for the special benefits. The benefits May include payments amounting to 70 per cent of a worker s average weekly wage not to exceed the National average weekly manufacturing wage for up to 52 weeks. In addition they May receive up to 26 additional weeks of allowances to com plete Job retraining programs and also May be eligible for Job testing counselling placement and allowances to relocate Formwork. The Youngstown workers must have been employed at the Ohio Plant for six months in the year prior to the Layoff in order to be eligible for the benefits. The labor department had earlier sent a team into the Youngstown area to begin processing unemployment compensation claims and Job applications through the . Employment service for those who will be Laid off there. Shah plans drawing business this Way is a shoe in kids get a Boot out of Clyde Morrison As he drives his car Down the Street. He says his top problem is returning All the Waves he gets from children. He runs a shoe repair shop and the Low Boot Caris a tie in with his livelihood. A Handwritten Rule for mail dropped Washington a the postal serv ice wednesday dropped a requirement that letters must be addressed by hand to qualify for the proposed new citizens rate mail postmaster general Benjamin f. Bailar said the decision was in response to Many requests some from handicapped persons who said the handwriting Rule would work a hardship on them. The citizens rate is intended to be a Benefit to the Public. Therefore i think it is in the Public interest to drop the plan to re quire that either the address or the return address be Handwritten Bailar said. The postal service proposed the citizen rate at the suggestion of president Carter As it sought to raise mail rates. Under the plan a private citizen will be Able to continue to use the present 13-cent rate for . Bank information Given London up american Banks account for 16 per cent of total Bank advances to britons the american Banks association of London Abal stated in evidence to the Wilson committee. The Wilson committee was set up by former prime minister Harold Wilson to investigate operations in the City of London London s financial Quarter. Mailing first class letters while the rate for businesses will go up to 16 cents. The requirement for Handwritten address or return address was intended to allow mail handlers to separate citizen . Political figure Dies Ventnor . A former state sen. Frank s. Hap Farley one of the last of the country s old time political Bosses died at his Home Here. He was 75. To visit . In november Washington is Shah Moham med Reza Pahlavi of Iran will visit the . In november it has been Learned. . Officials Are not ready to announce the visit which will come before president Carter departs in late november on an eight nation four continent world tour. Iran is one of the nations Carter will visit in his ambitious journey but the Stop there will permit Little More than a planned luncheon meeting with the Shah. The Shah s visit to the ., however heightens the peculiarity of one statistic of the trip. The Way time is counted in these matters Carter will hardly have had a Chance to say Goodby in the . To three of the Heads of state he will visit before air Force one lands on their runways. Venezuela first Stop the first Stop on Carter s trip is Venezuela whose president Carlos Andres Perez was in Washington earlier this month for the signing of the Panama canal treaty. His visit As did those of other latin Ameri can leaders included a session with Carter. Another Stop on Carter s itinerary will be Lagos Nigeria. It will be the first time a . President has visited a Black african nation since Franklin d. Roosevelt visited Monrovia Liberia in 1943. Carter already will have received its head of state however. It. Gen. Ulu Segan Oba Sanjo is scheduled for a state visit to Washington oct. 11-13. After leaving Nigeria Carter will Fly to India. That nation s prime minister Morarji Desai had been planning a visit to the ., but it was postponed so that it would not fall too close to Carter s trip. Rate mail from mail sent by businesses that does not qualify for the lower rate. A postal service spokesman said that with the handwriting requirement u i a i dropped enforcement of the two tier rate Talv crime figures released system for first class mail will depend Palma Nova Italy up Italy had largely on the honesty of the  440 murders 2,798 serious robberies 54 the citizens rate proposal and the rest of kidnappings and 1,405 drug trafficking of the postal service proposal for new rates lenses in the first eight months of tins is pending before the postal rate commis year Premier Giulio Andreotti said in a Sion. The new rates will not be effective speech. During the same period 39 police before next Spring men were killed he said. Fri says con flew on wings of love san Diego up love motivated a Snipes 40, walked out of the front door am i cajun ii ii a Mou Vaiea a Snipes a Waw a t Otth tront r nearby Lakeside who Anna Rentle smug female guard at the Federal government s of the jail in a Collar length wig jeans and led the Dothes and wis into the Iau a ,., Ket Sal d w. N s an Snel Jess a May o 0 years the government alleged in its affidavit. In prison. The Fri had a 12 volume file on modern High Rise jail to help a notorious con Man and female Impersonator escape the Fri said tuesday. She was in love with him agent Danny f. Stovall said of Norma Jean Spearman 30, just before her arraignment tuesday before . Magistrate Edward i. Infante. There was a love  Spearman the Mother of three children was accused of conspiracy and aiding an abetting the escape of Roy Madison Snipes the first escape from the $12.4 Mil lion jail that opened in december 1974. Two Day Fri investigation but Snipes whereabouts remained unknown. He s supposed to have called her and she was going to meet him Down in Mexico Stovall said. Asked How she reacted to his failure Socall he said. Heartbroken i guess is the  Stovall said the escape also involved been pursuing him since his arrest in St. Louis this and 1971 before Spring. Agents said he got jobs at travel Agen cies and airline offices across the nation stole travellers checks and Blank airline tickets and used them to travel across the country under numerous aliases. Stovall said Snipes was a female Impersonator and had used Many disguises an former inmate Vaughn Paul Morinville of aliases in his operations