European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday june 9, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 5study says hispanics locked in poverty. It a r_____.1kahaia Uicon Eirc Arnm by the Washington Post Washington a the . Hispanic population is crowing five times faster than the rest of the Sty sch More Likely t0 live Mzx tvs he employed in Low wage occupations and to lag be sind educationally the census Bureau reported in a study due for release Friday. The futures show that hispanic households Are More Likely than non hispanic households to be made up of families but those families Are less Likely to own their Homes or have a Telephone. A it Points to a couple of very troubling things a said i a Navarrete spokeswoman for the National Council of la Raza a hispanic cultural and rights group. While poverty generally is associated with unstable families and Young single Mother she said Many of the poor in the hispanic Community Are found in two Parent working families. A for the most part hispanic poverty is different. Its a Case of the working poor a Navarrete said. The most striking trend continues to be the rate of growth the hispanic population a now More than 20 million a has grown 39 percent since 1980, compared with an 8 percent Rise for the non hispanic population. About half of the growth among hispanics was due to immigration. In Light of that growth indications of continued High poverty and educational failure take on added importance. Using 1988 income nearly 24 percent of hispanic families fell below the poverty line compared to 9.4 percent among non hispanic families. At the same time Black families also Are disproportionately poor with More than 28 percent in poverty according to census figures. A report issued recently by the National Council of la Raza underscored the economic problems among hispanics stating that by any Standard hispanics lost ground economically during the 1980s and that the income disparity with White family income was growing. The report a the decade of the hispanic an economic retrospective a said a some americans believe that the hispanic poor do not work and do not live in intact families a the report stated. A the worsening situation of working married couple hispanics dramatically belies this  the study reported that the poverty rate among hispanic Mam cd couple families in 1979 was 13.1 percent about the same As that for comparable Black families while the figure among White married couple families was 4.7 percent. In 1988, however the figure for Whites had risen slightly to 4.9 percent while the rate among Blacks had fallen to 11.3 percent. Among hispanics the poverty figure climbed to 16.1 percent. The census Bureau report cited these statistics a Only 60 percent of Young hispanic adults said they had completed four or More years of High school compared to 89 percent of non hispanics. A 54 percent of hispanic men were employed in lower paying service occupations compared to 33 percent among non hispanics. A 82 percent of hispanic households were made up of families compared to 70 percent of non hispanic  grounds Columbia until at least August Cape canaveral Fla. Apr a fuel leak will keep the shuttle Columbia and its $150 million Astro Observatory grounded at least until August Nasa said thursday. The next shuttle Mission will be that of Atlantis to carry a secret military payload into orbit in mid july. A it is our intent to make sure that these vehicles Are ready and Safe to Fly a said shuttle director Robert l. Crippen. A when we have a problem such As this and this is the nature of the machines that we re dealing with we just have to fall Back and regroup and put them in a condition that is Safe to  columbian a upcoming flights will be pushed Back a in an orderly fashion a Crippen said. A scientific research Mission scheduled for August is now set for december pushing columbian a december Mission with a microgravity Laboratory into next year. Columbia will be moved from the launch pad Back to the hangar next week so the Hydrogen leak can be repaired the National aeronautics and space administration said. The Astro Mission already was two weeks late because of Cooling system repairs. Colorado town levelled Dave Stone a municipal worker for night levelled the building and an Esti South to Northeast Limon colo., walks through the rubble mated 90 percent of the business Dis dollars Worth of damage and Njo inn a Redwood summer protest starts Sacramento Calif. Apr demonstrators some dressed As Trees launched a summer Long Campaign designated a Redwood summer on thursday with a protest at a lumber Export company promising to a put their bodies on the line to Block cutting of Virgin Timber. The 50 demonstrators were matched one for one by police who Are on Edge because of a bombing that injured two members of Earth first the group organizing the summer of protest. The demonstrators gathered at the port of Sacramento outside Gene West inc., which exports logs to China Korea and Japan. Speakers decried what they said is Over harvesting of Timber and cutting of old growth redwoods. They said logging companies Are racing against deadlines including environmental Protection measures on californians november ballot and the possibility that logging of redwoods could be curtailed by an endangered species designation for the spotted owl which lives among the big Trees. A Over 150 acres of old growth Timber a Day Are being Cut. Its time for us to Stop asking and Start demanding that they Stop it a said David Orr 32, a University of California at Davis employee. A Earth first participants Are willing to put their bodies on the line to Stop the  the protesters varied ranks stretched from students to housewives and from perennial activists to environmental demonstration newcomers. A i am not a Liberal. I have a Job. I am a mainstream american and i am equally concerned about our resources a said Edwin reidel a 21-year-old College student. A this is no joke. The time has come for everyone to express their  Between speakers demonstrators waved a Large american Flag and chanted such slogans As a save our forests a and a no More  they held hand fashioned signs that said a blogs Are jobs. Keep Mem Here a a Stop log exports a and a support sustainable  a spokesman for the port said Gene West inc. Exports Only Low Quality White fir and diseased Trees taken from the Sierra Nevada that would not normally be milled in the United states anyway. Protesters had planned to interfere with loading of logs aboard a ship bound for Japan but the vessel left wednesday port officials said. The environmentalists Are planning widespread protests in coming months. The Earth first organizers said they Hope to reproduce the environmental equivalent of Freedom summer the 1964 voter registration Campaign entered in Mississippi that led to the 1965 voting rights act. That summer was marked by violence including the murder of three civil rights workers near Philadelphia  of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. June 9, 1950 a suspended pm Merce department economist William Remington was indicted by a Federal Irand jury which charged he lied when in testified he had never been a member of the communist party.30 years ago today. June 9, 1960 a a Senate appropriations subcommittee approved a $40 billion military Money Bill which substantially increased president Eisenhower a defense budget.20 years ago today. June 9, 1970 a a presidential task Force concluded a four Day fact finding trip to Southeast Asia and said it was prepared to report to president Nixon with a new insights and facts about the cambodian situation.�?�10 years ago today. June 9, 1980 a president Carter sent a message to egyptian president Anwar Sadat about new american proposals aimed at restarting the suspended palestinian autonomy talks the official Middle East news Agency reported