European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 5, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday april a 191 the stars and stripes House clears Way for single drug control unit. I put Writt Ftp lev tic the House action a 200-190 die Ltd in the & no a Rita at of nip abuse Young said it was important to Washington us ii ouse tuesday approved Lent Johnson s plan to Congo Fri marijuana narcotic i a nerf other drug enforcement a t Al tvs i new Justuce depart mint office Tovote against vetoing the reorganisation plan cleared the Way for it to take effect monday. Either the House or Senate could have blocked the plan but no veto Resolution was Intro Duce i the the plan Johnson will merge these units the Bureau of narcotic now in the Treasury depart ment which enforces marijuana and other narcotics Laws. New York bound a lady named Lup ahas moved into her we Fco ind in the new York City aquarium alter a Crown country , Tupa a of Flor wheate weighing nearly 3 urns is loaded onto a truck for a trip to these tue Tacoma Wash Airport. It was the first Lee of her trip to new York. She is the largest of her species in Captivity. Up photo the Bureau f drug control now in the health and welfare department s food and g administration Frain enforce Laws against abuse of Ltd and similar hallucinogens Pep pills among other things the plan win take Ltd enforcement out from under or. James , the chief of Fra who has disagreed with a separate Bill pending before Congress to make it a Federal crime to us else. Not convinced a group of Republican sought to Block the reorganization plan on grounds that while they favored merging the drug enforcement agencies the were not convinced that the Justice department was the proper location. They called for More time to study Johnson Splan. In a splitting of gop ranks rep. Charles Mcc. Mathias jr., r-md., replied that the Hoover commission of 1949 had pro posed moving the Bureau of narcotics and it was 19 years of inaction by Congress that robbed us of our better plan the fact is Mathias said that whatever infirmities this1 plan May have it is going to be better than what we have supporters of the plan Sai drugs under the jurisdiction o the two separate agencies often were found in Possession of the same individuals and enforce ment was suffering from a Lack of coordination. Speaker John w. Mccormack citing dealers who prey on the Young Jet the plan operating As quickly As possible to get these sinister individuals. Policemen use Spray to hah girls fight Waterbury Conn. A a group of parents wednesday demanded the arrest of two policemen who used the chemical Spray Mace to break up a crowd of youngsters surrounding a fight Between two supt. Joseph Guilfoile said that the policemen we redoing their duty. A far As i m concerned no action will be take against the policemen witnesses said the two police men used Mace a chemical de signed to temporarily immobilize the persons sprayed. Twelve youngsters ranging in age from9 to 15 were sprayed witnesses of the youngsters were taken to St. Mary s Hospital. Spokesman there said they were looked at and policeman also received Hospital attention and was re were 150 to 200 people milling around and the police men had to Stop it the police superintendent said. He declined to identify the policemen involved. The two girls were on their Way Home from Driggs school in Waterbury s Northend when their fight began. Year of dropouts opens political satire Gap. _ i _ i i tit kit of to Hsinti in crore to rpt a by Sid Schap mos a new York Bureau it item new Yorks so As on headline writer put us political somersaults driving gag write Oslo besides the effect on Maga Zines books and broadcasting president Johnson s announce ment that he would not seek re election played havoc with entertainers who scrambled to re write delete or modify their material for presentation in nightclubs cabarets theater Sand on television. Even cartoonist Walt Kelly so so has had to undergo fast revisions to keep Pace with the sudden political changes. Drop character Kelly said that he would drop the Long horned character wit the Bull Moose nose Tho squint eyes the Bandy legs and the Texas boots who has been a conspicuous caricature of Johnson in recent months. The character had no name but he was identifiable As Are other Pogo characters representing p r e s i dental hopefuls. The Johnson character May appear in one More strip before oblivion. Kelly lamented the iced for the departure of one of his was my whole Backfield he said. One writer fish Tang the satire Gap is Alan Friedman who has been forced several times to re write his political skit candid candidates or his act at Manhattan supper club. Each new change in the Politi Cal picture has Friedman scamp to his typewriter in fun representing the brainwashed Romney declare if nominated i will run. If elected i will serve. If possible i will keep my foot out of my gov. Nelson Rockefeller pulled a fast one on the satirist by dropping out. And out went the material where Rockefeller was asked would you rather be right or be president his reply could i have a thir Choice after a Short breather along came sen. Robert Kennedy with his decision to run for the presi Dency after All. More rewriting. And then came president John son s announcement. It s enough to make Friedmana dropout from the funnyman ranks. But he s carrying on apparently moaning All the Way to the Nixon is a favorite of the satirists who Delight in bang ing away at the fact that he firmly resists the temptation Todo the All through the two month Runof Friedman s skit a girl play ing Pat Nixon has been saying if Richard is nominated he will run. If Richard is elected i nuclear ship building program to proceed under revised plan a St it was George s skit on the Michigan governor had hardly hit the stage in Romney abandoned the presidential race. It was t Funn any longer to have an actor Washington a the administration s current nuclear ship building program before Congress Calls for construction i of one guided missile frigate Anda smaller less heavily armed guided missile destroyer instead of a second frigate the Pentagon said wednesday. Heart pump patient Dies after 13 Days Houston Tex. A Ralph Thiers 43, of Horsham a. Who set in apparent record for use of a heart pump died tuesday night in methodist hos p Thiers received the pump 13 Days ago during i which his heart s discard mitral valve was replaced with a plastic Hospital spokesman Suid the insurance Salesman s death was listed As congenital heart failure due to complications involving the Uver and president Johnson passed on j to Congress monday a memorandum f r o in defense Secretary Clark m. Clifford that said the previous plan to build two of the costly frigates authorized by the House in 1967 was not in i the National interest. One of the larger Craft is Al ready under construction but Congress wrote into Law Las year that there should be two More unless the president decides against it. Clifford told Johnson the cos of the ships had gone up from $135 million to $180 million audit was decided that it would be More in the National interest to build one of the Dign Craft costing $129 million instead of the third frigate. The frigates have two missile systems while the do Gas have one. The Pentagon originally in tended to build three frigates and three do Gas. Under the revised plan it will wind up with two frigates and four do Gas by the end of 1971. Russia lofts 210th Cosmos Moscow up the soviet Union wednesday launched the 210th in us series of unmanned Cosmos fact finding satellites the official news Agency Tass an bounced. 2nd rival to oppose Powell new York up a second challenger has announced he will j enter the primary in Harlem s18th congressional District opposing sex rep. Adam Clayton h. Young. 52-year-old in formation director of the Ilaryon Antipoverty Agency and a for Mer Powell aide told a new conference tuesday he has decided to run against Powell whom he called a dictator deluded by the thought that he is h. Meredith the first negro to attend the University of Mississippi had announced pre i piously he would oppose Powell. While it s rough on gag write Sand satirists Friedman Points out that it s not easy for the actors either. Sometimes i get the new material to them Only a few hours before they go on stage he said. They Don t have much time to learn their new lines audit would be easy for them to get confused trying to remember which politicians Are running and which have dropped plays Only two Broadway plays men Tion president Johnson. In Woody Allen s Don t drink the water a character explains that his name is Randall John Sam but everybody in Washington keeps confusing me with Lyndon Johnson. Johns am John son. I keep getting All his phone messages and meat Allen asked whether he would change the line said i m going to make my decision in no changes will be made inthe lyrics of the opening song of How now. Dow Jones which declare from Here to Saud Araby if Johnson blows his nose run and Hock the baby that s How the Money off Broad Way hit Amer Ica Hurrah will keep its gibe sat president Johnson. They la steal his melons and his heart Albuquerque. . Apr. Francis l. Plouff 66, grows a Garden in his backyard for kids to this year i m going to put i Squash and watermelons he said. A kid can t grow up unless he steals a Watermelon. Course i la put on my act when i see a kid swiping one. I la yell hey you get out of my Watermelon Patch 1 "
