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»4 — MANCHESTER HERALD, Wednesday. April 20. 1983 Nation’s drivers take poetic iicense By Cathy LewandowskI Drivers of luxury cars often brag A contemporary driver has victim’s survivors Clothes-shopping Red Auerbach United Press International they are "INHOC” and “ I 0 “ SHAKA” on his car — It’s ALOT.” Hawaitan for "right on” — and to step down •JESUS” and ‘MR B IG " are A smitten couple shouts their another uses “ BRUDDA” — for may sue nightclub after mastectomy cruising the nation's highways. affection with "LU V U” and LUV “ brother.” Creative drivers seeking an U 2" license plates and band leader California has its share of ... page 3 .. page 11 page 16 indentity on the road have turned Lawrence Welk flashes his trade­ celebrity vanity plates. Diet guru to their license plates to advertise mark — “ A1ANA2.” Richard Simmons scolds, “ YR- their trades, boast their IQs and "When 'E.T.' came out, we had F A T T ” and actor Ernest Borgnine flash their egos. alt kinds of E.T. plates," said a m a made a logical choice — "BORG9” While state employees match Virginia official. About 13,000 Michigan drivers wits with crafty drivers who try to A very defensive driver uses pay $25 extra each year for their slip a racy message past them, the "XKUS ME.” ego plates, which are new every state coffers fill with added re­ There is room for "N ASTY, ’ G year. Unlike most drivers, vanity venue from vanity plates. "EXTACY,” "BABY,” "HOT32” drivers get front and rear plates — and an endless string of “ SE X Y"s Clearing tonight; Manchester, Conn. Drivers who may not want to pay and they have paid more than $2.7 extra — as much as $100 — have on one state's roads and each state million into the litter control fund sunny Friday. Thursday. April 21, 1983 made a minor sport out of spotting has a tennis buff who can’t resist since 1974. odd license plates. Newspapers in asking, “ lOSNEl." — See page 2 Single copy: 25C While the extra money is boon Chicago featuresomeof thejazzier The medical profession has for state treasuries, the work combinations in their people spawned its own brand of license manrliratf r involved with keeping track of columns. plates. There is “ BABY DR,” vanity plates is nigh “ Illinois has a unique love affair “EYEDOC,” "TOEPRO,” "TOT overwhelming. with license plates," said Mike DOC,” "2THDOK,” “ RENAL,” Bud Schoen, chief of the regis­ Walters, spokesman for Secretary “ FLOSSM " and “ ICU.” trar’s bureau in the Motor 'Vehicle of State Jim Edgar. “ It's kind of a West Virginia obstetrician Dr. Division of. the Montana Deptart- ■rr-n minor sport to check out how Bruce Berry vows to never give up U '; . ment of Justics, calls the plates creative the driver of a vehicle is. ” his “ STORK” tags, which ne got “ my nemesis.” Montana authorities say they last year for his birthday. EBUB H-’ hiiHt '-it ‘ issue 800 vanity plates a month, " I ’ve had more fun and laughs "They are a headache,” he said. In Firefighters busy and they need a full-time and one than you can imagine,” he says. Schoen’ s office reviews the ap­ U part-time employee just to screen “ People stop me at lights and UPl photo plications, then sends them to the requests to make sure they are not make all kln ^ of comments about state prison for manufacture. "I "offensive to good taste” . it.” “JESUS" AND "MR. BIG" ARE CRUISING THE NATION’S HIGHWAYS Some drivers test state officials’ “ It might have a legitimate Berry said one boy asked him if blue vocabularies and apply for meaning that's not offensive," said he lets the stork borrow his car to .. along with other vanity license plates that bring added revenue to states plates that are offensive, if not the head of the personalized plate pumping celiars drop off babies. obscene. division in Helena. “ But some of Virginia officials say they were Tobin, director of the state Bureau “ You see personalities come out a positive attitude tells the world Debbie Coppins has the job of these look suspicious.” the first to market personalized of Motor Vehicles in Harrisburg. in these tags ... we get a lot of he’s a “ W IN NE R ” while another screening the Michigan applica­ No one knows if "GOD” travels plates, called “ Communiplates,” The computer printout of person­ wealthy people who order these says “ WALRUS.” tions for obscenity. By Alex Girelll the Iowa highways with “ JESUS” using the motto, "D rive your alized tags and their owners in tags.” A feminist says “ IM4ERA” with “ It takes us a while,” she said. Herald City Editor but most everyone knows the message home.” Last year, the Arkansas runs 511 pages. The tags Some recreation fans suggest her vanity tag. “ We’re not dirty-minded.” driver with the "M E N SA" plates is plates brought in $1.85 million for cost $25 each plus $25 to renew. While most drivers request their Some applicants are. They go so “ The ground is soaked. There’s a proud genius. "GOCAMP” and “GOBOWL.” the state highway department. "It does make money for us,” initials, some will pay extra to far as to request roman numerals l'«'T no place for the water to go and it’s The driver of an Alabama pickup One anti-social Iowa driver sug­ California's Environmental Li­ said Betty Stokes, supervisor in the exhort their college teams to and obscenities in foreign seeping through the concrete into truck proclaims her love for cats gests merely “ GOAWAY.” cense Plate program has contrib­ Arkansas personalized plates of­ victory with plates that read languages. the cellars.” with her “ PU R R RR ” license tags IS88T uted $54 million to environmental fice. "That’s what the state A Michigan man who innocently “ HOGS,’’ “ HAWKS” and “ I’ve called the Michigan State and a podiatrist got an advertising That’s the way Thomas O’Marra projects such as protecting the needs.” requested “ K K K ” plates was “ HOYAS.” University foreign language labor­ bargain when he paid $50 over of the Eighth District Fire Depart­ California condor. The ego plates can cost up to $75 turned down — even though the his Hawaii, where 3,000 $100-a-set atory a couple times to verify that Alabama's regular $13 fee for "F T ment described the problem which Pennsylvania last September extra in Mississippi, said Corrine initials are KKK. vanity tags have been issued since a word wasn’t dirty,” she said. kept both the fire departments in F IX R .” ran a promotional campaign to sell Woodward, head of the personal­ The cars parked at a church they came out in 1981, may be the No matter how many people town on the hop Wednesday night ' I . “ I ’m a cat lover,” said Diane more vanity plates for $44 — a $20 ized license plates division of the parsonage have "R E V ” and only state that has personalized screen an application, some ques­ pumping out cellars in about a Betts, “ and also because when my one-time fee on top of the annual state Tax Commission, and about “ MRSREV.” plates in Japanese. Pity the driver tionable requests slip by, Schoen hundred buildings, most of them truck turns on it sounds like a loud $24 tag fee. 2,000 drivers have them. A politically aware Pennsylva­ with "M O N KU” — Japanese for said. single houses, but some of them cat purring. I wanted to be kind of “ It gives a person another way to "They’re catching on more and nia driver proclaims “ NO “ nag, nag, nag” — but all others apartment and condominium original." express himself,” said Douglas more,” Mrs. Woodward said. NUKEIS” and a Michigan man with respect “ SHOGUN.” “ It might go through three hands complexes. before it goes to the state prison. Then some inmate starts laughing. The Town of Manchester Fire The supervisor calls and says, Department pumped out 60 or 70 ’Good Lord!” ’ cellars and the district firemen Kids attend siblings’ births in Wisconsin hospital “ We had to screen some of our pumped out about 30. lady clerks over to take that job Wednesday’s storm kept dump­ By William E. Hauda of the family birth,” said Mary last year, about 30 involved books and pictures on reproduction bar children under 12 from the over there,” Schoen said. “ They ing rain on the saturated face of United Press International Bina-Frymark, R.N., head nurse children. and birth, birthing dolls that labor and delivery rooms. The have to be somebody that has kind Manchester and by the end of the of the hospital’s Birth Place. There have been no problems so demonstrate both vaginal and prohibitions stem mainly from of a dirty mind.” day it was making its way into MADISON, Wis. - Methodist “ Some children are there for far, Ms. Bina-Frymark said. She cesarean births, and a slide concern that young children will Schoen has a new puzzle right • •. ••‘v - ■ cellars and making life miserable Hospital believes the birth of a both the labor and delivery. Some said the children are prepared for program explaining the process of not understand what is happening. now - “ UPRU PV.” for a lot of householders. child should be a family may come in just for the delivery. what they will see. birth. “ It’s our philosophy to be family- “ I ’ll issue it if I can’t figure it Deputy Chief Robert Bycholski experience. The variations depend on what the Parents and their children at­ “ It’s pretty much an individual centered,” Ms.

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