European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 a the stars and stripes wednesday january 22, 1992 Lucky Landing a single engine plane rests with its Tail in the air As a Warren mich., police officer left discusses the aircraft with or. Dennis Giannini. The plane made an emergency Landing sunday morning clipping a Power line new Haven cd Otin. Apr about 2,700 unionized workers at Yale University walked off the Job Lor about two hours monday to put pressure on the school to reach a contract settlement the Union said. Contracts for locals 34 and 35 of the federation of University employees expired Over the weekend with the unions and management still far apart on issues of Job Security and health benefits. The unions represent office dining Hall custodial and maintenance workers. No contract talks were held monday. Both sides blamed the other for the Stow Pace of negotiations. A the University Stop priority is to bargain intensively but the unions chose to set this Job action and it has stalled the talks yet another Day Quot said University and skidding to a halt in Giannini a Yard. The Pilot and his two passengers were unharmed. The plane had taken Oft from Oakland Pontiac Airport in Michigan and was bound for Bradford a. Spokeswoman Martha Matzke. The University had Box lunches ready for students at the Campus dining Halls hard hit by the midday work stoppage. Union officials said about 2,700 of their members took part and most attended a rally at the school. Police estimated about 2,000 people attended the rally. Matzke said the school had no figures on How Many employees missed work. As part of a Campaign to streamline University operations and Cut costs Yale is seeking the right to reassign and Lay off Union employees with greater ease. The unions Are opposed. . Police sick out prompts town to Coll emergency from wire reports West Sacramento Calif. A All but one of West Sacramento a 45 police officers failed to show up for work or called in sick in a dispute Over stalled contract talks and the City Council declared an emergency. The declaration approved unanimously sunday Means the town of 27,000 can legally ask for help from neighbouring Law enforcement agencies. Calling the sick out illegal mayor Ray Jones said the nine management and non Union personnel were enough to staff patrols in the City but insufficient to handle a major problem. The West Sacramento police officers association said the officers were a very sick a sick at heart sick and the no shows have risen steadily since 29 employees reported sick last wednesday. Mrs. America investigated Coronado Calif. A the san Diego county department of social services is investigating the reigning mrs. America for welfare fraud a newspaper reported monday. The san Diego Tribune reported the in Csiga Tion citing unidentified sources. Jill Scott a lawyer on monday acknowledged she violated department rules but said she did not deliberately cheat the system. Scott 32, formerly of Arizona was crowned mrs. America in december 1990. Her term expires in april. She applied for welfare shortly after filing for divorce from George e. Scott in july said her attorney Matthew Kremer. George Scott failed to deliver the $1,340 a month a court ordered him to pay to support his sex wife and two children Ages 6 and 8, Kremer said. He since has paid them less than $1,000, Kremer said. George Scott could not be reached for comment monday. Jill Scott violated department rules by failing to Send the Money she received from her sex husband to the county department of Revenue and recovery Kremer said. A she regrets the mistake a he vaccine Washington a a licensing agreement was announced monday for a contraceptive vaccine for women that was developed by researchers at the University of Virginia. The agreement was announced jointly by the Center for innovative technology a private nonprofit corporation created by Virginia lawmakers to increase the state s technological competitiveness and Ortho pharmaceutical corp., a Leader in contraceptive technology. The Center and the company have financed development of the vaccine which has so far been tested Only on animals. It works by preventing sperm from fertilizing an egg. Under the licensing agreement University of Virginia scientists will continue testing the vaccine on Baboons. It could be ready for human testing within two years said a news release announcing the licensing agreement. The vaccine would be administered by Pill or injection and could last from two to five empties Macy s store new York a a Small fire broke out monday in a storeroom of Macy a flagship store in Manhattan forcing the evacuation of thousands of shoppers and employees. The fire was contained by a sprinkler system shortly after it was reported at 6 15 p.m., said fire Captain Robert love. No injuries were reported. A Macy a manager David Brown said the fire was in a stockroom on the fourth floor of the nine floor store. A couple of thousand people were evacuated a Deputy chief Joseph Sepio said. Cuomo plan to narrow deficit features tuition hikes Job cuts by the new York times Albany . A to close the Gap of nearly $5 billion in next years $31 billion budget new York gov. Mario m. Cuomo proposes authorizing Sharp tuition increases at state universities eliminating More than 5.000 state jobs cutting medicaid spending by about $1 billion and deferring More than $1 billion in tax cuts. The democratic governor was to present the plan to the legislature on tuesday in his annual budget message. The tuition increases a $200 at some campuses and up to $800 at others a were disclosed on monday by Cuomo administration aides. If they Are enacted the Cost of attending some state University schools will have doubled Over the last two years. In addition the new budget would eliminate Between 5.000 and 10, my state jobs on top of the 20,000 eliminated in the last year. It would also pay for about $500suspect named Gainesville Fla. A a jailed Tennessee drifter is the prime suspect in a string of fires set in churches Here last year officials said monday. Patrick Lee Frank 41, jailed on unrelated charges is the main suspect in six fires last fall and two blazes a year ago said fire department spokesman Stuart Schwartz. A Church arson task Force composed of local state and Federal officials has concentrated its probe on 30 Church fires primarily in North Central Florida during 1991. Million in borrowing that the state will Likely have to undertake this Spring because of the failure of the governor and the legislature to agree on any plan for closing the Gap in the budget for the current fiscal year which ends on March 31. The major stumbling Block in reaching an agreement on both the current budget Gap and the new plan has been the question of medicaid cuts. The governor plans both to Cut services and to tighten eligibility requirements a As favored by the republicans who control the state Senate a and to Cut the level of state reimbursements to hospitals and other health care providers a As the Assembly democrats favor. But both groups take More extreme positions in their own approaches. Among the proposals Cuomo said he would make on tuesday is a plan to Cut welfare benefits to teen agers Between the Ages of 16 and 18 who drop out of school in Church fires evidence placed Frank at or near All eight of the Gainesville Church Sites before and after each fire fire chief Donald Harkins or. Said in a statement. Frank is also a suspect in a rash of Church fires in his Hometown of East Ridge Tenn. Frank was arrested in Ocala after members of the task Force followed him to an abandoned House where he was arrested and charged with trespassing loitering and prowling. He a being held on $6,500 Bond. His Public defenders last month said Frank was incompetent to stand trial. 2,700 walk out in Yale labor dispute
