European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 13, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday May 13, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 7 1789 amendment on pay questioned by Congress Washington apr Congress May not be ready to accept James Madison a constitutional amendment barring it from midterm pay raises unless several states ratify the 203-year-old document again. The amendment written by Madison in the very first Congress in 1789, was provisionally ratified by the 38th and 39th states a one to spare a Only last week. But rep. Don Edwards d-Calif., said it should be sent Back to eight states that approved it so Long ago the experts wonder whether their ratifications should count. A precedent and Good sense require the states approval of an amendment to be contemporaneous a Edwards said monday. A Congress should immediately enact a joint Resolution asking the states that ratified prior to the 1980s to vote on the amendment. A if All certify by their vote that this is their intention today Congress should immediately vote to promulgate the amendment As a part of the Constitution a said Edwards who chairs the House judiciary subcommittee on civil and constitutional rights. The amendment was sent to the states along with others that quickly became the Bill of rights without a ratification deadline. There a no precedent for deciding whether its so old that its dead on arrival. The question regardless of what Congress does could go ultimately to the supreme court. Alabama Missouri Michigan and new Jersey All ratified the amendment last week surprising historians parliamentarians and other guardians of constitutional precedent on Capitol Hill. Ratification now requires 38 of the 50 states most of which of course did no to even exist in Madison a time. Michigan was no. 38 and new Jersey was no. 39. Edwards wants a second opinion from Maryland and North Carolina which ratified in 1789 South Carolina and Delaware 1790 Vermont and Virginia 1791 Ohio 1873 and Wyoming 1978. Edwards contended that repeating the earlier votes would erase the concern about untimely action a a concern that led Congress in More modern times to add deadlines to amendment proposals. He said his Resolution would be ready to introduce this week. On monday a competing Resolution was introduced by one of the leaders of the amendment ratification drive rep. John a. Boehner a Ohio. That Resolution Calls on Congress to express its opinion that the amendment is now ratified and part of the Constitution. Boehner and other congressional freshmen breathed new life into the ratification drive when they made it their a class project last year. It was timely they argued because the Senate had just voted itself a dark of the night raise to bring their paychecks in line with the $125,100 already Given House members. Since then both Chambers have had Cost of living adjustments to bring their salaries to $129,500. I thought it must be a., doll Worcester mass. Apr a 3-month-old boy fell from the roof of his fathers moving car but landed upright and uninjured in his portable car seat authorities said. A Rode on the roof for sunday before the car seat the infant Matthew Murra three quarters of a m flew off and landed in front of the car behind. Motorist James Boothby stopped dashed Over and picked up the seat. A at first i thought it must be a doll but when it landed i could see it was a baby a Boothby said. A i got out and the Little thing was just iving there looking up at  the boys father Michael Murray was cited for driving to endanger. He said he left the baby on the roof while he strapped his 20-month-old daughter into a car seat after a mothers Day visit with his wife Deanna at the Hospital where she works As a nurse. The car seat stayed put on the roof until Murray accelerated to 50 Mph. As he heard a sliding noise on the roof Murray said he realized what had happened. Glancing in the rear View Mirror Murray saw his son hit the pavement of interstate 290. Matthew was crying a Little but otherwise seemed Fine. A rays and tests indicated he Wasny to injured. A it did no to faze him at All a Murray said. A even his pacifier was still in the car  Michael Murray shows Oft his uninjured son Matthew. Union fined in . Times dispute new York apr a Federal judge monday found a Union representing newspaper a Lively Drivers for the new York times in contempt of court and ordered it to pay unspecified compensatory damages. . District judge Pierre n. Leval said the newspaper and mail deliverers Union of new York and Vicinity also must pay the times $100,000 for every hour during which further disruptions occur. He said the Fine would be increased to $500,000 for every hour that the delivery of the newspapers sunday edition is obstructed. Through Only Token communication with pickets the Union proved during the four Days since Leval issued a restraining order that it a supported their obstruction of the deliveries and was Only mouthing an opposing message As Protection from Legal action a the judge wrote. Trouble started last week after Arthur Imperatore a Imperial delivery service bought wholesale companies in East Farmington and new Rochelle and turned out their 240 unionized Drivers. Arson Rock throwing and ramming of trucks Cut into times deliveries during the weekend. Thousands of Home deliveries were missed and the Complete sunday times never reached most suburban Newsstands. The times distribution problems also affected the new York Post and the Wall Street journal which use the same wholesaler for delivering some of their papers. Union attorney j. Kennedy of Connor said Union leaders did All they could to restrain their members but found it is impossible to control hundreds of workers with decades of experience who suddenly lost their jobs. The Allied printing trades Council the umbrella organization for 10 City newspaper unions asked that representatives of the times the Drivers and Imper store meet tuesday. But Imperatore called the Drivers a hoodlums and gangsters and said he would have nothing More to do with them. Union members had rejected contracts negotiated with Imperatore and the times covering five Sites the two wholesale operations Imperatore bought two More wholesalers the times had contracted to buy and the times new unopened printing Plant in Edison . The contract raised base pay and guaranteed jobs until the year 2000, but contained concessions on staffing Levels and other work rules. It also All but eliminated overtime provisions that enabled Drivers to double their Basic $40,000 annual pay. A us Freak Accident on bus leaves 4-year-old dead from wire reports Oceanside Calif. A a 4-year-old boy was killed when snakelike steel cables from a bus tire Blowout broke through the Bush floorboards and ripped the child from his mothers Lap. Ramon Prado was pulled through a 3-foot Hole in the floor of the bus and was crushed by the bus and other cars on a freeway California Highway patrol officials said sunday. The family was returning to Santa Ana from Michoacan Mexico when the Accident occurred saturday. The Bush rear tire blew out near Oceanside 70 Miles South of los Angeles. The tires steel cables snapped Tore through the Bottom of the bus and burst through the seat. The cables wrapped around Ramon who was napping with his head on his mothers Lap and dragged him through the Hole. A it was like the decompression of an air plane a said a Highway patrol officer David Padilla. The boys Mother tried to pull the cables off him. A she was screaming a Stop the bus. You re killing my baby a a said the boys great Grandfather Trinidad Ceja 89. A but no one could do anything. Our boy was already  can be returned Oak Brook 111. A Mcdonald a corp. Is warning customers that a toy car offered in a promotional Campaign May pose a choking Hazard for Young children. Mcdonald a spokeswoman Terri Capatosto said no youngsters arc known to have been injured by the futuristic Doc Delorean cars. But the fast food giant is allowing parents to Exchange the miniature car with another toy offered in the a Aback to the future Happy meal promotion at no extra Cost Capatosto said. About 8 million cars were distributed at Mcdonald a . Restaurants in april. Since then the company has received about nine complaints from parents the spokeswoman said. A some Small children have been Able to remove the rear tires with their Teeth a she said. The cars comply with Federal safety requirements Capatosto  Lizard relocates Savanna okla. A a deserter from the persian Gulf War showed up at a Junior High school and was fed insects by the principal. But the deserter being a Lizard likes them. The reptile about 3 inches Long apparently stowed away in an ammunition Box that was recently shipped from saudi Arabia to the army ammunition Plant in Mcalester. Don Capps Deputy storage manager at the Plant said he found the Sand Lizard and turned it Over to Savanna Junior High schools principal Johnny Elrod. A i figured it would be Good for science at the school a Capps said. Elrod showed it to pupils last week in an English class where it caused a Brief disruption when it leapt from his hand and ran up his Pant leg. Elrod said he a spending a lot of time catching insects for the Lizard which has Sand coloured skin and can grow As Long As 2 feet. A there was no Way i could import bugs from saudi Arabia for him to eat a Elrod  avoids life term Houston a a teen Ager charged in the stabbing death of a Man who was attacked while leaving a Gay nightclub has pleaded guilty to murder in Exchange for a 45-year prison term. John Christopher Buice 18, accepted the Pica bargain monday avoiding a life sentence. Nine other teen agers charged in the july 4 slaying of 27-year-old banker Paul Broussard await trial. Broussard and two friends were attacked by a gang wielding pipes and Nail studded boards. The two others survived. Authorities said the teen agers a All from the Woodlands a Well to do suburb a told them they wanted to a beat up some