European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 19, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Log 6 the stars and stripes Tui of Morch 19, docs the Golden Rule favor Indian givers by Dick West Washington up my Telephone rang and when picked up the receiver i heard a male voice slightly tinged with hysteria. You be got to help me out Tny caller said. What in Tarna Tion is this International Gold panic All about who is this i said. Henry Fowler actually i was indulging in abit of levity there. I knew right along that it was t the Treasury Secretary on the line. It was Spud Larkin  is a Friend of mine who works for one of the government agencies and is known around town As a neophyte social  m in an awful Jam he said ignoring my Sally. I m going to this big party tonight and the Way it looks now i la be the Only person there who does t have a solution to the Gold , i thought Bullion was something you made soup  i become an expert on the International monetary system by 5 o clock i m a dead Duck on the cocktail circuit. It s All they la be talking  be helped me out before by giving me a couple of solutions to the Vietnam hang up. Can you come through for Meagan sit tight i said and i Lacall you Back in five  three minutes later i was Backon the Horn having used the interval for a Quick scanning of document titled a primer on Money published by the House banking and currency com  be got it Spud i said. The Only Way out of the Gold crisis is for the United states to return to the Shell  the Shell Standard what s that surely you be heard of Wam Pum i said. Back in colonial times it was the chief medium of Exchange in Unis country. Wam Pum was made of clamshells Strung together like  was so popular that in 1637 the government of Massachusetts made Wampum Legal tender and fixed an Exchange rate betwee White clamshells and Black Clam  1641, the new Amsterdam Council established now the Way t i he ,. Panic is to have the United St announce that hereafter All am rican Dollare held by Force swill be exchanged for Wampum you Spring that on the oth guests tonight and i la Guarani you la be the life of the party thanks pal  said oozing gratitude. You be just saved my  Ham sweep Craft 3 adults 6 girls die in Dakota plane crash i be been shot Benny Ekwall 11, of Hiawatha Iowa reacts dramatically to his immunization shot against red measles. The Little girl waiting in line at a Cedar rapid Hospital has fascinated eyes for the injection gun held by or. Charles  photo rapid City . A nine persons including six rap id City High school girl cheer leaders died sunday afternoon when a twin engine plane land ing in a Crosswind at rapid City municipal Airport crashed caught fire almost immediately and  Behrens. Pennington county Coroner who identified the victims said there were no  victims were Ivan Landstrom 56, a rapidity jeweler who was piloting the  Landstrom his we e. Shirley Landstrom their daughter and a rapid City High school senior who was one of the cheerleaders. Mrs. Dorothy Lloyd a rapidity High school English teacher and the cheerleaders advis or. She was a widow. And these five other cheer ship collision death toll climbs to eight Pointe a la Hache la a the fire ravaged Freigh Ter african Star soldered Ona Mississippi River Bank Sun Day while the coast guard scanned the Muddy water for  crewman Samuel Brown 48, of Baltimore died in a Hospi Tal of Burns boosting the known death toll to eight. The coast guard said seven others Are  Daylight hours of the Bright Spring Day coast guard boats checked along the River Bank downstream for bodies or survivors. A helicopter Crew scanned the water from the beached ship All the Way to head of passes where the River meets the Gulf. 25 in Hospital in new Orleans 50 River Miles upstream from the Afri can Star 25 survivors of the ship s fiery collision with an Oil Barge remained in hospitals. The 492-foot Farrell lines car go ship collided with the Oil Barge one of two being pushed upstream by a tug in the pre Dawn hours saturday touching off a great gush of fire. There were 63 persons aboard the ship including 12 Passen Gers. The tugboat was not involved in the fire. For a time firefighters had to leave the ship sunday when it listed and threatened to capsize due to the thousands of Gallons of water pumped into the holds to fit the flames. Battleground Oregon primary Rockefeller urged to take on Nixon new York up a Dele gation of Oregon republicans convinced their state is Rocke Feller country urged gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller sunday tonight for the gop presidential nomination in the Oregon primary. Governor Rockefeller indicated to us that he will decide on whether he will enter the Oregon primary by Friday rep. John Dellenback said after the three hour meeting in the governor s fifth Avenue apart ment. Dellenback said Rockefeller had assured the 15-Man delegation he was giving his most Earnest and careful consideration to their  s name was entered on the primary ballot along with those of former vice president Richard m. Nixon an gov. Ronald Reagan of califor Nia by the Oregon Secretary of state. Friday is the deadline for asking to have it removed. The new York governor has made it no secret he is on the verge of announcing As inactive candidate for the gop nomination but his strategy Stillis in question. Rockefeller could contest Nix on May 28 in the Oregon primary the Only one he won in1964, and possibly May 7 in the District of Columbia and june 4in South Dakota but the governor has said privately he believes the results of National polls and his  efforts will be More important than the primaries in Selling his candidacy to regular republicans now favouring Nixon who became the gop front runner with an impressive Victory in the new Hampshire primary last week. Robert h. Noyes jr., a Portland businessman who led the 15-Man delegation admitted there was some opposition among Rockefeller s advisers to his entering the Oregon , he added we did not necessarily meet a Stone  had with him at the meeting new York state atty. Gen. Louis j. Lefkowitz former Deputy mayor of Newyork Robert i ice who Man aged Rockefeller s 1964 Oregon bid and or. William Ronan one of the governor s closest advis ers. They also were at his  last sunday when he met in his Triplex apartment with 32 leading republicans from allover the country to discuss his  Oregon delegation which flew Here saturday night from Portland presented Rockefeller with a cardboard Box filled with petitions signed by 51,500 of his  is Rockefeller coun try attorney Robert l. Ridge Ley said noting that Only 1,000 signatures were necessary to place Rockefeller s name on the primary ballot. Leaders Kay Mcnutt a senior Jan Glaze a senior Terry Blanton a Junior Diana me Cluskey a Junior and Gal Flohr a Junior. Only the age of lands Roraas immediately available. The girls were believed to be be tween 16 and 18. The plane a Bench Craft be-18, was return ing the nine persons from Sioux Falls ., where they had at tended the South Dakota class a High school basketball tournament which ended saturday night. The plane left Sioux fall sunday morning. James Dunfee area Accident coordinator for the Faa in rap id City reported that land Strom filed a flight plan in Sioux Falls. Dunfee said that As the plane approached the rapid City Airport eight Miles East of this City of 50,000 in southwestern South Dakota he mad routine radio Contact with the  his final radio Contact Dunfee said Landstrom received his final Landing instructions including weather conditions. The Tower said Landstrom indicated no trouble and indications were a routine Landing was to be  at the Airport told newsmen a gust of wind apparently caught the plane As it was Landing causing it to nos Down then Cartwheel on one Wing the plane then burst int flame witnesses said with both engines the Landing gear Andone Wing sheared off by the Impact. Humphrey exp Johnson train a Qimat Washington a Vic president Hubert ii. Humphrey said sunday that he expects the Johnson Humphrey ticket to be renominated by the democrats and predicted that sen Robert a Kennedy and sen. Kuene j. Mccarthy will support  How wound do no alright after conventions Humphrey said. It s a modern Mir  to go a we so Fra