European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 27, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes. A Page 7editor finds endless mix up Over Iowa Idaho Des Moines Iowa apr did you hear the one about a Pilot who thought he accepted a Job in Iowa discover that Boise is about 1.500 Miles farther West and in Idaho or the Ohe about a Wall Street journal real estate and listing a $450,000 log Cabin in Sun Valley Iowa ski resort is in Idaho. For a decade Tim Woodward a columnist for the Idaho statesman has written periodically about the confusion Over widely separated states. Woodward says he keeps writing what he intends to be the last column on the subject. But the deluge of newspaper Flippings Magazine articles and testimonials continues a from readers with More tales of what he Calls the a Idaho Iowa a i have a file a it probably weighs Abri in to Tyve pounds a of stuff that i still have to Woodward said a there in t a week that goes by that i Don t get things from a 42-Ycar-old Boise native who is writing a Book on such mix ups believes much of the confusion comes from what be Calls a the t a people think All four of the t states should be in a neat line in the Midwest Quot he said. Of course three of them a Iowa Illinois and Indiana a Are. The confusion Between Iowa and Idaho certainly can t be attributed to a similarity of landscape. Idaho has a dozen National forests and its highest Point is 12,fi62 has no National forests and its highest Point is a Mere 1,670 feet. Quot we both have Corn Fields but Iowa has a lot said. A Woodward said one of his favorite mix ups is the Pilot who thought he was moving to Iowa. Quot someone Quot told him the Boise assignment was a Good one a that it was Good working hours easy living conditions not much air Frallic Quot Woodward said. A. Quot not until he actually got ready to move and had been Given the Boise assignment did he realize he was 1,500 Miles off Quot Woodward said Quot lie had Boise and Des Moines mixed Quot but he came anyway he liked it. And he s still to to Columbus Ohio a a Christmas Day fire that May have been ignited by a soldering cigarette killed five people including two children police said. V arson experts helped investigate but fire capt. Bruce Sutton said firefighters a have no reason to believe it was anything but an a we believe it was. Caused by a soldering cigarette but we took All kinds of samples from the House and have sent the to the lab Quot Sutton said. He said it would be at least thursday before the lab report was completed. Quot a. The Early morning fire apparently started at the end of a Couch on the first floor of Llie 2/ Story Brick House. He estimated damage at $30,000. A a visitor to the Home Todd Allen Qualls 29, said he awakened to the smell of smoke and escaped through a window. He said he Cut his Bare feel on Glass climbing Down a ladder put up by lire fighters. A it All happened so fast i done to really know what happened a Qualls said. Family members said the victims were India Hamrick 25 Ronina Hamrick 30 Gerald Givens 39 rash Awn Hamrick 4 and Natash Hamrick 10, All of whom resided in the House. India and Ronina Hamrick were Sisters Ronina was the Mother of the two children and Givens was the former husband of India and Ronina Hamrick smother according to India and Ronina s brother Greg Hamrick and their aunt Jeane Bell. In Westland mich., donations of More than $20,000, from throughout the country have been contributed to surviving members of the Dell Orco family after a Christmas tree on saturday killed the father and six of his nine children police said. Apartments clothing food and funeral services also have been offered to the survivors. A relative said the fire probably started a charred Christmas tree lays atop debris cleared out by firemen in Columbus Ohio when a Light bulb on the Christmas tree overheated and exploded initial reports from fire investigators said the tree fell Over broke a bulb and started the Blaze. But John Del la Orco said monday the tree had been tied to the ceiling and have fallen Over. Deh Orco is the brother of Martin Del-1�?TOrco, 38, who died in the saturday fire along with his children Bonnie 11 Sara 9 Katie 8 Megan and Michael both 5 and Robert 4. Martin Peus orc a a wife Debbie 36, had bought new Christmas lights for the tree and As they decorated the tree had noticed one of the bulbs was hot John Dell Arco said Quot but she and her husband Quot dismissed their concerns he said. Dallas apr american airlines charges that its pilots Are staging a sick out Over stalled contract talks and have contributed to flight cancellations but the pilots Union denies there a any organized protest. American management and the Allied pilots association have been negotiating a revised contract for 14 months but have made Little headway. The increase in the number of pilots calling in sick coupled with bad weather the Holiday traffic crush and the airlines loss of 231 pilots to operation desert shield led to an unusually High number of flight cancellations Over the weekend said american spokesman Marty i Lei res. At its huh at dal Las fort Worth International Airport on sunday the Carrier cancelled 37 arriving and 37 departing nights amounting to about 9 percent of. Its flights. \ the fort Worth based Carrier said the number of pilots calling in sick Over the weekend soared to record numbers almost 70 percent higher than Normal airline officials typical Pilot Absentee rate is 250 during Normal periods and 300 during Christmas holidays said i Scires. A we have to assume there a some Union activity Here a Heires said. A now i done to know whether this was an organized Effort or whether some pilots Are taking it Quot upon themselves to do Union officials denied any concerted Effort was behind the higher Absentee rate though for some time now they have been urging pilots not to work if they Are sick. A a a Quot. / a a a �?o1 know there a nothing going on in terms of any grass roots operation or any other Type of operation to Call in sick or not being available a said Apa executive director Scott Peterson. Baker said the Absentee rate for flight attendants is average. Both management and labor traded contract proposals in the past month but remain tar apart. Negotiations resume Jan. 7 in Washington under the auspices of the National. Mediation Board. Detroit up a what do 2 live Crew Nasa Washington mayor Marion Barry Milli Vanilli and Andrew Dice Clay have in common they re the top w Hiners of 1990. So says Kevin Zaborney who compiles a list of top whiners every Dee. 2b, which he Calls a National whiners the Day is so named because a a that a the Day for every whiner around the world to show their Talent. The 26-year-old Counselor from Flint Mich who plans to study theology said the Raunchy rap group 2 live Crew topped the list for complaining a about being banned at concerts across the u.$.a. Because of their lyrics a. Quot a. Second spot belongs to the National aeronautics and space administration for a whining about problems with the Multi billion Dollar Hubble Telescope and for not getting the space shuttles off on . Barry came in third for a whining about getting caught on camera using drugs in a sting operation. He was. Convicted of one Misdemeanour count of drug Possession a mistrial was declared on 12 other Misdemeanour and felony counts Quot Milli Vanilli the a singing Quot group came in fourth for. Complaining a about getting caught lip synching songs they performed on stage and losing their Clay rounded out the fourth annual list for whining a fall the time because other comedians wont perform on stage with him due to his obscene and inappropriate a in addition to his annual list Zaborney also picked the 10 most famous whiners of the Century Stan Laurel curly of the three stooges Lou costello Jerry Lewis Gilda Radner pee wee Herman Olive Oyle squiggly of the a Laverne and Shirley Quot Lucille Ball and major Frank Burns of i
