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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, July 15, 1968

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              13,1968 the stars and stripes a Shils 2,200 air Gui ii overseas bound Washington a the air Force is ordering to overseas a about 2,200 air National guardsmen and re resists most As info cements for air Force men due to return from Vietnam thai and Korea and Japan it a reported saturday. The air Force also said 2,700 other air guardsmen and Reserve Are being taken from their original units and will be assigned As replacements As needed within the United states. The n e a r 1 y 5,000 guardsmen and reservists affected by theser tons some already taken and some due within the next week Roart of 15,750 members of the air guard and Reserve who were called to Active duty in the Wake of the seizure of the Intelli a nce ship Pueblo and the North vietnamese and Viet Cong Offen five in South Vietnam. Mure than 10,800 of these men have either been sent overseas or kept in the United states with their units. In Fortune ate remark Washington a Usu ally Cool and collected Secre tary of state Dean Rusk denies suggestion that policies of in Donesia might be dictated by predictions of a Fortune  of the subcommittee said it the not some thing we can just laugh about but tile president of Indonesia has a private Fortune  said he was Mak ing a statement of fact in re Ferring to president Suharto. Stamford Conn. A Jackie Robinson confirmed sat urday that he recently suffered a mild heart attack 1robinson, 49, the first negro to play major league baseball suffered the attack while play ing Golf last month. He was examined by a doctor june 24 and confined to bed for a two week  aide to new York gov. Nelson Rockefeller said he now feels Fine but that doctors have not yet Given him the go ahead to resume his Normal activities. Omber version of the fill passes Maiden flight test Washington a the Pentagon announced saturday that a bomber version of the controversial fill warplane the fb111ahad successfully completed a 660 mile an hour Maiden flight at Carswell air Force base Texas. The swing Wing Jet built Ashe successor to the venerable b52 bomber now in use in Viet Nam flew for 30 minutes reach Wallace gains Maryland ballot Baltimore my. A former Alabama gov. George c. Wallace claimed Victory saturday in a Campaign to get his Nameon the ballot in Maryland As a third party presidential candidate. Wallace told cheering supporters at Motel rallies that his work ers had collected 55,000 signatures about 12,000 More than required by Maryland Law to qualify for the november election. Fiancee Dies in Accident Muskegon Mich. Up Sandra Marie Fortin 18, was driving Home when she lost control of her car and it ran off a Highway near , miss Fortin got out and stumbled Back onto the Highway. Chief Justice nominee opposed Washington up Senate democratic whip Russell Lon announced saturday he would oppose the nomination of Abe Fortas As chief Justive because of his supreme court positions supporting the rights of criminal suspects. Long the no. 2 Democrat in the Senate thus became the second Southern Democrat sen. Sam j. Ervin of North Carolina was we first to Side with 16 republicans who Are fighting president Johnson s election year Choice to succeed chief Justice ear Warren. Another Auto struck and killed  found a marriage License in her  was to have been married sunday to Robert Earl Kern 19, Whitehall. From the Birds a Model displays this unusual hat created by designer Jack Mcconnell at the fall millinery fashion show in new York. Made of dyed Ostrich feathers the fall covers the entire head and neck area. A photo ing an Altitude of 20,000 feet the announcement said. The design incorporates the Basic fuselage of the air Force f111a tactical fighter recently grounded after three of an Ini tial group of six crashed in Southeast Asia while based i Thailand supporting the Viet Nam War. Four models of the fill known As the tfx during development stages were born in program pushed by former Secretary of defense Robert  in a search for a warplane boasting features of commonality to All military  week ago the Pentagon or dered a halt to All work on the Navy version the f111b, citing that the air plane would be to costly and too heavy for opera Tion from aircraft  action ended the program and marked a Victory for Admi rals who had argued for six years that the Navy should have its own design. Ream Model reconnaissance Model the rf111, is still in the develop mental stage. The supersonic fb111a,scheduled for assignment to the strategic air command has awing Span seven feet longer than the fighter and heavier Landing gear to accommodate greater loads. It can carry nuclear or conventional bombs and is equipped with a new generation of Avia Tion electronics including on Board computers which enable the pilots to change missions in flight automatically the Penta gon said. Production models Are scheduled to go into service in 1969. Saturday s plane was the first produced by general dynamics corp. At the controls were com Pany pilots Val Prahl and . Denton. Tong cited the supreme court ruling that voluntary confessions we inadmissible As court evidence if the suspect is not warned beforehand of his constitutional rights to remain silent or Consulta lawyer. Expensive trial for Sirhan los Angeles up the prosecution of Sirhan r Sirhan Ujj the assassination of Robert Kennedy promises to become one of the most expensive Lega proceedings Ever carried out in he United states. S08., Angeles county official Siff e Case already has 4?Ost a s county $210,629 although sir con,-.8 made Only two brie four appearances. He has yet to enter a plea to the murder Chargo against him. The trial it self in not expected to Start for several months. The trial will be held in courtroom that will be Armor plated and equipped with Bullet proof Glass at an a stunted Cost of $20,000. The area near Sirhan s cell is being equipped with a Kitchen and an air conditioner at a Cost of $11,000. Sex miss Calif. Among 3 killed in plane crash Needles Calif. A a Light plane crashed into the col Orado River after hitting a Power pole saturday. Three persons aboard were killed including a former California Beauty Queen. The dead included Jeannie Elaine Venables 26, a Sacra mento school teacher who was miss California in 1964 in the miss universe contest. 2 bodies recovered the bodies of miss Venables and an unidentified woman in her Early 80s were recovered soon after the crash. The body of the Pilot identified As Robert Oliver Thomas 34, of Gardena Calif., was sought. Sheriff s deputies said the plane clipped a Power pole after making several passes at land ing and crashed into the River six Miles South of Parker Daman lemans Landing. In the miss Usa contestant Miami Beach fla., miss Venules was voted miss Amity. She won a trip around the world As miss California finish ing it in april 1967. Since then she had taught in san Juan uni fied school District in Sacra mento. $1 Fine urged judge guilty aided defendant Clayton to. A judge John d. Hasler was found guilty saturday of oppression i office. He had been indicted and tried for allegedly Favorin the woman defendant in a divorce Case in his  jury recommended a $1  jury of six men and six women returned the verdict about2 45 p.m., five hours and 45 minutes after resuming deliberations saturday. The panel de liberated for about five hour Friday night. The maximum penalty pre scribed by Law for the Mise Meanor offence is one year in the county jail and a $1,000  still faces impeach ment proceedings before the Missouri supreme court be cause of his conduct in the Case which was described by chief Justice Lawrence Horian As anything but  the 56-year-old St. Louis county circuit court judge had been accused of misusing his of fice on behalf of mrs. Jean Shel by 2tt, of Poplar Bluff  during the week Long trial which ended Friday established that Hasler met privately in motels with mrs. Shel by but he denied any impropriety. The verdict of guilty on the Misdemeanour charge does not remove Hasler from his judge ship. He could be removed through the impeachment proceedings. Mrs. Shelby s husband Del mar charges adultery in his divorce petition. He testified he could not be the father of mrs. Shelby s fourth child because head been sterilized by surgery two years before its  judge l. Frank Cottey thanked the jury and said think the verdict is entirely proper in this  he Praise defense attorney Charles Shaw and the assistant prosecuting at Torney Donald l. Wolff for their conduct of the trial. If the Public would Only select men of this Caliper they would have the satisfaction of knowing their courts Are in Good hands the judge  sat quietly in the courtroom As Cottey  were tears in the eyes of some of the women jurors and one was still weeping As she turned in her jury badge. Som of the female spectators also wept  
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