European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 5, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page the stars and stripes tuesday january a 1988 1,149 cubans to be freed from prisons Washington a the immigration and naturalization service said monday Taitl Tuu approved the release of 1.149 cubans from Federal prisons an that a dozen who had been in lockups Lorn by riots Vii utting 100 already set expect 10 a Cecase More o close relatives or to Halfway houses As space becomes available said in spokesman vim pc Vij. At the same time the Justice department is read with three panels 10 review cases or cuban detainees who have been turned Down far release by has been conducting its review but has t referred cases 0 inc department of Justice yet said Joe Krovisky a Justice spokesman it s possible some of inc eases will come Over Tat Orthis Elk after rioting by cuban inmates in the Federal prisons in Allania and oaf Dale la. In late november an dearly december the Reagan adminal Alion Osa cd special appeals panels to give each at some 7,400 imprisoned cubans a forum of last resort to wage a fight against continued detention and possible cubans scheduled for deportation Are 1,545 who were 10 have been resumed Home when Cuba suspended a i9m agreement. All were convicted of crimes in the United slates these people before being sent Back to Cuba will Nave a further review by the panels Ai Justice Taid Jarvis. We will Slart sending rates Over to them very Soun. Within the next couple of weeks or so a separate procedure involving the cubans is a re lease plan in place since june and Jarvis said that As of 10 Days ago. We had approved 1.149 people More than 100 have been freed under that procedure including the do in who were in the two prisons during the Riols. The Federal government has 3,752 cubans in custody and 3.b3d arc in sink and local prisons Jarvis said. Ice House a pedestrian finds it hard going near Are in aged hum to turn the building into an to cowed Hulk landmark in dts Moum lain. Wain used to Dight us he surrounding urea into � Naza dons Ana for Blaze sunday night combined Irith freezing temper Ihme twang by on foot. Rebound in consumer spirits reported by Survey new York a Consumers shaken by Oclo bar s world Slock Market collapse recovered a Mea sure of their Confidence last month a business re search group reported monday. The conference Board said its december con Sumer Confidence Indus Rose 5 Points from novem Ber 10 105.fi. That made up for nearly half the loss i registered in november. The Index is based on a scale of 1535 equating the rebound in consumer i perils May be largely explained by the continuing vigor of the Economy especially High rates of employment and Low rain of inflation said Fabian Linden executive director of the conference Board s consumer research Center. The Survey covering 5.000 households throughout the nation is conducted for conference Board by National family opinion inc. Of Toledo Ohio. It found that More than 19 percent of those que ried expected business conditions to improve in the next six months tip from 18 percent in percent Jive of those expecting a decline dropped to 9 percent from t s percent in Survey for december also found that fewer consumer expected 10 buy big ticket items such As automobiles Homes or major appliances. More than 11 percent expected their incomes Torise within six months about inc same As in novem o Lake vacations declined to a seasonally adjusted 46 percent Down from 54 percent in octo Ber. Vacation plans Are polled every other Monib. Ice Cream is a hot item Elpaso Texas a fire fighters in Elpaso mean business when hey scream for ice Cream sobe prepared. Every Lime a firefighter Mokes minor error or does something for inc first time his colleagues Cream and he has to treat the whole fire one knows when the tradition started but firefighters eat Gallons of ice Cream a Day at the City s 25 stations. Rookies end up buying the most i had to buy three half Gallons of ice Cream for my first 10 shifts. That was 25 years ago said Dep Uty Chic Falbert Williamson. Shorty Williams a retired District fire chief said inc custom was in full Force when he joined in1949. A firefighter who made a mis take had to buy sodas for every one and on your second Lotc Niehof the same nature then you had to buy ice Cream for tic whole ,1 Williams said. Fumes hospitalize 135 schoolkids Hammond ind. A fume from an apparently faulty Furnace sent about 135 elementary schoolchildren and some of heir teachers to hospitals monday on their tint Day Back from hol iday vacations officials said. One child was listed in guarded con Dizion at a local Hospital out All other victims were either treated and re teased or were expected to be sent Home shortly. Between Sii and 10 of the student were unconscious when they were evacuated from the Edison school about 9 30 ., said sgt. Ron kill of the Hammond police department. Police said the fumes were Carton monoxide. Police got a Call at 9 20 That kid were passing out at their desks Hill said. Between 300 and 500 students at lend the school he Taid. City buses were used to keep be Stu dents warm after they were evacuated he said adding hat some neighbouring Hornet and two churches also a re ii cd to shelter the children from the biting cold. The children were taken to five Hospi tals and one student in guarded Condi Tion was being evaluated at methodist Hospital. It was not certain that he would have to stay a spokeswoman inthe emergency room said. Kelty Wimmer a spokeswoman for Hospital in Hammond said inc children were suit Cring from Gas exposure but we re not Quile sure what Hill Taid a preliminary investigation indicated thai a faulty Furnace was re possible. Philadelphia mayor pledges honesty Philadelphia a mayor Good was sworn in monday for a second term and resolved to Lead with honesty and we can no longer tolerate those who place personal ambition above the com Mon Good the mayor told an audience of about 2,000 at the Academy of music. We can no longer allow influence bought with favors Taid Goode the City s j27th chief executive. We an no longer Settle far the Sului quo when new approaches Are last year a City councilman and municipal court judge were convicted in municipal corruption cases and a Down other City judges were suspended for Tak ing Cash Jinx from the roofers us resolve to make honesty and integrity the basis upon which we govern and the end for which we serve Goode said in an Appeal to City Council Mem Ben and other City officials and judges who also took their oaths of office Goode was re elected nov. 3 for it Sec Ond term in a close race against former mayor Frank l Kino who switched to the Republican party to Challenge Coode a Democrat. Goode is barred by the City charter from running for a third consecutive term. Coode the. 49-year-old son of a Nort Carolina sharecropper Defeated Kizzor in the 1983 primary and went on to become the City s tint Black mayor. But his Polit ical Slock tumbled after police dropped bomb on a Home in a Bailee with the Radical group move in May 1985. Eleven members of the group were tilled and the fire destroyed 61 Homes and Hur Goode s reputation at a manager
