European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 24, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 74 the stars and stripes to today october 24, 1967 Johnson Washington up presi Dent Johnson signed a $2.3 billion military construction Bill Satur Day expressing amazement Over Congress giving the Navy responsibility for the world s most powerful Fleet but denying it control Over its own Dairy farm. The Bill provides the Brick an mortar to modernize . Mili tary installations around the world including air bases hospitals and naval depots. Sour on Navy milk ruling Brykk and mortar b in signing the Bill. Johnson voiced concern about three of its provisions which he said were inconsistent with the sound management of America s Mili tary establishment and raises questions concerning the constitutional separation of one of the stipulations Johnson required the naval Academy s Dairy farm to c o a Tine in operation until Congress decided to close it Down. The Dairy provides milk to midship men attending the Academy. Thus the Congress which has Given the Navy department authority Over the world s mos powerful Fleet has withdrawn the department s authority Over 380cows " Johnson said. The other two Points Johnson criticized were congressional freezing of the present geographic boundaries of the nation s naval districts and a requirement that no less thana rear Admiral could command each congressional ban on t h e closing of the s it. De Russy in Hawaii. Times change and require ments change Johnson said. And the american taxpayers inthe interest of efficiency expect the government to change believe that the department of defense should retain the flex Russia building its first Carrier ability it needs to organize an manage its internal affairs prop Erly just because a piece of real estate has always been used for military purpose in the Pas does not mean that it must be so used forever. Federal prop erty is not the exclusive Domain of any department or Agency i belongs to All the people and must be used for the benefits of All the people he said. New York up Navy commanders reported sunday that the soviet Union is building its first aircraft Carrier a weapon that has been the mainstay of american fleets since world War top officers of the Atlantic Fleet said the russian Carri Runder construction will have Long Range capabilities but apparently will be relatively Small. The powerful russian Nav already boasts an Armada of sub marines armed with intercontinental missiles. News of the russian Carrie was disclosed in Telephone inter views by adm. Ephraim , supreme Allied com Mander Atlantic and vice e. Ellis chief of staff supreme Allied command at lactic. When we see this new ship completed and when she begins to operate we will know Muchmore about it and will be Able to make a much better evaluation Holmes said. Neither Admiral had any in formation on the Mission planned for the Carrier but it appeared that the Kremlin has Given top priority to getting it into was not known How the admirals got their information. I could have come from Aerial or satellite photography but prob ably it just came from shipping or tourist military sources said the russians have finally Bee convinced that the Carrier is vital in the kind of International conflicts that have erupted since the end of world War ii. Careful stud russian warships were known to have shadowed american carriers in the Mediterranean Dur ing the june War Between Israel and Egypt. Apparently soviet experts made a careful study of the capabilities and use of carriers. Holmes and Ellis said Little was known of the specifications of the Carrier being built but information reaching their Headquarters suggests that i t size was Between that of a Heli copter Carrier and an Assaul Carrier. This would put the size of the russian Flattop Between the american amphibious assault ship and the support aircraft car Rier. These flattops have a stand Ard unloaded displacement of about 30,000 tons and a length of about 850 feet. Among the . Vessels in this class Are the Hor net the Wasp and the intrepid and Many have seen Vietnam action. The russians have obviously been impressed with the role of the carriers in Vietnam. Man of the Navy missions flown from the carriers have hit the Porto Haiphong the main funnel for soviet War supplies reaching North Vietnam by sea. No Date was mentioned by the american admirals for launch ing. The . Navy according tothe latest figures has 53 aircraft carriers in combat service. Berserk Mill worker kills 6 continued from Page 1t minutes. Held then quickly turned calmly walked out the main door past nearly 30employes unwilling to Chance another barrage. Held was driven to work Byers. Geraldine Ramm a neigh Bor in his Home town of Loganton 17 Miles Southeast Oflock Haven. He then went to the parking lot and took a Sta won Wagon. He drove to the lock Haven Airport a Mil away where mrs. Ramm worked for the Piper aircraft corp. It was then about 8 15. He1870 rights Law to be interpreted con timed from Page maintained the Law does not exempt third party conspirators from criminal penalties. In the Georgia Case a Federal grand jury in Atlanta returned an indictment last feb. 16charging four White men Hor Ace Johnson James r. Hogan Willie e. Hester or. And my Cagger Bagwell with criminal conspiracy. The Justice department said it was prepared to prove that Venus called a hell Hole continued from Page tithe 540-Pound Mariner 5 during its sweep within 2,500 Miles of the planet agreed generally with those reported after the soviet Venus 4 parachuted an 842 Pound capsule to the surface last wednesday. They said they had not yet been Able to calculate surface atmospheric pressure which the russians reported was 15 times that on 5 s electronic probing showed no oxygen and no radiation Belt like that which sur rounds russians said the atmosphere appears to be almost entirely Carbon dioxide. The data from Mariner 5, scientist said indicates Carbon dioxide makes up Between 72 and 82per cent of the atmosphere. Health Board rats healthy looking Dayton Ohio a rats have been spotted at the Mont Gomery county Board of healt Headquarters and or. Robert a. Vogel the county health commissioner says he is doing something about said that As he was entering the building recently he spotted a six Inch Long one on the porch. I threw a Rock an hit him Dave Peden director of environmental health said the rats Are healthy is immune to rats not even the health depart ment Peden added. I guess we be got a demonstration going on rat the four severely beat negro travellers who were served at the 53 truck Stop a restaurant in Braselton a. However on May 15, . District court judge Sidney o. Smith or. Of Atlanta dismissed the indictment. Smith ruled that the 1964 Law did not provide for criminal penalties. The depart ment then appealed to the supreme court. The indictment had been obtained under the 1870 civil rights Law. That Law made it a Crim for two or More persons to Coil spire against citizens exercising their rights and provided penal ties of up to 10 years in prison and up to $5,000 in fines. In March 1966 the supreme court upheld the government s Power to prosecute anti civil rights conspirators when officials Are part of the conspiracy. The ruling reinstated charges against accused slayers of civil rights workers Michael h. Schwerner James e. Chanc Yand Andrew Goodman. Last Friday at Meridian,miss., a Federal court jury convicted seven men including Deputy sheriff of conspiring to deprive Schwerner Chancy an Goodman of their civil rights. The court made these other decisions agreed to review a Lowe court rub no that denies the right of the Federal communication commission acc to regulate Community Antenna television systems. Turned Down an Amish Farmer s claim that Kansas compulsory school attendance violate constitutional religious Freedom. The court said that the Appeal filed for Leroy Garber of Yoder kan., by the american civil liberties Union had been Dis missed for want of no other explanation was some danish nudist magazines some clearly intend a for homosexual consumption from being seized and destroyed by the Federal government. Brief unsigned decisions into cases reversed holdings by the . Circuit court in Rich mond that the nudist magazines were obscene and could be banned. Denied a hearing to a Miami artist convicted under a City ordinance for exhibiting six allegedly obscene statues in his backyard. . To press fight lbs says continued from Page u United states withdraw now from Vietnam. In every Way we can he said we search for peace in Vietnam. But we appear to be searching who began the War Are not willing to explore ways to end it. They cling stubbornly to the belief that their aggression jul be rewarded by our frustration our impatience our unwillingness to stay the will not be Johnson said the asian allies fighting with the United states against the vietnamese communists share this conviction. Before motoring to the hotel for the speech Johnson issued a statement condemning irresponsible acts of violence and lawlessness by Many of the demonstrators who Laid siege to the Pentagon during the weekend. I know that All american share my Pride in the men in uniform and the civilian la enforcement personnel for their outstanding service in the nation s capital during the last two Days he president said the Security forces actions stand i Sharp contrast to the irresponsible acts of violence an lawlessness by Many of the soviet spy was of Kab Washington a state department spokesman Robert j. Mccloskey officially declared monday that it. Col. Yevgeny Runge the soviet intelligence officer who defected to the West was an officer of the soviet secret police. The Issue came up at Mccloskey s news conference be cause Moscow denied during the weekend that Runge was attached to the Kab the soviet state Security committee. Earlier this month when Testate department acknowledged that Runge defected and was now in the United states officials who could not be identified said that he was a Kab of Mccloskey in View of the soviet denial put this on the fired several times into the Piper office managed to hit mrs. Ramm before he returned to the station Wagon and headed to to , shortly before to police said he forced Hig Way into Quiggle s Home and killed him As he Lay in bed. Hie then shot and wounded Quiggle s wife. Donna 26. Got More gun the investigation by state police capt. John Grey indicates held tarried a while taking weapons and ammunition from Quiggle s gun Case. Then he ran outside behind his own House and into a Field to avoid a police posse waiting for him. Scores of bullets were fired Asheld engaged about a dozen officers. He lurched ahead Evenas he was hit again and again by the encircling police. Thence Sank to the ground slowly but kept pumping Lead from the smoking guns in his hands. Harold m. Brungard chief executive officer at the Loganton National Bank and hold s brother in Law watched in fear As the bloody rampage neared its , Leo give yourself up shouted Brungard Crouch ing behind the backs of the policemen. Drop the gun. Give yourself seriously wounded three times More held squeezed the trigger before he crumpled seriously wounded in the hands leg and forehead. Twas All Over at 9 25 a.m., about 90 minutes after it can t believe this has happened said s wife Alta 36, col lapsed at her Job at the plastic vac corp., in nearby Jersey Shore. She went there with he sister mrs. Phyllis Weaver 35, after sending her three Youn children court Gerald and Barbara off to the sugar Valley school. The oldest son Larry is a student at Pennsylvania state University. Dist. Atty. Allan Lugg of Clin ton county told a news con Ference held would be charge with murdering the various victims rampage is mystery Lugg said he did t know what set off held noting theman had neither a mental prob Lem nor a police record and was regarded As a respected Cit Izen and a member of the Loganton school Board. The District attorney said the arresting police did t want to kill him and wounded him inthe hands first knocking out one gun and then in the leg an head. Though his condition was critical a doctor said of held think hell make it first was believed Quiggle s6-year-old daughter had been shot with her parents. But when police got into the % House after capturing held they found the girl shouting hysterically into the Telephone somebody shot my daddy and my Mamma. Somebody shot my daddy Andy
