European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes thursday april 24, 1986 i Fosburg Man wants no Fink of steel city1 image from press dispatches an Effort is being made to disassociate Pittsburg a California town of 25,000, from Pittsburgh the steel City of Pennsylvania. Backers of the drive say the steel City has a bad image despite its ranking As the nation s most liable City. Edwin Wolf is circulating petitions to allow voter the Chance to approve changing the name of Pittsburg to Diamond Landing. A Legal notice he began circulating last week says anew name is needed to offset the negative Impact the name Pittsburg brings to the  the City was named in 1912 by a group of Eastern ers to Honor the steel factory on the waterfront. Pittsburgh officials tuesday scoffed at the proposed disassociation. I m too amused to become angry Over this one said the president of Pittsburgh s City coun cil Ben Woods. I guess when your City is named the nation s most liable City the inhabitants of Californi feel  Rand Mcnally the compiler of maps every fou years rates 327 communities in the nation based on nine categories education Economy climate crime transportation housing and neighbourhoods recreation health care and research and the arts. Pittsburgh finished on top in the most recent rating. Let s keep in mind that California has always Beena Leader Woods said. After All we owe these advancements to californians Moon shoes skateboarding commuters professional beatniks motorcycle gangs and proposition 13. I guess that municipal name changing will become the next great fad to carry eastward. Now please ask me if i really care if a sleepy Little California town wants to disassociate itself from the name of one of America s greatest  the president of the Pittsburgh chamber of com Merce Justin Horan suggested that Pittsburg residents buy Rand Mcnally s Book and acquaint themselves with the Pittsburgh of 1986 rather than the Pittsburgh of 1912 when they copied our  Wolf 27, who has lived in Pittsburg for three years said the name Diamond Landing would Combine two aspects of the City s past. This town has quite a history of mining and steamboats he said. I wanted a name that would reflect both parts of the City s Histo  publisher signs Shch Aransky random House announced tuesday that it will pub Lish the memoirs of Antony Shch Aransky Early next year saying the Book will be a testament to the endurance of the human spirit. The 38-year-old jewish mathematician an outspoken worker for human rights in the soviet Union was freed on a Bridge in Berlin this year. He spent 13 years i soviet prison and labor Camps. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife who led the Campaign in the West for his Freedom. The publishing House said it won the  after its chairman and president Robert Bernstein and an associate publisher and senior editor Peter Osnos flew to Israel to Welcome Shch Aransky to the West and negotiate a Deal. Osnos said he struck up a Friendship with Scharan sky in the 1970s, when Osnos was a Moscow correspond smelly and they stand a Chance of getting bombed Ray of i i. T t no Meta air Imp conf in c nip Cmunt lain manna Osnos refused to say How much the company paid for the publishing rights. Until he was arrested on charges of treason in 1977, Shch Aransky often spoke out on the rights of russian jews to emigrate to the West. He also was a founder of the human rights organization known As the Moscow Helsinki watch committee. Swa own dropping in again the swallows annual return to Capistrano calif.,heralds Spring and an influx of tourists to the historic Mission. But 95 Miles to the North at the College of the canyons in Valencia the swallows return mainly forces students to raise umbrellas. It s a mess. We have a lot of people who Don t want to walk the closest Way to and from class because it gets Lagrandeur the school s president said monday. Nearly 1,000 Cliff swallows descend annually on the Community College taking up residence in the  swallows influx similar to the March one at the san Juan Capistrano Mission is in its eighth year atthe 3,700-student Campus Lagrandeur said. The cleanup costs $5,000 each Spring he said. Despite the inconvenience some conservation minded students and faculty members have protested efforts troust the Birds from their roosts. They come Back to nest where they were born said student Greg Shrout. If they Don t let them nest we Llose a whole generation of  Shrout and others appealed to the College Board thursday and won a reprieve for the Small greyish Brown Birds facing expulsion. A committee will study the problem and make recommendations for next year Lagrandeur said. It pays to advertise a photo scores of women wrote to Robert Todd of Garden City kan., after the associated press transmitted a photo of him and the wife wanted sign in the Back of his truck. Todd 55, poses above with the woman of his Choice 44-year-old Elizabeth Ward also of Garden City who will marry him in june. A no be with apr me t let Sta Sand stripes col i Lusign up for w whome delivery _ and have the