European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes August 1985 scared cats owners offering Reward a Cricket is a sea Rudy and his owners want to find out the two retired Smith College philosophy professors say their Black cat has be come such a nervous wreck that they have offered a Reward for information leading to the person they believe scared Alice Lazrowitz said thursday that 4 year old Cricket Hast been the same since she found him huddled by the curb in front of their Home july there Are no Marks on but he has been so traumatized by whatever happened to him that he wont go she he cries All the his eyes Are still dilated and he is terribly afraid of if he haunt been very healthy to Start with in sure he  have been Able to stand All this Elizabeth a veterinarian who has examined said he showed no external evidence of beating or she said the cats behaviour is not Normal and certainly is the behaviour of an animal that has been Hurt or the Only thing medical tests have Dis closed so far is the cat is a borderline a condition not uncommon in overweight she Alice Lazerowitz said she and her Hus have received no Calls since advertising the Reward in the daily Hampshire Gazette newspaper earlier this we really dont Ever expect to be Able to identify the she but All of the cats in the neighbourhood could Benefit if this puts a scare into in not sure what we would do if we did find out who did she any body who would do something like that needs people convicted of violating Massachusetts Laws against cruelty to animals face a maximum Fine and oneyear jail drop in housing starts offers scant Aid to Economy Washington up the nations production of new housing slowed per cent in july from the census Bureau said As housing starts offered Little leadership to a lacklustre builders also started fewer houses in june than first gaining Only percent Over Mays less than half the originally reported housing starts dropped 13 percent in May and arc now significantly below their level of a year yet housing remains the brightest spot in the generating Many new jobs even As factory workers lost More than of the Benchmark annual rate of starts slipped to million in percent under july 1984 after seasonal without builders have Actu ally started million new dwelling units this year through percent fewer than the same period last building a signal of builders plans for the dropped for the second falling percent in july after a percent decline in but even with the permits Are running at a High level of when figured it is amazing How Strong permits economist Michael Sumich Rast it has never happened in my experience that you will have permits higher for three months in a Row than the he As a the second half of this year May be much stronger for housing than appeared would be the Case in the he we dont see any sign of dropping he those permits already authorized will support million housing starts in the chief economist for the National association of Home said the group still is projecting that 1985 will be a worse year for new residential housing than but the margin will be a Little perhaps As Little As living he the housing Industry produced million dwelling units last lower mortgage rates have helped boost sales enough to overcome the growing prob lems in traditionally Strong areas for new particularly the South and a file photo actress Dies Academy award winning actress Gale Sondergaard has died of Cere bral vascular thrombosis at age 86 in los she was named Best supporting actress for the 1936 film Anthony Adverse and was nominated in 1946 for Anna and the King of her 40year career was set Back in the 1950s and Early 60s after she defied the House in american activities committee and was heckler gets White houses backing amid reports of attempts to oust her Santa up the White House offered health and human services Secretary Margaret heckler a presidential vote of Confidence Friday against a backdrop of behind the scenes rivalry directed at her faced with renewed reports of personal Battles within the White House spokesman Larry Speakes Secretary heckler enjoys the presidents full support and and will continue As a valuable member of the Reagan the question of hecklers a re current source of Rumor and speculation in Washington political was revived As Reagan vacationed at his California at the heart of the senior administration officials is rivalry Between a former and John a former Deputy at has who now serves As a presidential assistant in charge of policy Hes always angled for that said one he never got along with her when he was at and its another senior White House said earlier this week that heckler is fight ing for her in addition to her critics Are said to include White House chief of staff Donald a spokeswoman for who is recuperating from a Hysterectomy a month said the former Massachusetts congresswoman was Well aware of the persistent re mors that her Days in the administration May be but she is satisfied she enjoys reagans continued As the aide heckler has no intention of leaving her Cabinet in an interview with the Washington heckler lashed out at her detractors in the White who fault her on fac tors ranging from ideology she is perceived As too moderate to some administration conservatives to differences in political mentioning no she said the criticism has come from disgruntled Cabinet seekers in the White House at High staff positions who never seem to tire of advancing i work for the heckler i dont work for the White House who was unavailable for com left has after several disputes Over management of the teamsters reach tentative agreement Washington up leaders of the teamsters Union Friday approved a tentative agreement to end a nationwide strike by truckers that halted delivery of new cars and trucks to automobile the tentative which still requires ratification by Rankan file was reached wednesday Between Industry and Union bar gainers following contract Nego representatives of 92 local unions Cov ered by the agreement with the National automobile transporters met in washing ton Friday and approved the pact on a 911 a Union spokesman said picket signs will be removed at noon sunday until the ratification vote is conducted and those who want to go Back to work May do so when the signs come ballots will be mailed out 22 and the members Are asked to return them by the spokesman the which began july was called by the Union to press demands for higher wages and a prolonged strike by the truckers who haul thousands of vehicles to showrooms each Day could have clogged factory storage terms of the agreement were not Dis the truckers currently make an hour on i Twu Umulis we me members Are Askea to return them by hour on boy missing for 3 years sold into Man says West Des Iowa a a disco geared while of Oliverino auction West lbs Iowa a a Man accused of fraudulently taking Money for the return of a newspaper Carrier said the missing for three had been sold into mexican slavery by a motorcycle Robert Herman Meier of Sagi also known As Samuel Forbes surrendered to Federal authorities at the Border at Niagara he was being held at the Erie county jail in pending a bail the Fri investigators accuse him of fraudulently taking is from John and Noreen whose then aged disappeared while delivering a letter the investigators say Meier wrote to johnnys parents said the boy was taken As part of a Large child slavery ring operated by a motorcycle club to which Meier the july 23 letter was signed Samuel Forbes it said that since april when Johnny Gosch would have been i functioned As a guard in the operations of the Sale of children As i personally stood guard Over no less than 200 children in the time specified and delivered no less than 30 children to the auction one of these children is known to me As Johnny the letter said the boy was sold to a Man whom Dakota identified As a High level drug dealer residing in Mexico Gosch released the letter saying she wanted to put pressure on the Fri to track Down leads in since their son she and her husband have maintained a High profile search for appearing on nationally televised talk shows and testifying before Congress on the plight of missing they collected from private contributors As a Reward fund for johnnys Gosch criticized the saying it issued a news release tuesday saying it was looking for destroying the Cou ple s credibility with anyone who would take the couples offer to pay Ransom for their the Fri alleged that Meier took from the asked for More and promised to return their Meier told the Tosches that a Rescue at tempt failed and that three would be rescuers died in a the Fri said there was no evidence of such a shootout in Mexico an Fri agent in said the Bureau was checking Meiers