European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 04, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday february 4, 1969 Nixon tells aides to submit plans Washington up pres ident Nixon has directed his Cabinet officers and advisers to propose plans for a wide Range of action programs in the Fields of education and aare the White House announced monday. One of these asked Secretary Robert h. Finch of the department of health Educa Tion and welfare together with labor Secretary George a Shultz to make recommendations into the need for a substantive changes in pre sent Antipoverty programs oper ated by the office of economic Opportunity. Mentioned most notably was the Job corps which Nixon has said he will abolish. Transfers planned evidence has been growing that the Nixon administration will allow the Leo to fade out of existence on june 30. Finch said sunday that some Success jul Antipoverty programs will j be transferred from the Neoto other agencies. Another directive asked for Finch s views on recommendations by the Johnson administration for use by welfare recipients of so called declaratory applications for establishing eligibility for Aid. . Refuses comment on red defector Washington a the state department said monday it would have no comment at this time on reports from the Hague that a High ranking Chi Nese communist Diplomat had been flown to the United states after interrogation in Bonn by representatives of the Central intelligence Agency. Press officer Robert j. Mccloskey told newsmen that he could not comment on news Dis patches that Liao to Shu temporarily in charge of the Chi Nese embassy in the Hague had defected and been flown to Bonnor talks with the Cia. While american authorities would not discuss the Case it was Learned that reports of Liao being flown to the United states sunday were not accurate. This suggested that he May have been taken to some other Point in Europe or May still Bein Bonn. Most chinese communists who have defected have been taken to the United states after interrogation. It is Standard practice not to disclose their whereabouts during the questioning. Some welfare authorities claim considerable Money now spent on investigations could behaved if applicants simply signed sworn statements which upon random checks could be the basis for action against them if cheating was disco also was asked monday by Nixon for recommendation for an Over All review in education and on an investigation of the deficiencies of education in Large in line with Nixon s Campaign Promise to get private capital into ghetto neighbourhoods the president ordered the Treasury department to study proposal for the use of tax incentives to encourage such directives included orders to Finch to make recommendations dealing with the sharply rising costs of the medicaid and medicare pro Grams. Instructions to Finch to review a report calling for creation of a National student teacher corps and to draft a plan for implementing it. The proposed corps was describe Das a Means by which students could Tutor deprived youngsters. A request for Donald , Nixon s Urban affairs adviser to submit a critical review of government welfare request that Shultz study How a National computer Job Bank program can be implemented on a nationwide basis inthe near new anti crime device Money marked invisibly by atomic Means May prove to be another Means of tracking criminals. A beam of the radioisotope californium 252, aimed through various apertures will make Money just slightly radio Active and the markings can be read by use of special photo graphic films placed in Contact with the Money. The device could be used to Mark almost any material. Up photo 4 get up to 6 years in card cheating Case los Angeles a fou men convicted of conspiring to cheat at cards at the exclusive friars club received sentences ranging up to six years in Feder Al prison monday. They also were fined up to$100,000. . Dist. Judge William denied pleas for probation for the four convicted on a total of 49 counts last dec. 2 after a five month b. Friedman 52, got six years in prison and a$100,000 Fine Benjamin Teitel Baum 53, four years and $75,000fine Johnny Rosselli 62, five years and $55,000 Fine and Man Uel Ricky Jacobs 48, four years and $5,000 were convicted of conspiracy in bilking Singer ton Martin shoe store magnate Harry Karl and other notables out of More than $400,000 in rigged card games at the Beverly Hills club. Players purportedly were signalled electronically from an observer Manning ceiling peephole. Judge Gray stayed the sentences and fines for five Days to permit appeals to be filed. School strike Leader guilty new York a Albert Shanker president of the of Trio United federation of teachers was sentenced to 15days in jail and fined $250 monday for leading a strike against the new York City schools last year. His Union was fined $220,000, about $4 a member. Shanker was sentenced for contempt of two Back to work orders issued under a new Yor state Law Banning strikes by Public employees. The Law pro Vides for fines of As much As $10,000 a Day against striking unions. A veep first Agnew gets private plane Washington a Vic president Spiro t. Agnew has been assigned a special eight passenger Jet Star aircraft a Type used by industrialists an the wealthy for use at will. Aides said no other vice presi Dent has had his own air plane although other vice president shave had regular use of presidential aircraft. C. Stanley Blair Agnew s topside said the air plane is designated air Force ii and includes full time Pilot. Aides said the move by the Nixon administration in making the aircraft available directly tothe vice president will give a new the mobility required to oversee his special work in Urban problems. The aircraft is just one of number of differences in the new look vice presidency according to Blair. Hayakawa Calls Many gripes valid Washington a and ing president s. I. Hayakawa of embattled san Francisco stat College testified monday that the danger to the nation and i higher education demonstrated by student unrest has been vastly Hayakawa the linguistic scholar who took Over the riot rocked san Francisco Campus eight weeks ago defended his prompt and massive use of police Force but he also told a House education subcommittee that massive efforts Are needed to remove the Root causes of some of the student protests. As an overflow audience largely of Young people jammed the committee room and lineup outside in Hopes of getting in later Hayakawa told the commit tee in a sense the issues be Hind most present troubles school systems criticized he said the country is committed to education but still tolerates great numbers of lower school systems that Are crippling the poor and the minorities we were dealing with Hun Ger instead of education Youcan imagine what would happen if we had a walled City in which the citizens had All the food they need while outside there were thousands of starving people he said. We would have to be pre pared to open the Gates wide and admit everyone or be pre pared for a riot. That is the situation now with higher he said educational opportunities for minority and poor populations must be provided even if the expense is enormous. Scuffle in corridors the subcommittee recessed for lunch a group of Youn people in the corridor set up shouts of strike fight hustled them out of the Rayburn House office building with some scuffling. The group distributed a state ment terming Hayakawa a willing Lackey for the racist state administration in califor estimated that of the 18,000 students at san fran Cisco state the White Radical of Ultra Liberal groups number Only about 300 and the control Over them is probably vested i fewer than 50 people. Revolutionary War general s bust stolen Boston Tapir thieves have stolen a bust of Casimir Pulaski a polish born revolutionary Wai general who fought alongside George Washington from in front of the polish american club in the Dorchester $50 Reward has been offered for the 400-Pound bust which was placed at the club by sen. Edward Kennedy d-mass., in1085. He9s the richest vagrant they Ever saw St. Petersburg Fla a police charged the Man with vagrancy. They asked him to empty his pockets. And Joseph Dunbar Wight pulled$187,118.62 out of his tattered am one of those uncommon men Wight said a officers placed the 84-year-Oldman s Fortune in a Bank vault for safekeeping then placed theman in a jail cell also for Sale keeping. The charge officially was vagrancy by sleeping in a bus station sunday afternoon but Wight could have gotten out of jail by paying $25 one Ever told me i could pay it myself and get put he said. The police Captain told me he d like me to spend the night and i could go in in municipal court monday judge Henry Esteva found Wight guilty of vagrancy but imposed no sentence. I m withholding have a Man Here from the state to see if we can get the Money in safekeeping and get you a place to stay the judge said. Wight said he came from Baltimore originally and was a member of a prominent Mary land distilling family. My Trust officers in Balti More told me to let them reinvest my Money with the condition i could maintain control but it was growing so Muchi was Una we to keep control Wight said so on june 1, 1861,i converted All my assets into Cash and h. Wight executive of a Baltimore savings and loan association confirmed he had a Distant Cousin named Joseph Dunbar Wight who probably had inherited a Large sum s Sherwood distilling co. my Hefti Money and Iti Rappert his John Wight Sandt re teen a wanderer Allis life.11
