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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday june 15,19b6 yes folks state of new Mexico still is one Washington up any notions to the contrary nol withstanding the Senate has affirmed Hal new mex Ico is indeed a state of the Union and not a foreign country. In a lighter moment during debate on tax Reform. Inc lawmakers designated Friday the 13ih new Mexico is a stale Day. The Resolution was prompted by a re cent Treasury department letter inform ing former new Mexico gov. David cargo that tunes payable on his Treasury notes would he withheld because your address is in new Sci  cargo was Quick o reply by letter that new Mexico is not a foreign coun try. He was fully supported in the resold lion that was sponsored by sen. Pete Dominici r-n.m., who old his col leagues he measure is necessary to draw attention to a reality that is frequently overlooked either through ignorance or a hearing  Domenici said Many of the 1.3 Mil lion residents of his state frequently arc denied Check cashing privileges by those who assume their Driver s licenses were issued by a foreign nation. Domenici assured the Senate that new Mexico has been a slate since 1912. We use United Stales currency not  he said. Yes. Indeed we have newspapers in English and television and  sen. Jeff Bingaman d-n.m-, said that if Treasury Secretary James Baker had checked he would have found Hal treasurer Katherinc Ortega whose Sig nature is on . Currency is a resident of new Mexico. Sen. Warren Rudman r-n.h., asked Domenici if it was possible new Mexico had been eliminated by the budget balancing provisions of the Gramm Hudman Law he coauthored. If in had. Domenici replied he would nol be going to new Hampshire this weekend to participate in a fund Raiser for Rudman. Reagan salutes american fathers on Flag Day Washington a president Reagan presented a paean to fatherhood and rag Day saturday thanking the a lion s dads for the labor and legacies of our families and our  Reagan in his weekly radio address delivered from the presidential Retreat at Camp David my. Look time out from his usual commons on National or inter National Venis to link saturday s Flag Day Celebration with sunday s father s let s face it All went smoothly san Diego up coast guardsmen Rushing 10 comply with an order prohibiting beards in the last of the armed services to allow them gathered for a mass shave by a Black hooded bar Ber As relatives looked on. It had been coming for some Lime said la. Cmdr Sieve Mojonnier who has had a Beard for he last 11 years. This was the last of the sea going tradition of beards. It s gone  Aboul 20 bearded officers sat on a makeshift platform Friday to be shaved by a Black hooded executioner a fellow officer who also went under the electric razor after shaving his colleagues. Adm. Paul Yost commandant of he coast guard ordered All coast guard personnel june 6 to shave i hair beards by june 15, said cmdr. De harms head of Ine coast guard Marine safety office in san Diego. The Navy army marines and air Force already have banned beards. Harmes has had a Beard for eight years. He said that until no his wife had not seen him without one. The officers decided to shave their beards Friday the i3lh and make a ceremony out of it he said. "1 figured there were three ways to handle it Harmes said. You can yell scream or holler you can cry or you can laugh. We decided to laugh. It was sort of like an Irish Wake Harmes wife Mother father and two of his five children came to the san Diego coast guard Sta Tion for the shave off. Harmes said he will miss his Beard. In was very distinguished he said. The first thing i recall afterwards is that my face fell cold. I fell naked. But when the com mandant says those Are the rules those Are the  Day Observance. Reagan said it was appropriate 10 bring the two together. These anniversaries remind us Hal the great american Experiment in free Dom and democracy has really just begun. They remind us of the terrible hardships our forefathers willingly endured for their beliefs and icy Challenge us to match thai greatness of spirit in our own time Reagan said. The president said thai by comment Moralino fatherhood we arc also expressing a Basic truth about  he said fatherhood might be exemplified in walking the floors with sleepless children or fixing bicycles that will be broken again by afternoon s end. Fatherhood is holding Light when All seems to be falling apart and it is letting to when it is Lime to part Reagan said fatherhood is Long hours at the blast Furnace or in the Fields behind the wheel or in front of a computer screen working a 12-hour shift or a six month Lour of  Reagan said it s giving one s All from the break of Day to its end on the Job or in the House but most of All in the  we. Say thanks to America dads for the Tabor and legacies of our families and our freedoms Reagan said. My fair lady lyricist Alan Jay Lerner Dies of lung cancer in . Hospital new York up Broadway lyricist Alan Jay Lemer who wrote inc words for the musical my fair lady died saturday of lung cancer at memorial Sloan icel ering cancer Center. He was 67. Lamer s son Michael said his father died at 10 15 . He had been Hospital izod for about a month. He also whole the words for inc musicals paint your Wagon and Briga Doon and he reached the High Point of his career when he Learned with composer Frederick Loewe in 19i6 to Craic my fair lady from George Bernard Shaw s  Lemer was in the songwriters Hall of Fame and the Thaier Hall of Fame and also won three oscars for the movies an american in Paris and Gigi which starred Audrey Hepburn and Maurice Chevalier. Gigi popularized the tune. Thank heaven for Little  among the Alf Lyl Jay Lemer my fair lady song lyrics Lerner wrote Are i be grown accustomed to her face the rain in Spain i cd Ltd have danced All night and gel me to the Church on time his other musicals included Camel of and on a Clear Day you can see  Lerner was bom in new York on aug. 31, j9i8, an heir to a Chain of women i specially stores. Instead of enjoying the life of a Playboy socialite he chose to make a name for himself. He attended Columbia grammar school in new York two private inter mediate schools and Harvard University where he wrote two Hasty pudding shows and lost the sight in his right Eye in a boxing Accident. He was a classmate of John f. Kennedy Al Harvard. Lemer and Loewe first toyed with the idea of making a musical out of the Shaw comedy in 1952, but they did nol begin the musical until about four Yean Javier. Notre Dame . Presidents resign by United press  the Rev. Theodore he Burgh will hand Over the reigns of the University of Noire Dame after 35 years and at the other end of the stale Indiana University president John Ryan also has announced his res ignation. School officials in South Bend re of f leased news of Hes Burgh i retirement Friday while Ryan told University trus tees in Blooming ton Friday he was Herb nigh stepping Down to spend More time with a statewide fund raising Campaign. Search committees were being formed at both universities to find successors. He Burgh 69. Will step Down at the end at the 1986-1987 school year said Richard Conklin vice president of University relations he was All set 10 retire in 1982, but the trustees could t find anyone they thought was ready Conklin said. He agreed 10 slay on in october 1982, but he made it Clear in was Only for five years he Burgh s last act As the University s president will be to preside Over commencement in May 1987. Also retiring at that time will be the Rev. Edmund Joyce the executive vice president who is responsible for the school s athletic programs. Joyce and he Burgh joined the notre Dame faculty in the same year. As chairman of the International federation of Catholic universities from 1963-70, he Burgh helped redefine the goals Ofca Holic universities. He also initiated the Transfer of leadership from inc bunding religious Community the congregation of holy Cross to a predominantly Lay Board of trustees in 1967, and was instrumental in the admission of women to undergraduate pro Grandin 1972. Hosburgh was ordained a holy Cross print on the notre Dame Campus in 1943. He joined the faculty in 1945 after completing his doctoral degree in sacred theology Al Catholic University in Washington . At age 32, he became Noire Dame i executive vice president. Three years later he replaced the Rev. John j. Cavanaugh As president of the University. Ryan who has headed Indiana University for More than 15 years promised to see . Through the next a Euirn of the legislature but asked the Unive Naly t trustees 10 replace him no later than sept. 1,1987. Ryan said it was impossible for a new president to assume the office before the adjournment of the 1986-87 session and be Able to fulfil All the office s responsibilities. Ryan said he Felt compelled to fatal the presidency became he needed to de vote All his time to the Campaign for Indiana a statewide fund raising Effort that channels Money into state institutions. The Campaign includes a j200 minion Goat for the University  
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