European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. January 17, 1988 the stars and stripes Paga 7 Post offices must reduce hours of service Washington a Post offices around the country will have to close an average of a half Day a Wick As part of the . Postal service s plan 10 Cut Sim million from its fiscal 198 8 budget officials said Friday. It will be up to the local postmasters 1� decide what hours to close the service said. Retail hours across the country will be adjusted by a hair Day per week on average postmaster general Preston Tisch said in a statement explaining How he service will comply with spending cuts dictated by Congress and the while House. But he added. We do not intend to undo the Prog Ress we have made Over the past in months in adjust ing our lobby hours to make them More accessible to customers who find it inconvenient to do business with us in the Core hours of 8 . To 5  spokesman Jim Van loosen said some 3,500 Post offices had adopted More flexible hours to accommodate dual career families and other customers. Tisch said in his statement that two thirds of the operating budget cutbacks would be borne internally through reductions in travel training supplies and service an immediate moratorium on administrative hiring and cutbacks in sunday processing of mail. The cuts arc nol expected to of incl regular mail de liveries. The postal service has been ordered to trim j430 million from its operating budget in the next 21 months h also is scrapping or deferring 11.7 billion of a planned j2.3 billion in capital projects this year to comply with other cuts enacted by Congress. William Burrus executive vice president of the american postal workers Union estimated the Cut in window hour at 10 percent. He told inc Washington Post the changes could mull in the loss of up to 15,000 jobs. Bui Van loosen said no layoffs Are anticipated. There Are no plans that i m aware of to do any kind of layoffs or anything else he said. What would be reduced would be the number of work hours. Staffing would be done in such a Way As to reduce overtime and general work  athletic teams asked to drop Indian nicknames Minneapolis a team name like the Washington redskins and Cleve land indians have i More place in sports than would the san Diego caucasians or Kansas City jews says a group fighting Indian references it considers racist. Concerned american Indian parents is distributing 1,000 posters featuring pennants for the fictitious teams. The poster which also pictures an authentic Cleveland indians Pennant is designed to raise awareness of the Issue by attend ing people said i Hil St. John Leader of the Minneapolis based group. To most people Indian nicknames arc disconnected from being racist St. John said. They can t talk about the pain because they Don t Feu  the posters were created by a Minne Apolis based advertising company and funded in part by the National Confer ence of christians and jews. Copies have been circulated around the country and mailed to team owners including the redskins Jack Kent Cooke. St. John mailed a letter to Cooke on thursday pleading for a change in the redskins name. A change in the name of the National football league team would be an enormous canal St for wide spread change. St. John said. The team name is racist derogatory and demeaning to the american Indian he wrote. He compared it to racial slurs for Blacks and mexicans which would be totally unacceptable to the american people As team names. I have no comment Cooke said. Other names the 8roup would like to Sec changed include the Kansas City chiefs Atlanta braves. Chicago Black Hawks St. John s Rcd men and North Dakota fighting Sioux they and others at All Levels of sports reinforce the stereotype of the Savage Indian said Roy James Roberts a member of inc Phil St. Juhn s Campaign uses fictitious least nicknames to help mute its point.3uiullku t Klu Vum us us a Jet Man the croup. We weren t the  pc Illuk said Indian derived learn nicknames Foster a Cowboy mentality thai indians were Savage aggressors of Good White christians who crossed the West in Wagon trains taming the  before tackling major league learns. Is John lobbied Southwest High school in Minneapolis in May to change its nickname from indians to lakers for he City s Many lakes. The idea came to him at a basketball game at which he and his 3-Ycnr-old son sat Nara while fan who was dressed As an Indi an Warrior. St. John said his son was ashamed of that Ima be of indians. After three months of meetings and explaining Hii request to faculty Stu dents and parents the school changed its nickname 10 the lakers. It just did not make sense that you could choose a race of a people to be a Mascot or a nickname for n school said Harlan Anderson. Southwest s principal. Anderson said there was Little Resis Tance to the change partly because the school had backed away from Indian symbols after receiving similar complaints in inc Laic 1970s. Critics argue that Indian derived Nick name glorify the heritage of american i indians calling to mind strength athletic prowess and bravery. 200 demonstrators retrace March in mostly White Georgia county Cumming of. A about 200 demonstrators marched saturday morn ing in virtually All while Forsyth county retracing the Steps of a civil rights March disrupted by violence a year ago. The demonstrators about a third of them White began their planned two mite March at 10 45 . After arriving on buses from the Tomb of Martin Luther King or. In Kiln a. Some 75 to 100 spectators some waving Confederate flags gathered at the be ginning of the Mami route along Georgia 141 in the county which is about 30 Miles North of Atlanta. A similar March was disrupted on Jan. 17,19b7, when a crowd of about 400 White  pelted the 75 marchers with mud. Rocks and bottles Atlanta City councilman Hosca Wil Liams who led last year s brotherhood March and a follow up March a week liter with More than 20,000 demonstrators led saturday s As Well. Williams said saturday s group Many of a Tom participated in last year s original March was Small but he said if they the people in Forsyth county Don t do right we will. Bring Back the 20,000." a contingent of about a dozen members of the guardian Angels  or a also showed up to the apparent Surprise of Georgia Bureau of investigation agents. Also present for saturday s March was Chuck Blackburn n White Man who a year ago had the idea to Mark King s birthday with a brotherhood March. Blackburn was met with threats from his neighbors and cancelled his plans Only to have Williams pick them up. He now lives in Orlando. Fla. Last year s demonstrations sparked creation of the Forsyth county defense league a White supremacist group that planned a  sat urday. The Cumming City Council re fused to Issue a permit earlier last week but league attorney Richard Barrett said Friday the group leased private land fac ing Williams route. William at a news conference Friday offered to Call off the March if county leaders would meet with him to work out a plan to rid Forsyth of the racism that has gripped that county for 75 Yean and. To democratize and give Black folks their rights in Forsyth Williams said he wanted assurances that local officials would encourage Blacks to live and work in the county. He said the government should set a goal of hiring Blicks to fill 10 percent of its jobs Guaran tee that 10 percent of its spending would be with Black vendors and Supply Low and moderate income housing to a group of Blacks wilting to live in the county. You can t expect Blacks to move in there one at a time they la gel burned out Williams said. They be got to ensure that we can move a group in for safety s  Williams and Phillip Britis who co chaired 3 panel formed last february to reduce racial tension in the county talked for about five hours on the phone Friday but reached a stalemate. We be gone from an offer to meet and discuss our problems to a list of de mands we can t possibly evaluate this quickly Bettis said. Beilis said county commissioners were not willing to negotiate at the 13th  con i saner Michael Bennett said he did t even want to talk to Williams. I m tired of talking about racism we be talked about racism for a year now. 1 talk to Blacks in my store every Day and they Don t talk about racism in the county Only i Iowa talks about racism in Forsyth county Bennett said. Wife then jumps to own death new York up the producer of the Broadway show of Calcutta a nude musical revue about sen fatally stabbed his wife and then jumped to Liis death from the roof of their apartment building Friday police said. A Doorman found the body of Norman i an 54. About 3 . In the rear courtyard of the building in Man Hattan said Del. Joseph Mcconville a police department spokesman. Kean s son came Home about four hours later and found his Mother. Gwyda s3, stabbed to death in their second floor apartment Mcconville said. Kean who left a note Spear Cully stabbed his wife several times then went to the roof of the 15-Story building and jumped Mcconville said. Kean has produced of Calcutta since it opened on Broadway in 1976. Can