European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 24, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday december 24,1989 the better to hear you with audiologist Pamela Branderbit tests a new hearing id on a special mannequin at Siemens hearing instruments research labs in Piscataway no. New devices arc tested in a foam accous local chamber. Which ensures pure signals that have no echoes or reverberations. The mannequin named Kemar is All ears As he turns a full 360 degrees and adjusts to various Heights. Daytona Beach wants to tame Spring break free for All Daytona Beach Fla. A Daylong Beach has established a Spring break task Force to prevent a repeal of destruction and chaos caused last March by an estimated 400,000 revellers. Spring break in 1989 was totally out of control mayor Larry Kelly told the Sun Sentinel in fort Lau Der Dale. Frankly there was an attitude by certain businesses and Public officials to let it All hang Loose. And 1 think it was a serious  Daytona Beach s problem sounded familiar to officials Down the coast in fort Lauderdale. They had told the Spring break crowd three years ago that it was no longer Welcome in fort Laud Crdal. Daytona Beach began a Campaign to lure the Young vacationers. But now the task Force will study How it might follow fort Laud Crdal s Lead to tone Down the partying. Last March Daytona Beach private and Public property was destroyed and visitors urinated in Back Yards Braw Ledin the streets and More. The experience prompted the establishment of the Spring break festival task Force. The accent is on that third word because that s what we re trying to make it a festival instead of  said  Smith director of special events for the Daytona Beach chamber of Commerce. Fort Lauderdale mayor Bob Cox once told Kelly on network television that he d be Only too glad to let Daytona Beach become the new Mecca for Spring break. He turned to me and said you can have them the Daytona Beach mayor recalled. And i got  City officials and business leaders in Daytona Beach eager to boost local revenues mounted expensive advertising campaigns touting their Sandy shores to vacation hungry College students no longer wanted in fort Laud Crdal. Cox said he would gladly share tips with Dayton Beach officials on fort Laud Crdal s successful Steps to shed its decades old party time image. He said two important measures include cracking Down on alcohol on the Beach and erecting Walls along the strip to separate pedestrians from motorists. Sudden Rise in Bridge draw Span leaves one dead in 7-car crash Seattle up the Center draw Span on the world s longest floating Bridge was accidentally raised during routine maintenance in the fog during the com Muter Rush hour Friday leaving one dead and six injured in a seven car wreck. The 100-foot movable Section of the Concrete Ever Green Point floating Bridge was raised 4 i feet with out warning to motorists and seven cars smashed into the raised Span. A 43-year-old woman died on the mile Long Bridge which spans Lake Washington Between Seattle and Bellvue and one person was critically injured Washington state patrol spokesman said. It was unclear what caused the Span to go up. Transportation department officials said they did not be Lieve human error was involved but did not elaborate. Department spokesman Dan Garrison said he did not know whether it was Normal procedure to run the tests during Rush hour traffic. Transportation officials said the Bridge s midsection which sits on the surface of a 200-foot-Dccp Sec Tion of the Lake Rose shortly before 9 . During Aroutine test. Bridge maintenance workers were testing Power lev Els to the Center draw Span when the Accident occurred officials said. The officials added that not just one but a series of swi chs needs to be thrown to raise the draw Span. The 25-year-old Bridge is the longest floating Bridge in the world according to Leslie Salisbury Public affairs manager for the department of transportation. Average daily traffic on the Bridge is about 100,000cars per Day. Stateside san Diego papers Union break off contract talks san Diego a contract talks Between Thesan Diego Union and Tribune newspapers broke off after a strike deadline passed Early saturday but Labo officials say they be decided against walking out it this time. Discussions ended after company lawyer rejected proposal from the newspaper Guild in which the Union dropped its demand for a closed shop Akey Issue in the talks. Union leaders said a strike could be called any time. Representatives of the Guild and the Union Tribune publishing co., met All Day Friday without reaching agreement. Company lawyers told Guild officials they did t plan further proposals at this time letting the stage for a possible strike which would be the first inthe is years that the Guild has represented employees at the two newspapers. Pay is less an Issue than disputes Over the length of the contract and preservation of a Union shop. Motorist hits Man drives 9 Miles with victim on Hood Greece . A a Motorist who struck an killed a pedestrian Friday drove for nearly nine Miles with the victim on the Hood police said. The Motorist 25-year-old James a. Vander Mccur of Rochester was charged with felony driving while intoxicated. Police would not comment on whether he knew the victim was on the Hood. The pedestrian was identified As Gilbert t. Nettlesjr., 26. Rochester police capt. Michael Kames said nettle was struck As he walked in the right Lane of interstate 390 about 2 40 . Nettles car apparently had broke Down on an exit ramp in the Rochester suburb of Greece. Police said Nettles hit the front passenger wind shield and was apparently caught in the sheltered Windshield. Vander Mccur continued South on 1-390 and was spotted by a Monroe county sheriffs Deputy investigating an unrelated traffic Accident. New test enables scientists to determine sex of fetuses new York a British researchers have successfully determined the sex of 19 fetuses by analysing blood samples taken from their Mother s arms in technique that might one Day be used for prenatal diagnosis of birth defects. The researchers used a sensitive test called the to Lycra so Chain reaction or per to search for y chromosomes in the blood of the 19 mothers. Females Donot have y chromosomes. The researchers were hoping that enough fetal cell Shad leaked into the mothers bloodstream that the y chromosomes from male fetuses could be detected. They detected the y chromosomes in seven women and predicted that those women were carrying males. All seven later delivered boys. All 12 women in whom chromosomes were not found delivered girls. Cloning May soon result in perfect Christmas tree Knoxville Tenn. Up University of ten Nessee researchers say cloning soon May enable them to produce picture perfect Christmas Trees year after year. Cloning experiments Are under Way with Norway spruces Virginia Pines. Eastern White Pines and Fraser firs said Scott Schlarbaum a geneticist who Heads the cloning research in the it department of forestry. The work sponsored in part by the mid sout Christmas tree growers association could produce several Fields of cloned Trees within three to five years Schlarbaum said. Cloning is the creation of a genetic replica of donor Plant. It can be done either by making a tissue culture from the Parent Plant or by placing cutting from the Parent Plant into a hormone solution which causes them to Root and grow into Trees genetically identical to the Parent Schlarbaum said