European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. April 21, 1967 the stars and stripes Page 5.  anticipating Tough anti smoking Law new York not less than three weeks before strict new Ami smoking rules Are scheduled to go into effect offices restaurants and other bust Nesses throughout new York stale Are grappling with n change that could have a profound effect on both smokers and nonsmokers. Some companies have changed their policies in and Vance of the May 7 effective Dale Tor the new rules. Cigarette smoke used to my the air in the Manhattan architectural office where Shari Mendes works. Several to to Sago . " think the new Law is great Kendra said. It s Success Here. The office Solce is gone. The smokers area bit Grumpy now and you see them in groups of two . However most employers have yet to announce their policies. Many arc awaiting the outcome of a court Challenge before they decide what changes to put into effect. In the court Case a Schoharie county restaurant owner is challenging the Public health Council s authority to enforce the rules. Justice Harold j. Hughes of slate supreme court has indicated that he will Issue a decision before May 7. Each Side has said it will Appeal if it loses the Case. Many employers confused about How to comply Are calling slate agencies and business groups with questions about enforcement compliance and costs. A spokesman for he state health department said the Agency is getting More Calls for information on the smoking rules than on anything else. The slate business Council which has scheduled five seminars on the smoking Rule throughout the stale this month received More than 100 registrations in one week for its Al Rel seminar to be held in Syracuse tuesday. The rules approved last november by the stale s Public health Council Wilt prohibit smoking in most Public indoor areas and sharply restrict it in restaurants and placet of work. While the rules apply to everything from sports Are Nas and movie Heaters to health clubs and tax Sto perhaps the most dramatic and difficult changes will be in the workplace where employers can allow smoking Only in separate rooms designated for smokers. Stale officials say the regulations will be enforced by local health departments which wit respond to complaints from workers. Seek return of retirement Money Oklahoma Law pensioners hold protest mass Rush of 1889 Dallas Jap disgruntled pensioners of Ltd corp. From As far away As Pennsylvania attended easier services at the steelmaker s Headquarters sunday. Mass was celebrated on a Patio out Side the near Entrance to the building by the Rev. William Jay Geisler of Aliquippa pa., where Ltd the nation s second largest steelmaker has closed All but a Snail portion of its steel works. Let us remember As we stand Here in front of this modern Empire that As Moses Well to he Pharoah and told him to deliver his people to give hem free Dom we come Here and say to the executives give our people Justice " he said. Geisler 31, wore jeans Black leather work shoes and an ecclesiastical Collar attached to a Gray Blue Short sleeved shirt. About 20 people participated in the service held on the eve of what organizers hoped would be a Large protest against the company. Ltd is a Diversi fied manufacturing company thai nukes steel aerospace defense and Energy products. Only us is a larger steel pro Ducer. Geisler said the company had not Given permission for the mass to be held on its properly but Security guards who looked on made no move to Stop the service Augie Sanchez so of Struthers Ohio said he was a forced Retiree after work ing 33 years for Republic sled now owned by Ltd steel. He said he and others want the com steel Industry employment average number o workers per year in thousands boo 450 400 390 300 250 200 1 i 1976 7b "80 82 84 66 87 forecast. Omeago Tribune graphic. Sowed american Iran and steal Ira Siut Pany to restore benefits Cul in july when Ltd citing heavy losses in its Steelman ing subsidiaries tiled for Protection from creditors while reorganizing under Chap Ter 1 1 of the , bankruptcy code. We just want what s coming to us no More no less said his wife Cora. At the time of its reorganization filing july 17, Ltd cited pension obligations As us biggest class of liabilities. Thousands of employees of Ltd steel plants in the Northeast lost up to so per cent of their pension benefits in february after a Federal Agency look Over the plans because Ltd said it no longer could finance them. Most of the 8,200 employees lost a $400 monthly supplemental payment when the plans were taken Over by the pension benefits guaranty corp., which ruled the payments were part of Union contracts not guaranteed by the Federal employment retirement income Security act. The pm go is continuing to administer Benefit plans for 100,900 current and former Ltd steel employees including 56,100 retirees. Ltd steel co. And the United steel workers Union have set a May 1 deadline for settling a new pension arrangement. Geisler has designated the same Day a National Day of prayer for All Ltd employees and retirees. On that Day nobody will show up for work if nothing has been accomplished he said. Geisler i assistant pastor of St Titus Catholic Church in Aliquippa. He has led numerous protests this year by hundreds of Ltd steel co. Retirees of the Aliquippa Plant their families and sympathizers Over the loss of supplemental retirement benefits. In one protest last month he was arrested along with is others and charged with disorderly con duct. A fourth generation Steelworker Geisler said he gave up his management Job at Ltd to join the Priesthood in 1981, easter services held for firefighters natch1toches, la. Up an army chaplain conducted easier serv ices sunday for about 300 firefighters battling a Timber Blaze that has destroyed most of the Kisatchie National Forest. Chaplain John Foxworth. Assigned to fort Polk stood on a podium in a Clear ing near a , Forest service work Cen Ter and held services for the weary fire fighters said Sam Logan a Forest service spokesman. We did t have a pipe Organ but we had a Ambos thai the priest had with some tapes with religious music for the service he said. More than 500 firefighters struggled against the Timber Blaze at its Peak but several Crews were sent Home sunday Logan said. He said firefighters expected to have the Blaze declared under control about Midnight sunday. Forestry officials earlier predicted the lire would be 100 percent controlled by 6 . Friday but Low humidity dry Lim Ber and undergrowth and Gusty winds combined to disappoint them spokes Man Ron Couch said. A total of 7,500 acres of the 8,700-acre wilderness was bumped about 4,200 by a Blaze started by lightning and the rest by backfires set by firefighters he said. Forestry officials enlisted the Aid of firefighters from Louisiana Virginia Nonn Carolina Mississippi Arkansas Georgia Alabama Texas Florida and South Carolina to Battle the Blaze. Bush s to catches fancy of 2 . Pups Walpole . A just about everyone in new Hampshire gets a Chance to Sec presidents and vice presi dents but hardly anyone gets to do what two Walpole elementary school pupils did. Daniel Coughlim 12, and Amy Hicks ii Sal in vice president George Bush s armoured limousine for a few seconds thursday when he met a group of school children outside a Chicken hatchery in Walpole. There was a Telephone that Only presidents have and there were lights on the sides and the scats were soft and Nice looking and the windows were really thick said Daniel. How thick i Don t know but they arc thick he said. Amy though they were about 4 inches thick. She noticed a hat a radio a pocket Book and the Telephone. It was  so was Bush Daniel said. He was really Nice any said. Looks like a Good  re Cream eco Caldwell Kan. Api about 50 wagons began rolling Down country roads at Sunrise sunday to re create at a leisurely Pace the 1889 Rush to Settle Central Oklahoma at noon on april 22, 1889, t.9 million acres were opened to settlement. Thou Sands of people had lined up on the Bor Der the night before the army holding them Back. Several thousand managed to set out before the Starling Lime though giving Oklahoma its nickname the sooner slate. By that evening 50,000 people had slaked claims. The re creation of the 1889 Cherokee strip run kicked off saturday when the wagons gathered in Caldwell on the Kansas Oklahoma Border for a Parade Barbecue and dance. The Wagon train planned to travel through the Oklahoma owns of Deer Creek Lamont Billings Lucien and Mulhall before arriving Friday in gush Ric the old territorial capital. Although in 1889 some wagons reached Guthrie so Miles away in a Day this year s Wagon Iraln slopped in Deer Creek the first night Only about 20 Miles from Caldwell. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. April 21,1947 Princess Elizabeth heir to the British throne celebrated her 21st birthday. Rumours of a Romance and even engagement linking the Princess with Prince Philip of Greece spread across the British Empire. 30 years ago today. April 21, 19s7 the huge brain of the air Force s new radar control Cen Ter in Topsham Maine consumed enough electricity to Supply a City of 11,000 and gave off enough heat to warm45 Ordinary Homes in 20-below-Zero weather. 20 years ago today. April 21, 1967 Surveyor 3, the shovel carrying spacecraft made the United states second son Landing on the Moon and televised views of a Broad level Plain where astronauts May land. 10 years ago today. April 21, 1977 actress Singer Claudine Longel former wife of Singer Andy Williams started serving a 30-Day jail sentence for the fatal shooting a year ago of her Lover Vladimir spider Sabich in the Aspen colo., ski resort Home they shared