European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 11, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday october 11, 1977 snack time suspended the Squirrel hangs in there at Norton mass., As a Sunflower bends beneath his weight. He knows that the Stout Stem russians bar wife s exit won t break and those seeds taste just As Good upside Down As they Doright Side up. Up photo Carter to get petitions for reunion of couple West Lafayette ind. A pres ident Carter will soon be getting petitions with 10,000 signatures on behalf of a Man who has Only been Able to communicate with his wife through letters and phone Calls since 1974. Woodford Mcclellan a University of Virginia professor has not seen his wife Irina since just after their marriage in the soviet Union three years has also been denied Permis Sion to reenter the country ending his fre quent visits to soviet archives for research purposes. A history professor with special interest in Russia he has written a Book on the russian revolution to be released next year. They told Irina she could t leave the country because she knew state secrets Mcclellan said but she knows no secrets. There is no reason to keep her from Leav ing the the Mcclellan s plight has attracted in belgian Royal pair in Poland Warsaw a King Baudouin an Queen Fabiola of Belgium flew into Warsaw monday for a five Day visit to Poland in a return Courtesy trip for polish Leader Edward Gierek s 1974 visit to Belgium. Stateside concorde foes protest 90-Day trial period new York a opponents of land ing rights for the concorde supersonic Jet liner at John f. Kennedy International Airport say a 90-Day test of the aircraft which could begin Friday is unacceptable. The protesters staged a demonstration at the Airport sunday by stalling their cars on roads leading to and within the Airport officials said. The demonstration held during a heavy rainfall was smaller than the 1,200-car Calva Cade that snarled Airport traffic last May and seemed to have Little effect on air port traffic. There were no arrests no summonses issued and no reports of flight delays. Youth baseball loops in a. Must accept girls Harrisburg a. Up the state human relations commission has ruled that girls cannot be barred from playing alongside boys in youth baseball leagues in word is out that this is illegal discrimination said Homer Floyd commis Sion director. The commission made its ruling in or Dering the Community boys baseball association in Mars pa., to give girls an Opportunity to play on its boys teams. The Case involved Natalie Thunell 11, and Lisa arture 10, who were barred from joining the league during a meeting of the association in 1975. Complaints were filed by the girls mothers. The commission said the association was guilty of sex discrimination in Viola Tion of the state human relations act. Henry Golebiewski president of the association said the athletic league May Dis band because of the ruling. About 400 boys Ages 8-18, currently participate. Carter seeks settlement with Maine indians Washington up president Carter saturday appointed a three member group to negotiate certain aspects of a proposal that would Settle the claim of two Maine Indian tribes to 12 million acres of White House said the purpose of the review group is to attempt to reach an agree ment within the framework of the proposal by retired Georgia supreme court judge William Gunter the president s special representative in the land claims Case. Gunter recommended to the president in july that the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot Indian tribes be awarded 100,000 acres of Maine land and $25 million in Federal Money to Settle their claim. The indians have claimed in a Federal court suit that 12 million acres or almost two thirds of the state of Maine was taken from them illegally in the non Intercourse act passed in the 1790s. The three member group will consist of a. Stephens Clay Gunter s Law partner Eliot Cutler the associate director for natural resources Energy and science in the office of management and budget and Leo Krulitz solicitor for the department of Interior. Advice from a cow Chip Champ Wear gloves Jacomo. His Mark was 20 feet Short of the National cow Chip record of 194 feet. After his Victory Jordan was asked if he had any advice for youngsters hoping to make it to the cow Chip throwing big terse reply Wear Kansas City to. Up a Buckner Man has become the Missouri Champion cow Chip thrower with a 174-foot toss of a Buffalo Chip. Bill Jordan captured the Honor during the second annual fall festival at Lake another legion disease Case in Vermont Ter National attention but Mcclellan fears that the soviets will not be Gadal Yar Engel a spokesman for the committee on human rights in the soviet Union a West Lafayette group headed by religious leaders says the group has gathered the petitions to be delivered to the president on behalf of Mcclellan and his wife. Engel said Mcclellan spoke to his wife in a Telephone conversation sunday. Mrs. Mcclellan told her husband she was discouraged because soviet officials told her daughter by a previous marriage Elena that she would never see the United states. The 18-year-old woman was told that she should break off All ties with America Engel 43-year-old professor met his wife now 38, five years ago. They married in 1974, and Mcclellan recalls she immediately filed her application to leave the country. But when i completed a very successful eight month stay As a visiting professor she was denied permission to leave. There was no mrs. Mcclellan once served As a Secretary and interpreter in the soviet government her husband insists she Learned no state would they have let us marry in the first place if that were True he said. Burlington it. Up the Center for disease control in Atlanta has confirmed another Case of legionnaires disease along with two other highly probable cases in Vermont. The latest confirmation brings to 17 the number of cases recorded in Vermont since August 1. Of that number 12 cases have been fatal. A spokeswoman for the Vermont health department said that the patient in the confirmed Case was from Bennington county and was hospitalized in serious condition. She refused to release any additional information regarding the patient. The two highly probable cases were from Chittenden county the spokeswoman said. She said the pair had mild cases of the mysterious pneumonia like illness which were identified Early by physicians. Fugitive s complaint was accommodated Atlanta up an escaped prisoner was arrested while complaining by Tele phone to a local radio station that his escape was t getting enough publicity police said. Department spokesmen said Chuck Bowles 28, of Atlanta was arrested at a Southeast Atlanta restaurant on a tip from radio station personnel. He was still on the phone when apprehended. Bowles was originally arrested sept. 19 on traffic charges. He and another prisoner escaped from the City jail sept. 23,police said. Show business s mighty atom Dies at 83 to filiss Siiss was he who feet 41/2 inches tal1 and wei8hed 145career in this country might performed and worked m Texas oilfields in T performed in is named them at " r his Small stature
