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RAIN 10/20: Potpourri



New York City 10/19/00
Access ordered in auction case
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/19/business/19AUCT.html

A. Alfred Taubman, the former chairman of Sotheby's and a target of the
government's investigation into auction-house collusion, won a judge's
approval yesterday for access to information described as crucial to his case.
"There's too much foot- dragging in this case," said the judge, Lewis A.
Kaplan of Federal District Court in Manhattan, who rejected two motions to
delay the turnover of records produced in a class- action lawsuit brought by
customers of Sotheby's and its archrival, Christie's.


New York Times 10/19/00
State to adopt privacy rules on information from insurers
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/19/nyregion/19PRIV.html


by Joseph P. Fried
New York State plans to adopt, within a month, new insurance regulations that
will restrict the health and financial information that insurers may share
with banks and securities houses about their customers.
The proposed regulations are to be put into effect by the state's Insurance
Department to comply with a requirement of federal legislation enacted last
year. The law makes it easier for banks, insurance companies and financial
brokerage firms to enter one another's businesses or to affiliate, and it
requires states to take measures to regulate insurers' sharing of information.


Mobile Register 10/19/00
Climbing the Family Tree: National Archives sets new fees
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/Oct2000/19-a314454a.html

Beginning Nov. 13, the new pricing fees for requested records from the
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) will be in effect. NARA
has revised its schedule of fees for reproduction of records and other
materials in the custody of the Archivist of the United States. This rule
covers reproduction of Federal records created by other agencies that are in
the National Archives of the United States, donated historical materials,
Presidential records, Nixon Presidential historical materials, certain
Federal agency records in NARA Federal records centers, and records filed
with the Office of the Federal Register. The fees are being changed to
reflect current costs of providing the reproductions. This rule will affect
members of the public and Federal agencies who order reproductions from NARA.


Ottawa Citizen 10/19/00
Raise access fees by 500% report
Current charges cover only 1% of cost
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/001019/4712490.html

by Jim Bronskill
The fee for requesting information from the federal government under the
access law should be increased to $30 from the current $5, an internal study
suggests.
Boosting the application fee and revising additional charges for processing
records would help the government recover more of the millions of dollars
spent administering the Access to Information Act while preserving the
public's right to know, says the study. The recommendations come amid charges
from John Reid, the federal information commissioner, that the government has
launched a full counter-attack on his efforts to police the act, imperilling
the right of access.


Yahoo News 10/19/00
State Dept. pressed on secrets
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20001019/pl/safeguarding_secrets_2.html

by George Gedda
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Paper shredders, State Department employees are told, must
trim classified documents down to slices no larger than 1/32 inch by 1/2
inch. Disposal can also be achieved, they are advised, with machines that
that can ``pulverize'' secrets into powder. Safes storing sensitive materials
must weigh at least 500 pounds - too heavy to be carted off.
James D. Tromatter makes these points tirelessly in briefing after briefing
as part of the State Department's intensified efforts to keep employees
security conscious - and secret materials away from unauthorized eyes.


Duluth News Tribune 10/19/00
St. Louis County gets urge to purge old files
http://www.duluthnews.com/today/dnt/local/clean.htm

by Baird Helgeson
The clutter in the St. Louis County courthouse is often more than Tony
Mancuso can bear.
He has spent years trying to unclog hallways and rooms stuffed with files and
old county records.
``Sometimes it can make me crazy,'' said Mancuso, the county's director of
property management.
Then there are days like Wednesday.
Workers began removing nearly 64,000 pounds of old files from the southeast
corner of the courthouse attic.
The area became so jammed with court records and county land files that
Mancuso feared the floor would give way.


St. Louis Post-Dispatch 10/18/00
UC Berkeley professors measure exploding world production of new information
http://www.stlnet.com/postnet/News/wires.nsf/StateRegion/42B4884A5C3D740886256

97C00810E6C?OpenDocument

Ascribe News
BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 18 (AScribe News) -- Two University of California,
Berkeley, professors have just finished analyzing all new data produced
worldwide last year - on the Internet, in scholarly journals, even in junk
mail - and report not just staggering totals, but a ``revolution'' in
information production and accessibility.
In their report, ``How Much Information?'' professors Hal Varian and Peter
Lyman of the UC Berkeley School of Information Management & Systems (SIMS)
report new information production in terms of paper, film, optical and
magnetic data. They analyzed industry and government reports for production
of information that also includes e-mail, digital production, videos, DVDs,
CDs, broadcast outlets, photographs, books and newspapers.



Nando Times 10/19/00
Information cup runneth over
http://www.nando.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500270597-500421561-502621718-0,00.

html

Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON (October 19, 2000 6:10 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - It
could be that you can have too much of a good thing. Computers and the
Internet have helped create an explosion in the amount of data available
around the world, leaving people "drowning in a sea of information,"
according to California researchers.
According to the study by the University of California at Berkeley, the world
produces 250 million megabytes of data for every person on Earth -- enough
data to fill computer floppy disks stacked to the moon eight times.


Congress orders ID numbers stripped off checks
Move designed to thwart identity thieves
http://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/10/19/idtheft1019_01.html

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Acting to prevent identity theft, the House on Wednesday
directed the Treasury Department to stop displaying Social Security numbers
on checks and other documents it sends through the mail.
The House, by a 385-0 vote, requires Treasury to ensure that Social Security
numbers are not visible on or through unopened mailings.


Chicago Sun Times 10/19/00
Records detail hardships of former slaves
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/freed19.html

by Annie Sweeney
When Belzora Cheatham was a child, her aunt used to gather the youngsters
together to tell the family stories.
One story was never told. Cheatham doesn't know if her aunt even knew it.
But Cheatham found it, buried inside a ledger in the Freedmen's Bureau
records in Washington, D.C.
The story was in 1868 letters recounting a raid and killings on the Whitaker
plantation in Texas, where her ancestors rented land after freedom from
slavery.
"Captain, I have the honor to report for your information that on the 15th of
October a band of mounted men made a raid from Arkansas on the Whitaker
Place, about 12 miles from Jefferson," said Cheatham, reading parts of a
letter written by a bureau employee to his boss.


Portland Press Herald 10/19/00
Whereabouts of Wyeth White House unknown
Last word of historic painting was in 1976 list. It is sought for
bicentennial celebration in D.C.
http://www.portland.com/news/state/001019ap.shtml

Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- When the White House celebrates its bicentennial next
month, organizers would love to display a historic painting of George
Washington in front of a White House under construction and covered in
scaffolding.
But the painting, commissioned by the Pennsylvania Railroad and painted in
1930 by Brandywine Valley resident N.C. Wyeth, has vanished. The work was
featured on Richard Nixon's 1971 White House Christmas card and could be
worth as much as $1 million.
"We first started looking for it 10 or 11 years ago, and our interest was
renewed because of the 200th anniversary," said White House curator Betty
Monkman. "We are trying to contact various people and getting various leads,
but so far nothing has turned up."


Bergen Record 10/19/00
Rescuing life stories written in stone
http://www.bergen.com/bncent/pmgrave200010193.htm

by Richard Cowen
Until last week, the cemetery at Pascack Reformed Church in Park Ridge looked
like many other Colonial-era burial grounds in North Jersey.
The sands of time had rubbed away the inscriptions on many of the headstones;
emissions from vehicles on Pascack Road had also taken their toll. And the
eternal cycles of wind, rain, heat, and frost had caused the ground to expand
and contract, toppling many of the headstones.
Standing on hallowed ground could have proved to be a modern-day harrowing
experience, at least initially, for the group of volunteers who came to the
cemetery last week to restore some of the 230 gravestones in neat little rows
behind the church.
"These are historical documents," observed Pat Garbe-Morillo as she drove a
shovel into the soil at the base of a rust-brown sandstone marker. "So, like
any other historical document, these headstones tell a story and are worth
preserving."


Hamilton Journal-News 10/19/00
Recorder candidates look to put records on the Internet
http://www.journal-news.com/cgi-bin/liveique.acgi$rec=29071?jnnews

by Erik Clark
Butler County
Republican Danny Crank faces a challenge from Democrat Darrell "Jake" Collins
in the race for Butler County recorder in November.
Crank was appointed to the office in January, after Joyce Thall retired from
the position. The county recorder is responsible for maintaining county real
estate records.
Collins, 63, is a retired foreman for Armco Steel, now AK Steel Corp. He
served on the New Miami Village Council from 1960 to 1967. He was also St.
Clair Township police chief for 18 years.
Crank, 54, served on Hamilton City Council for 11 years between 1986 and 1999.
As a real estate agent, Crank said he used the Recorder's Office daily for
more than 20 years.


Rocky Mountain News 10/19/00
Tattered Cover's records at center of privacy case
http://www.insidedenver.com/news/1019tatt5.shtml

by Hector Gutierrez
A Denver district court judge this week will decide whether drug detectives
can search bookstore records in what could become a landmark privacy case.
Joyce Meskis, owner of Tattered Covered Book Store, obtained a temporary
restraining order to keep the North Metro Drug Task Force from searching her
business records that would say who bought two books about making
methamphetamine.


Denver Post 10/18/00
Bookstore fights search warrant
http://www.denverpost.com/news/news1018d.htm

by Howard Pankratz
The Tattered Cover Book Store renewed its court fight Tuesday to keep police
from searching customer records for a suspected drug dealer who allegedly
learned how to concoct methamphetamines from books sold by the popular Denver
company.
"We feel it is important to protect the privacy rights of our customers,"
Tattered Cover owner Joyce Meskis testified.


The Tennessean 10/19/00
Former Gore legal counsel dragged into e-mail inquiry
http://www.tennessean.com/local/00400064.shtml?Element_ID=400064

by Rob Johnson
The name of a Nashville federal judge who once was former legal counsel to
Vice President Al Gore has surfaced in a recent congressional report on the
Clinton administration's e-mail systems, prompting the judge to charge that
the committee chairman is "a zealot" who is trying to influence the
presidential election.
On Oct. 5, the House Committee on Government Reform, voting 16-14, approved a
report that accused the White House of mismanaging hundreds of thousands of
e-mails between September 1996 and November 1998. A press release issued by
the chairman described the e-mails as "potentially incriminating."


Dallas Morning News 10/19/00
Whistle-stop history tour
Shrill sounds take fairgoers back to time of steam-driven trains
http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/194923_whistle_19met..html

by Roy Appleton
The grownups know what's coming. They know what Paul Kurilecz has in mind.
But prepare the children.
The horn from a nearby Amtrak locomotive blares a series of four short
hellos. Mr. Kurilecz steps up, pulls slowly on a dangling cord and talks
back. Across the State Fair of Texas. And the years.
HUUUUUUUU-AAH. HUUUUUUUU-AAH!
He grabs another cord and pulls. And another. And another, until time runs
out on his blasts from a technology past - a lineup of steam-powered
whistles.
HUUUUUUUUUAAAUMMMMM!


Detroit Free Press 10/19/00
Library's historical collection to reopen
July flooding had closed Burton section to users
http://www.freep.com/news/metro/burt19_20001019.htm

by Ben Schmitt
The Burton Historical Collection, closed since flooding struck the Detroit
Public Library in July, is to reopen for half-days beginning Dec. 5.
The library's director, Maurice Wheeler, announced the reopening Tuesday at a
Detroit Library Commission meeting. Wheeler said the 5.7-million-piece
collection will be open four hours a day while the staff continues an
inventory. He did not say when Burton will open full time.
Wheeler declined to comment Wednesday, except to confirm the reopening
through his secretary.




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Virginia

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