European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Iowa Bill would fight fire with firewater lbs Iowa a deciding its better to have a Tipsy fireman than no fireman at Iowa legislators sent to the governor monday a Bill that would let Volunteer firefighters put out a Blaze even if there legally too drunk to drive to the i think most people out there in the Rural areas think they rather have them respond in the Middle of the even if Treyve been at the fireman rather than let a House Burn said Robert a cosponsor of the the measure would allow Volunteer firefighters and their families to collect compensation for injury or death suffered if the firefighters Are drunk and fighting a the Senate passed measure was approved 5634 by the sending it to Terry Branstad who has not said whether hell sign under present Iowa workers cannot collect work ers1 compensation if their blood alcohol level is found to be percent or above at the time of the motorists Are automatically convicted of Drunken driving if their blood alcohol is the new measure would allow Volunteer firemen to collect damages for injuries suffered fighting a fire if their blood alcohol is As High As technical the firemen could still be subject to Drunken driving charges if stopped on their Way to a the Issue split Rural and Urban Many from Iowa labelled the legis lation the drunk and besotted firefighters Bill and the huddled firefighters fondness for firewater surely they could press some other sober to help said opponent Jean Lloyd supporters said their City Slicker colleagues dont understand the nature of smaller towns that cant afford full time fire departments and must rely on a Guy might be out working on a hot Day and stops to have a few Beers on the Way and a fire Breaks said Dennis Small town lawmakers argued that volunteers Arent about to give up their social life and sit around waiting for a fire to break and that if they dont have workers compensation Protection after a few  simply Stop responding to fire what you City slickers clearly dont understand is what its like to fight a fire in Rural said Senate majority Leader Lowell would you go out at 2 when its 40 below Zero to fight a fire without a few drinks i  want anyone who is drunk trying to save me or my retorted David Readinger of pcs backers said Volunteer firemen dont drink More than other its just that there on Call 24 hours a Day and fires often break out in the Middle of the it would certainly be a bad situation if they left simply because they had a few drinks and let a Hospi Tal or a nursing Home Burn said Bill hut there Are a number of these people in Rural Iowa who Are going to these fires at or percent blood Junkins said during they Are just As capable of fighting a fire As you Are dead Renaud said he was not aware of any other state where the Issue has come and was not aware of any accidents or injuries in Iowa that have been blamed on a slightly Drunken its come close enough on several occasions that they Iowa fireman association decided to make an Issue out of he last a Large Ember fell on a firefighter who had been Renaud the incident raised concern to the association even though the fire fighter was not seriously said antinuclear Reagan losing support groups rally of says across by United press International Small groups of costumed antinuclear protesters staged vocal demonstrations across the United states disrupt ing traffic by enacting scenes from an atomic the demonstrators staged mass death lying in sidewalks and Parks in what was billed As no business As usual five of 150 demonstrators were arrested in fifty Many of them Clad in Punk Rock paraded past washing tons one person was charged with disorderly police spokeswoman Gloria vessels were trying to disrupt these business men for one minute of their Day to make them think about nuclear student Mark Anderson said in were just trying to let them know War is not business As its the whole question of launching world War protester Tom Davis said in people Are walking around without dealing with the in new a handful of demonstrators Laid Down in traffic in times Square but were quickly moved a police officer they left behind two cloth banners Reading student april 29 and Stop we Iii no matter what it takes no business As usual april a few blocks away at Riverside re search a Pentagon think a dozen people including one carrying a mock the Washington Many of them High school blew carried Black and wore radiation White makeup and bloodstained ban lbs Iowa up presi Dent reagans popularity among Iowa Farmers has plummeted since the novem ber election because of discontent with the governments handling of the farm debt Cri a poll showed sixty three percent of the Iowa Farmers interviewed for a Des Moines sunday Reg ister poll said they disapprove of the Job Reagan is Farmers supported Reagan by a margin of 2tol in last novembers election and gave the president a 58 percent approval rating in a similar poll taken before the 1984 among the Farmers who voted for Rea Gan in his november landslide Over demo crat Walter 40 percent said they still support the president and 48 percent registered policies attacked about 84 percent of the 304 adult members of Iowa farm households inter viewed in the poll said the Federal govern ments farm policies have been inadequate to Deal with the worst farm hardships in 50 68 percent of the Iowa Farmers said they disapprove of reagans veto of legislation passed by Congress to provide emergency credit and 61 percent oppose reagans plan for phasing out Price supports in Federal farm the president was backed by 24 percent and 23 of Iowa Farmers on those two the Farmers put equal blame on Rea former president Jimmy Carter and foreign Competition for the farm fort three percent assigned Reagan a lot of the blame for agricultural 41 percent also said foreign Competition played a and 40 percent pointed to Many Farmers see Carters 1980 soviet Grain embargo As the cause of lower farm land commodity prices and a depressed far equipment commodity credit outlays billions of dollars per fiscal year 1976 77 9 81 83 estimates Chicago Tribune Chart source department of agriculture 900 illegal aliens nabbed in dragnet san Diego a More than 900 illegal aliens apprehended by the Border patrol in a special nighttime operation were processed monday for deportation to mexi authorities about 35 Border patrol agents were paid overtime to work an eight hour shift that ended at 2 and apprehended 919 undocumented aliens As they attempted to sneak into the United said Dene assistant chief Border patrol agent for the san Diego we dont think any of the aliens got Smithburg he said the agents formed a dragnet along a 12mile Section of the Border from the san Ysidro port of entry eastward to otay about 25 agents Are assigned to the Brown Field station area during the late sunday and Early monday we do this from time to Smith Burg we dont have enough people to be 100 percent effective in All our so when we have extra Money or agents Avail Well concentrate in one which is what we did last most of the aliens arrested were from four people from Al two from Honduras and one from Peru also were Smithburg school bus hits truck in at least 1 killed tuba a a school bus and tractor trailer Rig loaded with livestock collided monday on a Navajo res killing one person and injuring at least state officials two helicopters and two ground ambulances were dispatched to the scene of the it occurred monday afternoon on 160 about 10 Miles Northeast of the reservation town of tuba City in Northern said Allan a spokesman for the department of Public the most seriously injured were flown by helicopter to Flagstaff medical Schmidt others were taken to the tuba City some of those dispatched to the Accident including a Dps Ranger had participated in a mock disaster Drill in Flagstaff in the morning and were in a re session of the Drill when they were called to Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today May 1945 virtual elimination of 25 German divisions As an organized fight ing Force in Northern Italy was proclaimed by Mark Clark As the two Allied armies making up the 15th army group drove Forward from the Adriatic to the 30 years ago today May 1955 a revolutionary com Mittee in Saigon temporarily took Over control of South Vietnam and announced it had deposed chief of state Bao 20 years ago today May 1965 one Marine was killed and at least six others wounded As american troops fought beside dominican troops against a ragtag army of Young rebel civilians and soldiers in Santo 70 years ago today May 1975 the South vietnamese government surrendered and Viet Cong and North vietnamese troops occupied hundreds of vietnamese swarmed into the embassy compound and looted the buildings shortly after a helicopter rescued the last americans in a four minute rooftop