European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 07, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday october 7, 1967 the stars and stripes Page 7 Home from san Francisco where have All the Flower children gone by Earl Ammerman san Francisco a Ron Thelin says the hippie move ment is at death s door. Thelin operates the psyche Delic shop main hippie Gath ering place in the Haight Ashbury District. The Flower children have been so inactive lately he s going broke. Some $6,000 in debt Theli plans to close the store soon. And a three Day death of hippie Observance is planned by Thelin and others culminating in a funeral procession witha symbolic casket to be borne through the District  open coffin will contain abandoned trappings of hippie life including shaven beards wilted Flowers discarded marijuana and sandals. Thelin believes the hippies have grown tired of conforming to the image created by news Media. The desire now he said isto be free. Haight Ashbury was apportioned to us by the news Media and police. The tourists came tothe zoo to see the captive animals and we growled fiercely behind the bars we  the psychedelic shop was i business a year and a half. Last Spring Thelin predicted that 100,000 Flower children would flock to san Francisco fora summer of  Large numbers arrived Allright but few stayed. San Francisco s Chilly foggy summer weather had something to do with it. Camping out in Golden Gate Park adjacent to Haight Ashbury proved Buncom  hippie movement was hard hit too by hepatitis an venereal disease. A free Haight Ashbury med ical clinic closed three weeks ago its staff broke and exhausted. Or. Ellis sox the City s Public health director decline to take Over the operation. He said if hippies needed treatment they could go to clinics in other districts or to the county Hospi Tal. Beards Bare feet and out Landish garb Are still to be seen in Haight Ashbury but Theli declared the spirit is  police said a big increase has been noted recently in hippies gathered at certain intersections to Hitchhike rides out of town. Where Are the Flower children going with few exceptions those queried informally by officers have Given the same answer Home. Von Broun defends note to company Washington a Lead ers of the nation s civilian space program strongly defended i thursday against charges of carelessness and  a 90-minute news Confer ence James e. Webb adminis Trator of the National aeronautics and space administration or. Wernher von Braun director of the Marshall space flight enter at Huntsville ala., and others insisted that every conceivable step has been taken to improve safety and Advance the program with the available re  conference stemmed from the release by rep. Wil Liam f. Ryan d-n.y., of a feb. 15 letter by von Braun to the manufacturer of engines used in the Saturn Apollo program. Vonbraun said in this letter engines manufactured by the rocket Dyne division of North Ameri can aviation could cause a serious Accident if current conditions were allowed to continue. Von Braun told the news conference that in a pro Gram of the complexity of Apollo Saturn it is Standard proce Dure to have a constant Exchange of criticism in an Effort to improve the product. Normal procedure an Exchange of this kind be tween the customer who is buy ing the engines and the manufacturer who makes them is entirely Normal procedure von Braun said. It is the Only Waythe customer representing the taxpayer can be aware that heis getting his Money s Worth. The manufacturer expect constructive  von Braun added that in the defense department this kind of critical letter to the manufacturer is written All the time but it never gets this kind of attention. Webb said that matters of the Type which von to rocket Dyne s Braun Calle attention Are constantly coming up and being called to the attention of the manufacturer this is a constant process in the develop ment of  Model missile a technician puts finishing touch to a lockup of the air Force s newest weapon a Short Range at tack missile spam. The air to ground missile is being evaluated at Boeing space Center at Kent Wash. A photo trimmers Defeated Senate votes Antipoverty funds Washington a the Senate voted a two year Exten Sion of the Antipoverty program thursday after refusing to trim $198 million from it As asked by president Johnson. As the measure went to an Uncertain Outlook in the House it would authorize appropriations up to $2.25 billion for the office of economic Opportunity in the current fiscal year and $2.4 Bil lion in the year starting next july 1. The Senate voted 50 to 36against a Republican move to Cut the current year s authorization to the $2.06 billion proposed by Johnson and then passed the Bill 60 to 21. Much of the extra $198 million was added by the Senate labor committee for new or expanded programs sponsored by Sens. Robert f. Kennedy d-n.y., and Edward m. Kennedy d-mass., who flew Back from the world series in Boston to oppose Dele Tion of the added Money. These include a $35-million Day care pro Gram for children on welfare making it possible for their mothers to take jobs. $83 million for a special Impact program to improve conditions in slums.$40 million extra for Community action for family plan Ning additional health services and extra assistance for the eld Erly poor. $25 million for Aid to Small business firms in Low income areas.$10 million for incentives to employers to help train hard Core unemployed for jobs. $3 million for Vista volunteers in service to Ameri ca.$2 million for migrant work . John j. Williams r-del., Hawaii has first Case of rabies Honolulu a Hawaii first reported Case of rabies has occurred at Schofield Barracks an army Post 20 Miles from Honolulu the state health department said thursday. Or. John m. Gooch health department veterinarian said a rat possibly not native to Hawaii bit a 7-year-old boy on the hand Over the  said the rat subsequently was diagnosed As being Rabid. Gooch said the rat might have been in furniture shipped from Vietnam or Thailand where Rabid rodents Are quite  is hard to say what danger this poses both for humans Ardour animal population Gooch said. We Are concerned about wild dogs and cats and they will be checked  said possibly state officials May have to Stop the movement of pets Between islands in the state until the current danger i fully assessed. State and military officials met thursday to assess the extent of infection in rats in the Schofield area. Hawaii has been Able to keep out rabies an acute virus Dis ease of warm blooded animal that attacks the nervous sys tem because of a strict 120-Dayanimal quarantine system. The boy not identified is receiving treatment officials said. Led the unsuccessful move to eliminate these extra features. Williams declared the Bill total is 27 per cent Over the amount voted last year an said at some Point some where we be got to Stop this escalation of  he said Congress cannot i Good conscience keep voting for extra programs and then Tel Johnson he must Cut govern ment spending by $5  democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana sup ported the extra $198 million saying All of the items had Bee carefully considered on a bipartisan basis in the labor com Mittee. Other financing in billin addition to the new projects All of the present Antipov erty programs would be financed by the Bill including the Job corps the neighbourhood youth corps Community action which covers such programs As head Start Rural Loans and Pidto migrant workers assistance for Small business in poverty stricken areas work training programs for welfare recipients and Vista. Eliminated from the Bill Wasa $2.8-billion emergency Job plan for unemployed and Low income persons which the John son administration , sen. Joseph s. Clark d-pa., a sponsor of the plan said he will reintroduce it As separate  the House the education and labor committee has Bee working on its own version of Antipoverty legislation. Court says italians in wrong league new York a the Amer ican italian anti defamation league inc., was barred temporarily thursday from using the words anti defamation league in its name. The order came from Justice Wilfred a. Waltemade in the state supreme court in connection with a suit brought by the anti defamation league of b Naib Rith a jewish organization. Waltemade suggested that the Issue be brought to trial quickly and that meanwhile both sides try to adjust their differences. He permitted the american italian group to use its full corporate name in connection witha rally scheduled for Madison Square Garden oct. 19, at which Singer Frank Sinatra will pre  b Nai b Rith organization contends in its suit that use bythe american italian group of the words would deceive and confuse the Public. 2 space engineers killed in explosion Downey Calif. A chemical explosion killed two research engineers and injure several other men in a space Experiment in a Laboratory of the North american Rockwell corp.  men killed were identified As William f. Cranert 26, of Arcadia and Larry g. Teeter 25, of Downey. Both were unmarried