European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1973, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday november 22, 1973 the stars and stripes Page 5 this is Allen Sherman at the Peak of his career. Parodis Sherman is dead los Angeles a portly come Dian Allen Sherman who skyrocketed to entertainment Fame in the Early 1960s, is dead at 49. He was known to thousands for his successful album my son the Folk sheriff s officers said Sherman who had been undergoing treatment for emphysema asthma and obesity died tuesday night at his Hollywood apart ment of respiratory failure. Sherman started his career As a pro Ducer writer and was the co creator of the successful television series i be got a his first recording hello mudder in which he portrayed the mythical experiences of a youth at summer Camp shot him into the limelight As a Comedi an. Three months ago Sherman published a Book entitled the rape of the ape which chronicled the Post world War ii sexual revolution. During his writer producer Days Sherman was also associated with such television series As cavalcade of stars the Gary Moore show and the Perry Como Sherman became popular on College campuses in the period just prior to the Antiwar uprisings of the mid-1960s with his inimitable and Zany parodies of Folk song classics. These included Frere Jacques water boy and greensleeves and they came at a time when More serious popular groups like the Kingston Trio and the Brothers four were reviving old Folk songs. The Success of my son the Folk Singer which sold More than 1.5 Mil lion copies and its sequel my son the celebrity led to a series of concert Tours which boosted Sherman s annual income to an estimated $750,000 a year. To criticism from composers like me Redith Willson. And Richard Rodgers who accused him of being a destroyer of their songs Sherman replied i m thinking of putting out a new album called my son the defendant i feel i have a Legal right to parody songs. It s part of the american Way of life that we should laugh at each consumer prices Rose sharply in october owing to Energy crisis Washington a consumer prices Rose sharply last month following september s slowdown owing partly to the Energy crisis and higher prices for fuel Oil and gasoline the government said wednesday. The department of labor reported that the Cost of living climbed 0.8 per cent in october and pushed consumer prices up 7.9 per cent above a year ago. It marked the largest jump in any 12-month period since the 8.7-per cent inflationary rate re corded in the june 1950-51 period at the Start of the korean War. In addition to sharply higher prices for gasoline and fuel Oil rising costs for clothing mortgage interest rates and health insurance contributed significantly to the october Rise in Price the govern ment said. A decline in meat and poultry prices was More than offset in the statistics by Large increases in prices of restaurant meals and some food and grocery store prices. Food prices Rose one tenth of a per cent following a drop of seven tenths of a per cent in september and a record 6 per cent jump in August. The increase was larger on a seasonally adjusted basis increasing five tenths of a per cent compared with a drop of one tenth of a per cent on that basis in september. State charges guide led Hunts of captive jaguars Santa be . A trophy Hunt ers paid about $3,500 apiece to kill jaguars in Southwest new Mexico unaware that their guide was providing captive prey born in zoos the state game department says. Curtis j. Prock of Donnelly Idaho and British Honduras is scheduled for arraign ment in Albuquerque dec. 3 on five counts of violating and conspiracy to violate the Lacey act the . Marshal s office in Boise Idaho said. The Lacey act prohibits interstate shipment of animals taken in violation of state Laws. Prock an internationally known guide was indicted oct. 23 by a Federal grand jury in Albuquerque after a state game department investigation. He was arrested in Idaho nov. 11 and released with out Bond. The state investigation pinpointed at least 10 commercial Jaguar Hunts near Magdalena ., Between August 1972 and last March. State game and wildlife officials said the client on a Hunt would be led through the area believing that a wild Jaguar had been spotted. A Large track would be found and then the Jaguar allegedly would be re leased from a hidden Cage. Then nearby Hunting dogs would be released bringing the animal to Bay for an easy shot. State and Federal investigators said Prock Likely bought All the jaguars used in the Hunts from zoos or animal dealers within the United states. The . Interior department lists the Jaguar As a rare and endangered species and importing Jaguar pelts to the United states has been illegal since 1971, the . Bureau of sport fisheries and wildlife said. The maximum penalty for each count against Prock is a Fine of $500 and imprisonment for up to six months. Hollow Hills tops in fiction new York up the week s Best Sellers As compiled by publishers weekly fiction the hollow Hills Mary Stewart the billion Dollar sure thing Paul e. Erdman the honorary Consul Graham Greene breakfast of champions Kurt Vonnegut or. The Salamander Morris West world without end amen Jimmy Breslin once is not enough Jacqueline Susann facing the Lions Tom Wicker Harvest Home Thomas Tryon curse of the Kings Victoria Holt nonfiction the Joy of sex Alex comfor Thow to be your own Best Friend Mildred Newman it Al the onion Field Joseph Wambaugh the making of the president 1972 Theodore h. White pen Tomento Lillian Hellman Sybil Flora r. Sch Melberin one Era and out the other Sam Levenson or. Atkins diet revolution Robert c. Atkins weight watchers program Cookbook Jean Nidetch economics and the Public purpose John Kenneth Galbraith cafes him too inconsistent Goldwater Pooh Poohs Percy s chances sen. Charles Percy Washington up sen. Barry Goldwater says his colleague sen. Charles Percy r-i11., does t have a 10 per cent Chance of winning the 1976 Republican presidential nomination because he s too Goldwater a leading gop conservative spokesman told United press International that conservatives still control the party and they will select its Standard bearer in1976. Right now i would t give Chuck Percy a 10 per cent Chance Goldwater said in an interview. I Don t even think he can get the delegation from his own Percy has embarked on a major fund raising Effort and is expected to announce his candidacy for president. Goldwater said his doubts about Percy were not because he s too Liberal but because he s too inconsistent. He wan Ders All Over hell s half he said 85 per cent of Republican party members Are conservatives so we Don t worry about the other 15 per Gold water said his personal favourites for the nomination Are goes. Ronald Reagan of California and Nelson Rockefeller of new York and former Treasury Secretary John b. Connally. Goldwater also said that president Cotton burrs Bury kill manager of Gin in Texas Brownfield Tex. A a Cotton Gin manager was killed Here when he was buried under tons of Cotton burrs which fell from an overhead bin he was working under. The Man was Pat Ramseur 49, manager of the Johnson Cotton Gin. Nobody saw the Accident and workmen who hauled the burrs away were unaware that Ramseur s body was in the debris. Authorities found the body about three hours later. They said Ramseur suffocated. Nixon has t ruled out the possibility of going before the Senate watergate com Mittee to be publicly interrogated. On the party s condition generally in the Wake of watergate Goldwater said he was surprised to hear pollster George Gal Lup or. Tell the gop governors conference in Memphis monday that the gop had been badly it s been my observation travelling around the country that the party has t been Hurt he said. He s at Odds with what i be Goldwater said he thought Nixon had re stored some of his credibility through his meetings with members of Congress and the news Media but he still has a Long Wayto go. If he lets this go As a one shot Effort he s going to be Back in trouble Gold water warned. I m not sure operation Candor will in itself do it he added. He has to Demon Strate in a series of incidents that he is a real
