European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes monday september 25, 1978 Senate oks $2.25 billion Aid for local governments Washington up the Senate sat urday passed legislation that would pro vide $2.25 billion in financial Aid to local governments Over the next two years. By a 44-8 vote the Senate sent to the House a Bill designed to continue an entire cession program begun in january 1977. Without House approval the program would expire at the end of this month. Sen. John Danforth r-mo., said the Pur pose of the legislation is to help govern ment units whose tax base has been eroded by  while much of the Aid would go As in the past to major metropolitan areas such As new York considerable assistance also would be provided to smaller state and local governments. About $3 billion has been distributed to states and thousands of local governments throughout the country under the program to Date. Sen. Daniel p. Moynihan d-n.y., floor manager of the Bill said that because the unemployment situation has improved in the nation the program would Cost about co of. Law bars Surprise search of newsrooms Sacramento Calif. A Surprise police searches of newsrooms would be banned under a Bill signed into Law Satur Day by gov. Edmund Brownjr. The measure was aimed at offsetting a . Supreme court ruling last May that upheld a Surprise police search of the Stan Ford Calif daily newsroom. Police were seeking photographs of demonstrators. The new Law sponsored in the Assembly by Terry Goggin. Requires police to obtain subpoenas for anything they want in a newsroom. It goes into effect Jan. 1. Police had obtained a warrant for the Stanford daily search but a search War rant does not require that its target be Noti fied. A subpoena requires that the target be notified of the place to be searched and one changed vote elected Jefferson in the election of 1800, Thomas Jef Ferson and Aaron Burr tied in the Electo ral College for the presidency 73 to 73. The election was then thrown into the mouse of representatives where it would he decided by a simple majority As provided by Law. Following a Ion deadlock during which ballots were cast 36 separate times Jefferson finally won after Alexan Der Hamilton head of the opposing federalist party persuaded a federalist legislator to change his vote in favor of Jefferson on the ground that he was a less dangerous Man than Burr. This behind the scenes breakthrough brought other federalists into Jeffer son s Camp and on the final ballot he was elected president a a Clear margin. Burr then became vice president. These King making activities on the part of Hamilton brought him eventual disaster. A few years alter this presidential election Hun ran for the governorship of new York. Again Hamilton used his great political Power to thwart his detested opponent and again Burr lost. Furi Ous Burr challenged Hamilton to a Duel and Hamilton accepted and was killed. Your one vote counts use it nov. 3 amazing but True. 1970. All right Riv a it can be challenged in court. Goggin said his Bill simply permits a newspaper or newsman to go to court and argue the Case that what the police wish to obtain is privileged under our  at the court hearing Law enforcement officials must say what they Are looking for. $600 million in fiscal 1979. Moynihan called saturday s vote an important moment for the president s Urban  the exact amount to be distributed in the next two years would depend on the National unemployment rate. One allocation formula would apply if the rate has been 6 percent or More for six months another if it has been Between 5 and 6 percent for six months. The expiring program was designed to end this anti recession Aid when unemployment fell to 6 percent. The new one would continue it with Job less rates Down to 5 percent a level not expected to be reached until 1982 according to Senate budget committee projections. The jobless rate dropped from 6.2 per cent in july to 5.9 percent in August. On aug. 2, a House committee killed a somewhat different administration Bill that also called for fiscal assistance to localities. In a parliamentary Man Euver sen. Edmund Muskie a Maine had the new legis lation attached to a House passed Bill exempting farm gasoline from excise taxes. This tactic enables the full House to vote on. The anti recession Aid plan despite the committee s rejection. Send them of school for a spell Trenton . A if the architects of a new Jersey Senate Bill setting minimum standards for get Ting a High school diploma were in a spelling Bee it might go something like this explicit sex pm i it explicit. Sit Down. Minimum a in my a mini mum. Take your seat. Remediation re me i at on remediation. Sorry. State sen. Francis x. Herbert an English teacher at Secaucus High school spotted the misspelled words last week in copies of the Bill. I was just joking at first but it is kind of embarrassing especially in a Bill like this said Herbert who opposed the legislation on grounds it would make teachers fall Guys for student deficiencies. Silence followed questions about who was to blame. But sen. Matthew Feldman the Bill s sponsor later brushed off the misspellings by finding some fall Guys for the Senate. I guess maybe Well have to Send our typesetters Back to school for a minimum standards test he said. The Bill was passed and sent to the Assembly. Mad scramble gets under Way chefs pour eggs into a frying pan 24 feet by 12 feet in Peekskill n.y., saturday to try to break the world s record for the largest Melet. The event to Benefit the Peekskill area health care Center inc., called for 10,400 eggs that were broken in a record 15 minutes Accord ing to the sponsors. The previous record reportedly used 6,720 eggs. A photo Denver paper reports of action fired pot smokers Are reinstated Denver Colo. A forty eight civilians who were barred from their jobs at a top secret spy satellite monitoring facility after admitting that they smoked Mari Juana have been reinstated by the air Force the Denver Post reported in its Sun Day editions. And nine of the employees have been award a total of $79,514 for among other things lost wages and moving expenses the Post said in a copyright Story. The civilians employees of Lockheed missile division and Hughes aircraft were working on a contract basis for a unit of the air Force s space and missile sys tems organization at Buckley air National guard base about 20 Miles East of Denver. Last september the air Force revoked their Security clearances following an investigation into allegations of drug abuse. The Post had reported previously that investigators told the employees that the air Force wanted to protect them against possible blackmail by foreign agents and they urged the workers to be candid. Many of them had been told that their statements would not be held against them the postpaid. Lawyers for the 48 said the employees admitted to smoking anywhere from one marijuana cigarette a week to three cigarettes Over a 10-year period at the facility. All of the civilian employees barred from Access to the base had their Security clearances reinstated after Legal action by the american civil liberties Union