European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 04, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday september 4, 1980 the stars and stripes Page 5 Beetle s 30 years us Era is though fettle Batley has Wen i private lower. Bat the cartoon character started us Arm 30. Forad Mem if la an army of Fern Tusi lag the korean War. And once in. Few print rip Behm be doffed is hat briefly to Niton is eyes and hair. Gulp her comes that girl who been Chas Keg we wow Thebes Buzz  from the of a Happy birthday Beetle that most pummel cd Soldier. Beetle Bai Ley who has survived countless encounters with sgt. Snorkel celebrates his 30lh year of newspaper Fame today. Some things never change of course and after 30 years Beetle Bailey is still the most of time in the stars and stripes. 30 years ago today sept. 4, 1950 a Mode Railroad fans convention opened on a tragic note when at least eight delegates were killed and about so others wounded in a head on crash of two Milwaukee wis. Inter Urban trains. 20 years ago foe a sept. 4, 1960former Franklin county Ala. Jail inmate William c. Stone brought a $50,000 damage suit against Farmer sheriff James Hovater whose cow allegedly ran Over him while he was at the sheriffs farm enjoying a respite from jail labor. 10 years ago today sept. 4, 1970 Vince Lombard coach of the Washington redskins and founder of the Green Bay packers dynasty died of cancer at Georgetown Hospital. He was 57 years old. Floods wreck houses in Small Mexico town Mexico City up Flash hoods washed away at least 50 Bouses in a Small town Northwest of Mexico City killing at least four people and leaving dozens More missing authorities Laid. A police spokesman at Arandas 230 Miles Northwest of Mexico City said torrential Rains swelled Rivers. Famous army private in the world. Beetle remains the Gawky army Yar Bird first seen in 1951 when he entered the army and was stationed at Camp swampy. Created by Mort Walker Beetle Bai Ley is now read by More than 100 million persons in 44 countries and is syndicated by King features to More than 1,500 newspapers worldwide. Walker writes and draws the Beetle Bailey comic strip and has been in the cartoon business since the age of i. He is the Only cartoonist in the world who has four strips being syndicated simultaneously i and Lois with Dik Browne Sam and silo with Jerry Dumas Boner s Ark under the name of Addison and Beetle  the Beetle Bailey character is based on a Campus Cut up patterned after some of Walker s fraternity Brothers at the univer sity of Missouri. Beetle Bailey May have gotten his biggest Start when Walker was drafted in 1942 and became a Rifleman in the infantry. He later attended the infantry officers candidate school and was discharged in 1946 As a first lieutenant after serving in Italy As an intelligence officer. Two circumstances jumped the popularity of Beetle during the mid-1950s. The first was when because the korean War was on. Walker placed Beetle in the army at Camp swampy rather than keeping him on the Campus scene. The second was when the Pacific edition of the stars and stripes mustered Beetle out of its pages. This occurred in 1954 be cause it appeared that army officials Dis liked the impression Walker was giving the Public of their organization through Beetle and his friends the Sarge Rocky cookie killer Licu Fennal fuzz general half Rickand others. The breaking of Beetle then turned into the making of the cartoon because news services and magazines began spread ing the Story around that the army brass did not like the strip. Once done clients were fighting to sign up Beetle Bailey. A Celebration for Beetle s 30th anniversary will be held at the museum of cartoon Art which Walker founded in port Ches Ter n.y., on saturday. To lend authenticity there will be an army tent an army jeep and a special appearance by a military band As Well As various army dignitaries. Beetle forever a private May be Cele Brating his 30th anniversary but he is no where near going Over the Hill unless it a Bunker at Camp swampy. Editor jailed for holding Iran photos Austin Texas up the editor of the University of Texas student newspaper went to jail on contempt of court charges tuesday refusing to give up photographs of iranian protesters on trial for disrupting a Campus speech. Believe me i Don t want to go to jail said Mark Mckinnon daily texan editor As he was taken into the sheriffs office. We re determined not to hand Over the negatives he told reporters. A Bailiff escorted Mckinnon from the courtroom at 2 . And led him Down two flights of stairs to the sheriffs office and an elevator to the jail atop the Travis county court House. County court at Law judge Jon Wisser held Mckinnon in contempt and fined him 5100 for contempt of court and ordered him jailed until he agreed to give up negatives of pictures taken by daily texan photographers at a Jan. 31 speech on the University Campus by the former iranian ambassador to the United nations. I have no doubt and i Dan t think any one has any doubt what the first three Enve Lopes of negatives contain Wisser said. Wisser said he must decide whether to postpone the conclusion of the trial of the 16 protesting iranians unless Mckinnon agrees to produce the pictures subpoenaed by prosecutors. Wis Sci has scheduled final arguments by prosecutors and defense attorneys in the Tri Al of the 16 iranians accused of disrupting the speech by Ferydoun Hoveyda Iran s ambassador to the United nations under the late Shah. Etna top slopes off limits Catania Sicily up mount Etna Europe s highest and most Active vol Cano has started spewing lava and police banned tourists from its upper slopes. Reply to foreign imports Ford unveils its Small cars Edison . Up the first Small car models that Are the Ford motor co s answer to the popular foreign imports rolled. Off the Assembly line tuesday. Secretary of transportation Neil Gold Shmidt drove the first Ford escort a Bright yellow Hatchback off the line with the Ford Board chairman Philip Caldwell in the passenger seat As hundreds of work ers and guests cheered and waved american  Silver Mercury Lynx another front wheel drive vehicle expected to get 30 Miles per gallon in the City and 45 on the High Way was driven by gov. Brendan Byrne will new York gov. Hugh Carey Ashu  s a great ride. Lot of traffic though said Byrne after blowing through a throng of reporters and cameramen who scrambled to record the event. Speaking to Many of the Plant s 3,200 employees area Ford dealers and a Host of Federal state and local officials Caldwell described the new models As the most technically advanced highly fuel efficient Small cars Ever made in Tobii country. Autos that will compete fully fairly and squarely with the  Caldwell said the new compacts which were five years in the making arc the first examples of the most aggressive development program in Ford s history. Over the nut few years he said. Ford will introduce Light new front a Eccl drive lines beginning next Spring with a new two seater sports Coupe that will incorporate the magic of the 1955 thunderbird and the mass Appeal and affordability of the 1965  six months later he said. Ford will unveil five door models of the escort and Lynx that will have the look of a four door Sedan and the function of a station Wagon. Ford spent $65 million and a year to expand modernize and retool the 77.4-Acrcassembly Plant in Edison which is expected to produce 200,000 models this Vear and250,000 next year. On june 20, Ford which lost s467.9 Mil lion in the but Quarter closed Down its Plant at Mahwah. N j., laying off some 3, 700 employees. About 600 of them have since been transferred to the Metuchen Plant. The new models Are expected to Cost be tween s4.700 and $6,000