European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday August 31, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 Hole in one Tampa fat veterinarian or. Junes Stewart holds a five foot Snake and the nth Ball he removed from its mid Sec Tion. The Snake swallowed the ban after apparently mistaking it for an egg. Two weeks ago a veterinarian in Gainesville Fol removed two Light bulbs bom a Snake that made the same mistake. 3 denominations of . Lutherans approve merger Milwaukee Dpi three lutheran denominations have approved merger to create the fifth largest Church in the United states a move Bishops said will result in the unification of lutheran voices. The new Church the evangelical lutheran Church in America brings together the 2.9 million member lutheran Church in America the 2.3 million member american lutheran Church an the 110,000-Membcr association of evangelical lutheran churches. Bishop David Preuss said the Alc meeting in Minneapolis approved the historic merger by a vote of 891 -59. The la meeting in Milwaukee approved the merger by a vote of s40-29, Bishop James Crumley or. Said. The Alec at its Conven Tion in Chicago voted 137-0 for the merger. Bishop will Herzfeld said. All three meetings were held Friday. Church officials plan to have the 5.3 million member Synod operating by Jan. 1. None of the Bishops would comment on who would be the official head of the new  primary consideration is a Theo logical one said Crumley. This is one Way of expressing the Unity of the Church that All ofus seek so  he said lutherans will speak with a More United voice than before when wit Nessing and when working with other churches. I Long for that time when you can ask any person who happens to be a Luther an what Church do you belong Tot an they can answer simply lutheran so that you Don t have to follow up with what Brand " he said. It s a vision that Many of us have had for years and i also believe it s the first critical step toward uniting lutherans with the entire Christian family Herzfeld said. Delegates also selected Chicago As the Headquarters of the new Church ending several weeks of debate. Anonymous drug fess Haven f stemmed abuse Easton Conn. A police chief Gerard j. Hance thought he had a solution to his town s drug problem when he offered to help parents identify sub stances they confiscate from their children with no fear of prosecution. But after a year Only 24 parents have availed them selves of the Anonymous service and statistics indicate drug abuse is increasing in the affluent Community 35 Miles Northeast of new York City. I m disappointed with the response to Date Hance said. We can t really put our fingers on Why response is so nowbut we re seeing it Manifest itself in Many ways such As burglaries and robberies Senous accidents and Domestic  burglaries in the area Are up 40 percent Over last year and much of that is drug related he said. The rate of drug use in this town of 6,500 people Isth same As in Bridgeport Connecticut s largest City with 157,000 people says Hance. Hance initiated the Anonymous drug testing pro Gram in May 1985 after a study by the United Way of Eastern Fairfield county found that drugs and alcohol were prevalent among students in seventh through 12th grades in six communities. The study encompassing Easton Fairfield Monroe Stratford Truro Bull and Bridgeport found that sub stance abuse increased with each Grade level. About so percent of seniors reported having used alcohol compared with 32 percent of seventh graders. Marijuana was used by 54.9 percent of the seniors at some time in their lives compared to 9 percent of the seventh graders. Cocaine had been used by percent of the seniors and 2.1 percent of the seventh graders. Hance s program encourages parents to Call police if they find a substance they believe is a drug. The police dispatcher gives the Parent a code number the Parent sends the Sample in and Calls Back in 10 Days giving the code number to learn the identity of the substance. The Parent who is told the substance is a drug is then advised on which services to Contact for help. With the code number the police Don t know the identity of the Parent or child and therefore can t press charges. Hance a police officer for 32 years and Eastern s chief for eight said one reason the program in t attracting More callers might be that Many parents Are naive about drugs and Aren t Able to identify the prob Lem. He also said both parents often work leaving a bored child Home alone. He also believes too Many parents have Given Chil Dren equal  what society has done is Given the child a special standing in the Home where his bedroom should t be violated. I Don t agree with this Hance said. The parents Are the Heads of the House and the child should adhere to the  California Goodyear says publicity spoiled legislators pan to use Blimp to combat drugs of bottle Bill Sacramento Calif. A Cali fornia lawmakers have ended 20 years of debate on a bottle Bill sending  Deukmejian a measure that adds one cent to the Cost of each Container of Beer or soda and creates 2,000 redemption centers for empties. Supporters said it would help reduce lit Ter and save natural resources by stimulating the recycling of empty cans and bottles. Some consumer groups oppose the Bill contending it won t be effective. Assemblyman Bun Margolin introduced the Bill passed by both houses of the state legislature. He said he did rot know if Deukmejian would  Bill would cover Beer and soft dunks i Glass aluminium and plastic containers beginning sept. 1,1987.the one cent redemption value would increase to two cents dec. 31, 1989, ands three cents dec. 31,. 1992, of the one cent value failed to bring in at least 65 percent of a particular Type of Container. Anyone who returned an empty con Tainer to a recycling Center would get Back be redemption value plus an extra amount to cover the scrap value of the Container. Washington a the . Customs service said it would be using the Goodyear Blimp to track drug smugglers along the Texas Gulf coast but the announcement turned out to be just a trial balloon. Within hours after the government re ported Friday that it would be using the Blimp the Goodyear tire and rubber co. Deflated the agreement saying the publicity had punctured any Chance of effectiveness. With the widespread publicity about the project Over the last two Days it would be difficult to get any meaningful Reading in the ability of airships to contribute to the detection of drug smuggling operations Thomas b. Riley manager of Airship operations said in a statement by Goodyear in Akron Ohio. Customs officials said they had been trying to keep the project a secret but it had been disclosed in a Story in Friday s editions of the los Angeles times. After the word was out the customs service went ahead with its statement. One mistake led to another i sup pose said customs spokesman Dennis Murphy. It was an idea. We d liked to have tried it. We re not Happy but we under stand Goodyear s  the test was to have been a Weelon surveillance of drug smuggling boats sometime in the next month Over Texas coastal areas. Riley had said originally that Good year had already thought of the possibility that smugglers might try to shoot at the Craft because it is an easy  said its officers planned to stay far enough away to keep out of trouble. Later in his statement quashing the project Riley said the company had decided the exercise might not be Safe. The Houston based Blimp America would have been unable to carry heavy radar and other electronic surveillance gear. But the company had agreed to lash this anti drug message on its elec tronic signboard you can help re port drug smuggling. Call 800-be  a member of Congress who work closely on Aerial drug interdiction mat ters rep. Glenn English d-okla., said the whole thing was Little More than a Public relations gimmick anyway. Without radar quite frankly it has All the earmarks of a publicity stunt said English the chairman of the House government operations Justice sub committee. Murphy said customs which already uses some tethered unmanned balloon for drug tracking still Hopes to have another go at the Experiment and Goodyear did t Rule that out. We May consider it at another time said spokesman John Perduyn. Federal pay raise Story clarified los Angeles a the associated press reported erroneously aug. 28 that president Reagan had signed a Bill to increase the pay of White Collar Federal workers by 2 percent Jan. I. Reagan issued an executive proposal to increase pay of 1.4 million workers including members of congrats which will take effect automatically unless rejected by Congress