European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 2, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes monday october 2, 1978 Acle aided in fighting conviction charges in cussing Case dropped Detroit up a suburban red Ford township Man whose swearing at a next door neighbor brought him a Fine and two years probation has had All charges against him dropped. Officials said they Are considering changing the ordinance under which Lawrence Westberg 42, was convicted of using indecent Westberg was convicted last year after he swore at his neighbor and his neighbor s children. Judge Robert Brang placed West Berg on probation and ordered him to pay $400 in fines and court costs. But Westberg with the Aid of the american civil liberties Union fought the conviction. The Acle sent attorney Thomas Mcguire to review the Case and Mcguire filed for a new trial charging that the anti cussing ordinance was unconstitutional and that there were flaws in the conduct of the first trial. Assistant township attorney Alan Helmkamp joined in Mcguire s motion Friday then moved to dismiss the charges. I think it s Clear that the ordinance was unconstitutional Mcguire said. Redford township is the Only place i know of in the country where it s unlawful to utter an insult in Public. It s a Good thing Tiger stadium in t located there he said. Helmkamp said his decision to seek dismissal of the Case was pragmatic. If we had been successful in the District court the township would still have to go through a Long Chain of appeals maybe even up to the state supreme court he said. I had to recognize that the Acle has the resources to take this thing Al the Way honouring Pioneer women s rights Leader the likeness of suffragist Susan b. An Thony is on one Side of a new Dollar Coin rape Case reenacted authorized by Congress. The reverse carries a symbolic depiction of the Eagle Landing of american Astro nauts on the Moon. Up photo agencies Money Bill advances Washington up the Senate has approved by a 62-7 vote the report of a con Ference committee appropriating $8.5 Bil lion in fiscal 1979 to run the state Justice and Commerce departments and the supreme court. The report must be approved by the House before it can be sent to president Carter who is expected to sign it into Law. The massive Money Bill provides $561 million for salaries and expenses of the Fri including $2 million for Domestic Security and terrorism investigations and $2.5 million for Bank robbery investigations. It also provides $65 million for the fed eral Trade commission but stipulates that none of the funds can be used to promulgate a Trade regulation concerning television advertising to children. Cereal advertisements the Etc intends to investigate such advertising particularly concerning advertisements for sugar Laden cereals aimed at children. The legislation states that the Etc does not intend to Issue any Rule on Chil Dren s advertising in fiscal year 1979." it also notes that All Trade regulation rules of the commission must be submitted for review by Congress and possible legislative veto thus assuring that the proper authorizing committees will review any Rule on Hildren s advertising prior to its effective the Etc also is required under the legislation to include foreign automobile producers in any study of the Auto Industry. It noted that less than one third of All cars produced in 1977 were made in the United states. Any report on the Auto Industry which fails to take account of competitive factors in the world Market for automotive products would Lack balance and objectivity the legislation said. California s chief Justice is target of to ads Sacramento Calif. A califor Nia television viewers will begin seeing a series of emotionally charged political ads this week aimed at an unusual Campaign target the state s chief Justice. The ads Are being run by a conservative state senator . Richardson who is heading up a Campaign trying to unseat chief Justice Rose Bird the first woman to sit on the state High court. In one and a woman stands in front of an elevator. Suddenly a Young Man rushes from behind grabs her forces her inside then drags her out again. Later she is seen slumped on a bed dishevelled her belong Ings strewn about. The scene is intended to be a reenact ment of a rape Case on which Bird issued a controversial opinion. A male voice tells us that because of Bird and the state High court the Perpe Trator of a deed very much like this one could be freed from prison As Early As next May four years after the the other and shows a school bus rolling along while an announcer denounces so Cial engineers and notes that Bird and the court majority allowed mandatory busing for integration to proceed in los Angeles. The ads and the Campaign itself Are the first of their kind against a California supreme court Justice. They Are aimed at the nov. 7 election when voters will be asked whether Bird and three of her six col leagues should be kept on the court. State supreme court justices face voter affirmation every 12 years or at the first gubernatorial election after their appoint ments. They Are normally routinely approved. Richardson said his Law and order Campaign committee is spending $60,000 for the first week of saturation showings in the state s five largest Urban markets starting tuesday. Bird has stayed put of the Campaign and her administrative aide Steve Buehl said she told him she can t respond in kind to these kinds of but Harry Delizonna of san Jose for Mer state farm labor Board general coun Sel and chairman of the pro Bird group californians for an Independent judiciary denounced the advertisements. To blame the chief Justice and supreme court in essence for the rape of that poor woman is nothing but Gutter politics and mud slinging Delizonna said in an interview. In the rape Case Bird joined the court majority in ruling that rape by itself had not been defined by the legislature As great bodily injury a category that automatically adds to a sentence. Bird in a separate opinion expressed her repugnance at the crime but said she was bound by the Law that limited the great bodily injury category to specific types of physical harm. The commercial does not mention the technicalities of the ruling and leaves the impression that Bird did not consider the crime a serious one. Carter s pledges cheered by Blacks Washington up president car Ter brought thousands of cheering Blacks to their feet saturday night with his vow to fight for full employment and Era Exten Sion Bills and to keep Andrew Young As . Ambassador As Long As he is presi Dent. He brought the 8th annual congressional Black caucus dinner to a Climax when he called Rosa Parks the woman whose protest started the Montgomery bus boy Cott to the stage arid greeted her with aug. Right on he shouted As he finished. The Black tie audience shouted Back right on As Carter finished his speech he said that those in the audience like him had been criticized for being too ambitious or being the targets of remarks like they re never Carter asked a series of questions can we afford to be satisfied when we be got hundreds of thousands of Young Black men walking the streets looking for jobs the crowd roared no he got a similar response when he asked about poor people with abusive land lords when More is spent on nuclear weapons than on peace when Equality is still a Distant Carter also got loud applause when he announced his support for the Humphrey Hawkins full employment Bill this year and when he predicted the Senate would pass a Bill extending time for ratifying the equal rights amendment before con Gress intended Date of adjournment oct.14. The crowd Rose its feet when Carter said As Long As i am president and Andy Young is willing to stay there hell be . twice Carter quoted the Bible line inasmuch Asye did it not unto one of the least of these be did it not unto in a statement issued before the dinner Carter pledged to make the Humphrey Hawkins full employment Bill one of the highest legislative priorities of my
