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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 the stars and stripes Friday january 24, 1969 education society offers local Grants Frankfurt is up to$200 for research projects in education is being offered to teachers students and administrators in the european dependent school system by the Karls Ruhe Field chapter of Phi Delta Kappa a professional education  american High school principal Donald j. Smith said proposals should be sent to him at Apo 09757 in not More than five double spaced typewritten pages and should include problem objectives procedures and  is March 1. Awards will be announced March 15.Smith emphasized that Stu dents Are among those eligible for the Grants. He said it is the first attempt by the chapter to promote re search in  anticipate expanding the research program next year said Smith by encouraging our educators to submit research proposals in International Educa Tion to the National  is also hoped that increased funds will be available for local chapter  mud slams la. Suburb continued from Page 1 in los padres National  the storm that had battered Many areas of califor Nia since saturday dissipated wednesday and the rain stopped the weather Bureau said a new storm was moving in from the Pacific and was expected to hit much of the already waterlogged California coast. The . Weather Bureau said the new storm appeared rather extensive and could last into the weekend if not longer. Some Southern Californi Mountain areas were soaked by As much As 20 inches of rain inthe first storm. Firemen surveying the damage in Glendora said it would run into the millions of dollars. At least 131 Homes in the$25,000 to $70,000 Price Range and other structures were damaged. Several of the Homes were so filled with mud that Only the rooftops were visible above the sea of mud that was 12 fee deep in places. The mud is like Concrete afire department spokesman said. It must be  residents of the Homes were removed by fire trucks and by fire department  officials expressed consternation about further Rainin the area saying there was nothing to Stop further mud boulders and other debris from the san Gabriel mountains from pouring Down into the area. Elsewhere in California the storm left As much As 12 feet of Northern and Central Section of the state. In the san Joaquin Valley,. 99, a main North South traffic artery was under Waterford about a Quarter of a mile South of Merced but traffic was allowed to move slowly through the flooded area. Several Hundred persons who were forced to evacuate their Homes in Eastern Tulare count tuesday were being cared for in red Cross shelters. I from a and up  Germany the massive Hunt for the killers of three West German soldiers began paying off wednesday night with the arrest and investigatory imprisonment of a innkeeper s son. Police said the Young Manas exhaustively questioned by members of a special civil Mili tary commission investigating the death raid on the nearby be hold Arbach arms depot and then or Derek held in prison under investigatory arrest. Ponce declined to reveal fur ther details of the arrest an arraignment but the suspect had reportedly been Dis honorable Dis charges from the bund Estehr. Federal prosecutor Ludwig Martin who was ordered by Chancellor Kurt Georg Kies ingerto take personal charge of the investigation said pfc. Rein _ fic Hulz. The Only t who could m . Hufi just returned to the guardhouse from patrol when the door burst open and a Blond Type thrust knife into him several times. As Schulz collapsed a second big dark Type also rushed in and both raiders emptied their pistols a 9mm Walther and a 6.35mm schmeisser into the Cor poral of the guard and three other sleeping privates. Worst since summer tbi�jw�grttptts3was pfc. Ewald Marx who received two bullets in the  operation to remove them tuesday was described As successful but Marx remained in critical  arrest of the innkeeper s son was Only one of several re ported wednesday. Police said several former  Are being questioned. Cops fight rioting Paris students Paris up thousands of police and students clashed in the left Bank students Quarter thursday in Paris worst riots since last summer. Police charged into the 700-year-old sorbonne University when students occupied the rec Tor s office defacing a painting of Cardinal Richelieu destroying files and books and hanging red banners on Broomsticks from the windows. Police detained More than 150of the students including a num Ber of girls following a Runnin Battle through the Halls of the University the focal Point of Las Spring and summer s rioting. When the University was cleared about dusk the entire area became the Center of hit and run tactics by groups of Sev eral Hundred students. The gathered to shout insults and occasionally hurl rocks at police but broke and ran whenever riot police who carried truncheons and plexiglass Shields move against them. Rush hour traffic along the main streets came to a halt causing chaos that made it even More difficult for the thousands of policemen. Scattered clashes with police continued for hours and in a least one Case students started a Bonfire in the Middle of Street. Police rushed in and it was put out without  group of students occupied the administrative office sat Vincennes a newly built Sec Tion of the University of parisian a suburban area. However the situation at Vincennes did no appear to be serious. Twisters ravage -. By Mississippi areas 24th ready for exercise Vilseck Germany special despite Light rain and dense ground fog units of the 24th inf Day completed All their scheduled training exercises at Grafen Woehr thursday. Infantry artillery and cavalry units of the dual based division however will continue Field test ing their equipment at the sprawling training site in preparation for nato exercise car bide ice scheduled to begin jan.29. Name reformer has special meaning Grafe Woehr Germany is the name reformer applied to the shift last year of15,000 . Servicemen from Germany to the United states has a special meaning All its own. The word is defined in an army Booklet about reformer i the temporary return of the troops to Europe for a Maneu ver. Reformer is an acronym fro the phrase redeployment of forces from Germany i says. I continued from Page 1 treated 115 persons and transferred others to neighbouring hospitals. The Hospital. I Mendenhall the Simpson county seat also reported it was sending casualties to nearby  red Cross in Atlanta said it was sending a disaster team to Mississippi to Aid in r e s c u e  area in Hazlehurst hit by the Tornado was a negro Community located in a Valley near a Large Sawmill. An awful sound mrs. Edna Knight said she was asleep in her Home Wither husband their two Daugh ters and two sons when heard an awful sound. I thought lord there s the Mill whistle and the boys Are going to be late for work she said the House then began shaking and she realized it Wasa Tornado. I thrower myself Over the girls and then i tried to shove them under the bed. The House was lifted and twisted on the  an ambulance Driver Chester White of Brookhaven one of the first persons on the scene said spaniard robbed in . New York a Fernando Arias Salgado second Secretary of the Spanish . Mission was slightly Cut on the face when three youths robbed him of $25at knife Point near his upper East Side apartment. Salgado refuse Hospital treatment. There was a body lying beside the Road and another in the hollow when i  said he later found the body of a woman. She was blown about 200 Yards from the Highway tangled up in  the u. S. Weather Bureau atjackson30 Miles to the North said the Tornado Cut a Gigantic Gap More than a mile Long and a half mile wide through Hazle Hurst then Rose into the sky and was traced by radar into adjoin ing Simpson county where it struck the Harrisville St. Johns Mendenhall area. The Simpson county sheriff office said the Little Community of St. John s was destroyed killing five persons. Another five or six were killed in Harrisville the spokes Man said. Bus overturned near St. Johns a school bus was overturned by the violent winds injuring a number of students but killing none. The Tornado shattered build Ings throughout the area. After passing through Simp son county u was tracked by the weather Bureau into Kern per county where radar echoes showed it probably spawned a least two More twisters. Later in the morning More than an hour after the first Tornado hit Hazlehurst the Highway patrol said a Tornado struck in Smith county in East Mississippi. A Home was demolished and its four occupants killed. Senate oks Walter Hickel David Packard Washington a the Senate confirmed thursday the controversial nominations Falaska gov. Walter j. Hickel As Secretary of the Interior an California industrialist David r. Packard As Deputy Secretary of defense. Hickel was the last of presi Dent Nixon s Cabinet nominees to win approval. The other 11were confirmed unanimously monday and took office wednes Day. Hickel was confirmed by vote of 73 to 16 after two Days of floor debate and five Days of Interior committee scrutiny of his conservation views and Finan Cial holdings. Packard s appointment raise questions from some senators about possible conflicts of inter est because of his $300 million Stock holdings in an electronic instruments company doing extensive business with the Penta gon. No profit he plans to put the Stock in Trust from which he said he will derive no income or profit. Dividends and any increase in the value of the Stock will go to Charity and education. Top democratic party Leader joined in opposing Hickel. All 16 negative votes we recast by democrats among them Sens. Edward m. Kenned of Massachusetts the demo cratic whip Fred r. Harris of Oklahoma the party s new National chairman Edmund  of Maine and Eugene j. Mccarthy of  addition Senate democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana was paired against confirmation of Hickel. Weather Motly Cloudy with Occa Lonal la Fol t rain. Little Canoe saturday. Frankfurt Heidel Berg High 49, Low 40. Temperature recorded thursday get i4 4 am pm 48 68 Adana Al 39 43 Athen p 28 43 Valano cd 41 41 Berlin cd 60 48 Bruise i cd 36 32 cop no incl 43 48 Frankfurt cd 4 4 am pm b2 54 London cd 43 so Madrid p a 41 Munich r 48 54 Paris cd 90 48 pre Tolck cd 34 60 Rome of 06 67 wheel i p gunman fires at cosmonauts cd Lou Dye a partly Cloudy a rain. 2nd weather Wing continued from Page 1 top limousine carrying the two the incident and arrived at the Kremlin by a different route. The official announcement said that an investigation was under Way. It termed the incident  informed sources said that i took place As the motorcade was approaching the Kremlin when the gunman kneeling on the Side Waik crowded with cheering muscovites fired from two pistols. These sources said that the unidentified Man was immediately grabbed by the crowd and was hustled away by Security men. The incident occurred after cosmonauts Boris Vojnov Yevgeny Khz nov and Vladimir Shatalow All air Force colonels and civilian Engineer Alexei Eliseev left their hard top limousine and were transferred to an open car for the last half mile of their triumphal motor Cade to the Kremlin. East european sources de scribed the gunman As a religious  he is believe to have fired five shots four at the number two hard top Sedan and one Over the Heads of the four cosmonauts in the leading  four men showed remark Able composure when following the shooting they arrived at the Kremlin Palace of congresses to meet political and scientific Lead ers and journalists and to de scribe on to their soyuz Orbital journey last  before the four were flown into the capital from Theba Konur space Center in Central Asia to receive tribute for their accomplishment the first Dock ing in space of two manned and the first spacewalk Crew Transfer Between two orbiting  sources said that the four shots fired at the second limousine shattered car windows slightly injuring maj  be Rogovoi who made a for Day Orbital journey aboard soyuz 3 last october. To was said to have suffered knee bruises. Valentina Teres Kova the first woman in space and several other Veteran cosmonauts herein the second limousine. They were not injured  
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