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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes january 1981 his motor Home impresses judges in German contest photo Harry Connors shows the cup his homemade motor Home was by John Glass Stuttgart Bureau chief Stuttgart when Harry Connors built a motor Home for his he didst realize it would be a Connors vehicle turned out to be Spe Cial enough that the judges of the caravan motoring and touring Cut contest Here at the Killenberg exhibition grounds awarded him a special a Large Tro Phy even though his motor Home didst quite meet vehicle specifications for the i didst build my motor Home to enter it in the Connors that was i actually built it to tour Europe and to live in a few weeks while i look for a retirement Home Back in the to be eligible for the sponsored by the Stuttgart motor sports club and the German automobile club the motor Home could be no More than 2 me ters meters High and 5 meters at least 70 percent of the motor Home had to be constructed or modified by the Connors vehicle was meters but Gerhard a member of the Federal court ruling in judge told to stay out of school tight up Federal judge Nauman Scott thursday dropped contempt charges against state judge Rich Ard Lee in a school desegregation Battle but sternly warned Lee to Bow out of the fight or face stiff a crowd of about people some singing god bless America and we shall overcome demonstrated on both sides of the Issue outside the court soviet troops plan joint Maneu vers Budapest a hungarian and soviet troops stationed in Hungary will hold joint Maneu vers the hungarian news Agency Mai it said the Maneu vers will be held in keeping with the annual training schedule and involve designated staffs and Scotts decision was a Compromise in the Case of three White girls who want to continue attending Allwhite Buckeye High school despite his order assigning them to mostly Black Jones Street Junior High in a desegregation program for Rapides dates Are moved Back for annual jewish Retreat Heidelberg the jewish torah convocation at the Alpine inn in Berchtesgaden will be held May rather than May 2225 As originally a Usa eur spokesman this annual jewish religious Retreat is open to All military and Dod civilian personnel and authorized the Retreat was moved Back because of a conflict in the spokesman further information May be obtained from the nearest jewish Scott agreed to let the three girls remain at the Rural Buckeye school through the which ends next but or dered them to enrol at predominantly Black Jones Street in Alexandria for the Spring semester if they want to receive credit for their semester at he warned that if Lee tries again to interfere with his court desegregation he will Fine Lee up to a Day for his Hungary to boost Export of farm products to West Budapest a Hungary announced plans for a 43 percent increase Over the next five years in farm product exports sold for Western currencies or their agricultural output is be boosted by at least 12 officials news update Check Book journalism Washington a a group of Washington news reporters and writers who were friends of the slain Michael Halberstam have sent a letter to the firm that publishes life deploring its payment of to the alleged killer of the nationally known life Magazine has paid that amount to Bernard Welch for the right to use several of the alleged master thiefs per Sonal photographs in its february who was interviewed at the District of Columbia has been indicted for the first decree murder of Halberstam by a Superior court grand Halberstam was fatally shot during the course of a burglary at his washing ton Home the which includes Daniel Schorr of the Cable news Fred Graham of lbs and Ron former press Secretary to president Ger Ald called the payment Check Book journalism at its most re preen Rudolf Hess rebuffed Germany up the West German constitutional court rejected thursday a demand by Rudolf Hess that it order the Bonn government to take Steps to gain his release from the fou Power Spandau War crimes Pris the court upheld a lower courts ver dict that the foreign ministry is not obliged to put pressure on the United France and the soviet Union to gain Freedom for the 86year old former Deputy of Adolf the constitutional West Ger Many supreme ruled that the government had appealed to the four world War ii victors to Grant him am Nesty and does not have to do musician strike ends Hollywood a after a s6 month musicians who play scores for movies and television shows began returning to having reached a tentative agreement with producers that failed to win their key members of the american federation of musicians went Back to recording Stu Dios without an agreement for payments for reruns of filmed television shows the Issue which sparked the association of German caravan manufacturers and one of the contest said we had to give major Connors a special award because he had so Many unique features built into his who works at Vii corps he at Kelley constructed his motor Home on the Chassis of a 1972 Volkswagen working mostly on saturdays and evenings since the vehicle has a 911t porsche engine with a five Speed transmit porsche front disc air Shock a false floor that contains sever Al storage a toilet and a two Burner double sink and Central heating and a ceiling High enough to let a 6footer stand originally i planned to use a design i found in popular mechanics Magazine that called for polyurethane As a construction Connors when i checked into the costs of the material Here in it was too i then decided to buy a used travel trailer and mount it on the vows i took a Torch and Cut my bus off right be Hind the cab All the Way Down to the floor i then took the trailer apart and bolted it to an aluminium slightly above the original for the other like sleep ing i used invested Connors said he invested about in the and estimates that if he were to Purchase a new motor Home with the same it would Cost close to would he undertake the Job again it was a lot of hard but Well Worth the he my father inlaw helped me a lot and so did my one person i would like to especially thank is Peter Reck who runs the Auto Hobby shop at Wilkins Barracks in Lud Peter gave me a lot of Good advice and did most of the aluminium Weld ing for was Connors disappointed that he didst win the Cut first prize of Marks i think what my Mother inlaw said puts it he she told me that a Good thing that i won a trophy instead of she thinks i would have spent the Money on something else for the motor instead of having a memento i can keep the rest of my Power outage in Quebec Montreal up a failure in a circuit breaker caused a blackout across Quebec that left about customers without electricity for up to an temperatures l 1 18 32 31 28 City 24 24 25 25 14 20 8 49 29 31 19 25 25 30 21 16 a Olnes 23 3 0 43 18 48 29 City 39 vegas l h 28 41 55 73 30 35 29 46 59 73 3 15 28 43 25 30 40 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