European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday july 16, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 Well it must be 13 o clock again . A Twenty four limes a Day for the past year or two the clock in the Schley county courthouse strikes 13 times. City councilman Clarence Way a computer businessman. Iris to keep the old clock running. He says it is about worn out and can t be fixed since pans arc no longer available. He said the clock was installed As a wind up Mold in 1901 and converted to electricity in he 1930s, bul not much More is known about it a 1940 fire destroyed Many records in inc Southwest oco Isia county. The clock was stilled for a Lime out of Lear hat the vibrations might fur ther damage he courthouse which was leaning off Center. It s still leaning but Nellie Way Clarence Way s Mother said he county started the clock running again when people complained that they missed its Odd Chi pcs. House approves $8 billion for military construction Washington a the House has voted 371-48 to approve an j8 Bil lion military construction Hill that cuts deeply in 10 president Reagan s re quasi but includes the first major Down pay ments on a lyrics of new Navy ports along the Gulf coast. The Bill approved tuesday was sent to the Senate where no immediate action is Likely. The Senate has been bogged Down in a partisan fight that has delayed consideration of military spend ing Bills. The Bill passed by inc House covers a Variell of military construction projects around he world. Reagan s original re quest was for 510.1 billion bul the House appropriations committee rimmed that figure. Among inc cuts were the Navy s new program of building bases around the country which the service says it needs so it can Scalier its growing Fleet and avoid the Type of Pearl Harbor attack that devastated inc Navy in 1941. But critics say the program is Only aimed Al winning congressional support for the Navy s shipbuilding budget at a Tinc of declining Capitol Hill support for Large Pentagon budgets. The Bill includes $23.87 million for the new port at slain Island n.y., where the balls ship Iowa will eventually be berthed along with jsi.9 million for Everett wash., where an aircraft Carrier will have its Home port. It is the third year that Congress has provided Money for the two projects. The Bill also includes the first major appropriations for a series of ports along the Gulf coast including Pensacola Fin. Mobile. Ala. Pascagoula miss Lake Charles. La ga1vek n. Tobias and Nile Side Texas. Those sin cities will eventually have a variety of ships Induddi Iglic Wisconsin one of four world War Al Cra battleships that the Navy is refurbishing As part of the buildup to a 600-ship Navy. But the committee knocked out inc Navy s request for port construction Money for san Francisco and Long Beach Calif which also were scheduled to Host Banle ships. Members of the panel said the cuts were part of their at tempt to reduce spending. Before approving the Bill inc House rejected 281-140, a proposal to slice 172 million from the measure. The Amend ment was offered As a Way to reduce spending As part of the drive to Cut the Federal budget deficit. Swimming Pool closed offer aids victim used it Williamson . A City officials closed the municipal swimming Pool after reports that a person with aids was using it bul state and Federal medical officials said thai was unnecessary. We arc leaving it closed until we gel word from the stale health department mayor Sam Kapouralos said tuesday personally i Don l think you can catch the virus with chlorine in the  or. Richard Hopkins director of the aids control program in the stale health department said Williamson officials had overreacted. If they had asked us for advice we would not have recommended that action Hopkins said. I really Don t think there s a problem in going into a Pool where an aids victim has been. All they re doing is depriving the people of the relaxation of the Pool. We have no reason to think thai an aids patient swimming in a Pool would pose a risk to anyone else said or. Harold Jaffe chief epidemiologist of the aids program at the National centers for disease control in Atlanta. In s very unlikely that virus would get into the water Jaffa said. The virus is really in very Low concentrations in body fluids except in blood and even in inc water we would expect thai the chlorine would kill the virus scientists say acquired immune deficiency syndrome can be transmitted by sexual Contact transfusions of infected blood or blood products or through the sharing of contaminated hypodermic Needles by drug abusers but not by casual Contact. Kapourales said he was told monday that an aids victim was swimming in the Pool. To prevent panic he said swimmers and sunbathers were informed by Pool manager Dick Roddy that they had to leave because the Pool pump was malfunctioning. He said the swimmer who lives in nearby Pikeville ky., was the same person who was barred from serving a 24-hour sentence in the Mingo county jail in May by circuit court judge Elliot e. Maynard after the Man tested positive Forth aids virus. The judge won t even let him in the jail. How can we let him in the Pool Kapouralos said. Bastille Day in Boston Appolo Clare Lind front and Cathy Yonng members of Boston dance troupe give passers by High kick and a smile outside a downtown Boston hotel. Dressed in authentic 18th Cen Tury French costumes the dancers were celebrating Bastille Day the French National Holiday. Traveler complaints of poor service by airlines soared in first half of 87 Washington a travellers complaints about shoddy airline service Rose sharply during the first six months of this year including a go fold increase in june alone he transportation department says. The air carriers with the most complaints during the six month period were Continental airlines Northwest airlines easier airlines trans world airlines and pan american world air ways the department said. The complaint figures were released tuesday As legislation advanced in the Senate calling for inc nation s air carriers to improve service and make available monthly reports on such items As on time performance cancelled flights and lost baggage. The transportation department which opposes the Senate Bill As being inflexible also has plans under Way for new regulations that would require the disclosure of consumer information by the airlines. More than a dozen airlines said this week they wire prepared to make monthly consumer reports. The department said its consumer affairs office received 15,621 complaints Aboul air travel during the first six months of this year nearly 2 h times As Many As a year ago when 6,393 complaints were registered. About one third of the complaints 5,759 were received last month com pared with 962 during june 1986. Nearly 60 percent of the complaints filed by the department involved either baggage problems or delayed or cancelled flights. Continental airlines which has acknowledged having had service related problems because of its rapid expansion had a complaint Rale nearly three times that of any other airline during the Jan uary june period. It also had 6y far the worst complaint rate in june. The department received 23.68 complaints per 100,000 passengers carried by Continental Dunn the Sis Manili period. Northwest was second 8.76 complaint followed by Eastern 8.69 complaints. Twa 8.38 complaints and pan am 8.16 complaints. During june Continental s rate jumped to 41.93 complaints per 100,000 Passen Gers. Complaints about other airlines also increased sharply Bruce Hicks a spokesman for Continental said the department s number of Camp Aims does t reded a change in the Indus try it reflects awareness of the department of  Continental internal Quality measurements have shown a dramatic improvement in every area of product delivery since Early this year he said. Following Continental with the worst re cords during june were Eastern 19.6 complaints per 100.000 passenger North West 16.94 complaints Twa 16.03complaintsand pan am 14,7 complaints. Of inc 22 airlines ranked by the depart ment those with the Best record wen.1 Aloha airlines air California and Southwell air lines All with fewer than 1 complaint per 100,000 passengers. They were followed by Alaska airlines  complaints Pacific soul Hacsi 1.31 complaints and Delia air lines 1.56 complaints. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago foe a. July 16. 1947 legislation to a Ihori a permanent wac and wave corps was approved by the Senate armed services committee. 30 years ago today. July 16, 1957 Bud Abbott and Lou costello. One of show business most famous and successful comedy teams agreed to break up. Abbot said he just did t want to work for a while. 20 years ago today. July 16, 1967 newly declassified Navy files concluded that Amelia ear Hart s air plane had run out of fuel and plunged into the Pacific Ocean 40 Miles to 200 Miles North of Rowland Island. Ear Han and her navigator of d Noonan vanished on an around uie world flight in 1937. 10 years ago  16, 1977 a Carter admits Talion Endon Cuenl strengthened inc possibility thai Congress would approve nationwide no Faull automobile insurance after a decade of considering it