European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 a a the stars and stripes monday August 13,1990 n 1 r 3 3 v a 7> r a j Jeff Quot j f. In t_j3 in ii a t i Vas t i d Quot a Quot i i 1 -r1 a or 3 sat is 1 j a a Washington apr fatness has Little to with fitness of flight attendants says an Ohio senator who has taken up the cause of women grounded by american airlines weight policy. The policy is a outdated and wrong a Democrat Howard Metzenbaum said in a letter urging the Texas based Carrier to scrap its weight Standard. The senator said the Standard appears to be biased against women a particularly older women. A according to american flight attendants the Standard is applied in practice almost exclusively to the female attendants a Metzenbaum wrote. A certainly it has no application whatsoever to the pilots management or executive american airlines president Robert Crandall has said weight standards arc necessary because a a we be got some people on our air planes that Are Way too heavy. Company spokesman Al Becker said american has offered to liberalize its weight standards but the attendants Union a would like for us to abandon weight standards altogether a we Are not prepared to do that a he said. A your flight attendants Are a Public contacts the association of professional flight attendants the Union for americans 16,000 attendants is suing the company to Challenge the 37-year-old weight guidelines which were slightly modified in 1975 after another court Challenge. The trial is scheduled for 1991 in fort Worth Texas. The two sides Are scheduled to meet aug. 22 in fort Worth to discuss a possible out of court settlement company spokesman de Stewart said. The equal employment Opportunity commission has filed a Federal class action suit in los Angeles contending the policy discriminates against women and especially discriminates against women Over 40. According to Metzenbaum and Leoc lawyer Ralph . Fertig americans policy requires a a firm trim Silhouette free of bulges Rolls or a american still wants their flight attendants to Appeal to a male sexist notion of what i s sexy a Fertig said. Pan american world airways last year ended six years of litigation by raising weight requirements and allowing an extra 9 pounds As attendants get older. also agreed to pay $2.3 million in lost wages to 115 employees who were not allowed to work because of their weight. Northwest and Continental have dropped their weight restrictions. Delta air lines and us air use less stringent weight charts and provide leeway for older flight attendants. Americans standards Are roughly tied to a 1959 metropolitan life insurance co. Chart. A 5-foot-5-Inch attendant May weigh no More than 129 pounds at american Al Delta she could weigh up to 138, with 4 added pounds As she Ages and at pan am she could weigh up to 150 pounds plus an extra 9 pounds As she Ages. Becker said american has offered to add allowances for age and weight loss leave but he did not have details of the proposal submitted to the Union inlay. A we believe we Are being reasonable and realistic in this a he said. A what we want Are a set of weight standards that make sense and that project american in the proper Metzenbaum who is very lean urged american to follow the Lead of the other airlines and adopt a fitness based employee a his letter pointed out that he Heads the Senate labor subcommittee but he did not threaten a formal investigation or congressional hearing. Spokeswoman Nancy Coffey said Metzenbaum sent the letter to encourage american a to become More Modem a and further action a would depend upon what american Crew m a Bia seller Salt Lake City apr the Pilot navigator and Bombardier of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima say they have no reservations about making a Buck off their place in history. In recent months they be been hopscotch ing the country hawking books to shirts Caps and co fee mugs commemorating the aug. 6, 1945, bombing that claimed nearly 100,000 japanese lives and hastened the end of world War ii. Its simple Supply and demand says 75-Ycar-old retired Brig. Gen. Paul w. Try acts jr., the Pilot of the bomber Enola Gay. He spent years speaking for free at kiwanis and rotary luncheons. A none of these organizations that ask you to come and talk Oifer you any kind of compensation for doing it a he said. A i unfortunately arrived at the Point they expect you to do it. You owe it to them. A Well i done to think 1 owe anybody a Damn thing a Setsuko Thurlow founder and co chairwoman of Hiroshima Nagasaki relived a Toronto based anti nuclear group finds that attitude appalling. She was 13 when she was buried in the nibble from the bomb which killed her sister and another family member. A i think it is commercial exploitation of the hundreds of thousands of people who were killed a she said. �?�1 do question their sense of morality. Whatever they did you would think they would feel at least a part of the collective but Tibbets said a a it a never dawned on me that in a trying to capitalize on anybody a death. My reaction to that is 1 Tell them that they re last August Tibbets hooked up with an agent c Lark St. John of Buckeye aviation publishing co., which published his Book a flight of the Enola they began touring shopping malls and air shows and later persuaded Enola Gay navigator Theodore a a dutch Van Kirk and Bombardier Tom Ferebee to join them. Since then they be visited Florida Georgia Alabama Ohio Michigan and Indiana. Both Tibbets and St. John declined to say How much Money was coming in. A a nobody a getting Rich Here a said St. John. A but i would say we re certainly in the Tibbets said it quickly became apparent they were an attraction Quot we found out that people came in and they had All kinds of pictures they wanted pictures autographed a he said. A they were interested in the Book but they had their own mementos. You know a will you autograph this will you autograph that a that prompted St. John and Tibbets to develop their own package of wares including enc a Gay cd Tec mugs for $6, to shirts for $9, sweatshirts at $12.95, videos Selling Theodore a a dutch Van Kirk front joined by Tom Ferebee and Paul w. Tibbets behind table autographs a lithograph for Betty Kavanagh in Salt Lake City. For $19.95 and $24.95, photographs for $6 and $9, and a copy of the order authorizing use of the atomic bomb for $5. The mugs and shirts Bear the insignia of the group that dropped the bomb and the words a first atomic the mugs also Bear Tibbets name. The big Sellers said St. John Are Tibbets Book for $14.95 and a limited edition color lithograph Selling for $24.95, depicting the bomber climbing away As the mushroom Cloud blossomed Over Hiroshima. Autographs and handshakes Are free. A the general does not charge for an autograph a St. John said. A the refuses to get involved in a gimmick like at a recent Book signing in Salt Lake City people who stopped by the trios table included a couple of former members of Tibbets 509th composite group who snapped off smart salutes to their former commanding officer. The group trained at Wendover Utah in 1944 and 1945. Visitors also included other world War ii veterans. A thanks Quot said one Gray haired Man whose wife took snapshots of him shaking hands with Tibbets. A i was a Marine in the South Pacific and i sure As hell did no to want to have to invade Japan surrendered five Days after a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on aug. 9, 1945. Van Kirk said he joined Tibbets and Ferebee on the Road my use it gives him an Opportunity to refresh the memories of his countrymen fading 45 years after a a Day. Quot you know 1 had a Young reporter once ask me How 10 spell a Hiroshima a a he said. A i think there san amazing Lack of knowledge in this country about what went on in those Days a if in a lending even a Little bit of knowledge to some people. I think in a making a of artillery shells closes a. Beach Hampton a. Apr a one mile stretch of Beach was temporarily dosed after at least 28 shells a some of which May Date Back to the civil War a w Ere discovered in Sand dredged from the Chesapeake Bay. Police and fire officials dosed Buckroe Beach on saturday after a Man looking for valuables with a hand held Metal Detector found tour 11-Inch-Long shells. At least 28 shells have been found since wednesday when a Norfolk dredging employee discovered another three shells along the Beach. A some Are missing the nose part or the fuse part. All of them still have the explosive material inside the Shell Quot fire battalion chief Richard c. Blakeslee said sunday. Police officers guarded the Beach area and shooed away would be explorers until a two Man team from Langley fab in Hampton arrived late saturday to dispose of the shells. On sunday morning officials armed with Metal detectors unearthed eight shells during a sweep of the Beach police said. Officials reopened a major portion of the Beach sunday afternoon. Much of the ammunition is world w a ii Vintage but officials said some Date Back to world War i and still others contained traces of a powder that was used in civil War artillery. Blakeslee said most of the shells were probably dredged up from an area that was previously used for target practice. 1 ech. Sgt. . Temme of Langley a a explosive ordnance disposal unit said it was unlikely that the shells would explode unless they were dropped on their nose. Blakeslee said some of the shells could probably cause extensive damage. A these were designed to take aircraft Down a he said. A once that Black powder portion dries they can be capable of doing their Job for up to 200 the shells were dredged up along with tons of Sand from the Chesapeake Bay about two Miles offshore and pumped through a 22-Inch-wide steel pipe onto the Beach. Sand is being dredged from the Bay As part of a nearly $1 million Beach replenishment project that began aug. 3. Langley was unable to offer its Large mine detectors because they were being transferred to the Middle East to help . Forces defend saudi Arabia from a possible attack by Iraq temme said. P
