European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 15, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes Friday september 22, 1978 postal service plans 9-digit zip code Washington a the postal ser vice said wednesday it plans to Start using a nine digit zip code to increase Automa Tion and hold Down postal rates. Although the five digit zip code has served and continues to serve an important purpose we Are now at the Point where Progress requires that we add to it in order to take full advantage of modern equipment and techniques senior Assis Tant postmaster general Pete Dorsey  service would continue using the current five digit code adding four extra drug buyers will be Able to Price shop St. Louis a . Food and drug commissioner Donald Kennedy says new mandatory Federal drug manufacturing standards will make it possible for the con Sumer to Price shop for drugs on the basis of Quality rather than by claims promoted for generic or Brand name , who announced the standards at a news conference wednesday said tests conducted by the food and drug administration s National Center for drug analysis Here provide no evidence of widespread differences in Quality betwee Brand name drugs and generic drugs or Between the products of Large versus  Only a Small percentage of drugs Donot comply with standards of Quality purity and Potency and when a drug deviates from the Standard it is just As Likely to Bea Brand name As a generic drug he said. For the first time Kennedy said Thesda is developing a list of drugs that have gone through the testing process and which Are therapeutically equivalent. The list will be made available to states health professionals or Consumers who want to save Money on health care costs and still be assured of getting Quality products he said. Kennedy said the new mandatory Stan Dards regulating the manufacture of drugs including a requirement that Virtu ally All drugs carry an expiration Date will be issued in two or three  standards apply to All . Processing plants and specify Steps that must retaken to assure that a Plant is clean. Numbers Over the next 2mz years Dorsey told a convention of business mailers. The additional numbers would allow the postal service to Purchase machines that can read zip codes and put mail in the proper mail sack eliminating the need for handling by clerks Dorsey  general William f. Bolger told reporters later that full automation would allow eight workers to do the mail sorting now done 20 people. Because labor costs account for 85 per cent of the postal service budget holding Down employment would reduce the Nee for postal rate increases. The current five digit code was instituted in 1963 to reduce the need for postal clerks memorizing on which routes addresses were  is one of the prime reasons Why the postal service has been Able to mechanize and absorb an increase of 35 percent Ismail volume since 1963 with Only a 12 per cent increase in staffing Dorsey said. Postal officials said they were not Allenow to say what the Cost savings would be knee capper actress Margaux Hemingway clings tothe knee of her boy Friend Bernard Foucher in a new York City nightclub while visiting the big Apple. A National guard called in at Wichita Kan. Manchester n.h., strike spreads by the associated press More than 140 City workers refused to Cross picket lines set up by striking fire fighters in Manchester n.h., on wednes Day halting regular garbage pickups and other City services. In Wichita Kan., National guard troops were called in to assist in fire Protection in the third Day of a fire men s strike. Manchester City workers including Highway water works and Parks and recreation employees honoured picket lines set up throughout the City by the 200 strik ing firefighters. The City s teachers Union scheduled a meeting for thursday to decide whether to join in the spreading strike Julie Potter director of the office of emergency preparedness in Manchester said the situation was critical in the City of 96,000 persons new Hampshire s largest. This could become a widespread Epi Demic spreading to school transit and even police officials she said. National guard troops have staffed the City s fire stations for the past week and fought the first major fire in the City monday when they evacuated 20 resident from a burning four Story apartment build ing. Mayor Charles Stanton called the strike irresponsible criminal and totally unnecessary and said anarchy will not pre  the Manchester firefighters voted tues Day night to upgrade their 12-Day sick out to a full fledged strike after a unsuccessful bargaining session with the City earlier in the Day. The strikers Are de manding a reduction in the work week from 48 to 44 hours by 1979 and a 12 percent increase Over two years in the weekly Sala Ries currently ranging from $194 to $220. Soviet author Dies in crash Moscow a Natan Rybak ukrainian author of the Pereyaslov Rada and Honore de Balzac s mistake died Here from injuries suffered in a car crash near Kiev the Tass news Agency said. Rybak 65, was also Deputy chairman of the soviet peace committee. In Wichita three fourths of the City s 315 firefighters stayed off the Job wednesday despite a judge s Back to work order and the threat of dismissals. The walkout began monday night when 56 firemen went on strike in a contract dispute. Kansas Goy. Robert f. Bennett mobilized 120 National guard troops to assist working firemen and supervisors in Wichita the state s largest City with 260,000 per sons. Fire chief Floyd Hobbs said termination notices were being prepared for the 250 strikers and that replacements would rehired. In a related development Wichita District attorney Vern Miller said wednesday that two firemen and a civilian accused of starting a grass fire tuesday will not be charged with arson because no property was destroyed. The City has offered All its employees including firemen a 6 percent pay raise plus $40 a month which would represent a 10.8 percent Overall increase for the lowest paid firefighters who Are now paid$9,887 a year. Under the new zip codes but said mail handling expenses would be considerably reduced. The officials said that they will strongly encourage use of the longer zip code but will not reject any mail that does not con Tain it. Anderson says Vesco did seek a. Jordan s help Washington up columnist Jack Anderson who reported that presidential aide Hamilton Jordan was improperly contacted by representatives of Fugi Tive financier Robert Vesco is bolstering his claim with affidavits from the Secre tary of one alleged Vesco  a news conference wednesday an Derson distributed affidavits from Gerolyn Hobbs the Secretary of . Herring anal any ga., businessman. Anderson said herring tried to approach Jordan and Charles Kirbo an Atlanta lawyer and presidential confidant in an Effort to get Hel for Vesco s Legal problems. Both Jordan and Kirbo have denied any one made Contact with them on Vesco s be half. Vesco is now in the Bahamas while government officials try to get him to face charges involving $225 million in questionable Stock manipulations. Hobbs according to the documents sup plied by Anderson said in the late 1976 1977 period she had placed Calls and received Calls in the office from and to a Milton Jordan and Charles Kirbo s  one vote set the world on fire tin1 Power of one vote Lias often changed the course of history. Right after world War i a Young Ger Man Soldier who had recently been demobilized made his Way to the great City of Munich there he decided to Settle and for a while he made a modest living by painting commercial posters. Hut like Many others in that Post War Era he was hitter and discontented with his lot so he joined a Small political group which had just been formed. This group expanded rapidly and so did the Young Soldier s reputation within the group itself. Finally it was Felt that the time had come when this new organisation could make a decisive movement against the Legal government of Germany. On nov. A 1923, at Beer Hall in Munich called the Burger Brau Keller this new revolutionary party held a hurried meeting to elect a Leader. By a majority of one single vote they chose the sex Soldier the rest of course is history. For that obscure Soldier was none other than Adolph Hitler the Man whose evil destiny it was to set the whole world on fire. Your one vote counts use it nov. 3 amazing but True. 1970. All right