European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday april 26, 1978 High court rules California pension plan Bia Washington a pension Dan requiring women to contribute a greater portion of their salaries than men because women generally live longer to collect benefits Are illegal the supreme court Rule tuesday. Handing a significant Victory to the women s rights movement the justices voted s-2 in striking Down such pension plans As unlawful sex discrimination. Many women do not live As Long As the average Man and Many men outlive the average woman the court said in an Opin deficit Ridden Carrier Ion by Justice John Paul  they were working those individuals received smaller paychecks be cause of their sex but will receive no compensating advantage when the retire Stevens said in finding that such pension plans violate the civil rights actor 1964. The court s decision tuesday upholds algal Victory won in lower courts by five women employees of the los Angeles department of water and Power. The women sued the City to protest a requirement that they pay into a compulsory retirement fund is percent More of their salaries than men earning the Sam amount. Under the plan a woman earning j1.0toa month would pay $25.49 monthly to the retirement fund a Man earning the Sam amount each month would pay $22.20. The pension plan like those covering millions of working women was based on life expectancy charts snowing thai women generally outlive men and that most women would be collecting pension n Conro execs draw incentive pay Washington a Conrail paid i Stop executives hundreds of thousands of dollars above their Normal salaries Las year officials of the deficit Ridden rail car Rier confirmed  rail line was responding to charges by rep. Toby Moffett a Conn. Who said Conrail s 55 top executives were paid $417.-000 in other compensations last year. Moffett said the Money was used for bonuses car allowances and memberships in private  a statement issued from its head quarters in Philadelphia. Conrail con Boyd named Amtrak president Washington up former transportation Secretary Alan Boyd tuesday was named president of Amtrak the National passenger train network. Boyd succeeds Paul Reistrup. Who asked to be relieved of his duties effective june 1 after three years As head of the Semi Public corporation. Boyd 56, becomes president at a time of trouble for Amtrak. The corporation took Over most i a. Passenger train service in 1971 and has been plagued with mounting deficits Ever since. In 1967, Boyd. Named by president Lyndon Johnson to be the nation s first Secretary of transportation later became president of the Illinois Central Gulf rail Road. Firmed the existence of an incentive compensation program saying the plan was developed to help motivate the Turna round of the previously bankrupt rail  statement also said. The plan con siders both Overall financial performance and a series of specific performance objectives including increased  rail system created in 1976, incorporated the Penn Central and five other bankrupt rail lines into one which became known As Conrail. It serves 17 easter states. Conrail is currently seeking an addition Al $1.3 billion from Congress. Two Yean ago. It received $2.1 billion but still has been unable to turn a profit if Conrail executives expect Congress to respond to their needs they la have to Dean up their act Moffett said. Cars trucks and a go skateboarder bad Kissinger Germany up motorists speeding Down the Auto Bahn had trouble believing their Eye when they saw an american Soldier travelling along at a brisk rate on skateboard. It was 7.10 p.m., and traffic was fairly heavy with germans returning Home on the superhighway betwee Wurzburg and Fulda after sunday out Ings on a warm sunny  by a police patrol car. The Soldier said he was on his Way to the army training area at Wil Flecken Al ready had covered about 18 Miles and had about the same distance to  German police were amused but they did their duty. Pining him 10marks $5. Skateboards and pedestrians Are barred from  was going at a Good  a police spokesman said. The patrol car watched him cover three Kilometres 1.8 Miles in about five minutes. And he had a 20-kilo 44-Pound pack on his  police refused to disclose his  have a firm Rule in minor traffic  the spokesman said. No names even if it s this sort of  what happened to the Soldier he probably continued on his Way by hitch hiking the spokesman said although he added that hitchhiking on the Auto Bahns is forbidden  re kidding a spokesman at . Army Headquarters in Heidelberg said when asked if anything was known about the matter. Carter would beat Ford in vote now poll claims new York up president carte would defeat former president Gerald r. Ford if the 1976 election were held again according to a Harris poll released  its first pairing for the 1980 presiden tial election a poll of 1.005 adults nation wide who voted in the 1976 election found that the Black vote is the key to Carter Early Lead. Blacks said they would vote for Carter by an overwhelming 81-10 percent margin the poll said. Carter would carry the vote of those who make under 110.000 a year by 56-37 per cent. He also shows Strong support Amon the unions the big cities and the Catholic population the Survey , the president holds substantial leads in the East and in the South areas that were Pivotal to Bis 1976 Victory. Despite a very negative Job rating. Carte holds a 52-38 percent margin in the East and a 54-38 percent margin in the South according to the poll. Ford leads by a narrow 4743 percent margin in the Midwest but is behind in the West which he won in 1976. By a 4845 per cent margin. Harassed poll congressman wants to re dress colleagues Wasoff Lariton Iasi an Indiana my pm jul a nil t. K _ in. Of i i benefits for a longer time after while Stevens opinion did i the truth of such studies it a generalizations could not be i Criminate against female Wenthe court distinguished 1 Sion from a 1976 ruling the striding health Benefit for under no Legal obligation to Nancy benefits. The 1976 decision dealt _ Tion on the basis of a speck faulty and was Legal a Green ice drops from Bluebond Ripley Tenn. A asking the state health Diamine a 25-Pound chunk witnesses say fell from the i . Hutcherson chief d Lauderdale county said t object wrapped in a i freeze at the county j totes Tatela. The ice fell on the i Ashport school West of i with b Roar and a dood ing to witnesses.  and Check it out for i Cherson said. They said i live and i guess Well m lab and let them test  Hutcherson said several ported seeing the object fran Muat they said it was so Down and someone said  Tornado. B broke into the Tel the size of a softball made an indentation i Cherson said. Sheriff Joe Osteen that someone emptied i Washingto a an Indiana con Gressman who says he sometimes spends As much As $70 a year on Dothes is out to liberate his male colleagues from the age old custom that decrees they Wear ties an jackets on the floor of the House in a poll of both female and male Mem Bers rep. Andrew Jacobs jr., d-ind., is asking whether the House custom should be altered to let men use their common sense on what is suitable for  the returns Are not in yet on what Jacobs Calls his harassed poll an from the replies one can see it is not challenging taxes or Energy policy for Billings the major Issue of the Day. Of 435 members polled there have been37 agreeing with Jacobs and 25 against. But some of the replies show Jacobs has struck a nerve. Rep. Morris i Dall. A Ariz. Clothing Chain owner Dies Miami a Michael Lemer. Co founder of Lerner shops a Chain of women s clothing stores and founder an first president of the International game fish association died of cancer. He was added a note to Bis ballot god bless you. Jacobs you Are a True Liberator of  personally dislike being cinched up with a  says Jacobs. Generally be conforms to the House code. But Jacobs May prefer shirt sleeves at meetings of the House ways and Means committee while other male members Are in  once tested the dress code by wearing a sweater and open necked  member Shook his Cane at Jacobs that Day. But speaker Thomas p. O Neill who has the Power to remove members wearing unacceptable attire instead opted to take the matter up with Jacobs wife rep. Martha keys. , who often wears pantsuits to the floor replied that she does not oversee he husband s wardrobe. Neither sex is supposed to Wear hats on the floor. Jacobs who was Active in the Houseright for the proposed equal rights amendment note that women member do not have a dress code. Jacobs says he has no intention of doing away with Good taste. But he wants con Gress to catch up with the rest of society which he believes is rebelling against the tie and jacket and it froze at t and the fact it is planned by the use of to the Touet Osteen. Said 4 disinfectant odor to  Hutcherson said skies time and witnesses did i any air planes. Term a milk   but narc l a 44 aim. 44 a 41 b my n id a to m a we n m u 44 44 47 u n ttj4 it x 4142 74 41 71n n a u 49 a u 44 14n n 41 to pm hmm  of Riatti Csc Cincinnati pm Nugid 41 41m 49 41 41 it patrol to 30 Deluta a n eipau41 n Evan film id s3 Fairbanks 41 u Faroe it Fla abut it 44 o Talf 1 47 Hattit Llu Nanay to u Hapitana 41 k id is v and m � m � i if41 m Iii i ii