European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes saturday april 28,1990 a stress at the office most secretaries have had Days when ies were Given the Opportunity thurs the second annual Secretary Type writ Morrell who works for Merrill Lynch they just wanted to Chuck that Type Day to throw their Pesky typewriters Aser toss contest celebrating Secretary stockbrokers gives it her Best shot As writer out the window. Well Secretary far As they could As they competed in ies week in Manchester . Robin she tries to outdo nine other women. Drivers get Chance to Cut smog by Selling clunkers to Oil firm los Angeles apr a giant Oil company is offering $700 to motorists who Are willing to unload their clunkers and would like to help reduce smog in the los Angeles area. A we want to take the heaviest polluters off the Road and hand them Over to a scrap Yard which will shred and Recycle the Metal a nocal corp. Chairman Richard j. Stegemeier said thursday. Nocal executives said pre-1971 vehicles pollute 15 to 30 times More than 1990 models although air Quality officials done to consider buy Back programs for old cars the most effective Way to reduce pollution. There Are 410,000 pre-1971 cars registered in the los Angeles area. Nocal said it would pay $700 for the first 7,000 cars turned in. A we want to demonstrate ways of reducing smog that Are efficient and Cost effective a Stegemeier said. The program is scheduled to begin june 1. Another voluntary program to take effect in july offers free smog checks and emission control tuneup for pre-1975 cars at participating nocal 76 service stations. Such tuneup could remove 17 million pounds of Carbon monoxide nitrogen oxides and reactive organic gases from the los Angeles Basin which has the worst air Quality problem in the nation nocal said. A buy Back program was suggested last year to regional smog control officials by the Claremont Institute a conservative non profit think tank. The Institute suggested paying about $1,500 apiece to remove 850,000 pre-1980 vehicles from the Region at a Cost of $1.3 billion said Lucas Morel a research associate at the Institute. Tom Eichhorn a spokesman for the South coast air Quality management District said estimates of pollution eliminated by vehicle buy Back programs Are questionable because old cars Are less reliable and probably driven less than newer cars. In addition Agency officials estimate that most old cars will Stop running in a few years anyway which does no to really help the Region attain Federal clean air standards by 2007, As required by Congress. Stateside ousted Mississippi judge arrested for Hunting violations Pascagoula miss. Apr a former Federal judge who was impeached by Congress and removed from office in november has been arrested along with a state wildlife officer on Hunting violations officials said thursday. Former . District judge Walter l. Nixon or. Was released on $100 signature Bond Early thursday after being booked at the Jackson county sheriffs department according to capt. Mike Diamond. Nixon of Ocean Springs was charged with Hunting game Birds by using bait a Misdemeanour Diamond said. _ Austin Shattles a supervisor with the state red Creek game management area in Jackson county was charged with conspiracy to bait Turkey the officer said. He also posted $ 100 Bond. The arrests were the result of an undercover investigation by the state department of wildlife fisheries and Parks. On March 23, 1986, Nixon 61, began serving two simultaneous five year prison terms and was paroled in november from a new Orleans Halfway  who murdered 4 Dies in . Electric chair Columbia . Apr a thief who killed four people and left another maimed for life in a 1979 rampage was executed Friday. A a in a sorry a Ronald a a Rusty Woomer 35, said in a Low shaky voice from the electric chair immediately before being put to death for the slaying of convenience store clerk Della Louise Sellers a i claim Jesus Christ As my Savior. I Only wish everyone could feel the love i fee for him a Woomer said. Prison officials switched on the current at 1 05 . And Woomer was pronounced dead seven minutes later said William d. Catoe the corrections departments Deputy commissioner for operations. A it was too easy. It was too easy a said Sellers husband Don who witnessed the execution. A cheer erupted from a waiting crowd of about 80 death penalty proponents a including relatives of Woomera a victims a As the Hearse bearing the body left the death House. Woomera a path to death Row began on feb. 21, 1979, when he and Eugene Skaar left West Virginia with a plan to steal rare coins from collector John Turner 67, in Cottageville . When the pair reached Turners Home on feb. 22, they took the coins and fatally shot him in the head police said. From there Woomer and Skaar drove to a neighbouring Community and forced their Way into the Home of Amie Richardson looking for Money and guns. Woomer shot Richardson 27, in the head killing him then killed Richardson a 35-year-old mentally handicapped sister in Law Earldean Wright to silence her screams. Richardson a 5-year-old daughter Denna also was injured. Later that Day Woomer and Skaar kidnapped mrs. Sellers 34, and Wanda Summers then 24, from a convenience store on Hawleys Island where the women worked. Both were raped and shot. Sellers died but Summers survived losing half of her face to a Shotgun blast. Skaar killed himself to avoid capture and Woomer surrendered peaceful y when police closed in on their Myrtle Beach hotel late that Day