European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday August 21, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 7 Fri told klan All about rights bus route paper says measuring up by Aing a sewing table. Bade went overcomes the enormous made of measuring Wilt Chuberi Aravt Chest and shoulders in los Angeles far a driving Rait. The 7-foot-l former Laker Star will Wear went creation in the jeep celebrity Challenge race aug. 17 in Riverside Cam. A photo Detroit up the Fri in 1961 relayed detailed information on two busloads of civil rights workers to a Birmingham ala., police sergeant who was a known agent of the Kun flux klan the Detroit free press free press published in its sunday editions details of 3,000 pages of Fri let ters memos and teletype messages the newspaper said were released to the american civil liberties Union. The documents indicate the Fri knew sgt. Thomas Cook of the Birmingham police department s intelligence Branch was passing data the Agency gave him directly to the klan s top leadership. According to the documents the chief of the Birmingham Fri office called Cook to inform him of the buses Progress through the racially tense South and when they were to arrive at Alabama bus stations the free press reported. An Fri informant who had infiltrated the klan said Cook and Birmingham pub Lic safety director Eugene Bull Connor conspired with klan leaders to permit physical attacks on Freedom riders upon arrival of the buses at the greyhound and trailways terminals in Birmingham the newspaper the plan the documents indicate Birmingham police agreed to show up at the terminals is or 20 minutes after the buses arrived to give klansmen time to at tack the civil rights workers. Klansmen arrested after that time period were prom ised Light sentences. When buses arrived it was reported no police were present. Rampaging klan Smen attacked civil rights workers news . Heart recipient becomes dad Sci of Gist s Stu cry violence stories linked to Small plane crashes los Angeles up the birth of a healthy 8-Pound. 13-ounce girl saturday apparently made Robert Dodge who twice received new hearts the first heart transplant recipient in the world to become a , 20. Of los Angeles underwent transplant surgeries in 1975 and 1976 at the Stanford medical Center in Palo Alto. Calif., because of heart failure and a condition known As cardiomyopathy. Since then he has been taking Large doses of steroids to prevent his body from rejecting the second transplanted Organ. Or. Gary London who delivered the child named Sandra to at Valley presbyterian Hospital in the Van Guys area said the birth is unusual because Aero ids usually lower or interfere with term think it s the first birth of its kind in the said London. This Guy is usually Young to have a transplant and it bows transplant patients can Lead Normal lives the doctor said there also had been some concern about birth defects in the child who was born always is concern when the Mother or father is taking Large doses of medication he added. Dodge said he and his wife Susan were i prised by the birth. _ i had a sperm count done before Susan became Dodge said and everything turned out Washington a fatal crashes of Small aircraft increase abruptly after newspaper stories about murder suicide cases suggesting that these stories trigger murder suicides disguised As aircraft Acci dents says a California sociologist or. David p. Phillips of the University of California said in a study published Friday that the More publicity Given a murder suicide the higher the number of non com Mercial air crashes that occurred soon of a report published in the aug. 25 Issue of science Magazine Phillips said he did a statistical study of private business and corporate air plane crashes occurring be tween 1968 and 1973.because he was concerned about the in fluence of stories about murder and Sui cide which occurred at the same time be looked Only at multiple fatality crashes for a murder suicide link. Phillips looked at statistics for 14-Day periods around the time of ii murder Sui cide stories that received wide publicity. He found that multiple fatality plane crashes increased abruptly and briefly after these stories were the period studied 156 crashes accounted for 461 fatalities and peaked in most instances three Days after the Public Ity. Phillips also found that multiple fatality accidents increased disproportionately inthe local areas where murder suicides occurred and that newspaper publicity had a stronger correlation than that of television. Reporters and photographers with chains pipes and baseball bats the newspaper the same Day klansmen intercepted a Freedom bus at Anniston. Ala., 50 Miles East of Birmingham and set it on fire according to the free press. The Fri documents detailing the conspiracy were released to the Acle attorneys for Walter Bergman 78, a former Wayne state University professor and de troit school Board official who said he was partially paralysed from the beating he suffered in the Anniston attack the free press said. Howard Simon executive director of the Michigan Acle said the Fri s dealings with the allegedly klan infested birding Ham police department and its failure to provide Protection provoked the assaults on the Freedom Exxon a fans of fight claim of violations Washington up Exxon the nation s largest Oil company says it will con test an Energy department charge it nude More than $40 million through violations of Petroleum pricing regulations. The charge is included in a series announced by the Energy department in re cent weeks against . Oil companies for Price violations dating Back to the u74 Arab Oil embargo. The Energy department accused Exxon Friday of reducing the octane or Quality of its regular gasoline without reducing the Price allowing the Oil company to make $1.5 million More than regulations permit. Exxon said its lowering of regular Gaso line octane in 1974 reduced manufacturing costs a fraction of a cent per gallon. The lower costs it said were reflected in the Price calculations for All products under Federal Price controls. Exxon also was accused of charging Dif Ferent prices at various company owned tilling stations in violation of the equal application Rule thus increasing costs that could be recovered in future sales by More than $28.7 million from 1975 to 1976. Exxon replied ironically the depart ment of Energy is trying to impose retroactive penalties on Exxon that could not have been levied if Exxon had charged Consumers higher prices at All of its com Pany operated service stations. Doe does not allege. Any Consumers have been overcharged by Exxon Exxon said. Even if the courts were to up hold the Doe charge Consumers could not expect to receive any 3 charged in decoded Driver s death Raleigh . I up a teen age Airl accused of setting up Rural Roadside ambushes by beckoning help from motorists has been charged with murder kid napping and armed robbery. Two male accomplices also were charged with the same crimes. Police said sunday the two men lurked in the Woods with a sawed of Shotgun and a pistol White the girl feigned car trouble. Killed Early saturday in one of the am Bush attacks was a vacationing West Vir Ginia teacher who was on his Way to the Beach at nags head with two said Jerry Romine 32, from Point pleasant. W. Stopped to help 17 year old Terry Hamm. Who allegedly flagged Down motorists before Dawn. Wake county sheriffs deputies said to mine Roger Bumgardner and Richard Pickens also of Point pleasant left their car to help the Young woman when the bandits wearing Bandana masks emerged from the Woods. Only two hours earlier a similar am Bush was reported by a 19-year-old Raleigh Man who was robbed of $12 and locked in the trunk of his car. Arrested late saturday night with Hamm were Michael Hamas. 21, of Wake Forest and Bland j. Hill 19. Of Youngsville. All were charged with one count of murder three counts of kidnapping and four counts of armed robbery they were held without Bond at the Wake county jail
