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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday August 27, 1968 the stars and stripes Page 5 . Ends sunday booze ban Washington a Washington ended 34 years of liquor less sundays with a Fash of new year s eve Type celebrations at bar Sand restaurants. Many bars broke out favors and noisemakers one sold five cent drinks and another staged a symbolic destruction of Small cards telling customers that liquor could not be served after Midnight a new ordinance permits the Sale of liquor by the drink until2 . Sundays and from noon sundays to 3 . Mondays. Ethel Kennedy in seclusion Chicago up mrs. Robert f. Kennedy will r e m a i n in seclusion at Hyannis port mass., during the democratic National convention and its filmed tribute to her slain husband whose Lith child she is expecting late this . Edward m. Kennedy d mass., sole survivor of the fou Kennedy Brothers will stay with her on Cape cod even though he is chairman of the Massachusetts delegation to the close to the family their reasons for away Are mostly  indicate staying  Only members of the Kennedy clan attending the convention will be Illinois Delegate Stephen Smith Hus band of Jean Kennedy who probably will accompany him. Liz Richard leave new York new York a actor Richard Burton and his wife actress Elizabeth Taylor ended a five Day visit to new York City sunday night and accompanied by one of miss Taylor s daughters Andone of Burton s daughters by previous marriages left for Paris. Miss Taylor who is recuperating from a partial Hysterectomy appeared rested and in Good spirit As the four boarded the plane. 3-time cancer sufferer promoted Pearl Harbor a the Navy has promoted Edwin m. Rosenberg who had Stom Ach cancer three times to rear Admiral. Rosenberg 49, a plans office with the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor was first stricken wit cancer in the stomach and intes tines in 1946 and was retired the following year by a Navy Board. In 1948, Rosenberg wrote tothe Navy would t y i m Well an like to employ me and get full value for your Money instead of paying me and not getting anything it took a private Bill in con Gress to get him rehired. Fou years later while commanding the destroyer escort Blackwood Rosenberg came Down with can cer again. An operation and xray treatment followed but he stayed in the  years later he was hospitalized again for cancer but returned to duty after three months. Anyone for Buffalo Moccasin Mont. A officials of the National Bison Range say they Are going to sell 80 head of Buffalo to anyone interested. The minimum bid is $235.sealed bids for the animals being sold to maintain Herd bal Ance will be accepted until sept. 5. Woman sues Pill maker doctor turn the roosters off or unplug them by John Keasler something screamed in the night and i sat Bolt upright. Turn it Down my seventh Grade red haired daughter was shouting before Dawn in he sleep out on the Couch in the iving  sat there Bug eyed in the dark trying to remember who and where i was and it took a while to realize the unholy Din consisted of every rooster caterwauling for Miles  were in the country. My joined in. Ing on fevered gossip under my window. The Only Man made sound was the faraway whine Ofa truck but the crickets were getting to me. When i found my self starting to think the crickets were talking about me i had Little Jolt of pacifier and tried it  went the first Frog then. I think i heard him last night in a Midnight science fiction movie he was the fro that ate Cleveland his buddies Detroit a a woman has sued a birth control Pill maker a doctor and a druggist for $770,000, charging use of the pills caused serious damage Toher eyes. Mildred Dobbs of Redford township filed the suit against the syntax corp. Of the Republic of Panama or. Donald v. Hobbs of Detroit and druggist Fred  of Redford township. The suit asserts that use of the pills caused nearly total blindness in mrs. Dobbs left Eye and some damage in her right Eye. Brown bagging urged Oakland Calif. A the 187,000 workers who face a new one per cent income tax be cause they commute to san Francisco daily were asked to join a retaliatory Brown bag  Friday sept. 6, and each Friday thereafter commuters were urged to bring their own lunch in a Brown bag rather than buy it. San Francisco expects the commuter tax to bring in $12.7 million in Revenue every year. Youth arrested with Rifle Chicago a authorities seized a teen Ager on the roof of the Conrad Hilton hotel sunday and said they found a .22 Rifle with a telescopic sight in the trunk of his nearby Auto. The Hilton is serving As the Headquarters for party officials at the democratic National convention and is the hotel at which presidential contenders Huberth. Humphrey and sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy Are  charged the youth Peter Laine 19, with unlawful us of a weapon. New York air traffic delayed new York a air traffic at Kennedy Airport backed a sunday with mid Day delay reported up to one hour and 15 minutes for departures arid 15minutes for landings. At noon 51 planes were lineup on taxi ways awaiting take off  spokesman for the Federal aviation Agency said that the delays in takeoffs were due to conflicting Navy flight operations at nearby Floyd Bennett Field and an unusually heavy volume of flights. Name was Keasler. My serial number was 7001275 and my Hob t ies were shouts in the night turn it Down turn it Down my daughter kept shouting in her sleep at the roosters As pieced together salient facts about  jumped up and ran from the bedroom into the living room pausing Only to take a Footstool from the Cleft in my Shinbane and whispered Honey those Are roosters. You can t turn them  mumble she said. Mumble mumble. Unplug  and i realized that while it May not be True that you can t go Home again you sure can Losea lot of sleep  the place we were in the country at aunt Marie s. Aunt Marie is my wife s aunt mrs. Frank dough erty and her Home is in the Small and fascinating town of la Belle which is my favorit Etown anywhere. It s in Inland Florida betwee fort Myers and Clewiston. It consists of vast and Beautiful vistas of Prairies studded with Mossy Oaks cattle country where the Hump backed brahmas roam truck farming country where the real gamblers play the never ending no limit Gam with a sardonic nature dealing for the House. My wife grew up there Andy own Hometown of Plant City has certain similarities for the people in these towns Don t have to look in big cities for what hey know they already have. Swelling Shin and As i stood there in the dark my swelling Shin giving off he Only Light a Dull purple Hue thought boy i never thought i would live to see the Day roosters gave me a turn. Mumble mumble said Laura. Make them go to  her 4-year-old brother awake now and big eyed said  when i thought they were both asleep i went Back to bed. I have six kids and they sleeps drugged each night with fans whirring radios going with demented deejays sounding like a bucket of marbles being poured on a tin roof. If you Don t watch kids they leave the radio on and Wake Only when you turn off the newest singing group the nor Mandy invasion not disturbed they sleep through the Lullin screech of squealing tires in the suburbs the cackling and Jang Ling parties of adults at play All the cacophony of our Marvel Ous jammed up age. Let them get out in the coun try and they want to unplug the roosters. Sheresh i thought indulgently and Lay Back As an old country boy myself to enjoy the peace. That was at 4 30. By five Asi Lay there staring with eyes resembling two Burnt holes in Blanket i had decided they made roosters louder than they used , giant crickets were carry also what seemed to be some Large carnivorous beast was stomping around under my win Dow. The chorus went Cocka  four kick by 5 30 i was beginning to wonder what time the bar opened. At 5 45, just As 1 was easing into a tortured snooze something live landed on my  screaming while wonder ing if i Ever got around to having my will notarized i leaped out of bed. It was my 4-year-old."daddy," he said. Don t those frogs Ever quit talking we watched the Sun come up. It still does that Well i said. You can take the boy out of the country but you can t take the country out of the  i took a great draught of country air and slept until 2 30 that afternoon once the noise started. Distributed by Mcnaught Syndicate inc poll bachs Nixon in handling War Princeton . A Bya two to one margin the Ameri can Public believes Republican presidential nominee Richard Nixon could do a better Job of dealing with the Vietnam War than could Hubert Humphrey the Gallup poll said sunday. The poll reported that by Al most the same margin the pub Lic believes Nixon could do better Job with the War than could sen. Eugene j.  nationwide Survey of 1,526 adults taken after the Republican National convention two weeks ago also showed Only a Small minority 13 per cent believes the Paris peace talks Are making any headway. Voters by nearly a two to one margin believe the republicans Are More Likely to keep the United states out of world War Iii than the  Nixon and Humphrey were paired on the question of who Best could handle the Viet Nam War 54 per cent said Nix on 27 per cent Humphrey and 19 registered no  Nixon was paired with Mccarthy the figures were 52per cent for Nixon 29 per cent for Mccarthy with 19 per Cen having no opinion. Breath of life policeman a. S. Martin breathes life Bac Kinto the body of 75-year-old Artis Steadman on a Street in Augusta a. Steadman suffered a heart attack while driving Hiscar which then rammed a Monument. Martin revived Steadman who was rushed to a Hospital. Up photo  
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