European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday april 7, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 no new Day dawning for Day ight Sav no Washington a if rep. De Markey and Sens. George Mitchell and Slade Gorton had their Way Ameri cans would have gotten an extra hour of Daylight March 30. But sen. Wendell Ford has prevailed and the nation won t be turning its clocks ahead for Daylight saving time for another three weeks. Ford a Kentucky Democrat has succeeded in bottling up the latest in a decade old Effort by lawmakers who want the St season to Start sooner and end later. They argue that the switch would save Energy Cut traffic fatalities reduce violent crime give americans More outdoor time in the evening and Aid some 400,000 people with Retinitis pigment Osa night blindness. Few proposals submitted to Congress Ever offer such Clear Cut gains and enjoy such Broad bipartisan sup port says Mitchell a Maine. But these ranks Don t include Ford a Commerce committee member and the Leader of a group of Rural state senators who Are opposing what they see As a big City plan to As Ford puts it change god s  the opponents argue that moving the extra hour of Daylight from morning to evening will Force Farmers to begin even More of their Days in darkness and require children to wait for morning school buses along dark country roads. Since 1966, the nation has started St on the last sunday in april and returned to Standard time on the final sunday in october. Markey d-mjiss., last oct. 22 engineered a 240-157 House vote for a1 Bill that would begin Daylight saving time on the first sunday in april and end it on the first sunday in november. Nine Days after the House passed its Bill Mitchell and Gorton r-wash., went before the Senate com Merce committee with renewed Hope of getting it to endorse an identical Bill. Joining them were the department of transportation and the Daylight saving time coalition an umbrella group of mostly Leisure industries that estimates More St would bring its members some $4 billion in added annual sales. Arguments against the switch Are strongest among members who come from states entirely or partly on the Western Edge of a time zone. For them sunrises and sunsets would come later than states in the Eastern Edge of a time zone. Ford whose state is split Between the Eastern and Central zones says late sunsets Are also a problem. Para phrasing the slogan it s 11 . Do you know where your children Are he says in Kentucky we know where they Are. They re outside watching the Sun  the Senate committee has scheduled several voting sessions on the Bill but cancelled them. That Means they Don t have the votes Ito beat Wendell Ford says John Chambers the senator s spokesman. He s very  Mitchell says the Bill has been stalled by the opposition of several members of the  he singled out Ford As the principal opponent but like others on both sides of the Issue Mitchell declined to identify any other foe. Mitchell said the Battle plan now is to bring the Bill directly to the Senate floor by offering it As an Amend ment to other legislation. But Chambers says that if there is an end run around the Commerce committee Ford will be waiting for the Bill on the floor. Does that mean the kentuckian will try to tie up the Senate with a filibuster i would t say at this Point what he would do Chambers said. But you can count on him doing what Ever he can to defeat  Over on the House Side last week Markey issued a statement lamenting that the Senate had not approved the House passed plan in time to take effect this month. If you find yourself trying to get some sleep through the blinding Early morning Sun and wishing you had that hour of Daylight in the evening for your gardening shopping chores or recreation then this Bill is for you Markey said. S. California Federal Bank Board cites bad Loans in closing Houston savings and loan has 3 quakes in 17 hours Bombay Beach Calif. A a mild earthquake Shook Southern California on saturday the Region s third temblor in 17 hours but a geologist said the timing was coincidental and no damage was reported. The third quake at 9 21 a.m., was the strongest measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale said Robert finn spokesman for the California Institute of technology in Pas Adena. Its epicentre was Bombay Beach on Salton sea a brackish Lake 150 Miles Southeast of los Angeles. It sure Shook this building said Bob Bie Todhunter assistant manager of the Bombay Marina. It was a Boom and then everything  the Salton sea quake followed a 3.8 Shaker in Orange county South of los Angeles late Friday which was preceded by 3.1 temblor in Riverside county East of los Angeles on Friday afternoon. There a really no direct connection be tween All those. It just happens that we had earthquakes coinciding said Cal tech geologist Steve Bryant. The Richter scale is a measure of ground motion As recorded by seismographs. A quake of magnitude 2 is the smallest normally Felt by humans. A quake of magnitude 3.5 can cause slight damage and a magnitude 7 quake can cause widespread damage. Federally insured savings & Loans net income in billions of dollars $5 number in trouble those with Zero or 400 negative net Worth under generally accepted accounting principles 1980 81 estimate Chicago Tribune graphic sources Federal Home loan Bank Board . League of savings Houston a the Federal Home loan Bank Board on Friday closed the $1 billion Mainland savings association of Houston saying the institution was insolvent because of a number of bad construction and real estate Loans. Insured accounts were transferred to Allen Park Federal savings & loan association a new federally insured association that will reopen All of Mainland s former branches on monday said Marti Badila a spokeswoman for the Bank Board. Depositors who had uninsured accounts at Mainland will get a percentage of their Money after the association is liquidated she said. The insolvency was the result of its More than tripling of assets Between october 1983 and the end of 1985, reflecting an aggressive program of High risk poorly underwritten land and construction lend ing Badila said. Mainland a state chartered Stock association with eight offices has been operating under state supervisory control for six months Badila said. In Houston the number of real estate foreclosures so far this year has surpassed last year s record by 74 percent with sin Gle family Homes making up the bulk of foreclosures. Mainland savings posted Houston real estate valued at More than $106 million for foreclosure this month. Aids cases linked of drug abuse on Rise protesters hold by. New York up aids cases linked to intravenous drug use Are spread ing nationwide although once concentrated in two states according to a Federal official involved in the fight against aids a published report said saturday. The new York times said or. James Curran head of the aids Branch of the Federal Center for disease control in at Lanta said Quick action will be required to halt further proliferation of the disease. Curran spoke last week at a conference in Tarrytown . He said intravenous drug use is now seen As a much greater danger in the spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome than previously thought. Curran said the latest statistics indicate that aids has become the leading cause of death among new York prisoners mostly because of the use of intravenous drugs be fore an inmate is jailed and there Are Indi cations similar conditions Are developing in prisons elsewhere. He said recent research indicates Homo sexual men have greatly decreased promiscuity since aids was discovered in 1981. Nevertheless reported cases continue among men in that group and a suspected key Factor is the use of intravenous drugs. What is going to happen in 1990," cur rant said is that somebody is going to say Why did t you Tell us about this problem we Are talking about a massive prob Lem one with National and International.  aids cases involving drug in addicts their sex partners and children have occurred mainly in new York City my Northern new Jersey in the past. But cases among intravenous drug users have now been re ported in 44 states. The cd said intravenous drug users account for at least 17 percent of the 18,883 cases nationwide. New York reported 1,921 cases and new Jersey 507. Florida reported 171. Virtually All of the proposals to do something about the increasing trans Mission of aids through . Drug use has sort of resulted in shrugged shoulders Curran said. The most dramatic thing that has been proposed has been the use of Ster Ile Needles and that s sort of like a band Aid in t it Curran said an expensive multidisciplinary approach is going to be required to control aids among intravenous drug users. The idea that doctors solve this problem by themselves is crazy he said. Curran urged the 400 scientists and health workers at the meeting to write somebody political about . Drug use this is not just an epidemic but an endemic problem. If we wait 10 years he said the prob Lem will be much More difficult to manage. Curran said aids is killing Young men at a much much higher rate than anything else that kills Young men in our  nuclear die in Anaheim Calif. A three Hundred people protesting a military weapons show acted out their deaths sat urday in the Shadow of a mock nuclear mushroom Cloud simulated by a 50-foot balloon. The Orange county Alliance for survival and Orange county coalition for peace participated in what they called a die in outside the three Day International military defense exposition at the Anaheim convention Center. The group demonstrated on the Lawn outside the Center then inflated a bal Loon resembling the mushroom Cloud that results in the aftermath of an atomic blast. After the balloon was inflated the protesters Laid Down in its Shadow and remained motionless for 20 minutes