European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes tuesday june 11,1985 Black women organizing to develop political clout Atlanta a United by their sex and race and stung by rejection from the american political process Black women arc creating a National organization to develop clout and prove they Are a Power to be reckoned with leaders say. We stand United for a common cause said Gloria . Toote a Republican member of the presidential commission on private sector initiatives. We stand United by the color of our skin and by our  when no Black woman was considered for the demo cratic vice presidential nomination former rep. Shirley Chisholm said Black women realized that we had no real political clout of our  speaking at a news conference announcing the birth of the National political Congress of Black women on sat urday at Spelman College a College for Black women she said we Are going to be a Power to be reckoned  the organization plans to turn the voting record of Black women into political Power and to make certain we involve every woman in the political process said vice chairwoman c. Delores Tucker a former Pennsylvania Secretary of state. The Congress said 58.9 percent of registered Black women voted in the 1984 presidential election compared with 41 percent of Black men 52.9 percent of White women and 47 percent of White men. But Black women make up less than 7 percent of state Legislatures and hold Only a tiny fraction of local offices. No Black woman Ever has served in the Senate and Only five have served in the House of representatives. We have a Mission Tucker said. It is to make cer Tain we involve every woman in the political  the group which includes Many women Long Active in politics will endorse candidates. There also Are plans to raise $10 million by the year 2000 to finance our Romance with the political system Tucker said. During its founding meeting Over the weekend attended by 450 women from 29 states the Congress held seminars on subjects ranging from fund raising and running Candi dates for Public office to using the news Media effectively. Speakers repeatedly complained that democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale never considered a Black woman As a running mate. Never again will Black women be disregarded. We will have our share and parity in american politics Tucker said. The Rev. Jesse Jackson introduced at the weekend meeting has been in the forefront of supporting and encouraging Black women to get into the political pro Cess Chisholm said. Only Black women have known slavery Legal rape and rejection As a caste Jackson said. Only Black women have known double Standard double digit unemployment he said. Out of that he said grew this body of experienced and enlightened women who have come together As a distinct organization that will determine the course of this nation and the  both he and Chisholm denied that creation of the group was due to a failure by Black male politicians. It s no reaction to Black men. It s a reaction to racism Jackson said. The group has about 2,000 members Many of them trained and politically experienced Chisholm said. The National office will help form local chapters and teach How to study the geopolitical situation from which they come and to organize tickets that can win she said. Paper planes Star at kingdom Seattle a when the kingdom opened in 1976, county councilman Robert Greive s first thought was that the $67 million stadium would be just great for paper air planes. In the past eight years thousands of others have agreed. Greic known As the father of the world indoor paper air plane championships tossed out the first plane on sunday in the eighth annual Competition and won a free bottle of soda pop for his Effort. Greive s plane landed in one of about two dozen circles marked on the kingdom floor. Each Circle offered a prize from movie tickets to soft drinks to bicycles and sailboards. Greic said he went Home empty handed after the seven previous contests. Even when i throw out the first air plane i have my son fold it he said. His toss began a gentle steady snowfall of paper from thousands of would be aeronautics engineers on the upper deck of the domed stadium. They ranged from 3-year-Olds who chirped gleefully As their planes cleared the Balcony railing to Young men toting shop Ping bags filled with precisely folded darts. The contest has grown from about 1,500 contestants eight years ago to a 5,200 this year Greive said. More than 34,000 air planes were tossed on sunday said spokeswoman Carol Keaton. Greive said he got the idea for the Competition be cause his six children liked to build and Fly paper planes. The minute i saw the stadium i thought it was the perfect place he said. This year s contest attracted More than usual Atten Tion when it was Learned that the Boeing co. Had billed the Pentagon $11,750 for costs of the event. The Bill was part of $29 million in questioned charges by the aerospace company. Boeing spokesman Harold Carr defended the contest Bill As a legitimate Community relations activity and noted that proceeds went to Charity. He said that after negotiations government auditors allowed half the cos of the contest. The second plane to Fly was launched by 16-year-old Joe bean of Renton who won the grand prize last year of a trip for four to Disneyland. The same prize was won this year by John Vincent 33, a Qantas airways technical representative at Boe ing. He landed a plane closest to a picture of Mickey mouse near the second base Mark of the stadium s baseball Diamond roughly 250 feet away. Bean was having less Luck this year. All of them keep turning and i can t Tell Why he said. Most of the winners have been Boeing engineers Greive said adding that smart contestants learn where the air conditioning outlets Are and launch them wit the air streams. All contestants had to use official sheets of paper sold three for a Dollar with the Money benefiting Northwest Harvest a free food distribution Organiza Tion. Salmonella outbreak traced to Deli Skokie Iii. A health officials in this chicag suburb have tentatively linked a new Salmonella outbreak to tainted corned beef from a Delicatessen that serves2,000 pounds of the meat a week to customers in the Chicago area. As of sunday there were four confirmed cases and a least 13 people hospitalized with suspected Salmonella said Lowell Huckleberry health director for Skokie. He said about 150 other people who had eaten Foo from the Delicatessen also were snowing symptoms of the illness. There Are so Many hospitals in the area that it s hard for us to keep tabs on How Many people Are sick Huckle Berry said. Kaufman s Deli was voluntarily closed Friday by the owner he said. The latest outbreak came just 10 weeks after the nation s worst Salmonella epidemic struck the Midwest sick ening More than 18,000 people in Illinois Wisconsin Indi Ana Michigan Iowa and Minnesota. Two deaths were blamed on that epidemic which occurred in late March and april and four others were linked to it. The epidemic was linked to contaminated milk produced at jewel companies inc s Hill farm Dairy in Mel Rose Park 111. The new outbreak involves the same Strain of Salmonella bacteria that caused the previous illnesses Huckleberry said. It is resistant to antibiotics and has shown itself to Bemore resistant to drugs than previous known strains he added. Officials asked that the Delicatessen be closed Friday when several More people who had eaten there telephoned the Skokie health department to complain of illness Huckleberry said. Stateside it was a Basic civil wedding ceremony at 1,600 feet Sioux Falls . A the guests at Dan and Joan Williams s wedding might have had to Strain a bit to take in the ceremony. It was your Basic civil wedding ceremony at 1,600 feet said magistrate judge William Matheson who officiated at the lofty ceremony. Dan 42, a Sioux Falls pipe fitter and Joan 38, financial Aid director at Nettleton College were married in one balloon while about 30 wedding guests were in eight others. It s a Lovely place to be married mrs. Williams said we love it up  the couple has been ballooning for several years. Gardeners get extra benefits when the circus comes to town Louisville by. Up the circus was in town and an animal keeper offered Back Yard gardeners a won Der fertilizer that grows the biggest and Best tomatoes in the  Tony Capps an animal keeper for the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey circus offered without charge to gardeners the manure produced by 21 circus elephants. It s better than horse manure cow manure Camel manure or any other manure Capps said. Elephant manure will grow you the biggest and Best tomatoes in the  Capps said people have lined up in Cincinnati and other cities where the circus performed this year to accept manure in bags and buckets. He suggested letting the manure mature for three months and warned immediate use of fresh manure could kill the plants. Designer of top fighter plane of world War ii Dies at age 85 Oceanside Calif. A Edgar schmued chief designer of the p-51 Mustang fighter plane that was credited with destroying More than 5,000 enemy aircraft Dur ing world War ii has died at the age of 85. More than 14,800 p-51s, considered the Best propeller driven fighter Ever built were produced. Schmued fled Post world War i Germany and settled in California where he worked for 22 years at North american aviation a division of Rockwell International corp. Schmued also designed the f-86 Sabre Jet and the f 100 super Sabre and during five years at Northrop corp., helped design the t-38 and the f-5. Schmued is survived by his wife a son a daughter and four grandchildren. Five Young related children drown in partially filled Pool Gary ind. A five children Between the Ages of 6 and 13, All related to each other were found drowned in a partially filled municipal swimming Pool that had not opened for the season authorities said. The bodies were discovered in the deep end of the Fisher Park Pool in the upper income Glen Park area., said detective William l. Burns. Two boys spotted a Small pair of shoes outside the Pool Fence then climbed the Fence to Check the Pool and found the bodies Burns said. Peter Candiano a Lake county Deputy Coroner identified the victims As Linda Britton 13, and her sister Ossie 12 Edward Thigpen 10, and his sister London 6, cousins of the britons and Jacqueline Sharp 10, an aunt of theother four. 14 indicted in forgery scheme run from Indiana state prison South Bend ind. Up a sophisticated Money order forgery scheme run from inside Indiana state prison that prosecutors say netted hundreds of thousands of Dol Lars May still be operating despite indictments against 14 people. Federal prosecutors unsealed a 57-count indictment charging a former prison guard 10 prisoners and three outside contacts with conspiracy and mail fraud in the alleged forgery of . Postal service Money orders. The scheme Cost the . Postal service mail order houses and unwitting inmate pen pals several Hundred thousand dollars prosecutors said