European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday March i. 1987 the stars and stripes 30 lawmakers among double dippers9 Washington api thirty members of con Gress Are among officials who arc costing taxpayers millions of dollars by continuing to collect pension benefits while drawing heir safaris Ibe National taxpayers Union said Friday. It said Ihm among the so called double dippers Are. House speaker Jim Wright a Tenas. Who collects jail a month in air Force retirement pay. Senate minority Leader Bob Dole r-kan., who has a s1, 144 monthly army pension. House minority Leader Bob Michel Roll. Who receives j68 a month from the veterans administration. It said the largest pension is drawn by sen. John Mccain r-ariz., a former Vietnam prisoner of War who gels 12,819s month. Senators and representatives Are paid 189,500 a year. The Senate and House majority and minority leaders get $99,500. We Are not against pensions Tor military person Nel who have served their country and particularly those who have incurred combat or service connected injuries or disabilities nut research director Sid Taylor said we arc against the practice of collecting dual compensation. While they Are in Public  he estimated there arc 180,000 other double dip pers on the Federal payroll. The costs to the american taxpayer of this grow ing Federal work Force of in retired re tired employees is astronomical. It is creating an entirely new bureaucratic Breed of pension millionaires who in their actuarial lifetimes will collect Over is million each from various government pension benefits or retirement systems Taylor said. The group listed these monthly military benefits for others in Congress Sens Daniel Inouye a Hawaii 51,144 Strom Thurmond. , $1,242 John Glenn a Ohio j 1,361 Robert Stafford Rvl $1.094 Howell he Lin d-a1a., si26 spark Matsunaga a Hawaii $ 126 and John mulch or. D-mont., s126, reps Tom Revill d-ala., $619 Chalmers a Vic a Ohio $613 Jack Brooks a Texas $681 William Chappel. D-fla., $908 Henry Hyde Roll. $34 Samuel Strallow ., $1,265 John a Ham my Schmidl a Ark $398 William Nichols. D-ala., ,740 Neal Smith a Iowa s68 Silvio conic. R mass., $191 Joe Moakley d-mass., s6b Frank Hor ton . $68 Robin Mrazek ., s293 Charles Rangel  $116 Gerald Solomon ., $21 i and d. French Slaughter. R-va., s490. The Union commended rep Charles Bennett d fla., who Rel uni his entire a pension of $ 1,910 a month to the . Treasury sen. Claiborne Pell d. R.i., who donates his $8,070 annual const guard pension to Charity and rep. Andrew Jacobs d-ind., who refuses to accept his 566-a-month a disability pension while he is in Congress. Storms spawn Snow rain across much of nation by the associated press a storm that dumped As much As s feet of Snow on the Southwest moved across the midwestern Prairies Friday while a Tuther storm swamped parts of the Southeast with rain and blanketed the Blue Ridge mountains with More than a fool of Snow. The Pearl River in Jackson miss Rose toward 33 feet s feel above flood stage and High enough to Send water Over streets Rivers and streams throughout the state swelled past flood Mage. Forecasters said 6 More inches of rain was possible before the storm moved out Over he weekend. With the ground saturated Only an Inch of rain from one thunderstorm is Likely to result in Flash flood ing especially in the Urban and flood prone areas of Mississippi the National weather service said. This is a potentially dangerous  residents in Low areas prepared to evacuate their Homes and emergency workers set up 24-hour phone lines for weather updates. Winter storm warnings were posted in Central South Dakota and from West Virginia to North Carolina. Snow was expected to reach new York and Vermont on saturday. Up to 14 inches of Snow covered Southwest Virgina and 10 inches had fallen in North Carolina s Wilkes county with 2 to 4 inches in the Raleigh area. It was the fourth significant snowfall of the Winter in Southwest Virginia where Crews have cleared 3 feel of Snow in the Roanoke Lynchburg area since late Jan uary. Friday s Snow gave Roanoke 47 inches so far this Winter the most since 1965-66, last week. South Dakotas headed outside to Lake advantage of temperatures in the 60s and 70s. Friday after 2 feet of Snow fell in Western South Dakota inter state 90 was closed for nearly 90 mites. The Eastern half of the state was pelted by freezing rain. A foot of Snow had fallen in the Nebraska Panhandle by Early Friday and officials urged motorists to stay off the roads. We be been Lucky All Winter so 1 guess we can t complain said Ramona ver Maas Dis Patcher for the Sidney police department i don1 think we d had Over 3 inches All  it 2 . College student John Cuntz digs his car out Afler 19 inches of Snow fell in Durango Colo. A photo the rain and Snow were spawned by a Large Pacific storm system entered Over the Southern Rockies. Be fore it moved cast it closed schools roads and airports across the Southwest and Colorado. Five feet of Snow fell in parts of Arizona from tues Day 10 Friday while the Snow came Down at the Rale of an Inch an hour in Colorado on thursday. The 10 inches of Snow that los Alamos n.m., received made this season the snowiest on record for the area with a total of 131 inches. The old record of 123.6 inches was set in 1957. An 89-year-old Flagstaff ariz., woman froze to death suspect booked in Library arson los Angeles a investigators Friday arrested a Man and booked him for investigation of arson in the 122 million fire that destroyed 700,000 books in the landmark Central Library last year the suspect Harry Peak 28, was ordered held in lieu of 1250,000 bail said fire Cape. Tony Didomenico. The april 29, 1986, Blaze burned the Northwest stacks at the byzantine style building which is on the National Register of historic places. The 61-year-old building one of the downtown District s largest before the Advent of sky scraping Finan Cial centers signalled the transition of los Angeles from a sleepy provincial City to a major West coast population Center in the late 1920s. Its architecture included Gold suns emblazoned on a pyramidal roof. The fire was the largest Library Blaze in the United slates in terms of books lost and the number of books at risk former fire chief Don Manning said. About 600,000 books were damaged by water. A second arson caused Blaze five months later in the previously untouched cast Wing caused $1.5 million in damage. Each fire was started by someone using combustible material such As paper that was already in the Library rather than bringing in something flammable authorities said. The arrest was made based on the More than 400 Telephone lips received by the fire department said spokesman Jim Wells. He was unable to give details about the lips. A s 10,000 Reward was offered by the City Council and Federal Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the arsonist mayor Tom Bradley who also described the Blaze As the nation s largest Library fire was notified of the arrest during City Hall ceremonies Friday evening for a newly elected City Council member. The Cost of a temporary Home for the Library during repairs at the fire damaged building was almost so million according to chief librarian Wyman Jones. The Library s books Are being stored at a former department store. In a blizzard and a 75-Ycar-Otd Navajo woman was re ported missing on a reservation in northeastern Arizona. In Durango Colo., an America West Jet thai skidded off a runway and into a Muddy Snowbank was pulled free Friday after blocking the runway for two Days. There were no injuries. Durango received 21 inches in the snowstorm. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. March 1,1947 it. Gen. Lucius d. Clay denied russian charges that the economic fusion of the British and american zones violated the Potsdam convention and set the stage for the subjugation of the German Economy by Anglo american monopolies. 30 years ago today. March 1.19s7 Frank Sinatra testifying before a California Senate committee in Hollywood denied involvement in the wrong door raid in which private detectives broke Down the door to an apartment where they hoped to find actress Marilyn Monroe during her separation from her husband Joe Dimaggio. 20 years ago foday March 1, 1967 Henry r. Luce 68, editorial chairman of time Magazine died of a massive Cor onary in Phoenix. Ariz. 10 years ago today. March i 1977 Jordan s King Hussein denied that he benefited personally from payments made to his government by the Cia. He said the Money was used to support Security and intelligence operations in the Middle East