European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1973, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 d the stars and stripes saturday november 24, 1973 Germany plans to add More safety measures to Cut traffic accidents Bonn a the West German government Friday told the nation s Drivers still stunned by the effects of the Oil crisis that it plans to introduce further Legisla Tion in a massive attempt to curtail deaths on Public roads. Hours before the first earless sunday resulting from the fuel shortage transport minister Lauritz Lauritzen told newsmen that he Hopes to make the Public More safety conscious and bring about a change of atmosphere in Road  measures introduced before the Oil squeeze included a Speed limit of 100 Kilometres 62 Miles per hour on All Public roads excluding autobahn outside built up areas and a Law lowering the permissible blood alcohol Content of motorists to 0.8 per Mill. These already have resulted in a marked decline in Road deaths Lauritzen said. He added that during the past 10 years 170,733 persons died in traffic accidents incest Germany and another 4.8 million were injured. West Germany s 63 million people drive 21.7 million engine driven vehicles. After the Start of the Oil squeeze the government further Cut permissible top speeds on roads outside built up areas to 80 . 50 . In an Effort to conserve fuel and for the first time introduced a 100 . 62 . Limit on the nation s autobahn which previously had no Speed limit. Lauritzen said that since introduction of the earlier Speed limits and lowered blood alcohol Levels accidents Between january and August dropped 2.7 per cent from the like period in 1972. Lauritzen added that injuries dropped 5.3 per cent to 333,360 and deaths declined by 9.3 per cent for a total of 11,054 persons dead on German roads after those Mea sures took effect. Previously the blood alcohol level was legally allowed to be 1.5, and there were no Speed limits on the open Road whether autobahn or smaller no Urban roads. Obviously encouraged by these results Lauritzen said his ministry worked out plans to make the wearing of safety belts compulsory to introduce head rests in All cars and to improve Brake systems. Other measures envisaged included More stringent tests for persons learning to drive a health certificate to be presented before granting of a Driver s License and compulsory Eye examinations for Drivers More than 60 years old. Driver education will be Given a boost Lauritzen said with the government to in crease annual spending from $2.4 million now to $8 million in 1974 and $13.5 million by 1977. It will Center on elderly persons the younger professional Drivers and for Eigners Lauritzen added. Some of the measures the Bonn govern ment plans in an Effort to ease the lot of expense burdened motorists include the improvement of roads Rescue organizations traffic research warning devices and a nationwide emergency Telephone system. In Frankfurt meanwhile the first effects of the Oil crisis and other limitations began to show when two of the financial Center s main automobile dealers announced that they Are closing Down be cause of a Lack of business. Eisenhower a coward1 it s that time of year tis the season to be Jolly or almost. Anyhow this Santa and a passerby on Chicago s state Street do seem to be filled with the proper Holiday spirit. Santa was passing out free Candy canes to get the Windy City s pre Christmas season off to a cheerful Start Success fully in this Case. Up Truman called Nixon War Book says new York up president Harry s. Truman once said Richard Nixon was a shifty eyed goddamn liar whom he de tested according to a new Book. Writer Merle Miller s latest Book Plain Pioneer set to transmit color photos of Jupiter Mountain View Calif. A the Pioneer 10 spacecraft is zeroing in on Jupi Ter for transmission of the first close up color pictures Ever made of the huge or Ange and Blue striped planet. The transmission is to Start monday. Pioneer will be directed to aim its dish Antenna straight Back at Earth for the pre Cise radio operations required to deliver the historic photographs. The spacecraft will be three million Miles from Jupiter. Ellsberg Sakharov to get peace awards Washington a Daniel Ellsberg and Andrei Sakharov a soviet scientist will be presented Eleanor Roosevelt peace awards for 1973 by sane which describes itself As a citizens organization for a san world. The announcement was made thursday by former . Sen. Wayne Morse and prof. Seymour Melman. Morse has just been elected co chairman of sane. The ceremony will take place in new York on feb. 10. The announcement said Ellsberg is receiving the award for his decision to re lease the Pentagon papers and Sakharov for his courageous work for peaceful co existence with humanist values carried out at great personal  on dec. 3, a week after the transmission starts Pioneer will be Only 81,000 Miles from Jupiter the biggest mass in the solar system after the Sun. By dec. 3, Pioneer will have travelled 630 Days and 494 million Miles. During Pioneer s dec. 3 Fly by it will be zooming outward in space at 82,000 Miles per hour. Pioneer is expected to pass out of the solar system after the rendezvous. Pioneer s operations will be directed by Pioneer Mission control at the National aeronautics and space administration s Ames research Center Here. The control staff will work around the clock monitoring Pioneer s data trans missions on the nature of Jupiter s gaseous mass 88,000 Miles thick. Earth s Diame Ter is 8,000 Miles. The pictures recorded monday will appear Marble sized through a viewing instrument. In the dec. 3 photos the planet image will fill the 8-by-8-Inch viewing screen. Judge went whole hog Auckland new zealand a Paul Pearson 18, spent thursday working on a pig farm because he kicked a policeman and shouted i hate you  magistrate . Wilson remanded bail on condition that Pearson spend a Day in a piggery which would remedy his problem of not being Able to Tell a pig from a policeman. Speaking included a series of interviews with Truman at Independence mo., in which Truman said Nixon could be Defeated easily in any presidential election. Asked Why Truman replied because Nixon is a shifty eyed god Damn liar and people know it. I can t figure out How he came so close to getting elected president in 1960. They say Young Kennedy deserves a lot of credit for Licking him but i just can t see it. I can t see How the son of a Bitch even carried one  Truman who was 77 years old at the time of the interviews some of which were tape recorded is quoted As saying Nixon and former gov. Lloyd c. Stark of mis Souri were the Only two men in the whole history of the country that i can t  in the Book Truman was quoted As Call ing former supreme court Justice Tom Clark a Damn fool from Texas whose appointment was my biggest mistake As president. He purportedly said Dwight d. Eisen Hower his successor As president was a weak Field commander in the army and was nothing but a Damn Coward during the Early 1950s when the late sen. Joseph Mccarthy r-wis., was charging wide spread communist infiltration in the government. S driving ban data available by phone Frankfurt current information on facilities affected by the sunday driving ban can be obtained from the Telephone answering service Frankfurt open line. A recorded message at Frankfurt Mili tary 2311 5555, or from a civilian phone 151-5555, gives the latest information on sunday schedules. The Frankfurt open line is a service provided by the Frankfurt military Community Leader s office to help servicemen keep abreast of schedule changes from week to week during the driving ban. As for Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur whom he dismissed from command for insubordination during the korean War Truman. Said there were times when he. Well i m afraid when he was t right in  Truman said he fired Macarthur be cause he would t respect the authority of the president. 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