European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday August 14, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 free tax service for Tipsy Drivers in Flo. Cut Back Pensacola Fla. A our of inc a lion s first Tipsy to i services is being pm Back because it gets Loo Many repeat customers says a spokes Man. West Florida regional medical Center began paying for taxi rides for Rno Norisis who were too drunk to drive during the 1984 new year s weekend. The rides were a hit and West Florida went on to win local and National awards for an advertising Campaign promoting the program. The rides soon were expanded o All weekends and then daily. Instead of driving Tipsy motorists could Call the Hospital switchboard or have friends or bar tenders do it for them. West Florida paid a cab company to take them Home but Steve Marian the Hospital s assistant administrator said the program was so abused thai officials decided this week to drop the tree rides except during major Holiday weekends. We found thai on non Holiday periods we had a very High prevalence of repeat callers Mahan said. We saw a lot of the same names popping up. We began to see a an audit showed that during Holiday periods the service reached its intended clientele while the rest of the Lime freeloaders used it As no Cost transportation. Last year the Tipsy taxi service responded to 3,400 such Calls. Mahan said. I Don l have any Ballpark figure on How much Icse Calls Cost Mahan said but we were the sole financial la slumlords unleashed but won t leave building los Angeles a a Beverly Hills doctor was unshackled wednesday from the electronic Leash has confined him to one of the vermin Ridden apart ments he owns but he refused to leave the Complex while reporters waited outside or. Milton Avo a 63-year-old Scuro surgeon dubbed rail Ord by his tenants was sentenced to spend a month in his apartment building after a 30-Day Saint in county jail. The Leash was removed wednesday and the convicted slumlords was free logo. However when report in and photographers sur rounded the building he called police and said he wanted All trespassers on his property arrested said la. Sergio Rohl to. After talking to Avol on an intercom Robleto told reporters they would have to move from a vacant lot next to Lite building to the sidewalk in front of in be cause Avol owned the Adja cent property Rottelo said Avol also old him he would leave Millie building Only after reporters left. But the re porters remained Lale info the afternoon and Avo had not been seen leaving. Curtis Barnes Otras monitoring inc., the company that installed and monitored the electronic Leash strapped to Avol s ankle during his 30-Day stay in the or. Mitten Avo apartment Iid he removed the device wednesday morning. Our computers indicated absolutely no confine ment violations by or. he told reporters. I think ii s fair to say he was pleased to gel in the Leash which Cost the county about 110 a Ghl was designed to sound an alarm if Avol Van lure away from the apartment m also marked the Faircl Lime Hie div a l was used in la s Angeles county. His stay has proven without a Shadow of a double that the apartments arc completely habitable and pro vide a clean and comfortable living environment. Moreover his apartment remains completely free of Roa Iii s. Mice and rats Avol s lawyer Lawrence Cruzin said in a written statement wednesday. Barbara had full a lawyer for the be nails of four buildings owned by Avol said Justice would be served Only when the buildings Mei City standards. They re Happy that he was sentenced and the in to acc was a very novel one had fell said. Bur die real guts of the Case from their Point of View is the renovation of inc Avol has sold Many of the buildings that caused him problems the 90-unil Complex where he served his sentence has been up for Sale Avol moved into the apartment july 13 As part of a sentence imposed by los Angeles county municipal judge Veronica Simmons Mcbeth he was cited for More than a dozen criminal code violations Over the past 0 years at buildings he owned. He had ignored hundreds of health fire and building code violations blaming vandals for the destruction and saying tenants shared responsibility for Upkeep. Georgia police disarm 3 bombs in pay phones Macon a. A a police bomb expert wednesday disarmed explosive devices on three Public telephones and authorities warned residents to slay away from pay phones. All the devices were removed safely and there were no injuries. An Anonymous caller telephoned the Macon police department and the Bibb county sheriffs office on wednesday evening to say bombs were attached to the pay phones. Police speculated that someone knowledgeable about explosives planted the bombs but Are Uncertain about the motive. The bombs were not that crude not exactly homemade stuff mayor George Israel said at a City Hall news Confer ence. Police chief Jim Brooks said inc caller told a police department dispatcher thai he did t want to give Bis name but just wanted 10 say there was a bomb on the pay phone at a local cleaners. He then Hung up. Thai bomb was the largest of the three and had the explosive potential of about half a Pound of int police sol. Bob Garza said. The second bomb was found in a pay phone near a City store. The other was discovered in a pay phone at the Georgia farm Bureau. Atheists seek to remove so help me god1 from oath Austin Texas up the atheist group founded by Madalyn Murray o hair has filed a Federal suit thai seeks 10 strike the words so help me god from the oath taken by members of state court juries. O hair and her n. Jon Murray president of the society of Scarati omits said they and members of their group have been deprived of jury duty for re fusing to take the oath. There in no need to Call upon an imagined god to assist one in civic duties o hair said. If each individual juror mull seek the help of a god 10 come to a decision no wonder the Legal and jurisprudence system of the United states is currently in the mess it o hair said it is degrading and humiliating to be forced to seek supernatural help in the discharge of civic duties adding that these ideas should have been garbage canned a Hundred Vears o hair won the landmark 1963 supreme court Case that resulted in the Banning of prayer in Public schools. That Case was tried on behalf of her son Bill Murray who now is a born again Chris Tian and evangelist. Jon Murray said the atheist group objects to the oath that Propp Edive jurors must take and a second oath administered to a panel once it has been waled. Both oaths contain the phranc so help the group also objects to a summons card sent to prospective jurors that seeks Injo the bowery endurance and univ u of her Calle t str my
