European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes . Contest allows America to show Good bad ugly Oakland Calif. Apr there was no swimsuit Competition no sequins and not a Wisp of big hair Friday when the a America City finalists squared off. Instead representatives from cities towns and counties took a warts and All approach in the contest admitting their worst Points a and How they overcame them. That s because being an All America City has More to do with True grit than Glamour spokesman a Orem Dorff explained. A Cleveland has won the award five limes a he said. That City May suffer from a smokestack image but it actually is a hotbed of volunteerism Competition offi rials Are picked for their solutions to problems for education and for citizen participation among other criteria. A truth be told there is no perfect City. If this was an award for a perfect City nobody would win a Orndorff said. A this is not a Beauty contest a still with civic Pride on the line contestants were As enthusiastic As any pageant contestants. Delegates beamed High wattage smiles and let out whoops As they took the stage in front of judges to talk about Battles against crime poverty and other Urban Iii. A a a a a. Some wore coordinating outfits while others settled for their sunday Best. The fort Lauderdale Fla., group donned fluorescent starfish shaped badges that glowed in the dimly lighted ballroom of the parc Oakland hotel. The 30 cities and towns that made it to the two Day finals were culled from 400 applicants to the 45-Ycar-dressed for a test Leah Bender and 4- car old Lydia longhorn sit in the Shade of benders umbrella while awaiting the Start of the red Earth 94 festival in Oklahoma City on Friday. The two Are members of the Absentee Shawnee tribe whose members left the Shawnee reservation in Kansas in the Early 1800s and settled on both sides of the Canadian River in Oklahoma. The annual Oklahoma City festival attracts indians from across North by Coroner habits University Park a. Up1 police could solve More murders if they collected flies and maggots from the bodies of homicide victims a Penn state University researcher said Friday. Stephen Bullington an entomologist said insects taken from corpses can provide valuable clues such As pinpointing the exact time of death. But getting police and medical examiners to examine maggots is no easy task. Bullington said the nations 20 or so forensic entomologists handle Only a handful of cases each year. Old Competition run by the National civic league and sponsored by the Allstate foundation. Ten will win the right to Call themselves an All America City. Winners were to be announced saturday night. Last years winners were Oakland Calif Wray Colo. Delray Beach Fla. Wichita Kan. Dawson county neb. Washington . Cleveland Pulaski Tenn. Fort Worth Texas and Laredo Texas at the Competition Friday there were some big cities such As Philadelphia and Kansas City to. But Many were Small towns including mount airy . Population 7,500 and the Model for televisions Mayberry on the Andy Griffith show. Mount airy City manager Ron Niland said even Small towns have big City problems. Two years ago there was a drug bust in housing projects that a was sort of a Wake up Call a he said. Volunteers responded with a program called the Garden of Hope offering theater and recreation for needy children and a we Haven to had a major problem in the housing authority since a he said. Niland resist a Little civic boosting noting that mount airy is Home to the a a world a largest open face Granite Quarry a and produces 20 percent of the socks made in the United states. Other finalists were Monrovia Calif. Porterville Calif. Lakeland Fla. Savannah a. Streator 111. Columbus ind. Cheney Kan Alexandria la. Fitchburg mass. Crystal Falls Mich. Kalamazoo Mich Lincoln neb. Township of South Orange . Taos . Greater Buffalo . Piqua Ohio Erie area a. Hartsville . Spartanburg . Huron . Plano Texas san Marcos Texas Temple Texas Yakima Wash. Racine wis. And Powell mayors want Federal help with immigrant woes Portland Ore. A providing Public services to immigrants is becoming an expensive proposition for . Cities say local officials who Are urging the Federal government to pick up a greater share of the Cost. The . Conference of mayors during its annual meeting in Portland this weekend was to consider a Resolution calling for immigrant resettlement costs to be paid by Washington since it is Federal policy that allows immigrants to enter the United states and stay. Conference officials released a Survey Friday that showed foreign born residents make up an average 11 percent of the population in the 7s cities surveyed. Thirty two percent of those cities help new immigrants get settled and three of them a Cambridge mass. Madison wis. And Phoenix a offer Legal Sanctuary to undocumented aliens. The Issue increasingly has become a source for governors and other state officials. In recent months seven Stales a California Florida new York new Jersey Illinois Arizona and Texas a either have filed lawsuits against the Federal government or said they planned to do so to get More Money to cover the costs of caring for illegal immigrants. There was speculation at the mayors conference that some cities also May decide to fight for immigration Aid in Federal court. Congress is considering a Bill that would Cut the number of Legal immigrants entering the United Stales and limit to 80,000 the number of refugees allowed to gain political Asylum each year. The mayors said they oppose any reduction of Federal assistance to immigrants because it would shift All costs to state and local governments. They said they would consider it another instance in which Washington sets rules for state or local governments but does no to provide any Money to carry them out. Those so called unfunded mandates absorb about 13 a cities Are at the Bottom of the food Chain a Abramson said. A and if you done to have to pay for something How truly effectively do you review the costs a in the immigration Survey 57 percent of the cities reported problems a ranging from language and cultural barriers to delivery of social services a m dealing with immigrants. Sunday june 12, 1994credit details private americans say in poll from wire reports Washington by a 2-to-l margin americans consider the Selling of personal information by credit agencies to be an invasion of their privacy a poll shows. But they believe by an even larger margin that computer records about them generally arc accurate. A new poll also finds that seven in 10 americans believe computer privacy safeguards Are inadequate and that fully s5 percent worry about threats to their Persona privacy. The Abc news nigh til be poll said that the Overall concern about privacy is the highest in polls since 1978 and that around 92 percent of people believe Laws Are needed to require permission from the person involved before information is passed on soothers. The networks polling unit conducted the Survey by Telephone among a random National Sample of 813 adults from june 7-8. The results have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points.1wreck found in Superior Duluth Minn a divers attempting to recover barrels dumped into Lake Superior by the military have found the previously unknown wreck of a sailing vessel that May have sunk in the 1920s, the . Army corps of engineers said Friday. The wreck was found near knife River in deep water and underwater videos were taken to record the discovery. Patrick Labadie the director of the corps canal Park museum said the 100-foot yacht is resting in 410 feet of water about a mile offshore. The vessel built before 1900, is believed to be the fio gyn which caught fire and burned in May 1926 As it was being tested at the beginning of the season. The Crew was rescued by a tug named the Edna g. A we Don t know if it was a pleasure yacht or How it was being used a Labadie said. He said there Are no plans to Salvage the wreck because it is too deep for Safe diving and does not appear to have any commercial lawyer gets 90 Days Uniondale , a John gottis lawyer was sentenced Friday to 90 Days under House arrest for talking to reporters during the mob Bossy a 1991 trial. . District judge Thomas Platt also fined Bruce Cutler $5,000, barred him from the stale a Eastern District courts for six months ordered him to perform 600 hours of Community service and placed him on probation for three years. Cutler could have been sentenced to six months in jail. In january Platt found Cutler guilty of disregarding three gag orders issued by . District judge i. Leo Glasser during the murder racketeering trial that resulted in gottis life sentence.2 students shot dead los Angeles a two High school students who were killed and two other students who were wounded in a drive by shooting May have been mistake for gang members police said Jose Tizcareno 18, and Jose Alvarez 17, were killed Friday. Rafael Campoy 17, and Javier Lopez 18, were treated and released for wounds to their arms shoulders and faces. Liza Reno a sister Mayra said her brother a Sneve r even dressed like a gang member. He had a Job had the assailants May have been gang members seeking revenge for an earlier attack police Mother Dies at 64 Seattle a Mary Gates a director of major banking and communications corporations and Mother of Microsoft corp. Chairman Bill Gates died Early Friday after a Long Battle with cancer. She was 64. Mary Gates had been scheduled to receive the municipal league of King county a citizen of the year award Friday for her efforts As a a judicious exceptionally talented civic minded a she is widely viewed As one of the strongest people in this Community for gelling things done a said the leagues Eileen v. Quigley. A a she a been Active in the Community for 20 years in a variety of ways and she a made a Gates was a director of several companies including first interstate ban corp us West inc. And Karo to a Seattle to station
