European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday june 15, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 California town turns out to Honor retired doctor on his 91 of birthday St. Helena Calif. A residents of St. Helena turned Oul saturday for a Parade to Mark the 91si birthday of a retired physician who on average delivered baby every 10 Days during a 61 year career hat ended with his retirement one year ago. Or. George w. Wood childless himself said he presided at the births of some 2,000 babies and an estimated 500 of them some from As far away As Schenectady . Returned to this Napa Valley town to Honor the Man who brought them into the world. I guess i represent something very special to them having been the first person to touch them As Tricy came into being Wood said. The cily sponsored event in this winery Headquarters town of 5,100 got started at 9 . With a pan cake breakfast for 1,000 people. Wood was among them posing for cameras giving interviews and obviously enjoying All the hoopla of or. Wood appreciation a birthday greeting from presi Dent Reagan was delivered to Wood by mayor Lowell Smith. Main Street gaily decorated was Lite a Block party As the Parade stepped off. A plane flew overhead towing a Banner that said we love the so Helena High school ban played and a choir Sang Happy toy cars rolled with the procession As did some 40 antique cars Wood in one of them waving to crowds lining the sidewalks. There was even a baby elephant and a Camel in the Parade. The line of marchers passe near the Comer of main and Adams streets where Wood started his practice in 1925. People who were delivered Bywood carried placards proclaiming the decades in which they were bom. Only in Small town America can you still do this said mayor re marking the passing of an or. George w. Wood surrounded by some of the 2,000 people he delivered. . Aid to contras protested Concord. Calif. Up Al least 750 peace Ali skis chanted slogans against . Policies in Central America saturday in the fourth Day of protests at he Concord naval weapons station. More than 200 were arrested. Singing protest Soncs Anil shouting Nicaragua Al Salvador. . Out the demonstrators including about 100 members of the clergy rallied in a nearby Park Ihen marched two blocks to the main Gale of the weapons facility. Marine guards were posted no the main Gale and Rolls of barbed wire were Laid along the base perimeter on each Side of the Roadway. About 70 county sheriffs deputies stood by. The arrests began when 10 protesters led by a roman Catholic priest Knell on the main Road leading into tic facility and began to Pray. As they were taken away another group of 10 replaced them and were arrested. Others were arrested when the climbed Over fences or entered other restricted areas sheriffs department spokesman Robert Henderson said. In All 204 people were arrested on trespassing charges during the seven hour demonstration he said. Sheriffs deputies estimated the crowd at 750 at the height of saturday s protest but organizers of the demonstration said More than 1,500 people look part in the rally at one time or another. In similar but smaller protests at the station wednesday thursday and Fri Day 50 people were arrested. One group of protesters saturday ripped up an abandoned Railroad tract but deputies made no move against hem. The demonstrators then used the Railroad ties to Block the base Entrance and the regular Railroad line into the facility. A warning Bell clanged a a nearby crossing but no train appeared. The protesters also erected a Salva Doran Village of six cardboard and wooden shacks on a nearby Field and later placed it Over the Railroad claim the military storage facility 40 Miles East of san Francisco serves As a Transfer Point for weapons destined for Central America. Tracy welcomed Home by friends and neighbors new York
