European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 6 the stars stripes tuesday May 17, 1977 school s 276th commencement Ford honoured by Yale for House cleaning new Haven. Conn. Api Yale uni Var site. Where Gerald Ford studied Law. Awarded the former president an honorary degree monday praised him for the House cleaning he led after the nation s watergate  s citation which makes reference this tenure during the nation s by Conten nil your slates it took some doing to get the House clean in time for the birthday party. Some How you managed to get us ready to Cele brate. Like the tall ships you were a Symbol of stately cheerful serenity you retrieved your countrymen from cynical self scorn put America Back upon a helpful upward  graduated from the Yale Law school in 1941. It was his second visit to the Campus in the nearly four months since he you be got to give him his overdue left the White House. He 12 other notables were honoured at the University s 276lh commencement with some 2.800 degree recipients. For Yale president Kingman brews or or. Presiding Over the ceremonies was one of the last duties to be carried out before being swim in As ambassador to Britain. One of the honorary degree recipients was sir Peter Ramsbotham currently British ambassador to the United states appointee to become governor of Ber Muda. The others included Mairead Corrigan Betty Williams leaders of a peace movement in Northern Ireland. Others were Irving Shapiro chairman of . Dupont de Nemours co new York times columnist James Reston neuroscience prof. Seymour Benzur of the califor Nia Institute of technology playwright Edward Bond blues musician . , history prof. John Hope Franklin of the University of Chicago conservationist Gerald Durrell Wesleyan author in residence Paul Morgan sculptor Louise Bourgeois. Pallas ill i Harry Singleton does t throw the Book at people he nabs he takes it away from them in act Singleton took $26.1.10 Worth of hot books away from residents last year but admits he has trouble getting people to Tiik his Job As the Dallas Public Library Book Delta live seriously. I think maybe you should Call me n  he says i mean i do track Down books in people s Homes every thing bul i m pretty mild mannered. Detective is a Strong word Singleton said he has tracked Down books All Over the City own l give up easily when on the Hunt voluminous business making what he Calls House Calls sin Gleton has recovered books overdue As lung As four months once tracked Down a Man who had $600 Worth of Library  he asked for the books. Singleton said the Man Rewat edly slammed the door in his face until Singleton had no alternative but to Call the police. The Man tried to escape by jumping out the Back window but later was picked up by police who used a helicopter to find him i just Don t think people think of miss ing Library by Xis As anything  Singleton said. When i come to their door they think i m kidding but whatever they think they usually return the  Singleton in t Able to recover the books he usually makes a Good impression on violators that he Means business. Last year the Library traced $18.000 in returned books to persons who had a guilty conscience brought Back books after Singleton left their houses empty handed caught red faced a visit by Singleton also can prove embarrassing to unsuspecting. But delinquent violators once after tracking a copy of Valley of the dolls to a Home in pics Ligias North Dallas Singleton interrupted the guilty housewife s Bridge game to recover the Book."1 did t care about the  the flustered woman told her Bridge club it was just that All of you had to find out i was Reading that Book " smuggling cease fire okd Beirut up syrian peacekeeping forces lebanese Christian cigarette smugglers agreed to a cease fire in North Lebanon ending two Days of running gun Battles that left at least two syrians dead. The Winner i Mccrty tomes Waves from a Charles ton s.c., Motel Balcony sunday at the Start of her first Day As miss . 1977. She was texas1 entrant in the pageant. Associated press photo stateside la. Oks $13 million damages for ferry deaths 4 new Orleans a Louisiana has agreed to a $13 million settlement in damage suits filed by survivors of 78 people who drowned last fall when a stale operated ferry Sank in the Mississippi River. The legislature must approve the before the claimants can be paid. The victims were aboard the Ferrye George Prince which Sank oct. 20 after f collided with a norwegian freighter Frosta. F launching lifts space of eco number of 10,0001.,��  Tad i Ink from us heft Diu a tors  Springs Colorado api the launching of a . Military com. Mull cations satellite brought to 10.000 the number of Man made objects sent into space the North american air defense command , which keeps track of space Jun it headquarter Cheyenne Mountain in the Rocky gains said 4,289 of the objects Are Stilt to space. The other 5,711 either were recovered burned up on reentry or crashed i Earth other planets or the Moon Norad said. � Oakland Tribune sold to conglomerate Oakland Calif. Pupil the Oakland Tribune a 103-year-old newspaper operated by the Knowland family since 1915. Is being sold to combined communications corp. An Arizona based conglomerate for $15.8 million in Stock Cash. Tvo my the Sale ends months of speculation. The paper was placed on the Block in december after a bitter stockholders fight inspired by declining profits. M just what is Roo a Pef or a per Fier Denver up lovable lame kind to children declawed deranged argued the defendant. Just a big furry Friendly Domestic  judge listened to the argument looked Down at the 7-month-old Cougar Pur ring before the  l. Paul Weadock said he will decide june 10 whether Raja the Cougar u a Domestic pet or a wild  s owner Michael Eckart of Denver is charged with violating a City ordinance against keeping wild animals within City limits. Eckart brought Raja to Denver county court to argue his cat is really a Domestic pet. Fighting vandalism mar All Day Rock concert Northampton. Mass. Up i fighting vandalism broke out during an All Day Rock concert that Drew up to 30. 000 persons to the three county fair  than 20 persons were arrested. Police said drugs were everywhere said some concertgoers were so stiff they had to be placed in protective Custo , whose land surrounds the fair grounds stood in newly planted Fields to keep the crowds from trespassing. Windows in several cars were smashed fences were ripped Down around a number of Homes in town police said. In fraternity fined for cruelty to animal Champaign Iii. Up a $100 Fine has been levied against a University of Illi Nois fraternity for cruelty to a pig that was tortured drowned March 5 during a fraternity ritual. The Phi Gamma Delta fraternity agreed to plead guilty in return for dismissal of the charges against two of its members Patrick Pederson 20, Elmhurst. And Michael Cleary 19, Gridley the incident occurred before the Phi Gamma Delta annual alumni banquet hot the fraternity denied the pig was killed Ai part of a secret initiation  Cleary pleaded innocent to charges that they kicked dragged the Young pig before drowning it in a waste bin. Court fight delayed in Marx conservator Case Santa Monica. Calif. Up the court Battle Over who will be named permanent conservator of Groucho Marx his multimillion Dollar estate has been ordered delayed until july 18 because of the entry of new attorneys into the Case. The 86-year-old comedian s son. Arthur Marx the entertainer s longtime female companion. Erin Fleming Are vying for the Post. Screenwriter Nat Perrin. A longtime Friend of Marx who was appointed temporary con Servator april 22. Will continue serving in that capacity until the hearing in july. Superior court judge Edward hafe div granted the delay at the request of attorney Douglas Dalton Joe Ball who recently took Over representation of Fleming. Catholic priest s son is ordained new York api the son of a human Catholic priest has been ordained an almost unprecedented occasion in modern  Rev Thomas Llo Lahan or52. Placed the priestly vestments on Thomas Llanahan or. 29. Who was one of nine per sons ordained at St. Paul the apostle Church in Manhattan. Then they gave communion  new priest said he had joined the Capuchin franciscans before his father who joined in 1968 after the death of his wife. The son said he left the order to attend school later entering the Pau lists. It was More or less doing my thing it was my  the younger Holahan said after the ceremony. If we had been in there together it would have been a Dif Ferent experience. But since i made my own Choice i had a feeling of being very Independent also a feeling of fraternity Between us now u was believed to be one of the few times since the medieval period lasting from 500 to 1500 a.d., that a priest s son had become a priest in the latin t West Ern rite of roman catholicism the West Ern rite requires its priests to be celibate. In 1968, John Paul Habiger his son Matthew Benedict were ordained at St. Benedict s Abbey in Atchison Kan. The father died in 1973. And the sons arc still serving the Church. In new York. Thomas Holahan or. Entered the religious order in 1968, six years after his wife s death. He is chaplain of the North Shore Community Hospital in . Misc not allowed to marry in the e ases. They often kept concubines