European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday february 13, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 5 mow it by in to Marine Calls new Arm fantastic Philadelphia a a 23-year-old Marine Corporal who lost part of both arms in the Vietnam War said monday an electronic artificial Arm he is now testing is really Fantas tic and has made life Worth Liv ing Bobby masters of Oneonta,ala., demonstrated at Philadel phia s Moss rehabilitation hos Pital How he can make the Arm move in All directions by the six Pound Metal and Plas tic Battery operated Arm is connected by electrodes to Muscles on the shoulder Back and picks up its operating signals directly from the brain. These signals Are then amplified 100 times and Fel into an electronic circuit that makes the Arm flex at the Elbow swing in and out rotate at the wrist and grasp. It s really great said Mas ters. I Hope they get this Arm finished quickly. It will be great for All amputees because it has More motion than any other artificial limb and it is almost like having your real Arm masters is a patient at the Philadelphia naval Hospital. He was wounded last september by mortar fire while he and Marine comrades were relaxing at Small Mountain base. His wife Patricia Ann 20,said masters was really de pressed until he got a Chance tory this electronic Arm. It really has boosted his to stars ind stripes a Fol will Call it quits Jill St. John Hollywood up actress Jill St. John said wednesday she had separated from her Singer husband Jack Jones and planned to get a mexican divorce. Miss St. John who was married to the singer18 months ago and campaigned with him for sen. Eugene Mccarthy in last Spring s presidential primaries said she would go to Acapulco for the divorce. Jones said in Honolulu that the demands of his career and the travelling involved were a factoring the breakup. Heavy handed thieves Phoenix Ariz. A thieves apparently stole wrecker truck backed it through a window of a Market used the Crane to hoist the Safe into the air and drove Block away they lowered the Safe into a waiting pickup truck and sped off. The Safeway empty. Barbaric Law attacked Austin Tex. Up a state representative says he is trying to repeal the Barbaric statute which allows a husband to kill his wife s Lover. It takes two people with willing attitudes to commit the actor adultery rep. Cletus Davis said. The problem should be settled through divorce courts psychological counselling or in some peaceful Means other than by encouraging the act of Texas Law passed in 1911, makes it justifiable homicide for a husband to kill his wife s Lover provided he catches them inthe act and kills the Lover on the spot. The Law discriminates against women Davis noted because Texas courts have held that under this statute the wife has no right to kill the women caught in adulterous acts with her on their appointed rounds new York a the mail slowed to a trickle and rail plane and automobile transportation ground to a halt in new York s heavy thieves still managed to steal 49 cars in 24 hours police said. Radio station stolen off air Cleveland Ohio a a burglary at radio station Welkin suburban Cleveland forced the station off the air. The morning sign on Engineer discovered All of the station transmitting monitoring and studio equipment missing As Well As tape recorders and s enough to keep us out until the end of the week said chief Engineer Ted took the most valuable stuff and left everything else. It took a station Wagon or truck to get it estimated that the stolen property is Worth More Nan 120,000. He said new equipment will be flown in. Lovelight dawns at zoo Syracuse . A an attempt to Stop vandalism has turned the local zoo into a veritable maternity Ward according to zoo director Charles t. Qty fat Nett Park of to discourage i has fooled several animals lights were installed at the vandals but the increase there into thinking it s Spry Clift says the cougars Felling their fourth utter by the five Goose eggs. Off untie should have a new Raini a is expecting in August. At All Over again and Are expect month. He Lias collected e Bear cub. Ike Wallaby Batter. The Chimpanzee lambs Are 9 the Way and the Deer population will be increased by m if current indications material Rale and it is All he researchers at Moss Hospital and Temple University medical school have been working More than four years on the device. Itis not expected to be ready for Public distribution for sometime yet. Researchers estimate that every year 1,500 americans lose arms above the Elbow. Or. F. Ray Finley project director said there s no profit in this for us. The Only thing it i really Good for is that fellow Over there and other men women and children without in his demonstration master lifted and moved about easily a 15-Pound weight and printed the words hello there on a paperboard. The Yourg Marine Hopes to be discharged from the Hospital Early this Spring. Then he going to College with or with out an artificial Arm. I want to be an English teacher and a football coach he said i plan to enrol in Ala Bama s Auburn while at Oneonta High Mas ters was a fullback. He was great said his still no copy of barbra Roslyn kind 18-year-old half sister of barbra Streisand admits in new York that she s taking advantage of barbra s Fame. But she s sure she can succeed Wither pop Rock style which differs from barbra s singing. A also newspapers Iowa attorney general probes Grinnell strip Des Moines Iowa up atty. Gen. Richard c. Turner has disclosed that his office is look ing into the recent disrobing incident at Grinnell College and the publication of underground newspapers at Grinnell and the University of Iowa. Turner said the Iowa Justice department wants to determine if the Grinnell incident Las wednesday in which six girls and four boys stripped naked Vio lated Iowa s Law against lewdness and indecent exposure. Turner disclosed that a prob of the underground newspapers the Middle Earth at Iowa and the Pterodactyl at Grinnell has been under Way for several months. The newspapers Turner said use All kinds of four letter words just like Popcorn. The words Are All through he said the publications also contain obscene pictures and said his office prob ably will look into the obscenities used last wednesday during controversial student Power symposium at the University of Iowa. Turner was gathering photo graphs of the Grinnell incident. He said his office is working with the Poweshiek county at Torney to decide if charge should be brought under a Sec Tion of the Iowa code which say sit is illegal for a Man or woman to make an indecent or obscene exposure of his or her penalty is a jail term of up to six months or a Fine not exceeding 1200. May violate Law the underground newspapers May be violating an Iowa Law against the publication of materials containing obscene language or prints that would manifestly corrupt the morals of the use of blasphemous or obscene language is illegal Turner said if it is used to the disturb Ance of the Public peace and the penalty is up to 30days in jail or a Fine of up to $100.the Law against obscene publications contains a penalty clause of up to $1,000 or one year in jail or both. Researcher honoured new York up or. Baruch s. Blumberg of the Institute of cancer research in Philadel phia has been awarded the new York state medical society s an Nual $1,500 prize for his discovery of australian Antigen a pos sible cause of Vira hepatitis. Lady Bird asks return of to radio stations Washington up dairies Johnson asked the Federal communication commission tuesday to return to her the control of the Johnson family radio and television interests. An application was filed Byers. Claudia t. Johnson the Legal name of the former first lady asking for Transfer of control of stations a tic to am and pm in Austin Tex. The stations were put under the control of two trustees . Mourland and j. W. Bullion in november 1963, when Johnson became president after the assassination of John . Resigned from Job at that time mrs. Johnson resigned As president of the Texas broadcasting corp., of which the family owns 84 per cent and the Stock was place Din trusteeship with the under standing it would revert to the family s control once Johnson left the presidency. The Parent Texas broadcast ing corporation also owns interests in four other television and two am radio stations in Texas Louisiana and Oklahoma through its Texas broadcasting stations co. Brunette marries lifer in Georgia Atlanta a a prisoner under life sentence has married a shapely 2 year old Brunette who said she was fascinated by printed accounts about marriage took place sept. 25 under the provisions of a Little known state Law when Raymond c. Hill 36, and Phoebe Hill signed a contract of marriage drawn up by Hul s attorney Richard Korem of Atlanta. Hill is being held in the Fulton county jail Here while he appeals his armed robbery conviction on grounds he was convicted by perjured said the couple was married under an 1859 attorney said the marriage is binding and Georgia la specifies that cohabitation is not essential to . Hill said she had read accounts of her husband for More than a year before she caught a glimpse of him while visiting the jail to see another prisoner. She said she began correspond ing with Hill and found him to be extremely considerate an intelligent. We have a lot in com Mon. We both love Art. I proposed by letter and she accepted. It is her second marriage while Hill she said has been married several times. Hill s Case will be taken before Federal court his attorney said adding that Hill could be up for parole in the Spring of 1971. Mrs. Hill said she will wait former husband no matter How Long it was convicted of a Rob Bery in which a number of Valu Able Art objects including a. Painting by Goya were taken
