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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 11, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Morch ii 1968 the stars and stripes Page 7 mobilize nation to support riot study Brooke urges Johnson saturday o striking cops Back on Job in Carbondale Carbondale do a Astrike of City employees in hymn thy with a dismissed police chief has tapered off pending i hearing on a court injunction. Police who had triggered the strike which involved w work ers returned to work  night most policemen appeared in one spot to accept service of an injunction issued earlier by a circuit  of the firemen also had returned to  state police sheriffs deputies and Southern Illinois University s Security Force patrolled the Community of 41,000during the strike. No serious incidents were  court judge c. Ever Ett Presser issued a temporary injunction Friday ordering All municipal employees Back to  23-Man fire department resigned after the injunction was issued. Then 17 returned to work As their counsel explained to bolster their court position and not violate the temporary injunction. Mayor David Keene said 17 of the 27 City water and sewage workers agreed to resume work and he said these would be enough to maintain Normal operations. Keene said he expected the 65 other striking employees to return monday. The employees left their Job wednesday after police chief Jack Hazel 40, was fired be cause of a dispute with Richard Wil Kelmy City Public safety director. Hazel police chief since 1964,said he was releasing All City employees of any personal obligation they May feel toward me. I will support their decision100 per  after judge Prosser Issue the order four Deputy sheriffs found serving the papers another matter. Many of the striking employees remained unavailable to the process servers. I believe the president must Ido All in his Power to mobilize our political and social institutions to proceed on the general course sketched out by this re sort the Massachusetts negro Republican said. He added that failure to do so can Only Post Pone the Day of reckoning wit the sinister trends in the Ameri can  Johnson has not commented directly on the report s recommendations but has called it one of the most thorough and exhaustive studies Ever  Brooke made his Appeal for presidential action in a speech prepared for a meeting in Rich mond a. In the first statement by commission member urging the president to take the Lead on it recommendations Brooke observed that without vigorous initiative by the president the commission s grave findings and sober proposals will meet the familiar Fate of past studies becoming Only another chapter in a chronicle of  another proposal for followup action on the report came Satur Day from sen. Joseph d. Tyd Ings who urged creation of commission on the Urban crisis to do on a continuing basis what the president s advisory commission on civil disorders has done for the Short  the Maryland Democrat said under legislation he plans to introduce this week the commis Sion would tour the country hold hearings consult with local and National leaders and make continuing reports on its find Ings. Constant reminder this commission will Serveas a conscience for the country a voice to remind us again an again of the responsibilities we must face to really solve the Cri Sis of our cities Tydings said in a statement. Another View of the commis Sion report came from sen. Al Len j. Ellender d-la., who de scribed As unjust the commis Sion s finding that much of the nation s racial problem is due to attitudes of its White majority. I further believe that it begs the Issue Ellender said add ing that the report should have included recommendations Asto what punishment those who engage in Lawless violence should have received or should be subject to in the  Ellender said he is convinced a the roots of these riots can in Large part be traced Back to the atmosphere of lawlessness that has come to prevail in this coun try Over the last five or six years beginning with the sit Inland marches which swept the South in violation of local stat and National  Ellender had some Praise for the commission however Call ing its report a thoughtful and fairly comprehensive study of the  Ellender gave his views in regular weekly broadcast Over station Wal in new Orleans. Candidate James Farmer former National director of Congress of racial Equality announces As Liberal party Candi Date for the 12th congressional District House seat in Bedford Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. A captured later in Saloon Bandit holds up wis. Stage or bus Madison wis. A for to eight passengers aboard a Milwaukee to Madison bus were terrorized and robbed Friday night by a Young gunman who fled with Only $30 loot taking woman passenger with him As a hostage. He was captured Short time later in a Madison tavern and the woman was debris on coast May be of plane port Isabel Tex. A bits and pieces of an aircraft presumably a missing b52 fro Carswell air Force base at fort Worth were found washed upon the Beach at South padre is land on the Texas coast Satur  coast guard at new or leans said the debris could be from the intercontinental bomb Rode it sterilization in India is sought Washington a scientists Are trying to develop a feed to make rodents sterile and scout the damage they do to in Dia s food Supply Aid adminis Trator William s. Gaud said Friday. And Pupe winning combination Wichita Kan. Up for 30years Lawrence w. Rivers resisted the temptation to throwaway a Small piece of paper fucked in his Billfold with a ban vault combination scribbled on it. Nday his patience paid offer a 16-year-old Rock n Roll drummer who found himself locked inside the old vault when mends jokingly slammed thai r on his drumming. The drummer Bob Martin of mania was inside while every was standing outside the wondering How to free him. Is casually arrived at thee u reached into his Billfold deduced the combination. �., talc a my nation the vault a opened. The teen age Rock n Roll group had been using the vault at the Uhlik music co. Building As a rehearsal room fora dance scheduled Friday night. The other members of the group called the Canterbury Glass shop walked out of the vault and slammed the door on Mai tin. The tumblers dropped ominously into  thought the lock worked when the vault was converted into a rehearsal studio. Rivers acquired the combination when ids employer the e. G. Stevens co. A vending firm Purchase the building from the old citizen state bunk when it went broke during the depression. To had carried the combination Ever since. Riot drills ire negroes in Tennessee Nashville Tenn. A More than 10,000 Tennessee National guardsmen converged sat urday on Tennessee s four major cities to test anti riot troop movement despite protests from negro . Gen. Robert w. Akin state adjutant general t o i newsmen the Maneu vers were designed so that they would not intentionally antagonize or intimidate  he said he expected no trouble. Akin and gov. Buford Elling ton assured negro leaders and the Public that the exercises woul be conducted in no areas of current tension an changed the site of one Nash Ville Encampment in an Refior to ease the tension. Girl who inspired song has own inspiration Rio de Janeiro a Flouisa Oneida the girl who inspired Antonio Carlos Tobim an Vinicius de Morais in compos inti the famed song the Gir from Ipa Nema has give birth to a  new girl from Ipa Nema i called Christine Andrea and 11the opinion of her father l  
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