European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 21, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 a stateside the stars and Stripe wednesday november 21,1990 Post office to Experiment with bar codes on cards Akron Ohio apr the postal service will Experiment with bar codes on Christmas cards sent by 1,900 Ohio customers to Speed up delivery of the Holiday mail. The volunteers will share their card mailing lists with the postal service which will create bar code labels for the envelopes that can be read by sorting equipment. The Experiment will involve postal customers in Akron Canton Kent Ravenna Wadsworth and Medina. Postal officials Hope the bar labels will help move Holiday mail faster. Mail with bar labels is sorted by automatic equipment rather than by hand. The postal service expects to use bar codes on 100,000 pieces of Holiday mail this year. Atlanto Denmark route requested by Delta Atlanta up a Delta air lines said monday it has asked the department of transportation for permission to begin daily flights Between Atlanta and Copenhagen Denmark beginning next May. Delta said the first flights Between Atlanta and Copenhagen would include a Stop at Gatwick Airport in London. Later flights Between the two cities would be non Stop the airline said. Delta said it will use 237-seat l1011-500 International Range wide body planes on the Atlanta Copenhagen run. 3-Way phone Calls offered without operator s help Kansas City to. Up us sprint monday started what it called the first unassisted conferencing service for its calling card customers. The service sprint Quick conference allows calling card customers to place a three Way Telephone Call from any touch tone Telephone in the United states without an operators help. Sprint officials said that using Quot a simple dealing pattern allows customers to link three people together instantly. A we recognized the business traveler a need to be Able to conduct conferences from anywhere on the Road Quot said us sprint president Ron Lemay. A residential customers will Benefit too because they can use the service while away from Home and eliminate the fixed monthly sprint is the Long distance unit of United telecommunications inc. Of Kansas City to. $8.3 million fines paid by railroads in 89-90 Washington apr violations of Federal safety regulations Cost railroads and freight shippers More than $8.3 million in civil penalties during a recent 12-month period the Federal Railroad administration said monday. The penalties the highest in a decade included $3,2 million collected for violating regulations on the shipment of hazardous materials they were assessed during the 1990 fiscal year which ended sept. 30. The Railroad administration imposes civil penalties As a Means of making management More aware of threats to rail safety according to administrator Gil Carmichael. Crime capital Atlanta slaps Young people with curfew Atlanta apr americans crime capital imposed the City a strictest curfew since the Atlanta child murders of the Early 1980s, threatening to jail parents whose youngsters Are caught on the Street after hours. No arrests were reported in the first few hours after the curfew went into effect at 11 . Monday. The american civil liberties Union has threatened to Challenge the Law but City officials say it is needed to help reverse the highest rate of serious crime in the nation. Mayor Maynard Jackson praised the curfew adopted by the City Council on nov. 5, As an excellent Way to keep youngsters from being used As drug runners or lookouts. The measure requires those under 17 to be off the Street Between 11 . And 6 . Weeknights and Between Midnight and 6 . Weekends unless they Are participating in school activities returning from work or accompanied by an adult. Parents of repeat offenders could get up to 60 Days in jail or $1,000 in fines. Police chief Eldrin Bell said officers will focus on a known drug locations nightclubs and places of ill Fri statistics show Atlanta had 210 reported serious crimes per 1,000 residents during 1989, higher than any . City. There were 246 murders in Atlanta last year but the amount was 106 in the first half of this year a decrease of 14 percent. The curfew is the latest move in the City a Effort to control crime including the hiring of Bell As police chief three months ago. A during his 29 years on the Force Bell was wire a moved and developed a reputation in some quarters to bust Heads first and let ays things out later. He was cleared of charges a excessive Force during a 1984 incident in which he Alff edly pistol whipped a Motorist. The curfew is similar to one adopted at the height 0fa series of slayings that terrorized the cite in ill Pink of tha. V x in tie Early i recent years. Wayne Williams was convicted in 1982 of murder Send or 22 my re 01 he palings he k 5 officers who spot violators under the new curfew Are to take them Home if they live nearby. Youths from outside the area will be taken into custody until Thev ran be picked up by a Parent. J a what behave asked is for parents to ultimately have responsibility for them children a said City councilwoman Davetta Johnson who proposed the curfew penalties. K but Michael Hauptman president of the local Acle chapter said his organization has notified cite officials that it considers the curfew unconstitutional. A in the event we receive any complaints from parents and or children he said it is our intent to take this matter into leukaemia victim Dies father sued to get donor tests for half siblings Chicago apr a 13-year-old leukaemia victim. Whose father sought unsuccessfully to have the boys twin half siblings tested As potential Bone marrow do Nurs High Man Hutu nors died monday. Bosze died at his Home in suburban Hoffman estates family attorney Edward Jordan said his parents were at his bedside. The boy s father Tamas Bosze had unsuccessfully sought a court ruling to Force Nancy Curran his former Girlfriend and the Mother of his 3-year-old twin son and daughter to have the children tested As possible donors of potentially life saving Bone marrow. Plire in nnmnna/1 in l Curran opposed the procedure saying it could be supreme court in september and risky. The supreme Yuri i affirmed a lower courts ruling in her favor. Meanwhile Jean Pierre a condition worsened and he was m and out of the Hospital Over the last two months Jordan said. A the boy was released from lutheran general Hospital m Park Ridge last week and his death a had been expected for some time a Jordan said. Currants attorney extended her sympathy to the Bosze family in a one paragraph statement issued by her attorney. The twins were born while Bosze Ancl Jean Pierre s Mother to whom he is still married were separated. Curran has sole custody of the twins. Bosze approached Curran about the possibility of the twins being tested after tests showed he the boys Mother brother and half sister were All incompatible. He first petitioned the courts in june saying the twins their half Broth a Jean Pierre Bosze 13, is kissed by his Mother Connie during a Hospital visit in August 1990. He died monday. Determine whether they could be marrow donors would violate their constitutional right to privacy. Bone marrow donations can save people with leukaemia and other diseases if a donor with closely Matching tissue types a usually a relative a can be found. 0 tissue types a usually a relative a can be found. Indian lawmaker protests Arizona Runoff Date ,ph_0en.ix, it a t the Arizona leg Rock said hell file a formal. Phoenix apr the Arizona legislature voted monday to let arizonans pick their new governor feb. 26, despite complaints by Indian lawmakers that voters would Likely be trapped at Home by heavy Snow on reservation roads. The Bill setting the Runoff Between Fife Symington and Terry Goddard was passed by lawmakers and signed by gov. Rose mofford. Symington a Republican edged Democrat Goddard 49.7 percent to 49.2 percent in the nov. 6 election. State Law requires a governor be elected by a majority of the votes cast. Rep. Benjamin Hanley a window Rock said hell file a formal protest with the . Justice department which must approve All Arizona election Law changes because of previous violations involving Indian and other minority voters. A i think the people up on the Navajo reservation will be disenfranchised a Hanley told the House after his Mav 7 suggestion was rejected. Symington received 4,200 More votes than Goddard. He fell Short of an absolute majority because minor candidates received More than 11,000 write in votes. Hanley a attempt to change the election Date was not supported by the Navajo Thich to5 Hamakers m a letter that it had no problem with the february Date. But rep Jack Jackson d Mem by Eton the in a a ther Indian member of the House also voted against the Bill which cleared the House 54-3, so re the Senate 29-0 a Short time later without debate. 6s set5ns the Noff Date the Bill would suspend state Law requiring a Dune to Quot fir Olls after each goal elect a tart. 8�?oara� a lha citizens can vote be a off As Long As they Are re Steed or Noheyl Gednov t whether the Bill provides for no write in canal dates. That irks Max Hawkins who came in third with More than 10,000 write ins. Hawkins a former aide of impeached gov. Evan Mecham said he deserves to have his name on the Runoff ballot and a the Only reason to deny it would be to favor the major party but Senate judiciary committee chairman Leo Corbet a Phoenix told Hawkins that language in the 1988 constitutional amendment which established the new election rules is Clear in limiting the election to the two top vote getters in the general election
