European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 27, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              March 17, w8 a. Negro sheriff kills himself the stars and stripes chalks City a. A i after serving less than three Montris As Virginia s first negro sheriff in modern times James Brad by was found dead Mon Ida an apparent suicide. A neighbourhood boy found the body of the 38-year-old sheriff slumped Over in the front seat of his car a Green Garden Hose heading from the exhaust pipe through a window vent sealed eth masking tape. Virginia state medical exam Iner or. Geoffrey t. Mann said monday night there is no ques Tion but that Bradby s death was a suicide by Carbon monoxide poisoning. In civilian clothes state police said the body dressed in civilian clothes was discovered about 1 . Off Vir Ginia 618. The ignition key was turned on but the engine wast silent and the car s Hood was coot police  had worked for a pulp and paper company before defeating Veteran Charles Cit county sheriff . Lar Napkin who had held the Post for 43 years. Major urged to Usia up to s  painting North Carolina Highway department workers paint psychedelic designs on an underpass at High Point to prevent vulgarities from being written there later. A photo pupils examined ers Rake old . A a North Carolina health official says an involuntary desire to avoid work apparently causes several Raeford first Grade pupils to mysteriously drop off to sleep while in class. But or. Harry Mclean District health officer for Rayford says the reason May never be known because the children now Are receiving so much attention. Very thorough medical examinations have been per formed on the children three or our times and there s nothing physically wrong with them Mclean said in a Telephone interview monday night. Psychiatric examinations were just beginning he said when news Media Learned of the Story jul first publicized it nationally late last week. Pc think this thing is a sub conscious Learned process to achieve secondary gains involuntary Gold bricking Mclean said. He indicated that the attention these children receive now j could wreck the continuing investigation. All three major television networks have been denied permission to set up Cam eras in the children s class room. Mclean said the incident is not without precedent. A similar Case he said was reported in 1962 in a Small Loui Siana town among girls aged 11 to 14. The cause. Mclean said was hysteria because the girls had been threatened with preg Nancy tests. Another instance also cited by Mclean was at Blackburn school for 11 Iris in England. Hysteria also was found to be the cause. Always before Mclean said the victims were adolescent girls. This time we be got girls six and seven years old. And two or three  the children Aren t in a Natur Al sleep Mcl Oan said. They will go to sleep while standing up or in almost any position. The sleep is a deep one and one from which the children cannot be easily aroused during the first 20 minutes or so. They have no apparent ill effects afterwards. After they be been out for about a half hour Mclean said Many of them can be awakened by the smell of am  that fails and All we can do then is let them awaken  Mclean is convinced that die sleeping is not a hoax. Washington up a panel of prominent information specialists recommended tues Day major changes to bring he operations of the . Information Agency up to  . Advisory commis Sion on information suggested streamlining the Usia s Swol Len staff in Washington but providing More expense Money to permit Usia officials abroad to carry on More personal Contact with editors and Broad  commission headed by Frank Stanton president of the Columbia broadcasting system said it was time to examine assumptions dating from world War ii on which the information Agency has been operating and undertake new courses to better meet Chang ing orders of  a review of Usia functions. The commission said should be. Conducted by an Independent organization charged with deter mining whether the Agency j should have a larger role in policymaking should help sup port private organizations Over j seas that were formerly financed j by the Central intelligence Agency or simply remain an j agent of american  i the commission praised the Julia for its past accomplish . Will Host Parley on Hazard of noise Washington up offi i vials from the United states and i seven foreign countries will hold a conference Here in june to study noise As a potential health Hazard. Or. George e. Urban of the health education and welfare department said the conference will discuss the needs i research to better meet the problems created by noise in a modern society. Ments but suggested a number of ways it could be improved among them involve itself less with Media and More with audiences that we be less often spokesman and More often a Counselor less a publicist anymore an  Usia officials abroad should have bigger expense accounts to permit them to carry on personal contacts More effectively. Streamlining the swollen staff in Headquarters should be streamlined to break Down excessive compartmentalization. Its radio service the voice of America should depend lesson Short wave transmission except those to communist nations and spend More time persuading foreign news Media to explain the . Viewpoint. More time should be de voted to developing Long Range cultural programs and less Effort expanded toward extinguishing Brush  the various educational and cultural activities carried out overseas but governed by the state department should be grouped together in one opera Tion within the Usia. Revise trend it should reverse its current trend and increase the number of Usia libraries and information centers  Stanton the commis Sion is composed of Palmer Hoyt editor and publisher of the Denver Post Thomas Vail editor and publisher of the Cleveland Plain dealer. Sigurd s. Larmon. Former president of the Young and Rubicam Adver Tising Agency Ami m. S. Novik a radio television consultant. The commission was named by president Johnson two years ago and the members were confirmed by the two youths rescued from ice Cliff in .  notch . A Jwo j Outh s were rescued Mon a from an ice Cliff in a Ravine on it. Washington where they had Luen stranded overnight in in temperatures and 100-mile r winds. A third youth who Vii climbing with Thorn fell and alerted rescuers. Ave Snow avalanches on the foot Mountain tossed t h Elure youths onto the perilous 7i l in out noon sunday t h e1 a Forest service said. L a youths Are Jeff Damp 20, i North Conway and Don Inui 20, of Milroy pa.,1 0111 students at the University y new Hampshire and Tom in s. 17, a North com buy High Viool student. Us n t �  the youths were roped together and when they fell Stahlman was the Bottom Man on the rope. He worked his Way Down to the floor of the Ravine and a though suffering a concussion trudged a mile and a half to Cabin of the Harvard Mountain  club. Rescue efforts wore Boi Iii immediately but the a Vuu weather slowed the pro Urr s of the Rescue  up the a me  Suli num and  Nestor reached the Sara Lei. Pair and lowered Damp a Davis to the Raune floor about 2 15 a m. They stayed with thu y o 11 t h s until Daybreak then brought them out to safety. M1ni-\vinn1i\ spoiuiii1 i Igar Ami Bow lie author John Churchill looks a sikh bit like his famous nude Asho bit St. Mar of aider Banbury Church in i Ulio mu., Ilu Rini i a. Lee i ure ukr. The former London Chim a was Rev  Lulett a a Chui Luil h euro Ruth. A i l