European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday july 9, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 3 workers Back on Job despite deadlocks in Connecticut. Maine by United press International thousands of state workers returned to their jobs monday in Maine and Connecticut even though budget disputes that led to a partial shutdown of their states last week remain unresolved. Maine gov. John Mckernan Early monday signed a temporary spending measure that allowed 10,000 state employees to resume working. Some 20,000 Laid off employees were told to report to work in Connecticut after a six Day shutdown of non essential state services. Connecticut gov. Lowell p. Weicker or. Issued an executive order sunday ordering the employees Back to work monday under a Resolution passed by the general Assembly. Weicker said he would allow the measure to become Law without his signature. It authorizes the continuation of state government through july 14, even if no budget is approved. Weicker shut Down most state services on tuesday because the general Assembly had failed to pass a budget containing a proposal to impose a state income tax on Connecticut workers for the first time. Weicker said he opposed the continuing Resolution because the state is a out of  he noted that the temporary budget will Cost the state another $100,000 a Day in additional interest charges. A i took every action possible Short of a divisive veto to prevent this measure from becoming the Law of our state because i believe it constitutes an affront to sound fiscal management and is contrary to Law a he said. Last weeks shutdown included closing 89 state Parks during the Peak fourth of july Holiday period. Many Park goers rebelled at the closure order and refused to leave and Weicker later said donations from three state businesses would keep the three Parks on Long Island sound open for the coming weekend. During the shutdown Only state hospitals prisons and courts state police and some classes at state colleges and universities remained open. Likewise in Maine essential state services were the Only ones being provided since july 1 when Mckernan ordered the partial shutdown. The legislature on saturday passed a temporary spending measure to give lawmakers and the governor time to work out details of a labor Bill that held up Maine a $3.2 billion budget. Mckernan signed the measure about 1 30 . Monday allowing state government to fully open. There remains a possibility the state will close again if Mckernan and legislators fail to agree on a workers compensation Bill by wednesday. Mckernan said the employer funded insurance system for injured workers is preventing new business investments in Maine. The democratic controlled legislature contends however that his Bill would Cut deeply into workers benefits. During the shutdown Mckernan Laid off 10,000 of the states 12,000 state workers. Hundreds of angry state workers rallied at the Static House on Friday demanding an end to the budget  of the Bull the san Furmin fiesta Bull run in Pamplona Spain proved a dangerous experience for Urban troll 23, of Goteborg Sweden who received an 8-Inch Gash in his right thigh As runaway bulls charged him. Troll was reported in very serious condition at Navarre Hospital after one Bull tossed him in the air and a Horn was caught in his thigh. A norwegian woman 24-Ycar-old Anne Karin Ruan was treated for a 4-Inch wound also in the thigh on the second Day of the annual running of the bulls  map increases size allure of Utah Salt Lake City apr Utah residents Are used to being called backward a but not upside Down. An eight Page spread in the French Magazine be Figaro included glowing accounts pictures of breathtaking scenery and a map that turned the Beehive state upside Down and placed Idaho and Wyoming within its Borders. A a in be heard people Tell us before we re backward but not upside Down a laughed Fred Ball president of the Salt Lake area chamber of Commerce. Depending on How you look at it the map shows one Utah Valley floating in the great Salt Lake not far from the Arizona Border. Wyoming is a stones throw from Ogden Utah and Idaho appears to be the states northernmost Community. The response from state tourism officials cd est la vie. The Faux Pas is forgiven by the exposure Utah received they said. A what can you say a said Joe Rutherford of the Utah travel Council. A on the whole it was a really Good Magazine article. Just because the map is messed up wont keep people from coming  Vera Novak Utah a tourism agent in Brussels Belgium said the mix up was brought to the at Tention of be Figaro after it appeared in All 815,000 copies of the june 22 edition. A correction will not be forthcoming she said. It appears that whoever put the map together used an overlay of Utah Sites correctly situated in relation to each other but superimposed it Over inverted state boundaries she said. Bill to legalize video poker gets of of Louisiana Senate Baton Rouge la. Up a Bill to legalize gambling with video poker machines a denounced As a Slot machine measure by opponents a won approval in the Louisiana Senate on sunday. The Bill permits the operation of the electronic gambling devices in a wide variety of establishments and sets up a licensing and regulatory system that would be enforced by the state police. The measure was returned to the Louisiana House for concurrence in a Senate amendment before it could be sent to gov. Buddy Roemer for signing into Law. The Senate change added in committee sets a 22.5 percent state franchise fee on the Pia Chines. State sen. Don Kelly a Natchitoches said 10,000 video poker machines already Are being used illegally in stores and bars throughout the state. He said the Bill by state rep. Emile a Pep Pic Bru Neau a new Orleans would bring the machines under regulatory control and provide up to $93 million in Revenue for the state. A this is the right thing to do a Kelly said. A a you be got machines out there that Are being operated thousands of them and the state is getting no Revenue from  he said Roemer had indicated he would sign the measure if there was enough Money in it for the state. The Bill authorizes operation of the machines in restaurants bars hotels clubs truck stops racetracks and off track betting Parlours. There is a limit of three machines per establishment except in off track betting Parlours and racetracks which have no limit. The top payoff could not exceed $500 and no More than $2 could be bet per game. Bruneau said his Bill provides safeguards against skimming and rigging and bans juveniles from playing the machines. Opponents decried the Bill As another step toward wide open gambling in Louisiana that ultimately would Lead to Casino gambling and the collapse of its race tracks. A i would Hope the governor would veto this a said state sen. Allen bares a Lafayette speaking after the Bill passed on a 20-17 vote. A what we have now done by the passage of this is to legalize Slot machines in Louisiana. Now you can Call it video poker you can Call it computerized poker. Whatever you Call it they Are Slot  attempts to Amend the Bill to delay the effective Date from Jan. 1, 1992, and to give local governments the Opportunity to ban the machines were Defeated. Arkansas quake causes Little damage Little Rock Ark. Apr an earthquake rattled parts of Missouri and Arkansas on sunday but caused no injuries or serious property damage. Officials noted that the quake was not located on the new Madrid fault said Waverly person of the . Geological Survey in Golden Colo. That fault zone which produces hundreds of Small earthquakes a year runs from Northern Arkansas through Southeast Missouri and into Southern Illinois. The temblor registered 4.0 on the Richter scale said John Minsch a geophysicist with the Survey. It hit at 4 24 . And was entered near Alton mo., near the Arkansas Border. A it made the floor feel like it rolled and it Shook stuff on the Walls a said Joyce Neely of Hardy. The Sharp county sheriffs office received one report of a cracked basement foundation