European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 2, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes monday november 2,1992 oldest Soldier Adolph Kaskon americans oldest living War Veteran holds a Flag during the pledge of allegiance before the Start of a party in Rossburg ore., for his 107th birth Day. Kasken who turned 107 on oct 28, enlisted in the army in 1917. He lives at the veterans administration Home care unit in Roseburg. Michigan klan Memorabilia draws Large crowd to auction Fremont Mich. Apr hundreds of people from collectors to the curious showed up saturday to bid on Kun flux klan Memorabilia at an event a civil rights Leader blasted As reminiscent of a slave auction. Among the 250 items offered were stained Cotton Robes and hoods As Well As aging documents and letters from a defunct klan chapter that operated in the Newaygo county area in the 1920s. A it reminds me of the auction of the slaves Quot said Gloria White Gardner executive director of the Urban league of Muskegon county. A a in a offended because my ancestors lived through the reign of terror by this  Gardner and Ted Davis who Are Black tried unsuccessfully to obtain a court order halting the auction. On saturday people bid As much As $1,000 for Robes and hoods. The framed charter of the Newaygo county klan no. 29 of the invisible Empire of the knights of the Kun jux klan dated sept. 9,1925, sold for $3,100. The 250 items fetched a total of $29,910, organizers said. The items were found earlier in the month in an attic at a 130-year-old family farm. Also offered in separate auctions were farm equipment and Antiques. But it was the klan Memorabilia that Drew hundreds of people to the Bam where it was displayed. A fall the emphasis is put on the klan stuff when there a so much More to this farm Quot said Louise Slager. A i wish we had just donated the  the material can be traced to stagers Uncle Ledford Anderson Secretary treasurer in 1925-26 of the klan s chapter in Fremont which is about 40 Miles Northeast of grand rapids. Anderson died in 1986, and his sister in Law Jean Anderson recently decided to give up the farm. Misuse of . Police computers cited los Angeles apr More than 45 police officials have been cited since 1989 for using department computers to Check the backgrounds of House and baby Sitters along with others for personal reasons records show. A a it a a very serious problem a police commissioner Ann Reiss Lane said. The citations came to Light after an investigator for the police commission was suspended for 10 Days for using department computers without authorization to get confidential data on White supremacist Tom Metzger and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Union representing Robert Bauman appealed the suspension and submitted records showing that More than 45 department employees had been disciplined in the last three years for illegal computer use. Most received suspensions of two or three Days or verbal reprimands. As an example Lane said thursday an officer might use the computer to Check the background of a person about to marry one of the officers relatives. A Baumans 10-Day suspension without pay was upheld last week by the civil service commission. Bauman a permit processor routinely uses police computers to Check the criminal records police files and tax records of people applying for police permits for Massage Parlours gun stores and Pawn shops. He said be compiled information on Metzger because Bauman is a part time historian who does research on right and left Wing political groups. Bauman said he tapped into Schwarzenegger a files because a co worker was curious about the actor. Fund raisers stalking big Bucks in Deer Hunt Windsor . Apr big Bucks could mean big Bucks for a High school boosters club tired of Selling Candy bars door to door. The Bertie county High school academic boosters club is sponsoring a Deer Hunt the weekend of dec. 5 to raise Money for extracurricular activities. Hunters can pay $200 each for a Chance to stalk Deer that weekend on normally off limit private land. The fee includes lodging a guide and some meals. The Hunt was the idea of local forester and High school Booster Calvin Winslow. It is a departure from past fund raisers in which student groups held bake sales and sold Candy doughnuts and other items door to door. A it had gotten so people just got tired of it a a said Jerry Byrum who teaches Industrial training at the school and serves on the Booster club. A every time they turned around some kid was trying to sell them  if successful officials say the program also will help thin the Deer population in an aria where herds of 200 to 300 Are not  has Devil of time with new License numbers from wire reports Anchorage Alaska a the computer that issues Drivers License numbers chose the prefix 666 just in time for halloween. Juanita Hensley chief of Driver services for the state division of motor vehicles said the computer that assigns numbers to new Drivers clicked Over automatically when the 665 prefix was used up recently. Some people associate 666 with the Devil based on a biblical reference in the Book of revelation. Several complained to the state. A one lady said it was the Mark of the beast Quot Hensley said. A she said she did not want to be associated with the  about 2,500 licenses were issued before officials decided to nudge the computer to 667. A i did not want 10,000 people calling me Quot Hensley  stricken Warrington a.  children suffered hallucinations headaches and nausea saturday night after trick or treating but authorities said they doubted tainted Candy caused the illness. Officials at two hospitals said none of the children was seriously ill. Susan Gordon of Doylestown Hospital where seven of the children were taken said the youngsters were trick or treating together in suburban Philadelphia. But she said Only two of the seven had eaten any Candy so it was unlikely tainted Candy caused the illness. She said toxicology test results would be needed for a diagnosis. Carl Raphael of the Warrington township ambulance company said the youngsters were slipping in and out of consciousness and hallucinating when his Crews took diem to the hospitals. By late saturday night Gordon said most of the complaints entered on severe headaches and  theme assailed san Diego a a halloween haunted House staged by a fundamentalist Christian group featured graphic skits showing aborted fetuses. Angry parents said the Church gave no warning about the theme. A i was appalled Quot said Christine Cummins 25, who walked through the House holding her 1-year-old son. A i can to believe they re showing this to Small  the haunted House was sponsored by the 100-member potters House Christian Fellowship. Congregation members acted out skits about topics such As drug abuse and abortion. A your primary objective is to teach the gospel Quot said the Rev. Alphy Fisher Leader of potters House. A we use the haunted House As a tool. These Are real issues in life and they have to be addressed a drunk driving abortion premarital  the haunted House opened thursday and was to run through saturday night the third year it has been presented Fisher said. He said children under 13 were not allowed in unless accompanied by  boat missing Boston a coast guard planes searched saturday for a 72-foot fishing boat with five crewmen missing in the North Atlantic for two Days. The dragger Atlantis was due to return to its Home port of new Bedford mass., on thursday but was not reported overdue to the coast guard by its owners until Friday evening. Two coast guard jets crisscrossed a 60-by-60-mile area of the Atlantic East of the Massachusetts resort Island of Nantucket on saturday but a spokesman said no Trace of the boat was found. A Check of ports and marinas up and Down the six state new England coast also proved fruitless he said. The dragger was last seen tuesday 25 Miles East of Nantucket and the Captain reported a no problems at the time spokesman Luis Diaz said. The National weather service said there had been no storms or unusually heavy seas in the area since then