European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 30, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday Jun 30. House follows Senate in halting work on gun Bills Washington up gun control legislation already stalled in the Senate struck Asnag in the House Jar inlay when the rules committee put off fora week consideration of a Bill to ban mail order sales of Rifle Sand shotguns. Rules chairman William , d-miss., who has said he opposes legislating in a atmosphere of hysteria delayed a committee hearing originally set for tuesday until july 8. He said he did so to allow the com Mittee to act on the foreign Aid Bill s committee must Clear Bills for action on the House floor even after the committees to which they Are originally assigned approve Senate judiciary commit tee thursday delayed until july9 further consideration of its version of the Bill which has provision for registration of guns and licensing of their owners tacked on it As an delay was termed by the Bill s backers a serious set Back in their drive to get the tighter gun controls through both houses before a scheduled adjournment of Congress in the first week of August. At the same time Thomas , executive director of the National wildlife federa Tion warned that registering All firearms could Cost $5billion. Cost incidental but Quinn Tamm executive director of the International association of chiefs of police said that if registration saves one life the Cost involved Kimball and Tamm appeared before the Senate juvenile delinquency subcommittee hold ing hearings on several administration backed Bills which would require registration of All firearms and permits to possess weapons. Kimball said new York Cit recently estimated it would Cost $25 per weapon to Register Al firearms. If this estimate prove accurate a National firearms registration act could Cost the american taxpayer As much As $5 billion Kimball added. Just for the Sake of compari son the total spent on All Law enforcement activity in the United states is Between $4 billion and $5 billion a year Kimball said. Charter plane passenger Falls when door opens Vichy to. A a Manon a chartered transport plane fell out Friday when a door of the dc3 Craft opened As it flew Over South Central Missouri on a flight from Illinois to plane had 23 passengers and a Crew of four. Other Pas sengers said the Man May have mistaken the door for the in trance to a lavatory. The plane landed at Spring Field mo., where it was impounded by the National transportation safety Board. In Springfield the missing passenger was reported to be Gerald Potter of Pontiac 111.,husband of a woman who also was on the flight originated at Kankakee 111., and was carrying Lions club group to Dallas. The plane was identified bythe Federal aviation administration As belonging to Purdue airlines inc. Of Lafayette ind., which is partly owned by fur due plane s Home office said Raul Cabeza was the Pilot of plane. It also reported the Cie Felt a sudden Jolt on the dig and a Light came on indicate Cabin door had opened. In Springfield passenger s to newsmen the missing Man y been talking with others the had risen to go to the Lavato three men sitting near the n said they heard a swoosh thought something must wrong but did t see anything the incident occurred aboil110 Miles from Holla. Back to Back politicking As Nelso Rockefeller foreground is about to leave okla homa City Eugene Mccarthy arrives for some campaigning of his own. Rockefeller greeted Mccarthy and the two talked for several minutes. A photo on being arrested quarters join poor people9 French crash kills two Prades France up a French air Force plane crash Din the pyrenees saturday killing the Pilot and the observer. The aircraft crashed in a heavily forested area ailed during when its Engineta Nevers. The bodies of the two men were flown out by helicopter. Washington up poor Peoples campaigners drove to Capitol Hill in a truck Friday and were joined in song and prayer and finally in Paddy wagons by a group of White quakers who insisted upon being arrested with them. Capitol Hill police took int custody on the great West front Steps of the Capitol building 82demonstrators44 negro and White poor Peoples Campaign ers 34 quakers who came from a conference at Cape May n.j.,in a show of support and four children of the poor people Alunder five years of age. Meantime Federal officials said government expenditures to Date connected with the seven week old Antipoverty Campaign amounted to $244,838.government lawyers said they were considering trying to recoup the estimated it $85,064would official Cost to restore the site of resurrection City to its original condition. The new arrests brought to Well beyond made since 500the the number campaigners arrived Here in Early May. On monday 356 were seized most of them on Capitol Hill at the same time police were March ing through resurrection Cit Yand closing it Down. King halts Fla. March Short of goal St a Petersburg. Rev. A. D. King who had said he would launch a massive demonstration Campaign Friday night called off protest March Short of its City Hall , brother of the slain Martin Luther King jr., told some 500 persons in arching in support of 211 fired garbage Enthat demonstrations would be Gin again this group had marched to a Park eight blocks from its Start ing Point when King arrived. Many people Are wondering Why i Haven t gone to jail he said. I did t come Here to go to told the group i came Here to get that Quarter an hour raise for the sanitation workers. Now i m going Home to get things in order and then i m coming Back and then i la go to , of Atlanta ga., was accompanied by the Rev. Edos Burn a Southern Christian leadership conference official from Cleveland Ohio. Osbur i said Sulc would bring More protesters this week. Not just a few kids he said we re going to mobilize St. arrived in St. Petersburg thursday Only a few hours be Foro police halted a March on City Hall. Forty three of the marchers were arrested. Hosea Williams the Marc Leader arrested at the poverty Village was the first to be take into custody Friday. He was free on Appeal from monday s Union halts 70% of . Shipping new York a a the National maritime Union against operators of 70 per ceif the american merchant ill began Friday at effects were not Al immediately. The Union told in men not to set up picket line but with Emu crewmen working american Flag be could not leave . Ports. The Union president Josei Curran said ships carrying itary cargoes to the vie Iwar theater would not struck. Sent to ports the strike Call was sent to a affected ports on All coasts a Curran after the 55,000-Rnembeunion broke off negotiations 01 a contract re9pener with shippers representing 550 freighter and tankers. The Al Cio Union represents unlicensed seamen Ine shippers involved operate mainly from Atlantic and Gulf ports about 100 ships in ports in the Continental United states were expected to be affected immediately the Union said. Vessels manned by members that operate _ on the asst lakes and Prana pair ers of the country were not my solved in the strike Call. Curran had moved on Day to curtail any pm of Kjof negotiations by setting get am he said filling the jails waste purpose of the new demonstration aimed at convincing the capital that it has not heard the last of the poor Peoples Campaign. The arrests were peaceful almost cordial. Capitol Hill police chief j. M. Powell told the poor they were Welcome to visit like any other tourists but could t sing. The demonstrators responded with songs. When they started marching Down the Capitol Steps Power told them Over a bullhorn the were under arrest. Then 32 quakers who had softly Sung of lord come by Here and silently prayed walked Overand waited in line insisting they be put under arrest along with the poor. The charge against those arrested was the same placed against those taken into custody monday unlawful Assembly. While it carries a maximum penalty of 90 Days in jail and a $250 Fine most seized monday have been Given sentences ranging from 20 to 50 Days. About five per cent m Sra and overtime pay rate and or 15 More Days of Vaca on. A current vacation schedule is w 407 freighters h p ��6freighters and 158 tankers. Current wages were Given the Union As $423 a monthly Able bodied seamen with a age earnings increased a per cent Over that Giue w basis of overtime us. 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