European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes wednesday september 13, 1978 Salmon discussion Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus left talks with Margret Lara and Merk Oliver As they prepare a Salmon  came to Klamath calif., to talk with indians about closing of the lower Klamath River to Salmon fishing until biologists feel enough fish have gone upriver to spawn. Yurok indians claim that the closing would violate their tribal rights. Up photo Carter Hopes to get All parties Rhodesia meet Washington a the Carter administration still Hopes to arrange an All parties conference on Rhodesia the state department said monday despite guerilla Leader Joshua Nkomo s declaration that the idea is dead and  department spokesman Hodding Carter said the . Does not regard its initiative with great Britain As finished. We believe our efforts must  declined comment on White prime minister Ian Smith s declaration of martial Law on sunday saying Smith s statement was too vague about the details of the martial  said the department was encouraged that Smith did not Rule out the possibility of going to an All parties conference or of holding separate talks with Nkomo As he did secretly last , administration officials con ceded that events of the last two week shave at least temporarily destroyed the chances of getting the various feuding factions to sit Down and arrange a peaceful settlement to the expanding  they said they hoped that new circumstances might arise that would once again make the conference a  event was the shooting Down of a rhodesian Airliner by guerilla troops. Survivors of the crash said guerillas subsequently killed some of the passengers claim the guerillas deny. The incident has hardened White anger at the  was the revelation of Smith s meeting with Nkomo a meeting that indicated he May be ready to abandon his Lack partners in transitional govern ment in Salisbury and make a Deal wit Nkomo. The leading Black member of the transitional government the Rev. Abel Muzorewa has been resisting the idea of an All parties conference that would include gue Rilla leaders Nkomo and Robert Mugabe. Nkomo and Mugabe have branded the transitional government and the Constitution that goes with it As a sell out. Thus far the transitional government has not been Able to demonstrate that it has the support of Rhodesia s population or that it can subdue the guerilla armies. Brown will sign charter . First to of proposal for . Representation Trenton . A the new Jer sey legislature on monday became the first state legislature to approve a pro posed . Constitutional amendment that granting congressional representation to residents of the District of  state Assembly passed the measure by a 59-12 vote and the state Senate Fol Lowed with a vote of 27-5.under Federal Law 38 states must approve an amendment to the . Constitution. The proposal would give the District of Columbia two . Senators and at least one House  proposal was sent to state Legisla Tures after it was approved by Congress by he ceased to exist a wide margin last  of the proposal said District residents have been unjustly denied representation in Congress. Opponents said the proposal was being rushed through without sufficient , Assembly minority Leader James Hurley a Republican said i Don t want to give them two United states Sena  also said the District with 67 Square Miles of Urban area lacks the broader interests of states with farms mines and other industries. The 23rd amendment approved in 1961,gave District residents the right to vote in presidential elections. Mother feels Relief at death of her addict son Miami a Vicki Holtz says no one could have helped her 18-year-old son who died after getting High on drugs in what had become virtually a daily  feel relieved. That is my main feeling she  sort of feel like his life with us ended quite a while ago. I think he ceased to existing my feelings mrs. Holtz said As she watched her son  Steve Holtz friends and relatives Tell it the night of aug. 25 started much snearly every night had for the past three years. He snorted cocaine with friends then staggered  spoke Little and then incoherently. He went into the bathroom and his brother and their friends gathered around to watch him pour a Small cellophane bag of Angel dust on a Mirror. He inhaled the White dust through a rolled $10  mrs. Holtz arrived Home she found Steve passed out on the living room Couch. She was angry and exasperated. I won t put up with this stuff anymore. This is the end she  told her sons Michael 14, and Eric 12, to carry Steve out to the Back Yard to sleep it off. Three hours later he was dead. Steve was buried five Days later. Medi Cal examiners ruled that his death was caused by an overdose of cocaine and phencyclidine or Angel  mrs. Holtz said that for the past three years Steve had been High nearly daily and used a variety of drugs including Angel dust cocaine Quaal Ude hallucinogenic mushrooms Speed and marijuana. When unable to raise drug Money by stealing he fashioned makeshift drugs from household items his Brothers said. Friends said Steve s drug habit wors ened after an Auto Accident in 1974 that killed his father James Holtz 41, a professor of finance at Florida International University. Mrs. Holtz also was in the Acci Dent spent four months in the Hospital and suffered brain damage that left her with a Limp slurred speech and a partial memory loss. This once was an attractive intelligent american boy. He had so much potential. But then came the Accident and it did t seem like anyone could save him said Margaret via a social worker and family Friend. Mrs. Holtz said Steve had begun smok ing marijuana in his Early teens. By age 15, he no longer attended classes at Palmetto High school where he once made a s and b s. By then i could see he was changing. But i thought he was such a Good kid that he d change Back. But he did to said mrs. Holtz he became a vegetable. That s what we ended up calling him the vegetable " in late 1976, Steve spent three months atthe Okeechobee school for boys for a num Ber of thefts. He was jailed five times after his 18th birthday last november. When he was in jail that was my breathing time. It got him out of the House said mrs. Holtz who herself once turned him in to police. Dod plans hispanic heritage rites Washington is defense Secre tary Harold Brown will officially open the Pentagon s Observance of National his panic heritage week wednesday by sign ing the human goals charter for his administration both in English and Spanish. The charter serves As a Cornerstone for equal Opportunity throughout the defense department a Pentagon spokesman said monday. After the signing by Brown Deputy Secretary of defense Charles w. Duncan or. Will reaffirm the defense department continuing commitment to affirmative action and equal Opportunity according tothe spokesman. He said that Duncan s remarks will rebroadcast live on the american forces radio and television  hispanic heritage week sept. 10-sept 16 was proclaimed earlier by president Carter. In designating the Observance carte called upon All americans to join with him in launching new hispanic initiatives to in sure the full participation of hispanic americans in every sector of american life. The defense department has entitled it Observance for National Spanish heritage week Juntas Hacia Al future together toward the future. The Pentagon spokesman said that activities based on this theme will be con ducted at defense installations All Over the world