European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 21, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 5 Flower Power with Texas twist Between you and me and the Lamppost this Gary Duckworth is a real swinging Salesman. Not your Ordinary Street Corner Flower Salesman Content to wait for customers in Dallas Duckworth has the Edge on them All As he dangles him self out Over a downtown Street offering his bouquets to passing motorists. Duckworth says he has better Success by making himself up and clowning around with customers As he Sells his Flowers. A photo . Growth rate dips inflation rises Washington a the Commerce department monday revised downward slightly to 6.2 per cent the annual rate of growth of the Economy As measured by the Gross National product in the second Quarter of this year. Inflation was some what worse. The Agency had previously estimated economic growth at 6.5 per cent during the Quarter. Economic growth in the first three months of the year was at a 7.5 per cent annual rate. Even with the downward revision growth in the second Quarter was still at a healthy rate. The 6.2 per cent rate is the growth in the value of economic output As measured by the Gross National product after discounting the effects of inflation. The Agency said inflation during the second Quarter was at a 7 per cent annual rate up from the 6.7 per cent rate it Previ not As bad As last year colder than usual Winter forecast Ousby estimated. Inflation in the first Quarter was at a 6.9 per cent rate. However since the second Quarter the Economy has slowed and a number of economists say in the third Quarter it May slip below the 4 per cent rate that is needed to keep unemployment from worsening. An indication of the slowdown was reflected in the nation s Industrial output Fig ures for August released on Friday which showed production was Down five tenths of one per cent the first drop in output i seven months. But president Carter said last week he believes the Overall economic growth will still be 5 per cent during the latter half of this year. Washington up the coming Winter will be colder than Normal but not As bad As last year s record freeze govern ment and private weathermen predicted monday. Based on very preliminary and tentative forecasts the National oceanic and atmospheric administration said the Northeast quadrant of the country will be colder than Normal and the Southwest mild while the Northwest and Southeast quadrants defy prediction at this Point. Go mail warrants obtained Washington a the defense department said monday search warrants have been obtained to read mail after a congressional panel revealed that military investigators were Reading some mail without warrants. Under the new program involving War rants the customs service opens and turns Over to military authorities about 445 letters per month that Are sent into the country said David o. Cooke Deputy assistant Secretary of defense. Cooke told a House panel that the con tents of the opened envelopes Are used by the military to investigate cases of service men abroad trying to mail illegal drugs into the country. The department began obtaining the search warrants last month after a House government operations subcommittee revealed the existence of the program to examine mail without warrants he said. The subcommittee has heard testimony that with the exception of customs inspections opening or Reading mail without a search warrant violates the constitutional prohibition on unreasonable searches and Sei zures. I am convinced that at the present time our procedures Are in full compliance with the Law Cooke testified. The mail turned Over by customs to Mili tary authorities is part of the customs pro Gram of opening suspicious mail As it enters the country in search of items on which duty is unpaid and in search of Ille Gal items such As drugs. It is unlikely this Winter will be As severe As last Winter said Donald l. Gilman chief Long Range forecaster for the National weather service a Branch of Noaa. It could be a colder than Normal Winter without seeming As  associate Noaa administrator Edward s. Epstein set the Odds of a similar and equally severe Winter this season at More than 30 to 1." Epstein and Gilman along with private meteorologist and television Weatherman Gordon Barnes testified before the Senate intergovernmental affairs subcommittee on the subject of Long Range forecasting. Stressing his prediction was general and would be supplemented in late november by observations about fall weather Pat terns Epstein said the scattered clues we find Point toward a National temperature pattern in which the northeastern Quarter of the country and the Central Mississippi Valley seem the most Likely to experience a colder Winter than Normal and the southwestern Quarter most Likely to enjoy a mild  Gilman said last year was 25 to 40 per cent colder than Normal in parts of the Ohio Valley and deep South and 10 to 20 per cent colder in the East. Of time sept. 21, 1�17 Fiorello h. Laguardia the fiery Man who was mayor of new York City for 12 years died quietly at the age of &4. Self. 21, 1957 Arkansas gov. Orval e. Faubus ordered National guard troops away from Little Rock s Central High school a few hours after a Federal court or dered him to Stop interfering with the school s integration plan. Sept. 21, 1967 Queen Elizabeth ii cracked a magnum of Champagne on the Bow of Britain s new Ocean liner which bore her name. The Queen launched the ship into the River Clyde in Scotland