European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday june 22, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 5 rights study follows Chicago outbreak Urban puerto rican woes Worsen Chicago a contrary to expectations the problems of second and third generation puerto Elcans in major Northern cities have worsened in the past decade the . Commission on civil rights said monday. It recommended at least for Chica go the creation of a citizens committee to try to work out problems experienced by puerto Elcans. The recommendation followed riot ing in the Ilum Boldt Park area june 4 and s after a puerto rican Day Parade in downtown Chicago. The commission said that although the specific facts of the latest explosion remain unclear the rioting was reminiscent of that among puerto Picans in Newark n.j., in 1972 and in Chicago in 1966.in the latest outbreak two Young puerto rican men were killed by police and another Man died in a fire. More than 100 persons were injured. The commission said the committee should include representatives of government agencies political business civic and religious organizations and All racial and ethnic commission cited an earlier report it made last october in which it concluded that Mainland puerto Picans generally continue mired in the poverty facing first generations of Al immigrant or migrant it said the daily life of second an third generations has worsened Over the past decade not Only in Chicago but in Boston. New York. Newark and else where. Unemployment and underemployment in the Chicago puerto rican Community is at least two to three times that of White chicagoan it said and unemployment among puerto rican teen agers May be 40 per cent or greater. Puerto Picans often Are employed Inlow status Low income jobs the com Mission noted and puerto rican businessmen have difficulty raising capital. The commission said a study by Northwestern University found that puerto Picans complain of daily harassment and insults from the police and that they continue to be Short changed in important government serv Boyce faces 6 years in jail for spy role los Angeles a convicted spy Christopher j. Boyce tentatively has been sentenced to six years in prison and or dered to undergo a 90-Day diagnostic study before final sentencing for espionage. . District court judge Robert j. Kel Leher saying that Boyce had presented himself in a posture of total puzzlement urged that the Best Federal facilities Avail Able be used to study Boyce s mental state. Boyce s attorney explained later that As a technicality the judge actually had imposed a tentative sentence monday of six years under the Young adult offender act. Sentence not mentioned the judge did not mention the six year sentence in court but merely committed Boyce to the 90-Day study under the same provision of the Law. A tentative sentence is required for such a study to begin. Boyce stood before the judge and made an emotional sometimes tearful speech explaining How his disenchantment with the government led him to become a spy. He said he hoped someday to return to a useful role in am emotionally exhausted but 1 am not beaten. I have one goal in life and that is to recover my reputation he said. Sentencing was rescheduled for sept. 12 of time june 22, 1m7 Barbara Washbum became the first woman to conquer alas a s mount Mckinley when she reached the Summit of the 20.270-foot Mountain with a group of climbers that included her husband 22, 1957 a Tornado slashed across Kansas City s Southern outskirts leaving 35 persons dead and More that 200 injured in an 80-mile path. Greatest loss of life lbs in the Ruskin Heights subdivision. June 22, i9s7 the front of the dignitaries stand at the ceremony in Paris Mark ing the 40th anniversary of Charles Lindbergh s new York to Paris flight col lapsed at Lebourget Airport sending . Ambassador to France Charles Bohlen and a dozen others crashing to the ground. No one was seriously injured. Homage at Harvard Marian Anderson left Long a great of the american concert stage greets an established Star on the Washington political scene. Rep. Barbara Jordan d tex., at the 326th commencement of Harvard University in Cambridge mass., at which both women received honorary degrees. Up photo Cleveland mayor starts poll on pornography Cleveland api mayor Ralph j. Perk triggered a major Salvo in his War on obscenity monday As garbage collection supervisors began distributing questionnaires on pornography to every household in commissioner Marvin Davis said the distributors who follow the garbage trucks on their routes would deliver about 48.000 questionnaires daily Over the next five Days until each of the City s 240.000 households was covered."1 Don t want to find these forms dumped in cans Davis told the Crews before they set out he said perk thinks it s very important to clean up some of the pornography in the the Republican mayor who is seeking his third term this fall says the poll is needed to help determine Community Stan Dards on pornography. The supreme court has Rull a that communities must set their own guidelines on what is obscene. Perk has banned some sexually explicit magazines from Cleveland Hopkins inter National Airport and has prevented the showing of the nude musical revue of Calcutta at a City owned theater. The garbage collectors originally were chosen to carry the questionnaires since they Are City employees who Stop at every household in the performance of their duties. Perk s press Secretary. Ina Keegan said the duty was switched Over to the route supervisors because their cars Are cleaner than garbage trucks. Perk s poll has been criticized by Law yers and some municipal court judges As being unscientific and biased Economy s Rise is Best in a year Washington up1 the nation s Economy expanded at an annual rate of 6.9 per cent during the first Quarter the fast est growth in a year the Commerce department reported revision in the real Gross National product which measures the country s output of goods and services after adjust ment for inflation was another signal of a full economic recovery from the severe Winter department had estimated two months ago that the Gnu grew at an Esti mated annual rate of 5.2 per cent during the first three months of this year. Last month. Commerce analysts sharply re Vised the estimate upward to 6.4 per cent after gathering More Complete from abroad the final revision released monday which incorporated statistics on invest ment income from abroad showed the growth rate was actually 69 per cent. It was the largest quarterly gain since the 9.2 per cent increase during the first Quarter of 1976. Increases during the last three quarters of 1976 were 4.5 per cent. 39 percent and 26 per cent respectively. For the remainder of the year administration economists have said they expect moderate but steady growth Schultz a. Chairman of the coun cil of economic advisers said he expects the second Quarter Gnu to increase at a 65 per cent annual Rale the growth Rales for the third and fourth quarters should be somewhat slower than the second but still department of Commerce said that the Gnu is now estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.799 trillion. $54 2 billion above the fourth Quarter of last Gnu Price deflator showed that inflation was measured at a 5.7 per cent annual Rale during the first Quarter. 02 per cent above the estimate issued last month. Laetrile Legal in 2 More states As cancer drug by the associated press the governors of Delaware and Oklahoma have signed legislation making their states the eighth arid ninth in which laetrile legally is available As an anti cancer sub stance. In Oklahoma City. Gov. David born signed into Law a Bill that As of oct. 1 will allow doctors and hospitals to administer laetrile to cancer patients who request it. Delaware gov. Pierre s. Dupont signed a measure in Wilmington that permits Lac tale to be manufactured and sold in the state but he warned that the substance is not a magic cure for cancer. The Federal food and drug administration has banned the interstate Sale of laetrile. Saying that the substance is useless in the treatment of cancer. Board will oversee manufacture As Long As there is no evidence that lae tale is detrimental. 1 do not believe it proper for the government to prevent its Dupont said the Bill permits the manufacture and Sale of laetrile. Which is derived from bitter almonds or peach or Apricot pits. Dupont said the state Board of health will prepare regulations covering manufacturers. The new Taw specifies that the regulations require evidence of sufficient Finan Cial resources and 2 million in liability insurance
