European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday january 30,1990 name mix up has social Security in Flap Dayton. Ohio a two girls named Sandra acc Ferguson were born May 3. 1959. They Don l know each other but the government has consid ered them one and the same. Sandra acc Ferguson Boles and Sandra acc Ferguson Johnson share the same social Security number. For three years. Boles an employee of Wright state University has tried to convince the social Security administration hat she in t Johnson who was last known to live in Sunset. Utah. Boles said she became aware in 1987 that her namesake shared her social Security number when the irs claimed there was a discrepancy in her reported income. Later some of Johnson s purchases showed up on Boles credit reports which also arc indexed by social Secu Rity numbers. Last month the social Security administration notified Boles that her number was Given to her in error and thai she must prove her age. Identity and citizenship to get a new number. Since we do not have this evidence we have to remove your earnings from our files the notice said. The Only thing i Ever wanted from these people is an explanation so that when i got in the Bureau of motor vehicles credit Bureau Banks payroll of fice i have something to prove what i am  Boles said. They said it s your problem. That s  Boles says she works in an office and can understand How the mistake was made. What s hard to Swallow she said is that social Security does t have a place to resolve mistakes. I m going to Start my own country and we re not going to have a social Security administration she said. She said her Case has been transferred from the Dayton social Security office to Baltimore then Back to Xenia. Richard Rogers manager of the Xenia office said Boles information was sent to Baltimore to gel her a new number but it seems like they gave her the same number  he said a number mix up normally should take three months at most to resolve. Even if Boles gels a new num Ber she might have to get a new Driver s License and Stab Lisle a new credit history. She wonders if it might be easier just to Trade places with Johnson. I d like to Sec if she has a Rich and Good looking husband Boles said. Stateside More . Post offices to get self service facsimile machines on Delta american flight smoke blows into Cabins by the new York times the fax has arrived at the Post office. In stride with the revolution created by facsimile machines the . Postal service says it is going to install self service credit card operated fax terminals in 209 Post offices across the country Over the next four months. Fifty four postal locations in the Northeast already have fax mail terminals As part of an Experiment that began last november. About one third of american businesses and fewer than i percent of american households have fax machines said Edd Helms chairman of the Miami based hotel copy inc. Hotel copy was awarded the contract to develop install and maintain the 263 Post office terminals using Sci Long distance service. It already has fax machines in 2,000 hotels in 900 cities. If the one year Pilot program proves successful postal officials say that depending on customer de Mand fax terminals will be added to Many of the 40,000 Post offices in the United states. Most major cities Are being targeted for the test including new York Washington Chicago Phila Delphia los Angeles and san Francisco. Several Post offices in Rural Pennsylvania will also be tested. Unlike most fax machines in which documents arc fed into a chamber the postal fax terminal transmits papers on a Flat surface without taking them in a Fea Ture postal officials say is important to those concerned about privacy and damage to documents. Documents May be sent or received 24 hours a Day and there is no additional Cost for overseas transmit tals. A three minute transmission will Cost $8.50, about the time it takes to Send six pages. Each additional minute will Cost $1.50. Visa Mastercard and american express can be used but Cash cannot. He what s up Doc bugs Bunny dinosaurs and Panda bean Are helping or. J. Christian Abajian Center take some of the Edge Oft surgery. He and colleagues at the medical Center Hospital of Vermont in Burlington Are Model ing his new surgical outfits called lug Gable scrubs. A company formed by Abajian and his family has received orders for the whimsical outfits from around the world. Tampa Fla. A a Delta air lines Jet that had taken off and returned to the Airport because of an engine warning Light was evacuated when smoke blew into the Cabin during another Takeoff attempt authorities  minor injuries were reported when passengers Slid Down emergency chutes in sunday s evacuation of the Boeing 727.smoke also blew into the Cabin of an american air lines dc-10 flying from Dallas to los Angeles on Sun Day night and the plane was diverted to Phoenix an airline official said. None of its 239 passengers was  Tampa the Pilot of Delta flight 606, carrying 114 passengers and eight Crew members was making his third attempt to Fly to new York s Laguardia air port when smoke was selected. Delta spokesman Sam Murphy  said the source of the smoke was under invest  flight then was cancelled. On the american flight a loss of Oil pressure in one of three engines produced smoke which the plane Sair conditioning system sucked into the Cabin an air line official  official said the smoke dissipated when the engine was shut Down but the plane landed at Phoenix International Airport. Avalanche closes ski resort but no injuries reported Jackson Wyo. A an Avalanche prompted officials to close the Jackson Hole ski resort sunday but no one was injured officials said. The resort was closed for the Day after the Avalanche at 1 10 . In an area called the headwall said Mike Mccol Hster director of operations. About so searchers with tracking dogs sifted through the Snow for three hours and determined no one had been trapped resort officials said. The area was to reopen  Avalanche began in a spot that is out of Bounds for skiers he said. It reached an area that is in Bounds but in t a regularly marked ski  patrols routinely set off explosions near potential Avalanche slopes Early in the morning to Clear dangerously Loose Snow before the resort opens to the Public. Sometimes Avalanche control is not an exact Sci ence Mccollister said. You do the Best you can and you work hard at it but sometimes this happens with a lot of Snow a lot of  Fri probe prompts insurer to alter super bowl and Enterprise Ala. Api an insurance company changed its super bowl advertising plans because Anbi investigation of two mail bomb slayings has Cen tired on an Enterprise businessman. The opening scene of new York life insurance co s 30-Sccond television spot during sunday s game was Mohave focused on a water Tower bearing the message Welcome to Enterprise Alabama City of Progress. But publicity from the Fri investigation prompted the decision to drop that  commercial featured new York life agent Fred d. Donaldson 63, of Enterprise his three sons who arc also agents and some of Donaldson s clients the Gibbs Mccormick family of new  Barren director of advertising for the company said the decision to air the commercial at a Cost of $700,000 during the super bowl was made tuesday