European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday septembers 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 32 airlines fined for Security checks Faa passed checkpoints with phony weapons Washington a the Federal aviation administration levied More than is million in Fine against 32 airlines thursday for tailing to conduct Ade quate Security checks at airports. The fines ranged from $1,000 against a number of smaller mainly commuter airlines to $215,000 against United airlines $156,000 against Northwest airlines and $ 113,000 against Delta at lines the civil penalties were assessed because Faa inspectors were Able to pass phony weapons through Airport Security checkpoints without having them detected by a Ray machines Metal detectors or Security personnel the Faa said. The airlines Are responsible for the checkpoints Al though the screening actually is conducted by Security companies hired by the air carriers. Faa administrator Allan Mcartor said that a re cent audit of Security tests conducted by the Faa showed improved screening with an average of 85.6 percent of the phony weapons being selected during the first sin months of this year compared to 78.9 percent last year. Some Airport checkpoints detected Buller than 95 percent of the weapons in the Faa tests he said. But Mcartor said that while the improvement in the detection Rale is encouraging Tough enforcement including civil penalties is needed to ensure Industry wide improvements and system wide  Security lapses sit Airport checkpoints became a focus of attention last year when a congressional report chastised the Faa for the screening system s Short comings. The subject gained additional attention after a shooting aboard a Pacific Southwest airlines Jet last december caused the plane to crash. All 43 people aboard the Jet were killed including the gunman who had smuggled the weapon aboard the flight bound from los Ait fees to san Francisco. After the incident the Faa announced it was using special teams of investigators to test Security at 16mjor airports. Last March transportation Secretary Jim Burnley said the tests would improve the effective Ness of the screening programs. We want to see a 100 percent Success rate in detect ing weapons and Dummy weapons Burnley said in a statement thursday. He promised to continue the Faa tests at airports around the country. Mcartor meanwhile indicated that the Faa May seek additional fines in the future if lapses Are uncovered. We have no Choice but to Lake Lough enforce ment action in those instances where Security lapses Are discovered he said. Here Are the airlines that wire fined in the action announced thursday United airlines. $215,000 Northwest airlines $156,000 Delta air lines $113,000 american air lines $96,000 Continental airlines $79,000 easter airlines $67.000 trans world airlines $63,000 Pacific Southwest airlines $61,000 us air. $58,000 pan american world airways $51.000 Piedmont airlines $32,000 Alaska airlines $31,000, Southwest airlines $21,000 sky West airlines an America West each $20,000 hawaiian airlines $12,000 wings weal Sun country Branit tand Amer ican trans air each $10,000 air Wisconsin $3,000 express airlines $2,000. The following airlines each were fined $1.000 air America air Midwest a air Brit airways chair Florida express horizon Juls Lecam Midwest express Simmons. Pacific Southwest airlines has since merged with us air since the Faa tests that led to the fines were conducted the Agency said. High court rejects plea by Yonkers Yonkers . A . Supreme court has refused to halt mounting daily fines against the City for blocking a Federal housing desegregation plan a decision the mayor says could cause Yonkers to plummet to  but in a ruling issued thursday night the court temporarily spared the four City councilmen who oppose the plan from going to jail until they have time to ask formally that their cases be fully re viewed . Supreme court spokeswoman Toni House said. The justices stayed a lower court ruling that had upheld contempt citations against the four councilmen who had faced a resumption of $500-a-Day fines and the Start of jail terms this weekend. The cily s fines for failing to comply with the desegregation order were put on hold thursday pending the supreme court hear ing later in the Day. The fines Willnow resume against the City. Mayor Nicholas Wasicsko said. The fines started aug. 1 at s100and doubled daily. The City had paid $12,700 before receiving its first slay from an appeals court which upheld the contempt find ing aug. 26, but granted an additional one week stay. It also capped the cily s fines at Mil lion a Day. House said the entire court consid ered the five applications from the councilmen and the City and the application so far As the City of Yonkers is concerned has been  justices Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan filed a 12-Page dissent she said. The decision surprised Wasicsko who favors compliance with the desegregation order. It troubles me he said. The Treasury of the City is going to be exposed and the taxpayers of the City arc going to feel the Burden. One thing it denies is the Polit ical martyrdom of the councilmen. They were slated to go to jail on sunday. Their personal fines have ceased. But the City is going to plummet to  Ama warns family doctors May soon be in Short Supply Chicago a the United states May be headed for a shortage of family doctors unless they receive More respect and larger incomes the Ameri can medical association says. Between 1975 and 1986, the Overall Active physician population increased by almost 45 percent. In contrast the Active family physician population including general practitioners grew by Only 24 percent the Ama said. By the year 2000, the total physician population will Rise by 22 percent while the number of family physicians will in crease by Only 9 percent the association pc diced in Friday s Issue of the Jour Nal of the am a. Family practice May be less prestigious than other specialities because it stresses breadth rather than depth Lack emphasis on research and publication and is unrecognized by the Public As a Bona fide specially the Ama said. Family practitioners the second larg est group of doctors behind specialists in internal Medicine also make considerably less Money than their colleagues the Ama said. Mean net income in 1986 for family practitioners after expenses and before taxes was $80,300, compared with $119,500 for physicians Overall it said. Part of the problem is that the medi care program and insurance companies typically reimburse doctors More for High tech procedures than for the time intensive diagnosis counselling and consulting that arc the Hallmarks of family practice the Ama report said. Yet demand for family physicians at Active physician population total physicians in thousands physicians per 100,000 population 1970 1975 312 lass 1960 436 198s 1990 511 574 1995 2000 6s3 1970 197s 1980 1985 r.170 l92 214 1990 1995 wooo 243 255 projection. Chicago Tribune graphic soil co Ama Caner tar health policy Rno Ivert 1s87 hospitals is nationwide the Ama said citing a recent Survey that found great est demand in the Midwest where 40 percent of All responding hospitals re ported a need for family specialists. Family practitioners see More patients each week 139.2 compared with 117,7 for physicians Overall in 1986 and work More weeks each year 48.3 compared with 47.5 for physicians Overall the Ama said. And patients of family practitioners wait Only about 2.7 Days to be scheduled for an appointment compared with a wait of 6.2 Days for physicians Overall the report said. K has been almost two decades since the american Board of family practice set training and certification require ments for family practitioners and Man dated that certified members pass new tests every six years the Ama said. The number of approved medical residency programs for family practice has declined slightly from 388 in 1983 lo381 in 1986, and the specially still Strug Gles for recognition the Ama said. Snakebite woman to Wear boots to work Havre Mont. A belly Max Well says she plans to Wear boots to work now that she s been bitten by a rattle Snake at her desk. This is unbelievable the 36-year old woman said from her Hospital bed. It s something you would never expect to  Maxwell a service and Billing representative for Triangle Telephone cooperative in Havre was silting at her desk tuesday when she reached Down to plug her calculator into an outlet along a Rock Wall said Burl Miner the cooperative s general manager. He said Maxwell jerked her hand Back and remarked that something had bitten her on the Index Finger. The woman noticed bite Marks so a co worker immediately look her to a local Hospital where she was recovering. Then another employee looked under the desk. They retrieved a flashlight to see what it was and they found a Small Rattlesnake lying Between the desk and the Rock Wall Miner said. The Snake was a foot Long and had a single Button on its Tail. Maxwell said she never encountered Rattlesnake while growing up on a farm near big Sandy in North Central Montana though the area is known to be Rattler country. She also said she does t plan to gel bitten again. Asked if she would Ever stick her hand behind any such space again she said no Way. I Don t think anybody at work will. And Well All be wearing