European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 18, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse                                2 the stars and strikes March 1966 held 34years for theft court awards former prisoner March 16 a an unemployed who was confined nearly 34 years in state institutions for stealing 15 Worth of wednesday was awarded by the new York state court of judge Richard who issued the said that no amount of Money could compensate Stephen now for the injuries he suffered and the scars he obviously Dennison was 16 when he pleaded guilty to stealing Candy and marshmallows from a Road Side he was Given a sus Pended placed on pro and required to make monthly visits to a methodist minister near his upstate new York Home of in he violated the Proba Tion and was sentenced to the slate reformatory at there he was classified As a Low Grade Moron by Psychol which Heller says was a tragic As a result of Dennison was transferred to an institution that at the Heller t Nice Hill with lots of March ii Dpi fighting Back the a saddened father walked through fee windblown grass and selected the site gentle Hillside Dot Lei with then he began do gala a grave for his the a 11yearold a was killed last Friday while guarding the perimeter of Danang air base in Viet a Nice Hill with lots of a Pennsylvania would do list Fine for a resting place you know Bow Lazy i can be at let All our memories be Good Sammy Harviell had his Samuel Carlzell a Sawmill employee in Clearfield fulfilled his sons Lasi request Young barbells body will be accompanied to Pennsyl Vania by his sgt Clifford a special forces Man attached to the South vietnamese army in last Carlzell wrote a letter to his of instructing her to open it Only if they Send me Home with a today is the letter and pm go ing to write Yon a kind of just in Case letter because it seems like a Good Day for last night and most of to Day Ive been thinking about the things Ive got to be Fol seems like the lord and i understand each other pretty and that is such a feeling of i feel sort of like a Well inn Eden receiving the right program loud and if things dont work out As we Hud hoped and lets be grateful for All the Good things weve had to when my tune comes 1 think 111 take it As contented Sas an old Man who has had e very Best the world had to i would like to be and Al ways win be very close to All my if i have anything to do about i want to be close to to be n Comfort to you but not so close thai id bring you any sad Hart Mlls body will be sent a soon As the air Force can arrange South Viets reported shot by troops to Cope with panic March 17 troops had to shoot several South vietnamese to overcome panic and permit the evacuation of wounded last week during the communist attack on the special forces Camp at a Shau near the laotian it was re ported the number shot was not nor was it known Here whether they were killed or one estimate said seven were shot 81111 investigating the military command in Viet Nam still is investigating the matter and the defense department had no official com the special forces a Small facility that kept watch on the South vietnamese laotian Wax attacked by an estimated regiment o enemy troops which could have numbered Many As preliminary estimates were that 5w to 800 communists were the Camp was and had to be its personnel numbered about 17 of them special forces troops and the remainder vietnamese known As a civilian irregular defense in 190 were flown out of five special forces troops were killed and a the others apparently were wounded but on the first Day of the evacuation March efforts from press dispatches were being made to Load wounded aboard the helicopters when a number of unfounded civilians tried to get with a number of them hang ing on the the helicopters were unable to take that was when it became necessary to lire the shots As a last resort to save the there was trouble on the next two Days but it was understood that no More shots had to be on March enough helicopters got in to Complete the evac in another War front develop air Force b52 bomb ers guided a North vietnamese regiment thursday Only 35 Miles North of the action was lurked with a Multi brigade As Sault on the d there May be another regi and possibly two in the tangled Jungle where 1st bit div and i turd airborne troops plus australians Are the bomb Load went Down about four Miles ahead of the Allied operation Silver City already has accounted for 175 enemy a military spokesman an Arsenal of equipment has been air Force and Navy pilots Over North Viet Nam were tar gets of surface air missiles but avoided pilots spelled what appeared to be midis but the enemy planes quickly Digap reds release yank who aided refugees March 17 a a Young american just released from an East German jail thursday said he was caught try ing to help an Bast Berlin fam ill escape to West Berlin and if he had it to do he would do it John Van of was released from a prison in East Berlin wednesday and brought to West Berlin by a new York actor Matt we who had taken an in Terest in the a spokesman said Rabb has re turned to new at a news con Van Al released 17 months of an Lightyear sentence for what the East germans Call aiding Refu gee said he was told Only two hours before his release that he would be Van Altena said he had been in five was Given no work to do and for the first 11 months was alone in a cell big enough for two he was allowed 10 minutes of exercise a Day in what he described As a sort of ten pounds under his Normal weight of 165 Van Al Tena was hands Shook and he smiled he said he tried to help a fam ily of three escape but was caught at the communist Wall crossing Point opposite the army checkpoint Charlie with the Mother of the refugee family Van Altena after serving and her 5yearold daughter in a false compartment in his he said he had built the hidden compartment into his american car at his own expense and that if he would have succeeded in bringing out the Mother and daughter he would have gone Bock two Days later to get the in answer to a he if i had it to do i would do it but i would do it More no Money he said he was offered no Money to bring the family did it because he wanted to help them and had gotten to know them Well before the escape at i was willing to accept the he obviously relieved to be Van Altena said he would go Home to Wisconsin in a Day or no and stay there until next he he hoped to return to West Berlin to study Law at the free which had been i intention before being arrested he was tried and sentenced Byan Bast German court in january trial lasted about an hour and a he there were no witnesses and i did not was a repository for unfortunates of varying degrees of in idiocy and Dennison was moved to another state institution that Heller although caused a it was essentially a prison with facilities for control Ling psychotic Heller said Denn sons record there shows his behaviour to have been with Delu Sions of Denn sons Only visitor from his Home town during confine ment was an older George who also wag the Only person to write to not insane six years George became convinced that Stephen was not with his meager be retained two attorneys from Glens George Waln and William on Stephen was released on a writ of Hareas Corpus by a state supreme court judge who agreed that Dennison had not been properly informed of the proceedings at the Lime he was adjudged in struggle to adjust since his Dennison has struggled to adjust to life outside he lives in a boarding House now in Glens Falls and has been in Nile to find work As a the attorneys suggested to Stephen that he could receive compensation for his confine ment and originally filed a claim for when he Learned wednesday of the Dennison said he planned to shop around for a and travel Ive never been to the South in concluding his judge Heller the conclusion is inescapable Al though the claimant did become psychotic the psychosis or the appearance of psychotic symptoms was caused by the nature of his tiny chips replace vacuum tube in to set san March 17 i radio corp of America wednesday introduced a 13inch portable television receiver employing Silicon chins of into grated circuitry that replace vacuum tubes and such solid state components As transistors and the Chip circuit on the Black and White is no larger than the letter 0 on a stand Ard typewriter and perform the of 36 conventional components in the sound quake reported in Austria March Earth Saks was recorded Here wednesday Power of some s degrees on the 11degree austrian meteorologists no damage was reported during the quake which lasted Only a Lew they article about i Bill deadline was erroneous a Story from Washington on Page 4 in yesterdays stars and stripes concerning new Bui of rights school benefits in formed readers that eligibility Only until june 1 some servicemen who will be discharged after that Date were and telephoned the paper to inquire whether they would be shut out of the they 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