European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday february 15, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 7 voters in Colorado City defeat attempt to prohibit Sale of furs fur Clad Judith family checks tuesday s ballot. Aspen Colo. A residents of this Small trendy ski resort town resoundingly rejected an ordinance tuesday that would have made it the nation s first furrier free zone. With All eight precincts counted the fur ban ordinance lost 1,701 to 898 voter turnout was heavy for the election which Drew International attention. No voter tallies were immediately available from the City but Aspen attorney Mike Ireland who con ducted the voter exit poll for three Aspen news organizations estimated turnout at about 70 percent. Everyone is coming out. It s going slow said Dep Uty City clerk Kathy Strickland. Like ski lifts there was a 20-Minutc wait at polling places she said. Chief among the measures relating to growth and development before the town s 3,739 registered voters was one on whether to Stop construction of a $70 Mil lion 66-foot High luxury hotel. Approved instead was a 44-foot Structure favored by the City Council. Other ballot measures were tied to the dilemma of growth in the celebrity Haven a picturesque town fat with wealthy buyers and Short on building space. Two issues concerned the alignment and propose expansion from two lanes to four of Colorado s route 82 into Aspen. The Highway carries More than 22,000 cars a Day according to stale figures. Several proposals involved employee housing. Most shop government and ski slope workers can not afford to live in Aspen where the average Home sold for More than $1 million in 1989. One proposed ordinance would raise the City s sales lax by 0.45 of a cent increasing the total to 7.9 percent. It would be used to finance affordable housing and Day care. The fur fight polarized inc town with mayor Bill Stirling and his wife leading animal rights Ali visit in demanding inc ban. Furriers led inc charge against it. Claiming in would drive away tourists. Some considered the election a dress rehearsal for a March 13 recall election for Stirling and three other members of the City Council. The real Issue is whether it is All right to kill Ani Mals to make fur Coats said the mayor s wife. Katha Rine Thalberg co founder of the Aspen society for animal  once Small mining Lown has four fur shops and More than 100 other businesses also sell  disclosure statements showed the various special inner Cal groups had spent Aboul $250.000 $67 per  other big att lion Gutler was inc proposal to reduce the size of the luxury hotel already under construction. The Developer. Mohamed Hadid. Purchase the land from new York billionaire Developer Donald Trump and planned a 292-Ioom building. Stirling and his supporters on inc Council spurred by complaints that the hold would Block views 9f Aspen Mountain s ski slopes and would just be too big for inc Lown space and services wanted to scale in Down by 25  re entered the fray reminding voters that he sold the land because the Lown would nol ice him build a hotel the size he wan cd which would have been close to the Council proposal. Woman jailed for contempt in Barry drug Case Washington a a woman was jailed for civil contempt of court tuesday after refusing to testify before a Federal grand jury investigating mayor Marion Barry. . District judge John Garrett Penn granted immunity from prosecution to Maria Mccarthy of Greensboro. . After she initially refused to discuss Barry with the grand jury said her attorney. Leslie Scherr. When she still declined to testify she was ordered jailed said Scherr. The grand jury is investigating Barry s lies to former City employee Charles Lewis who has cooperated with inc panel after pleading guilty to two cocaine conspiracy charges. Lewis testified in open court that he sup plied Barry with crack cocaine. The Federal investigation began in december 1988 after City police aborted an undercover drug Purchase from Lewis when they discovered that Barry was in his a. Judge rules Federal retirees won t get refunds Richmond. A. A a state judge ruled tues Day that Virginia docs not owe about $400 million in refunds to Federal retirees who were taxed illegally until last year. Alexandria circuit judge Donald h. Kent s ruling makes Virginia the first state to win a lawsuit Stem Ming from inc . Supreme court s ruling last year that several Stales had taxed retirees improperly the attorney general s office said in a statement. Virginia revised its income lax Laws in response to the ruling. Before the ruling the state had allowed state government retirees pensions to be tax free but had taxed the pensions of Federal government retirees. The High court said All retirees must be taxed the same. In a special session in april the legislature enacted a lax break for All pensioners. A revision of thai tax break that would make it less costly is pending in the legislature this year. Dennis Harrington a spokesman for the National association of retired Federal employees in washing ton said the organization was prepared to Appeal Kent s ruling on behalf of the approximately 200,000 retired Federal workers who live in Virginia. Michael Kalor. The lawyer who represented the Reti Rees said he would ask inc Virginia supreme court to overturn Kent. Kalor also said the . Supreme court has two pending cases from Arkansas and Flor Ida that Center on the question of unconstitutionally collected taxes. Downtown Washington hotel room. Barry who is enrolled in a Florida substance abuse treatment Center after being arrested Jan. 18 on a mis Demeanour cocaine Possession charge has denied using drugs with Lewis. Scherr said Mccarthy explained her decision not to testify by telling him i have to live with myself. Whether he was a Friend or enemy we had a relation ship that does t need Public  the attorney declined to say whether Mccarthy had been referring to Barry but two City government sources said that Barry and Mccarthy had had a per Sonal relationship. Scherr said Mccarthy had authorized him to reveal that she knows Rush Coda Moore the woman who Cooper ated with the Fri sting operation that resulted in Barry arrest. Scherr declined to provide further details about Mccarthy s connection to Moore or the mayor. Mccarthy is the second woman jailed for civil con Cimpl for refusing to discuss her relationship with barn. Karen Johnson served eight months in jail in 1984. Under Law Mccarthy can be held in jail As Long As the grand jury hearing evidence in the Case remains in ses Sion. Grand juries arc normally empanelled for 18 months at a time bul can be extended if the Case continues. In another development tuesday . Magistrate Deborah Robinson ruled that Barry docs not have to undergo a urinalysis while he is at the Florida clinic. However the magistrate said that Barry must be tested within 12 hours of his departure from the clinic in West Palm Beach. Weekly Icsis were a condition of Barry s original release from custody on Jan. 19. The . Alloney s office submitted a motion on monday asking hat Barry leave the clinic to be to sled weekly at a court approved facility. Authorities said that Barry had nol been tested at inc clinic since his arrival on Jan. 22. Teachers in Washington Stafe boy coff classes jeer governor olymp1a. Wash. A angry teachers boycotted classrooms by the thousands across inc state tuesday. They also staged a mass night Lime rally in which they jeered nov. Booth Gardner when he rejected their Call for higher salaries. This is not the session to Lalk Aboul additional salaries inc democratic governor told teachers who packed the Rotunda of the stale Capitol. About 13,000 teachers walked off their jobs in 35 of the slate s 296 school disc Ricks giving an Coli Malad 200,000 students a play Day the Washington education association said. Teachers Are getting a 10 percent pay boost Over iwo years but insist that $225 million of a $611 million by decl surplus should be used to double the increase. New state tax Revenue estimates which were to be released wednesday were expected to boost the surplus by More than $ 100 million. Teachers and supporters slag cd rallies in Seattle Etc real Spokane Vancouver. Tri cities Yakima and elsewhere around the state. In most disc Ricks inc walkout was cleared Wilh administrators in Advance and the Day will be made up at the end of the school year. But in other schools some teachers walked off the Job and left their classrooms to substitutes. Ill be docked $200, bul i Don t care said Randy Walden a social studies teacher at Rogers High school in Puyallup who Ira cled to Olympia for inc rally. We Felt so strongly we walked  we re tired of promises said another teacher Jeff Page who teaches at Lake a Leyns High school North of Scalle. I be been leaching 12 years and they keep saying Well do Sclier when times arc better. Well Booth has inc Money and we re still last in  in Washington Basic education is fully funded Al inc state level and teachers arc paid according to a stale salary schedule. Local property taxes May be used Only to pay teachers for extra Durics. The average Leachjr is paid Aboul $31,000 a year plus a supplemental contract of about $2,000 and benefits Worth about $9.100, according to the state by decl office. Senate budget chairman Dan Mcdonald a re publican said in would be too dangerous to use one Lime Windfall Revenue As the basis of a Long term financial obligation. Gardner wants to use Aboul one third of inc sur plus As a Reserve one third for children s programs and one third for unexpected Agency budget in creases