European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 01, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday january 1, 1990 the stars and stripes pages scores of new Laws take effect Jan. 1 guns alcohol drugs smoking targeted by the associated pressing California it will be a crime to abuse an elephant. In Florida people who want to dive for scallops will have to buy a License. In Illinois the Tully monster will become the official Fossil. Desc and scores of other new Laws take effect around the nation with the Start of 1990. In several states new measures go on the books that Deal with gun control alcohol drugs and smoking. California has a Law inspired by the january attack on a Stockton schoolyard in which Patrick Purd gunned Down five children with an ak-47 semiautomatic assault Rifle and then shot himself to death with a handgun. With the new Law. Military style assault weapons identified on a stated devised list arc severely restricted. The list contains some 55 pistols rifles and shot guns that arc barred from manufacture importation or Sale. Maryland will ban the Sale of handguns unless they arc on a list of weapons approved by the handgun roster Board. That Law is aimed at so called saturday night specials. Nobody said we were going to Stop crime if this occurred said state police superintendent col. Elmer. Tippitt. We Only said that it was a Start to get some of this junk off the  Oregon gun buyers and people seeking licenses to carry concealed handguns will face stiffer identification requirements and background checks. In new York meanwhile a new Law Aims to curb underage drinking. Police will be Able to Issue a $50 summons to people under 21 for Mere Possession in Stead of Purchase of alcohol. It will certainly help neighbourhoods where raucous parties go on and destroy the neighbourhood s Tranquili  said Doris Aikin a Schenectady woman who founded remove intoxicated Drivers. Kids at Cor Nell University would stand in the Street with Beers in their hand and wave at the  but Gunc vice Connor vice president for Campus affairs for the slate University of new York student association said a Law like this would make people potentially the victims of arrest just because they re carrying a six pack of Beer. They May be going to make Stew who knows two states arc imposing new crackdowns on Drunken Drivers. In Connecticut police officers will be permitted to revoke on the spot the License of a Driver who fails a blood alcohol test in California it becomes crime to drive with a blood alcohol concentration of .08 percent or greater toughened from. 10 percent. As part of the War on drugs Connecticut is offering some Young male drug offenders Boot Camp style punishment. The state will spend $10 million on the pro Gram which will also include court ordered wilderness school sentencing for certain juvenile drug offenders. A Florida a drug free workplace Law championed by gov. Bob Martinez provides that Law enforcement officers firefighters and safety sensitive state employees May be tested for illegal drugs when hired or when they undergo physical examinations. The Law docs not require the testing and bans random testing. Illinois students will be forbidden to carry or use beepers on school property because the devices arc often associated with drug dealing. New York s clean indoor air act touted As the Only anti smoking Law tougher than Minnesota a pro Hibits smoking in auditoriums elevators gymnasiums food stores shared taxicabs and limousines. It restricts smoking to certain areas in larger restaurants and other Public facilities. In Greensboro n.c., smokers will face the toughest restrictions in that state the nation s no. I producer of flue cured tobacco. Voters in november narrowly approved the new measure which requires restaurants to set aside 25 percent of their scats for non smokers and bans smoking in retail stores that can accommodate More than 200 people. The elephant Law in California stems from the 1988 Case of an 8,000-Pound pachyderm named Dunda at the san Diego wild animal Park. The animal was subjected to two Days of beatings which caused apparently severe injuries and trauma to the head area according to a City attorney s report. Zoological society officials acknowledged the beatings but said the elephant needed to be disciplined. Florida s first recreational Saltwater fishing License is expected to raise $6.5 million for fisheries and Marin research in its first year. It will Cost $12 for Florida residents and $30 for those from out of stale. Plans for nuclear dump split Nebraska Village Butte neb. A a decision to build a radioactive waste dump near this tiny farming Community is pitting neighbor against neighbor in an increasingly bitter dispute Over ecology is. Economic benefits. Well fight this technically politically and legally opponent Lowell Fisher said saturday. Fisher the Leader of a group called save Boyd county said it Felt like a death in the family Friday when a Developer . Ecology inc. Of Louis Ville by announced that it had selected a 320-Acrc site about two Miles West of this Community of about 580 residents for construction of the $40 million dump. The above ground system of con Crete vaults would store such Low level radioactive waste As contaminated gloves and equipment from nuclear Power plants and hospitals in Nebraska Kansas. Oklahoma Arkansas and Louisiana. Company officials said they chose the Boyd county location Over two others in Southern Nebraska because it was the Best Choice geologically. But opponents say the tract contains wet lands and any leaks could contaminate Nebraska s groundwater. Sen. Tom Daschle d-s.d., called the decision unsound and said he would fight it. But Ken Reiser one of the leaders of the proponent group people for Prog Ress said he was elated at the Prospect of economic development and the Esti mated 30 to 40 jobs the facility could bring to the area. This is one of the Best things since electricity came into this county or the Day my dad changed from using a horse to using a tractor to farm Reiser said sat urday. Since Boyd county was named As a finalist site opponents have boycotted businesses owned by supporters of the facility and sought to recall a county super visor. But supporters of the facility argue that butt desperately needs the economic shot in the Arm that it promises to bring. The facility might bring some of our native sons and daughters Back Home to work said Owen Johnson. We be  nothing but a up Here for years and bad limes on the farm have taken their  his wife Lavaun said the . Ecology office on Butte s main Street was the first to open in the town in nearly a decade. Bulyc once boasted five grocery stores an several car dealerships she said but today it s mostly two ban a lumber company a Village owned restaurant and the Post  a . Kulok official holds samples of some of the types of radioactive waste that would be stored at the planned facility outside Butte neb. Gas explosion in new Jersey injures worker destroys House Roselle . A a Gas explosion levelled a vacant House and critically injured a worker investigating reports of a leak in the area police and company officials said. The injured worker Jack Sedar of Colo Nia was listed in critical condition in the bum Center at St. Barnabas medical Center in Livingston following Friday s explosion. Sedar and another employee who was not identified had gone to the Home of an Elizabethtown Gas co. Customer who reported smelling fumes said company spokesman Chris Cardon. After discovering Gas fumes in several other Homes the second employee entered a vacant House to investigate rear Don said. An explosion rocked the House sending its sides outward and on lop of Sedar. Who was near the S.D. door Cardon said. It was not known what ignited the explosion. The other employee was in the basement and suffered Only minor cuts and bruises. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Jan. 3. 1950 associate justices Fred .1. C Ohn and h. Lloyd Ericsson of the court of appeals of the . Courts for the Allied High commission for Ger Many were sworn into office in Frank Furt. 30 years ago foe a. Jan. 3, 1960 . John f. Kennedy. D-mass., formally jumped into the democratic presidential race and said he would not Settle for the vice presidency. 20 years ago foday. Jan. 3, 1970 North Vietnam announced that for the first time families would be permitted to mail packages to american prisoners of War at the rate of one parcel per  every two months. J 0 years ago today. Jan. 3, 1980 an earthquake Register ing 8.0 on the Richter scale rumbled across the azores Island Chain killing at least 50, injuring nearly 400 others and leaving thou Sands homeless