European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes april 1948 big Telescope anchored on Bedrock base p before the builders of the p a 1 o m a r Mountain Telescope started building a space peering they really got Down to the great 200inch Telescope anchored in one of the first tasks on the wintry Mountain top for the engineers was to explore the Gran Ite and soil where they wanted to erect great diggings went 30 feet or More Down into the solid top of the great huge blocks of specially mixed Concrete were poured into the forming the massive base of the worlds longest Range this Telescope base was built entirely although enclosed within the Circle of the Wal like foundation of the build ing on Imp of the Loveless blocks of Concrete base were fastened thick plates of finest steel to form the four Corners on which the giants feet would on these four feet were constructed a Section of steel girders like a part of the Golden Gate Bridge or the Empire state buil three of the feet Are sitting on heavy steel plates on the con with bearings so they can be on the fourth foot Are thick powerful adjusting screws to raise that Corner or to turn the whole with those the Engi neers will keep the far always accurately oriented with the an earthquake can shift but not topple this great and if it is moved by a seismic it can be realigned with the endless movements the stars make As they Rise in the sweep Over the and set in the Accident rate in drops new York be Ings Are Only three times smarter than chickens in avoid ing death by John said at the open ing of a fou Day convention of the greater new York safety Council in the hotel Pennsyl who it with the new York Telephone said it had been established mat it look 25 generations of chickens to trans Mit by heredity the ability to avoid being struck by Automo the accidental death rate in the he has declined from per population in 1913 to in assuming that 20 years accounts for a new generation of he and allowing for a permissible engineering error of 10 per it is going to Lake us 155 years or approximately eight generations to re Duce our Accident death rate to a minimum or to the equivalent of the Chicken nearly delegates were registered for the convention and the list of 140 speakers during the fou Day session included lenders in business and other Charles 55 superintendent of Rockefeller Center said the Accident rate among employees May be reduced by  and business con Cerns if they provide extensive medical particularly with thorough of employees a giant sky Peeler n a curious world waifs for Hie revelations of the explorer of the the 200inch Telescope atop Palomar Mountain in the anchored in is expected to be ready some Finne this double domes in us lose hair scientist says Washington hair situation in Europe is All tangled the american association of physical anthropologists has premature baldness is High among intellectuals in Sweden and re ported of Lom Eshie research Lon Northern on the other he premature baldness is rare in the percentage falling in Picardy and the Paris Region to As Low As five per about he reported Many ladies in great Britain show Strong Toothbrush Mousta while their scandinavian Sisters Are without a Trace of hair on the he ventured this Broad statement it would appear from our explosion to test atomic shelters Washington of tremendous explosions to find out How far underground men must go to find safety from atomic blast Are to be carried out by the army near Salt Lake at the loot of the Wasatch mountains in no atom bombs will be explosives for the a mys first actual experiments designed to develop the Best Type of underground shelter construction for the atomic be int charges ranging up to the which will last about five will begin with relatively Small explosions of 320 pounds of int increasing to of the greatest known blasts with conventional and probably second Only to the atom test shelters will be made in Evory Type of soil and Rock know a to exist in the and will be made of Concrete and steel in various thicknesses and work at this Center that hirsutism excessive harness is on the in crease among cultured we then and what have brains and culture Cit to do with Lack of too much of it on the whole it is True to say that educated Young men get Bill headed than uneducated we Are that too much brain work in itself has nothing to do with the he ventured no theories on feminine he said the cause of premature is still wrapped in he suggested studies on endocrine glands and on the aging for baldness is one of the signs of decreased endocrine function and the Staje in the Progress towards years april 1943 Berlin reports the sinking of the aircraft Carrier Ranger in the Middle North april 1944 at planes drop 184 tons of bombs on four japanese april 1945 sheaf announces Ger Iuan prisoners have been captured in the first 23 Days of this april 1946 the first Serviceman dependent shipped to the it under govern ment auspices arrives in Belfast on her Way to Wiesbaden where her husband is april 1947 7 terrorists blow up British Bil lets in killing four British police seek jewel thieves Spain Are endeavouring to locate the culprits who entered san Juan Bautista Church and stole jewels which had adorned the statue of the Virgin of bag Hurt Russ All letters to b bag 1744th stars and stripes Apo s in clude name and address names Are deleted on due to space letters be Cut for provided such editing does not alter the meaning of the must take test for literacy after 22 years army service i have a complaint to make that justifies a legitimate Bitch it affects me by this so called literacy i am thoroughly disgusted with the Way soldiers Are insulted because they did not go above Grade four in being a i decided to try an enlistment in the army and have made a career it Ever that was in november at that time Grey matter above was not so much the requirement As was a Good Strong physical the Hurt comes now after 22 years of uninterrupted service i am told that i have to take a literacy to my Way of thinking that is an insult to any Man that has earned his education through the school of hard especially to one the has an idea that he did above average in making his army career i have served four years with the three years with the and 15 years with the corps of my act score a my Moss Range from from Black Smith to first do my own i was an acting first sergeant As Early As a combat platoon Engineer sergeant during the and a first sergeant since the closing Days of the if this is Hen l save to what i think a very polite Way of saying youve had perhaps you can save a lot of embarrassment to old timers by presenting this letter to the proper to Aid old timers in completing a successful 30 years of service instead of throwing a series of obstacles in their path that can be overcome Only by Young men fresh from first sergeant note a copy of the oboe in if signature irus referred to the Neucom chief of troop information and education service for his reply follows Usset letter a dated october states All soldiers whose we ago form 20 enlisted mens qualification card show completion of less than the 5th Grade or show on army general classification test act score of Grade v Are required to take the tests fur paragraph same states literacy training now Basic education training will be Given during and will continue until the Soldier shows by test that in passed the Standard for the 5th unit personnel officers will make an appropriate entry on the we ago form 20 upon the soldiers completion of literacy training in accordance with the present interpretation of this directive first sergeant has an act score of is and thus it conforms with one of the determining a new directive is to be published in the near future Wichich icily clarify the interpretation of present requirements for Basic education tests and it is not the intent of the army to humiliate any of its but rather to develop an army of not Only the Best Best fed and Best trained but also the Best educated soldiers in the world for these men because of environmental Over which they had no were not Able to Complete their the through the medium of the troop information end education has the army education centers and us api to prot de educational opportunities for those who have not completed their As Well As for those who wish to occupy their spare time with extra knowledge of subjects of interest to them either for avocational pursuits or for future vocational Entrance of alien dependents into after december 27 i pm a British War having married an american Serviceman in London my husband obtained his discharge in London and has been working for the department of the army in Europe since thai if my husband would like to continue working for the department of the army after december can you Tell me what the procedure will be if i return to the after december 27 War Bride editors Kote under the immigration act of 1924 a no quota status May be accorded the alien wife of an american citizen regard less of the Date of in order to Confer such a status the citizen relative should execute 1133 in duplicate and file the completed forms for approval with the immigration and naturalization department of where the forms May be forms May be obtained from an american consular approved petitions for alien dependents to be admitted to the under statutory no quota Are forwarded by tree state depart ment to the american consulate abroad where the alien spouse apply for a the Consul will inform the alien spouse As to the personal documents which will be required to support the application these documents Are birth police prison and military As Well As a passport or other travel jh1 a tors Andis Tripis 111 april William Summers managing editor Ken Zumwalt sports Jack Ellis executive manager Maurice Kirthwood chief of distribution Bernard or Guirau news bureaus 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