European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes fight expected in Congress Over proposals to increase veterans pension benefits Washington exports already Are girding for a fight in january on demands for a   of pension benefits for a group newly chartered by the of world War has established m its principal goal passage of a Bill to pension at age 90 All veterans of world War the to be made without regard to existing need and disability would be per the veterans of foreign wars and the american while not la support of this Are to Lay before the fifth Congress petition liberalization plans of their is Button a year the will collide with leadership of an existing veterans petition program which already coating comp to Bill lion a and the Bill for which by the year is to hit Ajmo Fel f4 billion of ff615 or Inonu hey now Arv payable to am of world wart i and ii and who Are for not due to military and who Are in need of the spam Hamerka War set 110159 monthly whether or not j disabled or in Are Tot to of Ron fund with to in military axe payments for not do to for Dimi bitty pin Alioff riot involved in the amen Niton under direction of chairman Bonn army learning tactics Germany West German army is receiving intensive training in personal de sense against atomic training this year included the new German army first Large scale Maneu vers held this month at brigade and division All of which assumed that the enemy was using tactical atomic the West German now at just under half its planned strength of has no atomic Wear a number of american made missiles which can be fitted either with conventional or atomic Heads Are on and should be delivered in another 14 to 18 German soldiers now Are in the learning missile firing american control even after the mass lies Are de the atomic War Heads will remain american prop and will fitted and fired Only on american troops acting As red units this month have been learning what to Ohn Teague Houte veterans committee staff already Are muttering ammunition for what they concede May be an Uphill defence against the Immi nent pension aaa Ault among their initial weapons is a estimate by the veterans bated on mortality it a flows that the proposed world War i general pension Bih would add to current veterans Coats first is prepared to argue that a Adt fes eve play of this for not related to any Haw Cap incurred while in m t f e r would jeopardize All in chiding those for my dial fetid to a German Amy helicopter Over a tank from Taw my pascer of near la Orui first Large scale during the new German Field photo Pitburg air base speeds runway repair work Germany work on return aria Pitburg air runway and Over runs has been stepped and Are hoping to finish the its Mono project by it wot announced workmen Are pouring 800 tons of and More than getting ready for Altitude test of Concrete the project for resurfacing the entire renter runway with an additional four inches of adding six inches of Concrete to the at either end of the and installing drainage ducts on both sides of the extending overruns in the overrun area will be extended 300 feet to make the total length of the run Way and overruns offi new runway distance Marker boards Are bring installed and will be lighted for use at the air bases main tax ways Are being overlaid with four inches of and traffic lanes and markers Are being work on the resurfacing project began l original plans called for the work to be completed by air f tac i Clifton of Ciuro equipment in a High a Keota at a to above in part a air Force to avoid Tina in photo Eubank receives legion of Merit Madrid special Brig Gen William commander of the strategic air comes 4310th air div in was awarded the legion of Merit by maj Gen 16th air Force com the award was Given for performance As commander of the 93d bombardment Wing at Castle air Force from july to june the accompanying com mending Eubank for his super vision and execution of operation Power said that he had guided his unit in pioneering the conversion to b52 and kc135 air Craft and in training All b52 and kci35 air Crews in cos wage War in sandboxes at Munich Academy Munich the 7th no Academy Treyve Tot the students playing in Sand but its a deadly serious under the guidance of m sgt Albert students learn the benefits of three dimensional terrain models in relation to tactics and the training of their own the uses for Sand tables Are a master sergeant attached to on airborne unit told the class they Are used in his battalion to show drop a medic uses one to illustrate the safest places to set up Field hospitals and evacuation zones for the and infantry units explain tactics with accurate Model with bits of Wood and soap carved into the shape of tanks and other Wallace builds an accurate Model under the students each Man uses a map of the area Wallace la As the Model takes a the cos in attendance realize the value of such a training school officials the Fourine Square map in their hands tells them Little of terrain the table Al lows instant realization of where to place and do if their supporting f preparing to fire an atomic at a target near the the procedure fairly Aba fat those units nearest the Zero Point the germans can it null punkt Are withdrawn beyond the expected blast infantrymen and others on Utt ground Are instructed to dig they Are told to turn their backs to the expected keep their Heads and necks Covert and their off their Bodei they Are to remain in this Post Sci for 90 seconds after the Wear Tea maa Fca x they also Are required to their Gas the Gas now in use Are the same worn by the germans in w War but new types Are on Blue defending forces if their commands suspect from scouts that enemy is preparing an Tondt Large masses of troops Art ordered to if there St foot soldiers Are told to of tanks Are supposed to Button Oft and other vehicles Are to be Cov ered with once the blast has gone those in the area of radioactive dust fallout Are Jbf platoons or the the nearest decontamination each brigade of men Bat of these consisting of 48 officers and men and about Likht the centers Are pair it Rcd on those of the americas at the centers Entrance each Dick is sprayed thoroughly with High pressure water Hose to Lay the dust on his clothing and equip he places his equipment in a heavy paper sack and it is away for Shower tent the Soldier then disrobe and enters a col Shower from he goes into a hot Shower then past a fir staid station where he is checked for visible Burns and one of the finans is moved from the identification am radiation tag each Man wean around his before the film removed the mans serial number is punched into the Man then receives his freshly trucks and tanks Are drives through a water officers in the centers report they can run one company with Ait its equipment through a full lamination treatment in one but it takes six hours to develop and evaluate for a whole company the radiation exposure film carried around the soldiers the decontamination squad must be located near a source of watery and must have two approaches be cause soldiers leaving the Center Are not permitted to return the same Way they come because they might stir up More radioactive dust and cancel the whole cleaning the centers usually Are located near a Field Hospital or medical but Are not part of the nor Mal medical Athens Secretary cited Athens Audi Secretary in the o of special investigations been awarded a 9200 Check letter of appreciation for outs ing performance from May to May Michigan state drama schedules tour of Germany Germany special an american student production of the three act the ten Der is scheduled to tour military posts in Germany his month and Usa eur special services announced staged by drama students from Michigan state the play is scheduled in Northern area come 89 at Nurnberg sub 1014 Munich Subarea a Stuttgart of 2125 Heidelberg 2fr3ft and Valsera lantern oct the show also is tache tiled of appear at 59 at 1012 and in officials