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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, November 22, 1958

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday november a 1958 the stars and stripes of to disband aircraft spotters Washington a the air Force is closing Down the ground observer corps because radar and High flying supersonic planes can outperform the human eyes Andears of the corps civilian Volun  to terminate the corps Jan. 31 were announced by air Force Secretary James Douglas. He said the 280,000 civilian volunteers Manning 16,000 observation posts and 50 filter centers during thelast nine years have served Faith fully As an adjunct of the air de sense  among the reasons Given for Dis continuing the corps were 1the growing scope and efficiency of the air defense radar net provides increasing Assurance to air defense authorities that an enemy strike can be detected be fore reaching the . The radar warning nets include the Distant Early warning line across the arc tic its Seaward extensions in the Atlantic and Pacific through use of radar planes and ships another radar line across mid Canada and a third along the Northern Borderon the . 2"the fact that the Goc sys tem of receiving processing and transmitting air defense information is fast becoming unable to keep Pace with the increasing speeds of enemy manned bombers and the weapons systems now be ing used in air  3the air Force responsibility to relieve the volunteers of their burdensome duties when the air defense detection system had reached a Point in operational effectiveness that no longer would require human  the air Force said that Al phases of manual air defense operations Are being replaced by Auto Matic equipment Able to gather and interpret data within minutes or seconds. Fulbright advocates filibuster agreement Washington up sen. J. William Fulbright dark said Senate democratic Leader Lyndon. Johnson will be a magician if he avoids a rough anti filibuster fight and produces a harmonious 86th Congress. Johnson is resigned to an Early showdown on the thorny Issue but has said he wants it resolved in an intelligent dignified  but Fulbright said a Rule change permitting a gag on Senate debate Russ avoid mental his by not thinking Adlai Kansas Citty up Adlaie. Stevenson said the russians rely on their communist dogmas to combat mental disease. And they May have some Suc Cess Stevenson said because the soviet citizen has to make fewer gov. Almond has . Flag hauled Down Richmond a. Up . Lindsay Almond said he had ordered the, Flag hauled Dow from the Lone flagpole atop the state Capitol and the Virginia state Flag run up in its place Almond a Leader in the South a massive resistance against pub Lic school integration said his action was prompted by a 16-year old congressional Resolution pro Viding that the . Flag must be on top when two flags Are Dis played from the same pole. He added however that he had engineers working to erect a Sec Ond flagpole on the Capitol an that he intended to run up the . Flag again As soon As it was completed. Councilman to resign Matthew j. Kane one of the 18 National councilmen of the Veter ans of foreign wars promptly announced in Washington that he would step Down from his Post until the american Flag goes Back to its rightful place where it  Kane whose Council District includes Virginia and Washington said he would submit his Resigna Tion by Telegram thursday night to vow commander in chief Joh Mahan who lives in Kansas City. Rep. Joel t. Broyhill Rva said he can t support Almond s action insofar As it signifies that Virginia is any less a part of the United states.". Assembly not meeting Broyhill a segregationist said he could not believe the governor meant to imply that Virginia was lessening its ties with the ., but i fear this is the inference people will  the state Flag normally is no flown Over the Virginia capita except when the general Assembly is in session. The Assembly has not met since last  questioned Almond after they noticed the switch i flags. He said the . Flag had been taken Down because this Isth Commonwealth of Virginia am i want the Virginia Flag to Fly from this  Man survived by 144 Columbus Ohio up Elg Ussler 89, died Here leaving 144 survivors his wife seven son seven daughters 59 grandchildren 57 great grandchildren 11 great great grandchildren and two step sons. Lucky it was t a Bear decisions than the citizen of a free  a russian does t eve have to decide How to vote Steven on said. Stevenson reported to the a ional Assn. For mental health convention concerning his recent our of Russia. Stevenson said mental illness i unquestionably America s number be health  he called Forn creased planning and expend ures to fight it. More than half of the nation s Hospital Beds Are occupied by mental patients Stevenson said and on any Given Day some 850, 000 americans Are in mental  in contrast Stevenson said soviet health minister Maria Kov Regina told him that less than 10 per cent of Russia s ill Are mental patients. Stevenson added that the rus sians May have different ideas of what constitutes mental disease and their figures May not offer Aust comparison with the mental Calth problem in the . One soon learns that it is a useless to argue with a dedicated communist As it is with a right Wing Republican he said. Stevenson quoted soviet exper Tsas telling him russians Are less prone to mental disease than americans because their Tempo of lifers slower they have to make fewer decisions and they enjoy group life and believe in common Aims. I am tempted to confirm this single mindedness by saying that Russia seemed to me a Large coun try with a single head Stevenson added. Stevenson said the russians Are Touchy when questioned about the problems of drunkenness and juvenile delinquency. Hunters who drive Small foreign cars have trouble with any thing bigger than a Rabbit of. E. Wertz of Roanoke va., solved the prob Lem by stretching his Deer almost As Long As the car itself across the top. Associated press photo Nebraska gop demands recount in demo win Lincoln neb. Up the Nebraska Republican party will contest the nov. 4 election which put two democrats in statehouse offices for the first time in 20years. No strike pay Chicago up police com missioner Timothy o Connor has ruled that an officer who strikes his wife in t entitled to draw his pay Check. O Connor suspended patrolman Milton Howell for 15 Days after h o w e 11 s wife complained be had struck her. Bricklaying machine claimed by China reds Tokyo a communist Chin claims it has a device that could do away with the bricklayer or maybe the whole bricklayers Union. It is an electric bricklaying machine that lays 20,000 bricks a Day piping radio said. No details of the alleged machine were Given except that it is powered by electricity. The radio said it was in vented by a construction w Ork Erand students in chunking. Briton went to bed in 1928, finally got up 3o yrs. Later Halifax England up Matthew Sutcliffe a railway Porter caught cold one blustery March Day in 1928. He went to bed to get rid of  that was the last anyone except his Mother Ever saw of him. Until thursday. Sutcliffe now 52, just stayed in , his neighbors in Nelson st., Halifax saw him for the first time in 30 years. The whole Street turned out to watch him accompany his 82-year-old Mother mrs. Annie Sutcliffe to a hos Pital. Doctors moved mrs. Sutcliffe to a Hospital because the thought she was too old to live on her own. They did not know about her son until the ambulance  talked to a reporter from his bed in the same Hospital. He said i was very Happy at Home and never really wanted Togo out. My Mother looked after me very  he said his main interest during his 30 years in bed was to read All the newspaper and follow the football scores. Richard e. Spelts jr., of grand Island indicated party finance chairman Joseph Wishart of Lin Oln would Lodge the official protest with the Secretary of state. Spelts told associates Here the election showed almost half the voters expressed satisfaction wit the services rendered by the pres ent state administration. We Haven obligation to those voters to protect their rights he said. Nebraska Secretary of state Frank Marsh estimated a statewide recount would Cost Between $15,000and $30,000. Marsh said he would set the amount of Bond to be posted by those contesting the elec Tion. If the recount does not change the results the Bond will be forfeited to cover the expenses of the recount. It would be the first recount of ballots for the entire state since 1880. By majority vote could be in tolerable and could Lead to greater  he said it might  Fulbright said to did not favo modifying he present cloture Rule under which two thirds of the full Senate membership of 96 must vote before a debate limitation i imposed. But he conceded that Johnson s own proposal to let two thirds of the senators present and voting limit debate would be a Good  Johnson amazed As to Johnson s forecast that the 86th Congress will move into an affirmative Era and that the clo Ture Issue will be settled amicably Fulbright said if that happens he will be a magician. He has amazed me Tim and again and maybe he can do it. I but i d think just the opposite would happen. I leaving out the possibility that senator Johnson could do it the natural tendencies Are not affirmative or Friendly. We be got a situation comparable to the 80th con Gress which former president trip Man called the worst one part has the Congress and the other Lias the White  is less convinced that there should be any Rush to put through a new civil rights Bill to give the Federal government More Power to enforce integration actions. But. He did acknowledge at press conference that the anti Fili Buster debate is in the offing when Congress convenes Jan. 7. Demos urged to make show of Unity with Ike Washington up sen. Al Ert. Gored Tenn has called on he democrats controlling con Gress to make a dramatic show of Unity with the Republican admin stration on defense of the free world. In a speech prepared for the Omen s National democratic Lub Gore listed some musts and must not for the newly elected democratic Congress. Gore said the democratic majority must let the world know hat Congress stands in Unity Andis one with the president on a ional Security and International programs for the defense and Security of the free  Long but lean lot sold by City for $ Greenville miss. Up i sounds like a bargain when a firm acquires a piece of land 125 feet i length for $1. The Greenville City Council sol the property to the Delta Commer Cial property development Cor for that amount to Clear up posse ble Legal trouble in the  reason surveyors Foum that a building owned by Delta infringed on City property. The strip of land is three quarters of an Inch wide giving it a total area of less than eight Square feet. . Boy slain in gang War new York a the Jon quilt and the Corsair lords hunted each other through the shabby streets of Brooklyn s Brownsville Section. Result one teen age boy dead another in a Hospital with Stab wounds. The dead youth was John in Gram 16, a member of the Corsair lords gang. He collapsed and died in a Gutter after staggering sever Al blocks from the spot where he and another boy were ambushed. The other boy escaped. The wounded youth was 15-year old Sidney Rhodes also a member of the Corsair lords. He was called out of a Candy store by a Jonquil War party pulled into a hallway and knifed in the Chest left Arm and lower body. He was in Seri Ous condition in Kings county Hospital. Police seized six Jonquil and were looking for a seventh. The trouble started Between the two gangs police said when a Jon quil War Counselor got into a fist fight with a member of the Cor Sair lords  
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