European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 05, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes saturday August 5, 1976 these Pennsylvania slate troopers Are lined up in liar Olsburg for shooting practice from a standing position but the Light that jails their weapons Are hand held radar an their targets Are speeders on the Penn Sylvania Turnpike. A crackdown was ordered by state officials to combat a 12-percent increase in Turnpike traffic accidents. Dpi photo Center of Carter tip o Neill Flap White House hires fired Gas aide Washington Lap speaker Thom As p. Tip o Neill s Friend Robert Griffin says he is quite pleased at the 50,000-a-year Job the White House created for him after he was sacked from the no. 2 Post atthe general services administration. I m terribly said Griffin a61-year-old Veteran bureaucrat whom o Neill once had sought to put into the tosspot at the scandal Ridden Gas. White House spokesman Rex Granum announced thursday that Griffin would take a new Post with duties yet to be de fined As special assistant to Robert Strauss. Carter s chief inflation fighter and Trade ambassador. Griffin was fired last week from Gas Job because of a personality conflict Between Griffin and his Boss Gas administrator Jay Solomon who was a Carter appointee. In demanding Griffin s ouster Solomon said he and his top assistant had differences of opinion on How to run the Agency. He emphasized that the dismissal had nothing to do with the scandals plaguing a which administers the Federal government s buildings and supplies. Sources have said however that Solo Mon and Griffin had serious disagree ments Over How to clean up the sources who requested anonymity also said that there was some question among Gas employees whether Solomon or Griffin actually ran the Agency. Congressional and internal Gas invest gators have uncovered a wide Range of corruption in the Agency including and waste. The firing enraged o Neill who original a had recommended Griffin for the top Gas spot. O Neill became irked even More when he claims he was misled by car Ter s chief congressional lobbyist. Fran Moore into thinking that Griffin s Job would remain Safe. The speaker has stopped speaking to Moore. On thursday Granum officially confirmed that o Neill has been dealing y w Siam Cable sinc added i am deeply Neill has been the president s closest ally on Capitol Hill and Carter quickly promised to find another Job for Griffin. He gave vice president Walter f. Mondale the task of locating something. Granum said details of Griffin s Newport remain to be worked out and that it had not been decided where his office would be. Despite repeated questioning. Granum cited no specific qualifications that Griffin holds either in economics or International relations to warrant being an assistant to Strauss. But he called Griffin a Good administrator and said his 35 years in government gave him a wealth of experience. O Neill did not respond thursday to a re Fob i res comment on the new Job. Before Griffin s new Post was an o Neill told reporters recently that grit pm has been treated shabbily and i have been treated the speaker Griffin s government career has include v a Lars of the p"-50" prop erty Section of the Boston office of the Gas wavs2y exp?? International affairs a eur 1dm Mil alive consultant to the go emment of Iran from 1956 to 1953. Rail cuts delayed one year Washington a i the nation s railroads have been least a year s reprieve from cuu routes and services including then last privately run Long haul Capitol Hill House Senate c on thursday approved legis Latho would delay at East unto oct. 1,1m1 transportation department Prokott eliminate about one third of the / " about the same time the 1 Commerce commission was or Southern railway co. To continue a the luxurious old Southern Crescent Senger train Between Washington i says it has been losing i on the Southern Crescent and May of court to contest the inc order. The congressional action was i to forestall plans announced in Milf a transportation Secretary Brock advil Cut about 9,000 Miles from the amt Rikl work. Rep. Harley 0. Staggers sponsor of the freeze a would give Congress additional time Tolly the costs and benefits of each rout f the Bill authorizes $600 million to Dize Amtrak operations in i starting oct. 1.the inc decision meanwhile Southern to continue running the until aug. 4,1979. It said it had Auti order Only a one year Extension Southern wishes to discontinue seated Ter that period it must again seek Sion approval. Executive shocked1 a we Are shocked and disappointed i the inc s said Arnold b. Jfe Finon. Southern s executive vice for Law and spokesman Charles said the most obvious remedial would be to contest the decision in the Southern Crescent using a wished 1949-Vintage cars offers do Gers free morning newspapers and Cut Flowers on the dining tables a set with Silver tableware on into cloths. Aii the food is cooked on boards we Don t give anything but Sachere said Tom Owens one of to Neon its order the inc expressed hotel in the next year an agreement a reached to have the Crescent taken a Amtrak the National rail passenger pm ratio the transportation Deputa has proposed this As part of the and overhaul. -3 Southern had asked to discontinue Crescent last april but the inc i Back the Dale four months so that Flold Public hearings on the proposal cities along the 1,378-mile said the train lost $8.6 at in 1977 and $30 million in the last Fiji the train runs daily Between wry ton and Atlanta and three times a we tween Atlanta and new Orleans. 111 Nua Iii Gnu be Une Aib Gay Bob leads new family of permissive dolls by Eileen Altman sold through Mailer a of " o i v a u w i i new York i a forget Barbie and Ken. Gay Bob has come out of the s billed As the world s first Gay doll stands 13 inches tall wears one earring custom made flannel Cowboy shirt Denim jeans and Cowboy boots and costs 115. He sports a Blond Crew Cut and according to his inventor. Harvey Rosenberg lookalike a Cross Between Paul Newman and Robert former new York City advertising executive the 37-year-old Rosenberg devel oped Gay Bob last september. To Date he has made 10.000 of the dolls which he has i through mail order ads in Magazine aimed at the homosexual Community but Gay Bob is beginning to catch on Rosenberg said in respectable so Tel american retail stores. A does t matter if you re Gay or not says Rosenberg. Gay Bob can Het Otvos come out of the p u Gay Bob who is anatomically Cor ashamed of hello boys and girls reads. A Traditi be med rrr6 said the traded to the doll the most at coming out of the exhem hum to do is to take off the clothes of the people Are fascinated by Homo sew to but they re afraid of he said. Rosenberg. President of Gizmo Devow Mem. Spent $10.000 to develop Gay Bob. Was so pleased with the result the promptly designed a whole family off each doll comes in his own up Rosenberg " r example comes i suit and sits in a. Room in front of the television liberated Libby sits in a bedroom
