European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes monday. January 15,1990 How about National Don to observe it Day by Chuck Vinch Wshington Bureau Washington with All the problems Bede Iling the nation Citi Zens might think Congress could put its time and Energy to belter use than de bating the importance of tap dancing. At least two lawmakers agree. The Federal government has a tradition of designating Days weeks and months to commemorate various issues and causes. During the 93th Congress a decade ago lawmakers dealt with 34 comic Mora Tives Over the two years said an aide to rep. Dave Mccurdy. A okla. By the 100th Congress in 1987 and 1988. That figure had ballooned to 258. Including a proposal to recognize National Snow White week " last year 88 of the 244 Laws signed by president Bush commemorated a Day week or month. One Bill designated the 1990s As the decade of the  Mccurdy and rep. Claudine Schnei Der. . Feel enough is enough. Both have Bills pending that would take  out of the legislative process. Although their Bills differ somewhat both envision an Independent commis Sion to make recommendations to the president on designating Days weeks or months to Honor various subjects. It would be similar to the panel that re views the Many requests for commemorative postage Stamps. Concern Over  blossomed several years ago when the House Post office and civil service subcommittee on census and Popula Tion which handles almost All commemorative requests changed its requirements an aide to Schneider said. The new Rule was that a proposal would t be considered until the Bill had 218 co sponsors or half the House members the aide said. In the Senate at least 50 co sponsors Are needed including at least 20 democrats and 20 republicans. That translates into a tremendous amount of staff Lime that has to be spent calling other lawmakers and pestering them to sign onto a commemorative Bill he said. We get tons of Calls like this sometimes As Many As 10 a  Schneider also believes that besides wasting congressional staff time the system offers no impartial review. The Way it is now anyone who spends enough time making Calls can get enough co sponsors for a commemorative whether it s worthwhile or just Plain silly the aide said. Having a commission that would meet maybe four times a year would be a fair and impartial Way to review these proposals so that they re approved based on Merit rather than How much time was spent getting people to co sponsor them he continued. We think constituents would rather have their elected representatives de voting themselves to the issues of  yet it is the members of those same constituencies who push comic Mora tics. And some lawmakers May be Loath to give up the voter Good will that the practice can generate. Commemorative designations Are Al most never controversial although one produced a Well publicized Flap that dogged sen. Bob Dole a Kan. Las year. He sponsored a Bill to designate april 24, 1990, As a Day of remembrance for the 1.5 million armenians killed by the ottoman Empire betweeni9l5and 1923. The White House walked for fear it would Hurt relations with Turkey which in fact protested by temporarily Susand Soonin the House Post office and civil service subcommittee has scheduled tentative hearings on the Schneider and Mccurdy Bills for feb. 6. Of and if you weren t tap tap tap Ping around your Home or office on May 25 last year you should have been. It was National tap dance Day. To Nice tac of spending several . Military Access n training rights in the country. Doleson dropped the Issue. Disney to reinvent1 resort experience chief says Lake Buena Vista Fla. Up1 Walt Disney co. Chairman Michael Eisner has unveiled an expansive 10-year building project at Walt Disney world including a fourth theme Park and a time share Van lure. The expansion includes 29 projects attractions shows hotels and renovations most of them at the Disney Mem studios Park which opened last Spring. The next 10 years we re going to do nothing less than reinvent the Disney theme Park and resort experience and not just Here in Florida but in All our Parks and  he said sunday. By the year 2000. We expect to Host Over 100 Mil lion guests each year in Disney theme Parks and re sorts around the  Eisner confirmed that Disney would add a fourth theme Park to its Florida Complex to join the magic kingdom. Epcot Center and Disney Mem studios. We will Start a fourth theme Park before inc end of the  he said. He would give no specifics but said planners were studying three prospects one of them favored. We re nol prepared to talk about in yet because we arc nol absolutely positive that one it will be the one and two. That it is fully developed enough to warrant the kind of scrutiny that you will look  he said. But we arc gelling very close to an announcement of whal in will  Eisner also announced Disney would launch a Lime share vacation package for 500 investors at its Orlan do area Parks. Time share allows several investors to buy the same piece of property bul use in at different times and for Only a limited number of Days per year. It is a sector of inc real estate Industry notorious for deception and fraud. Eisner would give no details about Disney s shared vacation ownership program except to say in would give inc slots permanent ownership of the most pop ular vacation on Earth a Wall Disney world Vaca  Eisner would nol release inc Cost of Floc expansion. We Haven t added in All up because if we added in All up in would be a headline Hal we probably Michael Eisner would l want to have. In s sizable but it s All Over 10 years. Also a lot of it is in our annual  the Walt Disney co s Overall strategic plan is to grow Ai 20 Pyrc Cal a year Wilh a Clurn on a quilt of 20 Percy no he said. Each pro Cal stands on its own. Each project must give the Walt Disney co. Our required return on in  he would not give details on financing except to say in might come from a mix of internal Cash and outside sources bul added. Everything we announced will definitely be  Eisner bunking on the Success of the movie Dick  a Warren Bally Disney pro Cal being released this summer spelled out plans for a ride and musical review based on the movie. Beauty s last movie ishtar flopped. If it were to become an ishtar we probably would t go Forward with the  Eisner said. Disney which recently acquired rights to the up pets also plans to Complete by 1991 the up pc Stu Dios an area featuring a ride and two shows. Eisner said Disney also would open a Honey i shrunk inc kids ride based on last summer s movie. This is where kids will enter a world of 20-foot Blades of grass and monster insects Eisner said. On Friday Eisner announced similar expansion plans in Southern California including construction of a second California theme Park to be Buill either on property adjacent to Disneyland or in Long Beach next to inc Queen Mary another Disney property. On saturday. Disney unveiled a new attraction Al its Mem studios Park. Star Tours a ride based on inc Star wars movies that has been popular Al Disney s California and japanese Parks. Pair claim Navy s noise caused loss of ranch Reno. Nov. A a couple who sued the Navy Over the loss of their cattle ranch have found it difficult lop Rove Hal the thousands of jets scream ing overhead arc what caused their cows to lose their enthusiasm for Breeding. Don and Barbara Noclla sued inc Navy for $8.7 million claiming flights out of Nas fallen ruined their business and drove them off the land which they could t sell and inc Navy would l buy. Don Nonella now drives trucks out of Elko. In Eastern Nevada. The couple claim thai increased Jet training activity Over their ranch 60 Miles Casl of the naval air station killed some of their cattle and caused other cows to reproduce less. But the Navy s lawyer la. Mike Quinn. Said Friday the couple had failed to prove their claim. Things happen thai Only god can explain Quinn said.  in production arc Normal and to be expected. There s no evidence to Sug Gisl thai noise did  Bob Alexander who re presents in couple said he had proved inc cattle were not diseased and were fed properly ruling out everything but stress from in car popping sonic booms caused by the jets to explain Why the cows were no reproducing. Closing arguments in the five Day trial ended Friday and in was icel in inc hands of . District judge Bruce Thompson. Quinn said inc Noclla s ranch Lay be Neath both a military operations area and a supersonic flight Range and wit More than 64,000 flights out of the air station each year in the late 1980s, in was logical there would be noise. The pills must Irain somewhere and Hal somewhere is Central Nevada. Clearly our operation at times affects the peo ple of Central Nevada. They Bear part of the Burden of making sure our nation is prepared he said. Alexander argued thai the novellas would have had $1 million in livestock sales each year from 1985 to 1988 if production had i dropped off. Bul Quinn said inc couple bought the ranch when cattle prices were High and interest rates were Low then lost Ilas livestock prices declined and interest rates Rose. The couple said the Conception rate of cows on i hair properly was More than 90percent when they bought inc ranch in 1979, bul fell to about 67 percent after 1984. They left the land in May 1988. James Cothorn. An agricultural economics professor Al inc University of California in Fresno and Davis testified that a computer analysis he performed showed inc ranch was just accumulating debt and would have failed no Mailer what. Nonella. 58. Disputed hat outside the courtroom. You Don t run a ranch by computer you run it by the Seal of your  he Sikl. Patting the Bottom of his Blue jeans. A government expert testified thai cattle might become startled and eve run a Bil when faster than sound military jets Fly overhead and Sel off sonic booms but inc animals Aren l adversely affected by inc noise. James Bond a retired noise expert for the . Department of agriculture said he conducted and reviewed several stud ies during the 1960s and Early 1970s lha concluded animals quickly get used to sonic booms and military overflights. Humans arc definitely affected by sonic booms but beef cattle get used to  Quinn said