European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 24, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 d the stars and stripes sunday h 1968 Snow bitter cold move Northeast continued of i a a i Ous from Central Kentucky South to North Mississippi and from Eastern Arkansas to Nash Ville. Power and Telephone service was interrupted Over a wide area forcing Utility companies to summon emergency Crews into the weather to repair the damage. There were no re ports of sustained hardship. In Memphis the . Weather Bureau recorded 17.3 inches of Snow Between thurs Day afternoon and saturday morning with 10 inches still on the ground. The strike by City garbage collectors under Way since feb. 12, hampered cleanup operations since the sanitation workers double As Snow remo Val Crews. But the picture was not All Bowling Green by. Stu dents at Western Kentucky state i University ignored the foot of Snow on the ground and plunged into an outdoor Pool for a swim. The Pool incidentally was heated. A Brookeville incl., m a n braved 10 inches of Snow to drive 30 Miles to pay a $5 Fine in Cincinnati traffic court and the judge dismissed the charge be cause he had enough gumption o come out in this Type of r e c o r d Low temperatures f 16 degrees recorded at Nash Ville and Evansville incl., and 32 at Pensacola fla., were no cause for cheer. Similar Low readings and even lower were predicted overnight. Poison continued from pays l known in the lie said they were australian Tiger snakes. Customs officials discovered the deadly cargo almost by Accident. The creatures Box mailed from Only Australia to an Ohio Snake farm operator was marked souvenirs with a declared value of �12.80. Because the value was Over �10, customs inspector Ted annunciation Slit open the Box and found a cloth bag tied with shoe strings. Then a bulge in the a began to move. Thu inspector carefully untied one of the shoestrings caught a glimpse of a live wriggle and telephoned the aquarium. I m definitely going to Sug Gest that you Don t leave this stuff Here said the Snake expert. The customs people quickly agreed. The Tiger snakes along with their companion an australian Brown cobra Are now technically in the custody of . Customs. Stewart sworn in l o n do n up Micleu Stewart formally took the oath of office As foreign Secretary Fri Day during a privy Council meet ing presided Over by Queen Ilizabeth ii at Buckingham Palace Stewart succeeds George Brown who resigned on the ground that he was not consulted during key phase of the Gold crisis. Hut � i k ii Jarl in . San Francisco a Lynda Bird Hobb despite banishment from a Cable car be cause she was eating an ice Cream Cone says Shell leave her heart in san Francisco any does her husband Marine capt. Charles Hobb who re ports to Camp Pendleton at the end of the month for assignment to Robbs went sightseeing thursday with Cyril Magnin the City s official greeter and Cream derails Lynda j his daughter mrs. Ellen new it seemed to me ,. As they boarded a Cable car on the North slope of russian Hill Lynda and mrs. Newman were concentrating on double decked butterscotch Cones when they were spied by conductor Machull hell 30."1 was t trying to be mean he said later As he recovered from the Shock of learning he had just invited the president s daughter off his antique Ricky Dink. All seems m pc my brushing by them could t Hen but get ice Cream on them sol suggested they take the n car he said. They Werc very Nice about at their Nob Hill hotel a Robbs held hands As Lynda re called every War has. Why not i left my san Francisco ill leave my heart Jfrancisco spoke up Robb. A son heart in capt Mckinney chosen As envoy to Spain Washington up pres ident Johnson saturday nominated former democratic nation Al committee chairman Frank e. Mckinney As ambassador to Spain. Mckinney will replace Angier bid Lac Duke who has been reassigned As chief of protocol in Washington. Mckinney 63, is chairman of the Board of the american Fletcher National Bank and Trust co., Indianapolis incl., a Post he has held since 1959. He served As chairman of the democratic National committee from 1951 to 1953. Johnson earlier selected Mckinney to be ambassador to Jamaica. But Mckinney who reportedly was not consulted in Advance on the appointment indicated he would have preferred some other Post. A native of Indiana Mckin Ney attended Indiana University Lasalle Institute of account ing and the american Institute of is married to the former Margaret k. Warner. They have four children. During world War ii Mckinney served in the army from 1942-1945 when he was discharged As a colonel. Westy is named chief of staff continued Coin Page it land s competence and Specula Tion that he might be relieved of his command. Johnson said then that he never had known a military Man in whom he had More Confidence than in Westmoreland. Johnson said that in order to Bobby in race to the finish new York a sen. Robert f. Kennedy d-n.y., said saturday he hoped his candidacy for president had caused the Johnson administration to Start changing its Vietnam pol icy but that he was in the race to the finish anyway. I am now involved and i am going through to the end he said As he left for a Campaign tour in California. I be started on the Road and i m going on to the Kennedy was asked by news men at the Airport if he thought the reassignment of Gen. Wil Liam c. Westmoreland and vice president Hubert ii. Humphrey s statement that the administration was reassessing it Vietnam policy were indications that the administration is changing course. I Hope so he said. If it is True he said his candidacy has been Worth when pressed As to whether his candidacy had affected the administration moves Kennedy said he would have to know More about it. Have a smooth transition All the Way around in the military shifts Calm. . Grant Sharp commander in chief of the Pacific will be asked to remain on from May 1 to july 2 when other changes take effect. Sharp presumably will retire. Westmoreland said saturday he was told of his impending Transfer to Washington in a Tele phone Call from Wheeler and that he regrets his departure before Victory and peace Are achieved. Westmoreland was in the Philippines on a Quick visit to his family when the announce ment came. Westmoreland flew Back to Saigon immediately. Asked if he thought Abrams his four Star Deputy commander in Vietnam would be named to succeed h i Westmoreland said i would Hope so. I have absolute Confidence in the ability and leadership of Gen. Abrams. I regret leaving this War torn land before the Battle is Over and before peace is re stored Westmoreland said As he left the plane that brought him from Clark air base in the Philippines. The president was asked whether the forthcoming reassignment for Westmoreland implies any change in strategy such As the search and destroy missions or in tactics in the War in Vietnam. Johnson answered that Strat egy and tactic operations have nothing to do with the appoint ments As last Hurrah author Dies in Boston Boston up cd win o con nor 50, Pulit Erpi author who wrote the political satire the last Hurrah died saturday at new King Laius Baptist Hospital. He suffered a heart attack Fri Day night. O Connor who lived in Boston won the Pulit or pm. In 1902 for his novel. The Edge of sad his Best in Cru work the Hurrah was pub wished in 195ti. O Connor remained a Bachelor until six ears a of when he mar ried the former Vii Bette Weil of Washington Connor was at work on a new novel at the limn of his death. He began i career As a Radii announcer served in the coast guard in world War 11, returned to radio and became a freelance writer in 1951. His first novel the Oracle was published in 1151. He gained recognition As a writer with the last Hurrah a satire about an Irish american politician. The Book was made into a movie. The novel s main character Frank Skeffington was generally conceded to be James Michael Curley mayor of Boston am governor of Massachusetts. His last major work All in the family was published in i Joti. Police curb hippie Yip in continued from Paije t the High domed main waiting room at and chanting hell no we won t go they marched Back and Forth bouncing bal loons into the air and climbing atop the circular information Booth in the Center of the main Rotunda. Some wore colourful costumes. Police move in police moved in after the youngsters started hurling fire crackers and Oulu a objects. About 100 patrolmen members of the tactical patrol Force were on hand aided by terminal guards they closed the main exits and pushed the crowd out Side doors. Several of the Long haired youths were seen bleeding about the face but the extent of the in juries was not known. A police spokesman said offi cers went into action after demonstrators climbed on the information Booth canopy and ripped the hands off the clock. Head Cut among those injured was Don Mcneil a staff member of thi1 Villa g e voice. Mcneill said l olice in getting him out of the station shoved him so hard that he. Slammed his head against a Glass door and required five stitches at a Hospital leaders of the youth International party include Paul Kras Ner edit o r of the realist Jerry Rubin former Campus activist at Berkeley bub fuse announcer for pm radio station Ubai and cd Sanders Mem Ber of a Folk Rock group and founder of the p e a c o Eye bookshop in Greenwich Village. Disorderly conduct charges were placed against most of those arrested. Six juveniles were taken into custody Jerry g o u r w a n a a Yippie Leader said he had been told by Railroad officials that the Termi Nal could be used for the Demon stration if passengers were no hampered. At one Point a Yippie Rush blocked two departure Gates in.1- a Boston bound train for 10 minutes. Basketball u uie Niibu i raft 1 uni r4.ithut.il la tire 1 . Linn Al lit Tou ii in j /. Contest Blics of Chi a pro Sargent Shriver Shriver named envoy to Paris continued cd i a 1 Shriver because of widespread speculation a h i c h annoyed Paris officials that Shriver might decide to help Klu i t Ken Nedy s Campaign Ayaim Loh i the Loir he. A mostly Between to Kennedy Shriver official Washington to remain on re terms with both sides in recent months considered a possible c in the Illinois senatorial for the seat held by la Leader Everett m. L h k ii. Shriver s Odds slumped re Ward the end and the democratic organi Iii mayor Richard Dale Cago chose William Carl administration Man m Iii nato military Structure Ami l 1 Gaulle s repeated r Llu sol it,. Policy in Viniam. I in1 action worsened with l l Aiu is run on american Gold l l tin an Effort to weaken he do j As the foundation of �"11 National monetary i 1 Bohlen who colds for six Yeai Tun store Fruct returned to it h n month to become Secretary of site a i affairs. Shruck by corps until president in the office of 1-v Tunny oko and or to direct the u for a while Mistero both Ai i in was put m full Inu oko. Ujiie posh. Nis and Dill silk l1 de un-,1 Riv us Pliml l in 1
