European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday. September 10. 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 Massachusetts City gets Tough on unpaid tickets Springfield. Mass. A the meter is lick ing for parking scofflaws in this Cash poor City and officials pledged Friday that the one night jail stay of a woman arrested for owing More than $4.500 is just the beginning. The woman lopped two lists of alleged violators released by the City and published in the local news paper Over the past two months. The approach in t winning rave reviews from some of the targets. It s almost like the 10 most wanted people in the said Betty Lichenstein a Holyoke school committee member on the list for 52 delinquent tickets for a total of $1.040. said she tried to work out a payment plan with officials after appearing on the list about a month ago. But was told Only full payment would spare her the embarrassment of a second appear Ance. It s causing a lot of grief in my she said. To Caine and crack dealers they Don t always get their names in the the City Laid off More than 850 workers after Vot ers turned Down a measure that would have allowed properly tax increase. An estimated $200.000 in unpaid fines has been collected since the Start of the fiscal Fine for downtown parking meter violations is s id while the Fine for parking in prohibited ones is is 5. The word is on the Street thai we mean business that s the Crux of the whole parking clerk Kevin Kelliher said. We re going to go after Themo Nev and come hell or High water we re going to get it the published list of 139 ranged from $627 owed on 10 tickets to the $4.585 on 227 tickets owed by 30-year-old Noreen i. Perrault. Who spent wednes Day night in jail after she was arrested on a civil complaint. I Errall. Of West Springfield was released on heroin recognizance after pleading innocent thursday. Her lawyer. Mark Kolher said there would be no comment. Conviction of a ticket violation does not carry a jail sentence. City solicitor John Payne said. Well be looking for payment of the Fine if she s found in he said. Some parkers have complained at City Council meetings that spaces Are scarce downtown and the alternatives Are expensive garages. Tim Shechan. Aide to mayor Mary Hurley said the cily can t afford to Overlook the Revenue an people have plenty of time to avoid getting on the published lists. We be issued warning after warning after warn ing and i Don t know of too Many people in the City who do not know that this list is being published he said. Housing Bias lawsuit settled for $325,000 by the i of Angeles times Washington in the largest settlement of its kind the developers of a luxury Home project in Maryland and the Agency that designed its advertising have agreed to pay $325,000 for excluding Blacks from their promotional Campaign attorneys said Friday a 1987 lawsuit filed by a Black Washington resident claimed that Avenel corp. Of Potomac. Md., used White mod Els almost exclusively in its newspaper advertisements with the intent to Dis courage Blacks from buying Homes. What these ads say to me is we Don t want people like you living in our development said Girardeau a. Spann. Who filed the suit along with two local non profit housing organizations. The company however denied any intent to discriminate. The settlement approved by . District judge Harold h. Greene said that neither Avenel nor its advertising Agency words & company had admitted any wrongdoing. The housing organizations that participated in the lawsuit said Avenel s cur rent ads which feature Blacks Are very filed under the fair housing act which was amended in 1988 to remove a $1,000 limit on damage awards the settlement was by far the largest involving allegedly discriminatory advertising and among the largest for any kind of discriminatory housing complaint. The people in the real estate business need to Sec that there s a Price for doing this said lawyer David Wibbert who called do Facto housing segregation a major bastion of racism in the coun do Facto segregation refers to discrimination maintained by custom or crab raiders get unusual sentence Palatka Fla. A four Young men caught raiding crab traps will have to Parade around Palatka for four consecutive saturdays wearing placards pro claiming their crime. It is a felony punishable by five years in prison and or a $5,000 Fine to molest crab the signs say. I know because 1 molested Stephen Michael kit Redic 23, an insurance Salesman from Jacksonville was one of four men caught raiding traps in the is. Johns River. It was memorial Day weekend. We were just a Bunch of Guys having a Good old time he said. We were probably a Little bit tradition rather than by Law. Avenel officials disputed that any of its ads were racist by implication or in tent and said that the company was never charged with discriminating in the Selling of Homes. We Are firm believers in the fair housing act and All that it stands for said Tony Natilli a partner in the Poto Mac md., company. We deny that we be done anything citing mounting Legal costs. Natilli said it just seemed sensible to the agreement contains a provision requiring the company to continue using human models in its ads. The plaintiffs had argued that in the past companies stopped using All models rather than Fea Ture Blacks in ads. Before passage of the 1968 fair hous ing act newspapers ran separate ads for Wibbert said that even into the 1970s, some real estate promotions were still labelled Whites Only in Viola Tion of the Law. They got rid of the statement but kept the All White ads Wibbert said referring to More recent ads excluding Blacks. In 1986, after a Survey showed that 98 percent of the real estate ads it published showed Only Whites the Washington Post began requiring that Blacks appear in 25 percent of its ads. A Encl slopped advertising in the paper Afler the policy was put into practice but it denied it did so to avoid using Blacks. I think this is one of the most important areas of racism we have to Deal with Webbert said. I Don t think this is going to solve All the problems but it s something that should not be this late in the game. Staying awake six year old Christina Johnson of Manhattan fails to stifle a Yawn Dur ing an International literacy Day program at the United nations in be York. Christina accompanied first lady Barbara Bush to the pro Gram. Mrs. Bush is a Strong literacy advocate who bus participated in literacy events that have been held across the nation. Rep. Gingrich admits staff helped with Book denies rules violation Washington a House Republican whip Newt Gingrich acknowledged Friday that his congressional staff had done clerical work on a Book he wrote in 1984 but claimed that broke no House rules. Gingrich responding to allegations made by a former staff member in the october Issue of Mother Jones some members of his staff did copy ing proofreading and other clerical work on his Book window of but he said House rules permit such activity As Long As the Book deals with a Public policy Issue which he said window of Opportunity did and the staffers work at least 4 hours a week on congressional duties. Gingrich said his interpretation of the rules was supported by the report of Richard j. Phelan. The Independent counsel the House ethics committee hired last year to investigate former speaker Jim Wright of Texas. House democrats have filed a complaint with the committee maintaining that Gingrich violated House rules and fed eral Campaign Laws by creating an unusual partnership to promote the Book. But the complaint docs not accuse Gingrich of any improprieties in the use of his staff to work on the Book. The committee has hired Phelan s Law firm to review the complaint and recommend whether it should launch a formal investigation of Gingrich. One of the allegations against Wright was that he had used members of his congressional staff to help put together his Book reflections of a Public Gingrich said that the one thing Phelan specifically exonerated Wright on was writing a
