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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, May 21, 1977

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Howard each  concorde c04comw5 by Terry Kirk Matiuck associated press from Tiik Wini Xiv of a big Silver Jet approach ing runway is hat Kennedy International Airport you can see. 5uu feel below the House John Kice Imd his brother built of Cedar shingles 52 years Agnal Howard Beach.  us red. Barn shaped roof pokes through Willow Trees a mile across a Field from the runway it looks like a Bas Tion on the Eastern Edge us this beleaguered Corner of new York City where brews the revolt that has kept the Hulish and Krench waiting a year to land their supersonic concorde next door Kice did t intend the red top As a warning to Low flying planes but the idea amuses him. People there often say that they recognized a Pilot the other Day or found lire tracks on the roof this morning. He has spent a Good part of his half Century on that Iso lated plot trying to keep it that Way. Railing with Irish Fervour against the buses that lumber Down his Street the trains that Clatter along tracks beside it. And those jets each bringing the world to his Doorstep most everyone who has moved there building up Howard Beach out of Marsh and pasture has discovered that maintaining it requires almost daily bouts with the Airport or City Hall Over Jet noise incinerator pollution a garbage dump cutbacks in police Protection poor drainage potholed streets funds Lor the Library. They have faced each Challenge with vigor. Nov. From across the sea. Comes this latest intruder the concorde of British airways and air France the biggest nuisance yet. The ultimate threat to Howard Beach in the minds of us people again they have taken up arms. The set is really Gonna be the Straw that broke our Back. " Kice says leaning on a Blond Cane and waving his Green baseball Cap at a plane thundering overhead. I he Mically. If i were in a position. I d do anything to Stop this set. Within reason and the Law All i have to say to tie Hulish and Krench is. Drop dead null s what s Guiana happen to me with one of these planes i get Oxer wrought fighting them " what has until now stopped the powerful concorde Page 14 the stars and stripes Edward Bloom shakes fist at a Scio descending Over his neighbourhood to land at Ken Airport Well you hear it Don t you that s not the concorde. That s the quiet  a Tell beam Ewe be solved the noise problem saturday a  
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