European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday August 26. 1965 the stars and stripes Page 7 Birch society having financial difficulties Belmont. Mass a the John Birch society. For 28 years the leading Edge of a conservative move ment thai has blossomed in the Reagan years has come upon hard times the group that crusade against big government and a world communist conspiracy has aj9 million deficit and for the first Lime is appealing widely for financial help. In addition the question of How much to criticize president Reagan has sparked an internal Battle that has turned the widow of society founder Robert  against the group s new leadership. I have nothing to do with the society. The people who Are running it Are not standing on what it started out to be at All said Marian p. Welch in her 80s and living in a retirement Home in Weston id Miles from the Boston suburb of Belmont which her husband made Birch Headquarters a member and former Large contributor. Or. Charle proven is considering starting a rival organization. The society has completely changed direction proven a physician in Mckeesport pa., said. It is engineered for a state of collapse. Mrs. Welch whose husband once accused president Eisenhower of being a a dedicated conscious agent of the communist conspiracy says her complaints in clude the Way the new Birch Magazine. Inc new american regularly bashes Reagan. They Are tearing him apart she said. Charles r. Armour a 23-year society employee who became its president in june said the new Magazine is examining the Reagan record instead of his  a tougher editorial stance however has not yielded higher circulation. The number of readers has dropped from 50,000 to about 30,000, says Armour and it now appears twice monthly instead of weekly Armour concedes the need to tone Down some of its rhetoric. The membership of the society itself is several Lens of thousands not More than 50,000," said society spokesman John j. Mcmanus declining to be More specific. Former society chairman a. Clifford Barker of new port news va., who introduced the new Magazine Las fall lost his Job after a june showdown at an executive Council meeting and was not replaced. Ten Days before his removal a Tetter o members Over his name appealed for Money saying staff Mem Bers were unpaid and expenses were exceeding income by 140,000 a week. The situation is so critical said the letter the future of your organisation is on the  Armour said the response to the May 28 Appeal resulted a the largest amount that the society has Ever received from an  the society experienced financial difficulties Lon before the death of Welch according so reports filed through 1984 with the Massachusetts attorney Gener Al s office. Liabilities of is million in 1981 Rose to 19.1 million in 1984. Assets Over the same period ranged from 563,647 in 1981 lol26,142in 1984. The society is so financially mortgaged said proven everything is mortgaged but the clothes  at the june meeting in Cincinnati Meldrim Thom son jr., 74, a Council member and Republican Gover nor of new Hampshire from 1973 to 1979, warred that rank and tile members were ignored in selecting new leaders and it was time the society Gol its act  Armour said his solution for reviving the society is belter marketing. We Are convinced that if people understood what we Are All about we would improve our membership markedly he said. Candidate Robertson unsettles evangelists Lynchburg a. A the Rev. Pat Robertson s move toward a Campaign for president is drawing misgiving from some of his colleagues on the refi pious right we Pray for  that  will Havethe Wisdom to realize that he represents All of us not just himself the Rev. Jerry Falwell says he says he would advise his fellow evangelist  we re nol against you running. We like you believe in you but be very careful because just As Jerry fal will can Hurt us All you can Hurt us Moreno that you Are running for  Jimmy Swaggart a television evangelist whose world ministry is headquartered in Baton Rouge la he said recently thai he Hopes Robertson an evangelical Christian who has All but declared his candidacy for the Republican nomination does not run for president. I m hoping 1 can talk him out of it Swaggart said. He said he doubts Robertson could draw support from beyond the fundamentalist Christian Community. Do spite such expressions of concern Robertson seems determined to press ahead with his Campaign for the 1988republican presidential nomination. In an interview last week in an office at Liberty University which he founded15 years ago. Falwell a supporter of vice president George Bush said the Robertson candidacy could be helpful to the Republican party. Pat s a party Man said Falwell who began his involvement in Republican to Utica in 1979 when he formed the moral majority. He likes the platform and he s going to bring his constituency in behind the candidate. The Republic what  Robertson is doing because in cans ought to be very very i Kepu hateful for 1988, it s All an asset to the  Falwell expressed concern about the Impact of Robertson s candidacy on what he called the evangelical cause at  Falwell often a controversial figure said that when he created the moral majority it was a new thing in our Camp involvement was a new  running for president is a new thing and just As i had to face Al least a Tempo Rary broadside and experience injury there is no circumventing that for  Robertson. He has got to go through  Falwell said thai with the exception of Robertson there is not one of us any where interested in running for dog  he had hoped it would slay that Way. I hoped that none of our pastors preachers would Nin he said but i have always said everyone has the right to  Robertson concedes there is what he Calls an antipathy against the involve ment of the clergy id  at a meeting with reporters recently Robertson said he would Deal with that by emphasizing he has a Law degree at tended the London school of economics and runs the multimillion Dollar Chris Tian broadcasting network. That in t your typical Parish priest he said. Who s Shaf masked Man dazed Mofor Cyc is wonders Spartanburg . Up a motorcyclist who was knocked to the pavement in a hit and run Accident was amazed to see the Lone Ranger come o the Rescue. I did t know what to think said Robert  Humphries 22. I was still kind of out of in at the time. But there he was in his mask and every  Humphries suffered injuries to his legs Clayton Moore starred in the Lon Ranning Lone Ranger series which is still in syndication. He and his wife Connie were heading to a spartan Burg Motel saturday night after Moore starred in a fire safety aware Ness program for children said show publicist Dixie Hopper. While going to the Motel about11 30 p.m., Hopper said. Moore and his wife came to the Accident scene. He got out and asked me How i was doing and tried to make me comfortable said Humphries a Volunteer firefighter Moore still dressed in trademark mask and Western garb began directing traffic and helping emergency personnel said Hopper Humphries was taken to a spartan Burg Hospital and was treated for cuts and a badly bruised leg. He was re leased. Moore 73, promised to bring him a Silver Bullet As a memento. The car that struck Humphries motorcycle sped away after the Acci Dent Moore has joined police in asking the hit and run Driver to sur Claylon Moore Render people were just slopping on the Side of the Road and could t believe it said Hopper. People will think we staged the whole thing but we did  Humphries said he has always been a Lone Ranger fan. I think we All were Lone Ranger fans at one time or another. I know i am photographs show soviet space shuttle station new York not in the closest glimpse yet of a Secrel Soviel program a private company sunday released five satellite photographs showing Large build Ines and a Long runway in Central Asia thai May be support facilities for a space shuttle that is under construction. Aerospace experts said the photographs might help resolve debate Over when the soviet Union planned o launch its winged spaceship which a believed to resemble the american vehicle. In general one expert said the photographs suggest a close race Between the United Stales and the Syi Al Union for the next launching of a space shuttle because of the challenger explosion Jan 28 which kilted All seven Crew members american shuttle flights have been delayed until 1988. The five satellite photographs of Bai Konur wer Lakin May a by a new Civ Siw satellite spot which was uused1 by the French in february. They were made Public sunday by the space Media network a swedish concern that Sells satellite photographs to the news Media. The photographs were taken from an Alti tude of 514 Miks. The department of defense has said the Soviel shuttle could make its debut this year or Early in 1987. But some aerospace experts have charged that the Pentagon is exaggerating the Pace of the Soviel program and Hal the first flight might be a decade away. The new satellite photographs of the Bai Konur space Center at thu rata show a hurry of construction including new roads buildings parking lots a Long run Way and what May be a shuttle launching . There is obviously a lot of work going on said Nicholas l. Johnson an aerospace expert who is author of Soviel year in space which is published annually by Tel Edyne Brown engineering. He said i think Well see a launching in five years. Based on this  years past photographs of Bai Konur were taken by landsat an american civilian satellite used mainly for crop forecasting Mineral exploration and Forest management. Better photographs became possible when the French launched spot whose cameras Are More powerful than those of landsat. Presumably More detailed photographs have been taken from american military spy satellites but Are  Larsson head of Media projects for the space Media network said the photographs showed a 3.5-mile-Long shuttle recovery runway and a Laige shuttle Assembly building measuring nearly 1,000 feet on each Side in contrast the runway Al the american shuttle facility at the Kennedy space Center in Florida is 2.8 Miles Long and the vehicle Assembly building there is 700 feel Long by 500 feet  said one photograph also appeared to show a shuttle launching  but he said the photograph was too blurred for the analysis to be certain