European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and strips safety is Washington a the government is going to Start set Ting safety standards for use cars and it May Start telling automobile manufacturers howling cars should last. Secretary of transportation Alan s. Boyd sent Congress a report outlining plans to broaden present safety rules for new cars and to cover the m million vehicles now on . Roads. The report says about half the have critical defects to tar r cars have critical safety defects and warns the Chance of an Accident increase with Acar s age. Boyd offered a which would not re quire new legislation and which includes plans to Issue shortly a pro posed set of safety standards Lor cars already on the Highway covering brakes steering tires headlights Seatbelt exhaust pipes mirrors horns an maybe even hubcaps. A study of the possibility offsetting standards on the mini mum lifetime of critical parts incurs coming off the Assembly proposal for Federal Aid for state vehicle inspection pro Grams and a study of the possibility of making inspections unused car lots before automobiles Are resold. Another study of ways to of Fer free Public transportation in Urban areas to take the poverty stricken out of risky vehicles they can t afford to repair the proposal for setting a minimum lifetime on the safety performance of new cars could stir new controversy in the Auto Industry. The department of transportation said two cars out of every five flunk state motor vehicle inspection programs and added the True number of Ruito Mobil with safety defects May rim a High As 50 per cent. With the deterioration of a Carand its brakes steering and ores the chances of the becoming involved in � crash increase the said. Boyd told report Congress his de Parment will Issue preliminary it in a end tit notice soon. Probes told of jobs Washington a kick backs from salaries paid enrol Lees in a . Job training pro Gram were used by a Chicago Street gang to provide Ball Bonds and Legal fees and to buy guns and marijuana the gang former vice president testified Surprise witness told investigating senators that leaders of the Devil s disciples collected $5 a week from the average $45weekly salaries which gang members received for attending classes in a training Center sup ported by the office of economic Opportunity. Nicholas Dorenzo 19, testified before the Senate permanent investigations subcommittee which is looking into a $927,000 program set up by Leo to pro vide Basic education and Job opportunities for Chicago youth. Dorenzo told senators he Nad dropped out of the gang alter being acquitted on a murder charge last March. He said he was testifying because his for Mer colleagues beat him up tried to Kin him and kept up efforts to re involve him in gang told senators the and others had tried to make Theeo program Success. We tried to do a Good Job he said. But the professional people in the program got to Point where they did t care any More so we torn the same Atti began moves to involve the disciples in aft extortion scheme Dorenzo testified he said the wanted to offset a drop in their Treasury funds. We never did any of this be fore we had the obo pro Gram Dorenzo said. Poor 40 Washington up Lep ers of the poor people s March sapped new Strai Megji tues a at the said would shift the Campaign s emphasis Frohri the Federal government to downtown business in 40 american cities. Top officials of the Southern Christian leadership conference when the program deteriorated Dorenzo said Gatig member attended classes on Lar or the Money because "$45 was enough for shortly before the Money was stopped he said gang leaders found in India Fossil adds millions to Man like ape Ages Atlanta up a Yale University professor tuesday revealed the discovery in India Ofa Well preserved Jawbone which he said shows Man like Crea Tures developed from three to eight million years earlier than previously believed. Prof. Elwyn Simons said her that the Jawbone discovered in India belonged to a new kind and is 5 to 10 million years old. Previously the oldest Man like fossils on which archaeologists agreed were found by or. Louis Leakey in the olduvai Gorge off Africa. The were about two million years old. Simons professor of palaeontology at Yale said the Fossil found in shale rocks of the Dho Pathan formation belong to a Man like the formation hire it was found is consid ered to Date at least to the mid dle pliocene age Simons said. We Are taking the position that this is not a direct ancestor of Man Simons said at the Sec Ond International Congress of primatology he said it was the Best preserved specimen of its typeset found. Simons announced the discovery jointly with s. R. K. Chopra of Punjab University Chandigarh India. They said it was found by a Field party in april under the direction of Grant e. Meyer a research associate of Simons. It was found North of j Bil Spur in the Foothills of the Himalayas. Simons said the Fossil found i India was More manlike than the one Leakey found in Africa de spite its greater age. He said the creature that owned the Jawbone was larger than a Gorilla probably a vege tarian which travelled in groups. He described it As a progressive ape but suggestive of he said it appeared to be the oldest jaw yet recovered in the old world of a hominid a Crea Ture related to both Man and ape which showed pronounced reduction of the front Teeth. So Riser of the Campaign me clergymen from around the nation of Ellist their support for organised Boycotts against Lead ing corporations and Lucal Mer chants. The Rev. Jesse Jackson director of Sulc s operation breadbasket said the poor join ing the Boycotts would declare major shopping areas in the designated cities unholy ground1 until More Federal funds Are spent to fee Hod been discovered under cum vation on the Post and that in matter had been taken Over o the army criminal lining1 Tion division. The plants were too Small to be definitely identified As mail Juan at the time but a subsequent analysis by the Arius criminal investigation la a. Tory at it. Gordon cju.,positive, he said
