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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday december 18, 1985 stateside women still earning Only 60% of men s salaries panel says Washington Ltd despite Large gains in pm ploy Cal during the 1970s, women still earn Only about 60 percent of the salaries of men. According to a National Academy of sciences committee. The panel said that while some of this difference in pay stems from skill and experience differences about 35 per cent to 40 percent of the difference is due to sex segregation in jobs. Most broadcasters to begin encoding signals Magazine says Radnor a. Up the free lunch is just about Over for satellite dish owners who now can receive 100 or More television channels without having to pay a fee to guide Magazine has reported. The networks and major Cable to operators arc spend ing about s100 million to be Able to scramble their satellite signals which some 1.5 million people Are picking up free by mounting expensive dishes in backyards or on roofs the Radnor based Magazine reports in its upcoming Issue. The free lunch is Over Stephan Schulte a senior executive at Showtime Trie movie Channel is quoted As saying in the to guide article. The message we want to get to the Home dish owner is that you will now have to pay for these  Showtime and the movie Channel will begin scram bling their signals Early next year to guide said. Several other pay to channels including Disney esp Usa network Cable news network and super stations win in Chicago and Wor in new York All have said they will protect their signals by scrambling the Magazine reported. When that happens satellite dish owners will have two options buying a do scrambler priced at about $400 or subscribing to pay services through their local Cable opera Tor. Couple donates $2.5 million to help renovate Carnegie Hall new York a Sanford Weill co chairman of the Campaign Tor Carnegie Hall s renovation and Restora Tion and his wife Joan have donated $2.5 million to the Campaign the largest individual gift to the landmark con Cert Hall since it was built in 1891. Weill was co founder of the investment firm now known at Shearson Lehman Brothers inc. And its chairman from i96s to 1984. Reagan s favorite Christmas toy was wind up miniature ship Atlanta a Young Ronald Reagan s favorite Christmas toy was a miniature ship with a wind up motor but he had to ask More than once before his parents could afford it. The White House released a statement to the Atlanta Constitution which asked the president to name the Best toy that Ever appeared under his Christmas tree. I remember one in particular said the statement published in the newspaper. "1 saw it in a Catalon and yearned for it for about three christmases and anally made it on the third. A company made several Model ships with wind up motors. They were pretty respectable or i should say miniatures that would look Nice on a mantel. As i recall the bigger and More expensive size was either 18 inches or a full two feet. I really preferred the smaller size and its lower Price helped. It Cost about $8 or 59, which is Why my parents had to wait three years to get it for  Tnie Del Smith parachutist since 1928, stretches his arms in Triumph at Ferris Calif., after his latest jump. Smitty the jumper floats Down easily at 87, for the 216th time Ferris Calif. Up truck Del smitty Smith s tottering walk did t fool those who knew him As the oldest sky diver in the world. The 87-year-old donned his red White and Blue jumpsuit and leaped from an air plane for the 216th time. Not bad for an old fellow who is so frail his friends must Lead him around by the Arm and shout into his car to be heard. Ill be making jumps till i m 100," Smith said after sunday s leap. I got showmanship in me he said sunday As he signed an autograph for a Young admirer writing smitty the  the retired sign Painter from Kansas made his first jump in 1928 with a Parachute pieced together from silk leather straps and the steering wheel from a Model t Ford. He did it on a dare when a Friend chickened  on sunday Smith was helped into u twin engine Otter. When the Pilot said they had reached the jump Altitude of 13,000 feel he bellowed stand me up he was hooked to his partner Don Batch 43, of Ferris and the pair landed together in a Crouch in an open Field. I could make one of those jumps every Day of the week for 10  Smith said. A lot of people get old and quit sky diving said Al Kruger of the . Parachuting association but this Guy can hardly wait for the Pilot to say ready set go a Smith s lifelong fascination with parachuting and barnstorming meant four decades of worrying Tor hit late wife. My Mother hated his stunts said Jerry Smith 53, toe daredevil s son. I remember her screaming at him i Hope you crack up you son of a gun " the typical response the younger Smith said would be rain on you big sister. The jumping nearly ended in 1974 when Smith blacked out at 3,000 feet. Luckily his Chute was Al ready open. He crashed into the City dump in Lincoln neb., breaking his left leg hip and Pelvis. He was Back in the air when the injuries healed. 45 of 46 Penis Enki Aries ban Yule gifts Washington a All but one of 46 Federal penitentiaries have decided to ban Christmas gifts for inmates although prisoners will be Given an extra $40 this month to spend in commissaries. A . Bureau of prisons spokeswoman said we had a lot of problems with Christmas gift packages including discoveries of narcotics and other contraband hidden in packages perishable food in Many packages and the time consuming task of inspecting the packages. The change in policy results from a directive last month by Norman Carlson director of the Bureau of prisons. The directive gave prison wardens the option of continuing to allow prison packages and 45 of them chose to Stop the practice. . Verdeyen Warden of the 380-inmate prison in Morgantown w.va., the Only one that chose to permit continued receipt of Christmas packages by ii Matei out we re a minimum Security institution housing Youthful adults. We saw this As a very important part of the rehabilitation process so we opted to continue. Smoke fills dc-9 at san Diego forcing 89 to leave by toe associated press acrid smoke filled a dc-9 taxiing Down a runway at a san Diego Airport forcing the evacuation of the 89 per Jons aboard and a window blew out of a commuter plane with 32 people aboard 10 minutes after Takeoff from Sioux Falls s.d., authorities said. No one was injured in either incident. Hydraulic fluid leaking onto an engine apparently caused smoke to till the Muse air dc-9 As it was preparing to take off from san Diego s Lindbergh Field Mon Day night said airline station manager Toby Pratt. Just As the smoke began pouring into the Cabin from overhead vents a Light in the cockpit indicated Low Hydraulic fluid pressure and the Pilot ordered an immedi ate evacuation of the Jet which carried 84 passengers and five Crew members Pratt said. At this time it appears some Hydraulic fluid leaked into a hot part of an engine which in turn caused the smoke Pratt said. There was no  Pratt said the airline s maintenance workers in los Angeles would try to determine what caused the leak. In South Dakota 32 people aboard a mesabi airline flight to Pierre got an unexpected stay Over monday night in Sioux Falls after a window blew out of their plane. The Pilot Norman Anderson of Minneapolis said the window on the left  of the cockpit blew out 10 min utes after the plane took off from Joe Foss Field Shower ing him with Glass. He said he did t know what cause the window to break. I went through our emerge no procedure and headed Back to the Airport he said. Emergency Crews met the plane but they were not needed. The 29 passengers and three Crew members were put up at a hotel and were to be rescheduled on Fligr tuesday. In suburban Boston British airways officials said the investigation would continue into Why parts of a jumbo let s wig flaps fell onto a House shortly before the Pton landed sunday. A 4-by-Lo-foot Section of the Boeing 747 s Wing flip Tell onto a House and then bounced onto a car sunday afternoon damaging the Hood. A second part presumably fell into Boston Harbor officials said. No one was injured. Flight 215 from London to Philadelphia via Boston with 271 people aboard landed safely at Logan International Airport  
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