European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 18, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 4 the stars and stripes Dodd heckled at session on gun controls Hartford Conn. Up sen. Thomas j. Dodd d-Conn., was booed and heckled tuesday by Connecticut sportsmen at tending a Stormy Public hearing on proposed gun control Legisla Tion. The sportsmen who made Upa Large part of 800 persons at the hearing in the stale Capitol objected to proposals contained in a conceptual Bill prepared by the general Assembly s interim judiciary committee. When Dodd a longtime advocate of gun controls walked into the packed Hall of the House fou hours after the hearing began he was greeted with Boos cat Calls and insults. I Don t mind the Boos the senator said. I be been booed by  presentation opposed Dodd was heckled throughout his presentation on the need for Banning mail order guns and restricting Sale of firearms to criminals drug addicts and lunatics. At one Point a Spectator shouted pay your taxes while you re in Washington you  cheers broke out in the Hall. Dodd did not reply. I own guns Dodd told his hecklers. There is no hostility in me toward guns and those who know How to use them responsibly. You Are booing the wrong fellow. You should be  Dodd finally lost his  m glad this is going out Over the air he said because think i know what the majority of the people of this state Wanton the matter of gun controls and All your shouting and bad manners won t prevent  gun nuts surveying the sweltering sportsmen the temperature was 96 degrees the senator concluded his half hour speech. You Are gun nuts he  then was taken by a state police Cruiser to Bradley inter National Airport for the return flight to  of the 70 sportsmen who registered to speak at the hear ing were opposed to proposed legislation that would require gun registration and licensing. The Bill discussed at the hear ing was drawn up for the Judic iary committee As a conceptual measure to gauge Public sentiment on gun controls. It included just about every conceivable control from annual registration of All firearms to Finger printing of All gun permit applicants. Wife of Harry James gives birth to a boy Las vegas Nev. A the wife of bandleader Harry James Jeave birth to a boy Earl tuesday the couple s first child since their marriage two year ago. James 53, has four children by two previous marriages. 1j.s. Satellite to transmit data 4-continent weather test planned Washington up weather maps charts and photographs will be relayed Bya . Satellite to four continents in an Experiment to Start in september. The Experiment was announced wednesday by its joint sponsors the environmental science services administration Essa and the National aeronautics and space administration Nasa it is planned As a pioneering step toward development of uneconomical worldwide weather data distribution system Hie project is called we fax for weather facsimile  test transmissions will be made this Mont hand next by Way of Nasa s ats-3 satellite in fixed orbit Over the Equator to receiving stations throughout South Amer Ica and most of North America Africa and Western eur world weather under watch a program of the unite nations r world weather Cen ters already have been established in Washington Moscow and Melbourne to collect an process weather information. Three satellites eau spaced around the Equator Cou relay data from these centers to every City on Earth. In the september Experiment weather information will be relayed by ats application technology satellite to stations Al Yould equipped to receive Cloud Cov pictures from the Essa .2 Nimbus spacecraft. A More than 150 such station income 30 nations will be Able � receive the we fax transmit Slons by changing a Crystal it their equipment. The transmitted material will include charts predict is maps tabulations and Wear satellite Cloud cover photo graphs prepared by Essa. Panther division a cordon of Blac panthers and their sympathizers line the front of the Alameda county courthouse in Oakland Calif., where Panther Leader Huey Newton is atrial charged with the slaying of an Oakland policeman in a gun Battle last fan authorities arrest awol gis in Shureb Marin City Calif. Up armed forces police and sheriffs deputies entered St. Andrew presbyterian Church wednesday to arrest nine awol servicemen chained to clergymen. The gis began a two Day service of liberation monday in Howard presbyterian Churchin san Francisco with an announcement they were resign ing from the service. But they moved to suburban Marin City after receiving a re port of a bomb  the officers went into the Church the nine servicemen an nine clergymen to whom they were chained were taking com Munion bread and chanting god is not dead  the god mean were sur rounded by 100  Force police from All four services led by maj. Don Ald Tidwell. And deputies led by sheriff Louis Mountanos participated in the arrests. They Separ ated the youths from the clergy men with wire cutters. Each Serviceman was approached individually by the police and directed to Paddy wagons outside. Rocky says plan backed Chicago a gov. Nelsons. Rockefeller reported wednes Day that the american delegation in Paris had expressed a very enthusiastic opinion of his four stage plan for ending hostilities in Vietnam. The new York governor said he had received a message from a Friend in the delegation. He said he did not want to identify him by name but under questioning indicated that it was chief negotiator w. Averell bar Riman. Rockefeller said he bad Bee told that the plan he offered sat  Republican urday was be during a conference presidential by Iwicke a the hopeful Zin news also told newsmen he had been picking up Delegate support during the last 10 Days while his chief rival Richard m. Nixon had been suffering a slow  he contended that Nixon would fall far Short of the 677 votes required for nomination atthe gop convention on both the first and second ballots. Explosives Laden ship catches fire Miami up a 6,000-ton Argentine cargo ship carrying liquid explosives caught fire about 100 Miles East of for canaveral wednesday but the Blaze wag quickly extinguished. The coast guard reported that an Engineer aboard the Rio Quinto was badly burned an was being evacuated by a Heli copter sent from Patrick a 1 Force base. His condition was not immediately known. The ship s 42 crewmen douse the Blaze without assistance the coast guard said. Three coast guard air planes and a helicopter were sent to the ship s Aid but were called Back when the Rio Quinto a radio operator reported the fir had been extinguished. The ship s destination was no immediately known but the coast guard said it assumed the vessel would continue its Voy  ship reported it was carrying liquid explosives amid not specify exactly wha Type of explosives they were. Senate May work during conventions Washington up sen ate democratic Leader Mike Mansfield suggested wednesday the possibility of keeping con Gress in session during the a ional political conventions. Mansfield joined other House and Senate leaders in abandon ing Hope that Congress could finish its business by the target Date of aug. 3, two Days before the Republican convention opens Miami. Mansfield said he saw no reason Why members who Are delegates to the convention could not arrange transportation so they could be present for business in Congress. See dlr sea i think we should stay her and go All the Way through to attend to our primary responsibility he said. Mansfield planned to discuss the idea wit Senate gop Leader Everett m. Dirksen later. The democratic Leader said even if House leaders would not concur in the idea the Senate could stay in session to attend to its own functions. He apparently was referring to action on president Johnson supreme court nominations. House leaders hearing of Mansfield s suggestion stuck to their plans to quit for the whole month of August and wind up remaining business  they pointed out that arrangements could easily remade for the Senate to remain in session for whatever period i desired. The main adjournment Jam is in the Senate anyway they noted. Industry oks advertising of funeral prices Washington a if Justice department said wednesday the National Funer Al directors association a agreed the Price of a funeral May be advertised just like any other  Cost of dying came under government scrutiny last Yea when the department filed ail antitrust Case in . District court in Milwaukee wis. Tot department alleged the association inhibited Price Competition by curtailing the right of funeral directors to advertise their own  a proposed consent judg ment announced wednesday the association would be prohibited from limiting advertising of funeral rates. The judgment is expected to become final in 30 Days and under its terms the association must offer to readmit any Funer Al director expelled from the organization because the association prohibited  association is made up d state organizations representing about 14,000 of some 25,000 funeral directors in the nation be department said. The Milwaukee Case under restraint of Trade Section of the Sherman antitrust act was filed last nov. 24. Defense dept. Gives awards to 6 civilians Washington is defense department Civ received distinguished Talta service awards front Deputy b sense Secretary Taul  Pentagon ceremony those honoured wer Bradford director of adjustment Harry w. Rector for construction Wikner a Deputy director the defense atomic Suppon Agency Fred Leonard Scifo director at the army biomechanical a Carch Henry a. O Neal a wow j technology group and Hilbert Deputy under to efficiency