European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 Bush leads san Francisco Vij Day event warships Mark 40th anniversary san Francisco a standing aboard the Flag raped aircraft Carrier in vice president George Bush led a Celebration wednesday marking the end of the War with Japan 40 years vowing that we As a nation will never Mil prey to complacency and unpreparedness who was shot Down in the Pacific during world War was joined by senior White House officials As he took the place of recuperating president Reagan to review a seven ship flotilla of cast a me Morial Wreath on the water and watch a display of air Force Bush said world War ii was the great est of All human cataclysms that touched the lives of every woman and child on the motorists travelling Over the Golden Gate Bridge slowed to a crawl As they watched the Harbor snarling traffic at both ends of the suspension an army artillery Battery fired a 21gun Salute to americas world War ii dead from while nearly two dozen coast guard Craft darted around the the Jet flyovers included a missing Man forma Tion by air Force f15 in which one Jet soared off to symbolize a fallen the flotilla parading before the enter the nations first nuclear powered air Craft Carrier and the Gem of the Pacific was the largest gathering of warships in san Francisco Bay since the end of world War the Celebration brought declarations of Friendship from the cites Large japanese official representatives of the japanese were not invited to said Lauren a spokeswoman for the japanese consulate in san and the display of naval Power sparked protests from Antiwar at the presi seven antinuclear protesters were arrested after a confrontation with As they were led away they chanted Hiro they did it do it Bush attended the officially dubbed peace in the on behalf of recuperating in Santa Barbara from recent intestinal cancer some people were present for the ceremony on the enterprises Flag raped including Crew members and the dignitaries included Secretary of state George White House chief of staff Donald defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Jean 86yearold widow of the late Douglas Navy Joyce Boyd said the cer Emony aboard the Enterprise was the nations first official commemoration of peace in the Andy who was captured on Bataan in april 1942 and spent years in japanese prison said the Celebration makes me feel real they finally recognized that were the Hayward restaurant owner said War veterans Haven been recognized too after 40 we come Back to the official japanese surrender occurred on aboard the battleship mis was the Day Japan officially accepted the terms of Allied sur that Day 40 years the United states erupted in a spasm of National Joy As Mil Lions of Happy americans took to the streets to celebrate the end of in san the festive three Day 1945 Romp turned to tragedy when Drunken crowds smashed windows and assaulted leaving a dozen in you just comprehend the Ela Tion that followed the end of the said Alfred a former san Francisco police the Long the All those they were All there was a tremendous pent up who at 18 in 1942 was the Young est Navy Pilot Ever to be sworn was shot Down in 1944 on his 58th Mission about 600 Miles Southwest of a submarine res cued him and took him to Pearl where he was awarded the distinguished flying passengers asking for seats in rear of plane by United press International More and More edgy airline passengers Are request ing seats in the rear of the plane the area where the Only survivors of two recent crashes an informal Survey of travel agents although the government says there is no statistical evidence passengers in any Section Are More Apt to live through an travel agents say Many people Are finding a sense of Security in the Back rows usually the smoking the four survivors of a Japan air lines Jet that crashed monday with 524 aboard All sat in the the 30 people who lived through last fridays crash of a Delta Jet outside which killed also were in the the five survivors of the air Florida crash into a Bridge in Washington also were seated in the rear of the that Accident killed 78 Passen Gers and Crew we have some people flying to Hawaii who we want to sit in the safest part of the the travel agent Lucille Potts said she is assistant manager of Oxon Hill a travel Agency in Oxon maybe up to 10 percent of people Are now asking for seats in the Potts before this no one asked for the unless they wanted to be in the smoking people dont care if its smoking or they just want to sit in the said Elizabeth a Northwest Orient airlines ticket agent in All this talk makes people the associated press quoted Stan an Eastern airlines ticket agent in As usually people want their seats As far Forward As but now there have been people buying tick ets in the smoking Section and making remarks about the Delta people Are changing to the smoking said Linda manager of Gardner travel service in fort she said smoking Sec Tion requests Are up 10 percent to 20 most of them make a joke of it at she the a Fred a Federal aviation administration we dont believe any part of a plane is safer than any in the first most crashes Are followed by a fire and it makes no difference where you consumer advocate Wayne Williams noted that the government has no evidence that one part of a plane is safer than but said based on his own aviation i like a seat in the Williams was a military Pilot for 24 years and later worked As a senior Engineer with Eastern he is now director of the National transportation safety a private group he formed in Ive seen a lot of crashes and pictures of crashes and the big impression i come away with is that you often see the Tail of the plane As the Only part you can still Williams oks ordinance giving Protection against discrimination to aids victims los Angeles a calling it a deadly epidemic that cuts across the pop the City Council Here unanimously approved an ordinance wednesday protect ing aids victims from discrimination in housing and health we have an Opportunity to set an exam ple for the whole to protect those people who suffer from aids against insidious said councilman Joel who introduced the councilman Bernard said the ordinance was meant to educate the Public to prevent the proposal was approved tuesday by the Public human re watermen sales lag Santa a water Melon sales have not recovered since Pesti Cid tainted melons sickened hundreds in a growers association weve pretty much written off this sea son for and were just hoping consumer Confidence returns by next sum said Western growers association spokeswoman Barbara sources and senior citizens it is designed to ban discrimination in medical and dental Busi Ness establishments and Public a commode employment agencies and unions would be prevented from firing or refusing to hire aids Wachs said action was needed immediately because about half the people suffer ing from acquired immune deficiency syn drome who file complaints die before they Are heard or there Are a Large number of cases of discrimination put where people Are being evicted and cant get into an apartment because they have Wachs the committee decided in favor of civil penalties rather than criminal because civil proceedings Are much the ordinance states that existing state and Federal restraints on such discrimination Are inadequate to meet the problems of this the ordinance includes business Stab such As barbershops and dental and Public a said Deputy City attorney Maureen blood Banks and sperm Banks Are there were diagnosed cases of aids in los Angeles county within the past five of 547 have been said Shirley associate Deputy director of the communicable Dis ease unit of the los Angeles county department of health Fannin told Council members tuesday that the ordinance would emphasize the fact that people cannot transmit aids through casual aids is an affliction in which the body immune system becomes unable to resist it is most Likely to strike Homo sex abusers of inject Able drugs and Hemo apparently it can be spread by sexual contaminated Needles and blood but not by casual mathematician Dies at 86 a Julia a mathematics has died of leukaemia at the age of Robinsons research was aimed at solving logic prob lems with number Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today 1945 in marshal Henri hero of Verdun in world War i and Vichy dictator under nazi occupy was found guilty of treason and sentenced to death by firing 30 years ago today 1955 retired Marine Merritt Leader of the famed Edson raiders on Guadalcanal in world War was found dead of Carbon Mono Ide poisoning in his car inside his closed 20 years ego today 1965 of police men and National guardsmen bottled with Black killing two More looters and arresting scores of rioters in the fifth Day of violence in the Watts Section of los an the toll stood at 28 76 injured and to years ago today 1975 a racially mixed jury in acquitted Joan a Black woman accused of murdering her White Jailer with an ice pick during what she said was a sexual assault in her
