European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a a the stars and stripes monday March 26, 1990washington boosts drug War funds Washington up a . Attorney general Dick Thornburgh said sunday the Justice department would award anti drug abuse Grants of More than $395 million in 1990 to the 50 states five territories and the District of Columbia. Thornburgh noted that the Grants Are More than triple the $118.8 million awarded last year and More than double the $178.4 million awarded in fiscal year 1987. The first year of funding under the program. A the War on drugs must be fought at All Levels local state Federal and International a Thornburgh said in a statement. Quot these Grants will assist state and local criminal Justice agencies in carrying out their part of the International War on drugs by attacking the problem on main Street  states and localities have the option of using the funds for a variety of Law enforcement purposes including adjudication corrections drug Law enforcement drug testing intermediate sanctions and statewide intelligence systems Thornburgh said. The awards bring to $747.9 million the amount of Federal anti drug abuse Grants distributed under the drug control and system improvement formula Grant program since 1987, the Justice department said. Eligible states received a minimum base a Irh r la or it and a j a Usu a ind _ Al i 2f.ihiitate�?Ts collect vet spec Undin Gufor Cal $987,753, with the balance ally at to Safe so stories on the basis of relative population Lar i Clemments receive a portion depending upon their f1 ref the Chat pm a Rel Lartius re. Share purposes. President Bush has requested awards to $490 million in his 199 Justice department said. The awards Are made through the Bureau of jul Ira assistance a component of the department of i a a Tice s office of j ustice programs. An increase in the budget request the Ray of classic comedy team Dies at Home of kidney failure Manhasset new York up Ray Goulding the barrel chested burlier half of the comedy team Bob and Ray died saturday at his Home relatives said. The comedian was 68. Goulding died in his sleep of kidney failure said his son Bryant 31. He had been in failing health for the last several years he said. A the  help but think funny a Bryant said. A this mind always had a  Goulding worked with some of the most famous names in broadcasting during a half Century career. Johnny Carson was a longtime fan. A the was just a hilarious person a and we re not talking about falling Down the stairs a his son said. A the had a Knack for exaggerating the irrelevant and laughing at  recalling his own childhood Bryant remembered a living with someone who looked at life with the Angle that everything was pretty  a the was a Guy who enjoyed life and thought his family should do the same a he said. A the figured you should laugh As much As you  the native of Lowell mass., was bom March 22, 1922, and followed his elder brother Phillip into broadcasting when he was 17. He served in the army during world War ii and met his future partner Bob Elliott when both were working at radio station Whdeh in Boston in the late 1940s. A when they met they were just kidding Back and Forth a Bryant said. A and before you knew it they were a radio  that team a the genesis of the classic Bob and Ray duo a proved so popular that Abc offered the two a contract in 1951 and moved them to new York. In their heyday during the 1950s, Bob and Ray were on the air 18 hours a week. They also worked for the lbs and Mutual broadcast networks. The pair developed a unique and lib style that included spoofs of their own sponsors. In one spot they urged listeners to write in for a special offer on Turtleneck or a neck sweaters with the advice a please state what kind of neck you  after a Brief foray into Broadway with the show a Bob and Ray the two and Only a the two men busied themselves in recent years with flourishing careers producing radio and television advertising. The team was perhaps Best known for an advertising Campaign in the 1950s for Piels Beer in which they played Piel Brothers Harry and Bert. Television guides in that Era routinely noted the scheduled times of Bob and Ray commercials Bryant said. A roman Catholic funeral service was scheduled for wednesday in Man Hasset. Goulding is survived by his wife Elizabeth 68, and six children Bryant Ray jr., Tom Barbara Mark and Melissa. None of the children followed Goulding a path into show business. Bryant said. Bob Elliott a son Chris Elliott did follow in his fathers footsteps and has become a regular performer on a late night with David  mail forwarding policy irks elderly Washington apr the postal service wont Honor nursing Home residents requests to automatically Forward their mail when they move a policy that advocates say deprives Well travelled residents of some letters and treats them a like  while other people May submit change of address cards to the local Post office nursing Home residents a like prisoners a must rely on the institution to write their new address on individual letters. The policy is being questioned by advocates for the elderly in Florida and Pennsylvania and by members of a Senate panel. Since residents of a nursing Home Are at the same address the postal service says the Home should be a the agent of their mail. The mail is delivered in bulk like at a prison and then distributed. Allowing nursing Home residents to file address forwarding cards a would mean the person doing the sorting in the postal facility has to have a record of each person in the nursing Home where there May be quite a Deal of turnover a not so much in moving but in departing this Earth a postal service spokesman Lou Eberhardt said in an interview. When a resident moves Eberhardt said the nursing Home need Only write the new address on letters and the postal service will re deliver the mail free. A i think it represents a minuscule problem for everyone concerned a Eberhardt said. A if we did no to Forward mail free of charge it would then be an additional irritant. Its probably a very Short period of time before correspondents Are advised that the person has moved from one institution to  but sister Mary Gregoria Rush of the diocese of St. Petersburg fla., has been writing to the postmaster general and members of Congress to try to get the policy changed. A i done to think a lot of people Are aware of this a she said. A nursing Home residents Are treated like inmates like they were in jail or  she recalled the Case of Virginia Killi lae a 96-year-old former publicist for the Ringling Bros. Circus whose mail did not All follow her when she transferred from one Florida nursing Home to another. Some of the letters were a returned to sender because the Post office did not accept a forwarding address card and the institution was not always cooperative. Rush said. A this lady had travelled All Over the United states and she had All her mail stacked up and the Date she received it and answered it. But she spent Many hours citing because she was so lonely a Rush said. A if i were a Friend writing to a 96-year-old and i got a return to sender id assume she was  when a nursing Home was shut Down by Pennsylvania officials last year the state worked out a Deal under which the area Agency on aging agreed to ensure that mail found its Way to the 30 displaced residents. The federally funded aaa sponsors programs for the  failed say survivors of capsizing Seattle up a survivors of the Bering sea capsizing of a fishing trawler that left nine presumed drowned say an emergency warning system never sounded and had been inoperable for months. Alaska state trooper Robert Stevenson who interviewed 21 of the 22 survivors in dutch Harbor Alaska said saturday that several Crew members told him the alarm system designed to signal impending danger had not worked for some time. The alarm never sounded As the 162-foot Aleutian Enterprise listed badly rolled Over and Sank in five minutes thursday. 60 Miles South of the Remote Pribilof islands Stevenson said he was told. Nine Crew members from the Seattle based trawler were presumed dead following a seven hour search. Applause and cheering greeted survivors As they arrived at Seattle Tacoma International Airport about 9 . Saturday. About a half dozen survivors were met by More than a dozen crying family members and friends. One survivor John Hobbs. 23. Who arrived later said some Crew members Quot were on the sleep shift. There was no general alarm because it Wasny to  his Mother Judy Hobbs and his Girlfriend Nola Johnson said Hobbs told them he was below decks in the ships processing area when the capsizing occurred but managed to escape. The boat was partly rolled Over when he tried to return below decks to Rescue a Friend. Matt Schneider 22, of Issaquah Wash. Hobbs heard screams from people apparently trapped by the water his Mother and Girlfriend said but he  get into the ship. Schneider is listed among the missing.1 1 Chicago cabbies stripped of licenses Chicago up a Chicago cabdriver have nothing on their new York counterparts. The City has stripped 11 cabbies of their licenses for such violations As making obscene gestures. One was accused of threatening to kill an Airport dispatcher. Another who had been suspended live times lost his License for striking a Motorist who had blown his Horn. Many of the Drivers threatened passengers or tried to collect More than the metered fare. The City has More than 16,000 cabbies. Castro broadcast May be prelude to radio War Miami apr a speech by cuban president Fidel Castro that interfered with . Radio programs and could be heard on radios As far away As North Carolina raised concern saturday that an a fall out radio War May ensue Over to Marti. The Federal communications commission complained to Cuba about the broadcast Over six am frequencies spokeswoman Lorrie Secrest said. To Marti the .-financed television station is expected to begin beaming programs to Cuba this month from a balloon Over the Florida keys in spite of cubans protests. Cuba regards the Prospect of . News shows sitcoms and soap operas As a blatant intrusion on National sovereignty a or a Tele aggression a As Castro Calls it. In the midst of final preparations for the debut of to Marti Castro a Havana speech popped onto the airwaves Friday night Secrest said. . Signals have been jammed Many times in recent years especially when the 5-year-old radio Marti the Model for the to station was being debated m Congress. The cuban government has threatened retaliation if the Bush administration went ahead with a 90-Day test of Marti. Previous radio jamming from m communist nation has come at dial Erin times frequencies and Power Levels