European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 05, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Election postponed by court Providence . Up saying the right to vote and the right to practice religion Are both " absolute a Federal judge has ordered the City of Newport to postpone its municipal election from sept. 13, the first Day of Rosh has Hanah the jewish new year to sept. 15. . District court judge Francis j. Boyle based his ruling on the Constitution ally protected rights to vote and practice religion. Neither can Budge an Inch. Both rights Are about As absolute As any right can be he wrote in a 20-Page decision. The ruling follows weeks of Legal Wrang Ling by Newport s jewish leaders who insisted they should not have to choose Between their civic and religious duties. Newport is the Home of America s first synagogue and has about 270 jewish voters. The state supreme court had ruled that Newport could not change the election be cause under state Law Only primary elections can be postponed because of a religious Holiday. The league of women voters then asked for a special session of the legislature to change the Law. However gov. J. Joseph Garrahy and House leaders said they did not think the Issue warranted calling the legislature Back before january when it convenes. Attorney general Julius c. Michaelson finally took the Issue to Federal court. He argued that holding the election on Rosh has Hanah when jews would not be Able to vote would be violating their civil rights. Judge refuses to void suit against Agnew Annapolis my. A a circuit court has refused to dismiss a taxpayers suit against former vice president Spiro t. Agnew and two of his former associates. Judge Bruce c. Williams rejected the claims of Agnew Jerome b. Wolff and . Hammerman that the court did not have jurisdiction in the Case and that the plaintiffs Lack standing to sue. Recent Maryland Law has displayed a notably Liberal trend toward allowing tax payers to sue the judge said. The suit filed by three residents of a Maryland county demands the return of funds Agnew allegedly received from kick backs while he served As governor of Maryland. The suits claims that Maryland taxpayers suffered because the costs of the con tracts were allegedly raised by the kickbacks. In his written opinion Williams said if the facts in the suit Are True the scheme could have Cost taxpayers Money. The key s Fife lab monday september 5,1977 1mb blab Anu Page / rain rain everywhere is stumping climatologists Washington is throughout the Northern hemisphere Farmers govern ment officials and climatologists had something new to wonder about last week it was raining raining pretty much every where. In Quick succession three storms ended a drought in the Northwest breaking All time records. For example Pendleton ore., normally has three tenths of an Inch of rain in August last week it had nearly two inches. In the Midwest it was a strange week for the dog Days of August. They were bail ing out in Minneapolis which had seven inches of rain in about three hours. Des Moines had a record rainfall. It was generally soggy in England. There was flooding in France. In Lugano Switzerland it rained for a Day and a half accumulating a total of about 10 inches. In the traditional farming areas of West Ern Russia it continued to be wet and unusually cold. Further East in the new lands area heavy Rains were beating Down the Spring wheat crop giving farm ers major problems in harvesting. A my j a i 3fyfm� ? " a my i li4 v to i " Iii i my ii flt h Al flip wet Highway but not dry Way last week s heavy rainfall was pretty much a global affair and climatologists did t quite know what to make of it. But the two Young men in this picture weren t concerned with the rain in other parts of the world. They had enough in Bloomington minn., where they waded Waist deep on interstate 494 after a seven Inch downpour flooded the Highway. In background Are Tanker trucks which hauled away water pumped out of the Roadway. A photo they re in town for an hour hitch Kingsland a. A some Are barefooted some Wear cutoff jeans and some Are in their 90s. But they All come to this town on the Georgia Florida Border for one reason to quickly tie the knot. People think there s a different set of Laws for this Little town says Marianna Casey who s processed an estimated 12, 000 marriage applicants in the three years she s been in Kingsland. She is the clerk of the Camden county probate court. The Law s the same All Over Georgia no waiting period if you re 18 or older she said. The key s the next to Casey s fabric shop in which she issues the licenses is the office of . Buster Smith one of the town s two justices 6f the peace. Next to his office is a Concrete bloc building with a sign Reading marriage blood test 2nd floor License is ceremony Complete 1 the lab fee for the blood test which takes from 20 to 45 minutes is $6. The marriage License is $7, and according to Smith the ceremony costs whatever you think it s one new years eve i did 46 licenses said Casey. I meet a lot of weird people in Here. Some Are rude. Some Are drunk. But most of them Are Nice people. I get pm barefooted cutoff jeans and no shirts. Once there was a 94-year-old Man in from Florida. One of his children said papa Why Don t you get married in Florida and he said son there s Anahree Day waiting period in Florida earlier this week a Florida prison Fugi Tive and his intended were among those Smith ushered into wedded Bliss. The inmate turned himself in to Florida authorities the next Day at the urging of his new wife. But at least one person does t seem thrilled by the town s quickie marriage reputation. I Don t believe in what s going on Here said Kingsland mayor Robert Edenfield. But it s been going on since i came Back from the army at the end of world War it s a marriage Mill a marriage Racket he said. But i Don t think there s anything going on Here there was some flooding in Northern India. In China s Northern Plains the rain fall was twice the Normal amount. The Commerce department s Environ mental data service which collected All this information does not know quite what to make of it. For the Globe As a whole this is quite unusual says Malcolm Reid head of eds s Section which analyses Cli Matic information. Climatologists meteorologists who study Long term weather trends Are divided into three Camps about where the weather is headed. Some say it is Cooling heading toward another ice age. Others say the climate May be heating up partly because the burning of Coal Oil and other Fossil fuels is increasing Carbon dioxide Levels in the atmosphere causing a greenhouse effect which May melt the Polar ice. Reid strives to stay in the Middle ground mainly because he believes there is not enough evidence to justify claiming a trend in either direction. What is important he stresses is that we appear to be moving into a period of greater variations and that each variation will now have to be carefully watched because the planet s booming population is increasingly Vulner Able to sudden changes in food Supply. Climatology is an infant science which had its beginning around 1940 when weath Ermen began to realize that they were collecting enough data around the world to begin studying the big picture. Scientists in some countries such As England were fortunate because weather records there go Back 300 years. . Scientists however found that they had to revert to studying tree rings and other environmental evidence of weather changes because weather records in Many areas Here do not go Back much beyond 1880. Not Normal period the picture that emerged from this study is that the weather Between about 1900 and 1950, the weather Many Ameri cans have come to consider As Normal was decidedly not Normal. It was unusually warm and stable compared to the weather in the prior 300 years. Around 1940 a Cooling trend set in in creasing Polar ice formations and drop Ping temperatures slightly around the world. Reid a. Bryson a University of wis Consin climatologist proclaimed three years ago that the changes meant we were on the Brink of a new ice age. A British television documentary called the weather machine went a step fur ther suggesting that one Day it would Start snowing and just never Stop something the program referred to As a Snow while this was going on other climatologists were analysing what appeared to be evidence that the Cooling trend had stopped around 1970 and a warming trend had settled in giving the . East coast and Northern Europe a succession of unusually mild Winters. Then the Winter of 1977 arrived. Accord ing to eds studies a Patch of warm water in the Pacific Ocean caused a Ridge of air currents which Bent the Jet Stream out of its Normal West to East pattern sending it sharply upward to Alaska which had an unusually Balmy Winter. After that the Jet Stream curved to the Southeast pushing Arctic air masses Down As far As Kentucky before turning East to numb the Atlantic coast. Many people became believers in the impending new ice age theory last Winter but according to Reid and other eds climatologists that is not necessarily going to be the Case. Next Winter according to a Long Range prediction released last week by the National weather service appears to be a toss up. Temperatures in the South and Central portions of the East coast will be in the intermediate Range with As much Chance of being above Normal As there is of being below Normal
