European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday september 7, 1978 the stars and stripes Memphis Page 7 report claims City does nothing to punish police misconduct and that Blacks Are victims of abuse Memphis Tenn. A an advisory committee to the . Civil rights com Mission says police misconduct in Mem Phis goes virtually  it said officials Are indifferent to or unwilling to Deal with the problem. The report said Blacks Are the victims of the overwhelming majority of abuse. The existence level and nature of police mis conduct in Memphis is cause for Public out rage the report said. Mayor Wyeth Chandler said he would not comment until he sees the Complete 129-Page report by the commission s ten Nessee advisory committee. Police director e. Winslow Chapman also declined to make any comment on the allegations. Chandler last year described a draft version of the report As a totally biased politically motivated and childishly writ  the final report apparently differed Little from the earlier version. Wide rang ing criticism was aimed at the mayor police department Memphis police association City Council District attorney general and business and religious leaders. The report recommended that police officials improve their internal investigations of complaints regarding police mis conduct including requiring policemen to take lie Detector tests restricting the use of firearms and establishing disciplinary trial boards. It recommended creation of a commit tee appointed by the mayor to improve police Community relations and a larger role for the City Council in creating procedures to curb police misconduct. The report said pervasive police mis conduct ranging from harassment and intimidation to brutality has been allowed to exist largely because its Impact is substantially upon Blacks and economically disadvantaged. The inability and unwillingness of the mid to demonstrate effective actions in response to police misconduct against Citi Zens has logically resulted in open dissatisfaction distrust and bitterness from those persons in the Community who have at tempted to have the mid respond to police misconduct  the 14-member advisory committee be Gan an investigation into police misconduct in Memphis in May 1977. Chandler was subpoenaed to testify at Public hear Ings and criticized the committee As a Bunch of  the mayor s letter on the draft report said Only Black political leaders and groups escaped criticism and suggested the report was an Effort to boost the Politi Cal Stock of Black leaders. 5 cases in garment District legionnaires disease suspected in new York 17 killings confessed Kenneth Taylor is led into court at Nashville Tenn., by officer Terry Crouch. Taylor told policemen he has killed 17 people in Tennessee Ohio and hard work ranks Low Pennsylvania in the last two years. The Lima Ohio Man was charged with murder armed robbery car theft and two traffic offences. Dpi photo new York a a health official says the Only thing five suspected victims of legionnaires disease had in common was their employment in the City s Gar ment District. The disease has been confirmed in one death and suspected in four other cases one of them also fatal. The City department of health disclosed late tuesday the possible outbreak of the disease that caused 29 deaths after a 1976 american legion convention in Philadel phia. Or. John Marr the department s director of epidemiology said blood samples from the four suspected victims were be ing sent to the Center for disease control in Atlanta. He said he hoped to have Laboratory tests results by thursday. Work on same Street Marr said the five persons live in three different boroughs of the City but All work on the same Street in the garment District West 34th Street Between sixth and eighth avenues. He said the department would Start wednesday to Analyse blood samples taken from 26 other persons who worked with the five men to see if any Are harbouring the bacterium which causes legionnaires Dis ease. The one Case confirmed by Laboratory tests so far is that of a 31-year-old Man who died in Brooklyn s St. John s Hospital aug. 25. Highly suspect cases Marr said in clude the first Man s two Brothers aged 28 and 29, who entered Kings county Hospital in Brooklyn the Day before their brother s death but Are reported doing Well. Legionnaires disease also is suspected in the death of a 44-year-old Man monday at Bellevue Hospital Center and the illness of a 48-year-old patient who entered Lin Coln Hospital in the Bronx aug. 17 and still is in critical condition. All the victims worked As rack boys working most of the time on the streets. They push Racks of dresses and other Gar ments from one firm s offices to another. Learning to win at office politics Evanston 111. A when it comes to advancing a career a drink with the Boss after work is probably More important than hard work and competence says a Job consultant who teaches a course on off ice politics. The name of the game is not hard work. It is pleasing the person that has the Power Over your career said Marilyn Moats Ken Nedy in an interview tuesday. Kennedy who Heads career strategies Here is teaching a one Day seminar at Shah will visit Romania Bucharest a after an invitation from president Nicolae Ceausescu Iran s Shah Reza Pahlavi will pay an offi Cial visit to Romania next monday through thursday the news Agency age pres has reported. It will be the Shah s fourth official visit to Romania. Ceausescu has had three official visits to Iran and has made two stopovers while in route to other countries. Northwestern University Here. A former assistant Dean at Depaul University and journalist with the Kansas City Star she recommends several ways to pol ish one s image for the Boss including blowing one s own Horn and developing one s own internal information pipeline. Anybody who Waits for recognition is criminally naive she said. You should always let others know through memos or the gossip Grapevine when you completed a  she recommends cultivating the graces of a Secretary or clerk to slip you valuable information such As where the bodies Are buried in the company. It is also a Good idea if possible to get close to a retired executive who currently has Little stake in the organization and can Tell you precisely How the top executives got there. You might also be Able to use the help of one of your own Peers As Long As you re not competing for the same things she said. Kennedy said she finds that Many per sons taking her courses regard the playing of office politics As immoral. What they really mean is that people should be rewarded because they work very hard. My thing is hey you can t live in a world like that my theory and every thing i try to teach in business is that you have a Choice. If you look Over a situation and realize what is necessary to succeed Don t Roll Over and play dead. In terms of Job advancement it s not what you know or what you do that counts. It s How much the person you work for thinks you know or thinks you do. French communist Dies Paris a Jean Kanapa 56, chief foreign policy spokesman of the French communist party died of a Long and pain Ful illness the party announced. A former journalist and secondary school teacher Kanapa was elected to the party s politburo in february 1976. Once reputed As a stalinist he later Spear headed the French party s denunciations of human rights violations in the soviet Union. Canada coast Skagway Alaska a Ginger Cox and Tish Davis first rowed together on the Dartmouth women s Crew. Their team work should be perfect now after a 1,151 mile Row up the Canadian coast from Seattle their Hometown. The women took Skagway by Surprise last Friday when they arrived 10 Days ahead of schedule. Wednesday they were still taking the town by storm being Par tied and praised for their exploit. We surprised everyone Ginger Cox 23, said. No one expected us so  Cox and Davis 21, left puget sound on june 22 and took 72 Days to make the trip along the coast of British Columbia and Southeastern Alaska. They rowed 1,089 Miles and sailed 62 in a 20-foot-Long, 5-foot-wide norwegian Faering boat dubbed Vandr Falken norwegian for wandering  it was Cus Tom made at a Cost of $4,000. The pair were greeted in Skagway by seaplanes and Small boats. They celebrated with a swim in 45-degree water be fore mooring the boat. We figured we d better swim for the last time and we had t had a Shower in 10 Days said Davis. The swim was followed by a Champagne Celebration including dinner with the mayor of Skagway and gifts from towns people. The two Are being treated to free room and Board at the Skagway inn. They gave us a tremendous Welcome said Cox. The women plan to take a three Day hike along the 33-mile Chilcoot Mountain Trail used by Gold miners 80 years ago. They expect to return to Seattle by Way of Alaska ferry on sept. 14. The pair spent 20 Days resting along the Way visiting fishing towns or hiding out from bad weather. They usually rowed 10 to 14 hours a Day making 2 to 4 knots