European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday april 1, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7weekly payment torments convicted Drunken Driver Ca i o a v a apr for the Drunken Driver and v parents of the teen age girl he killed $ 1 a week is the Price for getting on with the rest of their lives. A i told the kid face to face if you want to get on a Ith your life and never see me again just put a Dollar in the mail every Friday a said Louis Herzog. Susan Herzog was 18 when she was killed on new year s Day 1982. Kevin Tunell was 17, so his Case went to juvenile court where he was convicted of manslaughter and Drunken driving. Louis and Patricia Herzog filed a $1.5 million suit a Earnst Tunell but settled for $936, to be paid $ 1 at a time to remind Tunell what he had done to their daughter. Tunell now 26, keeps missing his payments. The Hertogs keep taking him to court. He was sentenced thursday in Fairfax county circuit court to 30 Days in jail for contempt because he has not lived up to his agreement to make the weekly payments. Circuit judge Jack b. Stevens allowed him 30 Days to Appeal. Testifying thursday Tunell said he is haunted by Susan Herzog a death and tormented by the payments. A a it a like in a not purposely not writing them because i want to defy the court and in a trying to Hurt the Hertogs a he said weeping. A i just done to feel Good. It  this was the fourth time in eight years that the Hertogs both Active in mothers against drunk driving have been to court trying to enforce the Dollar a week agreement. As his criminal sentence Tunell was ordered to spend a year talking to groups about the evils of Drunken driving. He completed that sentence he said and continued to Campaign against Drunken driving for the next six years. Tunell declined Friday to talk about the Case. A i think its pretty evident what a going on. I think people will understand Why i done to want to talk a Tunell said by Telephone from his parents Home in Fairfax. A i just want to get on with my  tunello a lawyer Stan Klein also declined to answer questions but read a statement. A Kevin and his family Hope that this tragedy of Over eight years ago can be left to the families that have suffered As a result of it As they will have to continue to live with it for the rest of their lives a the statement said. The $1 payments Are due each Friday because Susan died on a Friday. They began in 1982 and will end in 2000 a one year for every year Susan lived. The agreement specifies that payments Are to be made by Check made out to Susan Herzog. Her parents Deposit the Money in a scholarship fund at Vir Ginia tech earmarked for students from Robinson High school where their daughter was a senior. From the witness stand thursday Tunell offered the Hertogs two boxes of checks covering payments until 2001, one year More than required. They refused. A what we want is to receive that Check every week on time a mrs. Herzog said. A the must understand we Are going to pursue this until August of the year 2000. We will go Back to court every month in we have  the couple say they have no sympathy for Drunken Drivers. A second daughter. Deborah was hit by a Drunken Driver in 1987. The Florida Accident crushed Deborah Herzog a legs and she now walks with a permanent Limp. Judge Stevens while ruling Tunell in contempt questioned the parents persistence. A a it a been said a to err is human. But to forgive is divine a a Stevens said. A i suppose to forgive is divine but unfortunately Lou Herzog is just an average Guy a Herzog said Friday. A we re always asked Why arc we doing this Why Are we trying to ruin this boys life a he said. A a we re not vindictive. We re not trying to destroy this Young Man. All we want is what we agreed to. We re getting on with our lives and we want him to gel on with  Bridges Radical labor organizer Dies at 88 san Francisco not a Harry Bridges a leading figure in americans 20th-Century labor movement who organized the West coast longshoremen in the 1930s, died of emphysema Friday at his Home in san Francisco the longshoremen a Union reported. He was 88. Bridges is survived by his wife Noriko four children Julie Fales Robert Bridges Jackie Jourdan and Katherine Bridges All residents of the Bay area five grandchildren and four great grandchildren. The Union said his ashes would be scattered in san Francisco Bay. The australian born Bridges who entered the United states by jumping ship in 1920, was an unyielding unionist when Dock strikes could still cripple segments of the Economy. But the International longshoremen a and warehousemen a Union which he headed until 1977, has lost much of its inn ence to technology. He was labelled a communist by Congress which sought to Deport him As an a undesirable  he was a Dapper Hawk faced Man with a disarming smile and mellowed with age. Mayor Art Agnos of san Francisco ordered City flags to be flown at half staff in his Honor. A Harry Bridges death leaves a void that can never be filled a the mayor said. A the was a legendary figure in the labor movement whose courage and Devotion to principle will never be forgotten. All of san Francisco mourns this  Alfred Renton Bryant Bridges was born july 28, 1901, in Kensington a suburb of Melbourne. He began his working life As a store clerk but the novels of Jack London lured him to sea when he was 16. He was shipwrecked twice once staying afloat on his mandolin. In 1920, he entered the United states aboard the barkentine Ysabel but left the Crew after arguing with the skipper about the treatment of seamen. He drifted from san Francisco to Mexico working in the Oil Fields and As a rigger and later returned to sea on . Merchant vessels. He was in the Crew of a ship that arrived in new Orleans in 1921 during a strike. He reported for picket duty and was in charge of a picket squad when the walkout ended. But he was arrested and jailed overnight an experience that prompted him to join the Industrial workers of the world. Years later he recalled that he left the iwo after three years because he lost Faith in them a �?o1 forget  Bridges who never lost his australian accent came to the san Francisco docks in 1922, when stevedores reported for the a shape up before Sunrise to be picked for work or sent away. His passion for Union organization and growing Militancy came to the fore Harry Bridges in 1985 photo. In 1933, when he led a group of organizers to establish a longshoremen a local on the san Francisco docks. In six weeks most Dock workers had signed up for the new International longshoremen a association local which demanded wages higher than the prevailing $10.45 a week Coas wide recognition and a 30-hour week. Mediation failed and the i la struck in May 1934. On july 5, police charged a picket line in which two people were killed and 100 injured. Martial Law was declared. A general strike followed stopping most industries for three Days. Bridges pulled his Ila local out of the american federation of labor in 1937 and took it into what was to become John l. Lewis militant Congress of Industrial organizations. He also reorganized his own Union renamed the International longshoremen a and warehousemen s Union Independent of Theila. Antagonism Between the rival organizations persisted for years with Bridges denouncing the Ila Lor a corrupt Quot Dock work practices and the Ila shunning him As a a communist Quot a charge he steadfastly denied. As president of the Iwu Bridges enjoyed Strong support from his men when Congress tried to Deport him in the 1940s. The House of representatives voted 330-42 to Deport him a decision overturned later by the . Supreme court. In fact the court twice ruled in his favor against charges that he was a communist and had lied about never having been a party member. Bridges insisted that it was the rank and file that built his Union. A i just got the credit for a lot of it a he told an interviewer in 1985, crickets invading Rural Nevada Reno Nev. Apr millions of crop eating Leaf comping crickets that can grow As big As a Small mouse have invaded Rural Nevada. U s the worst infestation of the so called mormon crickets since the 1930s, agricultural officials said. We be probably got 700,000 acres of the state invested now they re starting to Hatch and the ground is just Black with them in some places a Dick Rowe Deputy director of the Plant Industry division of the Nevada agriculture department said Friday. Right now they re Little devils but pretty soon if they re not stopped they re going to be big a Rowe has counted about 100 crickets per Square toot in the worst infested areas compared with one or two m a Normal year. The insects got their name from a similar infestation q in Utah a the 19th Century. Sea gulls from i reportedly flew Over the infested land Chung the crickets to save the mormon populated area torn total destruction Rowe said. A i done to know if its True or not a he said. A but it takes a pretty Good size Bird to eat them when they re mature. Most of them Are about the size of your thumb and they got hard spurs on the Back of their legs so they get stuck in the Craw of Birds and kill  the crickets which make chirping sounds spit Brown juice and bite humans if disturbed a heat everything in sight including each other a Rowe said. Unable to Fly they March in bands across the land and strip crops clean eat leaves and bark off Trees and gobble up any organic material. Common crops across the infested parts of Nevada include Alfalfa Alfalfa seed potatoes Meadow Hay and Small Grain. State and Federal agriculture agencies Are developing a plan for controlling the infestation in northeastern and North Central Nevada. Chemical spraying and baiting the area with poisoned food is being considered and a control plan is expected to be adopted this week according to Rowe and George Nash head of the Federal animal and Plant health inspection service Plant disease and quarantine operation based in Reno but Nash estimated it would Cost $15 per acre for control measures with Farmers and ranchers paying half the Cost on private lands and the government picking up the entire Tab on Public properly. Rowe said three or four dry Springs in a Row and recent warm weather have been perfect for the crickets. The crickets Stop in their tracks when the temperature drops and starve if they done to continue their hungry March he said. Jeff Knight also with the state agriculture department said the crickets Lay eggs in the summer and fall that incubate during the Winter and Hatch in the Spring. The one generation insects normally live through september he said. A a it a frightening once they get larger and Start moving a Knight said. A a in be seen some the size of a House mouse about 2 inches in body length and three quarters of an Inch wide. When they bite they re big enough to break the