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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 20, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday november 20, 1958 the stars and stripes Page 5 Safe after swim into prison asks of Academy appointment for Young Kincheloe in 1972ike honors son of hero Washington a president Eisenhower asked a favor of the Man who will occupy the White House from 1972 until 1976.the favor a possible appointment to the . Air Force Academy for the son of capt Iven c. Kinch Eloe jr., killed last july while testing an expend three new Navy rockets aiding Polaris research Washington up the Navy has unveiled three new research rockets which it plans to use in connection with develop ment of the Polaris 1,500-mile Range ballistic  of these named Arcon Al ready has been successfully fired in unpublicized tests at the National aeronautics and space administration s Wallops Island va.,research base the Navy said. Arcon is expected to help Navy scientists predict the Type of Vibra Tion conditions which the sub Marine launched Polaris will encounter in flight. The Navy Hopes to have Polaris in the Arsenal of intermediate Range missiles by 1960.the 12-foot, Needle shaped Arcon Don Cooper gets a big hug from his wife after he swam eight Miles to terminal Island Federal Penitentiary in a storm which dumped him and three companions out of a 21-foot Sloop into the Ocean off los Angeles Harbor. Rescuers picked up the other three. Surprised prison guards ferried him Home. At right is Myron Oren who was in the boat with Cooper. Associated press photo strikers go Back to work but Union status a mess Chester . A forty five Cable company workers whose jurisdictional dispute led to the death of a Union organizer have gone Back to work their Union status tangled worse than Ever. Meanwhile a vice president took Over management of the Chester Cable co. While its president Mal Colm while 48, was held in jail on a first degree murder charge. White is accused of the fatal shooting a week ago of Alfred Dugan 52, organizer for a Small in dependent Union in Jersey City n.j., who had led the strike atthe Cable Plant. White applied for bail on the 3 cops jailed for burglary fort Wayne ind. A three suspended policemen were Given sentences of from two to five years in prison after they were convicted of burglary. Circuit court judge William Schannen ordered the men Ronald Lapp jr., 28, William Bollman 44, and John Pequignot 32, held in jail pending further trials on theft charges in connection with More than 100 burglaries. Five other suspended City police men alleged to have been members of the burglary ring have not been tried yet. Murder charge but his motion was dented. Along with their vote to go Back to work the 45 strikers voted to affiliate with another Independent Union. This reversed their previous support of the slain organizer s interstate Industrial Union. But the National labor relations Board Norb said it still has before it a petition from do Gan s group seeking an election in the Plant. The Board said it would go ahead with hearings on whether there will be an election. It was believed most of some 90ojther production workers in the Cable Plant who did not join the strike still support the Al Cio International brotherhood of electrical workers. This Union now holds Legal bargaining rights for the whole Plant. The third Union now involved inthe dispute is local 411 of the Metal precision electronics and production workers Union with offices at Franklin Square . Like Dugan s group it is a Little known Independent organization a spokesman for the strikers said local 411 probably would seek in the next few Days to replace the Jersey City group in hearings be fore the Norb. Space eaters los Angeles up owners of a downtown Motel Here have been forced to buy an additional 7,500 Square feet of property to provide parking space for the longer 1959 Model cars. Sam Par Nas general manager of the olym Pian motor hotel said Cost of accommodating Detroit s latest creations was $30,000. Group claims . Closes jobs to negro musicians new York a the Urban league claimed that negro orchestral musicians Are discriminate against in new York symphonies Broadway shows and radio and  mrs. Sophia y. Jacobs presi Dent of the league competent qualified negro professionals have had to contend hopelessly with an Iron curtain of discrimination barring them fro Many opportunities to build a career in their chosen  is True in every Branch of the music Industry orchestral musicians conductors composers arrangers contractors managers and so  league is made up of negroes and Whites seeking to improve racial relationships. Only 14 of Tifful Douglas g. Pugh the league s Industrial relations Secretary claimed employment of negroes among major new York orches tras was almost  Broadway Pugh continued of 650 musicians hired for musicals in the last two Yeai a Only 14 were negroes and they worked mostly in shows featuring negro head  declared that network radio and to use about 65 musicians but that Only half a dozen Are . Jacobs said the Basic con Tention of the orchestral Industry is that negroes Don t apply in an sizable numbers for such posts. She called this untrue. Mental f104 near Edwards air Force base in Cali fornia. Kincholoe was flying that More nearly conventional plane during in interval in his preparations to Pilot the x15 space travelling  request recalled a similar gesture by president Roosevelt who proposed a West Point appointment or the son of capt Colin p. Kelly who was killed when his plane ived into a japanese warship Earlyn world War ii. Kelly went Down nth his plane after ordering is crewmen out of the damaged Craft. The appointment is reserved for Oung Kelly. Or. Eisenhower presented the let or to Kincheloe s widow on behalf f Ivon i. Now 19 ,6 months old. Wife get cop mrs. Kincheloe an attractive Hunt from Oakland calif., got one copy of the . Eisenhower told his unknown successor that the death of Kinch Iloe a Korea Veteran credited with owning five communist planes brought a t Eal sense of loss to our  in recognition of his Many exemplary deeds As a Pioneer in advanced aeronautic research the president wrote i am making request which seeks to express in i Small measure the gratitude of he nation i request that you consider the merits of his Young son for appointment As a Cadet in the unite states air Force Academy at col Orado Springs Colo. His Rich inheritance stems from a father whose Superb technical skill an selfless dedication to country were demonstrated in outstanding Fash Ion in his perilous duties As an experimental flight lest  80 at deat Kincheloe who was 30 at the time of his death july 26, also i survived by a a month old daughter. Kincheloe had been selected shortly before his death to Pilot the xi5.already, on sept. 7, 1956, he had flown the x2, forerunner of thex15, to an Altitude of 126,000 feet the highest Man has Ever  while House said president Roosevelt s letter relating to Young Kelly will of course be honoured if Young Kelly decides he would like to enter a service Academy. Rocket is designed to carry 40 pounds of instruments to a height of 70 Miles or 10 pounds to 100  second new rocket Iris is expected to be ready for work in this program Early next year the Navy said. It. Will carry a 100 Pound instrument package 200 Miles  third rocket named areas will be used both in. Ballistic mis Sile research and for routine weather data collection flights the Navy said. Of missile would Lyon atmospheric fuel Washington up the air Force has released a report on a missile which would Fly on fuel scooped from the atmosphere. The report made available to science and Industry details re sults of 1957 research into feasibility of a missile propelled by atomic  proposed missile culled the Hare would Fly about 900 Mph atan Altitude of about 60 Miles. Its fuel would be oxygen which had been broken Down by Ultra Violet radiation into individual atoms. The Normal oxygen mole Cule consists of two , such atoms have powerful urge to recombine molecular form with great of  atmosphere would be scooped into the rocket heated As oxygen atoms recombine a Ona catalytic surface provided for that purpose and then Rush outre Tail driving the missile for Ward. Into release Christmas mail for leukaemia boy Hunter 11, gets first Deer Burlington it. Up Paul Trono shot his first Deer and had to have his father help him drag it out of the Woods. Paul is 11. Wrecker firemen pull 2 boys out of Quicksand in Missouri Arnold to. A two Arnold teen agers spent a couple of har rowing hours sinking in a Quick Sand mire until they were finally rescued with the Aid of a Tow truck and firemen. Henry g. Clausen 17, and Edward j. Avery 18, blundered into the Quicksand while on a target shooting expedition. Their struggles to get free Only seeded their descent into the Sand. They yelled for help for 45 min utes before a passerby heard them and called a wrecker truck and the Arnold fire department. By that time the boys were Waist deep in the  rigged a tire on a Chain threw it out and the wrecker hauled the youths in. Detroit leukaemia victim Ralph Rudy West 1, shows his Mother mrs. Shirley West a toy Over a stack of Christmas mail. After Doc tors said the lad might not live until Christmas he has been receive mountains of mail. The doctors said the letters have in ing believably improved his condition. Up photo  
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