European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 Texas stores jump gun on Bluela repeal Houston not Mark White has not yet signed the Bill repealing Texas Blue but promptly at noon sunday the doors opened for business at the Foley department store in Sharpstown mall within eager shoppers were streaming in tent on breaking a Law Long since discarded by most its the wave of the said John a dentist from who came with his Michelle a to pick up Cologne and some Pitts people were obviously fed up with the last the Texas legislature bowed to Public pres sure and voted to repeal the originally passed in that forbade sales of 42 items on consecutive saturdays and White is expected to sign the but he warned merchants not to violate the existing Law until the official repeal he might As Well have been whistling into a which had been a leading opponent of has now taken the Lead in breaking the and it offers no we wanted to take the initiative with our said Dan vice president for Public As he stood among shoppers in the books and records we opposed repeal because we thought it would not be Good for our but the Law has not been enforced Here since last there was no question of what would happen it was Only a matter of we decided to be a Glenn vice president and store said first hour sales were particularly in major appliances like and in mens clothing and All across Texas from Elpaso to merchants chose to jump the gun on the moribund but the most aggressive appeared to be in where Many stores have been openly flouting the Law for the picture was which caters to those of upper Middle opened 15 of its 17 stores in the new to Houston and seeking the same sort of did neither did the two Rolls royces of Texas Niema Marcus and a the Penney opened its Houston stores but Montgomery Ward and Bealls did at the Sharps town 47 of 200 stores were the Florsheim shoe shop was but not its the Chandler shoe across the not far the shops at Houston bes known the were All but a spokesman said meet Ings were planned to determine if should jump the police at least in have made it Clear that nobody will be we decided we had better things to do than arrest people for shopping on Mosier told the Houston Post on in an editorial the Post urged the governor to sign the which is estimated to bring in million in taxes and create new jobs at a time when Texas is Strug gling to climb out of the deepening Oil but it called the premature openings ill advised and if customers were Many store clerks were Elvelt the clerk in charge at the Florsheim said he would rather be at Home with my there was less grousing at where Only volunteers paid Simean Dahal were used but it was As surveys have that shoppers were More families in the state Are headed by working and Many say they need sunday As a to Young texans increasingly share National attitudes on social fairly were Terry and Kathy who came for the first Day of illegal sales at i love it its about time Texas caught up with the said a native she said she hated to shop on saturdays because of the Terry a manufacturer of business pointed to their 3yearold and he plays baseball All week and needs sunday to do his High school officials not amused by male stripper grand Texas a someone decided to add some entertain ment to grand Prairie High schools graduation ceremony but school officials we rent a bit amused when a male stripper began swinging his hips and drop Ping his the who was on his first Day at the wound up spending the night in and irate school officials vowed to track Down the students who hired him and press criminal As principal Phil Farris was about to begin handing out a Young Man in a three piece suit interrupted to say he had a special honorary award for vice principal Dorothy a portable cassette tape player was switched on and the Man began dancing provocatively to according to police at i was fooled As Well As any body Farris but about half Way through his it dawned on me that something was at that he began to pull his pants school officials led dancer Brian Patton from the and he was taken to jail to face a charge of disrupting a Public meet he was released the next Day after posting police a conviction on a charge of disrupting a Public meeting carries a maximum pen Alty of six months in jail and a school Board president Terry Anderson said Many of the graduating their parents and guests were shocked and angered by the the school District plans to find the students who hired the dancer and press he Ramona a spokeswoman for Jaylea productions which provided the said she regrets the incident and Hopes to resolve the problem without hav ing her employee go Back to it was done in the spirit of she we agree that it was a solemn occasion interrupted at the wrong but it was not done were really upset at How this turned despite his Rocky first Pat a student at Tarrant county Junior said he intends to keep his right there holding my Cas Sette recorder for he i Hope to get it and i want to keep transit buses Homegrown business booming of carry ads warning of aids crackdown cuts flow of imported pot los Angeles a the rapid transit District says it will soon carry advertising on red buses advising sex part ners to play safely in order to avoid contracting the red initially refused to carry the believing they would offend Passen but agreed to try them on 80 buses in june following months of negotiations with a stat funded group which sponsors the acquired immune deficiency syndrome is most Likely to strike abusers of inject Able drugs and it is apparently spread by sexual contaminated Needles and blood Transf but not by casual As of May aids had struck people in the United states and claimed lives since the advertisements show a woman Wear ing an apron and quote her As saying play below is a caption that says like a Miami up americas Home grown marijuana Industry is booming be cause a Federal task Force has been Success Ful in blocking the flow of the drug from South the Miami Herald the newspaper ran the Story operation hat a blockade of ves Sels off the colombian sharply reduced the flow from the worlds largest mar Ijuana and an eradication program in Colombia destroyed nearly half of that nations autumn Harvest before it left said Jim spokesman for the South Florida task marijuana legalization who estimate that marijuana is americas second leading Cash after say the task Force is the Best thing that Ever happened to the multimillion Dollar the task Force kind of hurts the compete said Kevin director of the National organization for the Reform of Mari Juana or every time you see a big it just gives growers in the United states an excuse to raise their the task Force is making the dealers Success in intercepting marijuana Mother ships from South America has forced smugglers to route their marijuana through mex Ico or to switch to easier conceal so far this cocaine seizures have in creased by 95 percent Over but Mari Juana seizures Are Down 44 there just want any marijuana moving on the said coast guard Jim we boarded boat after boat and found americans Are compensating for the shortage by buying i dont think theres any question that theres an upsurge in Domestic said Glenn chairman of the House subcommittee on government which closely monitors the War on the task Force is a virtual protective Tariff for the More expensive and More potent Homegrown Mark a senior criminal Justice analyst at Harvard John Kennedy school of was quoted As the South Florida task Force and the increased Law enforcement Effort have led to the Rise in the Domestic marijuana tariffs always help Domestic manufacture the switch to cocaine importation produced a glut that has caused prices to drop by on third since president Reagan took but marijuana prices in South Florida a Region heavily dependent on colombian imports have jumped from a Pound in the Early 1980s to a Pound the Aba says 11 percent of the marijuana smoked in the United states is grown Normal says 55 it seems Domestic production has Dingfelder we sort of View that As an effect of the interdiction 2 missing As High winds Batter Midwest by the associated press thunderstorms accompanied by High winds ripped through the Midwest on leaving two people Downing Power lines and tearing the Side off an aboveground swimming an aluminium Canoe was struck by lightning during a thunderstorm at Dodge state Park in Iowa and two people believed to have been in the boat were Deputy sheriff Larry Mueller said a search of the Lake was suspended sunday because More Stormy weather moved into the the identities of the two boaters were not fierce winds swept through a residential area Southeast of fond do tearing away the Side of a backyard swimming an estimated Gal Lons of water flowed out of the police the winds also Tore part of the roof off another House in the shattered windows and lifted a garage a half foot off its foundation before setting it no injuries were in thunderstorms destroyed at least one building and left at least three police stations in the officials the winds downed Utility lines and knocked out Power to the Gratiot county sheriffs department and the police stations in Louis and said Gratiot county sheriffs Deputy Bill the winds also knocked Down a building in said Gary assistant county emergency services no injuries were reported in the Michigan winds gusted to 70 Mph at 57 Mph at 63 Mph at Jan 60 Mph in portions of Mchenry and 57 Mph at Cedar Hail As Large As baseballs fell near North and goofball sized Hail accompanied storms in and