European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday july 26, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 3 by Timothy Clifford new Day. North Weare , a his House needs painting. Little of his Money goes to clothes or much of anything else. And a Rabbit once attacked him on a Mountain hike. But neighbors colleagues and friends cannot find a bad word to say about . Supreme court nominee David Hackett Souter. A ,. A a a a a. A. A a a if something Ever happened to my family and we needed somebody David is the first person wed Call a said Bill Glahn a lawyer who once worked for Souter and became one of his closest friends. A this Guy is As incredible As lev Tryone says he is. Bill Gilman who lives across the dirt Road from Souter paid him the highest Yankee compliment for a neighbor a the never bothers anybody. He a a Fella that works hard a even political opponents not known for gratuitous kindness in this fractious state mostly Praise the 50-year-old judge on the . First circuit court of appeals. A a it a hard to imagine that someone like David Souter is around in the 1990s,�?� said John Broderick counsel to the state democratic party and president of the new Hampshire bar association. A the has an integrity and intelligence to his decisions that a hard to find these Days and incredible to  Souter has his critics. Robert Cushing one of the founders of the Clamshell Alliance battling against the Seabrook nuclear Power Plant recalled when Souter new Hampshire attorney general from 1976-1978, demanded in court that hundreds of protesters be jailed for a 1977 anti nuclear demonstration. Quot these were first time convictions for Misdemeanour criminal trespassing and the judge was handing out suspended jail sentences and fines Cushing said. At. The time Souter insisted that Der Toonstra tors sought nothing but publicity a by taking a few Days off from  still Cushing rated Souter highly a at least for new Hampshire judges Quot he Isnit the usual Hack who spends his time grandstanding on the rubber Chicken circuit. He a smart and even if you disagree with his decisions you can understand  calling him a a natural judge Quot former flamboyant gov. Meldrim Thomson or. Appointed Souter to the state Superior court in 1978. Quot he Wasny to sure whether he wanted to take it a Thomson said. A the had no doubts about his abilities it was a question of whether he wanted to go Back into private practice.�?�. At the recommendation of Thomson arid sen. Warren Rudman r-. A who preceded Souter As state attorney general a then gov. John Sununu now White House chief of staff named the Rhodes scholar to the states highest court in 1983. Despite his Quick Rise in National prominence Souter still lives alone in his maternal grandparents farmhouse in North Weare about a dozen Miles outside of Concord. Friends joke that his a reporters and photographers surround David Souter As the 56-year-old supreme court nominee leaves the office of sen. Warren Rudman r-., on tuesday. Mailing address abbreviates to no. Weare mimicking  although his two Story mostly Brown House needs work and the grass is losing ground to the weeds it May be the local showplace for this Rural neighbourhood. Devoted to music arts arid books which sprout in piles All Over the House Souter ignores temptations such As travel fancy cars colourful clothes and the movies friends said. A i think he probably saved every dime he a Ever made a Glahn joked. Besides pointing to sout Eros record of naming the first women criminal prosecutors in new Hampshire while attorney general Glahn a wife Hansi sharply counters any doubts about his sensitivity As a Bachelor to women. A i done to think that just because he a not surrounded by women All the time that he does no to know How women feel a she said. A the listens and he  a waiters Dodge taxes on most tips irs says Washington apr the average . Restaurant tip is just under 12 percent and food servers Are dodging taxes on As much As two thirds of it the internal Revenue service said tuesday. Employees of restaurants with 10 or fewer workers Are reporting Only $1 of every $3 received in tips Marshall Washburn Deputy assistant irs commissioner told the House ways and Means social Security subcommittee. Waiters in larger restaurants Are reporting half their tips he said. Those figures Are up significantly from 1982, when the disclosure that Only 16 percent of tips were reported to tax collectors prompted Congress to toughen the Law on tips. Under the new Law Washburn said voluntarily reported tips Rose by $1.6 billion in 1984 alone. Federal tax collections on tip income Rose by More than $1 billion in the three years ending in 1986. The 1982 Law requires tipped employees of larger restaurants to prove it if they claim to have received tips averaging less than 8 percent. Employees Are also required to report tip income to their employers and the employers to pass that information on to the irs. The subject of tuesdays hearing was an Effort by the restaurant Industry to repeal a newer Law which requires employers to pay social Security taxes on All of an employees tips up to $51,300 a year. The employee pays a Matching amount. Before the Law was changed in 1987, the employer paid social Security taxes Only on an amount equal to the minimum wage which today would be $7,904. Rob Haimson a Greeley colo., restaurateur speaking for the National restaurant association said the 1987 Law should be changed because it penalizes businesses As Well As employees is difficult to enforce and is not needed by the social Security system. A the social Security tax is a payroll tax which is intended to be based upon wages paid by an employer a said Roger Branigan who operates a restaurant in Indianapolis. A tips Are not  contributed to Reno Nev. Up a an expert in subliminal perception testified that hidden messages of a do it do it Quot allegedly inserted on an album by the heavy Metal Rock group Judas priest helped trigger the suicide pact of two Young men. Howard Shevrin a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan was a key witness tuesday in the trial of a product liability suit against Judas priest and lbs records. In the suit the Young menus parents allege that subliminal messages were mainly responsible for their deaths. Shevrin said the phrase Quot do it a allegedly hidden beneath drum beats on the a stained class Quot album. War responsible in part for the deaths of Raymond Belknap and James Vance who shot themselves in 1985 after listening to the songs for several hours while drinking Beer and smoking marijuana. Shevrin who said he has been researching subliminal perception since 1956, was called by the parents As an expert witness. He said messages appealing to the subconscious mind can prompt a compulsive  on dec. 23, 1985, Belknap 18, shot himself with a Shotgun and died instantly. Vance 20, blew away his face but lived for three years before dying of complications from the wounds and the drugs that his doctors had prescribed. Their parents argue that the inaudible messages invaded their subconscious and led to the suicide pact. Judas priest and lbs records deny there were any hidden messages on the record. Shevrin a testimony ran contrary to that of or. Donald Lunde a Stanford University psychiatry professor who had been called by the defense As their expert witness. Lunde told the court of state District judge Jerry Whitehead that a subliminal message would not trigger suicide. In testimony monday Lunde said the youths were at High risk for suicide because of drug use drinking and troubles with parents school and the Law. But Shevrin said the a dinner conflicts of the two Young men the Judas priest lyrics and the subliminal message All contributed to the suicide pact and that if one of those ingredients had been missing the shootings probably would not have occurred. He said the victims exhibited a violent destructive song messages Belknap Vance behave or and had conflicts with girlfriends families and others. They became like Brothers using drugs and alcohol together. They turned to heavy Metal music a was a source of support and  Shevrin said he based his conclusions on the subliminal messages that William Nickloff a sound Engineer who in the pretrial testified he was Able to decipher the words a do it Quot in at least seven places on the album. There have been at least three similar cases a in California Georgia and new Jersey a in which suicides have been blamed on the album a suicide solution Quot by Rock Singer Ozzy of Boule. The California Case was dismissed when a court ruled that song lyrics were protected by the first amendment guarantees of free speech. The Georgia Case is still pending and heavy Metal music has been removed As a Factor in the new Jersey Case. Judge Whitehead has ruled that subliminal messages Are not a form of speech and therefore Are not covered by the first amendment but he has not ruled whether the Judas priest Alburn contains such material. The families have not said How much Money they Are seeking but the medical Bills for Vance exceeded $400,000. A verdict in favor of the parents could Force record companies to screen lyrics or face the possibility of having to pay punitive damages in similar cases