European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 11, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes tailgater loses food friends has a feast by Patricia Mccormack West Point . Up this lady who had lost he Chicken meandered through tailgate parties and parking lots at the . Military Academy on a saturday preceding a football game. Tailgaters bring their lunches to the game. They often arrange the goodies on the tailgates of their station wagons and pitch in picnic style her Chicken included a parcel of Best parts prepared at the Cost of sleep. She had gotten up at 5 . To Cook enough Chicken and munchies for a Bunch of people headed for tailgate party at West Point All coming from different directions. Through supreme Organiza Tion the food was put in a car other than hers. Through traffic jams supreme chaos followed. This lady got parted from he friends and food in that order or the  know. I was in charge of what turned out to be disarrangement. Well a wonderful thin happened to this lady suffering separation  rigged and tagged through the tailgate area seeking her missing victuals and companions. When she stopped As she frequently did to ask directions she was offered whatever was spread out by the other  name anything in the Cookbook she was offered it cheese Herrings Spaghetti Boston baked Beans  mania you see has led to an unusual display of culinary Art in collegiate parking lots  Sample at West Point Home games a lady arrives in chauffeur driven limousine. Said Driver switches to a White  All due ceremony he puts up table arranges comfy chairs and proceeds to serve a feast Complete with wine poured into Cut Glass goblets. Some tailgaters embellish tables with Floral decorations and lighted candles. Other please the palate while portable stereo tickles , this lady feasted free that Day. She even got into the game without a ticket. She just told the Man at the Gate she wanted to see a certain colonel who was sitting in the superintendent s Box. She got in when said colonel met her atthe Gate. Meanwhile her ticket he food and her lost friends were All in one place around picnic table in the Back Yard of the colonel s  had been told to wait for her there. But she failing to follow the flawless plan never  tailgaters with similar disarrangement could us some counsel from the signal  maybe the signal corps being Wise figures it s Best Tolet worse enough alone. Pike s pledge Bishop James a. Pike wearing a hippie peace Symbol in Chicago called for a renewal in modern churches that will enable More people to turn on  Bishop Pike speaking to a Baha i meeting vowed to Wear the medal until we cease our invasion of  up klan linked blast hurts 2 la. Boys Bastrop la. Up one14-year-old boy had his Kneecap torn away and his 12-year-Oldcompanion suffered lacerations and Shock sunday afternoon when they accidentally triggered a Booby trap guarding the door fan alleged Kun Klur klan meet ing  spokesman for Morehouse Parish general Hospital reported Randall Bullock in serious condition with a shattered right knee. Glen Brown the younger of the two was said to be suf Fering from Shock and deep cuts. The Accident occurred at the Morehouse Hunt and gun club a Large windowless tin Structure located some 13 Miles North of Bastrop on . Highway 139.a sheriff s investigator said the two boys were Hunting and apparently became curious about the strange building which was described by one officer As a front for the  when the boys attempted to open the door a charge of dynamite was touched off. Morehouse sheriff Huey Perry said he had always assumed the club was used for  they go in there with Robeson All the time Perry said. According to the sheriff who probed through the building Fol lowing the blast there were articles relating to klan activities pinned to the bulletin Board. Safety first president Johnson holds up his hands a Williamsburg va., asking spectators to stay out of Range of his helicopter rotors. Johnson was in Virginia to address an inter National educational conference. Carlisle Humelsine a Williams Burg councilman is in the background. A photo soil ii apartment buildings planned Progress is about to put Chicago s skid Row on the skids Chicago up the wheels of Progress Are grinding Over Chicago s skid Row hangout of drunks and tramps. Soon the steam shovels an wreckers will Start knocking Down the flophouse and bar Sand drive the derelicts off the  the winos used to sleep it off in the gutters there willbe shiny apartment buildings and clean High Rise parking lots. Almost everybody will agree the new West Madison will be an improvement but there is con Cern about what will happen to the area s derelicts not All of whom Are lacking entirely in Pride and human  officials stopped by at Sid s Junction a bar much favored by the skid Row regulars the other Day to Tell the owner the bar is in the Way of an $18.5 million Urban renewal clearance project. It will have to go. What happens when the Junction and its surroundings Dis appear the City says it will not forget the men of skid Row once their flophouse Haven fallen. The planners say they have plans to build new and better housing for the hundreds of Drift ers who Call the area Home. But if there Are specific plan for the men of skid Row few of them have heard about them including bartender Frank Jacobs. He thinks his customers will just wander off to somewhere Els and he thinks this will be Good too. They la be better off some where else Jacobs says. Skid Row is dying anyway. There Are about 1,800 men on this Block alone. But most of the Barsarn t open past 8 o clock. We re the Only ones open till 4 .most places Haven t got enough customers in them to pay the lights after 8."Jacobs thinks West Madison is bad even by skid Row stand Ards. It costs the Guys a Buck night and More to sleep in these Crummy rooms they be got Here and they re not even rooms. Most of the flophouse just have cages in them. That s what i Call them cages. No roof just Chicken wire at the top. And the food they get around Here i Call it  among the ragged men them selves shuffling along mumbling to themselves their breath acrid with whiskey the answer to where will you go is usually i Don t  who la give his Leif for Bjarni Washington up americans of scandinavian descent were told monday that they maybe honouring the wrong Norse Man when they celebrate Leif Erikson  fellow named Bjarni Here Elf soon May have been the first Viking to see America five Cen Turies before Christopher Colum bus. Marion Stemmann an assistant editor of life Magazine said in a speech sponsored by the Leif Erikson foundation. Miss Steinmann who studied the old Norse sagas in doing research for an article on the Vikings in America said her to lesson apparently discovered the Mainland while sailing froma Viking Colony in Greenland but was afraid to  s a Little bit embarrassing she said but possibly Weare celebrating the wrong Man  it was Leif who probably was the first to set foot on the Mainland miss Steinmann  of the new land Leif set off with a Crew of some 35 Menand made several landings including the mysterious Vin land found on ancient maps. Miss Steinmann spoke at luncheon in the Senate office building at which sen. Warre Magnuson served As a master of  200 persons including government officials and Sena tors showed up to hear her. The writer said her studies had convinced her that the Vik Ings had indeed discovered America after establishing two colonies in  the firsts that miss Steinmann said the Vikings could Lay claim to was the birth of the first White child in America. This was the son of Thorfinn Karleff in who established a Colony that lasted for several years but apparently withdrew after trouble with the indians