European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Car crashes january 1981 the stars and stripes Page 5 fatalities Are on the upswing and reason Given is the failure of Many to use safety belts Washington up fatal car crashes Are on the upswing and motorists Are still refusing to use their safety the transportation department reported the departments National Highway traffic safety administration released its 1979 fatal Accident report showing people were killed in traffic the preliminary forecast for 1980 is Highway a percent increase Over it is alarming to note that at the same time fatalities Are increasing on the nations the total Miles driven for the first 10 months of 1980 is estimated to have declined 1 percent Over the corresponding period in said safety Agency administrator Joan she said that a Survey the Agency con ducted last Spring shows Only one in nine Drivers uses a safety a major reason for this rejection is that the Belt systems found in 1980 cars Are plagued by a variety of problems that Dis courage their Claybrook noted that Belt usage is High est for occupants of subcompact cars percent followed by per cent and full sized the increase in Belt usage is vital to Small car occupants in particular because Riding in a Small car doubles your chances of being killed in a trocar Clay Brook she said subcompact cars accounted for deaths in More than for any other size in other occupants of smaller cars died at a rate eight times higher than did occupants of larger she Only 2 percent of occupant fatalities in 1979 crashes were known to have been us ing restraints at the time of the while usage was unknown for another 21 had All vehicle occupants in the same fatal crashes been wearing safety it is estimated that As Many As lives could have been Claybrook other details from the 1979 statistics most of the fatalities involved the Fol lowing vehicle types passenger Light medium and heavy for passenger fatalities were caused by frontal Impact by Side Impact by to Ofcar Impact when the vehicle lands on its and 308 in no collision president Carter watches As his miss is helped into a car in their Back Home again Hometown of first lady Ros Alynn is partially hidden behind the Marine Carter Hassid hell Settle in Plains after a the and of time in the stars and stripes 30 ago today 1951 a prominent educator said that boys Are not As Bright As girls at age six and urged that the school Entrance age for boys be raised to make up for the 20 ago today 1961 two Young Blacks be came the first of their race to attend classes at the University of Georgia following a supreme court order to allow the Blacks to join White students at the 10 ago today 1971 British prime minister Edward Heath warned that the growing Power and influence of the soviet Union in the Indian Ocean would pose a threat to Britain and its Western left get Tough with a Reagan associate urges a onetime re dare War on Iran he a onetime re publican presidential candidate Ben Fer now a member of president elect Ronald reagans transition says Rea Gan should give Iran five Days to free the then declare of Fernandez told a chamber of Commerce dinner thursday night that Reagan should deliver the ultimatum the Day he takes of we should demand they be returned in five if the United states of after debate in will de 2 killed in Oil tank Santa be up steel beams collapsed on five men working inside an empty Oil storage killing two workers and seriously injuring a officials said a steel girder framework fell on the men working on the floor of storage tank at the Gulf Oil Clare War on he Fernandez said he was not speaking for the Reagan but would write the president elect urging him to follow his Iran who qualified on primary bal lots in 18 states and campaigned for Rea Gan after withdrawing from the presidential is the senior Small business adviser on the Reagan transition he said that the airfields and oilfields of Iran should be the first targets of after five More a dam North of Tehran which he said generates 100 per cent of the cites Power should be in five More he the United states should finish the Job of destroying Oil refineries already heavily damaged in the War Between Iran and five Days Fernandez the United states should invade and occupy we dont want to Hurt but our people must be he told the Audi ence of about 80 the latter Type included some 40 percent of passenger Fatali ties were among people aged 15 through although they comprised Only 22 percent of licensed the same age group accounted for 58 percent of motorcycle riders in fatal Acci in Large the increase in fatalities is due to the repeal by 28 states of their helmet use Claybrook the fatality rate was deaths per 100 million vehicle Miles an in crease of percent Over More than half the pedestrian Fatali ties occurred in Urban with almost on fourth reported to have been fatal accidents involving 72 percent of the people killed on the Highway occurred during Clear weather conditions and Day Light 20cent stamp plea is repeated Washington a the postal service made its final Appeal Friday for authority to increase the Price of a first class postage stamp from 15 cents to 20 the 20cent stamp is still the lowest rate anywhere in the civilized world except in where the mail service is heavily postal service attorney Frances Beck told a panel that must decide by she made the final argument before the postal rate an Independent Agency that decides on requests for higher mail the postal service last april asked for approval of rate increases averaging 28 per cent for the various types of saying it needed an extra billion per year to make up for rising labor and other sex Beck called the request for extra Cash a pare Down Revenue opposing much of the request was Ste phen who serves As a Peoples advocate with the title of officer of the 18 cents he repeated his proposal that the first class rate be raised Only to 18 cents and that increases be steeper for classes of mail used by Sharfman said the postal service had failed to make Cost studies As requested by the a charge Beck there should be no allowance for postal service contingencies until the postal service justifies it with Sharfman since the request for higher rates was made last the commission has been hearing testimony and receiving Legal briefs by the postal service and dozens of business including parcel publishers and mail order the postal service request includes in creases of percent for the second class rate used in mailing Mas circulation newspapers and percent for third class advertising mail and percent for fourth class the rate commission can make changes in these and has until 20 to 10 months after the postal service the new rates Are expected to go into effect around March Justice Manuel Dies at 53 san Francisco up Justice Wiley William the Only Black Man to sit on the California supreme court in the history of the died unexpectedly of cancer less than four years after his appointment to the he was