European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday september 12. 19b3 the stabs and stripes Page 5 9ffi-graders offered Money to stay in school Cli Attan Oon Tenn us  contractor is offering Cash incentives in Mulh Gradi is from a poverty stricken neighbourhood 10 encourage them in slay in school. James Hudson or. Has promised in Sivc Juki to each ninth grader in Manly Junior h Gli school who goes in id inc Luis crude and will give in niti1nifni.nl is 50 to those who graduate my High school. Hardy Junior High is in Eart oin 1 1 Linn t,.i. Where Hudson has operated his business Hudson construction co., for id years. The school has about 100 ninth graders this sear. I s just a poor urea of Chatta  Hud win said. There arc housing propels Ikic. They have gangs Oul Here and they have drug problems. They have ninth grader with  Eastern cuts 4,000 More jobs unions Challenge move in court Miami Al l Money losing Eastern airlines eliminated 4,000 More jobs sat urday in Ilic Down song it says it needs to survive hut the unions charged that the cutbacks Are actually making inc airline less competitive. The ruts which the unions Are con testing in court reduced Eastern s work Force to fewer than 30.000. Less than four years ago it had -12,000 workers. Eastern eliminated 12 percent of it routes two weeks ago ending service to in cities. Laid olt workers with seniority can Transfer 10 other cities bumping newer employees Oul of their jobs. Thus newer employees could Lake the Brunt of the Lay offs when the bumping is Complete. The mood around work gales was sullen. We be had very few who have Al ready gut ten their Layoff notices but we be heard there Are about so who have shown intentions of bumping said Don Eloyd. .1 Union chief Steward representing ramp agents. So a lot of Alliese people Doti l know what to  i he people Are devastated said Charlese Bryan president of the machinists local Eastern s largest Union with nearly 12.000 members. It s a traumatic thing to lose your Job when you be just gotten your children started in  of the 4.000 jobs eliminated 1,500 were non Union positions including management and clerical. Among the 4.000 Are hundreds of flight attendants mechanics baggage handlers and ramp agents who Are taking Early retirement or quitting. Eastern said. The fast is we have lost Over a billion dollars in this  said Robin match the company s chief spokesman. We have to take prudent although admittedly pain Ful  Eastern which lost si82 million in t�s7 and su9 million in the first half of 1988 and is $2,5 billion in Debl Esli Maies it will save $100 million a year with the Faical cuts. Eastern was taken Over More than two years ago by Houston based Texas air corp Union members have accused Tsas air chairman Frank Loren of of stripping East Ern s assets in i Avor of Tenas air s sister Iii line. Continental which has been non Union since Loren of took it into bankruptcy co Rani Alion in 1983. The unions say downsizing the Carrier dooms Eastern to decreasing ability to compete. Laying off employees drives up labor costs per flight because less senior workers being Laid oif Are paid less than those who remain they said. Eastern s unions will argue against the layoffs later this month in the . Coun of appeals in Washington which allowed Eastern to Cut Hie jobs if it posted a s4.7 million Bond to cover wages if workers Are later reinstated. Far Side cartoonist to take 14 months off to rest and travel Kansas City. To. La cartoonist Gary Urvin. Whose the 1 a Side comic appears in More Tolian Kalll newspapers Inch Idle i lie suits and stripes will Tau a 14-month, break this . In Vii do ate said saturday. Even u  need to refuel Universal Cress Syndicate Evsi irent John Mcmeel said in Mak ing the announced til. Larson 3k, wlm him s in Seville. Will Stop distributing new Hanoi is t la. A and will begin again on Jan. 1.19  hi1, Liviu nil.  vials 10 Rusl and travel snid spokeswoman  Callante. She said lie is on a trip outside the country. The Kiln Nisi Whu has said he sits Down at his drawing Sable and " Els silly is noted for cartoons at iut tows that honk at humans dinosaurs that smoke and woman with Beehive hairdos. In one cartoon showing a step ill evolution three fish Une carrying a baseball bal. Prepare to step from the sea for the Liiv Lime to retrieve a baseball Silling on the Shore. In another a Rattlesnake with a Pointer in its Mouth lectures a Elass of Oiler snakes showing them a Chart of a Man s leg with a Boot unit. The Bare part of he lug is marked  and the Booi is marked no  during Lui Sun s . Universal press will distribute More than i100 i Ariouns he Drew in the Early i98ijs and thai were published in about 30 newspapers. Mem eel said. He said six Black and White cartoons a week and a color trip on sunday from the earlier material will he made available during the 14-month leave. A collection of Larson s cartoons organized by the smithsonian s natural history museum has been Louring . Museums inc last two ears and collections of his  consistent v bin on the Best Selling charts. Banking Pioneer honoured former president Ninn in a rare pull a appearance is shown tilth Mury g. Ruebling Tomun Pioneer in the banking Industry at ceremonies Ditl Icaline m $30 Mil lion government building in Trenton n a named in her Honor. She 1% he first living Kumim fur i he Iii tit building has been a unify 60000 Gallons of crude Oil gush Down Busy . Street los Anci Euis a up to 60,000 Gallons of crude Oil Froni a burst under ground Oil line gushed Down a Busy sub Urban Sirlei into sewers and the los an Geles River saturday. Ihl Ciulis said. The break in the Mobil Oil co. Pipe closed Ventura Boulevard in the a Nemo area and edits from the Ventura free Way. The line broke about 4 30 . And leaked Down streets in a has Mike radius said police sgt. Trank Guarino. Mobil spokesman Jim Carbonetti said the company hired contractors to vacuum Oil off the streets Inlo trucks Sand Oil stained curbs and steam clean and Hose Down Ventura Boulevard. The cause of the break was unknown Carbonelli Viii. Corrosion caused a similar incident 21/ Jea Sago in Granada mils. An operator at Mobil s Tprrance Plant shut Down the pipe four minutes alter a drop in pressure was noticed he said. Automatic control would have shutdown the pipe a few minutes Laier he added. The leak in the pipe which spans 180 Miles from Relur Tilge to Torrance will have no significant effect on the company s operations he said. Carbonelli said the company sent representatives through the affected Najeh boyhood to take damage claims from residents and businesses. Six barriers were placed in the River to prevent crude Oil from reaching the Ocean he said. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Heit 12, 1u48 Elentri que ill a member of inc Radical socialist 1 arty. Became France s new Premier and presented a program to save the franc which involved drastic budget cuts 30 years ago today. Sept. 12. L58 the government announced in was Selling up Roadblock across France in an emergency attempt to end the wave of algerian rebel attacks sweeping the country. 20 years ago Fodoly. / Slit 12 1968 the department of the army announced Hal a a would now be eligible to join no clubs throughout the army Bui it would still he up to local commanders to make the final decision. 10 years ago today. Sept. 12, 1978 a Quick moving fire roared through 1,800 acres of Timber and grass in inc Foothills of the Rocky mountains forcing the evacuation of sume 100 Homes in Littleton Colo