European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 8, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday november it 1958 the stars and . No 3mk9 ail a Ai Kurca put a army s missile school guides Armor students via to Huntsville Ala. A off in a Corner of the missile making Redstone Arsenal Here is a 90 building school that has problems which afflict no other army Post. They re the headaches that go with producing live t e lev is i o n shows that teach More than the entertain. The army s ordnance guided missile school Ohms Here has just been launched into the to business to help keep army mis sidemen up to Date on rapidly changing technical aspects of their Trade. The school has turned out More than 10,000 miss Lemen trained to operate and to maintain these complicated weapons and their accompanying electronic gear. But the school is new at the to business. Here is How the whole thing started Gen Maxwell d. Taylor army chief of staff was dissatisfied with the army s method of teach ing senior officers about missile maintenance. The assignment to do something about improving it went to the school commandant Here col h. S. Newhall. And his mandate from the Pentagon was to improve the teaching in missile maintenance at the army s Armor school at it. Knox by 280 Miles North of Huntsville. Officers going through the Armor school Are concerned with All types of weapons not just missiles. However As senior officers they Are responsible for the use and maintenance of these costly new weapons. Organic operational weapons guided missiles14 of them Are now organic operational weapon sin the ground forces. Since these officers Are nontechnical men they have the problem of what to look for during inspections. How will they know whether the missiles Are receiving proper care what safety measures should be enforced Newhall went to it. Knox and tried out the old visual Aid meth ods. An alternative was taking the missiles to the men for instruction or vice versa. Either Way would be extremely expensive. The colonel also considered an rejected the use of films and text books. Textbook teaching takes about three times As Long As visual training. But the most pressing consideration said Newhall was the fact that new missiles Are being developed All the time and the old ones modified and improved. Films and textbooks would be obsolescent upon completion. Then Newhall had his brain storm live television Over a closed 3d army div preparing for tank contest Frankfurt special third army div tankers Are in their final week of preparation for the Armor leadership award Competition which gets under Way nov. 12 at Grafe Woehr. The division announced  3d army div platoons will compete for the Draper trophy on a 24-hour tactical problem that includes Advance guard night March delay attack defense an life fire exercises. Individual Competition for the trophy includes weapons firing another contests. Trust fund. The Draper trophy is named in Honor of the late col . Who left a $35,000 Trust fund to maintain the Tanker com petition. Competing for the trophy a scale Model tank atop an engraved Silver base will be five tank Pla Toons selected by their battalions in elimination contests. The five platoons Are the 3d Pla Toon of co a 1st Cav the 3d Pla Toon of cod 13th Cav the 1st platoon of cod 33d Armor the 1st platoon of troop a 12th Cav and the 2d platoon of cod 32darmor. Launching an attack on California 51 of civilians to split $8,900 Wiesbaden Bonus Wiesbaden Germany Spe Cial almost $9,000 will be divided Between 51 air Force civilian employees during the second annual Wiesbaden area civilian award ceremony nov. 25, Safe he announced. Safe commander in chief Genf. F. Everest will make the presentations. Seven of the civilians will receive Cash awards of $300  others will get $200 and 20 will receive $100 each. Total awards amount to $8,900. One of the award winners John Condon Safe s civilian person Nel labor relations officer has been nominated for the meritorious civilian service award. This is the second highest air Force honorary award Given to a civilian employee. An amphibious vehicle plunges into the surf off san Simeon calif., after Landing troops on the Beach during preliminary part of operation Rocky Shoals a joint army Navy exercise involving More than %5,000 soldiers and sailors. The exor Cise is designed. To test the army s pen Tomic concept in an amphibious assault. It is the biggest army Navy amphibious test since 1950. Up everything for thanksgiving except pilgrims army Cooks up 400-ton dinner by Henry b. Kraft olives Nyrl five Tenno of Rtin Vlao a pfc or a  .,.unjy staff writer Heidelberg Germany is taking last year s figures and adding a few thousand slices of Turkey the army has figured out that Usa eur soldiers and their guests will put away about 400 tons of food on thanksgiving Day. First item on the menu will be 13 tons of shrimp cocktail served with sauce made from six tons of Catsup and a half ton of horse radish with some Catsup left Over for other uses and a Mountain of Lemon wedges. Vegetables the big item of course is the turkey105 tons of it and there la be seven tons of bread and four tons of butter for the Sandwich minded or Gravy pushers. Vegetables include 38 tons of Sweet potatoes 35 tons of White potatoes 11% tons of lettuce 17 ,4tons of Green Beans 17% tons of tomatoes 10% tons of celery 11% tons of Cranberry sauce three tons of  olives five tons of Ripe olives and five tons of pickles. Add to this 140,000 eggs. In the sweetmeat line the mess Halls will Lay out six tons of hard Candy 20 tons of oranges 11% tons of grapes 14% tons of shelled 1958 menu fresh shrimp cocktail cocktail sauce Lemon wedge crackers x roast Turkey dressing Giblet Gravy Cranberry sauce mashed potatoes glazed Sweet potatoes buttered fresh Green Beans lettuce and Tomato salad French dressing Crisp celery strips assorted olives Sweet Pickle shot Rolls butter mincemeat pie pumpkin pie with whipped Cream Coffee Tea grapes oranges pears hard candies assorted nuts warning issued on defective lamps Heidelberg Germany is the death of an american child by touching a defective lamp has resulted in a warning by Ursa eur to occupants t f we Erna enthusing quarters against the Dan bpm of defeet.lve-. Lamps is a Gen of Sedecio it Brown Usa eur Hief of staff has notified All Arney commanding officers to publicize the possibility that government issued lamps Aswell As locally procured lamps May be defective. His letter said impart particular attention will be paid to lamps in boys and recreation hotels. Should there be any doubt about issued or locally procured Lan is the persons using them will notify their pm outlet and request an immediate inspection of the items. Larne is considered unsafe will be immediately withdraw from service and replaced by new ones certified As Safe to use.1 pm services win adopt the. Fol lowing policies. When a set of quarters is vacated the pm inspection team will Check All issued electrical appliances chargeable to that Agency and where defective equipment is found they will replace it with lighting fixtures that meet cur rent safety requirements. Defective lamps government issued or owned by occupants will be identified by tags until they Are renovated. Pm inspection teams will in clude  their regular inspection visits to government quarters the inspection of All component parts of lamps being used by  nuts and six tons of Unshelle nuts. Dessert without counting the necessary pie crust there la be 25 tons of pumpkin eight tons of mincemeat and nine tons of whipped Cream. To Wash it Down the army will serve Coffee made from two tons of Beans with three tons of evaporated milk. Planning for thanksgiving Day began Back in april by members of the Usa eur menu Board which represents All major usar eur commands under the direction of it col Hudson r. Hurst chief of the subsistence Branch of the Usa eur quartermaster division and maj Leland c. Ecklon chairman of the menu Board. Same menu for of the quantities Are based on a so much per Man or so Many men per can basis last year s consumption and estimate of the number of guests also based on last year s figures and current troop strength. Most of the figures except for that on Turkey Are the same Asfor 1957. Air Force men a Safe he spokesman at Wiesbaden said can look Forward to the same thanks giving Day menu. Only one thing has t been Fig ured out yet How Many tons of bicarbonate the medics should keep on hand just in Case. Zamstein toastmasters Ramstein Germany special new officers of the Ramstein air base chapter of toastmasters International will be installed in meeting nov. 25. Circuit Good live shows of professional Caliper combining humor with instruction. Pentagon hands went up in horror but Newhall got a tentative go ahead. On april 21, Newhall sent for maj Peter Horn with orders to have a to station ready to go on the air within six months. The bids were opened May 22. By june 7 Home completed tech Nical evaluation of the bids told the colonel what the station would Cost and Newhall went to Washington. The colonel entered the Pentagon at 8 am and was out by 5 pm with a half million Dollar to budget including $321,000 for equipment. Enlisted professional Newhall went in search of professional Aid to the teleprompter corp. Of new York specialists in closed circuit to. They hired Maurice Penn associate produce rat the National broadcasting co. Penn recruited a professional Crew of 23 men. The Ohms to staff now numbers More than 100, about 80 volunteers from the school. Cliff Paul also formerly of Abc became technical director. He had problems immediately. He needed some control panels some of his men took photographs of the needed panels to the school staff. There were no plans or. Specifications. The staff just asked what they were supposed to do and then made them. Pentagon deadline then came the Bombshell a. Pentagon order to get on the air hot later than oct. 8.in two weeks Penn trained pms  actors. Paul trained camera Crews. Five months and 12 Days front the Day he was Given the go-ahead1home had an operating station on the air. The last two Days were hectic. Some of the Crews were tabbed or up. During dress rehearsal a big Van containing liquid oxygen for a lesson in missile fueling got stuck in mud. On the Day of the big show the Remote Crews found they had Strung ground wire across the in trance to tie garbage truck Pool if the trucks could t get out 180families would be stuck with palls full of refuse. The decision television has priority Over garbage. Show was Success was the show any Good it was j lesson regulations on use of protective clothing must be rigidly enforced. They were reminded that som paint Happy officers have every thing in sight painted. But twp cents Worth of paint on the nose Cone of the Hawk designed for use against Low flying planes can foul up $20,000 Worth of missile. The Hawk has an infrared Detector beneath its plastic nose. It Homes on the exhaust from aircraft and paint destroys the Homer s ability to work. Lesson put away the Paintbrush. Home and Penn with $11 mud lion Worth of missiles As props have shows scheduled once a wee for 25 weeks. By the end of the season they Hope to have the Pentagon and assorted other army schools on their network. Safe says Safe is you soph eee Wiesbaden Germany is the . Air Force in Europe he Oil ice of information services Here has taken time out from its Busy schedule to adopt a ruling on How Safe will be pronounced. Nearly everyone has been Call ing the command  turns out they wore wrong All the time. The pronunciation  got it now