European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 8, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1977 the stars and stripes Page Farmers welcoming gators Back  Little Rock a Farmers who helped eliminate the Alligator population from of Arkansas Are now Welcom the Alligator uprooted when some swampland was cleared for cation and soybean now inc Farmers want mainly to keep the Beaver and pot Cortous Snake populations in the which can Glide through the Waler with la lilo Titre than a Ripple but lumbers ungainly on is on the ornaments endangered species theres a maximum Fine of for kill ing we once had alligators probably Clear up to the Missouri Lino in us Mississippi River but that habitat was destroyed in Large port Back in the said Dick broach of Arkansas game and fish commission there has been an accelerated loss of habitat Over the past 40 years because of drainage and land he since broach snid he and his help ers have been trying to restock the remaining swamp pockets with reptiles imported from Alligator Rich Arkansas Louisiana just donates he have More than they nerd and there Happy for us to get Arkansas payt Only for he Over the past two or Chreti students from Louisiana state University would catch them for and we could just go and Load them out of the pens when we got he broach said the alligators donated by Louisiana Are alive and in fact weve had a number of reports of nesting activity and the appearance of baby Kalliga another 500 most of them from Marsh Island near new arc arriving this Only about alligators remained in Arkansas before the restocking program he most of those stockings arc in response to requests fro private landowners who want to bring the Alligator Hack As a Bio Waitan see stance water friends for Charles a Miami police k9 of and his faithful can take Lime far a Quick drink of the duo were participating in a manhunt Lor a suspect accused of kill ing a Florida Highway logical Means of control or Beaver Popula broach they also area real Good form of control for you hardly Ever flee a make where you have a Good Alligator r in they make what Are called Alligator holes a lot of time in the hot1 when everything else dries you will Rulu have water in these deep holes that the have All other forms of wild Fate can get water unlike the Hollywood an Alli Gator in the wild usually is not aggressive and to generally going to keen has Lance from a broach lot of people just enjoy teeing them when there said but the Alligator is gone from the Delta for All practical All thai Alligator popu lation has been we now have Little pockets of Hablit where weve but As far As having lots where they can spread out and really that habitat just Doest exist Carter noncommittal toward Lance probe up president Carter said saturday he is taking a Waitan see Altitude toward the Federal investigation of budget director Bert lances financial affairs and has full Confidence the inquiry will proceed ignored a question As to whether the Bank loan controversy has shaken Confidence in 1ance and might jeopardize his future As a key White House 1 know Little about the details of the Carter said at a but have full Confidence in both he comptroller and Lance to handle the the president made his first Public com ment on the Lance affair when a reporter questioned him on it at a news conference which was supposed to be confined to Dis Cussion of Carters welfare Reform propos agreeing to answer that one question the welfare Carter made Clear he is steering away from any person Al involvement in the Ite said he has not even discussed it with the budget a wealthy former Georgia banker and a close personal Friend of called his own news Confer ence Friday to disclose that the comptroller of the currency is investigating the propriety of a million personal new York Bank loan he obtained in it was already known that the comptroller was looking into another of lances per Sonal transactions a million loan he got from a Chicago Bank in and Lance said he wanted to Correct erroneous information that was spreading about the propriety of the Lance negotiated the Chicago loan in said both were personal in both the question under investigation is whether Lance obtained the huge personal Loans by arranging for the National Bank of of which lie was in open interest free accounts in he lending Lance denies any connection Between the Loans he got and the accounts his Bank opened at the new York and Chicago inst 11 is common banking practice fur Small Banks to establish so colled correspondent relationships with larger Carter said he became aware of the comptrollers interest in the loan at the new Vork Bank about a week or 10 Days i have not talked to Lance about he my understanding is the in Quiry is proceeding thoroughly and that All information concerning the loan will be made available to the Public the gets breather on cleaner air of time new York a supreme court Justice Lias refused to stay a plan to improve new York cites air Quality by reducing Auto but a lower court has Given the City two More weeks to comply with the Justice Thurgood Marshall declined to Grant a cily request to Block implementation of the traffic control plan until this fail when the supreme court acts on an Appeal died by new Marshall said the plan is to be phased in Over several months and the cites affidavits contain Little if any specific information As to the harm to be expected Over the two months remaining until the entire court can tile plan Calls for a phased 50 per cent reduction in motor vehicle traffic entering Manhattan by subject to possible re vision in the next three but a3 most immediate features would be elimination of 206 meter cd parking spaces in limits on special Privi lege parking and strict new enforcement against illegal District court in judge Kevin Duffy gave the City Rich landowner becomes 48th italian abducted Italy Domenuco Clem a Rich landowner of this Calabria Region town in Southern was kid naked Friday in the open Countryside and became the 48 person abducted so far this year in police said saturday a group of bandits ambushed Cle Montc while he was driving on a Mountain Road in the Aspromonti rugged of the 49 abducted persons More than a dozen Are still in the hands of their until 18 to agree on an alternate acceptable pollution control plan and there were reports the City and environmentalists were making Progress toward a com Promise mayor Abraham Bearne said june is that the courts order would practically eliminate Street parting in Southern Man Hattan and jeopardize the cites very exis tence As a commercial on july the cily submitted a Leas rigid plan to environmentalists said most Street parking in commercial Artas already is either illegal or special and note the plan exempts residential the City has the slowest traffic Speed in the they increasing Auto exhaust pollution and creating Hearth Haz of the nearly million people who commute to manhattans Centra business District each Rush hour 9 out of 10 now take mass 1ht president Truman signed Lef Klaton creating permanent  program tar lie array and the action marked the end of he system of promote of by jct fort nine monkeys Node break for map log from research labors Uirich in i Borowi Phila thirty were quickly but 19 no adm unaccounted Lor and were apparently enjoying the Chance to Monkey around in the swinging Tram hts 1sct president Johmson received report Tram the count Isloa civil proposing loot Tan be la hasten according to the in Lilice i ordering Tion bad been pro Grabic too slowly Itee the us supreme court Dedsion t equal Opportunity