Discover Family, Famous People & Events, Throughout History!

Throughout History

Advanced Search

Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, April 16, 1968

You are currently viewing page 7 of: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, April 16, 1968

   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 16, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              To. April 16, 196 site Law to Cost . In billion Washington heltion s chief,.tax �4,y�. Ping  Revenue set let the name of Economy the government about 1 year " Cohen the stars and stripes Page 7 Hucl tvs v � to i T f,4are responsible for the loss to petted taxed. As a rough Rule Ottn Tob co Hen said i an inte0w Svery Al Cut from the  personnel budget Means 110 in lost taxes because of the liability of the serice to take Oil additional audits. Approved Bill the House last we Elan appropriation Bill for mils irs to hire about 1,000 fewer persons than it requested for the fiscal year beginning july 1. The service expected to receive a record 80 million tax returns by monday s deadline and More than 3 million will be audited by irs agents Cohen said last year s congressional Economy drive Cost the Treasury department between$50 million and $100 million in lost revenues and at one pointers had 2,000 Job vacancies be cause of cuts in its budget employs 60,000 it normally employs aboul60,000 persons including 13,000 Field agents. For the next fiscal year con in estimated the cuts in the irs compliance budget will Cost the nation More than another 5 million in lost revenues. The House Cut the irs budget by $7.9 million but some o this stems from postponed Pur chases of new equipment irs requested an additional 2,600 to2,700 new jobs for the next Fis Cal year but will get Only about1,600 new positions under the House passed Bill. -.goersseil. Robert f. Kenne Side St. Luke s Catholic Church which and his wife Ethel and eight of their they helped to ail for easter sunday children gather to Mclean va., out services. The. Children from left Michael David Robert Joseph Kathleen Matthew Christopher Mary Kerry. Absent Are Mary Courtney and  Minnesota Man becomes a father then a City father at the age of 21 by Gene Lahammer Waseca Minn. A Roger Rucker is tackling the prob lems of reorganization of Cit government and administration of the City Hospital while mos persons his age Are More concerned with Sun and fun and x the 21-year-old was seated last week on the seven member City Council in this Southern Minnesota Community of 6,100.it was no april fool s Day joke when voters in Waseca third Ward elected Rucker to the Council by a margin of 2j4 to 1over a two term incumbent. I was awful surprised at the results of the election Rucker  prompted Rucker to seek Public office at such ayoung age press not negroes follow Carmichael Washington up negro militant Stokely Carmichael has a following of about 50 negroes and about 5,000 White newspaper television and radio report ers Whitney Young jr., executive director of the National Urban league said sunday. In an interview with . New Sand world report Magazine Young a negro added they the reporters have created him. There is no organization. There is no following. They have projected him an this has kept him alive. The masses of negroes today take the position that when they see 3,500 negro families Home less in Chicago and several Hun dred in Washington As a result of riots they need a Stokel Carmichael like they need a Hole in the  would prefer really not to follow him. But they get Adaily diet of him. When i make a speech about cooperation Between Whites and negroes i m Given about four or five inches of space. When Stoke by talks about killing Whitey his whole speech is printed and gets television coverage " most of the people i d talked Ito would complain from one end of the Ward to another. But no body was willing to go Down and file. I decided to get in there and make them think a Little at least give them a Choice an swered Rucker. The new Alderman figures he spent about $15, including the $2 filing fee to successfully launch his Public career. The biggest item was a political and in the Waseca journal. The Young Man showed his know How by running another and thanking those who had voted for him. His Campaign consisted of Telephone solicitations on week ends some door to door contacts plus talking to people at  interrupted right in the Middle of my Campaign my wife decided to have a baby said  Kinda tied things  Many volunteered to help in his Campaign but Rucker said he turned them All Down. I Felt this was one Way in which i would t be obligated to anyone if i were elected he reasoned. Rucker says he Hopes to Bethe voice of younger people in the Community on the  research showed said Rucker that Over half the peo ple in Waseca Are under 35, while everyone on the Council was older than that. I Hope my running helped to spark a Little interest in City government by our younger Citi Zens he said. What kind of a reception did the Youthful Alderman get at the first Council meeting Rucker s words were measured and the dark glasses slipped Forward on his nose when he answered the coun cil itself extended a warm Wel come. I think they were please to see that some of the younger people Are interested enough Torun for  asked about his political affiliations Rucker replied i re fuse to commit myself either Tobe a Republican or a Democrat. If anything i m More a Republican than Democrat because i m quite  has lived in Waseca for two years. He joined the . Johnson co. As an electronics technician after cramming two years of electronics training into nine months at Willmar Junior College. He admits his new status has prompted some Good natured ribbing at work. Like her comes the  As one of the City fathers he s proud of his Community. It s where i la raise my daughter and i want it to be the Best possible place he said. Car s Power window strangles 2year-old los Angeles a a 2-year-old boy was strangled when his neck caught in the Power window of the family car. Ann Cooper said her son Gary was playing in the car while his father Jeremiah worked on the engine. She said she left to answer the Telephone and returned to find the child unconscious with his head wedged in the window. Chicago holds sunday court in riot Jam up Chicago up in an extraordinary mass court session held easter sunday magistrate reduced Bond for 207 of the nearly 3,000 persons arrested during recent rioting in some of Chica go s negro  Holiday court session was held after the predominantly negro Cook county bar association charged a deplorable breakdown in judicial processes in court handling of those arrested with judges setting grossly excessive  from up to $1,000 for disorderly conduct to $120,000 for arson and conspiracy charges had been  said 283 cases were heard sunday. They said Bondas reduced in 207 of them and denied in 76. They also said about 500 persons mostly adults remain in  extra magistrates and 15 assistant state attorneys handled cases in four courtrooms in the criminal courts building an four in the next door House of correction  Many instances Bonds were drastically reduced. Some per sons charged with disorderly conduct had their Bond reduce from $1,000 dollars to $25. Smallpox hits indonesians Jakarta up the indonesian health ministry sunday declared four districts of West Java smallpox infested. The indonesian news Agency Ankara said the areas Are just South of ban dung and 20 Miles East of Jakarta. Styles music even crime Bonny and clyded9 film. Hollywood a except with voters of the motion Pic Ture Academy Bonnie and continues to be a winning the movie has amazed every one in the movie world including those who made it. We knew we were working on some wig special says Cost ctr Faye r"Ta7but we never u e Nev dreamed that Bonnie and Clyde would take off the Way it  a need film observers can recall when a film has had such Impact on so Many facets of society fashion music film techniques fads humor even  recent weeks Banks were held up in Atlantic City new Jersey and the Bronx n.y., with women involved in the  crimes were headlined As Bonnie and Clyde style hold ."when the Fri reported a 50 per cent Rise in Bank robberies during 1967, the Wall Street Jour Nal mused in its Lead maybe it s All due to Bonnie and  the world of fashion has been profoundly affected by the Bon Nie look created by designer Theodora  Runkle. Millions of dollars have been spent Omax skirts thick seamed Stock Ings and 1930-style  Clyde look has not caught on As fast with the males traditionally resistant to change. But in London Paris san fran Cisco and Greenwich Village of new York men have been sighted in wide labelled pin stripes and Clyde  women have also adopted the floppy wide brimmed Fedora for their own  and Clyde has brought a flood of record album Sand singles in the United states and abroad. Warner  arts was caught by Surprise no supplying the title tune that often goes with film hits the company had released Only the sound track music by Platt an Scruggs. It has been a consistent seller but it did t fulfil the need. That was supplied by a pair of English song writers Mitch Murray and Peter Callander who whipped up Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde and had it recorded by 24-year-old Lancashire Man Georgie Fame. The record Wasa big hit in England. But was banned in France because of it sirens and gunshots. France supplied its own Bonnie and Clyde songs seven ver Sions on 11 records. One of them is a Lampoon Sung by Brigitte Bardot who enacted a parody of the film on her television special in France last december. Numerous records have sprung up in this country including a curiosity from Ria Victor recital by Bonnie s sister Billie Jean Parker about the real Story of the Midwest desperadoes. More hummable versions of the Saga have been turned out by Mel Torme and Merl Haggard  
Browse Articles by Decade:
  • Decade