European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              December 1964 the stars and stripes reds allow woman to leave 23year separation ends new York up i Stefan la a prisoner in a siberian labor Camp for 15 has been reunited Ullh her Hus band and daughter after a separation of the Longa pulled reunion had a Happy sidelight it not Only was Christmas it was Rukas 58lh her a machine and their Daugh live in a graduate student at the University of and her Mother burst into tears and Flung their arms around each other when Rukas stepped off a plane from Paris at Ken Nedy International she looks miss Rukas said of her whose dark hair showed Only the slight est Trace of at the Rukas i am so Happy but i am also very my husband looks she As Rukas face bore a sheepish Rukas eyes brimmed with tears As she started to re count her life As a common isl she said that she had been forced to work in the Woods but at that Point decided not to continue her the reunion climaxed 14 years of efforts by father and daughter to bring Rukas to the United the separation began on june when soviet secret police came to the family Home in in occur pled and took mrs Rukas then a school principal and had taken Refuge outside the City when he Learned police were searching for him the police arrested Rukas in lieu of her shortly after her she was sent to in route to the detention Camp she manag i to drop a note from a relative in Lithuania Learned o the notes contents six year later and contacted i lbs hammers out details of message press photo and allowed to return to Kaunas but the soviet government three times refused to let her come to Stefan la is reunited with her and heir at Kennedy International Airport la new was his first Newt that his wife was father and daughter had Man aged to elude soviet authorities and made their Way to As displaced persons at the end of world War in 1iso they migrated to the United started their efforts to bring Rukas and eventually became in 1950 Rukas was re leased from the siberian Camp Johnson president with most of his budget decisions got Down to the nuts and bolls of the Slute of the Union message he will deliver to Congress he also will be beaming that address via television and radio to the entire nation at 9 Esi on that Date the second time in history that a president will make the speech at acting press Secretary Mal Colm Kilduff told newsmen that Johnson was being joined at his lbs ranch by four aides Jack appointments Sec and special assistants Bill Richard Good win and Horace the lat l Ter three Are particularly involved in drafting the great society program that will be i Blu printed in the state of the Union staff problems Al Duft said they would also discuss with Johnson a backlog of staff problems As Well As various personnel prob lems affecting the White Johnsons major concern during his working Christmas hol iday has been the budget on which will depend the scope of his legislative program in the coming the president will Send to Congress in late january his budget for the 19m fiscal year which begins next july Kilduff was asked whether Johnson and his aides now would be working on preliminary drafts on his 4 message portions of which have been in preparation Over recent weeks at the the United in miss Rukas contacted Hartford Law yer George Athanson contacted soviet officials and even wrote a letter to the Premier Elk la Thrush which went last soviet officials finally agreed to permit Rukas to leave fans riot As Singer walks out Hollywood told by a Singer thai Here want enough bread Money to per form vented their Wrath by wrecking the Interior of the about 25 policemen were called to quell the which flared shortly after Midnight and raged until about 1 one officer everything breakable was several persons received minor injuries and two were i rented in a Hospital far cuts incurred in a series of scuffles amid the Audi ence of about the audience had paid about to per person to View the 8 Razz new perspectives or the audience waited until after i when the show went Singer aretha Franklin and then audience walled another half hour for Singer Gloria she finished about 11 so did the entertainer Bobby Bland and announced guitar Walson and his band never did some Mem was of the audience said they Icard thai he singers haunt been some other members of the audience began lobbing killed plants and bottles through he windows and three portable bars were overturned and a fire was set in a backstage rash can hut ii was put out be fore it angry patrons rushed the Box office to demand their Money Buck and were told the manager had left for the All the windows of the Box office were Fin fights broke out in patches amid the crowd one Man told police he received head cuu to Salni in getting be from then All was con the curtain went up and musicians walked offstage and the fans patience wore thin Singer Nina Simone and Johnny historian Dies in new York up Harry j historian and Dean emeritus of Columbia died in Sinai Hospital after suf Ferling a he was when his wife hit him with a Sharp and a woman suffered a Cut on inc leg when an overturned ticket Booth fell on both were reported in Good officers said the bulk of the crowd was but that the angry nucleus of the disturb Ance broke everything that could be broken and threw every thing that could be they said damages could Range from to Yak duh novelist dim new Yolk Lala daughter of Sholom who was once called the yiddish Mark died she wrote More than nov staff the president la spokesman replied a Deal of has been Given to by this will be getting Down to the nuts and bolts of when the president May Star to put pen to i just Don but he said that Over the Sci couple of Days Johnson primarily will be interested in these Johnson has not a Date for his return to Washington but he is expected to Sta at Haj ranch until the weekend it is Likely that he will be visited by additional officials this to apply finishing touches to i under the Johnso must Send the budget to in House and Senate by 11 which is 19 Days after the 89t Congress convenes on by serious consideration is been Given to requesting Extension o that since Johnso will be inaugurated on 20 the budget will have to be wrapped up by the end of thl so that the document co to sent to the government fran inn for that is Why this weeks Mec Ings Are expected to conc Lut Johnsons intensive Cam Palgon to pare All but the Essen als from the billion in rending requests he has re caved from Federal departments and his goal has been to bring that ital below 1100 As he did i keeping the current fiscal ears budget at billion and hopping the total since then to n expected the highest peacetime budget i history was the trillion lat the late president John Kennedy proposed two years Tooze fights spirit edly against that old Demon s sauce for the Christmas Goose s still booze to Fred in this liquor dry Chicago sub where Tooze is Presl Lent of the National women Christian Temperance calling Brandy sauce with 12 per cent alcohol is like Selling Ken Lucky i dont care what they Call to Brandy sauce or any Hing has 12 per cent Al Cohol and that illegal in Evans spirited sauce Tooze demanded action when she discovered a local department store was Selling the spirited Brandy she said hat minors were buying the sauce for beverage the Temperance armed Ullh a bottle of the sauce for marched out of the store and later wrote a letter of complaint to the Illinois liquor control we demand criminal prose cution of these Selling activities by this the letter a manager for the department store said All bottles have been removed from the we didst realize it was Alco he we just bought it for fruit Tooze i am holding the bottle in Rockefeller estate set at million new York than 175 million was bequeathed to Charity from the estate of the late John Rockefeller one of the worlds richest who gave away hundreds of millions of dollars while he was left an estate officially appraised at the appraisal submitted to the surrogates court by Samuel an official of the state tax department appointed appraiser of the estate by the state supreme Rockefeller died in Gunt out years after the Battle up path for Gen William Sherman carrying 10 cannons arranged the Cairo a local the Yankee gunboat Cairo arrived at this stronghold of the 102 years late and in thousands of months of frustrating work went into the recovery of the crumbling ship from the Bottom of the Yazoo where it was sunk by a Confederate infernal machine during the civil Tho which broke into several big sections and thous ands of Loose limbers during Sal was landed on two barges tied up at a Dock a Century the Cairo was steaming up the Yazoo River with cannons ready to blast a troops on a Conquest of the embattled Confederate City of Volcks suddenly the ship hit two crude bombs the confederates called infernal constructed of Glass jars filled with explosives and electric detonating de the Cairns it cmdr Thomas later wrote that the ship Sank within 12 min utes without loss of it was Many months later be fore another assault was launched and Vicksburg fell to the Union the 17s feet and carrying it around her armoured upper Sec was found in the River in 19m and plans were started for the Captain Basso head of a new Orleans Salvage com agreed to handle the Sal Vage on a no no pay the Mississippi agricultural and Industrial Board had failed in an earlier project to raise the numerous relics were re but Hope for bringing up the Cairo in one piece faded shortly after work under the Strain of lilting the ship broke into will decide later when to locate the ship for it is destined to become a tourist when the Cairo 160 men were almost Siracu All were saved in the u minutes it took the Cairo to go the Salvage about u Miles North of became a popular stopping place for Many persons brought picnic lunches and folding chairs and sat on Tho Banks Day after Day to watch the Maze of barges and cables used in tha