European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday. February 19, 1986 who s protecting whom be year Oid Derlin Kaplan of to we Bow cake tuft a Bill worried Aboul is personal safely and the Gorilla looks pretty confident Loo. Who could ask for More than having the huge Gorilla a � bodyguard and the rambo machine gun for emergencies Keria was one of Many children who were invited to give their opinion about new creations that Are being displayed at toy fair 86 in new York City. Stateside greetings have stamp of approval but you la have to wait until 1987 Washington a it will be another year be fore you can say Happy birthday with a postage stamp. For that matter you la have to wait until 1987 to say with a stamp get Well congratulations Best wishes thank you love you mom and love you  the . Postal service decided to delay issuing the greeting Stamps meaning that the Post office will be Able to put off until next year several Hundred thousand dollars in printing expenses. Designs of message Stamps will be announced at this year s greeting card Trade association show and the Stamps will be issued in May 1987 at the stationery store Trade show. Postal service officials say they Hope gift shops will Stock the Booklet of seven different Stamps and sell them at face value As a service to their customers. Anytime someone other than a postal clerk Sells Stamps the postal service saves Money and potentially reduces lines in Post office lobbies. The postal service had a loss of $251 million hut year after three successive profitable Yean. The delay in the production schedule for the greeting stamp was designed to give the postal service time to find out How Many booklets of Stamps the card stores might want to order. Don Mcdowell general manager of the Agency s Stamps division said the set of Stamps comes in response to a constant Stream of requests for special Stamps for Mother s Day father s Day graduations and birthdays. If there is Public enthusiasm for the stamp booklets once they Are available Mcdowell said they could be come part of the postal service s regular inventory of Stamps with designs changed at some  the annual love stamp is an example of u similar special slump that is available during the entire year As distinguished from sumps designed to commemorate a specific event which Are on Sale for Only a month or two. In 1985, the postal service sold 404 million booklets containing 7.3 billion Stamps with a value of More than j1.6 billion. This year for the first time the postal service is issuing commemorative Stamps in booklets. One containing five 22-Cenl Stamps showing fish will be issued March 21. The other with four 22-cent Stamps saluting stamp collecting was issued on Jan. 23 and is available in Post offices. Last year printing was deferred on a special 14-Ccnt Chin Mas stamp designed for use on Post card greeting. At the time it was announced the deferral was called a Cost cutting move. Whims Caf vocabulary Book panned by College women s group As sex of Boulder Colo. A a vocabulary Book that upset a College women s group because a female character tried very hard to please a Cigar smoking loud talking millionaire was Only intended As whimsy one of its authors says. The Story of Henrietta Brussels out is part of the weighty word Book by University of Colorado professors Elissa Guralnick Paul Levitt and Douglas Burger. It is one of a series of stories designed to help children Inder stand Long words in this Case the word  in the two Page Story Henrietta goes to great lengths to please Horatio alg Ermint. She liked Horatio s loud laugh his big Cigar and his important voice the Story lays. But most of All she liked his  trouble was Horatio did t like the red dress Henrietta wore for dinner. She changed eight times until an old Gray dress met Bis approval daring dinner Horatio concluded that Henrietta would make a Good wife because she always tried very hard to please  the Boulder faculty committee on women was not entertained especially when a passage showed up in a Colorado alumnus Magazine article promoting the Book. The Story illustrates stereotypical male and female Behaviours and presents them As a lesson thus perpetuating the Subtle programming of children which reinforces sex ism the committee on women wrote. Guralnick said children would recognize that the fundamental character of us Book is whimsical and she cautioned against underestimating the ability of Young sters to pick out the puns and satirical tone. For Guralnick who has co written five other books with Levitt on subjects such As cancer and aging the controversy was an unexpected twist to their first attempt at a Vii musical rather than serious and depressing Book. I do not promote the idea that women should ingratiate themselves to men to marry Rich nor does the Book she said recently. Heating Oil costs dropped with crude prices Agency says new York up . Homeowners paid less than $ i a gallon for heating Oil in four states As prices fell by As much i 5.9 cents a gallon in the week ended feb. 3, the Energy information administration has said. A $10-a-barrel drop in crude Oil prices since the first of the year has generated some savings for Home heating Oil users but analysts cautioned that the customer is not Likely to enjoy the full Impact of the dramatic Oil Price break which theoretically translates into a reduction of about 23 cents a gallon on heating Oil Bills. In its feb. 3 Survey of residential heating Oil prices in 14 states the administration found Price declines ranged from a Penny a gallon in new Hampshire up to 5.9 cents a gallon in Ohio compared to its Jan. 27 study. Burglars break into warehouse steal shrimp lobster tails Pittsburgh a burglars broke into a fish warehouse and stole at least 130,000 Worth of Frozen lobster tails and Shri no police said. The burglars used a forklift to remove the Rock orbiter tails and venezuelan Pink shrimp from a Freezer and Load the 50-Pound containers into a truck. The stolen seafood was Worth 530,000, police said. Bernard Benkovitz president of nordic fisheries and Benkovitz seafood placed the value of the seafood at $50.000. Employees found a additional 1,900 pounds of lobster tails Worth about $23,000 on the loading Dock the morning after the theft Benkovitz said. Marine trapped in Cavern is rescued after 15 hours Twenty nine Palms Calif. A searchers crawled through an abandoned desert Gold mine to Rescue a us. Marine More than is noun after be became wedged in the Cavern while exploring authorities said. Rescuers brought pvt Jeffrey Tennyson 22, of Twenty nine Palms 800 feet through the Shaft to the mine open ing san Bernardino county sheriffs Deputy Tony Allie Tennyson was taken to the Marine corps training Cen Ter base Hospital but Allen said he was in Good Conoit Ioa with a few Miner Cuti. The victim made Contact with Rescue team members first verbally then be managed to climb partially out of the mine shift on his own Allen said. He was finally brought to the lop and he s in Good condition group reports death rates rising fastest for lung diseases new York a death Rales for lung diseases Are rising faster that for any other major disease category the american lung association says. In its 198-1985 annual report the association also said respiratory disorders have become the leading cause of death for infants i the first year of life. The association said death Rales for chronic obstructive. Pulmonary diseases chiefly emphysema and chronic bronchitis Rose 25 percent from 1970 to 1982, while the rate for Long cancer jumped 33 percent. In contrast rates for heart diseases dropped 26 percent during that period the association said. Smoking was the major reason for the disease increases spokeswoman Michelle Kling said. The association blames cigarettes for 80 percent of deaths from the obstructive pulmonary diseases and 85 percent of deaths from lung cancer. American Arab Media Institute to be established in  Abu Dahabi up an american Arab press Institute is to be set up in Washington next month to Brief the . Media on Middle East issues and counter the pro israeli Bias in american reporting. George a. Nayfeh president of the american Arab affairs Council was quoted As saying the Institute will be housed in the National press club building in washing ton. It will give the capital s massive press corps immediate knowledge of the Middle East s reaction to events in the Region and help to counteract the one sided pro israeli Biasin american reporting Nayfeh said