European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes wednesday april 22,1887 family income in . Up 5% in last 12 months Washington a american families have seen their income Rise an average 5 per cent in the past year As More mothers Are Tak ing jobs and fewer families Are experiencing total unemployment the labor department said tuesday. The usual median income reported by families the first three months of this year was 1557 per week up from $531 the tame Quarter in1986. The department s Bureau of labor Statis tics said. While there were 834,000 More families in the country than a year ago the number experienc ing total unemployment declined by 250,000 to6.7 million the Bureau said after sampling nearly 60,000 households. Only 3 percent of he families with member sin the labor Force experienced total unemployment the first three months of this year Dow from 3.2 percent the same Quarter in 1986, the Bureau said. However there were wide differences among racial and ethnic groups. Total unemployment in White families was 2.5 percent but among lacks it was 7.3 percent and among hispanics it Wasl 3.8 percent incomes among those groups also varied widely with while families reporting a weekly median of $578, Blacks 1399 and hispanics 412. The number of Mameah gupte families i which both spouses worked jumped by almost a million to 216 million. Nearly 47 percent of married couples reported both spouses holding jobs up from 45 percent just a year ago. The median income of those dual earner households was $737 per week compared with $395 for couples with Only one spouse and no children working. The Bureau s data showed thai More children arc taking jobs to supplement family incomes. The number of families with both husband and wife and at least one child working in the past year increased by 161,000, to 3.35 million id percent of All married couple families. Naturally those families had the highest in come averaging s999 a week the first three months of this year. Families headed by women without Hus bands had an unemployment rate of 7.4 per cent during the first three months of 1987,Dawn from 7.8 percent a year earlier. The me Dian weekly income of those female headed families was $309, up from s303, the first Quarter of 1986, non trigger men May get death penalty justices Rule Washington a people who play a major pail in a crime the results in a murder May be sentenced to death if they displayed a reckless indifference tin human lire the supreme court ruled tues  a 5-4 vote the justices said the death penalty is a constitutional punishment in such cases even if the condemned person never intended to Kilt anyone and was not the actual  rating limits the effect or the court s 1982 supreme got decision thai outlawed the death penalty for non Trigg Ehnen who did not intend to take Partin a killing but whose crimes led to a death. In tuesday1 ruling however the court fell Short of deciding the Fate of two Brothers sentenced to die in Arizona s Gas chamber for their Rale in four j 978 Mur Ders. The justices kit Back to the Arizona supreme court the cases of Ricky and Ray Tison. Ruling that the slate court bad used the wrong Standard in finding that the Tison properly were sentenced to death major participation in the felony committed combined with reckless indifference to human life is sufficient to justify a death penalty Justice Sandra Dayo Connor wrote for the court this reckless indifference to the value of human life May be every Bil As Hocking to the moral sense As intent to kill o Connor said. Upheld the Tison death sentences after finding that they in tended contemplated or anticipated that lethal Force would or might be used or that tile would or might  she said that Standard was Loo Broad because an violent felony carries the possibility of bloodshed. O Connor said the stale court should restudy therase and determine whether the Tison already found to have played a major role in the 1978 crimes exhibited reckless indifference for life. O Connor noted that some slates have banned Capi Tal punishment for people who did not intend to kill. Bui she said we do not find this minority position constitutionally  Contti Sutlon s eighth amendment bans cruel and unusual  other action the court gave Stales considerable Power to regulate hostile corporate takeover. By a 6-3 Vole the Justice said an Indiana Law placing restraints on tender owners docs not interfere unlawfully with interstate Commerce gave courts new guidelines to determine when an accomplice s confession May be used Agar nil a co defendant. By a 5-4 Vole the court said a defendant s pretrial confession May Noi be used if it also incriminate an other defendant at their joint trial even if the Sec Ond defendant s own confession is used As evidence against him made it easier for the government o use grand jury evidence from criminal cases when it sues individuals or businesses in non criminal cases. The court in a s 3 ruling favouring the Reagan administration gave Justice department antitrust Law yen Access to grand jury testimony in a Price fixing and bid rigging investigation involving sates by Ameri can businesses of tallow to foreign  Tison was 19 and Ray Tison was 18 when on july 30, 1978, they smuggled guns into the Ariz Nastale prison in Florence on a visa to their father Gary who was serving a life sentence for murder using the guns to overcome guards the Tison and prison inmate Randy Greenawalt escaped the group which included another brother Donald who later was killed at a police Roadblock commandeered a. Car near Quartzsite Ariz the car s four passengers John and Donnell Lyons their 2-year-old son Christopher and teen age Niece Theresa Tyson were left  Tison Brothers consistently have said that the killings were committed by their father who died inthe Arizona desert before being found by police and by Greenawalt who like them was sentenced to death. The Brothers were sentenced under Arizona s felony murder Law which allows people who participated in a crime leading to a death 10 be sentenced to death eve though they did not commit the murder. Danny Kaye Meredith Willson awarded highest civilian Honor Washington a president Reagan has chosen the late actor Danny Kaye and the late composer Meredith Willson among others As recipients of the presidential medal of Freedom the White House announced  recipients included conductor is tidal Rostropovich Frederick Patterson founder of the United negro College fund and Nathan Perlmutter executive director of he anti defamation  awards the nation s highest civilian Honor will be presented june 23,Kaye, who starred in such films As White Christmas and the secret life of Walter  honoured posthumously for his contributions in the Fields of arts and entertainment and other significant Public endeavours the announcement said. The actor also had been a permanent official ambassador is Large for . Children s , who wrote the libretto for such hits As the music Man and was the composer for the unsinkable Molly brawn was Given the award posthumously for his contributions m the Fields of entertainment music the announcement said. Other Honoreen included Anne Armstrong a former ambassador to Britain Justin w. Dart or. Posthumous California business Man Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer a former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff John Mccone former director for the Cia and William b. Walsh founder of project Hope Man chug a lugs 5th of Brandy Dies Waverly. Fla. A a Ufi year old Roan who died of apparent alcohol poisoning after a club opening had won $100 by drinking a fifth of 80-proof Brand without slopping a witness says. Two other men and a 17-year-old girl remained hospitalized tuesday after attending the grand opening of he disco Type dub Here late sunday and Early  e. Rodgers. 26, a Citrus worker from was cry wus found dead at his Home a couple of blocks from the pan yearly monday said Polk county sheriffs it. Bill Walls. Rodgers had a blood alcohol Content of 0,663, almost double the level considered lethal and More than six times the level at which people Are considered legally  s one of he highest Levels i be Ever seen if not the highest said medical examiner Robert  above 0.35 can be fatal Ramsey said. Any blood alcohol level above 0,30 can Lead to coma according to Bob Scruggs of Tri county addictions re habilitation  person weighing 140 pounds Rodgers approximate weight would generally have to drink More than13 drinks in one to two hours to reach that level Scruggs  men who were hospitalized had participated in the drinking contest Rodger won the Lakeland Ledger quoted an unidentified witness As saying. One of then also drank a fifth of 80-proof Brandy without lopping she said. Willie Powell operator of the club refused to com ment the Ledger reported. It will be several Days before testing is completed to determine if illegal drugs also played a role in Rodgers death. Polk county sheriffs sgt. Don Nemuth said take Wales High school principal Jim Ashley said students fold him of cocaine use at the  party was attended by a few Hundred people including High school students according 10 witnesses about is students Ai Lake Wales High checked out of class monday complaining of cramps vomiting headaches and drowsiness Ashley said