European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday april 6,1988 Maine lobster tale has Happy ending out Elizabeth. Mii Inu a Shirley a 25-Ptiund it male lobster with claws As big As baseball Miti. Returned to the Nccann tur Lis Sajiu in from a dinner plate by Ani mril Rigau activists a seafood Vendor and Szalc officials. Lifting the giant crustacean by ils claws and Mil. Seafood dealers from Portland Maine and Philadelphia gently swung it Over the Side of a Maine Marine patrol Boal into 22-fool-deep water near fog shrouded Portland head Light in the Portland suburb of Cape Elizabeth. Bob a companion lobster weighing in at 19v pounds was dropped into the water moments Laier. Dana cuts. Retail manager of har bar fish  in Portland said lie was t used to lilt idea of returning potential seafood to the sea but. In the use of Shirley and Bob he had no complaints. It feels great it really does Neuls said. I like inc idea of the whole  these arc will leave led lobsters Slid Kevin kill inc Philadelphia sea food Vendor who accompanied Shirley and Bob on their flight to Portland monday. We should t be catching this size Maine is tic Only slate that s doing anything 10 protect them and that s Why we re  the two Loh slurs spent the night in a 12-fool-by-4-foot tank in cuts Market along the Portland waterfront before being placed aboard the Boal for the half hour ride through Choppy seas to a protected Cove off Cape Elizabeth Shirley whose 8ge has been Esti mated at 40 to 125 Yean old and her Smailer companion were rescued from a Philadelphia  who wanted to serve them Tor easier dinner. This is symbolic of what we re try ing 10 do and what Uli i is arc trying to do for a natural sustainable resource said Oil. Robert l ugg chief of the Bureau of Marine pal nil of the state department of Marine resources by protecting i desc Large lobsters there s More of a Chance of them reproducing and perpetuating the Industry. It shows there s a lot of concent about our natural mourns out there Fogg added. Maine Law protects lobsters with body Sheila longer than five inches covering crustaceans heavier than 4 to 5 pounds. Electrical malfunction dims lights in 4 states Salt Lake City a a Power fluctuation dimmed lights in Colorado Wyoming Montana and parts of South Dakota and was blamed for a radioactive Gas leak 31 a Colorado electric Plant. Mark sevens spokesman in Denver for Public service co. Of Colorado said monday s radiation leak posed no Dan Ger to the Public or Plant workers. Sevens said 0.3 curies or less than one thousandth of the concentration the Utility is authorized to release on a scheduled basis was released at fort St Vrain nuclear generating station near flatly Villa As a result of the Power disturbance. It s no big Deal he said adding that the Utility company notified the nuclear regulatory commission and the slate health department As required the company temporarily closed inc Plant As Well As one of two generating units at its Comanche Plant near Pueblo. Dennis Eyre administration manager for the Western systems coordinating Council said Utility employees in the affected states were working to discover the cause of the electric Power fluctuation. There was a Power system Compo nent malfunction that caused electricity to be shifted from one line to another line he said. That in turn triggered the fluctuation which he said lasted a few  he said Power went out completely for a Brief period in portions of Wyoming bul in most of the affected area Power Levels were Only minced. In Wyoming Rick Kayson customer service manager for Cheyenne Light fuel and Power co., said he had not heard of any major difficulties related to the fluctuation. I thought someone was playing with the tights he said. Major airlines improve on time flight records Washington a three of every four flights by major airlines in february arrived on Lime an improved performance from january As travellers also reported fewer baggage problems inc transportation department said tuesday. Three smaller airlines serving primarily the Southwest and West had Hie Best on time record in february indicating inc effect Good weather  have on a Carrier s punctuality. According to the department Pacific Southwest airlines had nine of every 10 flights arrive within 15 minutes of sched ule the government s margin for a flight to be considered on time followed by America West and Southwest airlines. Both with arrival rates of belter than 88 percent. Northwest airlines which has been pig cd by labor problems and a High number of consumer complaints had the worst on time record of 14 airlines with 61.7 percent of ils flights arriving within 15 minutes of schedule. Industry experts suggest that North West s performance also  have been affected by poor weather. Other airlines Wilh a Lcss-Ltian-70 per cent on time record were Continental airlines with 67.7 percent and trans world airlines Wilh 69.4 Pyrc Cal. Ameri can airlines had the Best performance among the Large carriers with 80.8 per cent or its flights arriving on time. The department said that 74.7 percent of the flights during february arrived within is minutes of schedule compared with 69.2 percent in january. Post office gives pensioners checks in the mail excuse Evansville. Ind. Ai every pensioner s Nightmare is unfolding Here for nearly 6,000 social so curly recipients the postal service has lost or mislaid their checks. These checks could be sitting in any number of Posi offices around inc coun iry said Homce Sanders manager of Quality of tool for the postal service in Kansas City to. Checks totalling at least �3 million were delivered Wivurn the 1 . Treasury s regional financial Center m Kansas City Kan in the main Post office in Kansas cily ma., according to Jat Kadams director of the regional Center. Pie checks for 5.800 to 5.wo Resi dents of Southwest Jun Mitiu were to be sent by plane to Louisville ky., and then trucked to Evansville but they never made in to Kentucky and arc no longer in Kansas City Sanders said monday. The checks were placed in eight trays presorted by zip codes Adams said de Clining to speculate How the trays were lost. I m always amazed so i Don l even try to guess he said. The social Security administration Al lows the postal service three mailing Days before acting to replace missing checks in such cases said Phyllis trance District manager of the Evansville social Security office. The three Day limit ends wednesday and reissued checks Woutje take 10 Days to deliver. Machinist finds $ i0,400, returns if of owner in Detroit Detroit