European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 4, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday january 4, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 7nation s blood Supply near critical Low by Paul a. Driscoll the associated press three open heart surgeries scheduled in Atlanta this week had to be postponed because the blood Supply in the Region a and the rest of the nation a has dwindled. Supplies in 36 of the red Cross 50 blood distribution regions across the country Are below optimum Levels including 14 below the emergency Mark said Elizabeth Hall a spokeswoman in Washington. A in Atlanta and Peoria 111. They have reached such critical Levels they have appealed for blood donations through the Media. Which usually Means there a less than a Days Supply on the shelves Quot Hall said. The red Cross which supplies about half the nations blood said it had 52,000 units of blood on its shelves thursday. It likes to keep 73,000 units which is a three or four Day Supply. It considers 35,000 units critically Low. The other half of the nations Supply is distributed through Independent centers that belong to the american association of blood Banks. Spokeswoman Marcia Lane said Many of the groups 2,400 centers had near critical shortages. Supplies Are normally Low after the holidays and in june because so Many potential donors Are on vacation. But blood distributors said this year is worse than usual. With Christmas and new years falling on wednesdays Many people stretched their holidays Over longer periods. A everyone is with their family and having parties going places and the regular donors that normally take time to donate done to have time a said or. Charles Rouault president of Community blood centers of South Florida. Also the flu epidemic kept potential donors Home in some areas and layoffs at Many companies Hurt their annual blood drives. The persian Gulf War which helped blood supplies by producing a surplus of donors last year has Hurt supplies this year. The thousands of military personnel deployed to the Middle East Arentt eligible to donate until 1993 because blood centers done to test for All the diseases they May have contracted. To meet the nations demand for blood a which usually exceeds the amount donated a the United states imports an average of 20,000 units a year. This year the red Cross expects to import 35,000  Jersey s oldest paper folds after 212 years editors and reporters work on the last edition of the daily journal of Elizabeth ., on thursday. Computer pioneering Admiral Grace m. Hopper Dies at 85 Washington apr rear adm. Grace Murray Hopper a Pioneer Navy computer Programmer and co inventor of the business language cobol has died her brother said thursday. The 85-year-old Admiral a at the time of her retirement in 1986 the nations oldest Active duty military officer a died in her sleep wednesday in her Arlington va., Home said her brother Roger f. Murray ii of Wolfeboro . He said she had been ill for some time. Hopper known to her aides As a the first lady of software and a amazing Grace a stayed in uniform under year to year extensions Long after the regular retirement age of 62 to work on the Navy a computer programs. More recently she was a full time senior Consul Hopper Tant to digital equipment corp., working out of the company a Washington office. I. Admirers described Hopper As a vigorous tireless and occasionally contrary woman with a four Page resume that included honorary degrees awards and achievements and a healthy contempt for those unwilling to try new  the Only phrase in be Ever disliked is Why we a always done it that Way a a she once said. A she has challenged at every turn the dictates of a mindless bureaucracy a former Navy Secretary John Lehman said when he awarded her the defense departments highest Honor the defense distinguished service medal for exceptional meritorious service. In september president Bush awarded her the National medal of technology a for her pioneering accomplishments in the development of computer programming languages that simplified computer technology and opened the door to a significantly larger universe of  she was the first woman to receive the award individually. Hopper who held a doctoral degree in mathematics from Yale University joined the naval Reserve in december 1943 after a decade of teaching at Vassar College and midshipman training at Smith College. She was soon to report for duty to a basement Laboratory at Harvard University where she worked on equipment designed to figure ordnance calculations. There she Learned to program the first Large scale digital computer the Mark i. Her husband died in the War and she never remarried. After the War she remained in the naval Reserve and joined a company that was building the uni  i the first commercial Large scale electronic computer. The company later merged into the Sperry corp. At Sperry she worked on an idea that led to cobol common business oriented language widely used programming language that made computers a tool for business people As Well As mathematicians. She was also credited with coining the word a a bugs to describe the problems that plague computers and their programs. Hopper retired from the naval Reserve in 1966 but was recalled a year later to impose a Standard on the Navy a Many computer languages. Elizabeth  A the daily journal the states oldest newspaper closed Friday after losing Money for two years. A Over the last two years we be taken some stringent Cost reduction measures but in the end the recession proved too stubborn a publisher Richard j. Vozza said thursday. Vezza  say How much Money the 212-Ycar-old newspaper had lost. Most of its 84 employees will be Laid off. He announced nov. 1 that the paper would fold if a buyer  be found by Jan. 3. One offer was received from rudder publishing co. Of Daytona Beach Fla. But after two weeks of talks Quot we realized today we were not going to be Able to do a Deal a Vezza said. He posted a notice of the closing on the newspapers bulletin Board and met throughout the Day with employees. The closing is the second in a year for North Jersey newspapers co., which in april sold the assets of the 117-Ycar-old Hudson dispatch of Union City to the competing Jersey journal of Jersey City. The company also owns the North Jersey Herald and news of Passaic Clifton. The daily journal published monday through saturday and had a circulation of 30,000. The newspaper served Union county which has a population of a 494,000. Elizabeth itself has 110,000 residents and Ders Newark to the Southwest. The papers final editorial Friday was printed under e headline a goodbye a Friend bids  it de about Bor the scribed the journals history starting with its founding on feb. 16, 1779, by Shepard Kollock As a voice to combat newspapers Loyal to great britain.. Fugitive accused of swindling hundreds hired As movie extras new York up a a Man accused of swindling hundreds of people who believed they were being hired As movie extras was arrested at the port authority bus terminal. Rubin Malaret 26, who gave a Kingsburgh ., address was arrested thursday by port authority detectives at a Western Union Agency where he had gone to receive a Telegram said port authority sgt. Herman Mcauley. He was being held for an extradition hearing. Malaret was charged dec. 12, 1991, with one count of grand theft and three counts of forgery by the los Angeles county District attorney. He was free on $1 million  complaint alleges that seven California victims lost a total of $1,865. Malaret was also sought for fleeing $50,000 bail in Orlando Fla., where he was arrested on similar charges. He was believed to have swindled hundreds of people throughout the United states by pretending to represent a movie production company looking for extras. Victims were told they would have to join the screen actors Guild in order to qualify and to wire a fee ranging from $345 to $600 via Western Union Mcauley said. The sergeant said they asked the Western Union Agency to notify them should Malaret receive another Telegram. When it did an arrest was made. Investigators said the inquiry began when a Sacramento calif., Model Agency reported that a Man identifying himself As Jack Lara of Patrick Swayze production had called to Book 11 football players As extras in a movie to be filmed in Sacramento. The would be extras were to wire the Money using the a test question arid answer method that allows a person to pick up Money without showing identification