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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, August 13, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 it May be a Nice Way to bump into someone Baton a Drivers Here Are pay ing More attention to the bumper of the car in front of them these and its not necessarily because Treyve become More it could be that Treyve just fallen in i got the idea while sitting in my marriage and the family said 19yearold Edward owner of a dating service called car hearts in which members use bumper stickers to attract and meet possible i was trying to come up with a Way to help my she Doest like to hang out in bars and was having trouble meeting for car hearts gives members a bumper sticker and message people who decide that Treyve seen the dish or the hunk of their dreams in a car with a car hearts sticker can Jot Down the License Call the car hearts and leave their own name and phone car hearts forwards the message and the member decides whether to Call the smitten Kramer said his company never gives out information about Mem Bers it Only forwards members receive five free with each inquiry after that costing nonmembers can also make in quiries at a Cost of 10 the biggest hurdle weve had to overcome is especially thinking that people Are going to be calling them at All hours or following them Kra Mer that just Hast their privacy is pro it combines a Little exposure with a Little Ano an economics major at Louisiana state uni said Hes surprised by the favourable response Hes received since he started up car hearts three months weve got almost 200 members right Kramer we Haven been Able to do much this is literally a shoestring the bumper stickers on cars Are my Best Advertis similar clubs have cropped up in such cities As los Angeles and and Kramer said Hes had Calls from people in new Orleans and seek ing a car hearts in meeting with an attorney to Sec about the possibility of doing he Kramer said most members Are in their 20s and and arc evenly split Between men and weve got teenagers whole just gotten their Drivers licenses All the Way up to people who arc in their he the bumper stickers dont mean that the person is desperate for attention from the opposite Kramer its supposed to be he its just another Way for people to i thought it would be an interesting Way to moot said Loretta who has been a Mem Ber for about two Ive gotten several Calls and dated a couple of Ive been going out with one of them for Over a month Kramer said he didst Start the business to get himself Ive got a he billion National prison building Boom is forecast new York up expanding Pris on populations and a move toward better treatment of particularly by keep ing them closer to has touched off a National building an expert told corrections officials construction of More than 700 new prisons and jails nationwide at a Cost of billion to billion is forecast within the next few Gert Koerner of Morse die Sel which builds told a meet ing of the american correctional association at new York the new construction would House More he planned in inner cities Many of the new prisons will be located in inner cities in an Effort to eliminate tensions that build when inmates Are held far from their families and Mak ing visits experts blamed the jailing practice for a death Row prison break and a hostage taking riot at the isolated Mecklenberg correctional Center in Virginia in weve gotten away from the devils Island concept of exile in some forbidding fortress in the William Geog a new approach to prison Security building Security Road landscaped outer Chicago Tribune pm Pete scarce Stew Ubau Arroll Hegan of Morse diesel told the convention of professionals in the corrections Indus the new plans Are based on the old Tower of London approach that placed the imprisoned close to the source of author As Well As near family and Geoghegan the shift is also expected to Cut Down on the costs of transporting prisoners to court and Speed the trial process by pro Viding easier Access to with 1 in 360 americans nearly people arc currently held in Feder Al and state and in county and local Koerner to keep Pace with the existing prison population which has doubled in the past decade officials would have to construct an additional 500 Beds a government figures judicial crackdown the need for More prison Beds has been tied to a judicial crackdown on prison overcrowding and a general population inmate numbers arc also on the Rise As the result of Public pressure for tougher Law enforcement and stricter sen what were experiencing is a construction Boom that is partly due to Public re action to rising said Frank Secretary of Maryland department of Public safety and correctional leading the nation in construction and upgrading of penal institutions is califor which plans to create 10 new prisons by 1987 at a Cost of new new Jersey and Texas also have ambitious building Law enforcement Federal study says Washington a Only a Penny and a half of each state and local Dollar spent in 1982 went for police protect an indication that Law enforcement is a Low budget the Justice department said of the combined state and local trillion spent in fiscal 1982 for govern mental billion went for police translating to it cents of every state and local Accord ing to the study by the departments Bureau of criminal Justice Only cents of every 1982 state and local Dollar or billion was spent on the criminal and civil Justice including the roughly cents for police seven tenths of a cent for prisons and jails and sixteenths of a Penny for civil and criminal the Bureau said its report furnished fresh evidence that spending for criminal Justice is one of the lowest budget eclipsing Only space research and we spend More than twice As much on housing and the More than four times As much on education and More than five times As much on National said Steven bus Schlesinger said the obtained by his Agency from the census bureaus 1982 Cen sus of governments and from the bureaus own Survey of state and local criminal Justice spending and helps put in con text the current debate on the Cost and priority of criminal Justice in contrast to the roughly 3 cents of the combined state and local Dollar spent on criminal Justice programs in the re port nearly 22 cents of every Dollar went to social insurance programs such As social unemployment insurance Bompensa retirement benefits and other so called entitlement approximately cents of every Dollar went to National defense and International re lations for education 7 for housing and environment for Public welfare for hospitals and health for transportation for Justice and space of the billion spent on the criminal and civil Justice system in the study billion was used for police the report said billion went to corrections programs and prison systems and about billion financed the combined activities of prosecution and Legal including Public defender the Federal share of direct expenditures for the nations criminal and Justice system in 1982 was Only 9 while the state share was percent and the local government share was direct expenditures constitute the bulk of All spend ing except that coming from Grants maid and Revenue sharing among other findings in the report were close to million people were employed in the nations criminal and Justice sys tem in with a total payroll of nearly or the nations police and employees of police agencies or percent were working at the local the state and local govern ments combined spent per capita on civil and criminal and of went for police the spending ranged from per capita in West Virgin Sands of time in the stars and stripes a and to or More per capita in new Nevada and the District of from 1980 to expenditures for police Protection Rose by 23 percent while corrections spending went up by 30 40 years ago today 1945 while Japan studies peace Allied military might stands guard in a steel Circle around the islands awaiting an expectation is widespread that the enemy will agree to the terms and that acceptance will be announced according to officials in 30 years ago foday 1955 the development of a superpower atom smashing machine by the University of California at Berkeley was announced to the atoms Oreace conference in Geneva by Ernest 20 years ago foday 1965 the Senate has approved the nomination of Abe Fortas to be a supreme court John Gardner to be the Secretary of education and and Thurgood Marshall As solicitor 70 years ago foday moderate military leaders have gone to president Francisco a Costa Gomes to present a petition seeking the dismissal of communist leaning Premier Vasco  
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