European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes monday february 10, 1969 used vows sold As new in ., Nader charges continued from Page 1 Hurt new car sales by it franchisee dealers. Magnuson i committee will soon begin hearings on Small car imports. Nader asked him to investigate the Black Market operation which he said has gone on for nearly 10 years without action by the Federal Trade commission. A spokesman for the it said it had turned up evidence of such sales but that the practice was quickly discontinued lie did not say  was investigated it was stopped and it has not Bee continued the spokesman said. Nader insisted that the practices still prevalent and that the Etc while still investigating complaints has taken no action. Arthur r. Railton Vic president of Volkswagen of America the franchise importer of new Volkswagen issued statement saying vow had spent Many hundreds of thousands of dollars to make sure unauthorized dealers do not give the impression they Are franchised. Nader observed that a Multi million Dollar Black Market was possible because the Volkswagen design changes very Little from one year to the next. According to Nader second hand Volkswagen were bought cheaply from West German owners reconditioned in highly sophisticated reconditioning garages in the Hamburg area an then shipped to the United  importing firms particularly in new York City would sell them As used cars to unauthorized vow dealer throughout the United states he added. The dealers would sell them As new Model advertising them As  shipments or new importations Nader said. Nader said information collected by Etc investigators showed that one dealer in Tho Washington area sold 3,000 used cars As new cars in 1963. The dealer paid $800 to $900 each for the used cars and would sell them for about $1,800 each he said. Snowstorm piles it onto Eastern  Continued from Page if areas that suffered hundreds o millions of dollars Worth  in a disastrous two Day Northeast blow seven years ago Snow began falling in the Virginias saturday night. By Daybreak sunday the storm Center was off Maryland and moved tothe new Jersey coast by noon  coastal storm Center was headed through new Englan Clater in the Day the weather Bureau said with every state othe Northeast expected to get a least six inches of new snowfalls the Gusty Snow and rain system travelled North col weather was sucked into the South in its Wake. Freeze warn Ings were posted in Georgia and Alabama. New York City s Snow Emer gency was declared at noon but did not take effect until 6 p.m.,with Snow Clearing operations pointed toward getting the Cit unclogged for monday morning Start of business. The timing Olathe storm spared new yorkers the maddening metropolitan paralysis that comes with a mid week Snow  Western sections of Vir Ginia received Snow flurries Anda few Snow squalls and rain hit the coast while sections further Inland got the heavier Snow. Charlottesville reported a 7-Inchfall, heaviest Ever this late in the  s Western and Cen trial Mountain regions got 4 to 6inches of Snow and about 3 inches of wet Snow fell Early in the Baltimore Washington area. Harrisburg pa., awoke totalling Snow with six inches Al ready on the ground. About Hal that amount was recorded at Scranton and  inches of Snow fell Early in new Jersey much of it Drift ing twice or three times As High in 30-mile winds. Newark air port ceased operations. Travel conditions were Haz ardous throughout the North East. Four to six inches of Snow was indicated for upstate new York where the fall contribute to the Auto collision death of a Man near Bath. G curb Berlin to continued from Pago 1 Friday despite Only routine traffic one officer said. A Helmstedt customs spokes Man reached by Telephone declared there a no evidence that the slowdown causing delays of As much As three hours was politically motivated. He said that the East germans were giving documents a closer look. The new ban affects not Only 1,036 delegates to the Federal Assembly that will elect the presi Dent but about 300 co workers Andall members of the West Ger Man armed forces As  decree announcing the ban was signed by Interior minister col. Gen. Friedrich Dickel. It said transit and transport for the people and materials affected would be barred through the Sovereign territory of the German democratic  was no mention of the air links with West German that saved the City during the russian blockade of 1948-49.West Berlin mayor Klaus Schuetz declared that the ban was a serious matter but said there was no basis for  he called on the West German government to do what it con 10 ton of ammunition record red arms Cache discovered Saigon up South vietnamese troops uncovered sunday the biggest enemy arms cach of the War in tunnels 60 Miles Northwest of Saigon a military spokesman said. The search which is still be ing completed disclosed 10 tons of ammunition and dozens of240mm rockets a missile Seldom used in the War the spokesman said. South vietnamese officers said the Cache was not Well hidden and was presumably Only recently buried for use by Viet Cong troops preparing for at tacks around the Saigon area. Included in the find were 2,000north vietnamese army uni forms 9,000 pounds of Rice 250122mm rockets and a launcher 333 rifles and 15 antiaircraft guns. This is one of the largest caches of heavy weapons we be Ever found in the Republic South vietnamese spokesman said. It s impossible to estimate How much damage the enemy could have done with this  he said it would take a 12,000-Man North vietnamese division fair weather Cloud to partly Cloud with morning Laze. Continued cold tuesday. Frankfurt Heidelberg High 32, Low 20. Temperature recorded sunday get 4 4 m pm 37 57 Adana p 46 67 Athens p 36 43 Aviano p 27 30 Berlin & 25 34 Brussels p 47 30 cop no in p 21 32 Frankfurt Csc Clear now. 4 4 am pm 25 37 London p 30 45 Madrid cd 21 27 Munich p 27 37 part., p 28 37 per Tolck p 43 48 Rome o 62 63 wheel i p cd Cloudy a partly Cloudy 2nd Wathor Wing a month to move that Many munitions to the Saigon area. Three  Civilians were re ported missing after their ran sacked vehicle was found abandoned on a Side Road 19 Miles Northeast of Saigon. Their Sedan was found in the area where two other civilians were killed in an ambush Satur Day. . Spokesman said the men John l. Fritz James a. Newing Ham and Tanos Kalil apparently were on their Way to work sat urday morning at Lear Siegler inc. The two persons killed Satur Day about the same time and on the same Road also were employees of Lear Siegler a com Pany under contract to the army for the maintenance of aircraft equipment. New restrictions scored by Bonn continued from Page 1 Ter Diehl said previously in press statement the rulers of the other  of Germany and the soviet Union Are putting a new element of ten Sion into East West relations Only a few months after the intervention in Czechoslovakia. This aggressive and peace disrupting policy makes Clear to the whole world the character of the East Berlin regime Diehl added the Federal government is determined together with its allies to take All Neces chief of foreign newsmen Berlin up the West Ber Lin foreign correspondents association elected William  of radio free Europe president saturday and Gary  of the National broadcast ing co. Vice president. 747 takes off fat ulessly Sujet s Maiden flight Cut Short evoke to Wash. A after a flawless Takeoff the hoeing 747 super Jet s inside flight wus Cut Short sunday when Pilot Jack Weddell said he was returning. Wadd Cli radioed seconds a Ter Takeoff to Tut the Szo million 355-Toii Jet wus flying beautifully but 24 minutes later said tie was going to end be scheduled 2%-hour test. He said the plane had experienced a bump during tests of the ailerons control surfaces on the trailing edges of the wings. The situation evidently was not critical because he con seated to stay in the air until the Boss can come up and take  a hoeing m carrying Mem Bers of the press and company officials took off for rendezvous. The report of the bump came Only moments after wad Dell had reported that the 747was a very easily Fly Able air plane and the flaps Are pretty  capable of carrying 490  sengers for 0,000 Miles nonstop it had a Crew of three for to first air Teste. Sary measures to strengthen the viability of  he said the Clampdown on Overland Access to Berlin constituted an Extension of controls an visa regulations imposed on West German travellers to and from Berlin last year. They represent a new Viola Tion in International Law of exist ing four Power agreements Oberlin he said. East German authorities Are not empowered to revoke or Al Ter these agreements. This has been stated unequivocally and repeatedly by the .a., Grea Britain and France on the last occasion in july 1908. Reference was made then to the responsibility of the soviet Union for fre Access to and from  Side red necessary for Berlin not More and not  he did not  ban is based on the claim that West Germany has no right sin West Berlin which the communists say. Is an Independent political entity in East German  West German officials Fly to West Berlin especially since the East germans banned Lead ing Bonn government official from surface transit last april. Before that the communists be Gan their selective Banning by barring members of the right Wing National democratic party which they Call  scheduled appearance of 22 Ned members in the Federal Assembly was a Point the communists harped on in their de mands that the election be called  East germans could enforce the ban by supplying lists of names to control Points. Border control officers already work with lists of persons declared unwanted. When one appears and is identified he is turned Back. This has happened infrequently. Such a procedure if applied to hundreds even thousands of people could be used As a pre text to cause massive traffic de lays of autobahn traffic even inmost of those involved Are known to be flying to West Berlin. Although the soviet Union obviously supported the new ban. It would be an entirely different matter if the East germans or the russians interfered with tin1air links to West Germany. A West German newspaper quoted the soviet ambassador to Bonn Simyon Tsarapkin As say ing Friday that the soviet Union will not accept the presiden tial elections being held in Wem Berlin. Widow of heart donor Filos negligence suit Chicago up the 20-year-old widow of the donor in Chica go s first successful heart trans Plant has filed a is million dam age suit against Cook count Hospital charging that her Hus band died because of careless and negligent  mrs. Guadalupe Montez whose24-year-old husband Reymundo supplied the heart for the trans Plant filed suit against the hos Pital and amaze mid Thomas Amale nurse from Biafra. The suit charged that the de pendants allowed Thomas to treat Montez without the supervision of a qualified doctor and failed o hospitalize him to provide proper and adequate medical  talks look dim await Nixon visit Paris a american officials conceded sunday that Tho Outlook for the time being in the vietnamese peace talks is Barren and dreary and the picture i Likely to remain that Way at least until after president Nixon s visit to France. The president is due to arrive in Paris at the end of this month on the final Stop of his european tour. Even then although Nixon might bring something new wit him to discuss with his delegation few observers Here look for Ward to any meaningful activity in the regular full scale sessions of the americans South Viet namese North vietnamese an National liberation front. The thursday sessions Are coming to be regarded More and More us of Little use except As forum for propaganda until Tho time comes when backstage secret talks will produce something significant enough for the full dress session to ratify or reject