European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page a the stars and stripes wednesday june 24.1887 Sherman rejected Rote As enemy of South Elfers show new York a history remember Gin. William Tecumseh Sherman in arching and burning his Way thro Iirth Georgia in the evil War but he never warned 10 be remembered As the enemy of the South a collection of Hii letters shows. Sherman also considered War coms Pondelli As the enemy Labelling hem infamous lying dogs and Spier and defamer in songs of the 24 previously unpublished letters written during the War. The correspondence is published in the july a gust Issue of american heritage Magazine in an Arti Cle by retired army historian Joseph h. Ewing. Most or the it Tets were written by Sherman to Ewing s great Grandfather Thomas twine who was Sherman s Foster father and a . Senator from obit and to swing s Grandfather Philemon b. Ewing Sherman s boy Rood companion. In a feb. 17,1863, letter Sherman explained Why he regarded  As spies a spy i one who furnishes an enemy with knowledge useful to him and dangerous to us. One who bean into a fortress or Camp a Baleful influence that encourage sedition or weakens  in giving intelligence to the enemy in sowing discord and discontent in an army these men fulfil All toe condition of  in a letter dated feb. 6, 1863, be wrote thai reporters publish without stint positive information of movement past and prospective organization name of commander and accurate information which reaches the enemy with As much regularity As it does our people. So that no Mailer How rapidly we move our Many has notice in Advance. Sherman Alio wrote from Kingston ga., in nov. 6 letter which carried no Yean we arc not fighting Jefferson Davis alone but Alt the elements of anarchy which have organized Resis Tance to an attempted civilized and compact government. ,. If my name must go to history 1 prefer it should not As the enemy of the South. But against mobs vigilance committees and All theother phases of sedition and anarchy which have threatened and still endanger the country which our children must inhabit. Congress May link funds to minimum drinking age Washington a the supreme court tues Day upheld As constitutional a a withholding some Federal Highway Money from states that fail to adopt minimum drinking age of 21. In another decision that could Force a major Over haul in stale business taxes the court struck Down a Washington state tax that it said unconstitutionally favored in stale businesses Over out of state ones. By a 7-2 vote the court ruled that the 1984 Law passed by Congress aimed at forcing Stales to comply with a 21-year-old minimum drinking age is a valid use of Congress spending Power. Suppl me Toi Irr Roundup the Law had been attacked by South Dakota As violation of the Constitution s 21st amendment which in 1933 repeated prohibition and gave states Road Power Over liquor distribution within their Bor Ders. But chief Justice William h. Reh nuut said thai even if the 21st amendment burs Congress from imposing directly a minimum drinking age Congress Law fully May tie Highway Money to state passage of such Law. Writing for the court Rehnquist said the 1984 Law properly is aimed at advancing me Public welfare. Congress found that the differing drinking Ages inthe Stales created particular incentives for Young per sons to Combine their desire to drink with their ability to drive and that this interstate problem required a National solution Rochn quasi said the Means it chose to address this dangerous Situa Tion were reasonably calculated to Advance the general welfare he added. According to sen. Frank Lautenburg d-nj., one of the 1984 Law s sponsors Only four Stales still allow people under 21 to drink alcoholic beverages South Dakota Colorado Ohio and Wyoming. The South Dakota legislature recently adopted a drink-at-2 Law to take effect next april but the Law would have been repealed automatically had the suite won its court Battle tuesday. Instead the supreme court decision is a Victory for the Federal government and organizations such As the National safety Council and mothers against drunk driving. Rehnquist said states still have the Power to keep Undcr-21 drinking Laws on inti books. Here Congress has offered it actively mild encouragement to the states to enact higher minimum drink ing Ages than they would otherwise choose he said. Under the Federal Law slates that do not comply with the 21 drinking age lose 5 percent of the Highway funds otherwise due for fiscal 1987 and 10 percent of such funds during fiscal 1988. States that subsequently adopt the 21 minimum drinking age May be entitled to recoup withheld Money. For a slate the size of Ohio such a funding cot could mean $16.5 million in lost Federal Highway Coli proc lion Money for fiscal 1987 and  million in fucd1988. South Dakota s Appeal had been supported by eight slates Colorado Hawaii Louisiana Montana Ohio South Carolina Vermont and Wyoming. Joining Rehnquist were justices Byron r. White Thurgood Marshall Harry a. Blackmun Lewi f. Powell John Paul Stevens and Antonin Sofia. Justices William j. Brennan and Sandra Day o con nor dissented slating in separate opinions thai the21 St amendment bars such a Federal Law. I n the tax Case the court ruled 6-2 that the Wash fit ton tax discriminates unconstitutionally against inter state Commerce. The justices said that through to exemption procedure the Levy is air Tinl Only on products manufactured in Washington that Are sold to out of state customers. The ruling is expected to create difficulty for Many slates thai exempt in state manufacturing mile at the same time do not give credit to companies for taxes paid in other states on parts of the manufacturing pro Cess. Justice John Paul Stevens said within Toft t tax exposes manufacturing or Selling activity outside the state to a multiple Burden from which Only the activity of manufacturing in state and idling in state � exempt Washington authorities estimate that the Revenue at stake in that stale for the years 1980 to 1984 alone exceeds $423 million. Some 70 businesses challenged the state Levy in other decisions the court declared  two successive Pennsyl Vania taxes on the interstate trucking Industry. By a 5 4 Vole the court ruled that the Laws under which Pennsylvania collected 1250 million unduly Dit Criminale against interstate Commerce by imposing fees More heavily on trucks not based within the state. Several other slates already have similar Laws on their books. Said it would not decide the Issue of whether police need a court warrant to search garbage discarded in an apartment House communal trash bin. After Lay ing last october it would resolve the question railed in a California Case the court voted 6-3 Loback out and say the Issue is not cd Ripe for ruling. The drinking age Case is South Dakota is. Dole 86-260. Pit bulldog crushes Bone in control officer s hand los Angeles a a Newt camera rolled a pit bulldog burst through a screen door and attacked an animal control officer clamping its jaws onto her hand and crushing the Bone authorities said. Officer Florence Crow Elf was bitten monday while investigating a report thai the dog earlier attacked a 7-year-old Girland her father. The attack was recorded by a Kobs to news Crew which accompanied the officer for a Story on Pil Bull terriers. Me Only wanted to protect me said the dog s owner. Joy Hauser. Now they want to kill my baby for that Crowell 33, was reported in satisfactory condition tuesday Al Glendale me Morial Hospital where she was treated for bites on both hands her wrists and her Chest said a nursing supervisor. The officer did not require surgery. She actually had a Bone crushed in her right hand said Linda Gordon spokeswoman for the City department of animal regulation. According to Gordon the dog burst through a screen door As crowd approached Hauser s Home and look the officer s hand in ils jaws Gordon said. Hauser tried to Call her dog off but the screams and struggle Only prompted the dog to bold on until a neighbor struck it with Astico. Kobs photographer Don mend also tried to pud the dog Oft i did not sic Benjamin on her Hauser said. She the control officer was standing at the do of the driveway crunched Over and waving a stick. I told her. That she better be careful because Benjamin would attack if she kept waving a  a rash of reports of pit Bull attacks has brought Calls in some California communities to ban the Breed on june 14 a pit Bull killed a toddler in Morgan Hill the dog s owner discharged with involuntary manslaughter under a Law making it a felony to own an animal thai kills someone. On thursday a los Aoe Elei police officer was attacked in Highland Park when a pit Bull snapped its Chain and lunged at him. Hauser s dog was impounded and die department win seek a Coort onto for it lobe destroyed Gordon said. The Cage St being referred to the District attorney1 office for possible  arid. Neighbor Juan Volpe had alerted authorities after he and Bis 7-Ycar-ow daughter Brisa were allegedly attacked and bitten by the dog late sunday Gor Don Laid. Both were treated at Hospital and released. Man runs amok in Cathedral at new Orleans new Orleans api a Man shouting i am the holy spirit Burn All the bibles ran amok in the St. Lot is Cathedral tuesday destroying a statue described As priceless authorities said. It s absolutely unbelievable it Slike a Nightmare said John Zientz who watched the rampage. A precise damage estimate was not Avail Able said police spokesman David Adams. He also said police had not been Able to identify the Man who was booked with criminal damage of More than 110,000, aggravated assault and resisting arrest by refusing to identify himself. He s the holy ghost he s a spirit from god. That s All thai he would say Adams said. Frenzl the pastor s Lay administrative assistant said he had just opened the Cathedral and was doing morning chores when he Beard the Man shouting. He went to the Church Entrance area and found a tall heavy Man standing on the table where parishioners set candies to bum for their prayers. Whai Are you a crazy nut gel Down from there Zientz said he told the Man whom he described As about 6-foot-2 and 350 pounds. He was terribly agile for being 10 big. So Strong Frittz said. He said the Man started throwing i gtd candles a him and jumped Down overturn ing the Candle stand and the newty refurbished statue of our lady  the plaster and papier mache statue which Frentz described Ai priceless about 100 years old and one of two of its kind in the nation shattered