European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday August 1,1986 bid to use traffic funds for drug fight rejected Washington Lull the House convinced the 55-Mpli Speed limit is saving lives has rejected a plan to take Money used Tor enforcing the limit and spend in or the figlus against illegal drugs. The proposal to shift the Money to drug enforce ment was offered wednesday by rep. Robert Walker. A a who said efforts to Stem the flood of illegal driers to this country oin Tild hi1 Given higher priority than catching a Palm. What we arc saying is thai keeping people from going 56 Mph is More important than fighting drugs in this  Walker said. Opponents of the plan argued the 55-Mph Speed limit enacted is an Energy saving measure following the Arab Oil embargo is saving thousands of lives on . Highways Walker proposed several amendments to the 1987 transportation appropriation Hil 10 Shif the funds. His first amendment calling for deletion of $315,000 from inc office of the Secretary of transportation was soundly Defeated on a 299-115 vote. A later Amend ment to shift j20 million 10 inc coast guard for drug interdiction failed on a 3d3-118 vote. Rep. Buld i Singer had been hospitalized since july 21 suffering from congestive heart failure. Day i was wrong because the evidence is overwhelm ing that the 55-Mph Speed limit is saving  Shusler said conservative estimates put the figure Al 2.000 to 4,000 lives saved each year. Hup. James Howard d-., said the lower Saccu limit also has prevented tens of thousands of major tack and head injuries. He said the chances of dying in a car  thai occurs Al 55 Mph is one in 30 while the Odds of dying in a 65-Mph crash arc one in two even Money that you  House leaders recently announced plans for a legislative package to launch a major new drive against drug trafficking. Walker said Congress will have to come up with millions of dollars for the new Effort an urged thai some of it come from inc 55-Mph enforce ment. Let s vote for More Money for the drug War at the proper Lime but let s not kill this tremendously Benefi Cial program Howard said of the Speed limit. Arguing Hal the current limit is frequently violated Walker said he sampled compliance while driving to Washington from his id Pennsylvania District and found most people driving faster than 55 Mph. If you drove 5i on inc interstate i was on you were a danger to everyone around  couple charged with tax fraud los Angeles up a Beverly Hills couple was charged wednesday with not reporting sales of 534 million from their Chain of Gas stations a total prosecutors claim is the largest criminal sales tax fraud ease in California history. The unreported safes report i try equated 28 million Gallons of Gas enough gasoline for a Chevrolet Novato make 2,683 round trips to the Moon cily attorney James Hahn said. The City attorney s office filed inc charges against defendants Nathan a Hoosier and his wife. Sonya shool or who did business As sunny Gas and Good tent Gas a Chain of 17 service stations located throughout the los Angeles area. The Beverly Hills couple face 22 Misdemeanour counts. Hahn accused the couple of failing to file for and pay $3,312,644 in sales taxes during a nine Quarter period. The shoo stars filed Only a $73,311 sales tax liability from april i 1983, to june 30, 1985. State Board of equalization member Conway Colli said the Louii Ai Lully owes $8.2 million in Back takes Bui because of a statute of limitations prosecutors could Only charge them with owing $3.3 million. Hahn said the difference Between the shooters re ported Gross sales and those projected As their actual Gross sales by inc Board audit amounts to More than$3-4 million which translates into 2s million Gallons of gasoline unaccounted for in the defendants reports. If convicted the couple could be sum to county jail for up to i i years fined 162,000 and ordered to make restitution. In addition to the criminal charges Collis said the slate is also trying to recover the Back taxes inc shoos lers owe through civil proceedings and added seizure of inc couple s progeny and holdings is possible. Baby revived after fall in Pool san Antonio Texas up three women who do not know How 10 swim or give cardiopulmonary resuscitation saved a 7-month-old girl who fell Inlo a backyard swimming Pool wednesday while strap Pedin her stroller police said. Margaret Hui was baby sitting for her grand daughter Meghan Daley when she discovered that the baby was 6 feel under water in her Pool police said. Hui it called for help and iwo women who live nearby responded but none could swim i have no idea How Long she was in there said Elvira ii Tolar one of the rescuers. Cuellar said she ran to a Telephone to Call an ambulance while doro1 Walker plunged Inlo the Pool to save the child. But she could nol pull the stroller from the Pool so she grabbed a Pool cleaning utensil and pushed the stroller to shallower water where the women pulled the child to the surface. Walker 35, said she then started squeezing her stomach and giving her Mouth to Mouth Jesuscita  she said she knew Little More about administer ing car than she did about swimming. "1 had just looked through a Book on car techniques Walker said. I had never done  Cuellar credited Walker with saving inc baby. When we got her Oul. There was no pulse no heart no nothing Cuettar said. Walker succeeded in getting the child to breathe by the time paramedics arrived minutes later. Officers believe the child ended up in the Pool whether grandmother s Garden Hose tangled under the Strol Ler police spokeswoman Romana Loci said. The child was in Good condition at Northeast Baptist Hospital wednesday where she was kept overnight for observation a Hospital spokeswoman said. Stateside musician Paul Davis shot while leaving hotel Nashville. Tenn. A musician Paul Davis who wrote he lop country song Mecl me in Montana was recovering wednesday from a Bullet wound he received during an at tempted robbery officials , 38, was moved out of surgical intensive Core at Vanderbill University medical Cen Ter where he was taken after being shot outside a hold tuesday night officials reported. He was listed in Good  said he was shot once in the Abdomen by a Man who accosted Davis and a female Cam pan Ion As they were leaving the hotel. The assailant fled in a car without any Money when the woman whose name Wai not released ran into the hotel police said. 15 alleged drug dealers nabbed during crackdown Freeport by. Up Competition among crack paddlers is so Horce on fret port streets that one Man resorted to discount sales gimmick buy four get one free police said wednesday. The bargain resulted in the arrest of the Man one of is people nabbed tuesday night As the result of a joint investigation by Freppon Village police and Nassau county District attorney Denis Dillon s office. Dillion said the suspect who was not identified handed out a card that read buy four and get one free referring to $10 vials of the potent addictive form of cocaine. The mass arrests were the result of complaints by for Capon residents of crack being openly sold on Street Corners. At their arraignment in Nassau District Courtin Mir cola the suspects All men ranging in age from in to is. Were held in bails ranging from 160,000 to 17 5,000. 2 charged with passing counterfeit Casino chips Atlantic City . A two men were charged in a massive counterfeit Casino Chip scam after an is 1,000 Cache of fakes was found in three gaming Halls Here. The phony Loo chips found at Caesars at lactic City the Tropicana hotel and Casino and the Golden Nugget were the Best Ever seen in Atlantic City said Anthony Parrillo director of the state division of gaming enforcement. Upon initial inspection the Caesars Cage supervisor believed them to be authentic Parrillo told the press of Atlantic City in a Story published in i thursday s  the chips were studied authorities detected manufacturing imperfections. Casino officials said the fake chips were detected by Cashiers who sensed there was some thing different in the Way the chips fell an sounded when dropped on counters. Al Caesars officials said about 88 phony $100 chips were taken at the Casino s cashier Cage or at the gaming tables. Another 15 were confiscated when Philip s. Fredericks 35, of Palm Springs. Calif tried to Cash them at the Cage and was arrested on july 11. He was being held in lieu of $12,000 bail the press reported Calif predicted to have 5th largest Economy san Francisco up California will have the fifth largest Economy in the world by the year 2000, topped Only by the United stoics the soviet Union Japan and Germany says a report released wednesday by Wells Fargo  31st stale s robust Economy will surpass that of France to move into fifth place world wide the report  the end of this Century the state s Popula Tion will exceed 31 million an increase of 7 million people said the report titled California 2000 a business and economic  the state will add 6 million jobs during the Nel 14 years and the yearly income of an aver age California family will grow to wooo from $30,000, based on today s dollars. The annual value of the goods and services produced in California will swell 70 percent to $820 billion