European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes april 1 1986 Battle lines drawn on jobless plan Washington up supplemental unemployment benefits run out this week for about and Congress is geared up for a game of legislative Chicken to decide in the next few Days if any More checks will be opposing sides Drew up their strategies for Battle last week when democrats in the House moved to extend the program on a limited basis for three while Senate Republican leaders said they would agree Only to a phaseout of the arguing that anything More lucrative is unacceptable and is certain to be vetoed by president the gop leaders sent the House a  failure to agree to their they would mean the program would end imme and no benefits would be paid to Bills to be considered the Issue hits a new Flash Point on tuesday when both the House ways and Means and Senate finance committees plan to consider their different if the program is to continue in any final floor action on a measure must come be fore the end of the when Congress plans to begin a at we get to the Point of playing a top House committee aide its a dilemma for the Mem if we Send them the Senate any thing there saying they wont we run the risk of cutting off peo that when the politics comes said Robert a ways and Means member who is pushing for an the question will prob ably be who blinks the people currently receiving the supplemental Federal benefits Are those who already have exhausted their regular 26 weeks of state jobless the supplemental checks run for Between eight and 14 depending on the unemployment rate in the recipients program ends monday the plan was put in place during the recession As a Way to help soften the blow of High the goes out of existence making this the last week of citing the revived Economy and the growing Federal has said the payments should the final checks Are to be sent the week of april under the million House approved by a subcommittee last All persons currently receiving benefits would continue to get what they Are anyone who entered the program during the three month Extension would receive an additional four or eight weeks of Senate Republican Leader Robert and finance com Mittee chairman Bob pack say that is too they Are pushing a million plan that would prevent any new but would allow people currently receiving payments to get what they have Jacqueline who is employed As an editor in new adjusts her Sun on the Road glasses As she begins the drive to her new Jersey Onassis married shipowner a photo Aristotle Onassis after the death of her first president Texas environmentalists Are up in arms Over attempts to control Pine Beetle Texas up angry environmentalists say beatlemania is destroy ing the Piney Woods of East Battle lines Are drawn Between the environmentalists and Chainsaw wielding Forest service workers who have levelled acres of Texas wilderness in a thus far unsuccessful attempt to halt the voracious Southern Pine its the Texas Chainsaw Rodney regional director of the wilderness a Washington based environmental told the Dallas times the question Are we going to have any wilderness left when the Forest service gets done cutting David Deputy Forest supervisor for National forests in said workers Are trying to save Texas wilderness areas from theres no doubt in my mind that the beetles would kill everything in their path if we we rent controlling Dailey More than Beetle infestations were reported last year in forests in Forest service workers regularly Cut 200foot Buffer zones through the forests in an attempt to contain the environmentalists say its a losing it damages the wilderness said Ned Fritz of director of the Texas committee on natural its like trying to control a flu epidemic by killing everyone in the entomologists say the winged about half the size of a Grain of attacks Pine Trees by Boring into the trunk s outer disrupting the flow of nutrients from the roots to the beetles can kill a healthy tree in five or six Forest service officials said the latest outbreak began in spreading to eight East Texas in it was dubbed the worst outbreak in 50 and acres in the Angelina National Forest area were levelled in an attempt to halt the in sects i think its accepted that this is a proven said Tom an entomologist for the Forest service in washing unless you want the beetles to destroy the you have to control them where it the Forest service says it has been 85 to 90 percent successful in preventing the spread of the Pine Beetle in controlled Thomas an entomologist for the Texas department of said the attack on the beetles is unnecessary and he said the insects Are Nec Essary because they provide food for Birds and thin out stands of Pine opposition to the use of Buffer zones has surfaced from John Deal and Steve Bryant said the practice violates a Bill he Spon signed into Law by president that set aside acres of wilderness in National forests in its Bryant within a few months of the Bill being signed by the presi they suddenly decide Treyve got to go in there and Cut these areas to control Pine those areas Are theres sup posed to be no a general accounting office re Quested by is under Way to deter mine if the million program has been effective in controlling the spread of the Denver Drivers License examiner killed on the Job Denver up to Drivers License examiner died Early saturday while Riding in a car driven by a woman who had Al ready flunked her Drivers officials the Annette of made a Complete Stop at a Stop sign but apparently did not see a southbound vehicle that hit her car the passengers James med of multiple injuries suffered in the because of pain in her Stripling was treated at Denver general Hospital and re the Driver of the second Brett of Denver was treated a Tongue laceration and the test results showed the Young lady had already failed the driving said Joseph chief examiner for the licensing he had marked her Down for not having Good control of the vehicle on and she had a problem in observing traffic who had been an examiner since was returning to the downtown Denver licensing office when the Accident occurred Chiles Ive been with the division for 23 and this is the first fatality of an examine Chiles a lot of people just write us but we do have a Job with some danger we have accidents nearly detective Fred Hoag of the Denver police traffic investigations division said Stripling was cited for taking the right of Way at a Stop but no further charges were Chiles said the test route has been used by examiners for 20 its not considered to be a dangerous but it does test the persons ability to react to different he we will take a look at this and make an Efalua but we dont consider it Overly danger oust at it would require in the