European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday september 18, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 5 stained Glass windows stolen Denver pastor Henry Kelly sadly looks Over the empty frames which used to hold expensive stained Glass windows. Thieves lifted the windows six in All from the greater Temple of Jerusa Lem. Now the pastor says his Church can t afford the $1,200 or More it would take to replace them. So hell use Ordi nary Glass. Up photo study offers hopeful solutions famines High food costs predicted Washington a a new study made Public Friday predicts the world will experience great famines by the year 2000 and Steep increases in the Price of food if it continues on its present course. But the study offers Hope that these disasters can be avoided if Strong International policies Are adopted soon to improve the economies of developing nations and to of time sept. 18, 1947 Florida s coastal cities were ripped by the most devastating Hurri Cane to hit in 19 years. Miami and Palm Beach were virtually isolated by the storm which had winds of up to 100 . A dozen commercial planes were destroyed and two railway trains which were to have evacuated 5,000 refugees from the flood menaced Lake Okeechobee Region were caught by the storm at Palm Beach. Sept. 18, 1957 army marshal Sarit tha Ranat took Over Thailand tuesday with the acquiescence of King Phu Niphol Adul det in a bloodless coup. Sarit proclaimed himself govenor of Bangkok instead of pre Mier and said that he who controls the army controls Thailand. Sept. 18, 1967 presidential hopeful Richard m. Nixon said no Republican candidate should use the peace at any Price in Vietnam platform during his run for office. The candidate might win but the Republican president would soon have an other War on Bis hands Nixon said. Apply intense family planning to limit populations. The study was prepared by three eco nomic growth analysts Mihajlo Mesarovich and Barry Hughes of Case Western re serve University in Cleveland and Eduard Pestel of Hannover University West Ger Many. It was based on a computer program that can forecast food supplies and prices under various future policies and conditions. The analysts used it to study the effects of possible policy choices to guide population food Supply and food prices. An announcement of the study said its developers consider it an International Early warning system for policy makers who can change the predicted outcomes by adopting new policies based on More specific information. The study produced these findings if historic trends in population growth birth rates income per person in the United states and Asia starvation rates in Asia and world food prices Are Al Lowed to continue both starvation and food prices would Rise terribly. The computer forecast a several fold in crease in world food prices in real terms that would most certainly drive Domestic food prices unbearably High. In this no change projection great fam Ines begin driving the death rate due to starvation in South and Southeast Asia up at such Speed that it would More than triple from 1995 to the year 2005. If the United states held Down domes tic food prices by restricting its exports of food to hungry nations additional tens of millions of people could starve. From 1985 to 1995, the starvation rate in those re Gions of Asia would be expected to quadruple before beginning a decline. If a free world food Market were Al Lowed starvation is avoided. But at the Cost of a More than ten fold increase in world and Domestic food prices. Along with subsidies to the needy nations amounting to hundreds of billions of Dol Lars. If on the other hand third world countries Are deliberately helped to in crease their share of world Industrial output and Trade and if an intense family planning Effort restrains world population growth the starvation death rate in South and Southeast Asia can be held Down to its present level. The new study is to be described in greater detail Early next month at a con Ference near Houston tex., setting the stage for a confrontation Between optimistic analysts who believe the world can continue economic growth Long into the future and the doomsday analysts who warn that growth must be curbed soon to avoid disaster. The conference is part of a 10-year world policy study sponsored by an informal group called the club of Rome. The club published in 1973 a controversial doomsday study. Airline did favors for 4 in Congress Washington not at least four congressmen have accepted free air freight services from Piedmont aviation inc., according to investigatory records on file at the civil aeronautics Board. The disclosure of the congressmen s names was made reluctantly by Piedmont which had been asked by the cab and the securities and Exchange commission to look into a report three months ago in the Washington Star that rep. James m. Quil Len r-tenn., a member of the House com Mittee on standards of official conduct had been accepting the free service from Piedmont for several years. After a nonpublic investigation the Board s enforcement staff determined that Piedmont violated Federal Law by provid ing free freight transportation service to the congressmen and ordered the airline to Stop the practice. Further although the cab said the Vio lations were largely technical it reprimanded Piedmont for contributing to the appearance of serious impropriety within the air transportation Piedmont wound up with an official letter of reprimand from the Board and a warning that if a similar situation develops formal action will be taken against the company and officials involved. The congressmen who had received free services from Piedmont in addition to Quillen Are John n. Jenrette jr., d-., for whom Piedmont provided six shipments. They included three Large envelopes from Washington to Myrtle Beach ., where Jenrette lives and three passports from Washington to Florence Charles Rose d-n.c., for whom pied Mont carried two shipments of passports from Washington to Fayetteville n.c., Rose s Hometown. John Slack d-w.va., for whom pied Mont carried one shipment which the company said was a passport from Washington to Charleston w.va., Slack s Home town. A six Page report from Piedmont to the Board said free air freight was provided Over a period of probably several years and from seven to eight times a year to Quillen Between Washington and Tri cities Airport which serves Bristol Kingsport and Johnson City term. Kingsport is quil Len s Home. After the article in the Star last june the Piedmont report said the airline received inquiries from the cab and the . The company said it investigated and after determining that there had been several instances Bills were sent to the congressmen who paid. The Cost of the special expedited service is $26.25 each trip. Piedmont s report left open the question of just How Long the service has been provided to some congressmen. Woman professor wins discrimination payoff Washington a a former pro Fessor at Southern Illinois University Lias won $80,000 to Settle her claim that the University discriminated against her because she is a woman. Civil rights officials in the . Depart ment of health education and welfare said that the settlement figure was $20,000 higher than any previous award in a sex discrimination Case. The University at Carbondale 111., agreed to pay or. Marisa canut Amoros to Settle the six year old Case but denied that it discriminated against the professor who left the University s school of engineering and technology in 1971 and is now living in her native spam. Canut Amoros had charged that she was paid $230 to $360 a month less than men doing the same work Between 1964 and 1971 while teaching at Southern Illinois. Her Case was handled by attorneys in the civil rights office of the department which supported her claim that she was a victim of sex discrimination in violation of a 1968 executive order prohibiting recipients of Federal contracts from discriminating against women
