European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 14,1977 the stars and stripes Page 5 cab oks 13 new . Gateways Washington up the civil aeronautics Board tentatively revising Atlan tic air route assignments named 13 . Cities monday As new gateways for . Airline flights to Europe and picked Delta air lines and Northwest airlines As new transatlantic carriers. The Board s decision which is subject to approval by president Carter open Dup new nonstop routes from Northern states to Scandinavia from the South to Paris and from Texas and the Midwest to London. Rejecting Justice department ideas for promoting Low fare Competition the cab assigned routes Only to major . Airlines and said the assignments will remain in Florida gov. Gives order for execution Tallahassee Fla. Up Florida gov. Reubin Askew monday ordered the execution of John Spinkelink a California prison Escapee who fatally shot another escaped convict in the head after attacking him with a Hatchet. The execution was set for next monday in the electric chair at Florida state prison in Raiford. If carried out the execution would be the first in the United states since Gary Gil More was shot to death by a Utah firing squad Jan. 17. Attorneys for Spinkelink 27, said they will file petitions with the . Supreme court and Federal court in Tallahassee tory to halt the execution. But Florida attn Gen. Robert Shevin said he expects spin Kelling to die monday. The last Florida executions were on May 12, 1964, when Sie Dawson of Quincy and Emmett Blake of Panama City died within minutes of each other. There Are 90 per sons on Florida s death Row but Only five besides Spinkelink have exhausted All appeals. Spinkelink was convicted of murdering Joseph Szymankiewic 43, in a Tallah Hasse Motel room in 1973. The men had been travelling together for two weeks trying to get out of the country. Wallace citing incompatibility files for divorce Montgomery Ala. Up gov. George c. Wallace monday filed for divorce from his wife of 6vfe years Cornelia who was at his Side when he was shot and crippled in 1972 and who later tapped his bedroom Telephone conversations. The 58-year-old governor s petition claimed there exists such a Complete in compatibility of temperament that he and the 38-year-old Cornelia can no longer live together As Man and  mrs. Wallace who moved out of the governor s mansion last tuesday could not be reached for immediate comment. Wal lace s office said he would have no com ment on the private  the Wallace marriage has been on the rocks for More than a year a fact that became Public when it was revealed mrs. Wallace had tapped her husband s bed room Telephone. Her lawyers confirmed last week that she still has hundreds of hours of taped conversations involving the governor and said those tapes might be used at a divorce trial. In moving out of the mansion last week mrs. Wallace said she could no longer endure the vulgarity threats and abuse that had marked her marriage. Effect for either three or five years. It told the Board staff to decide which duration would be Best. Justice officials had proposed awarding the route on a one year basis and to keep major airlines from driving Low fare carriers out of the Market had called for giving one of America s two new York London routes to a scheduled airline offer ing nothing but Low fares. The cab said that was impractical. The five . Transatlantic carriers under the new plan would be pan Ameri can world airways trans world airlines National airlines All of which have been flying the Atlantic plus Northwest and Delta. In its tentative selection of Gateway cities eligible for nonstop flights to Europe the Board said Delta could provide flights Between London and Atlanta one of the new Gate Way cities. The Board rejected an Eastern airlines bid for the Atlanta out. Northwest could serve a pair of new gateways Minneapolis and St. Paul which use a common Airport on a route linking Seattle with Glasgow Scotland and with Norway Denmark Sweden and Inland. Pan american could Fly Between London and the new gateways of Dallas and fort Worth which use a common air port. It also could offer one Stop flights the Man in the Middle British comedian Marty Feldman is caught in the Middle As Rich Little left and Gabe Kaplan engage in a gag tug of War while filming us against the  the Trio Heads teams from great Britain the . And the rest of the world As celebrities compete in the Abc Hollywood special. Up citizen s rate postage getting Chilly reception Washington a president car ter s proposal to set a Low Cost citizen rate for mailing letters is meeting Over whelming opposition from citizens who have written to the government about the idea. Both Carter and postmaster general Benjamin f. Bailar who endorsed the president s idea after it was offered two months ago clearly hoped to generate Citi zen support for creation of a higher mail rate for businesses than for private individuals. Under the pending proposal the first class letter rate for private individuals would stay at the present 13 cents. Busi Nesses and other organizations would have to pay 16 cents per letter. But spokesmen for the postal commis Sion the postal service and the House Post office committee say most mail on the subject opposes the citizen rate. A congressional source cautioned that the letters of opposition do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the general  who Are for something usually Don t write letters unless they Are Gener ated by some organization he said. A source at the postal rate commission which is studying the proposal said there Are several things that Carter and Bailar apparently never considered that Are coming out in our  of the commission s 200 to 300 letters on the proposed new rates Only two have sup ported the citizen rate a spokesman said. Under the president s plan individuals would have to meet certain conditions to qualify for the 13-cent rate. The one that has aroused the most criticism from letter writers would require that either the return or delivery address be Handwritten. Mrs. Lucreacy Hamblin of Morrow Ohio wrote Many of the handicapped cannot write but they can Type. I along with a million others feel this is discrimination against the  in another representative letter to the commission mrs. . Bugee of chicag said there Are Many people who use a typewriter for personal correspondence because of arthritis. It is easier than trying to hold a  others say businesses will get around the higher rate. People in business will think up some of the silliest ways to get around it you Haven t even thought of yet said Julia Kellogg of Bristol ind. Businesses As expected have opposed the higher commercial rate. Robert Hibbard president of the Penn Sylvania chamber of Commerce wrote we truthfully do not see any reason Why business should pay a higher rate for first class postal service than does anyone else in the  from Houston to London and under a  air pact could upgrade hous ton to Gateway status with nonstop flights to London after three years. The Board rejected a Braniff International bid for the Texas routes. Twa could Fly nonstop Between London and the new gateways of Cleve land Pittsburgh St. Louis Denver Kansas City and Minneapolis St. Paul. National could provide nonstop flights Between Paris and the new Gate ways of new Orleans and Tampa. The Board also renewed National s temporary authority to Fly Between Miami and Paris and said it will ask Carter to make that authority permanent. Appeals court orders a new Kent St. Trial Cincinnati a the 6th . Cir Cuit court of appeals ordered a new trial monday for gov. James a. Rhodes state officials and National guardsmen named in a $46 million damage suit stemming from the 1970 shootings at Kent state University in which four students were killed. The appellate court in a unanimous decision overturned an earlier ruling be cause at least one juror had been threatened and assaulted during the trial by a person interested in its outcome.1 the defendants had been cleared of financial liability in the earlier trial in the . District court of judge Don j. Young. The alleged harassment occurred near the end of the 15-week trial on damages sought by the wounded and survivors of four students killed during the Antiwar demonstration May 4, 1970. They claimed the defendants failed to take adequate pre cautions to prevent injuries after armed and untrained guardsmen were ordered to the Campus. A jury also cleared the president of the University and Ohio National guard offi cers and enlisted men of liability in the Case. It was reported to the District judge that one juror had been threatened three times and assaulted on one occasion. But the appellate court noted the judge did not ques Tion the threatened juror to learn what effect it had on him or whether he had Dis cussed the threats. The court did not identify the juror. Of time sept. 14, 1947 some 1,800 unionized Railroad employees who have been on an unauthorized eight Day strike agreed to return to their jobs. The men had demanded a 50 cent hourly wage increase and other benefits. They settled for a 15 cent increase and other benefits. Sept. 14, 1957 the Public health service said 30,000 new . Cases of asian flu were reported last week the largest in crease since the outbreak of the disease Iti the country last year. The toll brought the number of cases to 65,000, with 10 deaths. Sept. 14, 1967 Black Power advocate he rap Brown was arrested and jailed without Bond for extradition to Maryland where he faces charges of inciting Cam Bridge Blacks to riot and arson