European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday november 15,19bb the stars and stripes pages project s residents wed to avoid eviction Chicago a police sirens gave Way to wedding Bells sunday As eight men lied the knot with their girlfriends rather than he evicted from the apart ments the a nuclei once shared. Overnight guests were banned fro the Rockwell gardens housing Procel after a sept. 20 police raid to rom Hal gang violence. So on sunday eight brides dressed in Pink gowns donated by a local dressmaker and eight grooms wearing Black tuxedos provided by a formal Wear store beamed As the Rev. Louise Reed pronounced them husbands and wives. When they raided my House thai was wrong said Robert Johnson who mar ried Linda Hardy Bui today is the Best Day of my life i m ready 10  just love it said the former Tammy Grigsby now mrs. Eugene Young. We had been planning o get married but. Since they went on and pressed inc Issue we were All for  the group wedding arranged by Chi Cago housing authority officials after the couples decided to get married rather than live apart represents a big step for Public housing in Chicago said Vince Lane Cha chairman these people Are models and i have High Hope for them said Lane who at tended inc Brief ceremony i think n great Deal of what happens in Public housing in Chicago is Riding on their  people will say tin Only Rea son they re getting married is because of the raids. I Don t think that s True he said the  work with the men All unemployed to help them pm jobs. When overnight guess were banned the couples were angry that the men could t Sec their children. However they supported the Cha s Effort to rid the project Ofgang violence. 1 was really upset because Cedric non Lywch couples ordered to tie the knot or face Terni Tiht separations congratulate one another after ceremony. Could t come see the kids and i could t Sec him for a couple weeks said Marie Smith formerly Marie Woods Bui she and her husband both said the gang situation had improved since the raids. I was glad they did it he said. The situation thai was Over there with inc gangs you were running for your  and if the newly weds were pleased. Their parents were ecstatic. I think it s great said Josie Hardy father of the new mrs. Johnson. I tried to gel her to marry a Long  scouts unite in drive to collect food for poor by the associated press thousands of scouting groups launched a Holiday food drive Over the weekend fanning out in neighbourhoods around the nation 10 distribute plastic bags for i hair neigh Bors to fill with canned food for the nor and homeless. It s sad so we re going to help these people Oul said Jancinto Swope 9, of Louisville by. We re going to get a lot of food for inc  this year s scout Long for food drive which is being conducted in All 50 states by scouts and their leaders will Supply canned goods to food Banks Church group shelters soup k in chins and county welfare agencies. With about 4.2 million boy scouts. Cub scouts and explorer scouts in the United Stales scouting groups hold enormous potential to mobilize for civic causes said Barclay Bollas to spokesman for boy scouts of America. We have seen that there arc now supposedly 20 million americans and about 7 million children that go hungry every month Bollas said. This was not he Case half a generation ago and we fell in was some thing we could make an Impact  Kentucky alone. 18.000 scouts distributed about 280,000 food bags saturday according to Tony mor ton Seoul Field director for the state. Up to 250,000 scouts and i hair troop leaders took part in the drive in Southern California hoping to collect 1 million pounds of food. I m going to gel so pounds of them at least said cub scout Bryan Davis 9, of Inglewood calif., heft ing an armload of plastic bags. Davis and 250 representatives of scout troops at tended a Pep rally saturday at the los Angeles area Council Headquarters to kick off the Campaign. Sieve Maternick program director of the Seoul Council for Morris and Sussex counties in new Jersey said parents and Chaperon is in his area helped about9,0001 scouts drop off bags saturday morning. Next saturday they will retrace their route and hopefully pick up the bags filled with  everyone in pack 31 was doing this for the Hun Gry said to year old James Becker whose father drove him and a Friend around Denville n.j., to hand Oul about 40 red and White collection bags. Robert a. Williams a spokesman for the greater new York councils of the boy souls said Many of the 86,000 souls in the City the largest group in the nation were going door to door collecting food. The youngsters from just about any Community Inthis City see the homeless j ing on inc streets he said. Basically we re asking people to open their heart by opening i hair pantries he added. ,. Goods collected in new York will be Given to Organiza four slain in la gang style attacks los Angeles a More than 175 people we rearrested in a sweep this weekend aimed at reducing bloodshed in a gang infested area but violence continued As four wort slain in gang style attacks. Francisco Gutierrez 22, was killed and a bystander was wounded Early sunday when Gutierrez was robbed while parked along the Pacific coast Highway near Pacific Pali Sades. Police said an anti gang unit was  another apparent gang attack Augustinot. Rod. Rigid Zwas found sprawled on a Hollywood sidewalk. Early saturday after he was shot by u rider in a passing car . On Friday 15-year-old Joseph Patrick Tomc Llyia a. Reputed gang a number died of a single slab wound inflicted outside his Home in the suburb of hawaiian gardens sheriffs Deputy Dan Cox  were still searching for the rival gang Mem Bers believed responsible in the shooting death of Monique Murphy 16, who died after she was caught in a Hail of bullets talc Friday As she sat in a car with two companions outside a liquor store. Sol. Hob mar tin said. The companions were unhurt. No arrests had been made to  total of 176 people arrested saturday night and sunday morning included 103 reputed gang members officer Jim Fani said. Of the 135 adults arrested 30 were booked for invest. Gallon of felonies about Hal of them drug related felonies Farris said. Officers arrested 105 for investigation of misdemeanours and issued 134 traffic citations a Force of 200 officers patrolled an area of South Central los Angeles front about 5 . Saturday to 3 . Sunday sol John Fletcher said Lions Wilh experience in distributing food such As the salvation army and Church and Community groups. Saul Cohen a 12-year-old cub scout from Newyork City said he wanted to help the homeless like other scouts across America arc doing " r it makes me feel sad to Sec the homeless on i Herity s streets and subways he said. But it feels Good 10 be helping Oiher  about 50 boy and cub scouts from inc trap pc col legs Villa pa., area went door to door asking people Mohave donations ready next saturday said troop 113 scoutmaster James Shallcross. Travis Rybicki. 13, who has been in scouting for is years said he was Supri cd that some people were so enthusiastic. " Sands of time in the stars and stripes v 40 years ago today nov. 15, 1948 Princess Elizabeth gave birth Toher first son at Buckingham i Alace As thousands of londoners wailed outside the Palace for the goodnews. 30 years ago today. Nov i5, 1958 defense Secretary Neil  Roy announced Ilia he would order the army and a. Rine corps to go ahead with delayed plans to slash 55,000 men from their forces 20 years ago fuday. Nov. 15, 1968 officials at the National aeronautics and space administration announced that in Apollo 10 Mission set for the second Quarter of 1969, would go within nine Miles of the Moon and might make a lunar Landing. V-10 years ago today. Nov. 15, 1978 Al least 32 civilians and one policeman were injured when bombs exploded in four towns in Northern Ireland in what police believe was part of a pc christinas offensive by the Irish Republican army ". "