European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday october 31, 1967 footwork wins hands Down with smokers by Dick West Washington up take a letter miss Bowditch.  Horn director of the National Clearing House for smoking and health. Dear doctor i read with keen interest your recent announcement that the Federal government is preparing a test designed to help smoker understand Why they feel the need to keep puffing away eve though they would like to quit. This sounds like a Worth project As would be a test to determine Why the government feels the need to conduct tests like this. I believe you will find however that it is  without taking the test myself i can Tell you that Al smokers have basically the same  is widely assumed that the main reason most people fee the need to smoke is because it gives them something to do with their hands. This however is  studies i have made Over a period of year show that Between 62 and 78 per cent feel the need to smoke because it gives them some thing to do with their feet. Most people As you yourself May have noticed Are chronic foot shufflers. Particularly when they Are nervous bored apprehensive excited restless embarrassed or need to go Dow the Hall. Smoking helps put them tease by providing utilitarian functions for the pedal extreme ties to perform. A smoker lights up drops the match on the floor and then extinguishes the Blaze with his foot. While smoking he taps ashes on the floor and uses his foot to rub them into the carpet or smear them Over the Asphalt tile. When finished he drops the butt and snuffs it out with his  smokers Are flatfoot snuffers. That is they step on butt with the Ball of the foot. Others Are Heel  either Case the usual technique is to give a Little twist which not Only crushes the butt but shreds  is also a third Type known As the two footed snuffer. He pins Down the non burning part of the butt with one foot and with the Edge of the other shoe neatly extinguishes the glowing tip. Without these exercises to occupy the feet smokers fee frustrated and awkward. Their foot movements become grotesque. Often they accidentally kick themselves on the ankle. Obviously before a smoke can quit he must find a satisfactory substitute. I recommend Bongo boards. Two presidents a 17-foot statue of Theodore Roosevelt overshadows president Johnson at the dedication of the Monu ment on Theodore Roosevelt Island in the Potomac at Washington. Associated press photo Gallup poll majority in . Wants to let vietnamese or . Run War Princeton . Up a Gallup poll released sunday indicates that a majority of americans favors turning the War Over to the vietnamese i stages or turning the problem Over to the United  poll designed to find out How americans would like the administration to Deal with the War asked 1,580 persons in 320 communities to vote on six pos sible plans. Turning the War Over to the vietnamese or to the United nations also won approval of the majority of both democrats and republicans  third most popular plan was to continue the policy of gradual escalation. However there was heavy opposition to this plan from the  the three other proposal failed to gain majority accept Ance. They were turning Over the entire direction of the War to the . Mili tary. Immediate withdrawal. De escalation and a halt to bombing. Australia bound businessman fed up Union. I a. Get him Down under Mansfield Ohio a Mansfield businessman who says i spent the last 18months fighting a losing Battle with the unions and the govern ment and i m fed up is Selling his company and moving to Australia. Carter e. Johnson president of Central pipeline co., left Mansfield at noon saturday bound for the land Down under. He plans to establish a new pipe laying business possibly i Melbourne and Send for his wife and two sons Ages 6 and 16.five of Johnson s employees and three families also plan to congressional fight leaves do. Broke Washington a the City of Washington is legally broke. A congressional quarrel Over budget cuts has left the District of Columbia without any spend ing authority and with pressing welfare and payroll problems. The first persons affected could be the 12,500 families duet receive welfare checks wednesday to cover the month of november. Technically the City ran out of authority to spend Money oct.23. Although Washington with population of 764,000, is Ameri 4 teens found dead in stolen car Cleveland a four teenagers were found dead Sun Day in a stolen car parked in a garage behind the Home of two of the victims. Police said they had been asphyxiated. The victims were identified As Betty Ann Gagliardo 18 her sister Charla 16 Henry l. Pugh 19, and Bruce Schiavoni 19. Followed Hunch mrs. Elizabeth Estergall Mother of the Sisters found the bodies after going to the garage on a Hunch. Police said the garage door had been shut and that the teen agers died of Carbon monoxide poisoning. The bodies of Schiavoni Andretty Gagliardo were in the front seat the other two in the Back seat. All four were full clothed. The car in which the bodies were found had been stolen a week earlier police  said Pugh had told his Mother saturday afternoon we re Gonna have some fun to night. We re going to get some pot marijuana and turn  Coroner s office planned an examination monday to deter mine whether the four were under the influence of the drug. Ca s ninth largest City it is Runas an Agency of the Federal government. Congress has yet to pass the District of Columbia budget for the fiscal year that began injury. A temporary Extension of spending authority ended oct. 23and has not been revived be cause of a Senate and House stalemate Over a proposed Ceil ing on the government s outgo. District officials were to meet monday to try to find a solution to the spending crisis while awaiting final action on the City budget. Most paychecks would not be affected immediately Asem ploys Are paid in arrears. Bomb tossed into consulate Montreal a Montrea police Are looking for two men who tossed a Molotov cocktail through a window of the . Consulate Here saturday. The Ketchup bottle filled with Oil did not explode. Join him in the new  s final decision to make the big step he said Isth result of a strike called against his firm by local 83 of the International Hod carriers building and common labourer Union of America Al Cio. The walkout was called in the summer of 1966, during the Peak season for Johnson s business when he employed about 220 persons. Legal action on the strike still is pending in court. Johnson claims the strike was unauthorized and Cost him $170,000 in Legal fees and los business. He said he had the Case re viewed by the National labor relations Board Norb butt was a waste of time they Are 100 per cent for  to reach officials of the Union for comment on John son s action were unsuccessful saturday. New York industrialist Thomas Morgan Dies Henderson . A new York industrialist Thomas a. Morgan died sunday at Henderson Hospital. Morgan 70, was former president and boar chairman of the Sperry Rand corp. A North Carolina native he was an adviser to presidents Truman Roosevelt and Eisen Hower. He was a director at Bulov watch company . Industries and Atlantic Mutual insurance company at the time of his death. He once headed the boards of Eastern airlines and North american aviation. At aet Una cof got a Hwo com a put och. What p ty6et v of to go Only thlnlg.,1 can t � o Loop out6n this &009 of mask. Soman cookies Hap to was in my dasna0