European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and thursday May a no end seen to St. Pete garbage strike St. Petersburg Fla a a warning of Aliena Tion and bitterness Hung Over this City s 8-Day-old garbage Cri Sis tuesday with no sign of negotiations Between the City and 211 dismissed garbage men Mostof them negroes. The City bolstered its flagging collections by putting seven new trucks in service most of the manned with Whites. Seventeen of a Normal complement of about40 trucks were on the streets. City manager Lynn a Drewsand other officials disregarded warnings by the City Council appointed Community relations commission and attempted to rebuild the sanitation depart ment. Chairman s warning the present course can Only Lead to increasing alienation and bitterness in the City said commission chairman Rev. Lloyd Schirra. A similar strike in Memphis,tenn., ended a month ago after a series of Boycotts and firebombing of some non striker s Homes. Schirra said the commission was especially concerned with race relations and other explosive problems and the garbage crisis is such a freshly manned garbage trucks continued to make a slow sweep around the City s West Side. Most of them were escorted by police cruisers. One truck re turned so that its Crew could be shown to operate the lift and packing applying for jobs pay ing Between $1.87 and $2.27 a hour walked unmolested through groups of fired Sanita Tion workers in front of the City entire 211-Man sanitation Crew was fired after a walkout was staged May 6 for higher pay. In dismissing the Crew an Drews said i Don t think Money is really he said there was a conspiracy of some sort by Young militants Amon the predominantly negro Gar Bage men. 31onkeys galore Lynn mass. A police researching for the last of 25 rhe sus monkeys stolen Over the weekend from a firm which kept them for experiments. Six teen of the monkeys were Cap tured. A garage attendant called police to report there were four in his basement. Beatles to reorganize John Lennon left and Paul Mccartney announced tuesday in new York that beatles Ltd. Is being reorganized for bigger things As Apple corps., Ltd. The new firm with 100 per cent of the Stock held equally by the beatles will make films produce records and own clothing stores in Lon Don. Along with the reorganization announce ment the beatles said they Are disillusioned with maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Are through with the meditation sessions with him in made a mistake they said. A photo skipper gets reprimand in grounding Washington up the skipper of the Navy destroyer Bache wrecked on the rocks a Rhodes Greece feb. 6 has been court Martiale and sentenced Toa reprimand the Navy said spokesman in response to in quiries said cmdr. Edward , 39, of Birmingham mich., was found guilty in Naples court martial of negligently endangering his ship by failing to maintain adequate checks on the vessel s position while anchored off the greek Island. The ship was blown Shore by a 45-knot wind. The verdict is subject to re View by higher naval authorities. Cmdr. Broadwell has been As signed to head the military sea transportation service in Seattle Wash. Gas As cleaner line killer continued from Page i Ming from fires sparked by sol Diers cleaning up areas with the volatile fuel whose fumes ares flammable. A need to declare War on such recklessness he declared adding that any Little spark can ignite the Vapours. Collins cited the recent Case of two 8th inf div enlisted men from Mainz who were trying to eradicate paint spots from a bar Racks floor with gasoline. One of them thoughtlessly and tragic ally lit a cigarette. Damage to the building was$215. If the two troopers win their fight for survival they still face months in the Hospital Long hours in surgery almost july draft lowest since april 67 Washington a the defense department issued a draft Call wednesday for 15,000army inductees in july the Low est monthly Call since april 1967. It also forecast lower than Normal draft Calls for the july december period. At the same time the Penta gon reduced its june draft Call by 9,500 men from 29,500 to20,000. It did so because the army had overestimated the number of men who would be discharged in june. Draft Calls reached their 1968peak in april when 48,000 men were ordered to report for induction under selective service. The july Call lowest since the 11,400 of april a year ago dipped Way Down because it reflects the Tail end of an army replacement Cycle dating Backoo the buildup for the Vietnam War Over two years Pentagon explained it this Way the average time for train ing a new draftee or recruit is approximately five months. In order to maintain its trained strength at a stable level the army must therefore procure new personnel about one Hal year in Advance of anticipated losses of trained personnel duet completion of Tours of duty or other factors. In effect the replacement Cycle for draftees therefore is about a a years rather than two years. We Are now entering a period when anticipated losses of draftees six months later will be substantially less than in the current As a result the Pentagon said a lower level of draft Calls can be expected for the first half of the new fiscal year Start ing july 1. Explaining the cutback in the june draft Call the Pentagon said it results from a Combina Tion of factors including reduced army estimates of an earlier estimate of net losses from army ranks for january june this year totaled250,800. But the most recent army estimates based on the latest strength reports is 236,500.the Pentagon stressed that the projection of manpower attrition from the army normally is subject to some margin of error. These Are the monthly draft Calls for 1968 so far january 34,000, february23,300, March 41,000, april 48,000, May 45,900, june 20,000,july 15,000. Constant pain and discomfort and probable lifelong disfigure ment. Their doctor Here capt. Stan ton Stavney of the 97th general Hospital estimated that the cos of their treatment in civilian hospitals would run conservatively from $30,000 to $50,000. One of the Youthful victims suffered Burns on 70 per cent of his body nearly half of them third degree. Hell probably live with the pains and scars the rest of his life Stavney stated. The doctor was backed by the97th s commanding officer col. Robert m. Hardaway i who called severe Burns As uncomfortable and painful injuries As it is possible to the disability is great the care is great and you never know How they la come out Hardaway added. Also attending the press con Ference was col. Charles me Leod director of facilities for the Engineer command. He emphasized everyone should Stop an think of the two s wife found dead in Schweinfurt Schweinfurt Germany is the wife of two Joseph Desautel a 32nd army air de sense come warrant officer stationed Here was pronounce dead on arrival at the local Mili tary clinic tuesday morning. Defaulters wife Elaine was und at Home by her daughter a a m and was rushed tothe clinic 15 minutes later. The 33rd Field Hospital i Wuerzburg is performing a postmortem examination heart patient Stuckwish Dies in Houston on the operating table abut was brought inc a t n with the Iran Pontod heart n � 36-year-Ord homing o v Al died at ii 5i a tuesday. P Newell e. Franco St Hospital admins Ator death was attributed progressive liver failure Jyh deepening jaundice and xten2of. His pre existing nor so arterial Pul Toal or. Stuckwish desperately i. On admission to St. Fol episcopal Hospital improve following the heart to sub no 8ufficicntly to overcome of processes existing prior to his surgery fran said Early wednesday a the total Cardial remained excellent Coursi � Posl pc ratio 12th patient t Stuckwish was the 12th person in the world to receive a transplanted heart and the third to receive one in a Busy five Days at Houston s Stluke s episcopal Hospital. His death left Only four surviving heart transplant patients. Stuckwish a Hospital adminis Trator from Alpine tex., was Given the heart of Clarenc Enicks who died May 7 of a beating he suffered april 23, i what doctors said was strictly Ari emergency and unplanned operation. The Stuckwish transplant stirred a Legal Issue As Well As the moral one which surrounded the heart transplants. Houston medical examiner or. Joseph cautioned the Doc tors against proceeding with the transplant but said he would file no charges if they did. The Legal question Centre around the Impact a heart transplant might have on prosecution of criminals. Jachimczyk said it might allo defense attorneys to plead the victim was killed by the transplant and not by his assailants. Diary says North Viets plan to rename Saigon Saigon a a diary found on the body of a North Vietnam Ese Soldier says the Hanoi re Gime has plans for a new name for Saigon the Saigon daily news reported tuesday. If the South vietnamese Capi Tal is taken Over by the communists it would be renamed Nochi Minn the paper said. Weather 78 47 74 47 m47 78 64 69 bo82 65 6548 59 41m 48 70 6262
