European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 01, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Paige 6 the stars and stripes wednesday May 1, 1968 600 a cadets felled by streptococcus Atu Force Academy Colo. A scientists said it apparently was a streptococcal infection that attacked about 600 cadets at the . Air forc Academy forcing suspension of classes of the afflicted cadets was reported in dangerous condition although 73 of the More severe cases were . The virus was tentatively identified As a Strain of streptococcus by Academy physicians and members of the . Public health service National communicable disease Center team stationed at fort Collins Colo., a spokesman treatment and bed rest was prescribed for those cadets Soho showed the severe symptoms of sore Throat and fever the spokesman said. Cadets began streaming to the doctors Over the weekend with sore throats fever vomiting and diarrhoea. The Public health service team was called in Sun Day night. The Academy spokesman said classes were tentatively scheduled to resume mid week. Along with the 3,100 members of the Cadet Wing another 3,650 schoolchildren and 188 teachers on and near the Academy Reserva Tion were dismissed from classes monday As a precautionary measure. Officials at the Academy hospitals said the decision to re open classes was made after the epidemic appeared to taper off monday of the stricken cadets who required taken to the gymnasium to avoid overcrowding the 135.bed Academy Hospital. Woman hold 3 Hays Kidnap victim freed Ransom left behind Martinez Calif. Up the wife of a Chain store presi Dent was kidnapped from her Home last tuesday and held for $250,000 Ransom before she was released unharmed three Days later the sheriff s office Dis closed monday. The Ransom was not victim was Margaret Edith Louis 66, wife of t. Louis president of a firm carrying his name. She was abducted fro her Home in a san Francisco suburb by a White Man about 45years old officers said. He is being , who arrived Home just minutes after the kidnapping found a note which said his wife would be sexually assaulted an burned with acid if Louis at tempted to inform note said the Louis phone was tapped and police Short wave radio systems were being , 68, called his attorney who informed the sheriff s office in Contra Costa county across the Bay from san the Federal Bureau of investigation was came three tense Days of waiting for Louis and his son Ronald 35, who according to the note was to deliver t h Money on Friday. The younger Louis closely watched by police drove to san Francisco about 10 . Friday with a Zipper bag. Authorities refused to reveal if the bag contained the Ransom Money in Small Bills As the kidnapper instructed. At a phone Booth in the Finan Cial District Louis was told to drive to a supermarket parking lot where a note directed him to a museum. Placed the bag near statue As instructed Andlous chinese left. At approximately the sometime mrs. Louis was released near a Polo Field in Golden Gate Park about two Miles from the j Ransom drop. Police and Fri agents were staked out at the Chines e statue Over the weekend but Noone showed up for the Zipper bag the sheriff s department said. Mrs. Louis told investigators she had no idea where she was kept or in what Type of building because she was blindfolded. She said she was treated Well j during her three Days of Captivity and exchanged Only a few words with her Abductor. 1 Florida visitor the Duke of Windsor accompanies mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post to her plane at Palm Beach for a flight to Nassau. The Duke and Duchess Are spending two weeks As the guests of in re Dudley after a 3-week vacation visiting friends in florida.a1 school store crib Ninaus liable9 hey 4th graders pay your taxes Minneapolis Minn. A kids at Wenonah Elemen i the tax Man made a Federal the sales tax effect last which went into j the August from a toned Ltd advocate Leary appeals conviction Washington up Leary an advocate of drugs has appealed to the supreme court against his 1966 Laredo tex., conviction on marijuana charges. Leury was sentenced to 30 years in prison and fined $40,000. In his Appeal Leary claimed among other things that application of the Federal Laws against marijuana impaired his religious Freedom. Lie practices the Hind religion. Tary school in South Minneapolis Are finally going straight. A Minnesota tax department representative visited the school last january and Learned that the school s fourth and fifth graders had formed a Corpora Tion to run their school supplies store but had t been paying Minnesota s 3 per cent sales Case out of it teacher Georg Haakenson said. He told me we were criminally liable Haakenson said and that Laws were made to be kept not broken. I could t believe it. I was so mad i could hardly checking with Legisla tors and being told it was no the legislature s intent to collect school store Hakenson decide nonetheless to collect the lax. We re teaching obedience tothe Law he said whether it s a nuisance or now the youngsters fill out their forms and Send their tax collections averaging Between 60 cents and is monthly to Theta department. Department has t men any possible penalty for 3 arrested with smelter 2 tons of Silver coins Tucson ariz., up Thresel paso tex., men arrested at an Airport near Tucson Sunda with two tons of Silver coins and a Small smelter Are being Heldon charges of melting Down coins service office to reclaim the Silver. Three suspect sit was the first substantial prosecution by the . Secret service under a new Law which went into effect last year prohibiting the melting of coins. The Law was passed i conjunction with changes in minting under which the .mints since 1965 have produced Clad coins with Core of Copper and a thin coating of precious Metal. Previously the mints turned out dimes and quarters which were 90 per cent Weisheit agent in charge of the Elpaso secret identified the at Ralph , Dan Skanovsky Hector Murillo said All three were arrested in a building at Ranfield about 15 Miles from said the secret service confiscated a Small smelter Small Quantity of reclaimed Silver and a couple of tons of Silver 10-Ccnt and 25-cent pieces which secret service men carried out in whether this meant that the Silver in a 10-cent or25-cent piece has now become More valuable than the coi itself Weisheit Suid i can t Tell you that but that is a obvious the Law makes it illegal for anyone but the Treasury department to melt Down actin. It has been in effect since May 19, 1967. A secret service spokesman in Washington said the Only other previous prosecution was a Small Case in new is the first substantial Case he said. The kids not paying the taxes since last fall. If anything devel Ops though Haakenson has a t you see one of the kids All dressed up and carrying a attache Case he said walk ing into the tax commissioner s office and saying i m the corporate counsel for Wenonah variety. About this penalty Deputy tax commissioner r. Earl Franz said tax depart ment representatives Call on All schools As a mutter of course under the 19f 7 Law schools Are exempt from the sales tax on what they buy but must collect the tax of what they sell except for school told the principal of tins school what the obligations Are under the Law fran said. Franz said school supplies Are taxable under the Law so the tax department has no Lee Wayas to How the Law is applied. Franz added that he had tried without Success to find someone in the department who could recall talking to the touch or. Vosnin6 race show6toobadz6i knew Iti he comes Bulck. Probably made it orly. Actor s son Arra Guetl on draft of Iii los Angeles a Chri Stian Winslow Hayden Sun of actor Sterling Hayden. Was arraigned monday on a Federal charge of failure to report for induction into the armed forces. A hearing was set for May 7.Hayden, 19, whose father was decorated for service in world War ii voiced his Defiance at his induction station March 5and said he expected to be in actor s son is a full Timo employee of the resistance a National organization opposing War and selective service
