European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and stripes saturday february 15, 1969 garbage crisis adds to woes of new York new York up Abage crisis superseded Garthe transportation crisis thursday in Snow clogged new York Amk continued criticism of a breakdown in sanitation services. John j. Delury president othe uniformed sanitation men s association charged that the City was drowning in garbage at the rate of 10,000 tons a Darin addition to a current pileup of 40,000 uncollected tons. City sanitation men began collecting garbage Friday for the first time since a massive snowstorm sunday and monday forced them to Man Snow lows to Clear the streets. Delury said the delay ingesting the City s streets cleared of Snow and stalled vehicles Wasa result of what he called mayor John v. Lindsay s systematic destruction of the Sanita Tion department which had Leto a Complete breakdown in sanitation services. He said 5cper cent of the department s heavy equipment had broke Down because of obsolescence. This was denied by a City Hall spokesman who said the replacement of old equipment during the Lindsay administration had been greater than eve before. He admitted however that the City had arranged wit for More of heavy Deprivate contractor than 600 piece equipment to augment department s 1,700 pieces. Four More deaths attribute to heart attacks brought on by Snow shovelling were reported on Long Island bringing the total storm fatalities in the northeastern states to 15372 in new England at least 66 inner York state 13 in new Jersey and two in Pennsylvania. Delury s barrage at the administration was the latest in a series of criticisms of Lindsay brought on by the storm. On wednesday the mayor was jeered by hundreds of Queens residents As he toured Snow clogged streets and Ralph Bunche United nations undersecretary general accused Lind say of neglect in Snow clearance. Galveston area swamped by tides Houston a huge tides sent water surging into Homes and created havoc in Sev eral towns around Galveston Bay on the Gulf of Mexico coast Friday As severe thunderstorms pounded the clocked unofficially at up to 83 Miles per hour hurled seawater into Low areas hitting Baytown and other Points East and Southeast of Houston around the manned spacecraft Center. At Baytown civil defense director Fletcher Henderson re ported water about two feet deepen 50 to 60 Homes. He estimated that workers using an amphibious vehicle and High wheeled trucks had evacuated 200 peo ple. Henderson said tides were running up to eight feet above Normal and were expected to Rise another reported the battering tides forced scores of people to Wade from Seabrook where the wind kept Trees Benito the ground All night and Kemah both adjoining the space enter. Rising water also forced the evacuation of luxurious in the same Vicinity. Some houses near the main Road past the space Center stood five feet deep in water. Mighty wind caused an undetermined number of yachts to break their moorings and do posited a shrimp boat Square Yin the Middle of one Road. 14 pet pay raise possible continued from Page 1 lie until March 1.the rates of civilian pay will undoubtedly vary from a Low of about 4 per cent in the lower grades to As much As 14 percent in the Middle and upper pay grades. For servicemen the raise would be across the Board. The latest bus report does no mean that servicemen can calculate future earnings with an degree of certainty since Many things could happen within the administration and in Congress in the coming t. Feb. 4 by Kelley designate defense Secretary Melvin r. Laird As the new assistant defense Secretary for manpower and Reserve affairs will be assigned the High priority responsibility for decisive action to modernize our military compensation Structure Laird said. Gen. Seignious to take 3rd inf div command Heidelberg special Vlaj. Gen. George m. Seignious i will succeed maj. Gen. Georgep. Seneff or. As cd of the 3rd inf div next month Usa Eurand seventh army he announced Friday. Seignious is currently serving with the . Delegation at the Paris peace talks. Seneff s new assignment will be with the . Strike come he at Macdill air Force base in Florida. Seignious served in usar or from 196,1. To. 1965. As co of the Lith armoured Cav regt As a g3 staff officer at usar eur he and As chief of staff the 3rd army div. Usa eur and seventh army in also announced that Brig. Gen. Burt l. Mitchelljr. Pres Nutly assistant commander of he 7th inf div in Korea will rive in late april to become corps chief of staff. Mitchel served at shape 1964 to 1967. Maj. Gen George m. Seignious ii in announcing Kelley s appointment which must be con firmed by the Senate Laird said he wants to bring military pay into line with that of govern ment employed civilians provide a pay system in line with management objectives and take a first step toward ending the nation s Reliance on the draft. One of the moves Kelley i expected to make is to order a review of the pay study made by rear adm. Lester e. Hub Bell and his defense group. Defense officials said the Hub Bell plan has been shelved be cause of opposition it Drew fro Many officers and noncommissioned officers because of i t retirement provisions. . Vows to defend West Berlin Berlin up British prime minister Harold Wilson pledged Friday that the Western Allie would defend West Berlin. He made the Promise in the face of communist threats and reports that the russians Are planning military Maneu vers to harass land and air Access , on a 4-hour visit Here repeatedly stressed the Western commitment to stand by the isolated Western said Britain would do everything in its Power to preserve the City s Freedom and the United states and franc would do the same. I could not have picked better time for my visit he said in a reference to the East West dispute Over the March 5 meeting Here of the West German electoral College new East German restriction son travel to West Berlin in retaliation for the presidential elec Tion were scheduled to go into effect in Moscow and Bonn said the soviet and East German armed forces plan Maneu vers that will provide a pretext for harassing land and air traffic to the City which is 110 Miles inside East Germany. Informed sources in Moscow said Spring Maneu vers have been moved up several week ahead of schedule to that the Road rail and possibly air routes to Berlin could be harassed. La. Girl 4, As parents sleep los Angeles a police said a couple heard their 4-year old daughter cry out Mommy daddy help out assumed she was talking in her sleep. Five hours later they discovered she was missing. The child Mary Elizabeth Lozano was reported kidnapped thursday. The parents David and Ramona Lozano both work at night but were sleeping across the Hall from their daughter when her cries wakened them. At that moment the child apparently was being kidnapped the police said. A neighbourhood search was fruitless. Late sports Miami Fla. Up Ted Williams said Friday he is awfully close to signing a manager of the Washington senators but said the Deal has not been completed. The former Boston red so slugger said he hoped a Deal with the senators owner Rob Ert Short would be worked out within 48 Short said in Washington that he is making an Effort to sign Wil Liams. Earlier Story Page 18. Apos expect Normal mail again monday continued from Page 1 Zier commander of the Usan european postal and courier re Gion said Friday that flights to Europe returned to Norma thursday. But due to the Large number of passengers and baggage the amount of mail they Are Cany ing is a Little below average col. Brazier added that Niht freight planes will pour mail int Rhein main Over the next couple of Days and relieve the new Yor backlog. He explained that the reason More packages have been arriving than letters is that there Are separate receiving Points in new York for the two categories an that because of the Snow Only go of the 600 employees of the letter division were Able to get to the Kennedy Airport distribution Point during the week to process package postal facility is in Manhattan and employees we Reable to get there and then move the cargo to the Airport cold Avet. Continued from Page 1 Southern Sweden. The to Valley of Italy also dropped below freezing with the Mercury dropping to 27 Vicenza temperatures were about Normal hovering slightly above freezing. Far Down on the italian Boot Naples basked in50-degree-plus weather. While the cold weather put Amend to snows in most of Central Europe a heavy snowfall blanketed Berlin Friday morning. Snows of the past week left nine inches on the ground at Frankfurt eight inches in Darm Stadt 20 inches in the Taurus mountains 22 inches at Gar Misch 10 inches at Berchtey Gaden and 36 inches in the Blac Forest. 50 killed in Cyclone tananarive Mada Gascar a fifty persons were reported Deal and eight missing thursday after a Cyclone buttered this Island nation Southeast of Africa. Defense claims Sirhan in trance at time of Frk s slaying continued from Page 1 that shooting gave him a emptiness inside after the ahnn.1Tin continued from Page 1 defense attorney declared. Thus Berman set the stage fora defense that will not deny that Sirhan shot Kennedy but will rely on psychiatric testimony to plead a defense of in California diminished responsibility recognizes that a defendant May be legally sane yet not fully responsible Lor his actions. Berman said Sirhan Bough the death gun six months before the june 5 assassination of Ken Nedy to use for sport and found j tha strange sense of Berman said Sirhan admired and loved Kennedy. Then came another shot Berman said. In Early june of 1908 sen. Kennedy said i essence that if he were presi Dent that he would Send 50phantom jets to Israel. That did it Berman said Sirhan will Tell you himself from this witness stand that he never thought he Ever would kill Kennedy but that through his Mystic mind Power he could fantasize about it and relieve that feeling of emptiness we have told you that from the beginning that he did in fac fire the shot that killed sen. Kennedy Berman said the killing was unplanned and unde liberate impulsive an without premeditation or Mal ice totally a product of a sick obsessed mind and personality. At the actual moment of shooting he was out of Contact with reality in a trance i which he had no voluntary control Over his will his judgment his feelings or nit Sirhan was quoted by the stat thursday As saying moments a Ter the shooting of Kennedy i did it for my country when pressed to enlarge on his reasons the Young Jorda Nian who has been pictured Asan ardent Arab nationalist was said to have replied do you think i m crazy so you can use it in evidence against me this version of Sirhan s com ments came a the state outlined in its the Case it statement offer to try to convince a jury that Kennedy s assassination last june was pre meditated and planned. The evidence will show said Deputy dist. Atty. Davidn. Fitts that the defendant Sirhan Sirhan alone was responsible for this tragedy. That he acted alone without con Cert with the trial got Down to business after five weeks of preliminaries following a defense motion for mistrial. It was denied. 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