European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Wednesday september 27, 1967 the stars and stripes pled Washington Apas Illi Nois potential favorite son sen. Charles h. Percy vows to go to extraordinary lengths to keep pm becoming an Active participant in the pre convention Campaign for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination. He said in an interview he will Nave no compunction about sign fag affidavits disclaiming presidential ambitions in states where that is necessary to keep his name off preferential primary ballots. Nov. Ronald Reagan of California has said he would not sign such affidavits because the. Would conflict with his plan to become California s Favori Teson and would make me a liar either in the other states or  i am not a candidate Anim not going to Campaign Percy said. I m going to stay Mulligan the Irish mafia president plays nine holes of Golf As far away from it As possible Haven t made up my mind who i will support for the nomination and i probably won t until next  Percy has made it Clear Hewill keep his name off the ballot in the nation s first primary inner Hampshire March 12. He May discourage his supporter there but can t prevent them from launching a write in Campaign. R  has Washington a if on appearance sets a pattern president Johnson May be Goingback to Golf for a bit of exer been Many month since the president has been on a course friends say but returned up saturday for nine holes at the burning tree club in nearby Maryland. He was reported in a four some with rep. George Mahon a Tex l Washington lawyer Lark Clifford who is a Long tune Friend and consultant and son in Law Patrick j. Nugent Faustin Tex. Club members said Johnson cracked his first drive onto an adjoining Fairway and almost hit a fellow player. But he was said to have got a Good Mulligan a free second tee drive burning tree was the favorit local course of the most ardent presidential golfer Dwight . Johnson used to Golf with some regularity but that was before he entered the Whitehouse. He says he is determined Alsoto keep his name off the ballots in Wisconsin Nebraska an Oregon where affidavits Are required for such  Law requires that Reagan enter a slate of Dele Gates pledged to him in a june primary if he wants to be favor Ite son. Percy on the other hand will have to depend on the willingness of a pledged Dele Gates chosen in a primary to designate him As a favorite Sonand thus will not be the direct Choice of Illinois  Percy has come to be regarded As a Fallback possibility of Republican moderates if Michigan gov. George Romney is tripped up in his quest for the nomination the Illinois senator said he has been working for the party and not himself in filling extensive speaking engage ments. Johnson needs Kennedy on ticket to beat the gop s Best poll shows negro tells Romney give us a Chance los Angeles a Mich Igan gov. George Romney had a Sharp Exchange with two Mili Tant Young negroes during a tour of poverty areas monday then later was told by a negro who was in Detroit during sum Mer rioting we Don t want help. We  the words typified most of Thea were Given Romney who kept asking what do you want he is on a nationwide tour looking first hand at prob lems of Urban areas. Later the Republican governor eyeing Abid for the 1968 gop presiden tial nomination headed for at Lanta his Day began with a break fast in the predominantly negro South Central area of los an Geles. Voices Rose As he Dis cussed with two Young negroes health care problems and ways to end violence. Key question asked would Romney improve conditions for negroes should he be elected president they asked. That is Why i am making this tour to learn first hand what the problems Are and whats being done to solve them i want to know what you want and what you think can be done to find a solution Short of Vio Lence. If we Don t find a Solu Tion there will be  later at the los Angele Headquarters of operation Bootstrap a Job training organi Washington up sen Robert Kennedy would be a More popular running mate for president Johnson in 1968 than vice president Hubert Humph Rey against the strongest ticket the republicans could now Fiel pollster Louis Harris reported monday. A mid september Survey of Public opinion published in the Washington Post showed that new York gov. Nelson Rocke Feller and California gov. Ron Ald Reagan would be the Ideal Republican Standard bearers Attis time. Harris said a Rockefeller Rea Gan ticket would tie a Johnson Humphrey slate 50 per cent for each. But with Kennedy As his running mate Harris reported Johnson would top the Republican pair by 52 to 48 per  poll showed that Kennedy would draw votes away from Rockefeller in the East and would get wide support fro Myoung voters and roman Cath Olics. In Short Kennedy proves Tobe the most effective antidote or. Johnson could find to meet what these latest surveys show to be a potential threat to demo � 7 of T a a � 14aaazation established after bloody rioting in 1965, Romney talked to Raymond Griggs a waiter who said he came Here two weeks ago because i was sick of  Griggs told him people allover the world need together Ness. That s the Only Way we blend the big problem of racism bring the Day when White people will let people like me have a Little part of their  let women tend stoves but not bars Philadelphia a Ray Turchi says women Don t be Long behind a  and he s campaigning to have gov. Raymond Shafer veto a Bill that would permit women to work behind bars in taverns. The Bill passed last june no awaits Shafer s signature. Turchi head of the Philadel phia joint Board of the Barten Ders Union in a Telegram to Shafer urging that the Bill be vetoed said the women of Pennsylvania were never intended to be bar maids and subjected to the abuses of habit uses of saloons and taverns. This Bill will merely Aid the selfish ends of Saloon and Tav Ern keepers to maintain Low wage  4 sleeping children die As flames sweep Home Birmingham Ala. A four sleeping children burned to death monday when an explosion from a kerosene Heater set off a fire that destroyed their Home. Killed were four children ofor. And mrs. Thomas Bruce Melinda 4 Jerome 3 Douglas,2 and Jackie Elaine 16 months. Bruce suffered Burnson his hands and mrs. Bruce suffered critical Burns. A fifth child Don 6 had already left for school when the fire occurred. Jefferson county Coroner . Butler said the Mother was pouring kerosene into the Heater when the explosion occurred quickly engulfing the four room wooden building in flames. Authorities said the children apparently never woke up. Cratic chances in 1968the rising strength of gov. Rockefeller Harris said. Among All voters Kennedy i running ahead of Humphrey by 57 to 43 per cent As the to Choice for the democratic vice presidential nomination the pol showed. Among democrats Ken Nedy leads Humphrey 60 to 40per cent. Harris said a Republican ticket pairing Michigan gov. George Romney and Reagan would Loseto Johnson and Humphrey 57 to 43 per cent compared to the 50-50 showing of Rockefeller and Reagan. New aardvark Only 2nd born in Captivity Miami Fla. A a Pink hairless animal with a snout that looks like it s been pushed through a funnel toddled out of a Burrow at Miami s Crandon Park zoo monday and caused an immediate sensation. It was an aardvark and zoo officials claim it s the first born in Captivity in America and the second in the world. Zoo director or. Gordon Hub Bell said Crandon s aardvark was in perfect condition an weighed in at a healthy 4 pounds 2 ounces. In Frankfurt the first aardvark born i Captivity was at a zoo in Frank Furt Germany. It died four Days after its birth in 1912, according to  zoologist said Crandon has four adult aardvarks and it has not yet been de t e r m i n e d which two de serve congratulations. They Are burrowing nocturnal Ani Mals he explained and they Are not usually seen except a night and underground. Because the German aard Vark died after being rolled on by its Mother the Miami Beas tie was moved into the Crandon clinic where the zoo s veterine Ian is playing Mother. Although aardvarks have Dif Mculty propagating behind bars officials said they do All right Inge wilds of South and Central Africa. Lung cancer deaths could double Elf a c  Vokt a Vav my. Washington up smok no could More than double the number of lung cancer deaths by he end of the Century project ions by the National cancer in tit Ute showed  the same time deaths from Tomach cancer should be rarely the year 2000. The projections made by the Federal Institute primarily for Hospital planners and insurance underwriters show that by the end of the Century lung cancer could cause 125,000 deaths a Yea compared to fewer than 50,000 now. Or. John Bailar a physician and statistician at the cancer Institute said the increased death rate would be almost entirely due to smoking. Bailar went to great lengths to explain that the figures were projections and not predictions. The figures merely project present rates into the future on the Assumption that present rates will continue