European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday february 2, 1b87 the stars and stripes pegs 5 Texas troopers ride 150-Mph Mustangs Austin Texas a the slate department of Public safety charged with enforcing traffic Laws inthe wide open spaces is expanding Sis use of High powered Pursuit cars. The trend started a Tew Yean ago when state trooper vehicles were being Outmon by criminal suspects and traffic Tew violators two dozen Mustang its As an Experiment. Texas now has 191 Mustang its in its Pursuit Fleet of 950 marked care said Mike Cox a Dps spokesman. It will add 140 Mustangs this year and replace 60 Ford Ltd with Mustangs bringing the number or Mustangs in the Fleet to 391, Cox said. The California Highway patrol has 2,200 cars including 410 Mustangs and 325 motorcycles. The troopers Mustang gtd Are identical to mod Els said to the Public except for lights markings and radar according to Dps officials. Dps officials say they prefer the Mustang its to Ford Ltd and Dodge diplomats the Standard Pur suit cart which Are much larger and yet considerably slower than the Mustangs the 1987 Mustang it is even faster than earlier Dps Mustangs. The cars which have 5-liter, v-8 engines have a top Speed of nearly i Sompit Accord ing to Road less by automotive magazines. Trooper Tim Ferguson Calls the Mustangs a re freshing change of Pace for troopers who drive All Day and an important safety Advance in the Mustang you Don t have to Chase somebody for 10 Miles Ferguson said. The Chase is Over quicker and Thiu s safer for me and safer for other cars on the  Ferguson credits the Mustang rapid acceleration More than its top Speed in allowing him to catch speeders sooner. Trooper assigned to the Mustangs Are required to attend a High performance driving school said Dps Cap. Frankie Waller. Steelworkers approve pact ending us strike Pittsburgh up the United steel workers overwhelmingly approved a four year contract with us corp., officially ending the longest work stoppage in the steel Industry s Nis Lory but cutting pay and eroding Union control at the bit gift us steelmaker Union officials said. Members from nine slates saturday ratified the contract by a vote of 19,621 id 4,045, a Union spokesman said. Us the nation s no. I steelmaker had Laid it was prepared to reopen som of its plants As Early As sunday the contract will Cut wages and Bene fits by j2.40 to $2.50 per hour in the first year in re Uro us formerly known As . Steel has agreed o improve insurance and pension plans Institute profit sharing and restrict contracting work out to non Union companies. The company also has agreed to shut Down a number of Idle facilities which . Steel Industry ship rants in Mien of tons 100 employment in thousands 400 in Moons of tons 30  Sou Tom Antwan Imi ind so i Inuma. Gnu econometric would provide benefits totalling an Esti mated $37 million to More than 4,000usw members. Us also said to would recall one furloughed employee for every two who take special pensions and provide $2.4million for retraining. The strike began aug. I when the workers contract expired  on a new Accord we re pleased that our employees have ratified the contract us chair Man David m. Roderick said in a pre pared statement. Now we can gel about the business of supplying the customer with Quality products the activity upon which All jobs in steel  Larry Regan president of local 1014al Gary ind., the largest at us with 8,200 members said his members Rati fied the pact by a 3-1 margin. He said head opposed ratification out the Mem Bers followed the recommendation of the majority of Union leaders. Rally protests burning of King s picture by Kkt Louisville by. A about 1,000 people gathered at the Jefferson county courthouse saturday to protest the Kun flux klan s Bunting of a picture of the late civil rights Leader Martin Luther King or. A week earlier. Ten Robed klan Srcan had assembled at a county office building several Miles away where the picture had been burned and where the rights group had planned to hold the rally but the group decided instead to take a motorcade to the Down town courthouse. They said they did not change plans to avoid the klansmen the demonstrations were among Sev Ohio villagers thin out1 flock Mechanicsburg Ohio a Village police and volunteers shot 106 pigeons saturday to thin out a flock of about 180 Birds that residents say Are a nuisance. The Village of about 1,900 people about 25 Miles West of Columbus has had to take action against the pigeons every few years councilman John hol land said. We just want to thin Down the population. We Hope to kill about 120 of item police chief Paul o Brien said before the shooting started. The flock flew out of Range to the top of a 100-foot Grain elevator but the shooters stayed on until dark when the Birds started flying into Trees to Roost sgt. Tim do Slick said. He said most residents Don t find the shooting  we try to keep them picked up As we go he said. Era in the nation saturday concerning racism or launched by the Kun flux ican in hasten on Maryland s easter Shore four klansmen protesting sentences in a Cross burning Case were sur rounded by about 3so people who threw snowballs and taunted them chanting Kkt go  in Hutchinson Kan about 350people singing we Shau overcome marched to protest vandalism at the Home of the woman who coordinated the City s Observance of the Martin Luther King or. Birthday Holiday. In West Terry Haule ind., several Kun flux klan members passed out literature and accepted donations Al a Street intersection. There was no trouble stale police said. Politicians clergymen and business leaders both Black and while gathered around a statue of Thomas Jefferson attic courthouse. Some held signs saying Stop racist violence and Many held pictures of King. On Jan. 24, several klansmen protest ing the National Holiday in King s Honor burned his picture. The Rev. Charles e. Kirby pastor of Southern Star Baptist Church and presi Dent of the Kentucky chapter of the j 1 injured in Vermont when Gondola cars fall West Dover it a two gon Dola cars fell from a Cable at mount Snow ski area on saturday and others stacked up against a lift Tower. Eleven people including several who jumped to the ground were slightly hurl. Ski patrol member evacuated about 120 skiers from stranded cars said Bruc Mccloy mount Snow s vice president and marketing manager. A two person Gondola Cabin fell 10 to15 feel to the Snow at 2 17 p.m., apparently because of a failure in the Hanger that connects the Cabin to a grip on the Cable Mccloy told reporters. The grip travelled with the Cable to the next lilt Tower and lodged in the wheels on which the cables track Over the Tow ers and the second Gondola car fell to the Snow there he said. The second car was one of four that slacked up against the grip prompting the Cable to derail Mccloy said. The Cable landed on a Cable Catcher and safely circuits stopped the lift. The occupants of the second Cabin jumped off before it fell Mccloy said. They could see what was happening and it was not a very Long distance to the ground and they thought they d be better off jumping be said. The two were among nine people in the falling or colliding cars who reported to the area s first Aid station Mccloy said. Two others who apparently jumped to the ground during the evacuation also were Hurt ski patrol members helped about 120 skiers from the remaining Gondola cars without incident and All were Down within 90 minutes of the Accident. A ski area doctor said the injured suffered bumps bruises and minor sprains Mccloy said. No one was hospitalized. He said the Gondola will not run again until the ski area completes an investigation of what caused the Accident. Southern Christian leadership Confer ence told the rally the act disturbed me because King had a  if they bum his picture they still Willnow bum his dream Kirby said. At the klan gathering James far Rands Imperial wizard of the knights of Ike Kun flux klan from Shelton. Conn., called on the Federal government to re lease documents on King to support the klan s Contention that he backed communism. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Feb. 2, 1947 the american federation of labor proposed a Merer wit the Congress of Industrial organizations in a sudden move to unify in a fight against anti strike legislation. The Cio broke away from Ibe Al in 1936. 30 years ago today. Feb. 2, 1957 angry parents an congressmen demanded an end to lest flights Over congested areas after an air collision sent a luxury transport Imo a school playground in Pacoima calif., killing live airmen and two children. 20 years ago today. Feb. 2,1967 Fri director j. Edgar Hoover blamed the communist party for nationwide College Campus agitation. 7 0 years ago . 2, 1977 in what a Federal judge called his Radical remedy to end segregation he ordered two stale universities in Nashville tenn., to merge with in three years. University of Tennessee Nashville Campus was to link with ten Nessee slate University by 1980