European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 5 Chance Tor hard Core unemployed Fred Wilsons make or break Job program a Karl Mantyla Detroit a Fred m. Wilson or. Has a steady Job atthe highest pay he has Ever earned. But will he stay put Hie Story of Fred wilson20, a negro trying to hold Down Ajob 95 Miles from his family lectured by his Boss about absenteeism capsules Many of the problems that confront the National Effort to find Good Job for the hard Core unemployed. Wilson is the 5,000lh person hired by the Ford motor co. In a Job program for the poor. He went to work for Ford last octo  likes his $150-a-week Job As a press operator but in t Surshell stay. In one breath he says i Plait to  in the next he mentions letters to his wife and children 95 Miles away in Sagi naw mich., telling them i Ain t too sure i m going to  according to Foreman Frank Andros and other Ford manage ment people Wilson s Only prob Lem is attendance. He frequently has skipped work sometimes calling in to say he was ill another times just slaying away. Absenteeism  resulted inthe firing of hundreds of hard Core unemployed who we rehired under the special program officials say. Andros says he has spoken with Wilson about the absenteeism and Given him a Little fatherly  Wilson did t report for work 5tahs ind  Side Iii has traffic safety chief quits Post Washington a Dpi  Haddon jr., who developed the government Sauto safety standards resigned his Federal Post Friday an gave a final warning that mini cars were an extreme Highway Hazard. Haddon 42, was the first head of the National Highway traffic safety Bureau set up by Congress in 1966 to try to Cut the nation s growing Auto death toll. In a parting announcement Haddon said government  search indicated that mini cars those under 1,000 pounds cannot pass Auto safety Stan Dards. Beard of Busman told los Angeles a the . Constitution gives Donald Oliver a bus Driver the right to Wear a Beard says an arbiter. Oliver 35, was fired lest year because of a no Beard Rule of the Southern California rapid transit District. His Union and the bus company went to an arbiter. In a ruling the arbiter said the bus line s ruling violates the first and 14th amendments citing liberties of americans. . Out of Snow removal funds new York up Sanita Tion commissioner Griswold Moeller announced Friday that new York City has exhausted All of the $5.3 million allocated for Snow removal this year and mayor John v. Lindsay disclose Dan investigation into possible misconduct in the massive Sno Clearing Job. Both men made the disclosures at an Impromptu news Confer ence following a two hour meet ing of the City s policy planning Council. New yorkers have complained bitterly about Many streets still clogged with Snow almost a week after a 16-Inch fall hit the City last sunday. Practising what he preaches Houston up heart transplant surgeon or. Denton a. Cooley has signed papers donating his body for use in transplants after he Dies. Cooley who has performed 17 transplants More than any other surgeon said he was frustrated because a Lack of donors prevented him from proceeding with Beart transplants at a regular rate. Johnson to serve on Mayo Board Austin Tex. Up former president Lyndon b. Johnson has accepted an invitation to serve a four year term on the Board of trustees of the May foundation his Austin office announced a. S. Schuster chairman of the Board said Johnson will be formally confirmed As a boar member at the group s annual meeting in Rochester minn.,feb. 21. The former president an mrs. Johnson will Fly to Rochester feb. 20, when John son will meet with Mayo foundation officials. Clock replaces lbs s portrait Selma Calif. Up the City Council has replaced its Watt portrait of former president Lyndon b. Johnson not with one of president Nixon but with a  members said a clock gives them More guidance than a portrait of a president. Nixon selects official photos Washington a presi Dent Nixon has selected three official photos of himself two smiling and one More serious. The unsmiling one will be Dis played in government offices in the United states and abroad and in Post offices presidential press Secretary Ronald Lzie Gler said. The photos were taken on Nix on s 56th birthday Jan. 0, italian group seeks to ban film new York App an Iteus Amerl can Grom is seek Jar withdrawal of the big Money Hollywood Fura the brotherhood in its Campaign again what it terms defamation of the italian image. The brotherhood a Story about the Matta that looms As on of the year s biggest Inouye Nuberg stars Kirk Douglas Paramount pictures has rejected demands for Banning the film but representative of americans of italian Dea it Tec Are Mak ing it a target in their Campaign for jew Stoiu  the ton Industry Ami Attar commit Pattona Media for aug a blurs against people of italian origin and descent. Pat a her pet mrs. Pat Brodey 29-year-old animal handle rat Philadelphia s Academy of natural sciences says snakes make Nice pets. She admits though that Andy the Anaconda she coddling is a trifle Large for children. A photo Louisiana s atty. Gen. Named in fraud Case new Orleans a state atty. Gen. Jack p. F. Gremillion and four other me were indicted by a Federal grand jury Here Friday on charges of fraud and conspiracy in connection with the bankruptcy of Louisiana loan and Thrift  five were named in a 16 count indictment charging conspiracy using the mate to de fraud and violations of Federal securities Laws. . Atty Louis Lacour said in new Orleans that each of the 16 counts car Ries a maximum sentence office years and a $10,000 Fine. Others indicted by the grand jury were Earnest a. Bartlett r., 29, of fort Smith  rep. Salvador Anzelmo of new Orleans Charles Ritche of Metairie la., and Joe Kavanaugh Baton Rouge. The indictment also name the late a. Clayton James and William a. Glennon As co conspirators but not defendants. James was the state banking commissioner and Glennon was an let  indictment charges that the defendants caused Bond in vestment certificates to be sold to the Public by making false and misleading statements to prospective purchasers about the financial stability of Louisi Ana loan and Thrift corp.," la Cour said. Welles appeals tax claim Washington up actor Orson Welles has appealed an internal Revenue service claim that he owes the government $61,518 in Back taxes and penal ties. He was granted a court hearing. One Day this week one Las week and two the week before. Asked Why he said some times i d be sick or something and sometimes i guess i d jus get that old not too much inter est in the Job  jives in a rundown apartment building in the intercity where his $15-a-week room is lighted by two Bare bulbs in ceiling fixture. Stuffing Falls from the mattress on his bed and the paint or Els from the Walls in thin  go out to work and come Back Here and sit Here and look at the Walls. He said. His 20-year-old wife Rose Mary and his two sons Freddy 3, and Clinton 2, live with he parents in Saginaw. He sends them $20 to $30 a week of his$124-a-week take Home pay. He said i d rather live in Saginaw where his parents Are and where he went to school. He said he had Only one steady Friend in Detroit. Wilson added that Rosemary does t really want to live in Detroit i m really not too sure  he has t visited his wife an children since Christmas when he took presents of clothes Fortis children a watch for Rose Mary and spent four Days with his family. After 11 years of holding Doz ens of Low paying jobs often with weeks and months betwee none Job and the next Wilson walked into one of Ford s two tuner City hiring centers last october. Demonstrated skill he was put on the company payroll As a production worker in the Rouge Plant. Within five weeks he had demonstrated skill at learning new kinds of work and was Given a 10-cent hourly raise boosting his wages to $3.75 an hour or about $150 a week As a press opera Tor. His Foreman says Wilson is very Quick about learning his duties and maintains a very Good rate of production on a press turning out 3,800 Auto fender aprons each eight hour shift. Ford s inner City hiring project was launched by the firm s chairman Heny Ford ii in october 1967, less than three months after a major race riot had struck Detroit. Became Model the program became a Mode for other firms and Ted to establishment by president Lyndon. Johnson of the National Alli Ance of businessmen. The Alli Ance reports that 125,000 hard Core unemployed have Bee hired under its program and 85,000 of these workers were still on the Job As of Jan. 17. About 56.000 of the hard Cor unemployed have been enrolled in training programs operated by some 800 firms under department of labor contracts. At All the companies successor failure of the Effort seems clearly in the hands of the fre Wilsons. Unless they stay it can not succeed. Women crash . Abortion hearing new York up a group of irate women shouting protests against having our bodies con trolled by men broke up a hear ing on abortion forcing the meet ing into closed session. The state legislative hearing on abortion Law Reform had barely gotten underway when up lumped my. Kathy croat Ontek representing the National organisation of women. Now it s time to get Testi Mony from some real experts she  was joined by a chorus of about a dozen Young women mostly in their 2us, who shouted every women resents having our bodies controlled by men no male legislators and Why Are you refusing to admit we exist when the women continued shouting the meeting was move to another room closed to the Public. Some of the women milled around the closed door of the executive chamber shouting we Are the experts we want to  state abortion Law makes the operation illegal except encases where a physician rules a Mother s life would be seriously endangered by giving birth