European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday december 29, 1992 . The stars and stripes b Page 5states to ring in year with new Laws by Arlene Levinson the associated press one frayed thread a the poor Economy a runs through dozens of Laws that take effect Friday from alaskans new $10 fee for King Salmon anglers to Georgia a Promise of business tax Breaks for new jobs created in poor areas. Minnesota will tax hospitals to finance health insurance for the states working poor Florida will require tighter Security against crime in convenience stores and some California schools will be Freer to Experiment. New years Day also inaugurates Indiana a $125 tax break for used computers donated to Public schools lower workers compensation costs for Maine employers and a new York state ban on toys shaped like hypodermic Needles. Most of the Laws resulted from legislators wrestling with shrinking revenues dwindling jobs and escalating social service needs while also trying to enhance their states attractiveness to business and the work Force. A a big concern for states is the Economy and what they can do within their state Economy to make it better a said Doug Sacarto a Public policy analyst at the National conference of state Legislatures. A the fundamentals Are there a saving jobs education that a going to keep us competitive in a global Economy. This has been talked about at the National level but you see it acted on in very important ways at the state  Jan. 1 is not a legislative Benchmark Laws More often kick in at the beginning of a fiscal year or within a certain number of months of enactment. Looking at the array of january Laws is useful for checking possible trends. Some of the Laws go to the corporate Bottom line and the taxpayers purse. Georgia is offering $2,000 in business tax credits for each Job created in poor counties. In Pennsylvania divorced working parents can be compelled to provide health insurance for their children regardless of who has custody. Part of the payroll contributions new Jersey workers and employers make to unemployment and disability funds will go to health care for the poor and uninsured after Jan. 1. The economic thread touches the future through school Choice legislation to improve education. Parents clamouring for options spawned a Utah Law that will let children attend any school in the state provided there is room. A California Law will Unetter up to 100 schools from state restrictions to encourage innovation. Quality of life influences where businesses set up shop and a states Laws show How they look after their citizens. California employers now must warn workers against sexual harassment and Young sexual harassers in the fourth Grade up will risk expulsion from school. Job discrimination against homosexuals is outlawed in California starting Jan. 1. A few weeks later Colorado s ban on Gay rights Laws will take effect repealing such Laws in Denver Boulder and Aspen. New York state set a three minute limit on the sound of car alarms sold or installed there. On july 1, Laws take effect in Louisiana Delaware and West Virginia that require convicted Drunken Drivers to install devices that keep their car from starting if the Driver was drinking. The Driver has to breathe into a device connected to the autos ignition. The car wont Start if there is too much alcohol on the Drivers breath. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago dec. 29,1982 a president Reagan recommissioned the world War ii battleship new Jersey saying the United states is Quot rearming with prudence to protect the free  20 years ago dec. 29,1972 a in a simple funeral America said goodbye to former president Harry s. Truman. 30 years ago dec. 29, 1962 a a . Soldier who risked death rather than let his truck hit two girls was killed in a spectacular crash near Orleans France. The girls Ages 10 and 12, were spared. 40 years ago dec. 29, 1952 a Waves of Allied warplanes smashed a sprawling army installation near the North korean capital of Pyongyang in the heaviest raid on a single target in four months. 50 years ago dec. 29,1942 the United states has a Learned her lessons and is willing to share responsibility by participating in an International body like the league of nations vice president Henry a. Wallace said. C world War ii 50 years ago today dec. 29 194 2 soviet soldiers retake Kotelnikov Southwest of Stalingrad after bitter Street fighting. Free French troops based in Chad begin advancing across the Sahara to threaten the rear of Axis forces in Libya. On new Guinea american soldiers reach the coast Southeast of Buna Mission cutting off the Retreat route of its japanese defenders. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc world almanac Book of world War ii Bison books corp1981 sitting pretty a maybe Cara Wood sits on the counter of Dinky a restaurant in Chagrin Falls Ohio where she worked As a waitress for 13 months. On the Job Wood befriended Bill Cruxton a widowed and childless Man who was a regular customer of the restaurant. When Crux ton died last month he left the bulk of his estate valued at $500,000, to the High school senior. Cruxton a 86-year-old sister and Only living relative Cora Brock is challenging her brother a will. $8 million plus stolen in . New York a an armed gang got the drop on a Lone Security guard at an armoured truck company and stole More than $8 million from the vault the Fri said monday. It was the City a second biggest Cash theft. The Security Man whose name was not released said he was watching television late sunday in the command room of Hudson armoured car courier service in Brooklyn when the thieves entered. A the Felt a gun at the Back of his head and a voice ordered him onto the floor a said Fri spokesman Richard Defilippo. The Fri said a significant portion of the Money was in new $100 Bills with serial numbers in sequence. Defilippo said the Fri would like to hear from anyone who sees new $100 Bills sequentially numbered. The guard said his wrists and Ankles were bound with wire and he was unable to see the robbers. A but judging from the sounds of voices he thought there were five or six of them a Defilippo said. The guard eventually worked his legs free and triggered an alarm which brought police. Officers found the vault doors open and the robbers gone. From shipping manifests investigators determined that the robbers got four bags of Cash totalling $8,268,680.07, Defilippo said. He had no details about who the Money a owner was. The one Story windowless building which has no sign to identify its business or its address is in an Industrial neighbourhood of warehouses and Small factories near the Brooklyn waterfront. Company officials refused to speak to reporters. The City a biggest Cash theft was $11 million discovered missing on dec. 12, 1982, after thieves broke into the sentry armoured car company. However authorities later said a Large portion of the Money had been stolen Over time by insiders. On april 29, 1985, four armed men broke though a Wall at a Wells Fargo terminal in lower Manhattan and drove off with $7.9 million in an armoured car. Six bandits in ski masks took $5 million in Cash and $800,000 in gems from the Lufthansa terminal at Kennedy International Airport on dec. 11, 1978