European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1977 the stars and stripes Poge 7 eating cookie a crime but not ice Cream fire islanders burned up Over anti lifter Law Ocean Natl Law rence Wallick appeared in court in this fire Island Village saturday on charges of eating a chocolate hip Cool Rte in Ruth Bushnell was up on charges of eating Crumb and Michael Mastandrea was before the judge because he had been caught holding a Glass of the three defendants All pleaded inno but their cases were continued be cause the police officer who witnessed their crimes could not be in they were the latest people to run afoul of this villages ordinance that bans eating in Public or carrying open containers of food on the walks or the whose purpose is to hold Down litter in the has come under attack by who say it hurts Busi Ness by the american civil liberties which says it probably Wilt Chal Lenge its and by people who have been fined for its prosecutor doubts Validity and the Man in charge of prosecuting cases brought under the Ben Nett the Village said saturday that there is a question that such a Broad ordinance is indeed cons Titu i have certain deep reservations about the constitutionality of any such Law that might in a Blanket Way prohibit that kind of he there Are other ways of accomplishing the Laws purpose keeping the Village clean such As tearing Laws and having special areas put aside for who teaches criminal 1 Hope that the matter can be settled and everybody rights can be pro including everyone Freedom to eat an ice Cream ice Cream Cones Are the Only food that police officers let people cat in Public maintaining that ice Cream is such an american institution that it would be wrong to forbid eating a Sham whose chocolate hip cookie was not enough of an american institution to protect him from getting a summons last the whole thing is a joke and the Law is a but everybody is intimidated by the an 18yearold Rock vice Resi will Start his freshman term at Brown University next but he will have to return to the Village court Here the Date to which judge Benjamin Mehlman of the Village court adjourned his Case and that of who is 25 years old and works As a Babysitter for a Manhattan family that is vacationing said i think there really they allow ice Cream to be but not pizza and hot ice Cream is More american than pizza and hot dogs Wallick said that he and Bushnell have the support of Rachel the owner of the bakery who sold them the cookie and the Crumb Doering once received a the police charging that her bakery was contributing to other Peoples violation of the the charge was Doering posted bail of each for Wal lick and Bushnell and encouraging them to fight the partly because she said it is Cost ing her a lot of of pleaded not guilty to a charge of holding an open beverage and his Case was adjourned by Mehlman until next Mastandrea said outside court that he received his summons Friday night outside the Apple a the americans win once again militiamen Are deployed in a skirmish line against the British in saturdays reenact men in Vermont of the Battle of the Battle ended in a key Victory for the american colonials in the revolutionary War 200 years More than militiamen in 466 companies took part la be commemoration of the american photo tax strike threatened Over rate hike Chicago up Many Cook county property Seething Over tax in creases As High As 300 per Are consid ering holding Back their payments monday in what could be the areas first organized would you believe 300 per groused Paul a contractor from sub Urban my taxes went up 300 per cent in one i owe Over israelis kill Arab terrorist Tel Aviv a israeli troops shot and killed an armed Arab in the occupied West the military command report the army said be was a terrorist who had been on israels wanted Marine found 75 Miles from his severed Arm san Diego a a 21yearold Marine was found in a car saturday near downtown san 75 Miles from where his right Arm had been severed in a hit and run police the Arm was found at the scene of the and the California Highway patrol rushed it to Navy Hospital Mark who is assigned to the Marine air station at was taken to the Navy where doctors attempted to restore the severed a Highway patrol officer said Earnest was a passenger in a car being driven by another Larry offi cers said the car sideswiped a truck driven by Charles of Al at about severing Earnest officers said both men had been drink they said Lesniak did not but drove 75 Miles to san where the car ran out of Gas on a freeway police said they found Earnest bleeding but conscious in the car at and took him to the Lesniak was booked in county jail for investigation of felony drunk driving How am i supposed to pay it Happ was one of some 300 angry North Shore owners who packed the a Nelka Public Library last tuesday in one of a series of regional meetings to hear Chica go Bank executive James Tell them it is time to revolt by refusing to pay their retard the county Cash he told and the politicians might be willing to negotiate a figure lower than that imposed in the quadrennial no one can be sure How Many if taxpayers will but collections Are lagging far behind last years on three Days before the dead line for paying the county Treasur ers office had Only 49 per cent of the amount billed and million behind the rate collected at a com parable Date last All this talk of a strike probably has influenced Many of those delaying pay conceded Thomas a spokes Man for the treasurers its people will jump on Walter Pidgeon recovering from surgery on brain los Angeles a Walter the urbane leading Man of the 1930s and was recovering saturday after an operation to remove a blood clot on his a source close to the family admitted to Johns Hospital in nearby Santa Monica on was operated on Friday night after be took a turn for the the source barring any he is on the Way to recon he the bandwagon if theres one to jump even people who did not get big he James chief of the real estate division in the assessors said Many especially the Are being duped into withholding their pay he said they will be slapped with a pen and if payment is not made by no proceedings will be started to take away their its no wonder no one swiped this Watermelon Rush up a 156 Pound Watermelon raised by two Brothers won the largest Watermelon award Satur Day at the annual Rush Springs Watermelon it was the largest Melon Ever entered in the out classing last years 152 Pound Justin and Steve Jones of Rush Springs said the Melon had grown about three pounds a Day in the last couple of they said they did nothing particularly different in growing the but we just babied the whole the Melon is of the Rush Springs King variety being developed by Steve who started the project several years ago in future Farmers of the Brothers plan to try to get the Melon in the guinness Book of world