ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1995, Roanoke Times
DATE: Monday, December 18, 1995 TAG: 9512180119
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-2 EDITION: METRO
Breast cancer awareness stamp set
NEW YORK - After receiving hundreds of letters and thousands of signatures on petitions, the U.S. Postal Service will unveil the design tonight of a breast cancer awareness stamp to be issued in the summer.
The unveiling will come during the taping of a two-hour Lifetime Television special on fighting breast cancer.
More than 100 million of the stamps will be issued as part of a nationwide awareness campaign, Postmaster General Marvin Runyon said. Post offices will offer information about self-examination, mammograms and early detection.
- Newsday
Prison officials OK Hanukkah candles
DETROIT - Authorities have reversed a new ban on lighting Hanukkah candles in Michigan prisons after complaints that it violated inmates' religious rights.
``It looks like the Grinch didn't steal Hanukkah after all,'' said Rabbi Isaac Jaroslawicz of the Aleph Institute, an advocacy group for Jewish prisoners. He said the institute has not encountered such a ban in any other state.
Sundown on Sunday was the beginning of the eight-day festival of lights, which commemorates the victory of Jewish rebels over the Seleucid Greek empire in 165 B.C.
Some Michigan prisons have allowed inmates to light candles or observe group candle lightings.
Deputy Corrections Director Dan Bolden had banned candles with open flames this year, said department spokeswoman Gail Light.
According to Jewish law, a Hanukkah menorah must use a flame to fulfill the religious commandment to observe the holiday, Jaroslawicz said from his Surfside, Fla., office.
- Associated Press
Calif. drivers get green light for 65
LOS ANGELES - California motorists got the green light Sunday to drive 65 mph on most freeways, ending two decades of the double-nickel speed limit.
The state brought rocker Sammy Hagar, lead singer of the band Van Halen, to help change a sign near Santa Rosa. He had a solo hit song in the early 1980s, ``I Can't Drive 55.''
- Associated Press
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