European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday May 20, 1989 Faa orders modifications on older jets Washington a Federal authorities thurs Day announced requirements that . Airlines make extensive modifications on older Boeing 727s, 737s and 747s, marking a major change in the government s approach to the safety of aging airliners. The Federal aviation administration issued a series of proposed airworthiness directives that initially will affect 115 airliners requiring $142 million in modifications. The action Marks a fundamental change in Faa s philosophy for maintaining the airworthiness of older  the Faa said in announcing the directives which arc expected to become final in late summer. The action was prompted by the april 1988 Accident in which a Boeing 737 with nearly 90,000 flights lost an 18-foot Section of its fuselage in a flight Over the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. A flight attendant died. The aircraft then landed without any other fatalities. Investigators found the plane s fuselage had worn out and a series of regular inspections were ordered on All aging airliners. The Faa s action would replace most required inspections for corrosion cracking and other signs of Metal fatigue with mandatory replacements. Among work that would have to be done on the planes Are strengthening of Basic structures and re placement of such parts As Landing gears. One requirement for 747s Calls for a major modification of the fuselage Shell Structure from the nose to the Forward main passenger entry door. The Faa Esti mates the work will take 14,000 Man hours per air plane. Airlines would be allowed four years to Complete All the changes with inspection programs to continue in the interim. The Faa said the orders would affect 67 Boeing 727s. 28 737s and 20 747s now being flown by . Airlines. Additional aircraft would be affected As they reach 20 years of age or a set number of flights 60,000 for 727s. 75,000 for 737s and 20,000 for 747s. Although foreign airlines Hying the .-built planes arc not required to comply they generally follow Faa safely directives. The Faa announcement said the Agency would work with airlines to assure that older airliners that have the greatest use or have not undergone recent inspections will have the work done first. The requirements follow guidelines proposed feb. 28 by a task Force of aviation Industry and government experts set up by the air transport association and the aerospace industries association. Stateside and slump prompts paper to slash sunday Price new York up the new York Post s Sun Day editions which first appeared on Newsstands just11 weeks ago will be Cut in size and Price next month because of a Lack of advertising Revenue executives of the newspaper said. The Post will reduce the sunday edition s Price from $ 1 to 40 cents the Price of the daily paper and will abandon several supplemental sections beginning june 4, the news paper s president Valeric Salembier said thursday. The advertising support was t there for a million different reasons Salembier said. No employees will be Laid off despite the cuts she said. Woman forced off court on age regulation Philadelphia a the first Black woman to sit on the Pennsylvania supreme court has been stripped of her office and $91,000 salary by her col leagues because of her age. The High court split 4-2 on thursday. Justice Juanita Kidd Stout was forced off the Bench retroactive to her 70th birthday on March 6. She had not participated in any new cases since then. The state Constitution requires judges to retire at 70, but Stout s attorney argued she was exempt because she was appointed not  Nicholas Papadakos writing for the majority said appointed judges should not be exempt. After a visit to a Rochester school. President Bush arriving in Kennebunkport Maine for a Long weekend develops engine trouble while taking his boat for a spin. Mrs. Bush and a secret service agent look on. Bush urges bus Ness to help educate America s youth Rochester . A president Bush stumping for his education proposals paid a visit to an Urban Magnet school and vowed thursday to Spur . Businesses to help education help  Bush slopping Here on his Way to a Long weekend in Kennebunkport Maine where he was to meet with French president Francois Mitterrand sought to focus attention on his $441 million legislative package for education. The fact is that unless we act our children will be ill equipped to read write or understand new technologies he said. The president spoke during a tour of an Eastman Kodak photographic Plant after visiting the Wilson Magnet High school which offers special courses in computer science robotics photo optics and Japa Nese language studies. At the school Bush met first with teachers to discuss the Magnet program then chatted with about 350 students. Commitment was the word that kept coming through the president said of his meeting with the teachers. You re the future he told cheering students. I m going to do my level Best As president leave aside the politics to gel this message of excellence and commitment and Magnet schools Way beyond the confines of new York All the Way to the West coast and  he praised Kodak for putting up some of the funds that he said helped the City school overcome High dropout rate and a poor academic showing several years ago to become one of the top rated schools in new York state. Ten years ago Wilson was beset by crime Plung ing grades and Urban flight Bush said. But today. Wilson is the ninth ranked school in the slate of new York by the department of  Rochester and Kodak embody the notion that helping others through cooperation. Is America at her Best the president said. He challenged other . Companies to follow the Lead set by the photo giant which he said forged a partnership with a Community and understood thai the private sector has the resources and responsibility to help education help  Bush s education package sent to Congress on april 5, Calls for $100 million in Federal funding for Magnet schools such As Wilson that offer specialized courses. Congressional democrats and Educa tors have criticized the plan As inadequate and the president conceded on Friday that our program is not a be All and  but he said it is a commitment a commit ment to help business and Academia make America More  ten years ago Wilson in Rochester was among those schools showing the highest rates of suspensions dropouts and Truc ocies. The Community with the help of a $300,000 Grant from the Eastman Kodak co., helped rewrite the school s curriculum to focus on science and the humanities and provided the school with up to Date equipment. Now the school is one of the highest ranked in the state according to information supplied by the White House. Under Bush s proposal the Federal education budget would go from $21.9 billion this year to $22.5 billion in fiscal 1990, which begins oct. I. Killer convicted in 1976 murder of police chief executed in Georgia Jackson a. A Henry Willis Iii who was convicted of shooting a Small town police chief to death one Day before the victim was to leave for a new Job died in the electric chair thursday night. Willis was pronounced dead at 11 20 . At the Georgia diagnostic and classification Center said corrections department spokesman John Siler. He was Given the death penalty for his part in the feb. Ii 1976, killing of Ray City police chief de Giddons 29. The . Supreme court on thursday denied Wil Lis Appeal but did not lift a Brief stay ordered by a lower Federal court. A three judge panel of the 1 Ith . Circuit court of appeals in Atlanta had issued its stay about 30 minutes before Willis scheduled 7 . Execution. The court which did not find Merit to Willis Appeal granted the delay to give Willis attorneys Lime to file the supreme court Appeal. About 40 minutes later the supreme court denied the Appeal. Justices William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall dissented said spokeswoman Kathy Arberg. Millard Farmer Willis attorney met with the condemned Man shortly after the supreme court ruling. 1 i said Willis appeared resigned to his Fate and deeply regretted the slaying. He asked me to be Strong and to fight for the rights of others Farmer said in a voice choked with Emo Tion. If he could relive that night he would forfeit his own life rather than take that individual s  earlier Farmer was turned Down in three different courtrooms. Within hours thursday a Superior court judge the state supreme court and . District court denied a stay of execution. In addition the state Board of pardons and paroles refused Willis clemency. Willis attorney had argued that prosecutors improperly excluded Blacks from the jury. In february however the supreme court refused to hear an Appeal from Willis. The court in 1986 barred prosecutors from excluding jurors on the basis of race but the ruling was not made retroactive. Giddens was abducted after he stopped a car match ing the description of one used in a robbery. The police chief had planned to leave his Post the following Day for a Job managing Orange Groves in Florida. According to testimony the 29-year-old father of two was taken to a swamp where he begged for mercy but was shot twice and thrown in. Willis was one of three men convicted in Giddons death. The death sentence of another defendant has been stayed by a Federal court. The third defendant was sentenced to life in prison. Willis was the 14th person executed in Georgia and the 109th in the nation since the supreme court Al Lowed the death penalty to be reinstated in 1976