European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes april 1977 Small Monkey business a pygmy Chimp born at the san Diego for a supported by the hand o a Trainer note thumb at the new Eskold infant u substantial questions barely one foot bag Ami Only weighs Tome three he b named Tor ate us his a photo judge holds up tuesday execution Dallas a Federal judge Friday slopped the scheduled execution of Ernest Benjamin who was sentenced to die in die Texas electric chair at one minute past Midnight District judge Robert Porter issued an indefinite citing substantial questions about Smiths 1973 conviction for the shooting death of a Dallas grocery store the most important he was that Smith did nut actually pull the trigger of the murder would have been the first Man to be executed in Texas since 1964 and the first in the nation since Gary Mark Oil More shut to death by a Utah firing squad in reports record 1 St Quarter earnings Kansas a american Telephone Telegraph reported that it had record earnings during the first Quarter of the record earnings Are an indication of the country economic which has a can accompanied by a Strong demand for communications chairman John de Butts told the annual meeting of do Butts said first Quarter earnings were or a com pared with or a share in the comparable period a year ago he noted this was at an annual rate of up 22 per cent irom a year Abl Chalp partner Dies no Hill John a founder with Robert Planalp of precision valve a company that spurred the growth of the aerosol died Abplanalp later became a frequent companion of former president Richard Porter set a hearing for next Friday to out Ermine what May be presented As Evi Dence in a previously filed Hareas Corpus Howie Ray the Man who tired the shot that killed Dallas grocery store manager William Steward during the also was sentenced to but Robinson won a new trial ear Lier this week by the Texas court of Crimi Nal the Petitioner Smith should at least be Given the Opportunity to explore the Legal questions raised by the reversal of the Robinson the judge Porter also said he was concerned about whether the jury in the Smith Case was Al Lowed to consider mitigating circumstances a provision demanded by the supremo it is unclear whether the jury was presented with these mitigating Porter if the procedure for submit Ting these facts to the jury was the death penalty imposed in this Case is in stateside Merrill Lynch firms payoffs abroad reported new York a Merrill Lynch and Parent of the United states largest said to Merrill Lynch inter National division made pay meats to foreign government officials Between 1971 and Merrill Lynch also said Metal traders a trading company in which it Tolas a 50 per cent made a total of f 290 in payments of the went to an employee of a foreign governmental Agency 1974 and 1978 to facilitate purchases of Metal Ore from the officials the rest was Given to a foreign attorney to obtain a favourable interpretation of a tax in both Merrill Lynch said the Book entries reflecting such were not fully descriptive of their Pur the foreign countries were not Ben classic too rough for Spokane a the earthy language of a play by Temette Williams try Loo Strong to Salt apparent theater Firth a director of the Spokane civic said a Lew of the stoutest Fon Petter words would be excised from the production of cat Goa hot tin we paid royalties and we figure we have the right to word or be two women left the theater Dorff performance last and Doro thy Smith received so Many trl Fuhai Calls about the plays a Utnage that she asked the director to delete some of the most offensive theater officials image of Christ causes problem for Church Paap the curious and reverent Are flocking to a Small episcopal Church in this Eastern Pennsylvania Coal town to View what appears to some to be an image of Christ on an altar the Rector of holy Trinity episcopal Church first noticed what he said was the face of Christ on the cloth three Days before the Church has had a steady flow of visitors Ever they dont want to said the Frank the they stay and and when they a go they come Back with someone we cant close the he its a constant Stream of people in and group goes Hole hog in honouring mayor new York api mayor Abraham came was in a manner of speak when some Brooklyn ites dedicated their pothole of potholes to him in pro testing against Street conditions in the the informally organized Bay Ridge pot Hole committee has been painting circles around local potholes to make them More they had painted rings around 90 of them when they came on a monster cavity that measured 12 feet 5 feet and 3i feet a spokesman for the Highway depart ment we dont Call this a pothole we Call it an he said the City would cover the sinkhole with a steel but gave do one committee member id like to see the potholes go the Way of the Brook Lyn dodgers either to California or just anywhere out of alcohol called an impractical sub for gasoline Chicago a alcohol is a possible but not Yel practical substitute for automobile says a government Energy the technical problems in the use of such a substitute might be but alcohol costs three to four times As much to produce and twice the amount is required to provide the same amount of said Eugene who Heads the alternative fuels program for the Energy research and development because alcohol ethanol and Metha nol can be manufactured from abundant it has been considered As a pos sible solution to the problem of dwindling supplies and High costs of a rehabilitated capote loses Auto Fine refund Kupij author Truman capote failure to observe a court order to attend a rehabilitation program Lor Drivers who drink has Cost him last the 52yearold capote paid a Fine after he pleaded guilty to Drunken the Fine was to be refunded after he completed the rehabilitation when capote failed to show the court made the Fine permanent Boot Hill claims Lon dead outlaw pull a horse drawn Hearse brought a Plain Pine coffin Friday to the Boot Hill Section of Summit View cemetery where outlaw Elmer me Curdy was lowered into his grave at the funeral for who was shot to death More than 65 years ago by a sheriffs was attended by about 300 per including Many schoolchildren who had been excused from the homemade up Fin containing me curds Spray Wax coated which had an extended career As a carnival and Wax museum remained closed during the 15minulc Cere we cannot condemn you because we dont know the conditions that existed in your the Glenn Jordan of nearby we realize now that you were a part of our and a part of and there fore with respect and decency we commit you to the the coffin was covered with cardboard and a four Inch layer of and the grave was filled with Many of the some dressed in 69er Day costumes celebrating the anniversary of the land run of 1889 which opened the Oklahoma territory to Settle lingered at the cemetery after the no known relatives of Mccurdy were among rain fell during the making the footing Slippery for a team of horses which pulled the Glass enclosed Hearse through the cemetery to the graveside the rain let up As the service a live foot slab of Gray donated by a Monument marked Mccurdy s the inscription read Elmer Mccurdy snot by sheriffs posse in Osage re turned to from los Angeles for burial the mummified body was found last de camber in u had been Dis played in carnival sideshows and a Wax museum and was being used in filming of a television program when it was discovered it was a real arranged for return of the body for burial next to the f1bi Doolin leade gang of the same