European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes monday july 20, 1987 Tombstone sought for smoking ban group to kill flight vote Helms vows Washington a non smok ers who Are breathing Cosier after the House vote 10 ban cigarette smoking on most airline flights beware tobacco slate senators say they arc working on a Tombstone for the proposal. Opponents of the legislation which would prohibit smoking on flights of two hours or less say they have an  ally thai they did not have in inc House and thai is procedural rules making it easier fur opponents of a measure in kill it. Some of us arc working on a Tombstone. And Well chisel on in rip for this  says Republican sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina the leading producer for the nation s s34 Bil lion a year tobacco Industry. If Helms and his supporters Are not Able to prevent the proposal from reach ing the Senate floor they would be Able to filibuster that is kill it with unlimited debate that can Only be halted by the vote of 60 senators a majority that can be difficult to achieve. They will have a Long hot summer discussing the  Helms said. The tobacco Ink rests have tin1 airline Industry Airport operators and the air line pilots Union on i hair i Jill. Each believes that enforcing the smoking ban would be a Nigl Mare arrayed against them will he the same coalition that helped the measure s chief sponsor rep. Kichard Durbin ill. Persuade the House to Vole "k-193 for he ban. Which covers so percent of farriers flights. Supporting the measure Are iwo flight attendants unions Anil Ghoul two do in health groups including in american Canter society and the Ameri can lung association. After the experience in the Louse most of us Aren t ready to predict a  said Susan Arnold associate director of the coalition on smoking or health which represents some of the health groups. Durbin s measure was an amendment to the transportation appropriations Bill for fiscal 1988. Which the House passed. Supporters Hope that if inc smoking restrictions Are made a part of that multimillion Dollar legislation in the Senate opponents would be reluctant to filibuster. Hul Helms threatens thru Don t want an appropriations Hill lied up for weeks and weeks and weeks because Ofa proposal thai does t make wove to Start  i he feeling is different on the Senaie labor and human resources Commil in where ranking Republican Orrin Llareli re Ian. With the support of chairman Ltd Ward Kennedy. I miss. Has introduced legislation that would ban smoking on All Public forms of transportation. An aide who works for a member of the labor panel who supports the smok ing ban. Says supporters believe they can accumulate at least 60 votes to defeat a filibuster. Before the Senate last year passed legislation requiring warning labels on smokeless tobacco the aide said a count by committee staff members showed that senators would Vole 96-4 against a filibuster an indication of Strong anti to Bacco sentiment. Thought is even being Given to work ing for a measure stronger than the two hour flight ban perhaps the Hatch Bill said the staff worker who requested anonymity. Labor panel aides Are already sound ing of i hair counterparts on the Senate appropriation committee to find Oul How receptive lawmakers arc to putting inc smoking language on the appropriations Bill. Of favourable sentiment is not there the provision Euld instead be come a part of a different Hill that inc labor panel would handle said the aide. One Shoal that supporters ofic ban will have to avoid is the Senate aviation subcommittee which would be a Jogi Cai starting Point for Bills affecting airlines. The obstacle is chairman Wendell Ford -kv., whose slate is the nation s Sec Ond arg Cal tobacco producer and who would try to Bury any smoking ban legis lation i m from Kentucky Aren t i Ford said last week when asked if he would oppose such a measure. Shinjo s Shady antics Lette in to Shinjo. The Urani Titan to find a a to Bent them degree Florida heal. The 4-year-old ape. Resident it Miami s metro Kamms that a Palm Frond provides some Shade from Ilie he inc Sun. Crash victim crawls one half mile Ashland Ore. A a plane crash survivor a no a broken Back crawled a Hall mile through dense Brush saturday alter he and his Mother spent a in fill in the wreckage Ofa Small air plane. Lilian l. Ion a of Elma. Wasli. And his Mother. 45-Vcar-u-ld Jeanne Marie Harwell of san Carlos Calif. Were Senous injured in the crash on mount Ashland Friday afternoon. They re Lucky to be alive said Wolf Jne Lichac. A . Loii is service Law enforcement null intr. Ulice ibid Jook and his Molher kept warm during inc Yghi b tearing Oil insulation irom the air plane and c it Rurik themselves with it. Temperatures fell nun tin Jiom pm Gnu. At Daybreak. Good crawled Down a sleep mud Cov. My Hill to interstate 5. Tuic Lumper Don Jeter of the Urchin stale police saw him l ing along the lugh was. The plane when route film san Carlos to Larcy. Wash. The were taken to Ashland Cuni Munill Hospital then transferred to Hogue \ Elk medical Center in Mudford. A nursing supervisor it tin Mudford Center said both victims were in so mugs Lundi Tion. Stale Violice said Cockx  the Pilot of the single engine plane which strip k social treetops. Belore crashing to the ground. No one knew a Hill the crash unlit mod  round. Stateside More new yorkers using City s subway system new Yoke Ai the number of coptic Riding City subways on  average weekday has hit a 13-Ycar High of 3.66 million according to t he transit aul homily. That continues a five year increase after inc Nadir of 1982, the authority said. In attributed the growth to improvements made Halfway through the subway sys tem s 10-year, s16.8 billion repair program this year s average weekday Ndoc ship through May was 3.4 percent higher than in the first five months of 1986. Precise figures were not kept but inc authority believes up to 8 million people Rode he subways daily in the 1940s, authority spokesman Turmaine Garden said. Ridership had declined steadily since at least the 1960s, bottoming out at 3.3 j million in 1982, he said. The authority s income from fares is running about 3.8 percent higher than expected this year. The is fare is Frozen until 1990, Garden noted. A rays fail to locate Brigham Young Spittoon Salt Lake City a Brigham Young May not have been painted with a Spittoon after All. Experts looking for the Spittoon and mysterious religious symbols in the to Kraii of the Pioneer Leader of the abstemious mormons found nothing when they recently mapped the picture with a rays. If it s there it did t show up said Phil Erickson. Of the Spittoon Long rumoured to have been painted Oul of the life Sie portrait. Erickson who is coordinating the restoration of the Salt Lake City county building where the i0-by l3 foot painting hangs said the investigation also failed to turn up masonic and religious symbols. According to legend members of inc daughters of Utah pioneers were offended in the 1940s that a spit Loon rested at Young s feel. The Dup purportedly applied pressure and the Spittoon was painted Over. The masonic and religious symbols purportedly had been covered up earlier. Robertson says North could be no. 2 on tickets a a fish. Calif. I i d television evangelist i at Robertson campaigning fur the presidential Nomi nation said . Col. Oliver North would be an Excel Lent vice presidential winning male Lac sch Vious c\traurdin.ini. Puljer with the Ameri can people Robertson said Ai a weekend new conference. I be heard people say he should be president Kobe Ripon said he Ilia in i have the Revo Urci Slu or game a Campaign Lor Pircsuk Sii hut i m sure there arc people who would give him Strong consideration a a candidate  v u  res n whose Hui t Lub television program i Icen b millions us   Eccl Taij it Uil a  unit i Jyh j wine minimal male