European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse May 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 la Shantytown flattened Loose t i As City evicts 63 squatters los Angeles a a skid Row Shantytown set up by homeless people to protest inadequate shelter in the was bulldozed after police shut it Down and arrested 12 we will rebuild Justi Ceville one Way or said Ted who was among those arrested for trespassing during the he called the demolition Stu pid and police officers closed the Shack City Fri Day morning As 40 of the shantytowns 63 residents were still in the about six hours police made a final sweep of the collection of cardboard and wooden ordering out a few people who were picking Over the symbolic protest the yellow Bulldozer smashed and in a the Wood and cardboard that had stood for five months were reduced to a pile of debris in the Center of an fenced off the residents had decided beforehand that 12 would submit to arrest As a sym Bolic they were very very there was no Justi Ceville resident Peter my said of the i had five four pairs of an alarm i had a Home said now i have to go Back out on the Street with my Bedroll and those which included two were booked for investigation of a Dan Cooke most were expected to be released on their own among those released was the organizer of Justi Ceville who had leased the site for a arranged for a Telephone in one Shack and brought in four portable the Shack City Rose in january after authorities Tore Down a tent City across the Street from City investigators from the City attorneys office said Justi Ceville violated City was had no running lacked adequate and was infested with rodents and on the City attorney threat ened to file criminal charges against the lot Orient investment and realty the firm posted no trespass ing signs and warned the squatters that police would be better than hotels those sleaze bag hotels the City a Bulldozer smashes the cardboard and wooden shanties that make up a photo sends you to Are dirtier and More in said there was a Unity in which people respected each it was clean and it want Only Sani tation of the it was sanitation of the the nonprofit Weingart Center will House 14 Justi Ceville men for a week at the request of City while City agencies work to find housing for women and children who occupied the Shack Weingart presi Dent Maxene Johnston after the 61yearold Helen Oliver sat on a stack of cardboard holding her she said she had no place to and would probably return to Selling cardboard for a in but you Roll with the she i never saw a rat or a Roach i had a place to come kills six in Tennessee up a Flat bed trailer broke Loose from a truck and careened across an interstate kill ing six people including three College Stu police said authorities said a Powell erection driven by Jim Evans of was headed East on interstate 40 when the trailer then the trailer rolled across the a barricaded median into two westbound also killed in the Accident were three members of a vacationing family from Leb a fourth College student was critically the victims were identified As Elda Wal her Deborah and wallaces Billie All of family Pho tos and suitcases suggested the women were on patrolman Hal Miler the other victims were Teresa Lynn an East Tennessee state University Sophomore Thomas a University of Tennessee and Robert a University of Tennes see Terri a University of ten Nessee was listed in critical condition at the University of Tennessee Hospi Tal police said the vehicles were its the worst weve had around Here in a Long said Floyd its the worst i can police said a Concrete Barrier Wall that had been used to Divide the lanes during a Highway widening project had been removed recently and replaced by plastic i dont believe any of those people even saw it Miller but there have been a wreck had there been a Evans was found wandering in a Daze at the scene and was later treated for i slammed on my brakes trying to make it the trailer hit the Back of my truck when i Felt it but it shot across the said a 12year trucking i just cant understand what Hap Harry Mccubbin said he saw the trailer sail airborne As it crossed the median and hit the i saw the trailer break then All hell broke said who was driving behind the Gay couple fighting for return of 2 Foster children Boston a two Gay men say they will Chal Lenge the states removal of two Foster boys from their the aged 2 and were taken from Donald and David of Boston on two weeks after their because of an uproar by Community residents who considered the arrangement morally we take exception to any suggestion by the depart ment that there was any evidence of harm to the boys As a result of the Media or that there was Community opposition to the placement of these children with the two men said in a statement the boys Mother acknowledged the Good care her children received with us and expressly approved the placement with us As an openly Gay they Kevin an attorney for the Gay said he will ask an administrative Law judge to reverse the removal order of Marie Secretary of the state department of social were starting because the Issue Here is these two childrens Best said who is executive director of Gay lesbian advocates and defend we feel this is the most appropriate we Are concerned about publicity and maintaining the anonymity of the Matava has said she removed the children because she believed the Public storm surrounding the boys place ment would be too stressful for the Gay men had been recommended by two and Matava said the removal had nothing to do with the character of the Matava said state guidelines do not address the Issue of homosexuality As a consideration in qualifying Foster Michael Dukakis on thursday asked Matava and human services Secretary Philip Johnston to set a policy concerning homosexual Foster Story of Black Wii gis Jackson says new York a the final Chap Ter of world War ii will not be written until the neglected Story of the Black Soldier is the Jesse Jackson said upon his return from a five Day trip to West Germany and Black soldiers fought and came Back Home less recognized than even the Viet Nam Jackson said Friday at John Kennedy International the Black Soldier was the Doormat of american sent in to snap the find the Booby traps and take the Jackson they were the expendable ones men who were wounded and who died but when Allied soldiers marched into the concentration the Black face was a Symbol of he Jackson said former concentration Camp prisoners told him they hugged Black soldiers because they knew Blacks were part of the liberation Force from not returning nazi the civil rights Leader called for the establishment of an International com Mission on the role of the Black Soldier in world War we want to reach out to the Black Veteran in Ameri Ca and Europe for the Sake of history to set the record straight on the contributions and the role of the Black Jackson was joined at the Airport Ter Minal by about 20 Black world War ii he urged them to look in their attics and trunks for documents to record their
