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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday september 12, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 5 skateboard enthusiast Bob Meeker had a problem. There were few Hills around acc sweep closes 279 cd abusers Washington up the Federal communications commission concluded a wide ranging four Day crackdown against illegal use of citizens band radios Satur Day closing Down 279 operations in a stepped up response to frequency interference  last wednesday the acc sent out 100 agents to 31 areas of the nation in the move against illegal use of the air  of the illegal operations involved operating a cd radio on an unauthorized frequency said c. Phyll Home chief of the acc s Field operations Bureau. The acc has authorized cobers to use 40 specific channels. When they operate out of band they cause interference to other radio or television services Home  complaints in addition to those involving radio or television involved inter Ference to stereo equipment radio reception in emergency vehicles such As ambulances and fire and Rescue units and other Mobile radio sets the acc  were other complaints he said about overpowered stations talking excessive distances and failure to properly identify the station. Truck wreck kills 39 horses Padua Italy a thirty nine horses were killed when a truck transport ing them to a Market in Modena went off the Highway near Here. The Driver of the truck was unharmed. Winning an Uphill Battle a his Home in Raleigh . So he went ahead and had this makeshift ramp to improve family life or launching pad if you will constructed in his backyard. Up photo parents need income supports study says new York up a controversial five year study on children sponsored by the Carnegie corp. Concludes that the plight of the american Parent must be improved before the nation s children can be  study to be released in Book form sept. 29, Calls for a National commitment to full employment and a system of income supports guaranteeing families with children a minimum income. The Council s idea is to help parents financially so that they not the government can choose and pay for their childrens needs much As Middle class America Al ready does. The Carnegie Council on children was established five years ago to investigate what american society was doing to and for its children. In addition the 11-member Council was Given the task of recommending what government business and individuals could do to protect and support family life. The Council s report called All our children the american family under pressure explodes the myth that the american family is collapsing. It also pro poses a Radical overhaul of Public policies toward children based on helping their parents  National image of the family is the Dick and Jane Model two parents two kids mom As housewife dad As breadwinner said Council chairman Kenneth be  said however that the Council found that out of the 47 million husband wife fam Ilies in America the husband is the sole breadwinner in Only 13 million of them or less than one third. The decline of the Dick Jane Model does not mean the family is collapsing merely changing. Hurt by unemployment and the unequal distribution of wealth in the United states the american family unit is not self sufficient the report said. The Council s answer is to help parents who in turn can choose what is Best for their children. The state is an awkward and Clumsy Parent said Keniston. What the Public sector must do is broaden choices for parents not dictate  the most controversial of the Council s suggestions is to assure parents a mini mum income. The report recommends a flexible support system assuring every family an income equal to about half the National median for families of the same size. The supports according to the Council Are not so different from current presiden tial proposals and could be managed through a credit income tax or by modify ing current support systems. Biggest Belgium drug bust Brussels a some 76 pounds of morphine Worth about p.6 million were found hidden in a country Home in Corroy be grand near Brussels police reported. It was the biggest drug catch made in Belgium. Big charter airline hit by walkout Oakland Calif. A More than 550 flight attendants of trans International airlines went on strike against the Oak land based charter service  walkout ended 20 months of contract talks Between negotiators for the airline and the teamsters Union according to a Union spokesman Marvin l.  airline will continue military operations and is making arrangements with other carriers to insure no Tia passengers Are stranded according to Frank Pratuch Tia spokesman. He said limited service would be provided by supervisory personnel to insure no disruption of vacation plans. The flight attendants most of them women staged a Wildcat walkout last thursday but returned to their jobs later in the Day just before a Federal judge Modi fied an order which had made the walkout illegal. Judge Robert Peckham of the . District court in san Francisco ruled that flight attendants could picket commercial operations but could not disrupt the air line s military passenger or cargo flights. Negotiations will continue. Issues in clude wages working hours and grievance procedures. The flight attendants contract with Tia expired in april 1976. Costanza wants to be 2nd not 1 St woman chief new York a presidential assist ant Margaret Midge Costanza says she d like to be the country s second woman president but not the first. She explained that As the first woman elected to the Rochester . City coun cil and its first woman vice mayor she spent most of my term responding to questions like what s it like to be the first woman vice mayor now that i m the first woman Ever appointed As assistant i of the president 1 am answering questions like what s it like to be the first woman assistant to the presi Dent so i be decided i want to be the second woman president and let her the first answer those questions for four  of time self. 12, 1947 food prices in the . Rose to an All time High with people were paying As much As $1 per Pound for Porter House steaks 90 cents a Pound for butter and 80 cents for a dozen eggs. Sept. 12, 1957 president Eisenhower signed an immigration Bill into Law that would allow 60,000 aliens Over and above present quotas to enter the . In the next two years on a hardship basis. Self. 12, 1967 new Orleans District attorney James Garrison claims he has evidence that president Kennedy was killed by a precision guerrilla team of at least seven men and that All of them had once worked for the Cia. He said Lee Harvey Oswald was merely a Patsy in what he terms a right Wing Para military conspiracy and that Oswald did not shoot Kennedy  
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