European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 17, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday november 17, 1958 the stars and stripes Carrier Fleet threatened with obsolescence Navy s Deputy air chief warns Miami Fla. Up the Navy Deputy chief for air has declared that the Fleet is threatened with obsolescence in its aircraft carriers unless a replacement program is aggressively pursued during the next few years. Vice adm r. B. Pirie told the Navy league in a prepared address that & relaxation in Carrie building would mean a serious re Striction in the performance of aircraft we can Fly from Secretary Neil h. Me defense Effort said needing More tankers St. Louis to. Up Federal maritime administrator Clarence. Morse said Here the nation s defense mobilization program i handicapped by a Tanker shortage which threatens to get worse inthe next 10 years. Morse said the present Tanke Fleet is inadequate to meet War emergency needs and is rapidly be coming fact that Over 80 per cent of the present . Tanker Fleet will be Over age within five tonight years is a matter of serious concern he told the convention of the National defense transportation Assn. That a Tanker building pro Gram is essential to overcome the deficiency. He reported that 58 Large tankers Are now under construction but said building plans for others have been said that Overall the Mer chant Marine is in reasonably goo shape in the number of ships but deficient in Quality. 16th of opens Amity contest Torrejon Spain special a 16th air Force command wide contest on How i make Spanish friends is under Way. The contest will close nov. 30.entrants will submit a letter of 200 words or less directly to 16thair Force office of information services. The contest is divided into three categories of entrants. The first category is 16th air Force military and . Civilian employees. The Sec Ond category is composed of wives of category one personnel. The third category is composed of school children dependents of Cate gory one personnel. Category one and two prizes will consist of .$50 first $25 second and$15 third. Category three children will be split into three divisions of fourth fifth and sixth graders seventh eighth and ninth graders and 10th, Lith and 12 graders prizes for each division will be $15 for first $10 for second and $5 for third. Elroy had previously raised som doubt As to whether the Navy will be allocated funds for a second nuclear powered aircraft Carrier in the military budget to be presented to Congress next. told a news conference that the second atomic Carrier would Cost $375 million and said what s got to be decided is whether that s the Best use of the Navy s program Calls for laying the keel of a new super Carrier every year and it is assumed that All of these will be nuclear powered from now said we must be ready to fight modern War with he told the Navy league we cannot contain a limited War with a show of Force with inferior or obsolescent Dummy rocket fired from East coast sub Portsmouth . Up the Navy has successfully fired a Dummy rocket from a submarine for the first Tishie on the East coast. The 56-foot, 13-ton Dummy regu Lus ii rocket zoomed from the sub Marine growler and travelled 1,500yards in three seconds before plunging into the water at the submarine testing area off this coastal Navy called the firing of the Concrete filled Dummy a similar firing was executed on the West coast off California earlier this year. The firing was carried on totes the missile launching system of the growler. The firing was completed on the fourth try the first three attempts ending during the countdown when the ignition system fouled a Navy spokesman said. The firing scorched the sub paint but did not damage the launching equipment. Burke doubts need for big Polaris Force new York a the chief of naval operations has Lett be known that the american Fleet of Polaris missile submarines probably will be limited in num Arleigh Burke discussed this in an address to the society of naval architects and Marine Polaris is a nuclear powered submarine designed to fire inter mediate Range ballistic missiles with Hydrogen warheads. Burke called the Polaris submarines one of the Best system of nuclear retaliation Able to hide in the sea constantly moving in vulnerable to Surprise is a comparatively cheap retaliatory system the Admira said. It won t be necessary to maintain Large residual forces o Polaris submarines against the possible destruction of Surprise at won t take very Many to destroy the enemy if there should be another la Rochelle France special the mayor of a French City has praised the exemplary conduct ofom z troops participating in the Node 18 offshore discharge exer uses on the West coast of France. Henri Feuillet mayor of mar cropping the news line com z gis lauded for conduct on nos a coastal oily through which much heavy military traffic oper ated during the exercise wrote the following letter to col Charles d. Penniman co of the Lith transportation terminal come b Here As Node 18 ends and my Small preparing for close look at Mars cmdr Louis f. Pressler checks Over the Gondola in which cmdr Malcolm Ross and Johns Hopkins University scientist John Strong Hope to ascend to 80,000 feet for a close look at the planet mar through the 16-Inch Telescope mounted atop the Gondola. Bad weather forced postponement of the launching from a prepared site at Tupi deity s.u., saturday. Associated press photo Yankee magazines crash school s Oxford Barrier Bremerhaven Germany is american magazines ire being injected into the previously Oxford dominated English courses of German students at Schiller Schule Here. The result probably Quesi Onod Only by old line purists is that the students Are getting not Only a taste of Yankee idiomatic news magazines but More importantly an insight into american life. The students Are reportedly enthusiastic. The innovation came about when teen agers set up Job Agency Wiesbaden Germany Spe Cial Young americans Here have opened what is believed to Bethe first teen age employment Agency in Europe. Under sponsorship of the teen ounce of american youth activities the Agency offers to Ameri can dependent families a roster of ambitious lads ready to per form such jobs As babysitting car washing and miscellaneous nonprofit organization the Agency has established a Standar wage level. The Agency in to a Large extent the brain child of 16 year old Charles Carver who has spent Many hours during the past few months drawing up corporate rules and obtaining an office Tele phone and sponsorship. Frankfurt Hospital Parle Frankfurt special approximately 40 officers and enlisted personnel from Usa eur com a and 7th army will take part in the 9th Hospital Center quarterly training conference Mon Day and tuesday at the 97th Gen eral Hospital Here. It s one Way of putting our spare time to practical use said Carver who serves As Agency president. The Agency has its office in Thea a Center at the Haine Berg housing area. Carver is assisted by a Board of directors who worked with him in the initial planning of the Agency. On the Board Are Bob Simpson president of the tee Council Corky Bell personnel chief Carol Blunt Public relations and Dick Hackford Supply. Two imaginative and generous americans Here decided to give discarded stateside periodicals an extended life and at the same time help Cement relations wit the German Community. Capt Allan Galfund port of embarkation information officer Here and William Heinemann assistant for Public information begun collecting american magazines from armed forces libraries around principal Helmuth Wolff was delighted to accept the magazines for extra Reading matter in the course of English word got around says Heinemann our sources of suppl have extended. American Umi Ilies Here Are calling to donate this month s issues As soon As they be finished Reading the magazines accepted smiled Wolff. Ill Tell you i some times find them All taken before i can claim one for town finds itself Calm again i de sire to express the population s and City administration s unanimous esteem for the outstanding behaviour of your troops and All the caretaker to avoid any incident or Accident in Spile of the intensive traffic during operations at mad Elines. I am particularly Happy to extend my personal appreciation for our cordial Varennes was the Railroad site on the Mainland fur cargo unloaded on beaches from a number of offshore vessels. 16 italian Drivers win setae awards la morn Italy special maj Gen John p. Daley cd of the Southern european task Force presented awards to 10 italian Drivers during his first official visit to the staf logistical come at Camp Darby Here. The drivel Sall assigned to the transportation division motor Pool received the awards for their performance in the setae Driver proficiency test at . Ramstein canadians launch Relief drive Ramstein Germany special Canadian airmen at 41 h Allied tactical air Force he Here have begun a drive for funds to help families of victims of the oct. 23mine Cuve in at Spring Hill Nova Scotia. The drive was started by a Lfrank Weir who witnessed a similar disaster at Spring Hill two years ago. Leghorn Drivers log 8 mishap free months leghorn Italy special military vehicles of the Southern european task Force logistical come at Camp Darby covered More than 230,000 Miles during october without Accident. Officials reported that the ans Portalios division motor Pool Las had eight Accident free months luring ions. Since the beginning of the year military and italian civilian Drivers have logged More Han 1,826,000 Miles with Only two minor accidents. 4th inf div unit gives lift on school project Augsburg Germany special two wreckers and Crews from co a of the 24th inf div s 724th Ord in responded to an Appeal from schoo Litho cities and assisted in construction work at the new stad Lergen elementary school in West bugs Burg. Working in ankle deep mud an completing the Job in less than 30 minutes the Crews moved a five on fuel tank 40 feet and lowered into a of fool deep Hole. Frankfurt Ota election Frankfurt special Larry Flynn of the Darmstadt Elemen tary school was elected chairman of the Northern area of the overseas teachers Assn. At the fal meeting Here. Blond stand in saves drafted Hubby s Job la Koch Lle France Spe Cial Alors she is 19. She a Blond. She is the Savior of Herhaus Bifid s Job the Toast of the Alth trims terminal come b. Twenty your old Bernar costes has been a French pm. Ploy it this Post for nearly two years. Then his country called him into military service. You la have a Job with lib when you come Buck the army told copies. Bernard was reticent. Finally he suggested let my wife have my Job while i m the authorities approved. When the co workers saw Nicole they approved. Nicole herself has Only one reservation English i understand. But american that is difficult
