European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday september 25, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 5 Rickshaw Power in motor City Bernie Falahee operates a Rickshaw along Detroit s Woodward Avenue which has been closed to vehicular traffic. The Street is being converted into a $10-million covered pedestrian mall As part of Detroit s downtown revival. Falahee a suburban school teacher says that on a Good Day he earns in the neigh boyhood of $40. He charges 25 cents a Block. Up photo Low level flights air guard has town in Iowa up in arms Ida Grove Iowa up their Homes shaken and cattle frightened Ida Grove people Are Plain mad. The targets of their anger Are route vr511 and the Nebraska air National guard operates a 16-mile air Corri Dor in Iowa known As vr511, specifically set aside for Low level High Speed training flights that Are intended to prepare pilots for flying under enemy radar during War problem is that Ida Grove sits smack in the Middle of the route and for months the Nebraska air guard s f4c phantoms and Jet aircraft from guard units in Des Moines Sioux City and Sioux Falls . Have been making runs Over the town at speeds of 550 Mph and altitudes As Low As 100 be complained quite a bit said Don Poggensee a Pilot and Accident prevention Counselor for the Federal aviation administration. The problem is that it s the Only route in the state and it s Tough getting them not to use it. We be been trying to get the route changed but it s been to no Poggensee said there have been at least three near collisions Between guard jets and civilian aircraft in the area. One involved Tom Bainbridge manager of the Ida Grove Airport who recently was on final approach to the Airport banking left Over the town when one of the f4c s came screaming overhead. The guard Pilot estimated he missed Bainbridge s plane by 50 feet Poggensee Goodenow who operates a farm near Battle Creek said his cattle ran through a Fence one Day driven by the Shock of one of the guard jets flying Over the farm at 100 feet. White House still rejects mandatory wage Price curbs Washington up president car Ter says he will not include mandatory wage or Price controls in his Tough new anti inflation strategy and Only an extreme emergency would change that decision. In a wide ranging interview with visit ing news executives Carter also predicted a rapid conclusion for israeli egyptian peace treaty negotiations and said he hoped the Camp David agreements would Lead to relations Between Israel Jordan and the palestinians As Well. The interview was conducted Friday but the transcript was released saturday. The president said he has not yet made All the final decisions on his new anti Infra Adair called to Cap Ohio Gas Well fire Cambridge Ohio up red Adair and his Well capping Crew saturday began the task of taming a Gas Well which burst into flames burning eight men three seriously. Officials of the Armstrong drilling co. Wooster said it was the largest Gas Well Blowout in Ohio history. It was drilled As part of the Energy self Elp program of the Libbey Owens Ford co. Of Toledo Ohio s largest Glass manufacturer. The three most seriously injured were burned Friday night when flames spewed onto the open end of the Derrick platform on a farm about 12 Miles North of Cam Bridge in East Central Ohio. Adair said he planned to pump water to Cool Metal around the Well before the Rig and damaged equipment could be re moved. However the nearest water Supply is More than three Miles away so water trucks were ordered to the scene from All Over Eastern Ohio. Harper & Row takes Over . Lippincott publishers Philadelphia a the . Lip Pincott co., the publishing firm that published the egg and i and alive has been acquired by Harper & Row in a Cash Stock option Trade that will prevent the financial demise of the once solid House. Stockholders voted 954,952 shares for the merger with the new York publishing giant and 2,188 against. Harper officials say Lippincott will continue As a separate publishing Tion plan primarily because of his Atten Tion was absorbed so Long by the 13-Day Camp David Summit but predicted the plan will be a Tough Strong step in con trolling he said the approach will contain All we can do within the present statutory Bounds. I am not in favor of mandatory pricing and wage controls and i Don t have any in Tention of putting them in unless our coun try reaches an extreme emergency he said. He added that at present there is certainly not any Prospect of that at Carter also said he believes labor unions would be receptive to a plan in which workers and Industry had to share the essentially he used the same language As the Al Cio president George Meany. Who warned monday that the program had to be fair to gain Union compliance. The president said his plan would be announced very quickly but set no dead line. On other subjects Carter did not mention the dispute Over understandings reached at the Camp David Summit but said i predict a rapid conclusion of the agreement Between Egypt and Israel on the Sinai and hopefully open up the possibilities for increased relationships Between Israel Jordan the palestinians and their other said he does not believe that recent rulings including the jailing of a new York times reporter indicate the judiciary is becoming imperialistic or abusive toward the said at least one person has told him efforts to trim Federal red tape Are bearing fruit. I know Billy at his service station says that the Federal safety regulators inspections and regulations Are much less onerous than Thev were official punched out by top aide Washington up Ellen Feingold figured she d have her share of troubles when she took a senior with the transportation department. But she did t count on getting beaten up in her office in a Dis Pute with her top aide. Police said Feingold director of the department s civil rights office was chatting with a Secretary Friday morning when Vincent Oliver walked in. She had just fired Oliver his second dismissal from the $32,000-a-year As Deputy director of the civil rights office. The civil service commission ordered him reinstated with $55,000 in Back pay the first time. Good morning police quoted being old As saying As he entered her loth floor office. Oliver according to police returned her greeting by punching her in the jaw and kicking her in the Pelvis As she crumpled to the floor. Authorities said he also punched the jaw of an administrative aide who tried to intercede. Police said Oliver left the building walked to a station House and surrendered. He was arraigned on assault charges and set free without bail on condition that he stays away from the transposition build and her administrative aide Henri Baron were released after treat ment for contusions at a nearby coast guard medical facility. Former transportation Secretary Wil Liam Coleman fired Oliver in 1976 after they clashed Over the department s equal employment policy. Feingold told Oliver thursday he d be fired again. Missile failure explained Washington a the Navy said Friday a Short circuit caused a Tomahawk cruise missile to fail seconds after it was launched from the Pacific missile test Cen Ter in California on sept. 14. This was the third flight test failure of a Tomahawk in less than two months with Only one successful flight reported during that period. The other two failures were attributed to different causes. Of time sept. 25, 1948 american authorities protested to the russians Over soviet anti aircraft firing practice in the air corridor traversed by Anglo american Airlift planes supplying Berlin. Sept. 25, 1958 a new Type Navy Polaris test rocket was deliberately destroyed in flight when it went off course. Shattered pieces rained Back on Cape canaveral. No one was Hurt. Sept. 25, 1968 sporadic firing broke out in downtown Mexico City after the army seized a vocational school. A Hospital official said at least 15 persons were killed in the Battle which raged 24 hours
