European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 08, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday october 8, 1967 the stars and stripes Page 3 rest and recreation Kelvin Mcgougan left of new Orleans and David Witt of Knoxville Are escorted double time by Model Lesley Hutchinson seeing the sights of Sydney Australia. The american servicemen Are among the first to spend their leaves in Australia after service in Vietnam. Up photo lower birthrate in France imperils de Gaulle s goal Paris up after a 20-Yearbaby Boom the French birthrate is slipping  much As any other foreign or Home problem the Low birth rate worries president Charles de  promptly reversed it threatens to imperil de Gaulle Stream of a reborn dynamic France teeming with 100 million citizens by the year 2,000. Social affairs ministry elec tronic brains will announce next week the birth of the 50 Millionth Frenchman a historic population landmark in a coun try whose birthrate stagnated for a Century until the baby boo set in in 1945. There will probably be Little Celebration at the Elysee presidential Palace. Official soundings made at the French Leader s re quest have confirmed that the birthrate has been dropping since 1964.thanks to massive financial incentives such As generous family allowances and cheap housing in postwar years the French population began expanding  million frenchmen have been added to the 42 million that formed France s population at Ikuss writers flayed for protests in West Moscow up the writer s Union of the russian federation has condemned two to soviet writers for providing the West with anti soviet propaganda it was reported Friday. They Are poet Andre Voz Nesen $500,000 fire guts Texaco depot san Juan . A spectacular fire that could be seen for Miles destroyed a major portion of a Texaco Oil Stor age warehouse at puerto Nuevo South of san Juan Friday. Damage from the Blaze was estimated by Texaco officials at $500,000.fire chief Raul Gandara said All indications Are that the fire was accidental. He said it apparently started when an Oil drum was ignited by a spar from a welding Torch on the loading  criminal hand was not involved nor has the fire any connection with recent fires in metropolitan area stores and supermarkets he told reporters. There has been a rash of arson caused fires at  Here in the past week. A column of ugly Black smoke Rose hundreds of feet into the air Over san Juan at the height of the Texaco Blaze. John Allex an assistant director of the company Here said thousands of barrels of Oil aviation Gaso line and kerosene were destroyed. 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She was accused of stealing two blankets and two keys valued at $29.40 from a hotel and had formally pleaded innocent to the  have received an explanation from the defendant wit which we Are now satisfied and in View of this neither party con siders it proper to continue with the present proceedings said prosecutor Paul Focher in Wesl London magistrate s  said miss Elliott had mistakenly thought the hotel Billad been paid and the key handed in by the person staying with her at the embassy House hotel last february and she denied having anything to do with the disappearance of two blankets. She had just arrived at Southampton thursday by liner from new York when six policemen dragged her out of a Rolls Royce at the docks and arrested Herthe three other members of the pop group tried to pull her Bac Kinto the limousine. The other mama Michelle Gillia punched a policewoman. The group travelling with Singer Scott Mckenzie had intended to stay in London one night before flying on to Majorca. Iky and novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Both wrote letters pro Esting against the literary Cli mate in the soviet Union that Ater were smuggled to the we stand reprinted or broadcast. The weekly Litera Turnay Ros Sia literary Russia said that a meeting of the plenum of the writers group on sept. 26-27 manifested Complete  condemning the unworthy actions of individual men of  Voznesensky who wrote a Blis ering letter to pravda calling the soviet writers Union idiots guilty of lies lies lies was criticized by name. Solzhenitsyn was not named but it was Clear that he was one of the targets of criticism. Alexander dymshits a conservative 57-year-old literary critic said in a speech to the plenum that it was the sacred task of soviet writers to fight Bourgeois anti soviet propaganda. Solzhenitsyn s letters to t h soviet writers Congress this summer condemning literary censorship was smuggled to the West and broadcast by the a Brand the voice of America. He time of the liberation. The annual birthrate was 18.2  Housand or 800,000 babies. In 1964 the trend was reversed and the birthrate has begun to decline 17.6 in 1965, 17.4 last year and an estimated 16.6  Housand this year. The present percentage is paralleling the lean years after world War i when France it Young male population wiped out on the Battlefield saw her population level off then decline slowly but steadily. For de Gaulle the Issue is on of personal interest and Pride. He was the Man who Only a few Days after the departure of the last German Soldier from French soil inaugurated a policy of Lav ish Aid for families with children. Goal set de Gaulle who himself has two children a third child died has publicly set the goal of a100-million population As the Basic Tenet of his regime s social and economic policies. The president Hopes to at least partly wipe out past French weaknesses in the economic an military Field due largely to her stagnating population. In 1800, with a population of25 million France was the most populous country in  fourth european then was a Frenchman while the unite states population was probably less than four million. Twenty three years of revolutionary and Napoleonic wars helped to slow Down France population growth while the birthrate in Germany Russia Austria Hungary Italy and else where was booming. Despite the postwar increase France is still an under populated country by european  has an area of 212,600 Square Miles for a population of50 million while truncated West Germany s 60 million inhabitants Are crowded on a territory of 96,000 Miles. Gracing the Ball Princess Margaret arrives for a Charity Ball in Toronto and is greeted by Ontario it. Gov. Earl Rowe. She and lord Snowdon go to expo 67 from Toronto. A photo