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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 20, 1973, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday november 20, 1973 banking Rockefeller foresees jobless hike Washington up David Rockefeller chairman of the Board of the Chase Manhattan Bank said sunday that the Energy crisis would probably result in an unemployment rate in excess of six per cent and could Cut the Economy s growth rate to Zero Down from 5l/2 per cent this year. Appearing on the american Broad casting co. Program issues and answers Rockefeller said he did not think such a drop would cause a serious recession. Usually defined by actual shrinking which we Don t  but he did predict a drop in Industrial production of As much As six per cent or More if something in t done about the fuel shortage and said some industries May even have to close Rockefeller also advocated gasoline rationing. As unappetizing and inefficient. As it is rationing is probably the most equitable solution and it would be better to Institute it in the near  he also said the United states should be prepared to live with the Arab Oil embargo for at least several  while the arabs would probably lift the embargo in the Wake of a lasting peace Rockefeller said i fear that it will take some time for that peace to be agreed upon and even after it is. It would take at least one month to get shipments under  unexplained lights in sky reported by researchers St. Louis to. Up a University professor says he and his research team saw Between 70 and 80 unexplained High Altitude lights during a seven month study in Southeast  ducked calling them unidentified flying objects and refused to speculate on what they might have been. We have seen the lights and have photo graphed them said Harley d. Rutledge head of the physics department of South Oakland group says it will Stop killing educators Oakland Calif. Up a killer organization claiming responsibility for the cyanide Bullet slaying of a school superintendent has rescinded its so called shoot on sight warrant against other education leaders. A letter received during the weekend by the Oakland Tribune from the sym ionese liberation army said the shooting will Stop because school administrators Are heeding demands from the underground group. Supt. Marcus Foster was killed by three assailants nov. 6. He was hit eight times by pistol bullets packed with cyanide As he entered a car in the parking lot behind an administration building Foster s chief Deputy Robert Black Burn was wounded in the Abdomen by Buckshot during the attack. He is recovering at Home. It was the second letter received by the newspaper since the shootings. The first came the Day after the attack and said Foster and Blackburn were targeted for execution by cyanide  the second letter noted that the school administration had cancelled a student identification card program for Junior and senior High schools. The plastic id cards contained pictures of the bearer and were part of a police on Campus program. The letter was enclosed with a photocopied Page of a drawing of a seven headed cobra. Police and Federal Law officers said the name sym ionese and the meaning of the cobra drawing Are unknown to them. Richardson considers running for governor Boston a former . Atty. Gen. Elliot l. Richardson says he would consider running for governor of Massachusetts next year Only if gov. Francis w. Sargent decides not to seek re elec Tion. Both men Are republicans and they Are second cousins. East Missouri state University. They Are there. I m not going to attempt to speculate on what those lights Are. There is something Here that cannot be explained. That s As far As i can  lights moved made right Angle turns and blinked Rutledge said in a re port to the weekend meeting of the Ameri can association of physics teachers mis Souri Region. He said his study May be the first time an investigation team composed of scientists has reported viewing such extensive Aerial Phenomena. But he said he avoids the use of the term unidentified flying object because he does not want to be associated with what he termed the Lunatic fringe. Rutledge s team called project identification began its investigation april 6 at Piedmont after several reports of ufos in the area. The team included faculty Mem Bers physics students pilots a High school science teacher and members of the South East Missouri astronomy club. They studied the lights in the sky at Piedmont Farmington Sikeston Cape Girardeau and nearby areas. Most unexplained on 38 of 78 nights in the Field the Tea reported sightings of unexplained lights. Team members debunked numerous other ufos reports most commonly aircraft lights and automobile headlights but at least 70 sightings could not be explained. Rutledge s own observations of the Phenomena were summarized As follows blinking yellow lights that switched on in Blue sky at Twilight twice a Row of seven lights three of which exhibited a burned out or Corona effect once jump ing lights viewed through binoculars three times hovering lights that moved away when photographed or approached by air Craft twice lights switching off or on in sky 25 times Flashbulb effects in Blue sky at Twilight or night twice what appeared at first to be an artificial satellite that made a right Angle turn and then switched off once extreme speeds or Light blurs twice and High flying White lights Many times. Apple a Day saves the zoo some pay Pat Jenkins a member of friends of the zoo introduces 2-month-old Rac Coon buttons to Laura Herman 5, and her Apple during unseasonably warm weather in Central Park s children s zoo. The friends take youngsters on Tours of the new York zoo. And yes buttons snatched and ate the Apple. Stateside Nixon signs medical services measure Washington a president Nixon has signed a Bill authorizing $185 million Over the next three years to improve Emer gency medical services in areas of need. Nixon had vetoed an earlier version largely because it included a provision re Quiring the continued operation of eight Public health service hospitals the administration wants to close. The provision has been added to another Bill. The emergency medical services Bill in creases from 50 to 75 per cent the Federal share of Grants for manpower training and equipment to improve such services. Twenty per cent of the Money is ear marked for Rural areas. Last of Denver Sext plets goes Home Denver a Catherine Stanek the last of the five surviving Stanek Sext plets to remain hospitalized has gone Home with her parents to join her four Brothers. The Sext plets were born sept 16 about six weeks premature to Edna Stanek. Eugene Stanek 34, an accountant says he and his wife have hired full time nursing help to take care of the five babies and Are looking for a larger Home to replace their three bedroom House. The sixth baby Julia died several Days after birth. Money identifier invented for Blind Washington a a machine has been invented that can Tell a Blind Man whether a Bill is Worth $1 or $100. The machine called a Money identifier was developed by the National aeronautics and space administration. The Agency said it is the first reliable paper Money identifier developed for the Blind. Blind people testing the machine Learned to use it in three hours. It works by converting the Bill s visual image into a pattern of sounds. Because each denomination of paper Money has a different de sign each Bill gives off its own identifiable sounds. The machine built around a photoelectric cell a Phototransistor and a oscillator costs $149. Pontiac resident s recorded jokes ring a Bell Pontiac Mich. Up John Rosenthal s dial a smile business is doing so Well these Days it s got Mich Igan Bell a bit worried. Rosenthal is the 21-year-old Pontiac resident who dreamed up the idea of a recorded joke service on april fool s Day 1972.since then dial a smile has logged 1,933,309 Calls an average of 15 a min Ute. The overload sometimes jams phone lines to Pontiac and Michigan Ell has had to assign three consultants to the $250 monthly phone account of Rosenthal and his father Thomas. Everybody likes a Good clean laugh the younger Rosenthal said unless you re a super  the format begins with a recording of hysterical laughter Rosenthal s deep voice Helloco there Welcome to dial a smile and then the joke. Rosenthal said he first got his Short question and answer jokes Sample q what does a Buck tooth cow say a Moo of from children s joke books at the Library. Now however he picks them from Between 10 and 50 letters he gets daily from callers. Rosen thai s eventual plan is to make it an advertising medium in which a recorded message would provide a Short commercial and then the joke of the Day. But until then the caller will just get the jokes like this one a what do you Call a Monkey eating potato chips a a Chip Monk  
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