European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes August 1985 dog Days of August up photo summer can be Tough on anyone especially if youre a hit 90 in mass a 6yearold old English shaggy dog looking for a Way to Cool As the temperature was helped out by Kellyann stateside tax cuts by 19 states outpace increases by More than 1 billion Washington a state respond ing to tax cutting reduced income taxes and other taxes by More than billion this a Survey More states raised taxes than lowered but most of the increases were involving excise taxes such As alcohol and according to the Survey released this month by the National conference of state with nearly All the state legislative sessions 25 states have raised taxes and 19 states have lowered them this the Survey most Legislatures convened in january or february and had adjourned by but one major tax Cut proposal is still pending in Steven director of fiscal affairs for the Confer ence in said oneyear tax cuts totalled and increases totalled he said Michigan May enact later this year a million income tax Cut package that would boost the total tax reduction by states to More than reductions in new York and Ohio were the aside from cuts in new Ohio and North Carolina will be phased in Over three so the eventual tax reduction will be larger billion annually by despite the size of the Gold the states in general moved cautiously in responding to the desires of voters and legislators to reduce the total amount of cuts is less than 1 percent of total state tax and most of the cuts came in states that had raised taxes during the economic hard times of a few years the firs year Cut in new York is growing to billion in the second according to the Minnesota Cut was and Ohio million in the first new Yorks Cut represents billion by fiscal it new Ohio and Minnesota and if its proposal is enacted were also the Only states where the tax Cut exceeded 5 percent of the states total tax Minnesota was the biggest decrease rela Tive to the size of the tax 18 six of the 18 states Cut taxes less than 1 plagued by depressed Oil Oklahoma raised taxes or just Over 5 percent of state reve it was the largest of the tax thirteen of the 25 states raising taxes hiked them by less than 1 percent of total several states enacted major tax for enacted a sales tax while lowering prop erty and income subject to approval in a referee despite the the Survey found that the Overall fiscal condition of states int As Good As five years total state balances at the end of fiscal 1985 were or 4a percent of total about half the level of for most the fiscal year ended june total state spending provided in the budgets approved by state Legislatures is to increase nearly 7 per that represents a decline in the growth of from nearly 10 percent for the previous education was a top priority of the Aid to elementary and secondary schools Rose percent in the state and Money for higher education Rose nearly As with prisons a pressing problem in Many spending for corrections Rose nearly 10 first lady has late birthday party Santa up first lady Nancy Reagan was joined by family and friends saturday for a belated birthday about 70 including All the Reagan children and close family friends from los made their Way up to the Santa Ynez mountains for an afternoon party at the 688acre ranch where the president and first lady have been vacationing for the last the weather at the ranch was foggy and Sun recovering from cancer surgery five weeks spent the morning on his weekly radio address and routine paper and he planned a walk around the ranch the hosts of the affair were William the ambassador to the steel magnate Earle Jorgensen and their the two couples Are longtime friends of the the party was to have taken place around the time of reagans july 6 the hostage Cri Sis in Lebanon forced the reagans to cancel their usual trip to the ranch Over the fourth of july although official records show Reagan to be 64 years she has Given her age As when asked in a recent television interview whether she was 64 or she abruptly i Haven made up my mayor signs Law to protect rights of aids victims in los Angeles a mayor Tom signing the nations first ordinance by a major City forbidding discrimination against victims of has warned that ignorance and fear Are the the measure was signed by Bradley As an urgent ordinance because about half of aids victims who file discrimination complaints die before their cases Are heard or the City Council has already passed the Bradley said the ordinance was a significant step in educating the Public about the disease As Well As protect ing the rights of aids cyclist jumps Over 16 people while attempting to Clear 20 Denver a stunt Man Bob Monzingo failed in an attempt to jump a bicycle Over 20 people lying on the pave ment at the finish line in the Coors International bicycle Monzingo front wheel came Down on the stomach of a woman who was 17th in the Row of people lying the who was not was not Mon Zingo struck his helmet on the pavement when he and the bicycle bounded off the but he also escaped american indians suffer most from alcohol related diseases Atlanta a american indians lose More years of life to alcohol related diseases than do who lose More than according to an analysis of statistics reported by the National centers for disease the National Institute on alcohol abuse and alcoholism studied people Between the Ages of 21 and 65 who died in 1980 of alcohol related causes and added up the years left until their 65th that Seldom used in the study of alcohol could help local health officials pinpoint the populations where there is a severe problem and improve the said Institute statistician Darryl Man unhurt in minor Accident killed by second automobile a a Man who escaped in jury in a minor traffic Accident was killed As he reached inside his Auto for paper to write Down details of the Accident and another vehicle hit his police Louis of los Angeles was killed instantly when a car travelling about 30 Mph crashed into his said California Highway patrol officer Janet the victim was involved in a minor traffic and he was partially inside his standing on the right Side reaching into his when it was she Cindi of was booked for investigation of Engler train kills 13yearold seriously injures 2 other boys Texas up a 109car freight train ran Over three runaways from a wilderness Camp who fell asleep on the Railroad killing a 13yearold and seriously injuring the department of Public safety trooper David Sandlin said All three boys suffered head injuries in the Accident Between Corrigan and Moscow in Polk Michael of died later at Livingston memorial Hospital in Shannon whose Arm was and Sebas Tian were taken by helicopter to Hermann Hospital in Fields was in critical condition and Williams was in serious but stable a spokesman biologists say they now have condors that might mate san Diego a tests on a captured California Condor have determined that the Bird is and biologists working to save the vanishing species now have their first possible mating officials Only seven of the Carrion eating Birds Are known to exist in the but biologists Hope to save the species by Breeding the Birds in the female Condor was brought to the san Diego wild animal Park after being captured in Northern los Angeles a blood test determined the Birds said Martha a Park the female Condor has been placed in an enclosure with a Young adult male captured in the same area last Baker the Birds had been seen flying together in the wild before their she