European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 7, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday april 7, 1963 the stars and stripes fog. 3 girls balk at legions religion bar Bennington it. A the Forli of Bennington High school s Junior Clou have voted Nunn Muus by not to Portl Clonte in the Amer ican lesion auxiliary s girls state program because of a religious restriction aimed at Jehovah wit Nesses. In another development the Bennington Council of churches adopted a Resolution asking Public schools not to participate in the program until the religious requirement is lifted. The girls state brochure says in part we arc a patriotic organization and there ton do not accept Girts with religious affiliations contrary to our principles of Ameri group s Briefe official of the project which acquaints girls with the processes of government said the religious clause refers to Jehovah s wit Nesses. The officials said members of this religious group do not be Lieve in saluting the american Flag or reciting the pledge of Al leg Lance. The local High school juniors said they decided the religious qualification clause was contrary to the principles of americanism. Girls state in held each june for High school juniors. Principal Paul Kirsch who for warded the stud Eft Resolution to the legion auxiliary said we Are indeed proud of our Junior fool blvd participation Kirsch indicated the school would participate in the program once the religious test is removed the Church Council composed of in protestant churches said Tinl because the religious requirement puts the Public schools in the position of administering a test of religion we believe that this sit Patlon is a violation of the Pron Cople of the separation of Church and Price War gives food for thought Lubbock Tex. Up the food prices sounded like 1933. Top sirloin Steak was Selling age cents a Pound. Ole Margarine was 8 cents a Pound. Eggs 29 cent a dozen. Avocados a Penn each. Ice Cream 15 cents a half gallon. Salmon 39 cents a can the reason for the Good old Days food prices was a hot Price War among Lubbock supermarkets police reported traffic jams around the major supermarkets As the Bat tie reached a Climax. Cd Lemgo prof. Dies Chicago up Richard m Weaver 54. A member of the Una Van Ltd of Chicago faculty for 20years, was found dead in his Horn her. Weaver taught English composition and wrote numerous articles. Scientific dunking a full Eale Model of the Apollo capsule Anna Carrier designed Totake apace Tut to the. Moon undergoes Ita first Public water Impact teat at Downey Calif. The Model wan swung like a pendulum from a us foot Tower and then dropped into the water. A House lid on junkets May blow off Washington up the widely advertised lid which the Louse slapped on congressional junkets Early this year seems about ready to blow off. Some of the natives Are restless. Delegations from the agriculture Docking & currency and Educa Ion & labor committees three of line House committees barred from overseas travel asked special permission to visit India Venezuela and Russia. The rules committee which imposed the ban in a move to cutout pleasure jaunts at taxpayer expense took the requests under advisement each applicant was ready with what looked like a unimpeachable Case. Agriculture at the suggestion of agriculture Secretary Orvllle Reeman wants to Send members o an International Cotton con Ference in India later this month t also feels the urge to declining farm exports and widow of victim sues company in Freak air mishap los Angeles up a Superior court jury has begun hear ing testimony in a $790,000 wrong Ful death suit filed by the widow of o new Jersey industrialist killed in a Freak air show Accident in 1959. Mrs. Kena Shonberg 51. Widow of Harold Shonberg who was presi Dent of Alpha metals corp. Jerse City when he was killed named As defendants in the action Beac aircraft co. And Norman Larson co., Southern California distributors for Beach. In air show Shonberg was killed while Ridingin a demonstration plane during an air show at Palm springscalif., dec. 5, 1959. Another plane had crossed Over the first Croft slicing off the canopy and decal Tatlong him. Pilot George Nottingham manag a to land despite a mangled Arm and another passenger Richard Leblond of Whittier Calif., escaped serious injury. Alive persons in the second plane were killed. Money talks would be suicide Oft hotel roof los Angeles a Harold Hicks climbed to the roof of thes Lotmore hotel and threatened to leap. A policeman ordered him Bac from the Edge. Hicks moved closer. A minister tried prayer. Hicks prayed awhile and quit a doctor tried Money. It worked. Hicks Hod explained to would be rescuers just out of grabbing Range that he needed Money to Send to a sister in Kansas City. The hotel doctor produced a wad of Money in an envelope. The min ister asked Hicks to write his Sis Ter s name on the envelope. The policeman pulled Hicks Back from the roofs Edge 13 floor above the Street after the minister grabbed his wrist when he reached for the Money. Hicks 24, was taken to a Hospital after the incident police said hews emotionally Upsel and the Money the doctor got it Back. The surplus disposal program & currency said it needs to Send representatives to an International finance conference in Venezuela. As for education a labor special subcommittee has been set up under rep. Roman c. ,d-i11., to investigate the posse Bill National col Ike prefers to ignore Bircher los Angeles a former president Dwight d. Eisenhower says the Best Way to Deal with the John Birch society is to ignore in or. Eisenhower told newsmen before a speech at charter Day ceremonies for the University of California 1 have no interest in the Birch society. I know nothing about its organization. In my experience slave handled other such move ments As the Birch society and ignored them. I think that s the Best the ill stantly Anil communist Birch society has strongly Cratl Cloea or. Eisenhower s policies Ai president. Its founder. Robert Welch one described him As a dedicated con Sarlous agent of the communist con speak inc on the 95th anniversary of the University. Or. Eisenhower said that education is the key to Freedom and that America s first line of defense runs through her University the former president received an honorary doctor of Laws degree. Hazing costs frat charter Madison. Wll. Up the National charter of the Beta Theta a fraternity chapter at the University of Wisconsin has been revoked be conf usum is the message Olympia Wash. A statesmen. Reuben Knoblaugh Democrat got a letter from a constituent tithe legislature ended the the arc week of a special session. It closed like this the session seems Mohave been particularly confusing keep up the Good Lection Center for scientific an technical information using latest electronic data processing equip wants his subcommittee to look at a data processing Cente already in operation in Moscow. Rep. Durward g. Hall. R-mo., swung to the defense of hard on the spot first hand said that during a 25-Day swing around the far East last december he Learned a number of things such As that the air Force in the Pacific is somewhat fat and Over Organ and that army posture in the far East is generally excellent Indian civil tribe snubs Lakewood Calif. A diplomatic relations have been broken off Between mrs. Winnie Anders and the 1,800 tribesmen of the Sun baked Santo Domingo Pueblo North of Albuquerque . Why those ungrateful indians snorted mrs. Anders chieftain of a self appointed Lakewood women group known As the Pueblo Indian food lift. When i get through with this i la never help another Indian As Long As i seems the proud Santo do Mingo indians were embarrassed by Charity shipments of food clothing sewing machines and Rifle bullets. The women had sent them after cause of alleged Luberg Dean of students said he was informed of the action by the fraternity s National Organ suspension meant the wis Consin chapter will be prohibited from taking part in Campus activities and will be unable to pledge new members pending a review by the National father whose son joined the fraternity last september charged that his boy blacked out during a questioning boy had been kept without sleep for a prolonged period of time the father said. In reversed big handout hearing of the tribe i poverty. But the tribe turned them Down. Mrs. Anden got the idea for the and her husband George 49. Visited the know they have accepted Anch gifts before in. Anden Bald. They apparently were upset because the newspaper Ito Lei Bald they were Pueblo Leader noting it is quit a Thock to know we Are starving have no clothing and no land suggested the in Lumenta Goto California indians in distress. Instead the women have found poverty stricken group of Indian in the Interior of Baja California Mexico. Rebel colonel9� Mission completed. 100 years late Washington up a mule drawn civil War Cannon rolled into the nation s capital thursday to Complete a Mission envisioned 100 years ago by a disillusioned Confederate colonel. Two shaggy Brown mules pulled the Cannon to a Stop outside the Capitol end ing a journey which started March 1 in Mcmyn Nellle Tenn Everett Brockjr. In the role of maj p. H. Coffee csj., 16th Tennessee regi ment led the mule to us on us 35-Day journey. He was accompanies by Arlliss Hiilis portraying a mule Skinner. They carried a letter to president Ken Nedy from the Mcmyn Nellle civil War Centennial commission. It noted that 100 years ago col John h. Savage a former congressman from the District tried to make the trip in an Effort to end the War Between the letter said that Savage a Mcmunn Ville attorney was one of Many Tennes sedans who Felt the War was unnecessary and sought to bring it to a Quick end. When Tennessee left the Union Savage resigned from Congress and joined the Southern forces. He was elected a colonel and placed in charge of the 16th ten Nessee infantry. Disillusioned by Southern military leadership and convinced that the South could not win Savage resigned his com Mission after the Battle of stones River in which his brother and Many of his too pit were tried to reach Washington in the Hope he could intercede with old friends and bring peace without loss of Honor or rights to either Side. He never got to the capital with his Appe Althe letter said this year s journey was undertaken to focus Public attention of the futility of War and to commemorate the sacrifices by the Gallant men of tha Blue and
