European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 b the stars and stripes wednesday july 17, 1991states, cities vow to file suits to Force of 5 million to 1990 census Washington apr angered that the Bush administration would not add 5 million people to the 1990 census officials in the states and cities with flawed counts Promise to return to court demanding a revision. A to shortchange the american people in this manner a and in particular our nations cities which suffer greatly due to the undo count a is nothing less than statistical grand larceny a new York mayor David Dinkins charged. Commerce Secretary Robert a. Mosbacher announced monday under a court imposed deadline that he would not replace the census bureaus 1990 National population count with statistical estimates. The government has acknowledged that its census missed 5.3 million people. Mosbacher a decision will Cost some states and Urban areas millions of dollars in Federal Aid since an estimated $59 billion a year is distributed based on population numbers decided by the census. Mosbacher was called before House and Senate panels tuesday to defend his decision. Rep. Thomas c. Sawyer a Ohio chairman of the House subcommittee on census and population denounced Mosbacher a decision As an Effort to a Gerrymander on a National  but sen. Herbert h. Kohl d-wis., chairman of a Senate oversight panel said that trying to replace the head count with an estimate created too Many technical problems. The government has been counting people for 200 years and has never decided to scrap its census in favor of statistical adjustments. A before we take a step of that magnitude we must be certain it would actually make the census better and the distribution of the population More accurate a Mosbacher said. Minorities particularly Blacks and hispanics and other inner City residents were most Likely to be missed by counters in the april 1990 tally. People in smaller communities Whites asian americans and midwesterner were less Likely to be overlooked. New York City and 31 other cities states organizations Texas attorney general Dan Morales criticizes the 1990 census monday in Houston. And individuals had asked a Federal court to order the census corrected and the court ordered Mosbacher to decide. A Given today a disturbing developments we will now resume that litigation immediately a Dinkins said. A spokesman for new York state attorney general Robert Abrams said the plaintiffs would be Back in Federal court in Brooklyn next week. Criticism poured in from elsewhere As Well. Texas gov Ann Richards said the decision a cheats every county City and town out of hundreds of millions of dollars in Federal  the census missed a half million texans and Richards estimated that would Cost the state $1 billion in Federal Money Over the next decade. A it Means fewer police fewer teachers and fewer Miles of paved Highway for the people of this state a she said. A add yet another generation of texans who will be denied their constitutional rights because the . Government census officials failed to conduct an accurate count of our population a Texas attorney general Dan Morales said monday in Houston. The adjusted numbers would have Given Arizona a seventh seat in Congress and according to state estimates $20 million More in Federal funds. Sticking with the 1990 numbers will Cost Phoenix More than $4 million a year. A every single person we count is $137 to our City coffers a said Phoenix councilwoman Mary Rose Wilcox who Heads the City sad hoc census committee. But the Money that Texas and Arizona say will be missed would have come from somewhere a and it would have been the states with More accurate census counts. That a because the amount of Federal Money and the number of seats in Congress do not change the population numbers Only determine How they Are distributed. A corrected count would have Cost Wisconsin for example a congressional seat and about $2,8 million a year in Federal Aid. Pennsylvania also would have lost a congressional seat if the adjustment had been made. California and Arizona would each have gained another seat beyond gains already produced by the 1990 count. In deciding against a correction Mosbacher rejected recommendations from census director Barbara Bryant and six other census officials urging that the numbers be adjusted. The governments suing along with new York City to gain a correction Are Chicago Cleveland Denver Houston pal Wood Calif. Los Angeles new Orleans Oakland and Pasadena Calif. Philadelphia Phoenix san Antonio san Francisco Broward and Dade counties in Florida and five states a California Florida new Jersey new York and  upholds dial a porn ban for minors new York a a Federal appeals court monday upheld Federal regulations denying minors Access to sexually explicit a dial a Pom Quot Telephone services. The 2nd . Circuit court of appeals upheld As constitutional a provision requiring Telephone companies to provide such services to adults Only when they request it in writing. The so called a Helms amendment to the 1934 communications act named after its sponsor sen. Jesse Helms r-n.c., changed the Way Telephone companies prevent children from calling for sexually explicit conversations. Before customers had the option of asking their Telephone company to Block their Access to those numbers. Providing them to All customers except those who objected was ineffective in preventing Access by minors the Federal communications commission had said. The appeals court said the Helms amendment provided a better Way to prevent children from calling them. A it always is More effective to lock the barn before the horse is stolen a the three judge panel said. The court vacated an injunction issued by . District judge Robert p. Patter son in August 1990, two Damp is before the acc was due to begin enforcing the Law. Patterson had ruled the Law was Likely to violate the first and fifth amendments because its definition of indecency was too vague. The appeals court disagreed. The panel said the Law had properly defined indecency and ruled that having customers pre subscribe for a dial a porn services was not unduly restrictive. 3-year-old sails boat 2 Miles to Shore a Solo Erie a. Apr a 3-year-old took the Tiller of his family a catamaran on Lake Erie and sailed two Miles to Shore by himself leaving his father brother and two cousins treading water. Andy Craft shocked his Mother when he ran onto the Beach alone sunday. A i asked him Why he was crying and he said a cause they re still out there a a Laura Craft said. A can you imagine what the people on the Beach must have Felt watching a 3-year-old sail that big boat in by himself with a three Story High sail above him a a i wondered where he was going a said his father Tom Craft. A then 1 thought a Dang he a going All the Way to the Beach a. The youngster was left alone when his father stopped the boat to let the other children take a swim. Tom Craft left the boat to bring an 8-year-old Niece closer to the Craft. Andy who had been shown How to steer the boat then pulled the Tiller turning the boat enough for the loosened sail to catch the wind and Start ashore. A passing Powerboat picked up the floating foursome and brought them Back to the Beach. The three children were wearing life jackets. A it Wasny to a big Deal a Tom Craft said. A we just grouped together started telling jokes and started paddling toward  chief Craig Carter of the Erie coast guard station said they were very Lucky. Quot first of All everyone on the boat a especially the Only adult a should have been wearing a life jacket Quot Carter suite no matter How Good a swimmer you  and Craft should never have left Andy alone on the boat he said adding a what if that child had sailed it the other Way away from Shore a former mayor Frank Rizzo dead Iri Philadelphia at 70 Philadelphia a Frank l. Rizzo the Brash Pohleman turned mayor died tuesday As he campaigned to make a City Hall comeback. He was 70. Rizzo the Republican candidate for mayor who had served two terms As a Democrat in the 1970s, died of a heart attack gop officials said. Rizzo had been transported by ambulance to Thomas Jefferson University medical Center after he became ill at his Campaign Headquarters. Karen Warrington press Secretary to mayor w. Wilson Goode said the mayor was informed by the Hospital of Rizzos  the mayor extended his deepest sympathy and condolences to the Rizzo family a she said. Hospital spokesman Steve Brown said that Rizzos family was called to the Hospital and that doctors planned to meet with them before talking to reporters. A Secretary to the City Republican party said a we were notified by our chairman Donald Jameson Quot that Rizzo had died. A we believe it was a massive heart attack the Secretary said refusing to give he name. Rizzo was a motorcycle officer who Rose to become police commissioner during a 38-year career with the department. Dubbed the a Cisco kids and the a Bambino a his physical presence was commanding standing 6-foot-2w and 250 pounds. During the 1960s riots he showed up at one Black tie affair with a Nightstick tucked into his Tuxedo cum Berlund. He was elected mayor in 1971 and re elected four years later. During a Stormy mayoral career he directed the police department in its first confrontation with the Radical v. Rizzo group move. He unsuccessfully tried to change the City charter so he could serve a third term. In 1983, he lost the democratic primary to Goode. Four years later he switched parties and won the gop primary but again lost to Goode in the Genera election