European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday september 27, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 5 women writers win Access to yank locker room new York up a Federal judge ruled monday that women sports writers have a constitutional right to enter the locker room of the new York Yankees after a game to conduct inter decision by . District judge Constance Baker Motley struck Down the Effort by baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn and the Yankee manage ment to maintain the clubhouse locker room As an All male preserve. Motley ruled that the policy of total exclusion of women from the Yankee locker room does not violate the play ers rights to privacy but does deprive women sportswriters of their rights to equal Protection of the Laws. She suggested a number of ways including the use of curtains to shield players from the roving eyes of female reporters. The ruling was made on the complaint filed last december by me Lissa Ludtke a baseball reporter for sports illustrated who said she was barred solely on the basis of sex from entering the Yankee clubhouse after the world series last year. This denial of equal Access Mot Ley said places female reporters at a severe competitive disadvantage be cause they miss stories witnessed or heard by male reporters inside the ruling said that women reporters who have Access to locker rooms in other sports have found that a substantial portion of their material comes from the locker room and thus that Access to the locker room is an important part of their they Are Able to compete fully with the male reporters on their beat be cause they Are Given equal Access to the news and the new makers Motley noted that Kuhn urged All major league baseball teams in april 1975 to maintain a unified stand against admitting women reporters to the club House. Most of the Yankee players however decided last year that women should have Access to the clubhouse if they conducted themselves profession , Motley said Yankee management reversed the position of the players and said no More to women re porters in the Yankee apparently shot at estranged wife husband charged in Bostock death Crown Point ind. Up a first de Gree murder charge was filed monday against a Man accused of killing California Angels outfielder Lyman Bostock with a Shotgun blast aimed at the gunman s estranged wife. Leonard Smith 31, estranged husband of Barbara Smith who was a recent acquaint Ance of Bostock was charged in Lake county Superior court. Police arrested Smith Early sunday for the saturday night shoot ing in nearby Gary ind. Smith who was arrested a few hours after the shooting of Bostock in a car on a Gary Street saturday night was held with out bail in the Lake county jail. The Lake county prosecutor s office filed the first degree murder charge which car Ries a penalty of 30 to 60 years. The suspect told the court his family had hired a private attorney and proceedings of time were postponed until 8 30 a. M. Friday. Police investigators said Smith who was arrested seven times on various charges be tween 1964 and 1974 but was convicted on none of them was trying to kill his wife Barbara 26, who was Riding in the Back seat of a car with Bostock. Bostock and mrs. Smith who had filed for divorce two months ago had met Only min utes earlier at the Home of her sister Joan Hawkins detectives said. Hawkins whom Bostock had known for several years was in the front seat of the car driven by bos Tock s Uncle Thomas Turner 43, who police said had helped raise the two girls. It la probably come out like he Bostock was having some kind of affair with the woman. But it was t like that at All said police sgt. Bob Scheerer. They had been together for a total of about 20 blocks before the shooting. It s just a Bostock one of the highest paid players in baseball was taken to St. Mary s Hospi Tal after he was shot at Point Blank Range with a Small gauge Shotgun. Doctors worked on him for 3/2 hours before he died at l 30a.m. Sunday. Mrs. Smith was briefly hospitalized with Pellet wounds to her face. Police sgt. Robert Highsmith said bos Tock the american league s ninth leading hitter was visiting his Uncle after the an gels were Defeated 5-4 by the White sox sat urday in Chicago. At fifth and Jackson streets the suspect pulled alongside and fired Point Blank into the car apparently with a .410-gauge or a 20-gauge Shotgun he said. Leonard Smith sept. 27, 1948 gov. Thomas e. Dewey said the Truman administration had blundered and Bumble in attempts to bring Down High prices. Sept. 27, 1958 the Navy s seventh Vanguard blasted off in an attempt to place in orbit a 20-Inch satellite that could give the world the latest weather forecast including Advance Hurricane data. Sept. 27, 1968 vice president Hubert h. Humphrey declaring the . Cannot play the role of global gendarme suggested that a . Peace keeping Force move into Vietnam to administer free elections and verify the withdrawal of for eign san Diego crash revives Airport site controversy san Diego a the collision of a jetliner and a Small plane Over san Diego monday revived a 50-year-old controversy Over the location of this City s major air port Lindbergh Field. The planes in monday s crash smashed together Over a residential area of single Story houses and scattered apartment buildings. It occurred As the Pacific South Pacific Southwest is busiest commuter airline in nation san Diego a Pacific Southwest airlines which links California s largest cities is the nation s busiest commuter san Diego based spa has 200 flights a Day of its White red and Orange jets each painted with a big smile under the cockpit and carries More than 7 million passengers a year within California. The crash of a Boeing 727 in san Diego monday was the first fatal crash in the 28 year history of the airline said Scott Al Bey a spa Public relations spokesman. Spa founded in 1949, flies Between san Francisco san Jose Oakland Monterey Fresno Stockton Sacramento Lake Tahoe Hollywood Burbank los Angeles on Tario Long Beach and Sandiego. The airline has gained popularity with highly competitive fares. Red Eye flights which depart los Angeles and san fran Cisco each night after Midnight Cost $20 one 727 Jet is one of spa s most common plane which has All three engines mounted in the Tail Section is manufactured by Boeing aircraft of Seattle. It carries about 130 passengers and was first introduced around 1965. West airways 727 was entering a Steep de scent to land at the Airport which lies on the Edge of san Diego Bay just West of the downtown Section. This approach pattern is Over the tallest buildings of downtown 20-Story Banks and resort hotels built on a Hill above Lind Bergh Field. The Accident was the first fatal crash at Lindbergh which handles almost 80,000 flights a year. But the Steep Landing de scent Over downtown up to 40 degrees at times has been a matter of concern Ever since the Airport opened in 1927. Two years ago John Mclucas head of the Federal aviation administration called for relocation of Lindbergh saying it had the potential for a tragic its location near the heart of the nation s ninth largest City made the crash threat ominous Mclucas said. Airline pilots agreed privately that Lindbergh potentially was one of the world s most dangerous Over the years Many have argued that the route Over hilltops Power lines and san Diego s tallest buildings made the pilots especially careful and that the land Ings were safer As a result. In bad weather the flight direction is re versed forcing planes to climb sharply Over the downtown buildings. Panel hears probes on Juk slaying Washington up tapping giant charts with wooden pointers three teams of investigators monday painstakingly presented evidence aimed at demolishing conspiracy theories about the assassination of John f. in testimony Likely to encourage assassination buffs one of the teams con ceded it failed to reach agreement on a photo of what appears to be a Man with a Rifle atop the Grassy Knoll at the scene of the assassination. The panels of photographic anthropological and handwriting experts lectured the House assassinations committee classroom style in the final week of a month Long series of Public hearings on the 15-year-old assassination. Or. Bob Hunt associate professor of optical sciences at the University of Arizona said his team of photo experts rejected a picture said to show the shots came from the Knoll opposite the Texas school Book depository. Trick of sunlight using color enlargements from Abra Ham zapruder s Amateur motion picture of the assassination Hunt said what appears to be a Man with a Rifle was actually a trick of similarly Analysed a Section of the film showing what appears to be a Man s head and the barrel of a Rifle pointing through shrubs toward the e presidential said experts who plotted the precise location of zapruder and the motorcade concluded the head was of a Man standing on the sidewalk and the Rifle barrel was probably the limb of a Shrub. But Hunt s team failed to agree on the interpretation of a blurred picture from another Amateur film showing what appears to be a Man standing behind a Para pet on the Grassy Knoll with something perhaps a Rifle in his hands. He said analysis indicated the existence of a Man but the experts were divided Over whether the object he held could be identified As a Rifle. He said there was no sign of gun smoke or muzzle Flash in the photo. Sgt. Cecil Kirk director of the Mobile crime Laboratory of the Washington metropolitan police department said his panel of experts studied a series of photos taken of Oswald from his time As a Marine until his said his team unanimously rejected theories by assassination buffs that some of the photos were faked concluding the pictures were All of the one and same Man Lee Harvey Collins Snow chief of physical anthropology research at the Federal Avia Tion administration s aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City said his team came to the same conclusion by examining the scenes of the and Snow also scoffed at an Assort ment of Book allegations based on the identification of persons photographed in the crowd along the motorcade route
