European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 17, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday october 17, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 7 dissident ousted by mormons Salt Lake City a the Man who cast the first vote in modern history against a Leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter Day saints has been excommunicated and fired As Chapel janitor. 3yron Marchant 35, of Salt Lake is the second opponent of the Church policy with holding the Priesthood from Blacks to be excommunicated in the last two years. All faithful mormon males 12 years and older except Blacks Are trained to hold Priesthood offices. Marchant who is White said he will a peal the excommunication by the High Council court in his stake diocese and a Church spokesman said saturday the a peal would go to the first presidency the three top leaders. Marchant was called to a Church court before the Church s semiannual conference two weeks ago after he announced a demonstration questioning the Church policy. The Church court was postponed and Marchant called off his demonstration but during the conference in the Salt Lake Tabernacle he cast the Only dissenting vote in modern times against sustaining a Church Leader. Marchant said he was excommunicated in a closed door trial which lasted until 4 . Friday. He said he was informed of the verdict and the loss of his Job later in the Day by stake president Narvel j. in Confidence Scherzinger declined to discuss the mat Ter refusing to say even whether a trial was held. He said All trials Are held in Confidence and in the spirit of Marchant said the excommunication was due to open opposition to Church author Ity. My behaviour was embarrassing to the he said he was denied permission to tape record the trial. He said he argued a recording should be made so false rumours would not be spread about the reason for his excommunication. Many excommunication involve sex of lenses such As adultery or homosexuality. Advocating polygamy which was once Al Lowed by the Church now also results in excommunication. Church spokesmen Don Lefevre said sex communications Are handled at the local level and Are not routinely reviewed by the higher authorities. He said results of sex communications Are forwarded to Church Headquarters for membership records. The other dissident excommunicated was Douglas a. Wallace a Vancouver wash., attorney who had ordained a Black mormon into the Priesthood. Marchant was a Church missionary to France for two years. He was scoutmaster of a troop which included non mormon Blacks in whose behalf the a act sued challenging the policy which made it impossible for Blacks to hold scout leadership positions because they were linked to Priesthood offices. The Case was dismissed after the Church agreed to change the policy. Watch your motor reflexes Sam Sam a $4,000 robot who spends a lot of time chasing women on his rubber wheels receives a loss from Stude Talice Ericsson of Portland Ore state University. Sam was in a department store on a promotion tour. A newspaper Survey results Detroit Blacks less hostile Detroit up ten years after the bloodiest riot in Detroit history local Black residents appear less hostile to police show More Faith in City government and believe there is less Chance of another riot a newspaper Survey says. However the copyrighted Survey published in sunday editions of the Detroit free press showed that the City s Black population still believes Blacks get less pay than Whites for the same work and that Black Confidence in efforts of business and labor to Deal with City problems has fallen dramatically since 1968. The Survey of 610 Black residents was conducted by Telephone Between aug. 29 and sept. 16. It basked Many of the same questions asked in a 1968 Survey of Blacks living in the 1967 riot area. The scientific Survey conducted with the help of Knight Ridder newspapers Survey research specialist Philip Meyer was considered accurate within four percentage Points. Black residents who say they Are Satis fied with neighbourhood police Protection in creased from 33 per cent in 1968 to 57 per cent. However a majority of the City s Blacks still feel police officers use insulting language and unnecessary Force in making arrests in their neighbourhoods. Other key findings in the Survey two thirds of Detroit s Blacks think a riot will occur again compared with the 78 per cent who Felt another riot would Hap pen in 1968. Roughly the same percentage 10 per cent who said in 1968 that they took part in the 1967 violence said they would join a riot if it occurred. However a majority believe there would be no profit in Black residents Are willing to Trust some Whites and prefer to live in integrated neighbourhoods but they have mixed feelings when asked if they think Whites would like to see Blacks get a better consciousness which soared in mrs. Hubbard s. Was Bare Dearborn Mich. Up body builder Arnold Schwarzenegger stood in a crowded department store saturday and told Barbara Hubbard he would unveil his Chest if she would show hers so she did. The 26-year-old housewife from the de troit suburb of Plymouth stripped off her Brown Turtle neck sweater. That s not everything Schwarzenegger teased so Hubbard took off her Bra to display her own rather Well endowed Chest. The crowd gasped. The salesmen at the . Penney store turned White. Schwarzenegger unbuttoned the top of his shirt and pulled it Back to show a glimpse of his award winning Muscles. It was t much but Hubbard was satisfied. It was Worth it she said. I would have done anything to see his some 500 people turned out to meet the austrian whose muscled body has brought him 11 world titles starring roles in two movies and a $200,000 Home in California. He was at the shopping Center department store to promote his new Book Arnold the education of a later Schwarzenegger said he was not embarrassed by Hubbard s Impromptu striptease. He said he usually dares people to show me yours first. One time in London he said a television talk show Host started to take All his clothes off. Then of course i had to do it too Schwarzenegger said. The years after the riot has apparently levelled off. For example in 1968 some 80 per cent thought Blacks should do their shopping in Black owned stores now Only half do. Many questions which sharply divided the Black population in 1968 whether to avoid White people and whether to prepare for riots were greeted with what the newspaper described As a to hum soviet dissident Given year in labor Camp Moscow a a dissident who helped publicize alleged soviet abuse of psychiatry to silence political opposition was sentenced by a Moscow court to one year in a strict labor Camp on a charge of using a forged document dissident sources dissident Felix Serebro was found guilty of using a work pass that did not record he had been sentenced in 1958 for injuring another Man in a fight. It said he lost his Job at the time for health reasons. Official of India named . Rep for Rhodesia United nations up Secretary general Kurt Waldheim appointed major Gen. D Prem Chand of India As his representative for Rhodesia a . Spokesman announced. Chand will work together with the Brit ish resident commissioner for Rhodesia Field. Marshall lord Carver to negotiate a cease fire Between White Security forces and Black guerrillas As a first step in transition to majority Rule
