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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. May 31, 1968 the stars and stripes Page 7 party ends with 3 injured 23 arrested js1.a Vista. Calif. A a Rowdy parly erupted into a Rock and bottle throwing Melee involving 2,000 people thai ended Early sunday with three police officers injured and 23 people under arrest authorities said. Isle Vina officers went to a Home in the area near the univer sity of California. Santa Barbara Ai about 12 30 . After receiving reports or a Large noisy party. A lice asked revellers to disperse but they refused according to a Santa Barbara county Deputy. Party goers apparently joined by other people in the area set fire to trash bins and hurled debris that damaged two so crafts cars. A Deputy a Highway patrol officer and another Law enforcement officer were treated at hospitals for minor injuries and 23 people were arrested on various charges la look More than three hours to end the Brawl and the sheriffs department had to Call in More deputies Campus pol ice and the California Highway patrol. New Mississippi governor fails to get most of his reforms of d Jackson. Miss. A gov. Ray Mabus elected on 3 pledge that missis Sippi never again would be last came away from his first legislative session with More than half of his Reform pack age unapproved but hit optimism undiminished. For november s election the 39-year old Harvard educated lawyer and former state auditor built a coalition of Blacks Urban professionals and those pushing for change to fend off the strongest Chal Lenge by a Republican gubernatorial candidate this Century. He pledged to end the longstanding reign of Good of boy politics Public corruption a poor education system and widespread illiteracy High unemployment and Low paying jobs. To that end Ambuj took a four Point program to lawmakers in january calling for government reorganization in creased spending for education including a hefty pay raise for teachers county government reorganization and constitutional Reform. In the session ended May 1. The legis lature approved a scaled Back plan to raise teacher salaries to the current Southeast average by phasing in an aver age raise of j j.800 during to Yean at a Cost of 1 so million. Mabus also got agreement on a 25 member commission to look at reorganization. The governor wants to reduce what he regards a bloated bureaucracy by slashing the number of slate agencies from More than 160 to As few As 15. But he got nothing from lawmakers on amending or rewriting the state s 98 year old Constitution or on county government Reform. Above All Mabus believes Mississippi which ranks last or near the Bottom among slates in such categories As per capita income and first in school drop outs is headed in the right direction we got Mississippi moving Down the Road to what we re going 1o have to do he said. As part of his Agenda Mabus want to require All counties to adopt com wide purchasing receiving personnel management and Road construction and maintenance policies. In 60 of the state s82 counties each of five county supervisors directly oversees operations in the District from which he or she is elected. As stale auditor for the four years be fore he was elected governor Mabus As Baker Reagan damaging Bush Washington not Howard. Baker jr., the White House chief of staff says that he and president  the investigation of attorney general Edwin Mccase has damaged vice president George Bush s presiden tial election chances. Asked on the Abc news program meet the press taped for showing sunday whether the series of allegations regarding Meese is hampering the vice president in his Campaign Baker answered i expect that it is. But How much remains 10 be seen and the show in t Over  asked if the president agrees with him Baker said "1 think so for the moment and la some  Meuse has become an Issue As democrats have sought to portray the investigation of the attorney general As an example of How the Reagan administration feel Meese probe s election chances Edwin Meese has tolerated Low standards of professional conduct in its top ranks. Baker emphasized that Reagan still has Confidence in me Csc. It would take an extraordinary event to shake that Confidence that the president still has in the attorney general in my Opin Ion he said. Among other problems Meese has come under scrutiny for his involvement with a proposed is billion iraqi pipeline and with the wed tech corp., a new Yor City military contractor at the Center of a Kickback scandal. Meese has been under investigation by James c Mckay an Independent prosecutor. The attorney general is not expected to be charged with wrongdoing but Mckay has said he plans to Issue a report soon that will reveal the results of his investigation. Misled the Fri in its investigation into corrupt county purchasing. It resulted in the arrests of s2 supervisors in 24 coun ties of which 43 were convicted or pleaded guilty and 23 received prison sentences. The House and Senate passed differ ing versions of a so called county unit Bill but negotiators never reached a Compromise. Mabus  vetoed a 20 per cent pay hike for supervisors and has promised to Call a special session for Law makers to Deal with county unit legis lation. Mabus also remained determined on constitutional Reform and said that even though a Reform measure died at the end of the session we got farther than any one else Ever  last november voters approved id constitutional amendments including one that removed nearly a Century old ban on interracial marriage. Critics say some provisions of the ib90 Constitution remain racist. Ii includes a poll tax and literacy requirement for voting although they have been struck Down by Federal courts. Other provisions discourage eco nomic development and efficient govern ment critics say. Tot survives fall of Over 100 feel Marco Island. Fla. A Bush Trees and soft each helped a 17-month old boy survive a fall of More than 100 feet from the loth floor Balcony of an Ocean front hotel authorities said. Ryan c. Lee of East Falt Nouth mass apparently slipped through a Balcony railing at the Marriott Marco Island re sort on Friday afternoon and fell 8s feel to a Palm which slowed his fall before he landed head first in soft Din. His parents had checked into the hotel just 30 minutes before the incident an sheriffs deputies theorized the lot had crawled through the railing on the Balcony. I d say he s real Lucky Collier coun. By sheriffs sol. John Mcguire said. If that had been me i would have died on the Way Down of  the child was in satisfactory condition at Naples Community Hospital with a bump on the Back of his head a Black Eye and a scratch on his stomach a Sher Iff s report said. Two women cleaning up in laundry Ess resort Fown frov1ncetown, mass. A the threat of ring around the Dollar looms for this popular summer resort whose Only laundry has been closed since sep tember and whose nearest Launderette is 26 Miles away i have one Friend t allow to use my Washer and i limit it at  said Robin Watson an aide to town manager Bill Mcnully. But i know 10 who d like  the town s elderly have already Felt the inconvenience Mcnulty said. Bui this Community at the outer tip of Cape cod has its population of 4,000 increase to 45,000 during the summer. That has Mcnulty worried. I foresee a serious Impact on the town s Economy and vitality if there in t some remediation Mcnulty said. Kenneth Eldredge closed he laundry in september after his septic system failed. Stale officials gave him three choices haul out the waste water by truck build treatment Plant for about 1300,000, or close. He  then two local women have been cleaning up. Jean Leblanc 35. And Linda Ersoy 29, who began their laundry service Wash Day blues two years ago get up each morning at 4 ., Load a Van with about 500 pounds of dirty clothes and drive 32 Miles to Chatham to Wash in. They charge i1,3s a Pound for the service and a j2fee for pickup and delivery regular year round customers gel a better Price and done pay Lor delivery. Their workday ends about 6 p.m., but May extend to 11 Pra when the summer season gets into full swing. People think there s great Money in this but then they find out it s a lot More work Lor the Money you make said Leblanc. Other people have started Laun dry businesses but by mid season they say goodbye. What goes thud crash Kapow bang Boom Santa Rosa Calif. A a furniture store owner who once had piano dropped from a helicopter just to see what it sounded like left Money in his Wilt 10 enable his friends to Bear the same thud crash Kapow bang Boom. It s the kind of thing he loved said Jerry Reed who described himself As John  Cameron Young s drinking buddy. I think he would have thought it was wild. Life was a crazy experience for him and he had his foot 10 the floor  Young who died under unexplained circumstances three Yean ago at the age of 44 when he was found in his ear at in Bottom of a Ravine specified in his will that si5,000 from his 1800,000estate Gofer a party for he friends. Repealing a stunt that Young helped arrange More than 20 years ago while student m the University of Washington parly planner Len Nordeman of san Francisco arranged for a 300-Pound upright piano 10 be dropped 200 feet from a helicopter. H Cost some 12,000 to arrange the stunt and Nordeman commented ii seemed like a Good Way to spend his Money. Some 300 of Young s friends who showed up for the event collected Ivory keys and splinters from the piano As souvenirs then attended the party. I loved him said one Spectator Jill Wesstrom who flew in from Dallas to watch the Stum. He was a very Spe Cial individual. Introspective Sensi   
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