European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday March 12, 1986 evicted from Rainbow Village a photo Ginger duprez and her dog Nikki prepare to move their homeless. Duprez and about 30 other people were evicted belongings monday after being evicted by the City of from the waterfront lot that was established 13 months ago Berkeley calif., from Rainbow Village a Haven for the As a temporary Home for drifters. Dod asks right to exempt some on Active duty from state jury Call by Norman Black a military writer Washington the defense department has asked Congress to pass a Law limiting the ability of state and local courts to summon Active duty military personnel for jury duty. The proposal outlined by Navy Secretary John f. Leh Man in a letter last month to House and Senate leaders would give military commanders the same authority they now enjoy in exempting military personnel from serving on Federal court juries. In his letter Lehman stressed that the Pentagon was not seeking a Blanket exemption for All 2,1 million Active duty personnel but rather the right to exempt Mission Essen tial military commanders would be allowed to exempt servicemen from jury duty if their absence would affect the performance of the military Mission or the readiness of the member s assigned unit command or the enactment of the Bill will prevent state and local interference in the performance of the most essential fed eral function that of providing for the National de sense Lehman added. The defense department said the new request is being pressed because of the response of state courts to two supreme court decisions handed Down in the past nine years. Those decisions which dealt with jury exemptions for women generally attacked exclusions for identifiable segments playing major roles in the although the supreme court upheld the Law allowing military exemptions from Federal juries state governments have reacted to the court rulings by simply repealing Mostof their exemptions Lehman added. The result has been an increasing number of local courts attempting to compel jury duty for such servicemen As officers a charge executive officers department Heads surgeons dentists Hospital corpsmen pilots air traffic controllers aviation maintenance supervisors production engineers judge advocates and training instructors Lehman wrote. Making the matter worse he said is that Many states continue to exempt firemen and policemen and even members of the state National guard while in Active fed eral the Issue of jury duty by military personnel can be a sensitive one because servicemen Are often stationed on ships or at bases outside the state in which they maintain Legal residence and voting rights. Even if a Serviceman were called for jury duty in a state in which he resides his commander May not believe he can be spared for two or three weeks said it. Stephen Pietro Paoli a Navy spokesman. Stateside social Security Check invalid because of untimely death Detroit a a woman won t get to Cash her husband s february social Security Check because he died seven the end of the month. Social Security officials told Elizabeth Durst of Hazel Park she could t keep the payment because her 86-year-old husband Harold died feb. 28. Mrs. Durst 79, presented the Check this month at a social Security office in Royal Oak. We be had people who died within two or three hours of a month s end and weren t entitled to keep thai Check she said. Of course it s unfortunate but con Gress designed it and it s been that Way for years mrs. Durst s monthly benefits will increase $60 a month to $486. The couple lived mainly on social Security benefits since the late 1960s, said her son Stanle Durst. Bone deterioration slower among runners doctor says Chicago a a finding that Long distance run ners Over age 50 had 40 percent More Bone mass than non runners is striking support for the theory that running slows Bone deterioration linked to aging a doctor says. And contrary to popular belief running does not appear to increase tendencies toward arthritis or joint prob lems two new studies indicate. You Don t have to quit running said or. James f. Fries program director for a study of runners at Stanford University medical Center. Pm Ford announce recalls of about 7,800 86-Model cars Detroit a general motors corp. And Ford motor co. Say they Are recalling certain 1986-Model cars for potential problems affecting about 7,800 vehicles. Pm said it was recalling about 2,500 Cadillac Fleet Wood Brougham models with five liter eight Cylinder engines to ensure that under dashboard wiring harnesses Are secure. Ford said it was recalling about 5,300 Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable station wagons with tinted Glass for inspection and replacement if necessary of right rear Quarter windows. A act received donation from sex rights enemy Eastland Washington a civil rights activists say James o. Eastland once one of the Senate s most ardent segregationists had undergone a real metamorphosis in his racial views by the time of his death. Civil rights lawyer Joseph l. Rauh or. Has released a letter that the Mississippi Democrat had written to a Black activist praising the Man s work. Enclosed was a Check from Eastland for $500 for the Mississippi a act. Thousands of americans have been helped by your Gallant dedicated and persistent leadership that has Mude recognition of a life that includes All Mankind possible the letter to activist Aaron Henry read in part. I person ally thank you for helping me to see the whole Eastland died two weeks ago at age 81. During his 36 years in the Senate he opposed civil rights Bills in the 1960s that eventually passed despite his . _,.__, Ouw w us la Lyl in Ollk a i i i Foj 13 snooze of Kilimanjaro wins Hemingway contest los Angeles a More than 2,600 literary gladiators tried to go 10 rounds on clean White paper in the ninth International imitation Hemingway com petition but in the end Only one emerged to Rise again undefeated. The judges gathered monday at Harry s bar. The one in Century City. Not Flor ence. Not Venice. Not Paris. When they finished their work they laughed and drank and found that the one Page Hemingway Lampoon by Mark Silber 23, of new York was Good and True. Silber parodied Hemingway s Story about a dying writer the snows of Kil Manja his entry was the snooze of Kilimanjaro about a dying poet who discovers a cryptic lemonade stand atop Papas favorite Peak. Drinking heavily near a typewriter was the secret of Success for Silber who plays the game of life in the advertising Arena. There Are other ways to write imitation Hemingway prose but they Are difficult especially in Manhattan. It s very hard to get in any big game Hunting Here in new York Silber said in a Telephone interview. That would have helped but we Don t do much of that Here. You Don t shoot too Many elephants on 60th Street and we Don t bag Many his prize in the contest sponsored by Harry s bar in Century City for writing the Best Page of Hemingway parody will be a trip to Harry s bar. The one in Florence Italy. It was great fun author Ray Bradbury said of Silber s essay. One or two of the final essays were quite amusing said Bradbury who helped judge the 27 finalists chosen from 2,634 entries. Most of us have been raised with Hemingway. The trick is to turn it inside out and get us laughing. We re looking fora Mirror other judges included George Plimpton columnist Jack Smith and Jack Heming Way son of the late Ernest Hemingway. Favorite targets of contestants were the snows of Kilimanjaro the old Man and the sea and the Sun also Silber wrote that near the Summit of Kilimanjaro Are the Frozen remains of a lemonade stand. No one has explained Why anybody would try to sell lemonade at that the entry goes on How do they know i m dying " he asked the woman pointing to the crowd of undertakers florists and Wake caterers who were gathering at the Edge of the campsite. Is it the odor of your dysentery she asked. Or your poetry others offered a warped and broken wooden surfboard. No one has explained what a surfer was doing at that Altitude and a Grunion a sardine shaped fish atop the Santa Monica mountains and no one knows Why. Some like two women in a local pub had bigger fish to Fry. A big fish near the bar took Nickie s bait. He was an older fish and he had done this Many times before and escaped but for him now there was no escape. Nickie saw the a note and knew he was big. His son who was also in pinstripes stood next to him. I be got the old Man and the a one woman said. How re you the son also rises the other answered
