European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 03, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday decembers 1985 Rosa Parks recounts her part in bus Boycott 30 years ago stateside Montgomery. Ala. A thirty years after a Black seamstress named Rosa Parks was arrested for re fusing to give up her scat on a City bus to a White Man Many riders still think about her As the Mother of the civil rights  a lot of people Don i think about what life used to be. They Don t know about  Parks and what she did and that s a shame said Tanzania Johnson a 26-year-old Alabama stale l Niv Cisily Studen. I have a son who is 6, and i Tell him about things so hell know How it once  Parks 72, a Detroit resident for most of the past 27 years is Back in Montgomery this week for a Celebration marking the 30lh anniversary of her arrest and the Mont Gomery bus Boycott. The Boycott catapulted the Rev. Martin Luther King or. To National prominence and brought about a supreme court ruling outlawing segregation on City buses. Parks recounted How she was headed Home from her Job at a downtown department store on dec. I 1955, when the Driver of a City bus ordered her and three other Blacks to move to the Back of the bus where the negro Section was to make room for a while Man. The other three stood up but Parks refused and she was arrested. She was fined $14 but never paid it. Her arrest touched off a Black Boycott of City buses on dec. 5. The 381-Day Boycott organized by King is credited by Many historians with hunching the modern civil rights movement. At the time i was arrested i had no idea it would turn into this Parks s id. But. She said "1 certainly would t change anything in my fight for  Parks an aide to rep. John Conyers d-mich., Tol 1 an interviewer in Detroit last week that she does t feel like a heroine but i m Happy to know that some changes for the better were made and 1 made a  it was just a Day like any other Day she said of her arrest. The Only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in to resist segregation. Much has changed in Montgomery since the Boycott. The department store where Parks once worked has moved to the suburbs along with All of the other major downtown Rosa Parks department stores. The City buses arc now Ridden mainly by Black working women and students. As she waited for a bus last week. Parks said she Seldom dwells on How life was once in the South. I think about it sometimes but not really that much. I never lived in the time when we had to sit or stand in the Back. When 1 go on now i m satisfied to have a scat front or Back she said. Bertha Butler 66, is one of Parks friends and they used to ride together. I Rode the buses for 15 years or so after the Boycott she said. It a a different feeling for me being Able to sit in front if there was a  Home destroyed when firemen refuse to extinguish flames de Soto. To. A Volunteer firemen just watched while a Mobile Home burned destroying All of a family s possessions and the ii dog and the fire chief said they Mistak enly thought the family had not paid for Protection. By the time we got Home everything was soldering Debra Weindl Saio. They would t even pour a Pitcher of water Over  fire chief Don null said Friday his Rural department mistakenly thought that the wind cos who were not at Home when the fire broke out on thanksgiving Day had not purchased a $12.50 fire tag entitling them to Protection As members of the do Solo Rural fire Protection association. Neighbors said null and his brother Norman the department s assistant fire chief arrived at the scene about an hour after the night Blaze began. Norman null said the department had been advised by its lawyer not to com ment further. Dennis Farris one of the neighbors said the nulls went to the scene after he threatened to sue the department if his House also caught fire. The flames were spreading and i was afraid it would Burn my House Down. They Sal and watched the House Burn Farris said. There could have been children in there and the fire department would t do  at Issue was a Small Blue Metal plate the Wein Dols purchased in october 1984 for Protection through next july from the fire Protection association. County presiding judge Ralph Rod linger said the department which has served the Rural area for about 30 years has a strict policy against protecting property for which fire tags have not been purchased. He said no serious Effort had Ever been made to form a tax supported firs District in the area located about 40miles South of St. Louis. At the time of the fire mrs. Weindl and her husband Tom were at a family gathering in St. Louis county wit their four children. 33 million americans living in poverty social coalition says Atlanta a Twenty one years after preside 1 Lyndon Johnson declared War on poverty 33 Millim americans arc Hill considered poor a coalition of social action groups  news conferences in Atlanta and four other us cities speakers for the National spotlight on poverty Campaign blamed cutbacks by the Reagan administration in social programs such As food Stamps and in employ. Mint benefits for the level of poverty. The Washington based Center on budget and policy priorities counts 33 million americans living below poverty level of si0,609 a year for a family of four. Our president is such a Nice pleasant fellow that everybody loves him but he does t love those who an poor said Carol Tucker Foreman director of the Federal food stamp program under president Carter. Boy 11, rescues his father from Lake after fall through ice Center. . A an 11-year-old, 105-Pomd boy grabbed the hand of his father and yanked him to safely As he plunged through thin ice into 14 feet of free ing Lake water. A Miracle. The Good lord was with us Derwood Duke Windhorst said of the action of his son Dean. I can t believe How he took control of that  Windhorst 40, Dean and another son Dustin 6, were on an ice fishing expedition on Nelson Lake in West Cen trial North Dakota when the incident happened. I can t swim Windhorst said As he fell. His guides cramped immediately and he was going into Shock who he heard Dean Yelling for him to grab the boy s hand Windhorst said. I know i weighed 250 pounds with my clothes full of water said Windhorst who was bundled against tie near Zero cold. But he pulled me right out of  new labor organization planned by . Air traffic controllers Washington a the Parent Union of the defunct professional air traffic controllers organization has announced plans to organize the nation s 14,000 con trollers who have been without labor representation Luce an illegal strike in 1981. There is widespread recognition of the need for improvement in the conditions of the thousands of men and women employed in the air traffic control system Gene Dufries president of the Marine engineers beneficial association Al Cio said in a statement. In recent months a considerable number of controllers have asked us to undertake an organizing Campaign at urn time Defries said. Patch which was an autonomous affiliate of the Marine engineers was de certified As the controllers bargain ing agent after the 1981 strike. President Reagan fired More than 11,000 con Rouen who defied his Back to work order. Defries said the new Union will not be a disguised rebirth of the old  Subaru issues voluntary recall of 11,000 1985 it coupes Detroit up Subaru of Ari Erica has issued voluntary recall of 11,000 1985 it coupes because tie vehicles May leak fuel after a rear Colli Ion. A rubber Hose connecting the air vent of the fuel filter pips to the fuel tank could be Cut in an Accident company of Kjall said. A fire could result if an ignition source is nearby. No accidents or injuries have been reported and m other Subaru models arc affected. Underwater search planned for lost Colony Manteo . Up an archaeologist says he wants to look underwater for the 400-year-old lost Colony the aborted first attempt at English colonization of America. Gordon Walts of East Carolina univer sity ended his preliminary search recently in the Waters off Roanoke Island and said he found no specific artefacts but located several underwater Sites meriting further investigation. Watts believes remnants of the doomed Colony Are underwater sunk by the Ocean s inexorable Rise Over the years and erosion along Roanoke Island s Northern end. If we can find some physical evidence to substantiate Pur theory that the site is underwater this could turn into one of the most sophisticated underwater excavations to take place in this hemisphere Watts told the news and observer of Raleigh. Watts has had some Success in finding historical items. He took part in the 1973 expedition that located the wreckage of the Monitor the armoured civil War gunboat that Sank off North Carolina in 1862. Watts said some of the Sites he targeted during his two week preliminary Survey re semble structural foundations. England s first Colony in America was established under the sponsorship of sir Waller Raleigh in 1585 on Roanoke Island but those colonists returned to England when supplies ran Low.  a second Colony was established near the Roanoke was delayed by England s War Back a when h to go shed � Carbe colonists a of shed to become a historical mystery. As much As 1,500 feet of Shoreline May have been Cut off the Island s Northern end by rising Waters and erosion. Watts Laid. He plans to search that area of Roanoke sound for military or household items that would have sunk into the sediment of to sound if it is indeed the Correct site. Watts and other researchers from Eart Carolina recently probed the area with sonar equipment to obtain images of the sound s Bottom. Some of the Sites were lot Ted with items but Watts said identification from the surface was impossible. Supporters of his theory Are in the minority Watts said. We get a lot of less than Enthat Nimio Upp Orl he said. S