European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes february Silverdollar Sale called Washington a a government Sale of nearly a million Century old Silver dollars was a fiasco in which announced prices were bad checks honoured and a Tollfree number did not work in one a congressional study said the staff of a House banking subcommittee said the general services administrations handling of last years Sale left a legacy of disappointment and Gas did not fill All the sent coins and refunds Worth More than million in Exchange for bad checks and put out mis leading press the report subcommittee chairman Frank Annun called the Sale one of the most horrifying examples of government mis management i have seen in my 16 years in at nearly every turn Gas made critical the report said Only 36 percent of the half million people who placed orders got Silver even though there were twice As Many coins available As there were or this happened because there was initially no limit on the number of coins an individual could by the time limits were imposed part Way through the it was too late to insure that All orders could be Gas official Roy who directed the pointed out that the government made million on the More than double what had been the Basic problem we had was that there was an Over response due to the Way the Price of Silver jumped we we rent expecting the kind of response we had to Deal said who is the Gas commissioner of Federal property re the Sale was the last government offering of Silver dollars discovered in 1964 that had been struck at the Carson mint Between 1878 and because the escalating Silver prices could have allowed coins to be sold at Jess than the value of the Silver they announced prices were the report some 18 million posters and order forms were it Terry Dunn woke up shortly after Sun Rise one morning to the sound of a fir free through Home near variation of the log Cabin in the Woods Dunn is standing on the Downing Trees and porch surveying the Strong thousand there Teft winds swept through the puget sound for Oral hours report examines the Region up photo South but poverty lingers Washington a despite dynamic growth in the past two the heritage of the souths impoverished past a commission on the regions future has concluded in a preliminary the report of the 1980 commission on the future of the South was issued at a meeting at the Winter conference of the National governors the final version of the commissions re port will be issued in the report examines the development in 14 states and puerto it concluded that in in employment and in wages the growth of the Region completed the transition from a sleepy and sluggish regional econ omy to one that is energetic and Southern cities were in the Vanguard of that growth As urbanization increased dramatic the commission also noted that despite income increases greater than the National poverty remains and most of the Southern states lag behind the National average for per capita the industrialization that was the base for rapid economic growth in the Region now has made the South More like the rest of the nation and As a the South inevitably is losing some of the advantages it has had Over other parts of the i bestsellers by United press International fiction the covenant James Mtchener brain Robin Cook fire Larter Stephen Kino answer As a Man Tator Caldwell masquerade kit Williams the rage of Angels Sidney Sheldon the key to Rebecca Ken Golf Etc unfinished tales Tolkien come pour the wine Cynthia Freeman aviator Ernest Garni nonfiction Richard Simmons never say diet Simmons Nice girls do Irene Kassorla the last mafioso Ovid de Marls Cosmos Carl Sagan Best evidence David Litton you can negotiate anything Herb Cohen the says the limit Wayne Dyer crisis investing Douglas Casey Betty crackers International Cookbook general Mills the coming currency collapse Jerome Smith Book Richard the states covered by the report Are Ala Ken North Caroli South Virginia and West among the findings of the commission were in the past the South offered cheap and abundant sources of Energy but this is obviously no longer the indeed the with its dependence on trucks and automobiles for moving goods and is at a disadvantage in comparison to the Northern Industrial states with their highly developed rail and rapid transit tax advantages the South once offered As incentive for businesses to move to the Region Are being challenged by More aggressive incentive policies being pursued by Northern and midwestern this comes at a time when the sheer growth in the South Calls for higher Public the report the Quality of the work Force with a Strong work ethic remains an advantage in attracting As Are the easy going Way of life and outgoing peo some people bought 35 others were denied and one Batch of orders was lost for a the subcommittee staff the Gas tried to play Down the bad Check problem by releasing information to the press that it knew or should have known was misleading or the staff the subcommittee on consumer affairs and coinage said that of the bad checks remained uncollected eight months after the first coins were Markon said that this is now below Check cashing procedures were called in no Way consistent with government accounting policies or after changing the announced the Gas took ads in two Coin collectors magazines giving a Tollfree Telephone number for those seeking the number did not work in the report Annunzio called the Silverdollar Sale not Worth a plugged study notes disparity in sentencing new York up car theft can be punished More severely than forcible depending on which state youre the National Law journal reported a major journal Survey of the actual time served in state prisons by More than paroled felons shows How Lack of standardization in state Laws permits such seemingly irrational in Auto thieves served an average of 47 months in More than forcible rapists served in 28 robbery in West Virginia averaged 60 months longer than murderers served in 11 other time served for wilful homicide ranged from a High of More than 180 months in Massachusetts to 31 months in South negligent homicide ranged from an average 107 months in Utah to eight months in forcible rape averaged 119 months in but Only 14 months in Alaska and the american bar association is on re Cord As favouring similar punishment for similar crimes in All the National Law journal Survey Cov ered eight classifications of felonies in 37 puerto Rico and the District of co Lumbia among prisoners paroled in either 1976 or the other 13 states either do not keep such statistics or declined to make them the parolees rep resented about 70 percent of All felons re leased in the areas the calling the situation a fragmented penal the length of time served in prison by the nations criminals differs so profoundly from state to state that it often matters less what crime has been committed than the state in which the Felon chose to commit the weekly publication said the Survey differs from similar surveys in that it focuses on the number of months actually spent behind bars by defendants for Var ious rather than the terms of incarceration imposed by a judge at sentence it said the difference is be cause of varying parole some jurisdictions require a prisoner to serve at least twice As much time As others before being eligible for other statistics from the Survey the average time served in state prison before parole for All felonies was 25 ranging from 13 months in South Dakota to 53 months in Wyoming paroled Only 24 percent of All prisoners released in while 90 percent got parole in new Jer and