European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February 1981 the stars and stripes Page 5 14 every girl cupid he Washington up a fresh exhibit of antique Valentines proves that while cupids Guise May change with the his aim has been the smithsonian museum display wont you be my Valentine shows off nearly 200 years of european and american Valentines Day the old est cards Are the most festooned with Flowers and layered with paper scantily winged cupids were a favorite theme of Early Valentine who portrayed nymphs driving rowing boats and leveling their arrows at unsuspecting Young most Early 19th Century cards were imported from eur since Valentines cards were not made in the United states until the mid1800s when Esther Howland of introduced lace embossed Howland employed dozens of Young women who painstakingly Cut and punched out the designs and hand coloured decorations to make the romantic by the civil cards began adopting contemporary one 1865 card depicts an army tent draped in an american it promises the senders sweetheart he will fight with a warriors Arm for humorous cards started popping up about the turn of the some not in the Best of according to the smithsonian John who culled the Valen Tine retrospective from the museums collection of greeting one card made in the 1920s shows a Cherub aiming his Bow at a every girl cupid he reads the during the military themes surfaced with Young ladies in Brief uniforms offering some romantic greetings to fighting deceptive Trade practice charged Jeremiah inventor found innocent Texas up an inventor claiming creation of a perpetual motion machine was found innocent saturday of per jury charges stemming from a deceptive Trade practices suit brought by the state attorney generals a jury deliberated for four hours and ruled that inventor Arnold who named his electricity generating machine Jeremiah did not perjure himself in telling a civil court jury in 1979 that the machine would produce Power without an outside Energy i feel like the lords will was Burke i always believed that if we told the truth that we could live with the judgment of the jury Foreman Lucy we had reasonable doubt of the defendants investigators for the attorney generals office said an examination of the machine revealed a hidden wire that led from the Energy free submersible pumps in the heart of Jeremiah to a Battery pack in an other room and ultimately to an electrical burkes defense was that he removed his special pumps just before the examination and installed electrical pumps so he could protect his Yetton patented Burke is also charged with eight counts of felony theft for allegedly bilking investors out of to develop Jeremiah refers to the biblical Pas Call unto me and i will answer and show thee great and mighty which thu know est Jeremiah is a machine that stands about 12 feet Burke claims water flowing it goes through Here Roberta staff Engineer for the Ford engineering and research shows former astronaut Russ Schweick Art one of a Fleet of experimental Energy vehicles that operate on natural Gas and the car is one of the first in a Fleet of 40 methanol burning escorts that will be put into service in the los Angeles county mechanical de Schweickart is chairman of the California state Energy commis up photo from a 200gallpn tank Over an electricity generating Turbine produces enough Power to run an average size after the water goes Over the Burke his Energy free submersible pumps push the water Back up to the top of the machine and Back into the where the process begins Burke contends the Only maintenance Jeremiah needs is to be oiled periodically and water be added to offset he the machine runs he planned to sell the machines for the innocent verdict was the second time the state failed to prove criminal charges against in april 1980 a trial on one of the theft charges ended in a Hung of the Money he took he he Only has left and that went for a Home and town lives in fear of gunman after 6 slain in week up shopkeepers and Gas station attendants close their Busi Nesses and residents Bolt their doors at night in fear of what police believe is a Lone gun Man who has killed six people in less than a week All in the first four victims were in this North Ern Illinois Industrial City of the most recent two were in neighbouring 20 Miles North across the state police in both cities said they Are con Vinced the victims were killed by the same Rockford police said they Are seeking to question a Man wanted on a Rob Bery warrant in he is believed to have recently lived in Little pattern has two victims were Black and four were drugs and gambling debts almost have been ruled Only Small amounts of Money were taken from two of the All were slain in Daylight Rockford police James Anderson keeps mum on the Large he said in describing the murder that All i can one thing is certain because of the recent murders residents Are flocking to local gunshots to Arm a gunshot owner on the Northwest Side refuses to have his name in print because i dont want that Guy mad at me for saying he said recent business has been this time of in a maybe id sell two or three in the past Ive sold he everybody coming in Hus store Gainsborough Art shown Paris up Britain Princess Alex Andra has inaugurated an exhibition of Thomas Gainsborough paintings at the grand groups hit legs hurting no minorities Washington up1 four jewish groups asked the Small business administration sunday to end regulations that pre sume racial minorities arc automatically eligible for Agency seas regional offices sometimes treat All no minority business As ineligible for consideration under programs for the socially and economically the jewish groups said in a formal statement on new regulations proposed by the the four groups were the american jew ish the american jewish com the anti defamation league of Bani brith and the jewish Community re lations Council of new the statement said the new regulations Are Likely to have the effect of excluding All no minorities from participation in pro Grams for the social need such a they would be particularly unfortunate for those elements of the jewish such As who would be ineligible under the seas proposed standards of proof for demonstrating social under the proposed an Indi Vidal seeking to establish social disadvantage to be eligible for sea Aid must prove his or her Case by Clear and convincing we Are unaware of any governmental entitlement program under which applicants must meet the Clear and convincing Standard of proof to establish the jewish statement standards of proof Given the vagueness of the present substantive standards of an individual Small business seeking socially disadvantaged status will be compelled to go to extraordinary expense in order to present its the statement that requirement will discourage any application from other than presumptively disadvantaged racial minority it requiring an individual to prove that he or she is As disadvantaged As members of the presumptively disadvantaged groups is to impose an impossible it said the use of minority groups As the yardstick of presumptively disadvantaged groups indicates the sea has no intention of aiding those in groups other than racial of time in the stars and stripes 30 years ago today 1951 a Lon Don found one five Inch bicycle a Large bicycle Bolt and part of a bicycle a steel twist Drill and a coiled Spring while operating on a labourer believed to be suffering from 20 years ago today 1961 French president Charles de Gaulle and West German Chan cellar Konrad Adenauer met in Paris for a to secret talk on ironing out disagreements Over the future of a United 70 years ago today 1971 Phillip Berri Gan and five other War protesters pleaded innocent to charges that they plotted to kid Nap presidential adviser Henry Kissinger and blow up the heating systems of five government buildings in