European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday Mays 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 have boat will travel Cin l make up your mind on thelber Yon want to buy Mol Rhome or boat 0 answer is spar King s is foal Bonafe Rhone thai will make its debut saturday at a boat show in san Jose Calif. The Boale Rhom goes far s86.000. The twit is powered by a 260 Tiona Power inboard Outt Mard. Santa be Railroad struck Over use of non Union workers Chicago a thousand of Engi neers conductors and other employees of the Atchison Kopcko & same pc railway co. Walked off their jobs saturday in a dispute Over the use of non Union workers. Members of the United transportation Union and the brotherhood of locomotive engineers went on strike throughout Santa feyi2,000-Mllc network in 13 Stales offi Cial said Richard Hall a Santa be spokesman in Chicago said it was too Early to soy what effect the strike was having on he Railroad. I we re going to continue to run train with  personnel he said. I ran Tell you we re going to continue to operate 100 percent but we re going to give it a  the walkout kept a number of Amtrak trains from operating on track leased from Santa be sue Martin an Amtrak spokeswoman said in Washington. No negotiations have been scheduled. Santa be has 14,000 employees at which nearly 20,000 Are Union members. The rail Way operates in Illnois Indiana Iowa. Missouri Kansas Nebraska Colorado Many air controllers feel overworked say they re too Busy to relay weather Dallas up Many air traffic controllers feel overworked and some at major airports often feel they Are Loo Busy to relay weather warnings to pilots in a timely fashion a congressional Survey found. A Fina report released Friday on the Gen eral accounting office Survey conducted after the crash of Delta flight 191 last a gust at the Dallas fort Worth International Airport showed that More than half the con trollers at four of the nation s five busiest airports think they Are overworked the percentage who said they were handling much More or somewhat More traffic than appropriate during Peak periods ranged from 79 percent at Dow to 20 per cent at los Angeles International Airport at Harls Field in Atlanta Chicago o Hare and Stapleton in Denver 57 percent. J9 per cent and 71 percent resp clively complained of being overworked. Faa officials in Dallas denied Friday thai Dow controllers Are overburdened and said air traffic is being handled smoothly. "1 unequivocally and totally disagree that Dow controllers arc overwhelmed said Clarence r. Tex Melugin jr., chief of the Faa s Southwest regional office. The Survey also found that 9 percent of the Dow controllers questioned said they were so overworked they very often did not provide weather advisories to pilots 1 percent said they often do not and 26 percent said they occasionally do not. Records of the final minutes of Delta flight 191, which crashed on approach to Dallas fort Worth a a violent Thunder storm killing 137 people show severe weather warnings were never passed on to the High  Gao import was highly critical of Faa procedures for relaying such information to pilots calling it a slow process in which weather alerts Are received an a Tele typewriter ripped off and then passed from controller to controller to be rend to pilots. According to Dow logs Between nov. 19 and dec. 1985, an average of 23 min utes elapsed Between the time the first con troller read a weather Alert to his pilots and the last controller read it. Poll matches Reagan s highest rating new York not presided Rea Gan s approval rating matches the highest level he has Ever recorded a new York times poll shows even though support for the bombing of Libya last month has slipped a bit from what it was immediately after the attack. Sixty eight percent of the Public approves of his handling of the presidency according to a Telephone poll of 1,099 adults taken april 39 through May i. Twenty one percent disapproved and ii percent had no opinion. Reagan s approval rating was also 68 percent last december Ufier the Geneva Summit meeting. The latest Survey also found that 65 per cent of the Public approved of the bombing of Libya on april 15, and 24 percent disapproved. In a times lbs news pall taken the night after the bombing 77 percent approved and 14 percent disapproved. In that immediate past bombing Survey the Public was not asked about Overall no Proval of Reagan s handling of his Job. Approval of his handling of foreign policy then measured a record 76 percent n the latest poll approval of his handling of foreign policy fell to 62 percent a figure that was higher than at any time except for the night after the attack. The pull showed marked differences be tween the views of men and women with the biggest disparity measured on the bombing of Libya seven in three percent of men Bui Jusi 58 percent of women approved. Some High schooners draw a Blank on sat new York a As Many As 10,000 High school students taking the Scholastic aptitude test on saturday found two pages Blank because of a printing error and will be permitted to retake the exam. About 350,000 students nationwide took the College Entrance exam saturday but he Blank pages appeared in Only one of the 30 variants of the three hour lest said a thur Kroll. Vice president of College Board programs at educational testing services of Princeton . This kind of thing happens periodically Kroll said the form looked of through the initial Quality control samples we had. One of the presses must have some How been slipping through Blank  the Blanks occurred in an experimental math Section of the test that was not being counted toward the score. The affected Stu dents therefore wiil be Given the option either to have the lest scored if they finished it despite the Blanks or to take the test again. I m not sure what hardship is imposed on the youngster. The fact is they had the option of completing the test or not As they saw fit said Tab Seaver a vice president of communications with the College Board which sponsors the sat. Seaver said his daughter took the sat on sat urday. California Arizona new Mexico Texas Louisiana and Oklahoma. The is Ike followed the company s Deci Sion to test a new Type of truck trailer that can be driven on a Highway As Well As ride on railway  test train left Chicago on saturday morning in route to a general motors As Sembly Plant in Van Guys Calif., and was being operated by supervisory personnel John Swartz president of the Chicago based Railroad said Paul Thompson vice president for the Cleveland based United transportation Union said the test run violated Federal Law As Well As a 5-year-old agreement Between the Union and Santa pc requiring a certain num Crof Union workers on each run. This is the most Gross violation of an agreement As Well As provisions of Federal Law. That i have Ever encountered in 20 years of work with this organization Thompson said he estimated that Between 5,000 and 7,000 of i Union s workers had walked off their Gotual Santa pc. Those who were on duly have walked off the Job. We have advised oar employee who were in the process of delivering a train to deliver it before leaving he said. Road Railer test defended Ronald �. Data n spokesman for. The engineers Union said in u Telephone inter View from Boulder cola that he had no idea Tiow Many of his Union s workers were involved. Swartz described the strike As unfortunate and Short sighted saying Competition in freight service led to the lest of the Roa  it is essential that we find ways to pro vide the service desired by customers at n competitive Price if we arc to remain a viable transportation company,1 he said i find it difficult to understand Why anyone who is representing the interests of employees would refuse to cooperate on a test that could result in the creation of additional  Swartz said. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today May i i94fi Twenty four desperate. Convicts barricaded in a Ceil Black of Alca tra. Federal prison debated 11 surrender or die ultimatum from their guards Accord ing Losavi Francisco press reports. 30 years ago today. May 5, 1956 the much Odis Church condemned racial segregation during the de nomination s policy making general Confer ence in Minneapolis. The measures passed in a fervent display of unanimity opened the door to full integration in the Church 20 years ago today. May 5. 1966 the defense depart ment said ii . Fliers have been killed Over Loos in inc past two years in operations that have been cloaked in official secrecy. 10 years ago today. May 5, 1976 Melvin Dummar a service station operator named As a Benefi Ciary in the purported will of Howard Hughes was tried and cleared of a forgery charge in Hawthorne nov in 1969. Authorities said