European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 stateside the stars and stripes sunday May 31, Detroit dailies continue wad my deeply in red Ink Detroit a the Detroit free pres Sand the Detroit news which Are seeking govern ment approval to merge their business operations reported losing More than j5 million apiece this year so far and a combined j29.63 million in 1986.the figures were released As part of the news papers request for . Justice department approval of a joint operating agreement under which their news departments would remain separate but profits would be split. In filing a year ago for approval of the plan the free press said it was in danger of financial failure without such an arrangement. Pm workers will get cola starting in june Detroit up general motors corp. Has announced Hal about 379,000 of its .hourly employees will get a 15 cents an hour Cost of living adjustment increase effective  quarterly adjustment is part of a plan negotiated in 1984 Between the giant automaker and the United Auto workers Union under the current labor contract which expires in septem Ber. Under the agreement workers receive a one cent an hour raise for every 0.26-Point Rise in the Chi. With the latest adjustment increases total 86 cents an , the payments can add about $1,790 a year to the typical worker s salary of about 37,000, pm said. Have a Nice Day Are you kidding to was Rotten wetair1e. La. A a dump truck thai lost a rear wheel lipped and scattered id tons of spoiled Chicken beef and pork pans on a High Way clogging Rush hour traffic for nearly 10 Miles authorities  used shovel and a front end loader to scoop the animal parts into two dump Ruck and two other trucks sanded Lite Road made Slippery by fat and grease stale police  industries Driver Joseph Washington 24, of Amite was taken to so Jdc medical Center in Kenner where a spokesman said a rays turned up negative. The Driver was headed West when he lost control after the rear Assembly broke state police spokesman Mike Taylor said. No other vehicles were involved he said Long Beach feels quake escapes damages injuries Long Beach Calif a a Small Earth quake rattled the Long Beach area Friday but authorities said there were no reports of damage and no one called to report feeling the temblor. The 8 16 . Quake measured 3.1 on the Richter scale and the epicentre was pinpointed four Miles South of Long Beach said Robert finn spokesman for the seismology lab at Cali fornia Institute of technology in Pasadena. The Richter scale is a measure of ground motion As recorded on seismographs. Every in crease of one number Means a tenfold increase in the strength of the shaking. Ohio shorts Story. Boys Wear miniskirts to school Tiffin Ohio up a group of Junior High school boys wore miniskirts to school Fri Day to protest a policy that banned boys from wearing Short pins to class. What the demonstrators did t know was hat the Rule was changed the Day before. The Tiffin East Junior High protesters said boys should be allowed to dress comfortably during hot muggy weather and pointed to a More relaxed policy covering students Al another Junior High in , school officials changed the policy thursday night but apparently the word did t reach the youths in Lime principal Joseph Silardi said. The boys will not be disciplined for wearing the miniskirts he said. Judge Stephen Crane right instructs the jurors while defense lawyer Burr Slotnik second from right looks on. Jurors taken on class Field trip to subway by Goetz s lawyer new York apr jurors descended into the sub Way to tour a Graff Sara wind train in an Effort by Beth and Goetz s lawyer to give them an idea of what Roctz faced when he shot four Young men More than two years ago. The 12 jurors and four alternates were forbidden by the judge from speaking to one another or to reporters during the visit Friday to the subway car resembling the one where Goetz opened fire. The actual Cor has been taken Cut of service. Woelz who is being tried on attempted murder charges did not Lake pan in what the defense called a class Field trip into the subway just five blocks from whet he shot Troy Canty James Ramseur Barry Allen and Darrell Cabey All 19 Al the time. He just did t Waal to be there said defense attorney Barry Slotnick who requested the tour so the jurors could see what be hard Roctz faced on dee.22, 1984. Roctz contends that the four Young men surrounded him and were about to Rob him. Canty he testified he was Only panhandling for $5. State supreme court Justice Stephen Crane court officers attorneys and a horde of reporters and photographers accompanied the jurors. Neither Slotnick nor assistant District attorney Gregory Waples was permitted to address the jurors. About 15 minutes after the group boarded the car the train was pulled out of the station and into the subway Tunnel for he jurors to Complete their inspection. They resumed to the station about 25 minute Slater. Some of them looked around some of them walked through inc cars whatever they Felt like doing said Spotnick. Transit police it. John Culler said the train was moved to get away from the reporters and photographers who crowded he subway platform. Photographers snapping pictures through the newly cleaned nut closed subway windows lapped on the Glass to gel the attention of jurors at one Point before inc train was moved. The subway trip followed a re creation of the shoot ing in the courtroom thursday with a private investigator playing Goetz four guardian Angels portraying his victims and White tape on the courtroom floor marking the subway car s dimensions. Tammy Bakker held at Border during mix up Over stolen Cor san Diego a Tammy Bakker wife of for Mer pal evangelist Jim Bakker was detained at the mexican Border for 1 i hours Friday while authorities checked a report that the car she was in was stolen the California Highway patrol said saturday. The rental car and its four occupants mrs. Bakk Erand three other women were released late Friday after the rental Agency said i Esolen car report on inc while Lincoln Continental was erroneous sgt. Timothy Mclaughlin said. She s on her Way Home Don Hardister head of Security for the bakkers Palm Springs Home said Early saturday. Mclaughlin said the car was entering the United states from Mexico when a computer Check by a . Customs service indicated the rental Agency had re ported the Auto stolen. Hardister said Bakker went to sleep Early Friday before 9 30 p.m., and thai mrs. Bakker icel a message on their answering machine that alluded to a Little problem that they were having As she and friends were returning from Tijuana. Hardister said mrs. Balder called Back to say everything s been cleared and we re on our Way  a Memtha Smith Day announced Augusta Maine a gov. John r. Maker Nan or. Has proclaimed monday As Samantha Smith Day in Maine a Cucman has already signed a Bill designating that the first monday of every june wiil commemorate the late Manchester schoolgirl whose letter to then soviet Premier Yuri v. Andropov Jed to a Visil to the soviet Union and prominence As an International peace sym Bol. But confusion arose Over whether observances would be held this year because new Laws Don t come into effect until three months after the legislature adjourns so Mckirnan issued the proclamation to give planned activities a stamp of approval. The governor presented the proclamation to Jane Smith Samantha s Mother on Friday. Samantha Smith and her father died in a plane crash with fix others in August 1985