European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 30, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 4 the stars and stripes president suffers ear injury Hook Kennebunkport Maine apr president Bush suffered a pierced car lobe tuesday when a fishing line cast by his son accidentally caught his ear the White House said. Bush a press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said the president was on a fishing Outing with his House guest Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney and Bush a son Job. Job Bush cast a fishing line and the Hook accidentally pierced his fathers right ear lobe Fitz water said. Bush a physician on an accompanying boat attended to the wound snipping the fishhook with wire culters and pulling the remainder of the Hook through the ear according to Fitzwater. A the president was Strong and courageous throughout this exercise a Fitzwater told reporters travelling Back to Washington with Bush aboard air Force one. Fitzwater said the Hook went completely through the ear lobe. Bush continued to fish for about another hour and later received a tetanus shot. When he boarded air Force one on tuesday morning there was no evidence of a wound or Bandage visible to watching  computer doubles Bills and buyers by the Washington Post Washington a a Gigantic data chomping computer burped last month giving hundreds of retailers and customers around the nation a $500,000 Case of financial indigestion. On july 28, visas main computer system in California billed some customers twice for the same credit card purchases. A $30 restaurant Tab became a fancy $60 affair. A Nice $50 sweater got a whole lot nicer at $ 100. And with that $1,000 camcorder a voila a you re Way Over your limit. A it was an unusual and rare processing error that was detected within hours a visa spokesman Gregory Holmes said. A we deeply regret any inconvenience to those merchants or any card Holder affected and have taken necessary Steps to make sure that these types of processing errors do not happen in  according to Holmes the a  included visa and Mastercard which also uses the visa computer facility As Well As 50 Banks and at least 200 merchants. The problem occurred after merchants sent their daily charge tallies electronically to visa to be sorted and sent to the Correct member Banks that Issue the cards and also Bill customers. But a hardware malfunction at visas san Mateo facility which processes hundreds of millions of dollars in credit card charges daily transmitted some data twice to Banks. A monitoring system at visa picked up the error quickly and began calling Banks about the problem but not before some Banks charged customers who then quickly called Back the merchants in this Snake eats its Tail scenario. A a it a upsetting that merchants Are the ones that take it in the neck for these screw ups since the customers then think that we Are trying to rip them off a said Michael Schneider of Back in shape which Sells orthopaedic furniture and related goods in Bethesda my. Since visa never publicly acknowledged the foul up Schneider had to Call All of his customers about the problem a task made harder by new Laws that prohibit stores from recording Telephone numbers on charge slips. A fall they needed to do was put out a press release and bring the customers out of the dark about the whole thing Quot Schneider said. One retailer in new Jersey Wasny to even aware of the problem until he was balancing his stores account and found he had a $2,000 Windfall. A if i make a mistake i Tell people right away especially if its about Money a the store owner said. A but i have not heard from them at  but visa officials said its much ado about not much since customers were not billed for any finance charges and will be fully credited by visa which services 8 million merchants and has 22,000 member Banks worldwide. Connecticut Wyoming win a a in education study Washington apr Connecticut and Wyoming got the Best grades in a state by state report card of educational performance released tuesday by a parents group. The american association of parents and children prepared the report card after an earlier study found nine out of 10 teachers think parents done to care about education. The groups executive director Scott Stapf said the reports should be a a Wake up Call a telling parents they play an important role in education. A unless you create a picture that includes parents in the education equation As Well you re really missing a big part Quot Stapf said. The year old association compiled dozens of studies by the department of education the Carnegie foundation and others for its report card. The group graded states on their statistical performance in six Broad areas parental apathy head Slart participation student Leacher ratios per Slu Dent spending graduation rates and standardized test scores. It then averaged them for an Overall Grade. Connecticut and Wyoming were the Only states to receive an  Hawaii Texas South Carolina Georgia Tennessee and Louisiana got an a of. Nearly nine out of 10 teachers believe parents arc apathetic about education a Carnegie foundation study found last this year. The association is trying to remedy that with a pamphlet of 10 simple Steps for parents to take to become More involved with schools Stapf said. The pamphlet is available by mail from a pc a Herndon va., Headquarters. A study for the National Parent teacher association earlier this year also found that most parents involvement in school is Low. President Bush noted the study in a speech to the Ptah a legislative conference in March. A education is a National Mission that must include parents a he said. But Arnold Fege the Ptah a governmental relations director on monday faulted Bush and the nations governors for not making increased parental involvement an education Reform goal. A parents arc frequently the orphans in education policy a he said. Icy since its study Pat leaders began developing strategies to increase parents role Fege said. He said schools need to create More flexible opportunities for parental participation. Quot the schools have to recognize that the families have some unique needs today that they did no to have 10 Yean ago a Fege said. He noted there Are Mort single parents and More families where both parents work now than in 1980. The associations grades a a Connecticut Wyoming. B a Kansas Massachusetts new Jersey Minnesota Vermont Iowa Wisconsin Maryland Nebraska Montana Pennsylvania North Dakota South Dakota Rhode Island new Hampshire Maine. C Ohio Illinois Colorado Oregon new York Missouri Michigan West Virginia Delaware California Arkansas Virginia Washington Alaska Indiana Nevada District of Columbia. D a Oklahoma Mississippi Honda Idaho Utah new Mexico Arizona aia it Bama North Carolina Kentucky. F a a Hawaii Texas South Carolina Georgia Tennessee and Louisiana. House fire kills 6 in Alabama family Oneonta Ala. Apr fire swept through a de la fastest Way out two matadors dive Over a Fence with an enraged Bull held to raise Money fur the areas homeless and in hot purse to during a recent mock bullfight at neither the animals nor the matadors thanks to Orange Maine municipal Airport. 1 he event was their Quick reactions a were injured House where a smoke Detector had been installed last weekend killing six family members and severely injuring a seventh. Firefighter Michael Thompson said nothing could be done to save the victims after the Oneonta fire department received the Call. A the House was already on the ground a he said. Thompson said fire officials were unsure How the survivor escaped. A the was pretty badly burned. He was out of the House probably 200 or so Yards away from  stale Deputy fire marshal James Epperson said he had not determined the cause of the fire but had ruled out foul play. A a there a not a whole lot left to work with a Epperson said. Owner Coy Carruth and his wife Shirley had already left for work when the fire started Early monday. A there w As no sign of anything that i saw unusual a Carruth said. Carruth said he had installed a smoke Detector in the dining room during the weekend and believed it was loud enough to be heard in the bedrooms upstairs Carruth identified the victims As his son Vincent 24 his daughter Shari 19 his son Brian 9 his daughter in Law Renae age unavailable and her daughters Christy 3, and Jennifer 14 months. Renae Carrutha a husband Royce 27, was listed it critical condition at University Hospital in Birmingham. A c o j p 0 a w h w p l is St is b in in i amp put to to a to Pida be of on Sash to Foi cd of to we c Bai am to Bai i ref fro if Kic All it Gur my