European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes april girls groups reportedly suffer from Dollar discrimination stateside new York up United Way and other charities that give Money to youth groups Are guilty of Dollar discrimination against the nations 21 million the executive director of the girls clubs of America charged Margaret lawyer and former research fellow at Harvard Kennedy school of made the charge at the 40th anniversary meeting of the a three Day affair that ended for ten Goa has been pointing out that girls Are being shortchanged when it comes to Community pro just As they Are in other she in Community allocations to youth funding for boys programs has traditionally been a higher priority than funding for girls in for United Way which funds an average 46 percent of Gas budgets gave to boys programs for every for for the decade Goa has been collecting National girls have never received More than half of the resources made available to also True of private funding the Dollar discrimination holds True for private fund ing As whether corporate or found in for another Gates said foundations gave 91 Grants to girls totalling and 377 Grants to totalling further evidence of Dollar discrimination surfaced in a 1983 review of 40 randomly selected corporations that gave Money to youth Gates thirty eight gave More Money to she half of those gave nothing at All to the inequity of allocations amounts to for boys for every for Gates said individual girls clubs Are highly reliant upon United Way funding in their this support averages 46 percent of total she it is essential that we find effective strategies to at least equalize the resources available to girls and i say at because there is an argument to be made that an equitable distribution would provide More for girls because their needs Are greater in a social environment in which their role is changing so up obtaining new financing Washington up United press International said saturday it would soon be Able to cover its employees 3dayold paychecks and confirmed that it has issued termination notices to some members of the up chairman Luis Nogales said the news service has reached an agreement in principle with its major Lender to cover the wages and to continue the firms recapitalization As part of that which owes creditors about plans to file for Protection under chapter 11 of the Federal bankruptcy Upis Board of directors agreed to take the action and sources said the filing would Likely occur monday in the worlds largest privately owned news said it is eliminating about 100 the company said it has taken Steps to increase reve Nues by passing through a percent increase in rates to its under chapter up would continue to operate while a bankruptcy judge oversees the negotiation of debt pay ment plans or the distribution of Stock in the company to major last week foothill capital of los Angeles and up were unable to agree on terms for additional finance the wire service owes foothill some a spokesman said up executives and lawyers were putting the final touches on the bankruptcy spelling out an operating plan for the Long and Short Nogales said in his statement that up and foothill have an agreement in principle that will put in place a financial Structure to make funds available to cover the paychecks As Well As the company ongoing we Are confident that the financing will be in place Early in the new up has continued to operate although employees have been unable to Cash their last up had a payroll of since amid mounting financial the staff has been reduced to about through an earlier Layoff and staff the company she suggested that one reason boys groups and pro Grams get More Money than girls groups is that the females have very Little representation on the boards making the decisions on How to Dole out the Charity Gates recommended that women and especially those who have daughters take certain Steps if interested in a More equitable distribution of Charity dollars needed to expand services to girls in communities ask if your United Way allocates equally Between programs for girls and programs for she go to the United Way make yourself heard on behalf of equitable funding for girls and find out if girls programs Are designed to meet their needs make sure the funded programs actually serve not just count Volunteer your time and expertise in programs serv ing the United Way could not be reached saturday for Gates said some girls club volunteers have had some Success getting on United Way boards and allocations we cannot assert an absolute relationship Between women in those positions and More equitable funding for girls in every but we believe it is important that United Way decision making bodies be representative of their she when All girls clubs were surveyed in Only 20 reported that women were More than 30 percent of their United Way women were a minority on All but nine of those allocation Grant said the 240 neighbourhood girls clubs of America reach thousands of girls each Day with Quality programs in teenage pregnancy computer career remedial education and Cul Tural girls clubs Are Safe and familiar places where girls spend supervised afterschool and weekend hours having making learning life gaining Sel Confidence and interacting with role mod she target of group a photo Arkansas state police Bui Young stands by a wooden target painted to represent a la enforcement official with a Star of David on the the displayed at was found by Federal agents during a search of the compound of a racist survivalist group in Northern explosives and other items found at the site of the sword and Arm of the lord compound were also shown to Farmers rally to demand their Oklahoma City a More than farm labor organizers and consumer activists rallied at the state Fairgrounds demanding higher crop prices and an end to farm Texas agriculture commissioner Jim Hightower warned without a change in farm America would reap a Harvest of bankruptcies and Rural economic and social Bill vice president of the United Auto workers agricultural implement urged Farmers to keep up demands for this is planting time for american and theres More than one Way to Plant the seed and nurture the crops of a fair and equitable farm policy in the months he told the Casstevens promised Farmers the Laws support for the next 50 years and the 50 years after family Farmers Are not there not reckless said Linda director of development for the National Consumers league in washing Texas judge releases Man wrongfully convicted of murder Houston a a judge concerned that evidence of a mans Alibi was not presented at the trial in which he was convicted of murder freed the defendant when it was established that he was not state District judge Michael Mcspadden ordered the release of Pedro who was convicted in March of a murder he did not commit and was sentenced to 75 years in when Torres was picked up for drinking a Beer at a Dallas convenience store last he was checked through a Texas department of Public safety which indicated he was wanted for an april 1983 Mur we went to trial and there were three positive identifications and the jury found him said Mcspad who had indicated during the trial that he had reservations about the Torres claimed he had a Job in but his attorneys never presented his work records at the i told the defense attorney to file a motion for a new trial because i wanted to see the work Mcspadden the motion was filed based on the new 1 knew we had the wrong the new evidence included Torres work records and a witness who was the Roommate of the other who is still at Mcspadden 3 train 41 cars derailed 2 of 4 Crew members injured a three engines and 41 cars of a freight train were derailed near Here after heavy rain washed out track and two of four Crew members were the 69car Louis southwestern railway train was carrying Auto carrots and Frozen vegetables from los Angeles to East said Jim a spokesman for the the trains Engineer was admitted to Herington Hospi Tal for treatment of a broken Collar and and a brakeman was treated for cuts and bruises and Johnson the Engineer was in fair a Hospi Tal spokesman Hospital drops Effort to collect Bill for infant who died of aids a a Hospital will drop a lawsuit it filed for an unpaid Bill against the parents of a baby who died after contracting aids from a blood transfusion John executive director of the University of Virginia we made a and we Are paying for we could have handled the Billing he the infant who was born was one of four infants who received blood in late 1982 and Early 1983 from the same two of the other three infants have symptoms that indicate problems with their immune but no diagnosis of aids has been the parents of the fourth baby have not been Ashley dead baby who did not want to be said the hospitals attempts to get the Money they took away my and now they expect me to give them not in a million she our insurance has paid hundreds of dollars u told of the hospitals decision to drop the the 24yearold woman i feel