European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday August 29, 1978 Boob tubes galore of howl of television picture takes move Down conveyor Belt at � general Tek phone a electronics co. Plant la Ohio. The Mil too Square foot Plant produces in addition to color an monochrome television takes cathode Ray lobes far 140811181 and Monitor application. Up photo pension in Mississippi klansmen rallying against Black Boycotts Jackson miss. A racial tension pc simmering in three Mississippi towns p with the Kukhis klan holding Ever More strident rallies in reaction to Well Organ sad Black Boycotts of White merchants. Last weekend 12 pickets in a Boycott. Connected March were arrested including tour roman Catholic nuns. At a klan Gath ering four klansmen were emboldened to strip off their hoods and reveal themselves As a businessman and three local police of s no such thing As the new South says Alfred skip Robinson a contractor and Veteran civil rights Leader who beads the United league of Mississippi there s More racism in Mississippi in 1978 than there was in 1961" indeed the situation is strangely reminiscent of Mississippi s racial troubles in the Boycott of White owned businesses in Tupelo and Okolona spearheaded by the United league and punctuated by weekly league marches and occasional klan counter rallies has spawned arrests and tense confrontations. The latest arrests came in Lexington a town of 2,700 people about Iso Miles from Tupelo in the Central part of the state where other groups Are leading the boy Cott also against White owned stores. The protests which began in february Stem from the Tupelo police department s refusal to dismiss two captains who were held responsible by a Federal judge for beating a Black inmate. The officers were demoted and transferred to the fire department. They events stateside Gen. Bradley favors draft system As backup Santa be . Up the nation s Only living five Star general believes the military draft system should be restored to Back up the Volunteer army. Gen. Omar Bradley in the state to speak at a conference of the new Mexico nation Al guard said the draft would have to be implemented swiftly in the event of be got to have something when War starts Bradley said. I think we should have a draft system at All 2 women hire plane of Tow anti Era slogan the draft could be automatically rated when there is danger of . The 85-year-old Bradley who fort Bliss. Texas sold the Volunteer ant is in Good shape but the experienc world War ii proved the country Coop might a War with Only volunteers. Bradley received the state s service medal from new Uttke adjutant Gen. Franklin mile Dot Fenati onal guard conference. Hartford Conn. Up two unidentified Connecticut women hired a Low flying air plane to Tow a Stop Era ban Ner across the Hartford sky As More than 40 women marched in support of the National Effort to ratify the equal rights spokesman for the National Aerial advertising co. Of North Andover mass said the plane was bind by the two Anu Era women for $250. Two Connecticut women hired me but they would t give me their names said Pilot Wayne Mansfield. They said they Felt strongly Boot toe Issue but they Felt pressure of them Fri get some of the marchers who Narh Rajam in an eight mile Wal Kathy said they so protest the Antl Era gimmick bet plane appeared to Fly below in minimum Altitude imposed of j " Urban areas. Most took the stunt Witk however. At least it got Era to Eye one supporter said. Connecticut ratified the Era three More state not ratify it it Fortt becomes Tew. Kaaa says 4,000 die yearly in Cycle mishaps Chicago up about 4.000 people die in motorcycle crashes each year a Stag cant increase since at lease 23 states overturned Laws requiring riders to Wear safety w mets the american medical association said. Head related fatalities among motorcyclists bad dropped about percent i because of Laws requiring the use of helmets the Ama said. But the Highway safety act of 1976 removed the Secretary of transportation s to to require mandatory helmets and Many Stales struck Down their helmet Laws. Opponents of mandatory helmet Laws have maintained that helmets would restrict la Sion and impair hearing. Neither Contention has been found valid the Ama said. Moat 80 per cent of motorcycle crash injuries Are to the Bead and the Chance of be tog bomb two thirds greater for the undetected truck Driver spooked by horns leaps info Wall ally resigned but by that time demands for their ouster had coupled with broader economic demands and the Boycott began. Lexington s Boycott also by Blacks up set Over alleged police brutality and insufficient minority hiring is in its third month. On saturday police claimed the March ing pickets were blocking pedestrians on the sidewalks and charged 10 people including the nuns with disorderly conduct. Two men were charged with threatening an officer and assaulting an officer. The nuns members of a franciscan or Der that has done social work in the Black Community and actively supports the boy Cott have been sharply criticized by som residents. The nuns said last week that men parked in cars outside their House had insulted them and eggs had been thrown at their car. The harassment prompted a rare news conference by the Rev. Joseph Brunini Bishop of the diocese of Jackson. The klan has reacted to the new Black activity with increased action of its own. Klansmen have not appeared in Lexing ton but in Okolona saturday some three dozen Robed klansmen watched silently from behind a Row of helmeted police As about 300 Blacks marched downtown to de Mand More Public and private sector that night the klansmen reassembled for a rally about 20 Miles away in Tupelo a City of 25,000 residents whose businesses have been boycotted for six months. About to klansmen were joined at the rally by some 200 sympathizers. Glenwood Springs Colo. Up a California Man who mistakenly thought motorists tooting their bom while travel ing through horse shoe Tunnel were trying to warn him of danger jumped from his vehicle and slammed into the Tunnel Wail. Authorise said Roger Kunselman Gar Den Grove calif., suffered cute and bruises. Be was taken to Vattey View hos Pital for observation. He suffered Only minor injuries said a Hospital spokesman. He was dazed but not Randy Kunselman brother of tie in Jur Edman Sal mewa or s moving truck through the Tunnel my the acid eat occurred. He said they were headed Tor dear through the Tunnel on interstate � Watt the horns began to Are comma brat Tice among motorists pasting Punjh to nets in the state. I guess he Boight something talk was wrong with his track when he Jan pm out of his cab Randy Kunstel Mut Woja he bit his head on a Tunnel woj m looked As though he was knocked vac up to their necks in confiscated Turtle Oil Denver up there Are about 1, 000 bottles of Turtle Oil in a warehouse at the Denver Federal Center and the . Fish and wildlife service does t know what to do with it. Harry Stiles agent in charge of the Denver office of the division said the Law requires . Customs agents to confiscate Turtle Oil from people returning from abroad but does t have any provision about getting rid of the stuff. True Oil is refined from the carcasses of sea turtles and is used As a hand cart old lotion or a Suman Oil. Sea turtles Are of . List of endangered species Aid hmm acts made from them cannot to into the country legally. �. Stiles and Thomas Striegler the Toj ant special agent of the division Samoa loss agents seize any Turtle Oil afwp1back into the country by America wrists. Now there is 250 Gallons of the about 1.000 bottles stored in the he House. Swimmer of make new Fry on Bimini of a leg Hollywood Florida a swim Mer Stella Taylor who made a big splash with her unsuccessful Effort two weeks ago to swim from Blini Island to the Florida coast says Shell try again at the end of september. We re looking at leaving from Orange Cay about Miles South of gun Cay where she started last Lime Taylor s swim coordinator Mike Mullins said. The 45-year-old swimmer had to give no her last Effort on aug. A the the swim when she was to Stuht of Florida coast. Golf Stream Larreau ing her farther out to sea proved in Ash for her to overcome. The Golf Stream is slower that South Miltos Aid of the next its the Point so we re hoping to make adj headway Early in the swim w the have so ranch of the Stream to eran w Ward the
