European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday. May 12.1988 postmaster says services May be restored in summer Washington a Posi office window service and collections could be Back 1o Normal by the end of summer but that won t mean the end of the Agency s financial struggles according to postmaster general Anthony Frantti Frank said tuesday that he is committed to Restor ing service that was Cut earlier this year in the once of congressionally imposed budget restrictions. But reopening counters and restoring sunday sort ing and collection Means finding $9 million a month in savings somewhere else he said. With Luck he said that can be accomplished by late summer. But he added that services will be restored Only when he is sure that they can be kept open. Hundreds of construction projects for new postal facilities also were cancelled or delayed to save Money. Long after people forget about the windows being closed building projects will still be delayed land will have been sold to someone else and construction costs will be even higher Frank said. Frank who took Over As postmaster on March i said that explaining the need for service Cut Ai the same time rates Are rising has been difficult. The rate increases imposed on april 3 Don t help he said because the accounting system mandated by con Gress results in he increased income being counted As a reduction in the National debt not at extra Money for the Agency. On other topics Frank said a system May be considered in which notices would automatically be sent out for people filing change of address forms. The Agency should help serve As a go Between for other Federal agencies and the Public such As by Mak ing Cata logs of government printing office booklets available in lobbies. The current program to deliver an aids Booklet to every Home is a Good example he said. I is amazing How Many suggestions for new Stamps he receives. He said he does t see anything wrong with issuing a stamp to Honor Singer Elvis pres Ley although so far the Independent committee that makes the final choices has turned Down that idea. The budget problems May be cased by a House Bil that would remove the postal service from the Federal budget. The Agency had not been part of the budget until 1993,"you really can t include us in the budget Proem when we Don t use taxes Frank said. Direct subsidies to the Agency were ended several years ago. In addition to restoring the services that were Cut earlier Frank said he wants to find ways to add other  example automated postal tellers now under development could be placed in shopping malls More markets and other stores might be encouraged to sell Stamps at their checkouts and automation could be improved to Speed Post office lobby service. Frank said battling for renewed Public Confidence Means both improved service and improving perception of that service. He described a program in which postal earners placed specific items in Home mailboxes and later asked the residents to fill put forms indicating whether those items had been received. When the item was a Large while envelope Only 0.3 percent reported that it had not been delivered he said but when it was a commercial Catalon 11 percent of the people who received it reported that it had not we know he items were delivered but the perceived value of be item makes a difference he said. Puppet used to feed baby Condor is work of Page scout candidate san Defio a a Poy scout who crafted a California Condor puppet to feed the dying species first captive bred Chick says he won t mind if the project does t help him earn scouting s highest rank. Eagle scout Jason Schmuckle. 17, of Vista worked about 20 hours to make the 2-foot-Long puppet which has a fibreglass beak and Skull covered by Deerskin and painted to match the Condor s distinctive red and Black markings. Condor keepers at the san Diego wild animal Park Are using Schmuckle s puppet Loveed Moloko the 2 Wick old Chick thai was the product of the first captive mating in the history of the critically endangered Spe cies. Schmuckle a nature enthusiast who has ambitions of becoming a Wood craftsman said he began his Pup pet making in december when he was looking for a project to earn the Eagle scout rank. I was going to do it whether they accept it As my Eagle scout project or not. I like the Condor he said. I really enjoyed doing it it makes me Happy 1 could help the Condor baby  the latest addition to the captive Condor flock at the Park was introduced last week to the hand puppet which also is used to preen the Chick As its parents would in the wild. The Chick has increased its weight to just Over 12 a ounces up from the april 29 birth weight of 6vt ounces. A Liny Bandage successfully corrected a pkg development problem and has been removed officials said tuesday. Condor keepers say the puppet is crucial to the Suc Cess of a Breeding program to return the species to the wild. Only 28 Birds Are known to exist All in Captivity is at the wild animal Park and 13 at the los Angeles zoo. The Chick will be fed will the hand puppet until it is Boul 5 months old when it will be released into the company of other juvenile Birds said Condor keeper Don sterner. It s very important sterner said of uie puppet. The whole idea is we Don t want the Birds to relate human beings to food. That would bring an identity crisis. The Condor will think us a human or think humans Are  hand puppets were used in raising in Condor Chicks hatched from eggs taken from nests in the wild he said App to Malacko the first Cap the Brno California Condor i Ltd minced mice from the bund puppet balk. C previous puppets the skulls and beaks were f fibreglass folded from castings of a real con  1 his Mol co null us lib a a pm Van at the natural history museum in in the j made of Dor Skull and i san Diego. Deerskin was Cut glued and parted to simulate Fca Herless skin on then to and head. Bands of Black and White fake fur stand in for feathers at the Bottom of the Bird s neck. Eyes donated by a taxidermy shop were set in the Skull. Sterner said Schmuekle improved on the former de sign using a tougher Deer hide and devising a Beur jaw hinge for the lower beak that made the puppet easier to manipulate. Sterner also praised the detailed painting of the Deer skin to resemble a True Condor s colouring. Stateside gunmen fail in attempt to Rob cartoonist s Home Santa Rosa Calif. A cartoon Isi Charles Schulz was confronted in his Home by two masked gunmen who fled when deputies arrived in squad cars and helicopters a news paper reported wednesday. The Santa Rosa press Democrat said the break in occurred sunday and the sheriff Wilh held the news at the urging of Schulz creator of the popular peanuts comic strip. At the request of or. Schulz we ate not issuing a press release said ski. Gary Henshaw. He said the directive came from sheriff Dick Michaelsen and was intended to discourage copy cat crimes. Neighbors of the cartoonist said the two men entered the Home about 10 p.m., shortly before Schulz s daughter Jill came up the driveway of the Hilltop Home the newspaper said. The daughter saw what was happening and raced to the Home of a neighbor who called for help Illinois sex gov Ogilvie Dies of heart attack Chicago a former gov Richard b. Ogilvie who ushered in the stale income tax and May have paid for it by losing his re elec lion bid in 1972, died tuesday a Day after a massive heart attack and emergency bypass surgery. The 65-year-old Republican suffered irreparable damage to his heart said officials at Northwestern memorial Hospital where Ogil vie was taken after he was stricken at his downtown Law office monday Ogilvie never regained consciousness after a second cardiac arrest and a quadruple bypass operation the Hospital said. His wife Dor Otley and hit daughter Elizabeth were at the Hospital when he died. Fire at ice Cream office destroys flavor records Oakland Calif. Up Dan Conolly Hopes he can remember All the new ice Cream flavors he had planned for next year. A weekend fire destroyed the research head quarters at Dreyer s grand ice Cream inc., wiping out records files computers and com Puter disks All of the company s hush hush flavor department. I Hope that enough of it is in my brain which is where it All started said Conolly director of research and development. He will have to Start from scratch in re creating the flavor planned for 1989, he said. Dreyer s makes 56 flavors of ice Cream marketed in 32 states claiming it is among the top three in the nation in Sale. Dreyer s usually introduces about seven new flavors each year Conolly said and company flavor specialists had whittled Down next year s flavors from about 100 to 2s when the fire struck jewish Leader to serve at presbyterian school new York. A Peggy Tishman a Leader in jewish philanthropic work has be come the first non Christian elected As a trus tee of the Union theological Seminary in its i s2-year history. Tishman president of the United jewish Appeal federation of jewish philanthropies of new York was elected by the trustees monday with four others who will take office at the Board s next meeting scheduled for septem Ber. The Rev. Or. Donald w. Shriver jr., presi Dent of the presbyterian school said the Stu Dent body and faculty Are growing increasingly diverse