European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday August 23, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 7 interracial service brings 200 to sing at charred school Wedow Efi Ala. A about 200 Mem Bers of the Community White and Black together Sang amazing Grace and prayed for an end to racial turmoil next to the charred Hulk that had been their High school. The Bible tells us that racism is wrong. We Reto love each other no matter what the skin color said the Rev. John Duncan of the first Baptist Church of Wedowee. Sunday s service1 was organized by 26 area ministers As a Way to unify the Small East Alabama town that was torn apart in february when school principal Hulond Humphries threatened to cancel the prom to prevent interracial dating. On saturday night a dozen Robed Kkt Mem Bers gathered in Graham 20 Miles East of Wedo wee to Burn a Cross but a thunderstorm brokers they began to Light it. When the rain stopped an hour later Only half of the 20-foot-Crosswould Leader Nathan Thomaston said it was recruitment rally. Talk s Good Bur action needed to trim government study says by Jeff Leeds los Angeles times Washington the Clinton administrations reinventing government initiative has generated High profile displays of government waste and numer Ous meetings with Federal employees to promote efficiency but to Date has produced Little real change according to a first anniversary appraisal of the program by a Liberal think tank. On a More positive note discussion of the plan championed by vice president Al Gore has forced fed eral officials to make efficiency a higher priority said the report by the Brooking institution. The plan has launched abroad Reform movement in the right direction and it has been asking the right Clinton and Gore pledged when they launched the program last fall to Cut 252,000 workers or 12 percent of the Federal work Force and save $108 billion in the next six years. But by ignoring the need for congressional cooperation and by focusing the plan on eliminating jobs to Cut red tape the initiative has alienated Many of thievery bureaucrats who will determine its Success or fail ure the study said. The study commended the initiative however for forcing Federal workers to consider seriously How to improve efficiency. The program officially called the National performance review has the potential together with the new Deal and the Hoover commissions to be one of the three most important administrative initiatives of the 20th Century the report said. At a White House news conference Clinton cite the Cost saving initiative As the great Beauty of his embattled crime legislation which will be financed entirely by reducing the size of the Federal he said the government would shrink to the smallest size it has been since the Kennedy administration More than 30 years ago. Critics and some career bureaucrats had scoffed atthe initiative saying it was Akin to governmental Reform programs developed during previous Donald Kettl a professor at the University of wis Consin Madison and the study s author said that thesis real. It s happening on the front in its first year the Effort has generated 384 recommendations to Cut red tape. The initiative has eliminated the sf-171 a much loathed Federal Job application form updated the government s contracting rules and started to break Washington s bureaucratic culture according to the assessment. Postal service issues stamp 125 years late Pittsburgh a nineteenth Century engravers probably took weeks to design the George Washington Andre Jackson postage stamp. The . Postal service took 125 years to Issue it. The new Diamond shaped $5 stamp based on an antique design is now on Salto the Public. The first of the 100 million Stamps printed so far were unveiled at the american philatelic society s annual stamp show and made available Friday to stamp collectors. Hundreds of eager collectors crowded Booths at the show to buy first Day Cov ers envelopes bearing cancelled Stamps dated the Day of Issue. Originally a 3-cent stamp the Washington Jackson design never was issued. The names of the engravers who create Dit remain a mystery. Gordon c. Morison a retired assistant postmaster general said they probably were Anonymous Ink stained wretches who earned modest salaries. People read Small ads. 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