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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, May 16, 1962

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes wednesday May 16, i air raising episode from old West on display at Cody gallery alter of away l from the old West faster Toljan the i possibility of eing red by indians. J v i a "itw-i-mi.-. Different now an of Alps to be  appears to have been d to the level 1 at an Art. Tatj the Whitney gallery. Of Western f Art f in Cody has opened Ari exhibit \ Lwi  11ft�,4 Vit not  scalps ill Ted. By indians lir offitto Heads of other indians a of  -. I. -. When the. West was Young. The opening of the exhibit gave gallery director or. Harold Mccraeken any Opportunity to explode a few old wives tales about Theriot so gentle Art of Scalp a. To first of All says or. Mccracken the indians did not invent Scalp ing. It was taught to them by White settlers who apparently were not so fastidious As school books would have us believe. Tak ing Scalp s As trophies of War was practice in the old world by the ancient scythian As far Back As the time of Herodotus the practice first appeared inthe East when colonists offered bounties for Indian scalps just like bounties Are offered today for the ears or tails of coyotes. It did t take the indians Longto catch on. And they went the White men one better. They Learned to preserve scalps and cherish them As evidence of bravery and skill at  True Scalp was a circular piece of skin and hair about 3 Inch sin diameter taken from the mid dle of the head where the hair grows in a swirl this prevented a conniving War rior who May have Learned that Craft from White men too from taking several scalps from the same head and claiming to have killed several , indians took their scalps from dead victims but not always. Sometimes a captive was scalped and then sent Back Home alive and hairless As a Challenge to the rest of his  indians preserved scalps by cleaning them As they would. Tok skins of animals and them to dry on wooden when dry. The skin Sid painted a Bright red. Sometimes Indian women word braid the Long hairs into sea locks which were then us it decorate fancy shirts or Leggy not Adolf Spohr a leading collector of material about the Plains hoi. Plans says he got most of to scalps for the gallery from in last who had kept them for years i family heirlooms medical group in n. J. Won t Back revolt Atlantic City no. A the medical society of new Jersey disassociated itself from a threat ened Boycott by some 200 new. Jer sey1 physicians of Trie Kennedy administrations medical care for the aged program. Jav the society s House of delegates tits policy making body. Accepted a report which said the society is / not responsible for nor involved in their the 200 doctors individual Points of  m i reaffirms stand however the society reaffirmed previous stand of Strong of a position to the administration plan which would place medical care for the aged under social Security. At the same time delegates emphasized that the aged in new Jersey would not be denied medi Cal care because of any inability to pay. It of tie Al Jung Tiger "1 a " Gable widow of the film Star Clark Gable i Csc Teh party by Robert w. Prescott ma4 air Tiftz Kiwi a Ami her i frequent companion associated press photo tf7 1wreckpjendiie.ton, Calif deaths from an automobile Jol this Marine corps training i base have reached  Jig lir persons including three children and two women were killed outright in., the crash Sun Day night. Marine Lance Corporal. " Trejo iffy one of the 14 occupants up lathe two cars who was definitely Ion True Way 1 to Ife covery is fral 14-fm&nth-old  her Mother " is among Aie dead. / " scam officials said evidence a in aril that one of the cars lost or 9 some other Mannera cont end dropped to Thel pave i3nent? flipped through Julie a a and smashed onto to Heltorp Jib r?feielfshjadow4saoses"- -. /. Rk9cc rps eclipse. Lancaster Paap thei a Lancaster pol 1 c it depart Nenfa Bov a dress went out of existence Woltti to tie  patrol Man her Inais. Slim fifth Man "  " Auu sumy 1vj.u Tuiai a jul  Liis part Jer shadow/1chewetl up Jav la w j3" 9m 5i of l Ralho a a Jap Fuffy a v of i if i dc7soh&i ft.1 i it nil " " a of i Deq pc it   a to 7. Registered t to servicemen who were among the dead although it is not known if they were driving. They were Navy Hospital Man Dean l. Chirk 31, whose wife Jan ice 27 is among the injured an Marine Lance Cpl John e. Mitchell 19, whose wife Joan 19, and son Johnny Ray if1 months died with him. They All lived near the Camp in Oceanside also dead 1 Marine Lance Cpl James m. Hatcher 19, of Tacoma wash., who Dice. Monday mrs. Jul Dilt a. Trie and mrs. J. B. Mcintyre and a two Small Daugh ters All of Vista which is near the. Camp. 8hour-old baby stabbed by nurse Seattle map a baby boy Only 8mi hours old was stabbed in the Chest with a Butcher knife and superficially wounded at a Hospital police held a 35-year-old registered nurse mrs. Jearl Simons a former employee of the Hospital without charge. They questioned her for several hours and said they could not establish a motive. She is the Mother of three children. The  named yet was one of twin boys born to or. And mrs. Gene Perrault of Seattle at doctors Hospital. High court gets entangled Over justices9 names Washington a the Black and White of the .u.s. Supreme court created a bit of judiciary confusion and  announcing a decision Justice Tom c. Clark said that Justice Hugo l. Black took no part in the consideration or decision. White chief Justice Earl War Ren whispered to Clark meaning Justice Byron r. White a  member of the court who did not hear  corrected himself smiling and murmured Black and White while those in the courtroom chuckled. Pardon me Justice Clark added or. Justice Black did take part very vociferously in fact he filed a dissent in which the chief Justice  lightning Bolt starts to Marathon in Home Bluefield . A a freakish Bolt of lightning made unwilling television viewers of the Harry Jones family at 4 . During a severe thunderstorm lightning struck the House and somehow turned on the to set. Startled but unhurt members of the family were unable to turn the set off. Pretty cover Norma Loree Schraeder named High cover girl of 1962, Tondu up her Mother i a after Axt new York miss Schraeder it daughter of or. And mrs. Hanf Schraeder of Wichita jul woo a Job savings Bond la addition to the trip to the big City. United press International Divorcee files huge suit Over Nightgown arrest Pasadena Calif. Up a pretty Divorcee who claimed she was roused at Dawn and paraded through a police station with nothing on but a silk Nightgown filed a million Dollar suit against arresting officers. The suit was hied in Superior court As mrs. Dorothy Makray 30, appeared before municipal judge John f. Hosaler to face trial on charges of resisting arrest and driving without a valid operator s License. Mrs. Makray alleged in her com plaint that the defendants struck and committed physical abuses on her causing severe injury. She accused police of not per mitting her to Don any clothing other than the Nightgown when she was arrested last april 14. She said she was handcuffed with her hands behind her tact. And manhandled while1 in her tied she said., site was whisked Olfato the police station and that arc ref ing officers made me walk Bat footed and with nothing bit but silk Nightgown in front of of officers. Mrs. Makray said her request a policewoman to cover her was ignored. The officers the charges. Kennedy in festival posts Washington up Dent and mrs Kennedy As honorary chairman of the Tail Finter american music festive Here next Spring the White . The festival is design to promote cultural understand in the Western hemisphere closely connected with the for Progress program. He s got time flags on his hand to Houston a an East Texas postmaster who got Tough with the Federal government Over a requisition for one Wall clock now has seven clocks and six Amer ican flags. The postmaster who asked to remain Anonymous told the hous ton chronicle his troubles started when lightning struck the clock on his Post office Wall. He wrote to routine Supply Chan Nels asking for a replacement. But no reply or clock came some fired off another letter. Then another. His third letter was directed Toa regional supervisor. He not Only demanded a clock he lowered the Boom on Post office red tape. He wrote that he had asked for a United states Flag years before never received one and finally bought one for the Post office him  got a new clock and a Flag. Days later the mail brought other clock and another from a different Poston rement. It got to where i d hate the mail come because another clock he said. This continued until he seven clocks. The flags stopped counting them i got   
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