European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 11, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 5fink big anti crime tattling can pay off Columbia . Apr turning in a Drunken Driver a drug dealer or a tax cheat can be profitable. Organizations from mothers against drunk driving to the internal Revenue service Are encouraging people to curb crime by turning in strangers neighbors or friends in return for Money. But some say the anti crime programs May have a dark Side. A they provide an incentive for people who  otherwise have one to make a false report a said Lynn Decker spokeswoman for the american civil liberties Union in new York. A and that is an unfortunate and possibly dangerous Side  a we Haven to filed against them a she said. Quot they arc not illegal. But on the other hand we done to think they Are a fantastic idea because of this Side  for the last two years sheriff Gene Taylor of South Carolinas Anderson county has promised informants up to 25 percent of the take if they help bring Down drug dealers. He put up billboards Reading a need Cash turn in a drug  Taylor said he wants to get drug dealers off the Street not to turn neighbor against neighbor. In Florence the mothers against drunk driving chapter began paying informants who turn in intoxicated Drivers in january. The Price paid upon conviction is $50 for an adult and $z5 for a minor. The program has received at least 16 Calls already. Even the irs is in on the act. Its program gives people up to 10 percent of the proceeds collected from delinquent taxpayers depending on How valuable the information is to auditors. 3,000 mourn victims of air guard crash Louisville by. A nearly 3,000 people packed an air National guard hangar sunday to Honor five guardsmen killed when their military transport plane slammed into a hotel and restaurant in Evansville ind. Services were held in Evansville for two of the 11 civilians killed on the ground in thursdays crash. In Louisville Waves of dress blues and fatigue Green blended As family friends and townspeople gathered for the memorial service for the Kentucky air National guard Crew members. Kentucky gov. Brereton Jones said the guardsmen had been heroes in a peacetime Effort to maintain military readiness. A the people of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Are very appreciative and grateful for what they have done a Jones said. A we will never forget  rep. Romano Mazzoli d-ky., and it. Gen. John b. Conaway director of the National guard Bureau in Washington also spoke at the one hour service. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago feb. 11,1982 a in connection with the Pentagon a $215.9 billion budget request the joint chiefs of staff reported to Congress that the Active duty military forces could sustain a conventional non nuclear War for Only Quot a very limited  20 years ago feb. 11,1972-theunited states marshalled its biggest air Armada in months As a warning to North Vietnam and sharply stepped up its air strikes in South Vietnam to counter recent increases in communist ground attacks. 30 year Sago feb. 11,1962 a the United states released russian spy Rudolf Abel who was serving a 30-year prison sentence in Exchange for american u-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers who had been imprisoned after his reconnaissance flight Over the soviet Union went Down in 1960. 40 years ago feb. 11,1952 . Jet fighters and fighter bombers ranged far into North Korea to Speed up the War by attacking communist Barracks areas. Meanwhile armistice negotiations crept toward a fresh deadlock Over whether a peace Parley after the War should Deal with Korea alone or the vast Complex of problems facing the far East. A these great airmen have Given their lives defending and supporting this country and democracy throughout the world a said Conaway a former commander of the Kentucky air National guard. In Evansville hundreds of people gathered sunday to mourn two plumbing company employees who were killed in the crash. John r. Stallings jr., a vice president of plumbing amp Industrial Supply co., was eulogized by his Brothers. A a we re All asking the question Why Why fourth floor Why 9 48? Why a amp i Why John a Jim Stallings told about 600 mourners. A a we la never know any of those answers All of our  of the 11 civilians killed nine were in a fourth floor meeting room at the Drury inn for a gathering sponsored by Stallings company. The two others were employees of the adjacent Jojou a restaurant. Funerals were scheduled through today for Evansville crash  cabbie cab Driver Charles Hollom sitting in the Yard of the san Francisco cab company where he works is getting More than passengers fare these Days. Sympathetic san franciscans Are donating Hinds to help Hollom who was fined $24,595 for figuring a mugger he pinned against a Wall with his cab nearly three years ago.43% of felons arrested again study says Washington a a Survey of felons in 17 states who were placed on probation in 1986 estimates that 43 percent had been arrested anew on other felony charges within three years the Justice department said sunday. The study by the Agency a Bureau of Justice statistics estimated that the subsequent arrests of 8.5 percent of the probationers were for such violent crimes As murder rape robbery and assault. The estimated 6,700 probationers charged with violent crime accounted for 20 percent of the 34,000 arrests of convicts who had been placed on supervised release in the Community. The study estimated that .8 percent of those felons on probation in 1986 were charged with committing murder during the next three years the department said. The Survey of convicted felons placed on probation in 1986 was based on court world War ii records from 32 counties in 17 states plus follow up information gleaned from the files of probation offices and state police rap sheets. The records of 12,370 felons studied in those jurisdictions was intended to be a representative sampling of the 79,043 felons placed on probation in 1986. The estimates in the study were based upon projections of percentages found in the smaller Sample. Comparisons with earlier periods were not possible because the study did not offer any historical data on the recidivism rate of people placed on probation. The Justice department said it was the first Survey it had conducted to gauge the crime committed by people on probation. But the recidivism rate for this group of probationers appeared to be significantly lower than among a group of convicts released from prison that the Justice department had previously studied. That study published in 1989, found a 63 percent re arrest rate among convicts released in 1983 from prisons in 11 states. In the current study 12 percent of the defendants were placed on probation for a violent offence including murder robbery and assault and 34 percent for property crimes such As burglary or fraud. Another 34 percent were convicted of drug crimes and 20 percent for other types of felonies. Of the 247 felons Given probation for murder 12 were charged with a second killing during the period studied according to the estimates based on the Sample. Convicted murderers typically Are placed on probation when a judge determines there was a significant mitigating Factor such As a battered wife who kills her husband after years of physical abuse said Patrick a. Langan a department statistician who supervised the study. 50 years ago today 11 feb. 1 a 9 4 .2 British forces on Singapore ignore japanese leaflets urging surrender but their counterattack fails and the defenders Retreat into their final positions around the City itself. In the Philippines japanese troops under attack in Central Bataan escape a . Attempt to encircle them. Portugal and Spain Issue a joint declaration reaffirming their neutrality. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc. World almanac Book of world War ii Bison books corp1961 a a year ago Day 26 feb. 11 the martyrs Bridge already partly damaged is destroyed in an air raid a the third of six Baghdad Bridges brought Down. A British Navy helicopter catches an iraqi patrol boat moving under cover of darkness off Fay Lakah Island and sinks it with air to sea missiles. Patriot interceptor missiles destroy an incoming scud missile near Riyadh saudi Arabia. A scud fired at Israel Falls harmlessly into a deserted area. A