European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 19, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. September 19. 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 Post office called dumb on dinosaurs stamp Calls apatosaurus a Brontosaurus by  Washington Post Washington the postal service is about to Start Selling 60 million Stamps that Bear a picture of i lumbering Dinosaur labelled a  to , a Bronto satires is not a Brontosaurus. Rather As nearly any Dinosaur Craid 7-Ycar-old can attest Nis an apatosaurus what s More the postal service knew the proper name of the Long Euince beast before printing the stamp. It chose Brontosaurus because it is the commonly used name. It is irrelevant to those who care deeply about such things As scientific nomenclature that Many popular books Maga Ines and even parents use the name Brontosaurus to describe the Long necked Plant munching Dinosaur that wandered around Nort America 150 million cars ago. The name Brontosaurus is not Correct. The stamp is simple wrong and the Only reason Why it has t been retailed is because the postal serv ice has air cad invented a Quarter of a million Dollar sin printing  famed rep. George e. Brown jr., d Calif. Who is Cora dig against scientific illiteracy i general Anil to a headed thinking about apatosaurus in Partick " i he smithsonian institution the palc ontological Soa even Ranger Rick knows  Ranger Riik is a children s Magazine with an interest official links Ivory fashion elephant kills Greenwich. Conn. A the Only Way to Stop poachers from killing elephants for their tusks is to take the fashion statement out of Ivory Kenya s leading wildlife official said. A piece of paper which says you shall not Trade in elephant Ivory is about Worth the paper it s written  Richard Leakey said sunday at a Bene fit for friends of conservation. The Way to Slop the Trade in elephants is to make the pc pie of the world disgusted and revolted by the wearing of animal parts particularly  Leakey who became director of wildlife conservation in Kenya in the Spring has boosted the i ast african country s efforts to Jve its elephant population. Earlier this year. Kenya was losing an average off1, elephants every Day from its National Parks and reserves. Leakey said. The country s elephant population has dwindled during the last drat la from 65.000 to 17,000. Leakey said that during the past four months poaching has virtually stopped because of a crackdown on poaching. Four people have been killed since july in attacks that Leakey blamed on poachers who were frustrated by the drive he said. N   such As Dinos Tois. Name Brontosaurus  first used by. I \ a Dinosaur Hur or who travelled around the a v in West in the i  Century digging up lbs a Marsh dug up similar skeletons in i8"7 and 1x7 the fir Fossil he named apatosaurus. The second he i j cd i ont saurus. Hut in 1903. . Riggs demonstrated that they Werneth same creature. And according to the International code of zoological nomenclature the final word on such things the oldest scientific name is the valid one so apatosaurus is the name that scientists and generation of schoolchildren use to describe the Dino Saur the postal service is calling Brontosaurus. Drown began his crusade  lie was alerted to in use of the non name by Ruh Kirkby. Executive i. Rector of the Jurupa mountains cultural Center i Riverside. Calif., and self described Dinosaur aficionado who said mislay citing the animal undermines the education of America s South. If we can t gel the name Oft iv.1 Dinosaur right what does that i our children  the and j is Kirkhus said she thinks the l of Al service hoi ild throw tl-e1 tamps out and Start a11 Over again. Jack Pierce chairman of the department of Pale biology at the smithsonian museum of natural his tory agrees that calling an apatosaurus a Brontosaurus is the work of knuckleheads. In a letter to the postal service. Pierce complained about the incorrect usage. Noting that such wilful disregard for the Correct name suggests that the postal service cares Little for the accuracy of the Stamps they Issue and they prefer car Toon nomenclature to scientific  Frank Thomas of the postal service s stamp information Branch replied that the Agency consulted Sev eral sources about its four prehistoric animal Stamps painted he artist John Gurche. Thomas said the Agency knew that the name Brontosaurus was tech Nical incorrect. But the decision was still made to go with  Why Brontosaurus was More familiar to the general public1 he postal service is plotting an advertising Nonan a to sell the Stamps Complete with to shirts Button Sand posters and a promotional tie in with the Chil Dren s Dinosaur movie. The land before  said the postal service plans on using the current controversy to educate the  Harris Secretary of the Board of governors that oversees the postal service wrote Kirkby about Abeling the poor fellow Brontosaurus when his her real name is  Harris apologized to the spirit of apatosaurus but said the Stamps were Al Raih printed and distributed to   conceded that scientists had their work Cut out Lor them in overcoming the misinformation so onto he spread by letter across this great country of  the Stamps go on Sale oct. I. � ,." j i fax a 5 soviet politician Boris Yeltsin on a Spelkin tour of the United sillies a just look at that presses Unta ement at the vide Selec Tion of products during in Impromptu visit to a Houston supermarket. Karl scr he toured the Johnson space Center. 168 residents of nursing Home flee rising water fayettev1lle, . A a 74-year-old woman says she never prayed As hard As she did when flood sent water flowing beneath a door and under her wheelchair in the nursing Home where she lives. "1 was Yelling. 1 said look at the water coming under the door. I had t seen anything like this be fore Blanche Watson said. I told them then 1 was scared of air planes but that if one had come by last night 1 would certainly have hopped on she said of Friday night s flood caused Bya cloudburst that dropped almost 4 inches of rain in just two hours. Two children drowned during the flood in spite of the efforts of a human Chain Rescue team and at least 400 people were forced from their Homes. Watson was one of 168 residents evacuated from Thel a it Mcville nursing Home. A number of shelters were set up around the City for them and other evacuees. Most of the nursing Home residents had to be takeout by boat though some were carried through the water and others Weie pushed out in their week hairs few of the Able bodied residents climbed to the roof and waited for help. No injuries were reported said Mildred Cross the nursing Home administrator. However with furniture covered by mud and most of the Home s food underwater she said she did t expect residents to be Back in their regular rooms right away. The lightning scared the daylights out of most  said Socrates Costas. A resident of the Home. Everybody was in a Dae. I Don t know where All the Volunteer came from hut they were a lot of  maintenance Man James Backman said the waterway nearly 5 feel deep in the nursing Home s ground floor. Liv sunday evening police 1.1. . Ware said everything was Calm and All emergency personnel had gone Home. A or . Dawkins said 10 to 15 marines from amp Lejeune who were on their Way to fort Bragg for an exercise had stopped and assisted in the evacuation of the the nursing Home residents