European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 19, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday october 19, 1967 the stars and stripes Page 3 Dirksen says Saab s foes fanning the Breeze Washington a sen. Everett m. Dirksen said tues Day that a filibuster is being waged against his Bill to reactivate the subversive activities control Board but that it won t prevent passage. I be got the votes when they run out of steam the Illinois Republican told newsmen. Sen. William prox mire,d-wis., leading the opposition has been speaking sporadically against the Bill. He has been vague about when it might be brought to a vote. Dirksen. The Senate gop Leader said the scuttlebutt is that opponents want to stave off vote until next week. But he said this would t do them an Good that he will probably have More votes then. Under Dirk sen s Bill the Board would continue to identify communist organizations but a provision of the 1950 internal Security act requiring the organizations to Register with the Justice department would be dropped. The supreme court Rule about two years ago that the registration requirement violate the Constitution s fifth Amend ment Protection against possible self incrimination. Marijuana no worse than liquor Minneapolis a the commissioner of the . Food and drug administration said tuesday he doubts that smoking marijuana is More dangerous than using alcoholic drinks. Or. James l. Goddard told press conference Here that both alcohol and marijuana distort the user s perception of reality. But he cautioned that Thelong term effects of smoking marijuana May be More serious than the effects presently British Agni. Drax Dies London a adm. Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett Ernie Erie Drax first director othe Royal naval staff College died monday at the age of 87 since then the Board has Bee largely inactive and Proxmire Las urged that it be maintains the Board could serve a useful purpose i exposing communist groups. Sen. Robert f. Kennedy,d-n.y., urged that the Bill be returned to the Senate judiciary committee. Dirksen opposes this Declar ing the committee has fully Dis cussed the . Thomas i. Emerson of the Yale University Law school told a news conference that 37 Law professors had sent a Tele Gram to atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark urging him to oppose the their Telegram said the Bill contains serious constitutional defects is wholly unnecessary and threatens Basic freedoms of thought and look a no hands Ian Palmer Crew member on the catamaran feline has to take a real stand during a sailing race at Perth Australia. The boat came in photo students fired up where there s smoke. Deland Fla. A Stetson University students huffed and puffed to blow Down a Rule an get Back their cigarette machines tuesday held a with a turnout estimated at 300 to 500people, and the students think it May have done the Finley a 20-year-old political science student from scoring Fla., who is spearhead ing the Campaign said a Folk Singer attended the smoke in and he gave away free cigarettes to attract a crowd but we had so Many people he ran out of cigarettes the group signed petitions an Finley who smokes Only an occasional Cigar himself said methinks the smoke in will have an effect on the school administration. It s a pretty Good Little Wal to buy cigarettes Finley said. We re just trying to get the sold on the administration of the coeducational Baptist school banned the Sale of cigarettes on Campus after the u. S. Surgeon general s report on smoking and health but continued to per Mit puffing in dormitories handsome classrooms. South baptists generally frown on smoking but Bill bag Gett the Stetson Dean of men said the cigarette Sale prohibition was not on any religious grounds at Finley campaigned for the student Senate on a platform including a Plank calling for re Moval of the Sale ban. After his election he introduced a Resolution requesting return of cigarette machines to the student Senate passed the measure but the student affairs committee composed of Stu dents faculty members and administrators voted it Down 8-7.then Finley decided to hold a s just a Way of showing student support for the idea he said. I m going Friday to talk to the president of the University about the president or. Paul Ger in said tuesday he has the sen ate request under consideration but had made no decision. Stetson about 25 Miles West of Daytona Beach has an enrol ment of 1,700. 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And generally it is abundantly Clear said the staff report that further investigation of the automobile insurance system in the United states is in order the companies and organizations involved in furnishing this service to the Public Are doing a poor report prepared by the House judiciary committee recommended that a comprehensive investigation be undertake by the Federal Trade commis Sion. As an alternative it suggested the inquiry could be made by a select congressional committee or a subcommittee of the judiciary committee. Two Senate committees Are also engaged in staff studies of the Auto insurance business an the transportation department has been asked by some Mem Bers of Congress to Start an investigation. The House study report contains a number of Case histories in which Drivers complained of having their policies arbitrarily cancelled and of being forced Toby other kinds of insurance in order to get their cars insured. Widely varying rates charged by the same companies for the same insurance in different states Are also examined by the report. In Tallahassee Fla., for example the report said coverage is obtainable for As Littles $52 while the same coverage costs a Motorist $208 in the District of Columbia. Husband Calls Torch death religious rite los Angeles up the husband of a 56-year-old Mother of two who turned herself into human Torch to protest the War in Vietnam said tuesday that her act was a religious rite far beyond the hypocritical posturing of George Beaumont 58, a com Mercial artist told a news con Ference at the greater los an Geles press club that last Sun Day s self immolation by his wife Florence was a supreme sacrifice. For All of la Puente calif., said his wife was an English teacher and a student of history who passionately loved he country and who belonged to the san Gabriel Valley emergency Council a peace group. He said she recently had Registe Redas a member of the peace and Freedom party formed to pro test the War in Vietnam. The visibly shaken widower old newsmen he had no Advance knowledge of his wife s plan to kill herself on the Steps of the Federal building Here by dousing herself with gasoline and Light ing a , he added his wife had told a woman Friend last Fri Day that she was going to Burn herself to said he Felt his wife was not mentally deranged. Headed there were no indications of escapism or said his wife a member of the Covina Valley unitarian Church had a deep feeling against the Slaughter in must have Felt she had to do hard to believe we carried him in9 a Lilly m ill my Miu lit a Mircu Lute Lulu full a w the Llan m4tllllm Mamilu us Oil let int Olf a u my la Dallas a four year old Giuseppe Rossi is going Back to Milan Italy Able to walk for the first time in his life. The boy son of or. And Rossi underwent a seven hour operation three week Sago at the children s medical Center Here to Correct a Congeni Tal heart defect. A week after his operation he took his first Steps. It s hard to believe this Isth boy we had to carry in Here in our arms said his father Ashe family prepared to return to parents said they had gone from Hospital to Hospital i Italy. They said facilities for the open heart surgery the boy required were not available in their country and that italia doctors had recommended they bring him to Dallas. Beaumont who termed his wife s act her sacrifice. To humanity to peace and free Dom added that i would t recommend what she did to also attending the news con Ference were the couple s Daugh ters Sally 20, and Mary 18, Anda Friend Pat Marion. Russian Tightrope performer Hurt in fall Boston a Nina log Ashe a 30 a Tightrope performer with the Moscow circus was injure tuesday night when she fell 10 feet from a Pedestal during her 10,000 persons in the opening night audience witnessed the Accident. The circus is on a 13-City tour of the United states
