Show Saturday Apnl Standard-Examin- er 21 1990 3A National Memo: Hawaiian alert on lava continues Agency strained Hawaii (AP) — inched through a housing subdivision Friday to within yards of a home that could become the 83rd destroyed by Volcano in the last seven years authorities say gcta said The intense heat generated by the molten rock ignited and destroyed two houses on Wednesday night and early Thursday in the Kalapana Gardens subdivision and moved to within 30 yards of a house on Mehau Street late Thursday Civil Defense spokesman Dennis Shigeta “As long as the eruption continues all of these homes are in danger" said Civ il Defense Administrator Harry Kim "The agony down here is like nothing ever seen It is painstakingly slow This is high stress for the residents” KALAPANA Laa Social Security service slacking Ki-lau- ea WASHINGTON (AP) — The Social Security Administration is seeing warning signs of deteriorating service and rising workloads that could “overwhelm" the system a top agency official says in an internal memo “There are signs of this early warning pattern developing in all areas of SSA's basic operations” said the March memo to Social Security Commissioner Gwendo-ly- n King Deputy Commissioner Herbert R Doggette Jr wrote the memo shortly before he retired last month He said both the numbers of claims pending and the length of time needed to process them increased in 1989 “When this pattern appears it is an early warning of deterioration in levels of service" Doggette wrote “The possibility clearly exists that at some point workload growth could overwhelm our ability to respond given our limited resources” the memo said The memo obtained Friday was first described in a report in The Washington Post The number of claims pending at Social Security field offices rose 4 percent in 1989 resulting in longer processing times for three of four claims filed Doggette reported The number of cases pending in the agency’s six major service centers rose 143 percent and processing times in the agency’s Office of Disability Operations rose 6 percent the memo said Staffing levels at the Social Security Administration were slashed from 80000 to 63000 during the Reagan years as part of a campaign to streamline and modernize the system Many agency employees have complained that the cuts left them overworked and unable to pro-- v ide good service to the public Mrs King who took over the agency last August this year has dispatched “strike teams” to visit Social Security field offices and approve hiring additional employees paying overtime and obtaining more equipment where needs are the greatest She said Friday the agency is adding about 500 workers “I’m confident now that with the changes we made by the end of this fiscal year we will have our workloads well under control” Mrs King said She added that with the recent release of $48 million by the presidential Office of Management and Budget “We’re fine where we are right now If I see that our workloads are increasing even more then we’ll go back for even more” said ssociaMd Press A photographer records the destruction of a home at Kalapana Gardens anti-crim- 24-ho- l'e Damage irom the lava has totaled more than S20 million since the volcano the world’s most active started eruption on Jan 3 1983 Easing of visa rules tempts Nazi criminals to US WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of interceptions as the summer tourist season begins about a dozen suspected Nazi Previously West Germans had criminals who took advantage of to apply for visitor visas at a eased visa requirements to reach US consulate where their appliUS airports in recent months a cations were checked against the thousands of names on the government official said Friday “watchlist” of suspected Other suspected Nazis on a list of people banned from this coun- Nazi war criminals In October however West try may have managed to slip into the United States because of Germany joined other US allies the change which allows West in a program that waives visitor Germans to visit here without a visas for the United States Since visa said Neal Sher who heads then visitors are merely screened the Justice Department’s by Immigration and Naturalizaoffice tion Service officers at the passSher declined to name those port control booths of airports who were turned away but said ports and border crossings The INS officials check a visi- he expects an increase in the tor's passport against lists in their computers and can stop a person whose name shows up But some probably get through if for example a full flight lands late at night and the passport inspectors are flooded with work Sher said “So the last line of defense has become the first" Sher said This complicates the work of his office which has had to dispatch staff to various airports around the country to question suspected Nazis stopped by INS inspectors Sher said he recently got a call from the INS at Boston’s Logan Airport at 10:30 on a Saturday night about a West Gerdan whose name showed up in the United States has turned away so-call-ed Nazi-hunti- ng computer when he went through passport control The man whom Sher declined to name had won a free trip to the United States including a cruise from Florida Sher said he went to his office to check the records and found that the man had been extradited to Poland in 1947 from the US zone of West Germany for suspected involvement in Nazi atrocities “We put him on a plane home the next morning" Sher said “Our views have been made to other government agencies about the impact this has on our work” Sher said But the State Department is estate barred a Palace to replace legendary home HILLS ity CHICAGO (AP) — A church boy with AIDS from Sunday school then reversed itself Friday after an uproar “We love (him) and we want (him) back in our Sunday school and (he) will be back in our Sunday school” the Rev Erwin razed BEVERLY “very satisfied" with the visa waiver program said spokesman Frances Jones She said 3 million foreigners have entered the United States as visitors this year with only 600 being found ineligible and sent back The INS said some 121000 West Germans had entered the United States since the visa changes took effect in October The watchlist compiled by the Justice Department under provisions of the US immigration law includes names of people ineligible to enter this country for various reasons including suspected criminal or terrorist activ- Church bars boy with AIDS then relents Pickfair Calif Lutzer (AP) — Pickfair the legendary estate of Hollywood film stars Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks has been razed so Pia Zadora and her multimillionaire husband can build a palace The rambling estate first built as a hunting lodge was dubbed the Buckingham Palace of Hollywood Albert Einstein Charlie Chaplin and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were some who passed through its doors Prima ballerina Anna Pavlova danced there Maurice Chevalier sang there Rudolph Valentino Clark Gable and Joan Crawford attended parties there Originally surrounded by 15 acres of gardens lawns and tree groves the property now takes actr- “Our position and our Meshulam Riklis announced plans to demolish the home to make way for a Renaissance-styl- e Venetian palazzo “I’ve got a funny feeling about it because it’s no longer Pickfair to me” said Phyllis Lerner historical society presi- chairman of the city Planning Commission said last summer when the commission approved the project Contractor Rob Myers said the ravages of time and termites made demolition inevitable “Once we got into it it was like cancer” Myers said “We dent “The house has been changed kept cutting away at the bad through the years a number of stuff trying to get at the good times so that it no longer is the stuff until we got down to the foundation original Pickfair" Paul Selwyn up less than three acres Douglas Fairbanks Jr the actor’s son from another marriage was saddened by the demise of Pickfair “I regret it very much ” Fairbanks said Thursday “I wonder if they were going to demolish it why they bought it in the first place” The Beverly Hills Historical Society raised no objections when Miss Zadora and husband ads featuring Bundy ‘tacky and tawdry’ on the death penalty Bowman said the ads were a “repulsive and painful” reminder of the death of his daughther Margaret Bowman who was killed at a Florida State University sorority house in 1977 It was the second time in four years that Bowman assailed a Martinez campaign commercial that invoked the name of the serial killer senior pastor of the Moody Church said at a hastily called news conference But Lutzer said other parents would be notified that a child with AIDS would be attending Bible class “and they will have the freedom to keep their children from Sunday school” ess-singer Victim’s dad calls ST PETERSBURG Ha (AP) — The father of a college student killed by Ted Bundy calls Gov e televiBob Martinez’s sion advertisements featuring the executed serial killer “tacky and tawdry” “Last I heard Martinez was not running against Bundy” Jack Bowman said of the spots which picture Bundy and expound on stance the governor’s hard-lin- e A second flow had stagnated along Lokelani Street about 75 feet from the nearest house Shi- - evacuation aert refor 26 houses effect in mained in the rural Hawaii Island subdivision he said Another 25 houses were evacuated Sunday A Martinez in the slaying of a Lake City girl In all Bundy was convicted of or confessed to killing dozens of women in nine states JM “Mac” Stipanovich Martinez’s campaign manager said the advertisements have not run in about a month and that he was sorry they offended Bowman “If that’s true it’s unfortunate Bowman said they were hurting his family and the families of other Bundy victims The ads do not mention any victims by name Besides Miss Bowman Bundy killed another member of the Chi Omega sorority and severely in- jured two others in a night at-‘ta- ck He was executed in January warrant signed by 1989 on a but we believe Ted Bundy is a symbol of why we need the death penalty in Florida” he said “I sincerely regret that it is hurtful” Stipanovich said “I sincerely regret his personal pain but every media outlet in America has used the photograph and At no name of Ted Bundy time in that commercial did we allude to the victims or the crimes” On Thursday Mrs Rucker had said the church officials’ initial decision stemmed “from fear and ignorance" Before announcing the reversal the pastor said the church had decided to bar the boy “to give us time to think it through” Bus strike forces layoffs of maintenance workers DALLAS (AP) — Greyhound Lines Inc said Friday it had laid of its mainteoff almost one-fift- h nance force citing reduced workloads caused by a strike by bus drivers Union officials said the layoffs were a sign the company is struggling “Because of the present volume of business we have more mechanics than we need” said Greyhound spokesman George Gravley “It’s not that we can’t pay them we don’t want to pay them if there’s no work to do” He said 275 of the current 1395 mechanics mechanics helpers storekeepers truck ers and service workers were laid off beginning Monday Before the strike Greyhound had 2165 maintenance workers Of those the 690 represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Work driv- ers remained on the job Gravley said 695 ATU members also ig- nored the strike The layoffs are spread throughout the country and involve 120 Machinists and 155 ATU members he said adding that the mechanics would be recalled as work loads increase “Every indicator points to financial disaster for Greyhound Lines Inc” said James ia Sala international president of the Amalgamated Transit Union “Greyhound management is now at a crossroads It can either negotiate a settlement to this contract dispute or allow this country’s only national bus system to slide into finanoial ruin" The ATU which also 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