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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, October 17, 1967

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 17, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday october 17, 1967 Good news for congressmen travel agent is prepared Washington a con Gressmen looking Forward to overseas trips after this session ends need not worry their favorite travel agent the stat department is prepared. The department has put to Gether a special handbook for congressional foreign travel which tells . Diplomats in essence congressional visit abroad Are Good for America. And it makes it Clear its policy that vip treatment for them is a major responsibility of All for eign service  care and feeding among instructions in the handbook on the care and feed ing of congressmen the ambassador himself should Greet arriving senators and House members at the air port if he can along with a com Mittee of wives from the embassy if the congressmen bring spouses. The congressional visitor should be supplied with Automo Biles driven by English speaking chauffeurs and with whatever English language newspapers Are available plus summaries of what the local press is saying. Congressional baggage should be delivered speedily to the right rooms and when delegation is split up in different hotels the chairman s bag Gage should be delivered  funds liquor and shopping sprees sometimes associated with what critics of Congress Call junkets Are dealt with circumspectly in the state department document. It notes a $50-a-Day official subsistence allowance per per son except in countries such is India where the . Govern ment holds More local currency than it can use and there s no limit. It recalls congressmen like Tobe met at the Airport with Enve Lopes containing local currency equivalents of $5, $10 and $20 for Quick Exchange. The detailed Milwaukee rally now in 49th Day Milwaukee up there. James e. Groppi led 350 open housing militants on March through a Light rain Sun Day in the 49th consecutive nigh of demonstrations. The purpose of the Marathon demonstrations an open housing ordinance was to be aired Mon Day in a Public hearing before the City s common Council. The Council previously has rejected All proposed open housing ordinances. The March led by the White roman Catholic priest sunday night and another led by Mem Bers of the National association for the advancement of Colore people s youth Council the same night were conducted without any incidents. Accounts of travelling commit tees Are strictly congressional matters it  should not be provided to individual members unless specifically asked for the Booklet states although it recommends stocking their hotel rooms with ice water and foodie appropriate. Congressmen can Send Par cels Home through diplomatic pouches if they Aren t to Bulky but no liquids May be forwarded by  help policy the state department s offi Cial View is that congressional trips overseas help . Foreign policy by giving the legislator better understanding of other countries and of . Diplomacy there. And it feels their pres ence shows More of America tothe lands they visit. The handbook advises emphasis a informal contacts for the touring congressmen plus som free time to do As they please rather than a crowded formal schedule. And while not using the term brainwash it warns strongly against trying to pull Wool Over congressional eyes. Care should be taken that no face of super activity super Thrift Ness Post poverty or omniscience is put on the Mission it tells the . Missions  congressional aware Ness of shortcomings As Well a capabilities will inevitably Benefit the  Riding Shotgun a Mahoning county Ohio Deputy sheriff takes a Shotgun from a trucker and ejects a Shell from it. The truck Driver was one of four stopped after a reported shooting incident As the seven state strike of steel haulers  someone to work for be woman is Mother again Portland Ore. A Helen Mccall at 42, expected never to be a Mother again. She had been married twice and both marriages had failed. Twenty one years ago Sheave birth to a son but he died soon afterwards. Doctors told her she would never have any More children of her own. Mrs. Mccall a practical nurse had to be satisfied with keeping Busy at her Job. But i often wondered what the use of working if you Don t have something or someone to work for she said. Adoption agencies Don t usually let single people adopt Chil Dren. Mrs. Mccall frequently asked the county welfare department about it and got the same answer no. Finally she contacted the boys and girls Aid society of Oregon a private Agency that in1965 helped an unmarried piano player Tony Piazza jr., to adopt a boy. After a thorough investigation the Aid society sent 10-month-old Angela Yvette ,.__ live with mrs. Mccall in june. Happy pair mrs. Helen Mccall whose marriages had failed she has begun plans for Ange and whose Only son died 21 years ago cuddles 10-month-old la s education and has opened a Angela who was sent to live with her. A photo Trust fund for her. Lung cancer death rate keeps soaring new York a the american cancer society re ported sunday the death rate for lung cancer is soaring while the rates for most other varieties of the disease Are leveling off or declining. The society said the death rat for lung cancer was up 55 per cent for males and 46 per Cen for females in the last decade. It attributed the increases to heavier smoking. The current statistics mean that 38 of every 100,000 males will die each year because Flung cancer. No other kind of cancer takes such a toll. The society said there was encouraging news about declining death rates for uterine cancer and cancer of the Colon and rec Tum owing to detection of the diseases in the Early More cur Able stages. It said that in 1968, 600,000new cases of cancer will be Dis covered and 100,000 persons Willdie who could have been saved by earlier and better  to g o a Moor Cau a we Scap we Ion a Nasinec 3 Uncle Fenster whom Idip a consbk6man t  Vin i priest quits in anger South Bend ind. A a roman Catholic priest renounced his Priesthood sunday saying the Church is dead and that i will remain a priest indy own  i want the religious Freedom that Vatican ii promised me the Rev. James Kavanaugh said in a talk at the University of notre Dame a Catholic institution. Author of Book father Kavanaugh on leave from m Michigan diocese is author of a Book a modern priest looks at his outdated  he also has been work ing As a marriage Counselor. He criticized celibacy and said he will marry. The institutional Church i dead he said. The Bishops at the Synod in Rome Are wasting their time. We the catholics of America Are getting our the ology second hand from euro Pean theologians who Don t have answers either. Wants Freedom he asked the crowd Why Don t you do something then ican love your Church. Your institution can go to hell. I Wanton part of it. I Don t find it in the  want the Freedom to be my self the Freedom to find go without arrogant priests telling me i can the said. I will re Spect the  
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