European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday september 20, 1967 the stars and stripes Page 7 group gathers draft Gavin signatures Lexington mass. Up an Independent group has Gath ered More than 2,000 signature sin an attempt to draft retired it. Gen. James m. Gavin Ashe 1968 Republican presidential . Hershel Jick of Lexington said monday that citizens to draft Gavin was formed because we agree with what he say Sand feel he would be the Best Man to Lead our emphasized that the draft Gavin group was not an anti Vietnam War organization and was not an outgrowth of the Viet Nam summer protests. We re totally Independent he , . Ambassador to France under the late president John f. Kennedy and presently Board chairman of Arthur d. Little inc., a management consult ing firm has Long been a critic of . Policy in Vietnam. He recently resigned from the Massachusetts advisory Council say ing he could not support presi Dent Johnson s War policy. Meaningful Choice our country must have a meaningful Choice in 1968 or Weill have lost the essence of the democratic process Jick said his group heartily agreed with Gavin s a speech before the Commonwealth club of Sanfrancisco Friday Gavin again turned aside questions of whether he would be a candidate. However a few Days earlier he conferred in new York City with top Republican was certainly aware of our Effort. He snot discouraging it. On the other hand i would t say he was particularly encouraging it . To vote on Viet War san Francisco up the California supreme court Mon Day voted 5-2 to order the City Ofsan Francisco to put on its no vember ballot the question of whether the United states should withdraw immediately from Viet Nam. The vote would be the first offi Cial opinion poll on the Issue this aug. 22, a group called citizens for a vote on Vietnam presented voting registrar Basil Healey with an initiative petition bearing nearly 22,000 signatures. This was nearly twice the Lega requirement to qualify an Initia Tive measure. Other vote the Vietnam War Issue was voted upon last year in Dearborn,mich., when 41 per cent of the voters expressed their disapproval of . Involvement in the War. Attempts to put the Issue on ballots of several other major cities in november Are pending. Words and action former boxing Champion Archie Moore left has warned negroes that if we resort to lawlessness the Only thing we can Hope for is civil War untold bloodshed and the end of our at right Herbert Thunder Stevens in spite of a defiant look actually helped Chicago police disperse an unruly Street Corner mob. A up wages set August Pace personal incomes score big gain Washington a wit wages and salaries setting the Pace personal income scored its biggest gain in seven months during August rising $4.5 billionth an annual rate of $631.2 Bil lion the Commerce department reported monday. It was the third Strong monthly Advance in a Row and is cer Tain to be cited by the administration in support of its proposal for a 10-per-cent surcharge on individual and corporate income taxes to help Stem inflationary pressure. Although personal income has risen every month this year the Pace was generally sluggish until june except for january when it Rose by $5.4 the last three months gains have ranged from $4.1 Bil lion in july to the August level of $4.5 billion. June s figure was$4.4 billion. The new figure continues the added health warnings for smokers urged Washington up Moss a Utah called sunday for additional Federal Steps besides warning labels on cigarette packages to Alert the Public about the harmful effects of , former . Surgeon general Luther Terry and sir George e. Golbar chief medi Cal officer of the British ministry of health spoke about the dangers of smoking on broadcast interview. Bullish picture being painted bythe government s economic indicators. The government previously announced the biggest increase in Industrial production in 15months, the third straight monthly record for retail sales and a drop in the unemployment rate to 3.8 per cent of the Labo Force. Administration officials have pointed to this bullish Ness As proof that the economic upturn they predicted last january has already Commerce department said wages and salaries accounted for $3.5 billion of the August gain rising to $426.6 Bil lion at a seasonally adjusted an Nual rate. All other income Fig ures Are also computed at a annual rate seasonally adjusted. Wages and salaries gained$2.2 billion during july. More than half the August in crease came in manufacturing As factory payrolls scored their largest monthly increase of the year reaching an annual rate of$134.9 billion up $2 billion from the previous month. Large gains were reported i transportation equipment and in the rubber Industry As striking workers returned to their jobs the department said. Moderate advances occurred in Machin Ery electrical equipment fabricated metals and textiles but there were declines in the food apparel and primary metals industries. Construction and mining were Down because of lower employ second largest gain the department said was in far proprietors income up $400 million for the second straight month. Interest income continued to Rise while other sources of income edged upward or remained unchanged. Personal income during the first eight months of 1967 aver aged $619.2 billion at an annual rate up 7.5 per cent from the corresponding period of 1966. Deceptively simple test doctors using Model train game to get couples Buck on the track Dallas a doctors reusing a game involving Iodel trains to help couples solve their marital problems. Or. Robert a. Ravich director of family therapy service at Beth Israel medical Center new Yorac says the interpersonal behaviour game test is being employed successfully to measure How two people interact and How they re solve conflicts. Ravich who is exhibiting the game at the annual scientific As Sembly of the american acad Emy of general practice Here provides each spouse with Amodel engine and one set of tracks on which to Complete 20"trips" for imaginary Money. Neither can see the other manipulation of the train but they can see each other and communicate if they wish. What they decide to do anyhow they communicate deter mines the outcome a Mutual profit or a gain for one and loss for the other Ravich explained that All the Essen tial elements of conflict communication Competition cooperation sharing of Reward use of threats injury retaliation learn ing and perception Are create Din the deceptively simple game. Criticism of guard role in riots assailed by general Washington a a Leader of the National guard charged monday that the presi Dent s commission on civil Dis orders critical of the guard s role in this summer s City riots acted in Hasty panic an relied on hearsay and preconceived maj. Gen. James f. Cant Well president of the National guard association of the unite states told the group s annual conference the White House commission s recommendations concerning guard deployment in any future disorders resulted from a bit of panic i m afraid such As we have All seen i connection with riots in Gen the presidential panel urged that More negroes be recruited in the guard and that qualifications of guard officers be reviewed. The inferences were Plain Cantwell said that the National guard has not exerted sufficient Effort to attract Negr enlistments and that the guard does not require its officers to meet adequate Nei ther inference he said was conceded the negro percentage of guardsmen is not great but that had the pane asked the guard could have provided evidence to show How unproductive our recruiting efforts have been among negroes in Many he said a determined recruit ment drive for negroes in one state unidentified resulted inthe recruitment of fewer than 50 men. Other states have re ported similar experiences he Brief we have found disinterest among negroes themselves to service in the guard Cantwell said Many Young negroes applying for enlistment can pass the Entrance tests. He urged better social pro Grams to bring negroes into All phases of our National life not just the National Cantwell noted the guard currently is running a program in new Jersey to attract negroes and said that Effort May set the pattern for other believe the efforts we Are making will Bear More fruit with each passing year and this would have taken place even had the riot panel not made its ill conceived As for officer standards cant Well said the army and air Force prescribe the guard s officer standards and our officers do measure up with the usual handful of exceptions that somehow slip by in All serv ices. Cantwell said the president commission in urging an up grading of officer Quality served no purpose but to give the National guard another gratuitous slap in the
