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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Gomm is Beers give Swift kick to Road s name Raleigh . A Wake county Cam missioner have decided hat Knigh Dales most famous or it it infamous Road must be re named. Jackass Road a two mile Streich thai inter sects . 64 in Kyj Lightdale is now called old Knight Road. It s just thai the residents and Busi Nesses particularly the funeral Home did t relish being located on jackass Road Knigh Dajc town manager Dennis e. Gabriel said. There were some who suggested other names such As dead end Road referring to the funeral Home Gabriel raid As laughter erupted at the county commissioners meeting. The Road s name goes Back to the 1920s, when mule trader Haywood Poole built a local reputation for his stud donkeys. In recent years some resident sought a name charge but the town rallied behind Ine historic Street. Such loyally apparently was Short lived As no one was stubborn enough to defend the Moniker monday. Gabriel however assured commissioners that the jackass festival t Celebration of the town s Rural roots Complete with Parade and mule and Donkey pageant would not pass the same Way As the Road. Says new \ Page 7 ions would Cut phone Abue 5% Washington a the government s House keeping Agency in an Effort to curb abuse of the Feder Al Telephone system on thursday proposed allowing employees to make non business Fang distance Calls in prescribed  the proposal which Wilt be published in the Federal Register to begin a 60-Day comment period Are among a number of moves taken by the Agency to combat Telephone abuse said government services administration head Terence a Golden. The proposals respond to a March 16 report by the president s Council on integrity and efficiency which found thai a minimum of 22 percent of the Federal system s Long distance Calls from the Washington area were not for official business. The Gas estimates that under the proposed regulations the abuse Rale would drop to 17 percent with further reduction possible once the Agency puts new management controls in place. The report estimates that unofficial use of the fade Al Telephone system is costing the government As m As si65.8 million a Yean $89.5 million for it Lance charges and $76.3 million in wasted time under the proposal Federal employees Woulf be allowed to make Telephone Calls under limited stances including the following notification of a family member or a Doubr if an employee is injured or becomes ill on the j a Brief local Call each Day to Ebeel Jfhn minor children or to the Emp touff s spouse. Brief daily culls a Kic immediate families when employees Are  on government Busi Ness  family member or baby Sitter in the Case of and Byers required to work overtime with out Advance lick. Bric Jucal Calls to physicians or local government Agenda til to a family member if an employee travel ing  business is detained by work or a de Iavan transportation. Jie Gas said employees should make the Calls Dur a lunch break or other Oft duly time. We want to take a More rational approach to what Freal Telephone abuse is and to reflect reasonably in the government the Telephone use practices of the private sector Golden said. Employees would be Able to make Long distance Calls Over the commercial Long distance network if they Are charged to the employee s Horne Telephone or other non government number made to a toil free number charted to a personal Telephone credit card or made As a collect Call. Under the proposals the Agency should collect from employees for unauthorized Calls and should charge an additional fee to cover administrative costs. Freak Accident kills 3, hurts 13 at Charity walk Oxford miss. A a truck slammed into a car trailing a group of University of Mississippi sorority Sisters taking Par in a Charity walk a Thon thursday lulling three students and in Juring 13, authorities said. A one ton truck hauling a Hay Baler crashed into the car behind the walkers pushing it into the crowd said University spokesman de Meek. The car flipped and went on top of the walkers he said adding that two students were dead at the scene. A third student died thursday night at regional medical Center in Memphis Tenn two students were in critical Condi Tion with head injuries at the Memphis Center. The other students suffered Lei serious injuries including broken and cuts and bruises. Meek said. Nine students were admitted Oxford Lafayette medical  in serious condition and five Ink condition. Two were treated and released said spokesman Chuck Drui Twenty members of Chia Nega were participating in the walk Jevion for the Mississippi kidney fou Bation Meek said the students we of walking from a about 25 Miles West of the Ole is Campus. The Highway patrol said the Accident occurred at 2 25 ., about five Miles West of Oxford on stale route 6, a four Lane Highway it Steve Mcclure said no charges had been filed adding thai there was no Evi Dence of drug or alcohol use or excessive Speed in the Accident. The Driver of the truck Robert Davis of Senatobia was not injured. One of the critically injured students was driving the car hat was Mcclure said the truck the car and everything went Over Inlo the girls said trooper Ricky Roy. Jan Robertson coordinator of univer sity news said she had been told there was some kind of flashing Light on the car that was trailing the  we were old they were walking along the Bank off the Highway she said. She said the Chi Omega sorority House had been scaled off and the Chi omegas understandably were Loo up Sci to talk. The dead students were identified As Mary Langford of Atlanta Beth Rober son of Greenwood and Robin Simmons of Tupelo. Feds identify High tech pirates of phone service new York a Federal agents thursday pulled the plug on a High tech scheme that had been Short circuiting Bills for Mobile phones authorities said. After a six month probe Fri and secret serve agents arrested 25 people accused of installing on illegally reprogrammed microchips to avoid Chart the cellular Telephone networks used by phones. They re going to get one phone Call today not going through from a cellular Telephone Thomas a sheer head of the Fri s new of of lace. L it s said k City suspects were arraigned in Brooklyn s Federal Burl on charges of fraud in connection with Access devices which carries a maximum 10-year prison sen tence and a Fine of up to 5250,000. They All woke up this morning to find that their cellular telephones were disconnected sheer said. Sheer estimated that the Mobile phone Industry which hit its stride in 1985, was losing 13 million a year to computer pirates. According to court documents an informant who installed fraudulent chips began working with authorities about six months ago. The informant and under cover Federal agents working As Mobile phone installers helped authorities record meetings with customers on video and audio tape according to a statement by u a attorney Andrew Maloney. The installers arrested thursday charged customers Abs Elfi $500 to repro Rara a Mobile Telephone s two microchips each smaller than a fingertip and Worth about so cents authorities said. The phony  misdirect computers run by the cellular Telephone companies and order them to Send Bills to either fictitious accounts or those in the Namer innocent third parties. Seven installers and 18 Telephone users were arrested thursday. Their activities which were not an organized conspiracy were costing local Mobile phone companies about $40,000 a month. Sheer said. $16 million too costly Washington a th/$16 million spent by  silent Reagan s 198 inaugural fun was an improper use of taxpayer funds according to legislative Aunon who warn that it win happen Jain unless Congress Steps in. F there were nine balls and 10 other inaugural events in a Lour Day period around the inaugural in Jan. 21, 1985. Largely planned stalled and executed by Federal employee at the taxpayers expense the goner a accounting office report said. I the legally questionable support Al taxpayers expense will reoccur in 1989 and at All future inaugurations unless Congress specifies functions and Active icing duration to reports Ilies to be publicly financed added the Gao congress1 investigative Arm. Legislation is needed to clarify Feder Al agencies roles in inaugural planning and support activities the nature of the inaugural event and the presidential inaugural committee for future inaugurations the Gao said. Under existing Law agencies May not use Federal funds to support private  accountants dug Back into history and tracked the progression of inaugural trappings from the single formal dance held weeks after George Washington was sworn in through 19th-Century parades dominated by Fife and drum corps herds of livestock and indians to the festivities for Reagan s second term. Last official Musher finishes 19 Days on id Tarod Trail Nome Alaska a Rhodi Karelia was the last official Musher to finish this year s 1,157-mile id Tarod Trail sled dog race arriving Here thursday after Mote than 19 Days on the Trail. Karelia a 47-year-old real estate adj Cal from Willow finished her first id Tarod rare eight Days behind Susan Butcher who won her second consecutive title by shaving 13 hours off the course record. Karelia said she enjoyed the race bul thinks it Wilt be her last. It was  she said after pull ing Inlo Nome behind a Cam of nine panting sled dogs. I expected it to be  she finished the Long irek from an chorale at 6 of  To receive the red lantern award for last place. Her Lime on the Trail was 9 Days nine hours and one minute. Race checker Leo Rasmussen said Karc la was the first grandmother to finish since the race began in 1973. Karelia said she was slowed by her own inexperience sick dogs and a valuable Lead dog that broke its leg Early in the race. Even so. She fared belter than some. Of 63 mushers who started Only 50 finished  
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