European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 05, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday december 5. 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 reaction mixed to Ohio City s name change Hamilton. Chin a i  old Hamilton has added in exclamation Point to is name As  of a Campaign in stir up some excitement int the Community. Some Peoples i the idea is can. Said Hamilton tits manager Jack Becker. We re getting some favourable comments of course you get a lot of negative comments he said tuesday. On the whole. I think it s served its purpose. It s Pel Ting people to talk about  As part of the two car promotional Campaign officials of this southwestern Ohio City of ft.1.500 informally asked Rand Mcnally & co to add the exclamation Point to their Ohio maps. They Haven t responded really one was or the  acc scr said. Rand Mcnally won t go along with the new punctuation unless the Hoard of geographic Means an Agency in Washington officially approves the change company spokesman Conroy  said. We could t just turn around and Molly Good Fine Well change All our  " he said. A to Dillon a Campaign also features bumper stickers promotional messages included in Bills to customer of the Cit operated Utility company and a contest in which children will be asked Early next year to design posters with the theme Hamilton has it  the City and the chamber of Commerce arc paying for the Campaign directed by a Cincinnati advertising Agency. Last month advertisements were published in out of town newspapers and business publications in the Home towns of major corporations with substantial employ ment and operations in Hamilton. The ads generated responses of Surprise and thanks from some companies Becker said. That was not the Only Hamiton Surprise this year. City officials were irked by the latest edition of Rand Mcnally s places rated  which ranked Hamilton 202nd on a list of 329 . Cities rated for their desirability As places to live. Those rating agencies the Vay they work. I Dun l think really presents a True picture of any Community. Maybe we Don t have a proles Szmal baseball team in this City but we re certainly close enough to Cincinnat  Becker said. Cincinnati about "5 Miles South of Hamilton is where some Hamill i residents go for work or recreation. Hamilton ians have easy Access to Cincinnati s hospitals professional sports teams and other offerings while being Able to enjoy their City s benefits Becker said. The City manager said his town has a Friendly Atmo sphere pleasant residential Nighbor Hmidi. And Case of shopping parking and local  because of our sic and location we be got a lot of things right at our fingertips that a lot of people in the larger cities Don t  Becker said. Sex teamsters president begins 10-year prison term object of criticism some 110 members of the Oak Grove Baptist Church choir in be air md., make up the ornaments on the Church s living Christmas tree the 35-foot tree which has 10 tiers of platforms rising behind its artificial greenery and some 1,800 lights Cost $10,000 to build prompting criticism from some Church members that the Money could have been Heller spent on something else. , to. A former teamsters president Roy Williams surren dered tuesday at a Federal medical prison to begin serving a 10-year prison sentence for a i9s2 conviction of conspiring to bribe a . Senator. The ailing Williams 70, Arri de at the . Medical Center for Federal prisoners in a limousine from the Airport about a half hour before a 5 . Deadline. He was taken inside in his wheelchair. Williams on monday was ordered to re port to the facility by . District judge Prentice Marshall in Chicago. Marshal re fused to reduce the sentence despite claims by Williams attorney that it amounts to a death  Wiliams who suffers from emphysema and heart trouble and has appeared in court with an oxygen tank and in a wheelchair will be confined in a single room at the medical Center said George Diffenbau her chief of social services there. Williams and four others were convicted in december 1982 of conspiracy to bribe sen. Howard Cannon d-nev., in an at tempt to Block legislation opposed by the teamsters. Williams was Given a provision Al sentence of 55 years in prison but the sentence was later reduced to 10 years. He was forced to give up the Union presidency after his conviction. A month after the conviction one defendant Allen Dorfman was slain. The three others Are in prison. Cannon was never accused of any wrongdoing. In interviews broadcast monday night by Kmic to in Kansas City Williams said he feels belter about himself since uni crating with Federal authorities in a nil in which the government alleges that gambling receipts were skimmed from Las vegas ncv., casinos and funnel cd to organi de crime. Williams said he wanted to be remembered As a great Union Leader and truthful  asked about his cooperation with the government. Williams said i think 1 was going to have to do it anyway. 1 feel better about myself personally. I did t want to die in Pris on that s for sure. 1 served the government a whole lot More than a lot of them Guys would and 1 think i be earned my  Williams maintained his innocence Dur ing the i9s2 trial but acknowledged his role in the conspiracy Case during his testimony last month in the Argent corp. Skimming trial in . District court in Kansas City. He testified that the late Nick Cideila. Identified by the government As the former organised crime Leader in Kansas City paid him $1.500 a month from late 1974 until mid-1981. Williams who testified thai he was afraid of Cideila said the Money bought his vote As a trustee of the c ventral states pension fund to loan $62.75 million to Argent corp. In 1974. The Money was used to Purchase two i s vegas casinos from which the government contends gambling receipts were taken and distributed to organi de crime interests in Las vegas Kansas City. Chicago Milwaukee and Cleveland. Judge Marshall in Chicago had been asked to reduce the 10-year sentence for Williams because of his health arid cooperation in the skimming trial. Cruelly s very furry Christmas Santa s Sleigh Santa Glaus Sleigh amp rein peek  air plane can Fly my Fajks out of the North pole but Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Dec. 5. 1945 the defendants in the Nuernberg War crimes rials flinched Visi Bly As the British prosecutor branded them wretched men and said they were guilty of murder and robbery built upon Cun Ning hypocrisy and bad  30 years ago today. Dec. 5, w55 the communists dropped All pretence of respect for the Allied position in West Berlin As Alfred Neumann. L Asl Berlin party chief assailed the Western sectors of the divided City As a a nato stronghold that must be  20 years ago today. Dec. 5. L%5 a Titan 2 rocket listed the i mini 7 spacecraft into orbit and astronauts Frank Horman and James  or. Began a scheduled 14-Day ride thai could be clinked with the first rend Vous in space officials Al t pc Kennedy said. Of years ago foday. Dec. 5. 175 South moluccas hold ing a dutch rain in Northern Holland shot another of i hair hostages liar ice. 13 of the hostages staged a Mays escape and reached safely