European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes stateside tuesday March 11, 1986 Call pm Gullible up photo no scofflaws these seagulls around the nation s capital they obviously believe in signs. Resisting the temptation to sit Down and rest the gulls summon an extra spurt of Energy and continue on their Way to a Legal Landing spot near Washington s National Airport. Emergency patrol Driver delivers baby along Chicago freeway Chicago up undeterred by the clamor of cars whizzing by and the smell of exhaust fumes a girl was born on the Busy Calumet expressway. Robert Cummings an emergency patrol Driver for the department of transportation delivered a 7-Pound, 9 ounce baby girl on the front seat of a Buick. Cummings said he was flagged Down by two women standing by the car which had a Fiat tire. A third woman Lay on the front seat ready to give birth. Sharon Johnson had been on her Way to mercy Hospital with her Mother and aunt to give birth to her second child when the tire went Flat. Cummings a Volunteer firefighter with paramedic training swung into action taking Johnson s vital signs timing her contractions and calling for an ambulance. Cummings said it was the 15th baby he had delivered. 3 suspects sought for damaging Farmer s Christmas tree crop Mobile Ala. Up police Are looking for three people who chopped up nearly 20,000 Christmas Pines but the furious owner of the tree farm says he would like to catch the suspects before the police find them. I Hope i catch them Edgar Miller said monday. I would t Call it murder. I d Call it  police believe three people with machetes or knives slipped onto Miller s tree farm sometime Between feb. 18 and feb. 21 and Cut nearly All of his 4 to 6-foot Virginia Pines in half. It was Miller s first crop and his wife Ellen said they planned to Harvest it this Winter at an expected profit of$25,000. H Miller started the Christmas tree farm four years ago to supplement his income from the Alabama dry Dock and shipbuilding corp., where he has worked nearly 21 years. Miller said he would probably Cut off the chopped up Trees at the ground and Plant seedlings Between the stumps. Statue of Liberty s right Arm to remain attached incorrectly new York up engineers restoring the statue of Liberty to its former grandeur say the Arm holding the famed Torch has been attached to the wrong place for nearly 100 years. The placement of the right Arm which is located 18 inches from where civil Engineer Gustave Eiffel s design set it makes it a structural flaw and the weakest part of the statue said Edward Cohen head of Amman and Whitney the firm heading the restoration. Acc announces crackdown on users of High Power lbs Washington a the Federal communications commission has launched a Campaign to end use of illegal citizens band radio signal boosters which cause interference on nearby televisions radios and stereos. The acc says the amplifiers Don t do much to increase the Range of the lbs but they can put the illegal opera Tor s voice on a neighbor s Telephone radio television videocassette recorder record player or tape recorder. People s tolerance for interference is Good until it is repeated Over a Long period of time said Richard m. Smith chief of the acc s Field operations Bureau who ordered the crackdown. You can get pretty tired of the same Guy interfering with your viewing of Dallas every Friday he said. In addition to hearing a voice television viewers see Diagonal lines running across the screen every time a near by transmitter is turned on. Earlier enforcement campaigns eliminated most manufacturing and sales of the devices but Smith estimated tens of thousands of the High Power lbs Are still in use. Violators of the Booster ban Are subject to a $2,000 Fine from the acc. Smith said he now plans to press criminal charges which would Lead to higher fines and possible jail sentences for violators. Smith has ordered his Field offices to devote More re sources to following up citizens complaints about High powered cd interference. Users of the illegal boosters Are easy to catch he said because the neighbor who complains usually recognize the voice. Although the commission has eliminated Many rules for lbs such As the requirement that cd operators be licensed it still strictly enforces the ban on so called linear amplifiers which can boost the Power of a cd signal from the authorized 4 Watts to several Hundred Watts. During one recent period an official said 91 percent of the complaints about interference from lbs involved prob lems caused by the illegal linear. Although some of the violators mount the amplifiers in trucks most amplifiers Are in Homes Smith said. The acc received More than 28,000 interference complaints about lbs in 1985, said Smith. He said that for every complaint received there Are two or three other cases of interference not reported. The commission said it wants to locate not Only users but manufacturers dealers who sell and technicians who install the illegal boosters. If found the Over powered equipment will be seized. To avoid receiving these fines or facing possible Crimi Nal prosecution cd operators should destroy this illegal equipment Smith told reporters last week. Cd radios Are intended for Short Range use although atmospheric conditions sometimes allow a signal to Bounce off the ionosphere and go great distances. But Smith said it is just As Likely that you can talk to Australia with a 4 Watt transmitter As with an amplified unit. He said users Are mistaken if they think the units accomplish anything much More than causing interference. The impression is that the Power does greatly increase the Range. It does increase the Range but it does t greatly increase the Range he said. Most lbs have a Range of less than 10 Miles. Smith said boosters usually increase the Range to less than double that. Priest assails lottery Tor advertising victimizing poor and Black people Pui Pann iad to Tii _ i i. No Chicago a the Illinois lottery Sells false promises and victimized people who ought to be spending the Money on food and heat says a roman Catholic priest who Drew $5,000 Worth of losing tickets in his Church s sunday collection to illustrate his Point. People without discretionary income do not have the Money to play the lottery said the Rev. Thomas o Gor Man who became angry when the lottery was advertised on a billboard across the Street from his St. Malachy s Church on this City s West Side. Despite that fact they Are the target of heavy Advertis ing which promises to move them into the Middle class i they re Lucky he said. They will buy inexpensive things with food Stamps and use the change for lottery tickets said o Gorman. They re spending Money which ought to go for food heat and  we believe that the lottery is a victimized of the poor and Blacks said the priest whose Parish members Are mostly Black. He encouraged parishioners to toss their losing tickets in the collection plate during a special mass sunday and he came up with $5,000 Worth he said. Teaf More than any sunday , Ever o Gor something a s wrong Man said. He said he has scheduled a rally to protest the lottery s advertising practices for Friday at the state of Illinois Center. Other churches have indicated that they will join in his Call to Boycott the lottery he said. We want the state lawmakers who voted against the lottery 12 years ago to Lead the fight to end it o Gorman said. Our Challenge to the lottery is basically a Challenge to our state government to do More for the  he said Many of the people in his Parish have been caught up in the false promises made by the lottery ads. But Joel Feldstein a spokesman for the Illinois lottery called the priest s allegations absolutely categorically  no one is forcing anyone to play said Feldstein. And most of the advertising is done in mediums that reach everyone in newspapers and  but he conceded that placing a billboard advertising the lottery near the Church May have been in poor taste. " its placement was an unfortunate Accident said Feldstein. The billboard has been removed. The ads do not coerce anyone to play said Feldstein. The Campaign says playing the lottery is fun. If someone wants to pay a Dollar to have some fun and maybe win local Price wars trigger Sharp drop in gasoline prices across nation los Angeles a local i ice wars in about a dozen cities across the nation dropped gasoline prices to As Low As 62.9 cents a gallon but an Oil Industry analyst said a truce is in the offing. Retail gasoline prices continued to show substantial de Clines nationwide in the past two weeks but those cuts paled in comparison with spot cutting by Mavericks analyst Dan Lundberg said sunday. Overall the latest Survey showed the average self serve Price of leaded regular at 90.13 cents regular unleaded at 96.63 cents and Premium unleaded at $1.125. The National average for All grades of gasoline was $1.0374, Down More than 7 cents a gallon since feb. 21. That s a deep National drop Lundberg said. The most remarkable local Price War was occurring in Denver where Lundberg found one station Selling regular gasoline at 62.9 cents a gallon. Lundberg publisher of an Industry newsletter surveys retail gasoline prices around the nation every two weeks. He attributed such spot Price wars to one or two Mav Erick dealers one or two Macho bound dealers who Sud Denly see a Chance to dramatize themselves. That Means that such Price War pockets will be of very Short duration and the restorative process will be very Swift indeed he said. Elsewhere regular was Selling at 69.9 cents in St. Louis 70.9 cents in Detroit and Atlanta 71.9 cents in Indianapolis 72.9 cents in Colorado Springs colo., 79.9 cents in san Francisco and Portland Ore. Me too pricing spreads locally because of the psycho logical Impact on dealers when they see All the business going elsewhere Lundberg said. When dealers see motorists wrapped around a City Block twice they panic he said. The dealers Are Able to drop prices dramatically by passing along to motorists All of the wholesale Price reduction and up to a third of the take Home margin Lundberg said