European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 01, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday june 1, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 5 old time Fervour found missing in memorial fetes the clothing question women wearing sharply different cos Tumes join demonstrators in Madison wis., in protesting a statement by judge Archie Simonson that rape is a Normal reaction to permissiveness and provocative clothing. Up photo pal school principals of protest on rape remark Madison wis. Up school Princi pals have joined the outcry Over judge Archie Simonson s comment that a youth guilty of rape was reacting normally to sexual permissiveness demanding he re tract the statement or quit the Bench. The Dane county judge ruled last week in the Case of a 10-year-old girl raped in a High school stairwell that her 15-year-old assailant was responding to the permissiveness of the times and provocative out fits women were to punish severely a 15 or 16 year old who reacts to it normally asked Simonson. Who sentenced the boy to a year of supervision at , said the Madison association of school principals in a weekend statement. It is the group said that you suggest meaningless supervision by the court in the youth s Home when a Well designed and administered program is clearly please be reminded that permissive Ness in our society has been largely brought about by court decisions that have evaded school disciplinary action and control the group said. Simonson tried to defend his sentence and the remarks he made from the Bench claiming nationwide support for his views on women like it or lie said they Are sex objects i m trying Iosa Low Omen Stop teasing Ilis comments did Little to placate angry feminists who in arched outside the court House the next Day. And the letters pages in local newspapers filled quickly with Opin ions on the should be mandatory that courses in judo be taught Young girls in schools and they should be allowed to carry cans of Mace or other types of Stilt defense on their person wrote a concerned woman with daughters in another woman said the news Media was biased and contributed to Sensa As far As women s Wear she said perhaps some of us women should take a second look at , the 52-year-old lather of three daughters and a son. Chose understate ment in summing up the Case As he Hung up his Robes for the memorial Day week said. I think 1 struck a by the associated press a Wreath was placed at the unknown Soldier s Tomb a Man swam on one coast and flew to the other for a second dip and a 92-year-old Veteran complained that times have was memorial Day a time both to re member the nation s War dead and Cele brate the unofficial beginning of summer. And some complained it was becoming More the latter than the former. Navy Secretary j. Graham Claytor substituting for vacationing president Carter placed the Wreath on the Arlington nation Al cemetery Tomb in ceremonies monday. In the Vietnam memorial Section mean while children put banners and red roses at each Vietnam remembrance was sponsored by no greater love an organization fostering remembrance of children of . Servicemen missing or killed in action in Vietnam. National local Point Arlington s military cemetery was one National focal Point for memorial Day ceremonies. Another was Boston Harbor where sailors on the oldest commissioned Navy vessel the sailing ship Constitution fired a 21-gun Salute. At peach tree City ga., near Atlanta some 240 people from dozen states retracted a revolutionary War Battle to Mark the All military memorial services were As involved complained Bill Fletcher a 92-year-old Veteran serving As marshal of Seattle s memorial Day s no enthusiasm any More Fletcher said. My god. When i was a boy. We d have a Parade that would take three to four hours. Now they re going to pick me up in a big Cadillac take me to the review ing stand. I la get out for a few minutes then they la put me in the Cadillac and we ii go complaints in new York there were similar com plaints. Hundreds of veterans paraded up Riverside drive but unlike in years past no flags flew from windows and there were few cheers along the 15-Block route. When the veterans Many in their 60s and 70s, arrived at the soldiers and sailors Monu ment they found a flawless s a shame said John Morahan of the american legion. He said the City s Parks department had refused to Supply Flag because it had been stolen after the memorial Day Observance in past years. The american legion will bring its own Flag next year and Well pay for it said Morahan. Ill guarantee Murray musicus 69, of Long Beach who has marched every year since leaving the service after world War ii. Blamed part of the waning interest in the Observance on the unpopularity of the Vietnam pointing out that the Parade honors the dead of All the nation s wars he said. "1 Don t know what s right anymore. Are we wrong or did the people change As for the Celebration of summer s arrival Frank Coughlin marked the Day by swimming from Staten Island to Brooklyn in the Shadow of the verrazano Narrows Bridge and then flying to san Francisco where he made a similar swim beneath the Golden Gale two Bridges Are the longest suspension spans in the world the verrazano is 4,260 feet and the Golden Gate 4,200 feel. Coughlin. S3, a san Francisco area insurance broker took 46 minutes to make his new York swim. The san Francisco swim was completed in exactly one Box Derby in Seattle in another Celebration of summer the City staged its annual soap Box Derby for a group described by one spokesman As a conglomerate of 33-year old juvenile delinquents who get together and were 18 entrants for this year s memorial Day Derby. Greg Gerhard who has a fibreglass copy of a Corvette com plete with four wheel Independent suspension and rack and Pinion steering has won the race four times and was considered the Brookline. Mass. Meanwhile there was a memorial other than to Honor the nation s War dead. About 100 tourists an neighbors met at the late president John k. Kennedy s Birthplace sunday to Cele brate his birthday. Kennedy would have been 60. 1977 storm season starts today the Oruo of time june 1,1947 an Experiment in push Button warfare sent a modified German v2 rocket soaring Over Elpaso tex., and Juarez mex., at the Speed of 12 Miles per minute and scared the daylights out of residents of both cities. June 1, 1957 Arthur Miller play Wright husband of actress Marilyn Monroe was convicted of contempt of con Gress. The indictment was based on Miller s refusal to Tell the House committee noun american activities the names of communist writers with whom be attended five or six meetings in new York in 1947. June 1, 1967 the . Launched a bid to make aviation history by tending two giant air Force helicopters on a nonstop flight from new York to Paris. The Heli copters were to be in the air about 27 hours and cover about 4,000 Miles. More hurricanes May i f . Miami a the same unusual weather pattern that brought wave after wave of frigid weather to America last Winter also kept most of the 1976 Atlantic hurricanes away from the . Coast but Hurricane specialists say that Pat Tern has ended and the United states maybe in for a change in cycles expected for the past three years that could bring on the vicious 1977 Atlantic Hurricane season officially begins wednesday and ends nov. 30.in 1976. There were six hurricanes and three tropical storms in the United Stales. A tropical weather system with winds reaching 39 Miles an hour is designated a storm. When the winds exceed 74 Mph. It is called a Hurricane last year Only one Hurricane and one tropical storm endangered the americas. Others headed this Way but then made Sharp turns travelling East or Northeast toward the open Atlantic. Changes in there Stream the upper atmospheric River of air. Were credited for the the previous 15 years most severe hurricanes formed Over the Atlantic be tween Africa and the Leeward islands an then into the Gulf of Mexico. Forecasters have been on the Lookout in recent years for a change in the Cycle a change that could bring major hurricanes to the populous Atlantic coast
