European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday april3, 1989 the stars and stripes. Page 7 Arizona Indiana still balk at Daylight time by the bul Timote evening Sun Arizona and most of Indiana remained holdouts against Daylight saving time which almost everywhere else in America was welcomed As of 2 . Sunday As symbolizing the return of springtime baseball and Long Balmy evenings on inc front porch Daylight saving time is a big bomb said at inc Yager of Phoenix. Out Here in inc desert it s hot in the summer. And when it s to degrees we want he Sun logo dawn.". Arizona and most of Indiana along with Hawaii and the United Stales Oiler tropical Island posses Sion Are the Only places in inc country hat have rejected the annual custom of pushing Dock hands ahead Oik hour in inc Spring to mate better use of inc longer Daylight hours. We did try Daylight saving Lime in the mid-60s,. And everybody complained said Yager an aide to Arizona state Ken. John Mawhinney. Our phones were ringing off the Hook. Bar owners complained. Drive in movie owners complained. And mothers hated it their kids would not go to sleep. Many people Wail until evening to do their the Experiment lasted a year. Five years ago some members of the slate s business Community approached Mawhinney and asked him id submit legislation again to bring Daylight saving time to Arizona they wanted the stale to he in closer synch with inc new York and Chicago Slock markets. Because Arizona is in the Mountain Standard timezone it is two hours behind the East coast. So when the new York markets open at 9 30 . It is Only 7 30 . In Phoenix. When they cow a 4 . In the big Apple it s still Only 2 . In Phoenix. But because Arizona ignores Daylight saving time it gets even worse in the summer. From april to october Arizona is three hours behind new York. In effect it joins California in the Pacific Standard time zone. Mawn Nncy filed the Bill hut it died in committee Yager said. The old timers said no Way " in 1987, the Arizona legislature considered a Bil that would have imposed Daylight saving time in he Winter As part of a package of tier Quality legislation. By moving inc evening Rush hour ahead an hour they reasoned they might be Able to reduce Carbon monoxide Levels during the evening when wintertime temper Mure inversions trap the polls nos near the ground. In l to acct. The Bill would have placed the state in the Central sly inward time zone an hour ahead of new mexi co on its Eastern Border and two hours ahead of California on its Western Border. But it also would have meant More children Waikins to school in the dark and parents would t hear of in the idea was sent Oki for study the results Werc inconclusive and the idea has been dropped. Indiana slate sen. Lindal Hume has irid several times to untangle the confusion with Lime zones and time changes in his slate. Most of Indiana lies in the Eastern Standard time tone. But five counties in the Southwest Ern Comer of he state near Evansville and six counties in the Northwest hear Gary Are in the Central time zone. It creates a real problem Hume said. People who live on either Side of the Lime zone line May live in one Lime zone and work in an unidentified Tull ten wails stoically to be rescued after an automobile Over turned to Independence to. No one waiting for Rescue was seriously injured and needed Only a few minutes to free the occupant Dallas cop dismissed Over notches on pistol Arlington Texas a a polite officer who fatally shot Ihrck suspects in six months was fired after two notches were found etched into his pistol. Ryan Farrell who was cleared of any criminal wrongdoing in the shootings. Was tired by Arlington police chief David Kunkle Friday after investigators probing the third killing found the notches on inc gun. Farrell. 25, who insisted that he knew nothing about the Nicks discovered on the trigger guard of his 9mm pistol was fired because Kunkle did t believe mini police spokesman dec Anderson said. Anderson stopped Short of saying the investigators believed the Marks rep resented a death tally. He refused to de scribe the. Markings except to say they were Simitar to notches. Farrell s attorney Jim Lane told the Dallas morning news that he meet with Kunkle monday to urge him to reconsider the firing. The markings were discovered by police investigators probing the killing of Michael Robinson 21, who was fatally shot by far Rell while being served a warrant feb. To in University Park near downtown Dallas. Robinson was wanted on a forgery charge Farrell also killed Ray Soto jr., 32, of Arlington As he Man sat in his pickup truck and raised a handgun toward far jell and a fellow officer Oil aug. 2. I. Less than three weeks Lacr Farrell shot 33-year-Oldmartin Williams during a struggle Llinat occurred along interstate 30 in fort Worth. The same gun a Browning 9mm Auto Matic was used it All three shootings Anderson said. The gun was recovered by i Vesliga lors after each shooting Bur the Marks weren t discovered until Dallas police investigated the third shooting he said. These markings and their possible in Ference were obviously very troublesome to us anderson1 said at a news Confer ence to announce Farrell s dismissal. In september a Tarrant county grand jury declined to indict Farrell in inc first two shootings. In March a Dallas county grand . Knew about the markings on inc pistol cleared him of any wrongdoing in the latest shooting. According to police records Farrell has said that the pistol had been at a Gunsmith shop on several occasions and that he had let friends shoot it newspaper blasted for getting a line on the dead Portland Maine us l a new obituary policy in the morning newspaper of Maine s Aigist City has brought an angry response from some readers who say inc paper has gone Loo far in trying to describe the deceased. Thc6s.oooh Mircu Union Portland press Herald recently began publishing a second headline under the names of deceased persons on is obituary Page. The lines include such Lilley As Hospital voluble or for Mer bakery owner member White Rock former retired contractor or former textile Mill to say of arc Irma using a human life with Jour. Personal references is the understatement of the year one Reader wrote in a letter to the editor. You be hit anew Low in bad taste bad form and bad journalism other criticisms pc sumptuous and condescend ing poor Tasu and downright Crummy even supporters of the new formal admit it May not work for every deceased person "1 am a 7s-Ycaix old resident of Portland who has accomplished nothing Louis b. Smith Uroic. You will have a hard Lime coming up with a Jec orid sine for 1 a debate has reached the City s barroom where jokers make up their own second line summaries for friends great cd collection and liked Strong Beers arc a couple of recent Vintage. However several residents wrote to the newspaper praising the new formal which is used in Many news papers around the nation. The detailed second line is the Best change in the newspaper of the year. Stick with in wrote one Reader. I found that i m Reading the second line before the ii another Reader urged the editors to let the deceased person s family decide if they want a headline. It should not be Trie newspaper s decision the newspaper s managing editor for reporting Jon Kellogg who had suggested the format change responded to inc letters in a column most importantly obituaries Are news he wrote. They constitute the final chapters in the lives of peo ple who lived and worked in communities served by our newspapers. The second line helps identify these people to read cars who might want to note a death but who might not recognize an acquaintance Jusi by the he said. Hash Bash Calls for legalization of marijuana Ann Arbor Mich. A a Blue Cloud of marijuana smoke drifted Over the University of Michigan Campus saturday As about 1,000 High school and College Stu dents at Lite 19tfi annual hash each rallied for the legalization of marijuana. Nobody was arrested but-15 people got tickets for Possession of marijuana a Misdemeanour carrying a s5 Fine said Ann Arbor police capt. Gary kist a Many of the assemblage puffed on homemade smokes As speakers told the. Crowd that marijuana should be legalized. Behind them stretched a Banner with Golden Arches similar to the Mcdonald s hamburger trademark that read marijuana. Over 10 million there Are a lot of people you would t respect to see Here said Brad Wylie 19. A freshman from the Detroit suburb of Livonia who said he does t smoke marijuana. "1 saw Tome in Busi Ness suit and Many Are clean Cut. It Jou Realise marijuana is More this Jear Jungi ices from suburban High schools Dro a to inc University s Campus to Light up in what has by come an april tools Day tradition Kustka said. Mosi of the people there were High schooners from the Detroit suburbs out for a party Kibalka said calling the Bash a nuisance for d prefer not to be he said. But if they re going to have it we have to be there in Case something happens the crowd cheered when members of the National organization for the re Forn of marijuana Laws Norm said legalizing marijuana would make the drug More affordable. policies Are designed 10 stigmatize marijuana said Jon get Man. National director for Normal. Demonstrations like this Are fundamental to seeking change
