European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Air fares Washington t i Federal Avia lion officials cautioned travellers saturday against expecting dramatic cuts in trave Josts in the Wake of an unprecedented overhaul of the government s system forgetting Domestic airline fares. The officials expressed doubts the civil aeronautics Board move to give airlines he Power to slash fares on their own would spark a Price cutting fare War in the United  Don t anticipate a Price War or really " " Page 7car it -".,� the stars and stripes it a. Us but that �verr,o0/ec� pricing system in Drom ofic cuts in Domestic travel costs couple of Iriart. Will All workout i. In a1 an idea of How it an percent without govern them by up to 1ment approval Consumers should not look for reductions in every Market a cab official said m analysing the decision. Some will go in some up and some will stay the a luuk a depends on How the airline View the  he discounted the likelihood of an All out a fax Amons american carriers but a in new flexibility in Price setting Souid result in More Price  Ethel Kennedy widow of the late  Kennedy is shown with soccer Pele at Frk tourney great Pete at the West Side Tennis club in Forest Hills n.y., where they appeared in the seventh annual Frk pro celebrity Tennis tournament. A psf woman to jump from plane Dies Henderson  Up Georgiaa Brown who in 1913 became the first Man Ever to Parachute from an air pane died late Friday in Long Beach Cal il.aewas85. Verla Poythress Brown s daughter Jad her Mother died of complications suffered alter contracting pneumonia. Known As tiny Broadwick the doll a of aviation the 5-foot-tall Brown owe her first jump in 1908 from a balloon pm went on to jump More than 1,000 times barnstorming Tours across  All those jumps she never wore a vre Parachute and suffered nothing we serious than a broken wrist and a watched  june 21. 1913. Brown released the 2woor of a biplane and parachuted 2.000� to tos Angeles Griffith Park. It was first time a woman had parachuted Nan air plane. Tamm she gave the first official Demon Juon of tiie Calpack Parachute de to by her Foster father. Charles Mick. Before a group of army offi 2� in California. Despite her successful g with that Early version of modern a parachutes the army refused to use Sool cd me preservers during old War i it seems they were afraid that if Pilot were equipped with the life preservers Thev would jump out of the planes at them who is trouble and let the plane crash she said in a 1964 interview. And at that time the United states had Only about three Good  in Henderson ., on april 8, Kab. Brown worked 12-hour a � area s Cotton Mills As a teen Ager she was married at 15 and became a Mother an widow shortly afterwards. Also while 15, she visited a county fair near Durham  and discovered Broad Wick and parachuting. She became so fascinated with Broadwick s balloon that she convinced him to hire her. Later she adopted his name. In 1922 she made her last jump went to California and lived there the rest of her life she is survived by a daughter six grand children 12 great grandchildren and fou great great grandchildren. Aviation sources said the carriers would Likely Cut hires to encourage traffic in relatively quiet Days they said the lines might try to step up rates during Peak to Nival periods but Competition could keep the fares Down in the Cam s Radical overhaul of the Domestic passenger fare Structure the air lines would be permitted unilaterally to Cut regular coach fares on All flight by As much As so percent. Cut regular coach arcs on 40 percent of a Carrier s flights by another 20 percent. Raise fares by 5 or 10 percent de pending on the Competition. The cab decision Aiso freed airlines from an old requirement to maintain specific differences Between coach and first class service giving the carriers the Chance to Experiment with other kinds of travel. In place of the old method of petitioning the cab for fare changes the airlines would now simply notify the Board 45 Day before altering Rales within the limits set by the government. City of 71,000 left without fire Protection Anderson ind. A firemen walked off the Job saturday night complaining they were sick and left this City of 71.000 people with just seven men to pro vide fire Protection and emergency ambulance service. Fire chief de Ballinger said 75 men left their posts during the night and other fire men called in As replacements also began reporting that they were sick. This is not a  he said these men just walked off the Job leaving the City virtually unprotected " Ballinger. Who said about 80 men nor Mally work each shift said three of the men still working were administrative offi cers and the other four were trainees who did not belong to firefighters local 1262. Which has been trying to secure a new con tract with the City. Caught by Surprise this really caught us by  said Ballinger who was on duty at the City s main station we had no idea the men were ready for an action like  Ballinger said he and assistant chief Steve Sokol had made one emergency run when a Gas stove exploded. We got the fire out and there were no injuries or serious  he said. But i m worried about something major Hap pening. We have no idea How Long the men will remain out " Don Taylor a spokesman for the fire fighter local said last week that the fire men were seeking a raise of 11.2 percent. Their base salary is now $11.700. The City s latest offer to its 145 firemen was a 4 5 percent salary increase plus a$100 clothing allowance which Deputy City attorney Jim Freeman said was All the Money available in the City budget he said that with fringe benefits firemen would receive 9 i percent More than they do now. Residents Back in of fuel leak area Rock. Kan. Up the North of the missile site and area Farmers had been evacuated As a precautionary Silesio. Meander of theol. " have determined the area is Safe. May return to their Homes Ana n fone spokesman Gallons of water Belize the Leal Gen tetroxide. More than 80.000 silo to Sta in the planning stages late saturday afternoon a spokesman for the strategic air com Mand in Omaha. Neb., said the neutralizer would form ammonium nitrate a fertilizer that can be explosive when dry however authorities said the air Force planned to keep the mixture in liquid form. A decision on How to remove the thou Sands of Gallons of waste water and am Monia from the silo How Ever. Had nut been made. Graham said authorities said the amount of damage to the underground Structure had not been determined