European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes sour City Mckirch 16. A new wrinkle in combating feathered , by Dick West Washington up of the hundreds of Bills introduced i Congress each session there Are usually less than a dozen that get personally keyed up about. One of these is the Bill making it a Federal crime to transport Green sea turtles across stateliness. I have Long Felt that something should be done to stamp out the interstate movement of Green sea turtles. But until rep. Claude d. Pepper d-fla., introduced the Bill i did t really know Why Felt that Way. All i had to go on was a sort of vague fear that interstate traffic in Green sea turtles was getting out of hand. Pepper gave that fear form an substance this week with a press release warning that Green sea turtles Are in danger of becom ing of the most recent threats to the survival of the Green sea Turtle is a new cosmetic product called Oil of Turtle " the Florida Democrat said. It is being promoted by poll Bergen As a wonder working Beauty Aid and this fact is threat ening the extermination of a magnificent one hates to see a creature of nature sacrificed on the altar of feminine Pulcher etude. But at the same time one also hates to see ugly women. And so it was with torn emotions that i was walking past a government building at Twilight the other evening. Up among the classic columns were hundreds of dirty Birds of the Type All Washington pedestrians instantly recognize As starlings. Starlings Are the Viet Gong of the ornithological world. For years the capital has fought closing Battle against this Feath ered countermeasures elec tronic mechanical and Hydraulic to discourage them from Roost ing on Federal buildings have it came to me How the government might decimate the Starling population and help product called Oil of Agarun once women become Convil that Starling Oil will make 2beautiful, the Birds we it great demand and the press Jon Green sea turtles will accordingly. U 8ast eventually evens tarllnj.,might be threatened with extinct Uon. At which time i m sure wiccan count on Pepper coming i the Rescue. B w nationwide setup huge car theft ring uncovered in Tennessee Cleveland Tenn. Up the Fri and Bradley county authorities said thursday the had uncovered what they believe to be one of the largest car theft operations in the nation. Sheriff Wendell Davis Dis closed that three men had been arrested and that More arrest were expected in the county and in other sections of the car theft ring allegedly allowed customers to order desired Maes and models by said James Chadwick 32, Cleveland Tenn. Raymon Falk 27, Chicago and Herman Robinson 39, Orlando fla., were Clifford asks to skip Senate questioning Washington up de sense Secretary Clark m. Clifford has asked to be excuse from testifying next monday before the Senate foreign relations committee which strenuously questioned Secretary of state Dean Rusk on the Viet Nam War this committee had arranged for Clifford to appear to testify ostensibly on the military Aid program but the questioning seemed certain to concentrate almost entirely on no time Clifford according to officials told the committee he had not had time to study up nonmilitary Aid in his first two weeks at the Pentagon an asked that other officials represent the. Defense depart ment. A department spokesman said Secretary Clifford has not had the Opportunity in these first 13 Days to review the military assistance program atall. It is his feeling therefore that those who have developed the program would be in the Best position to explain it to the committee at this being held in the Bradley count jail. The sheriff said they were being held on a technical charge of improper registration but that they would be charged with violation of several state an Federal statutes. This could be one of the biggest car theft operations in the country Davis said adding that he believed hundreds of stolen cars would be recovered before the investigation was concluded across the said Robinson was arrested monday As he was bringing a new car into Bradley Robinson was All filled up and passed some state troopers Davis said. He thought they were after him and he just pulled Over and told said the cars had been purchased from prices ranging from $300 to $500 in Cash. It was a real simple operation Davis said. There is a number in Chicago a person can Call and order the car they want and it will be Well done Marine 2nd it. John j. Mcginty Iii of Laurel Bay s.c., gets the medal of Honor and a handshake from president Johnson As did maj. Robert j. Modrzejewski Center of Anna polls my. Both were cited for heroism in Viet Nam in a White House ceremony. A photo prop firm blamed in plane crash fatal to 38 Washington up a Assembly line error led to the deaths of 38 persons aboard a Airliner which was sliced in two by one of its own propellers government investigators have revealed. In a report on the crash of Alake Central airlines con Vair prop Jet near Marseilles Ohio March 5, 1967, the National transportation safety boar blamed the engine manufacturer the Allison division of general motors safety Board said Allison omitted the usual Piston Harden ing process when it constructed the propeller Assembly. The pistons in the propeller Hub Are used to change the pitch of the look before leap boys Miami up the 29 Bache lors and their bejewelled Belles who staged a much publicized leap year Day party mutually agreed thursday the glittering affair was a bust. The bachelors said the reject from the 5,000 ladies who sought invitations to the party were More appealing than those selected As dates for the "29ers."the dates however accused the bachelors of being crude suggestive and Boring. So disappointed were the 29erswith their original fling feb. 29 that they decided to cull through the rejects select another 29 and throw another party March 29.dr. Leonard Sakrais one of the 29ers, complained the rejected dates looked better than those chosen for the highbrow Ball Bya selection committee. Sakrais said the selection com Niit tee seemed More interested in poise than Pulcher etude. Heals complained Many of the girls chosen had Clover things today to the selection committee then it turned out to be the Only Clever thing they those said blonde 29er Date Joan Cramer were hardly the words of s kind of a slap in the face said another of the Bache lors Belles. Miss Cramer said the part was so Boring i did t even wait until the end. I left it a Gilt amp a to pusmbc3a03ump Blades in the heat hardening process the four Blades of the propeller ripped off in flight the Board said and one of the Cut through the plane s Cabin end Over end chopping the air liner in half. Failure to treat the Piston with the hardening process and the failure of Allison s Quality control system to detect the omission was the probable cause of the tragedy the Board critic Ralph Nader urged the Federal aviation administration to suspend Allison s production certificate until it overhauled its Quality control system. Nader said to firm was cited Lufi times Over the last seven years for Inadel a t a in Siufai tur ing Faa fined him i $8,000 the limit under the Law. The firm asked that the amount do Cut but later agreed to p o Ine safety Board i Allison found a similar propeller March 2--Thivc a before the crash of the Central Airliner. 1 " f u " advised its Airliner Custons i Check their propellers a j Oil test but the Board Sal test was not effective omut � Ujj catch the defect it kled in Allison underestimated hit seriousness of Hith Liu torque Saia i a
