European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday june 26, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 5 change of metric Road signs cancelled by . Washington up the transportation department will not Post metric signs on american roads. Fed eral Highway administrator William Cox announced  simply was too much opposition to the proposal from the general Public he said. Cox indicated the decision was final on the estimated $100 million switch from Miles to Kilometres. It had been tentatively scheduled to begin july 1, 197b. And be completed by sept. 30.1982. The . Is scheduled to change gradually to the metric system in the near future. The government was also contemplating establishing metric Stan Dards for traffic control on All roads. Cox said 5,000 replies mostly Nega Tive were received to a Federal High Way administration request for Public comment. More than 5,000 comments were received Cox said and about 98 per cent of them were  said the Highway administration is closing its docket on the matter without further action. As far As we Are concerned this is a final decision. There was considerable objection to the expenditure involved and another recurring comment was Why should we convert to a system used by european and other Drivers when our present system has been in effect for Many years and has worked  tribute to Roy Wilkins to feature a act meet breathless moment these Topsy Turvy youngsters Aren t just trying to make like an aquatic Ostrich. They re scooping up some Suita ble ammunition for a Friendly mud slinging contest at Lake Pontchartrain War new Orleans. T an rain up St. Louis up a sentimental trib Ute to a civil rights Champion Roy Wil Kins will highlight the annual convention this week of the National association for the advancement of coloured people. Many important matters notably the future of the rights movement and ways of maintaining the support and interest of Young Blacks Are scheduled for debate at the five Day meeting starting monday. But the 68th convention Likely will be remembered As the one at which the a act said Farewell to the 77-year-old Wilkins who is retiring after 22 years As executive  tenure during the most turbulent years of the struggle for civil rights made Wilkins name synonymous with the a act. Through the use of court Chal Lenges lobbying marches Boycotts investigations and other activities the a act played a major role in the social changes that have benefited Black Ameri  convention will be an important Benchmark said Margaret Bush Wilson chairman of the a act Board of direct army Board recommends ouster of enlisted woman wed to sex wac it. Rucker Ala. A an army Board on Friday recommended that an enlisted woman be expelled for homosexual tendencies a finding based on her marriage to an former member of the women s army corps who claims to be a transsexual  Board of two men and two women unanimously ruled that although the couple think of themselves and relate As Man and wife spec. 4 Marie Sode 22, is unsuitable to remain in the service be cause she and Kristian von Houfburg 29, live together As biological  army s counsel said the Case was truly unusual and May result in a service wide policy on  used in these proceedings the word transsexual Means a person with the phys ical attributes of one sex but the feelings of the Board said the discharge should be honorable but Sode. Who has fought any dismissal said she mostly Likely will Seeka Federal court order to Block it. The Board s action is subject to military review and it will be at least a week before the brigade commander col. George Powers will decide if the recommendation should be  held hands with von Houfburg As u. Col. Gerald Green read the decision of the administrative panel. She appeared Only slightly shaken and later calmly told reporters she was somewhat relieved that the ordeal was Over. She added that she had no regrets about her 31 years in the army except for the Way they appear to be  maintained that there was no Bio logical proof of any female to female relationship in her marriage. Von Houfburg added that the ruling places the sexual conduct of Many people in a Nevi Light and jeopardizes their future. Green said the Board Felt no pressure from the it. Rucker command and approached it As a duty to perform. It deliberated about 2v4 hours before ruling that Sode relates to von Houfburg As her male husband. That von Houfburg is a psychological female to male transsexual but at the same time is a biological female. That because of a husband wife relationship Between biological females the Soldier is unsuitable for retention. Sode. Who was due to get out of the serv ice at the end of the year when her four year term is up said she Felt her marriage to von Houfburg would survive and that they still hoped one Day to raise children presumably through  love each other said von Houfburg. Tors. It will be the first since the 1955 convention that there will be not simply an informal transition of  l. Hoote a Federal communications commission member will succeed Wilkins aug. 1. A mass meeting of the convention tuesday night will Honor the retiring  have some notion that this will be an emotional and very meaningful moment Wilson said in an interview. In a sense it will be the end of an Era. That s always fraught with , who will address the closing ses Sion Friday night will Lake Over the organization at a time when Public and government attention toward problems of civil rights is , the a act is faced with declining membership financial difficulties and decreasing support from the Black  membership of about 540,000 in the 1960s has dropped to about 450,000. An Appeal of a Mississippi court judgment against the a act has strained the group s financial  Blacks particularly Young per sons see the organization As being Middle class oriented rather than representative of poor Blacks and contend its major aim is integration rather than Power for  himself had been criticized As being too old too moderate and out of touch with the Pace of change. Wilson said the problems of the organization can be  and resolutions will Deal with the Economy employment housing education Urban problems and other mat ters. Of time orthodox jews discuss female role Fallsburg . A orthodox Judaism which has shunned the women s liberation movement As a disruption of propriety indicates some rethinking about the matter. It was the first time the Issue even had been discussed formally by the rabbinical Council of America representing the nation s approximately 1.000 orthodox we must be sensitive to the change in current patterns of thought and lifestyles affecting the role of women in our society rabbi Moshe s. Gorelik of Bellmore  told the Council s annual convention. He proposed that orthodox Judaism in clude women on the Board of directors of synagogues from which they have traditionally been excluded and also in policy making positions in education and philanthropic institutions. Rabbis present termed the holding of a special symposium on the subject As historic and revolutionary for jewish orthodoxy whose rules have always Given predominance to  does not count women in the  the biblically required 10 men needed to constitute a congregation As do Reform and conservative Judaism the other two branches of the Faith. Reform Judaism also includes women rabbis and conservative Judaism is considering it but orthodoxy does  distinctively orthodox rules re quire women to sit in separate sections in synagogue worship. Or. Reuven p. Bulka of Ottawa Canada editor of the journal of psychology and Judaism told the convention that the women s liberation movement has been ineffective catalyst in focusing on the Basic needs of  rabbi Gorelik. Calling for Fuller roles for women in orthodox religious life said All this must be done within the parameters of halacha jewish religious Law. June 28, 1947 declaring be did not want a Cloud on Ohio boxing Coroner Samuel r. Gerber promised a Complete investigation of the death of Jimmy Doyle. 22, the Calif Omlan who never regained consciousness after being knocked out by welterweight Champion Ray Robinson id the eighth round of a title fight at the Cleveland Arena. June 26, 1957 Highway patrolmen Laid movie actor Jackie Cooper hit 145 Miles an hour in us Mercedes Bent sports car during a desert Chase near Mojave Calif. One police car blew a tire at 110 . And another Tore the tread off a tire u 120 . Before Cooper was stopped at a Roadblock police said. June 2t, 19e7 president Lyndon b. Johnson and soviet Premier Alexei Kosy Gin met for a second time at Glassboro n.j., for � More intensive round of discussions on unfinished business ranging from the Middle East and Vietnam to the spread of nuclear weapons. The president was determined to do everything to Nur Ture the spirit of Hollybush the building where the two talked earlier