Show A2 — The Herald JoOmali Logan Utah Tuesday April 27 2004 0 Nation 1 I ©oveimmeiniti aoeiveiills miew WASHINGTON ( AP) — Touches of red blue and yellow are being added to the new SSO bill the second of the greenbacks to be colorized as part of an effort to thwart counterfeiters The subtle colors: which appear in parts d backof what was once the ground on the note are ihe most noticeable change on the new SSO which was unveiled Monday by the Treasury Department's Bureau of Engraving and Printing makers of the nation's paper currency The new bills are still the same size and use the traditional black ink on the front and green ink on the back They also still feature Ulysses S Grant on the front and the US Capitol on the back But the borders around Grant — the Civil War general and 8th US president — and the Capitol have been removed "Even with a new design the world will still recognize the new notes as distinctly American" said Treasury Secretary John Snpw: "The new design is more secure than ever before We believe it will be extremely effective in discouraging counterfeiters" Grant gets a makeover government continues its changes to US currency -intended to thwart conterfeiting with the announcement of a new look for the S50 bill The new bills go into circulation in the fall The US - Security thread: a plastic stnp embedded m me paper wt USA 50' written on it: gios yeiiOA under ultraviolet light Watermark: a famt second mageof Ulysses S Grant is seen when the btM is held up to light The S20 bill — the most counterfeited note in the United States — was the first " to get the color treatment featuring splashes of peach blue and yellow The new $20 went into circulation last fall:' The new SSO features subtle background colors of red and blue on both sides The stars and stripes of the US flag are printed in blue and red behind the portrait of Grant on the front A field of blue stars is located to the left of the portrait while three red stripes are located to its star is right A small metallic silver-blu- e located on the lower right side of Grant The redesigned SSO also includes tiny yellow number SOs scattered in the background on the back of the note That's similar to the new S20 which has little yellow 20s on the back ' Security features include an embedded thread that glows yellow when exposed to g an ultraviolet light: ink that changes from copper to green when the note is tilted: watermarks visible when held up to light: and microprinting In one spot the tiny words 1 Color: Color-shiftin- SuCtfe Microprinting: yellow 50s' scattered around the sack of the note :1L c Eigra'ng 05CE background colors reds and blues ' added g ink: the '50' changes from green to copper when the note is tilted ”0 color-shiftin- te ' currency that circulates worldwide said Bruce Townsend deputy assistant director at the Secret Service Still it's important for authorities to stay ahead of counterfeiters and for people especially those who handle cash ta know what to look for to determine wheh a bill is genuine and when it’s bogus In brief Poll: Bush’s approval ratings to climb in April continuing — President Bush's WASHINGTON High court won’t listen to school prayer case I AP) approval ratings have climbed during April despite grow ing instability in Iraq and the deadliest month for US forces there since the invasion ' last year Bush's ov erall job approval rose to 48 percent 5 percentage points higher than the rating he received in early April accord-in- g to a poll released Monday by the Pew Research Center for The People A: The Press Forty-thre- e percentdisapprove of WASHINGTON (AP) — Two of the Supreme Court’s most conservative members delivered an unusual public Bush's job performance While the president's overall job score is up 48 percent of Americans disapprove of the way he is dealing with Iraq and just 36 percent think Bush has a dear plan for bringing the situation in Iraq to a successful conclusion Those numbers are not different from a similar survey conducted April 4 markedly ' Most Americans are rejecting comparisons betw een the conflict jri Iraq and the w ar in Vietnam Just a quarter of those prilled say Iraq will tum out to be another Vietnam More Than tw ice that number — 54 percent — believe the United States will accomplish its goals in Iraq The poll of 1000 adults was taken Wednesday through Sunday and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 35 percentage points 1 -- ' AP photo Sure beats a trip to the vet NEW YORK r AP) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed a S46-billion budget Monday that offers property tax rebates to ' homeowners pay raises to city workers and extra funds for lead paint abate- rnent The budget plan suggests that the : days of city service cuts and tax hikes are over as lax revenues from Wall Street firms and a general improvement ' in the economy helped bolster the Rikki a Yorkie brushes' his teeth while Karen Eaken of Mesa Ariz holds him on' Saturday Eaken started out brushing Rikki’s teeth after her veterinarian told her it was important After that Rikki just picked up the toothbrush one day and took over for her Groups spar Over effects of mining Conservationists SCOld jewelers for causing damage SPOKANE Wash (AP) — Those gleaming necklaces Billion-do'lproposal: rings and watches in the jew N3w York Mayor Michael ' elry case may cost a lot more Bloomberg answers a ' than y ou think enyironmen- after reporter's question bil- his talists say' S469 presenting lion budget for the 2005 In a new public relations fiscal year on Monday campaign environmentalists pan ' i groups are scolding jewelers for the damage caused by' mining for gold silver and other precious metals and are : putting pressure on jewelry led “Pontifex CHICAGO APi — Matthew Hale' the self-stretailers to reject minerals MavimuN" t if a white 'Upjemaci't group was found from big polluters 4 trying lb have a federal judge killed after she made One gold ring conserva- -' him yhange thegro'upN name ' lionists say generates 20 tons Hale-- ' World Church if the Creator preached a gospel of of mine waste This year theyv ’raLiafholy war-- ' that authorities said inspired a follow er to go passed oiit Valentine's Day on a shooting rampage five years ago targeting minorities in cards reading' "Don't tarnish Illinois and Indianaand killing two: fiv Hale 32 wa found guilty of four of the e charges against y6ur lave w ith dirty gold" in ' front of jewelry stores in New one of of but two of the him murder counts soliciting acquitted 'York Boston ' and Washington :of a federal judge The judge was not attacked Hale's reaction to Benjamin Smith’s three-da- y shootingspree "The campaign caught the Hale laughed about jt'and imitated gunfire in secretly record- — w cd the the for as part of Vd tapes play jury prosecution's case Cleary Building Corp Prosecutors said Hale was furious after US District Judge Featured Special Joah Humphrey Lctkow ordered hjm to stop using the name 30 X 40’ X IQ (Mngf$7995 World Church ot the Creator-hjch had been trademarked by e wr 4t 7W TT9U(rX an Oregomhayd religious group Aik tbout Othf Mptcitk!: His atu irney: Thomas Anthony Durkin said the FBI planted a mole to try to lure Hale into a murder plot and prosecuted him' ' ar first-ter- m 'r : ’ White supremacist found guilty of trying to have federal judge killed attention of Tiffany & Co which took out a recent ad in The Washington Post that said 'a proposed mine under the Cabinet Mountains wilderness of Montana is a jxibr way to fill its jew elry cabinets on Fifth Avenue' "Given the impact of mining for gold silver and plat- ' inum they are a company who cared about how they wereviewed and what their cus- - : tomers think" said Steve D'E- - state's university system ' The VMI case also gave the court an opportunity to rule bn the constitutionality of tradition- al religious observance inmili-- tary institutions Scalia said sposito president of Earth'"The weighty questions v works the environmental raised by petitioners deserve this court's attention’’ group leading the campaign: The ad signed by Tiffany he wrote in protest chairman and chief executive Writing separately Justice Michael J Kowalski surprised John Paul Stevens countered that the VMI case may be leaders in the mining industry was stunned that a person important but suffers'from "I s iroceduful and other of Mr Kowalski's stature and He said Scalia is "quite obvious business acumen wrong" in his characterization w ould w rite a letter like that" w of the court rejected the said Laura Skaer head of the ' case hy justices Ruth Bader Northw est Mining Association Ginsburg arid Stephen Breyer in Spokane joined Stevens prob--em- - :: Lewiston State Bank ' i Justice Antonin Scalia joined by Chief Justice William H Rehriquisi said the court should have taken the case to answer for the first time whether its ban on school-sponsorprayer for young children and high schoolers applies to college students as well Scalia delivered a polite but blunt critique of what he suggested are flimsy reasons for avoiding an appeal on behalf of the Virginia Military Institute which is part of the ed $469 billion budget plan offers tax rebates pay raises city's standing The centerpiece of the Bloomberg's plan is a $400 property tax rebate which comes more than a year after he imposed an 185 percent property tax hike that had led his approval ratings ' to plummet The rebates'foF 6000Q0 homeowners will cost the city S250 million The City Council must approve the Republican maVor's ' budget ' ' rebuke to more liberal justices Monday accusing them of ducking an important church- -' state fight over mealtime ' prayers at a taxpayer-funde- d military college NYC mayor’s : BddDII "United States of America'’ appear on Grant's collar under his beard The bureau expects to print 768 million new $S0s this year New bills however aren’t likely to go into circulation and start showing up in cash registers until 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