European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 17, 1959 the stars and stripes Page 9 3,004 babies born to yanks in us in 1958 South Ruislip. England is the population of the . Rose by More than 3,000 in the United kingdom last your thanks to the efforts of obstetricians at . Air Force hospitals. The air Force doctors delivered 3,004 babies to Usan parents Dur ing the year a figure that aver aged out to better than eight a Day. Besides representing a lot of work for the doctors this meant a lot of work As Well for the air Foice s statistical services Branch j and the . Embassy. Statistical services has to keep track of the new arrivals and the embassy s passport Section has to prepare documents proving the child s american citizenship As Well As make necessary changes in the Mother s passport. Each american child born in Britain is provided a British birth certificate a copy of which must be sent to the embassy. Hospitals at most of the . Bases in Britain Are equipped with maternity wards but the majority of the youngsters were born at the Large 7510th Usan Hospital at Wompole Park. Re entry conditions simulated at space lab by William mines to fort i american newspaper Alliance Mountain View Calif. The problem of How to study nose Cone re entry behaviour without spend ing the million dollars or so involved in firing a ballistic missile has been solved handily at a government installation Here. The place is the Ames research Center of the new National aeronautics and space administration a compact Complex Jumble of buildings on a Corner of the Navy s big Moffett. Field some 40 mites South of san Francisco. At Ames scientists Are cracking the heat Barrier and making re entry shots every Day under even More unearthly conditions than prevail at the Edge of the Atmos phere. Heat resistance tested using a fantastically hyped up 20-mm gun vacuum apparatus and powerful Shock Waves several times the Speed of sound Ames engineers Are daily learning More and More about re entry. In their medium sized re entry simulator they have tested heat resistance of nose Cone materials at speeds up to 13.500 Mph and Altitude conditions of from 50,000 to 150,000 feet. This is just at the Bottom Edge of the speeds and re entry conditions achieved by nose Cone materials on Atlas intercontinental ballistic missiles. It is also just about the most the Amos scientists can get out of their Middle sized simulator. Airmen make do it yourself foam outfit red satellites troop topic Heidelberg Germany Spe Cial questions concerning the european satellite armies their strength and willingness to fight for the soviet Union Are Dis cussed As part of this week s us a eur troop information topic. Based on Usa eur information bulletin volume 14, no. 2, pawns of the Kremlin this week s topic explores the history of the soviet takeover of the Satel Lites and the buildup of the Satel Lite armies. According to the bulletin the bulgarian army is probably the most reliable of the satellite armies. The polish army largest of All the satellite armies is. Generally considered to be least Reli Able. Hungarian revolt during the hungarian revolt of october november 1956, the Hun Garian army initially refused to fight for the soviets against their own people and her joined the revolution against i russians in general says tiie bulletin even if the soviet Union could not rely on the satellite armies to support a drive into the West she can reasonably expect some of the satellite armed forces to delay any Western  equipment and training of the satellite armies also discussed in the bulletin Are largely along so Viet lines. Torre j on off fetes Spanish orphans. Torre Jon Spain is the 290 boys of the Hogar de Auxilio social orphanage think americans Are Muy Buenos or just Plain terrific particularly the men of the 1989th airways and air communications so. Three airmen s sgt John g. Farkash a/2c Edward j. Roselli and a/.2c James n. Adams visited the orphanage several months ago and decided to do something to help the youngsters whose Ages Are from 7 to 10. A committee was formed i the Squadron and a party was Given at the orphanage located in the Village of  program included ice Cream cookies hot chocolate and a Clown act. But the big moment or the boys came when maj Charles , Squadron commander gave a television set to the boys. Two ingenious airmen at the base at Moron Spain Spray fire extinguishing foam from u Rig which they developed. A in Clinton a. Kichiso ii left and s sgt James f. Pyles foam the base runway As done in emergency landings with a a. Mixture of a soapy liquid contained in two 55 gallon Drums atop the truck and water from the Tanker. Richison and Pyles estimate that their re can foam a 500-foot Long by 10-foot wide run Way in three minutes. Is photo by Bane eyes Westward Atlantic crossing in Light plane Devreux Cpl would emulate Lindbergh Devreux France special a Veteran of 17 years of flying though still in his twenties an Devreux Soldier Hopes to emulate Charles a. Lindbergh in reverse. Sometime during the next 18 months Cpl George a. Weckerle. Of the 557th pm co says he plans to Fly a Light single engine air Craft East to West across the at lactic following the route Lindy took in 1927. As far As he can determine the feat has never been accomplished Weckerle has barnstormer with air shows As a Pilot and a Wing walking parachutist dusted Cotton Fields in the South and won sky diving awards in National air shows. Army paratrooper an army paratrooper for six years Weckerle also completed army Pilot training and is licensed to give both flying and sky diving lessons. At 29, he estimates he has had 3,500 hours of Pilot time in Light planes and has made 350 Parachute jumps Weckerle whose Mother also is a Pilot began flying at 12 at Lindenhurst . He had More than 400 hours of air time before he reached the Legal age of flight and was allowed to Solo at 16. Jump changed plans originally he planned to enter air Force Pilot training but one Parachute jump changed his mind. So in 1947, when he was 18, he joined the army and volunteered for paratroop duty. Within two years he was an Adams addresses grads Mannheim Germany special eighty six officers and enlisted men were Graski ated from a week Long 7th army troop information leadership course at commence ment exercises Here addressed by maj Gen Paul a. Adams Deputy 7th army cd and cd of the ,7th army support come. George a. Weckerle. Started flying at instructor with the s2d an div at it Bragg . Winning the master Parachute badge at 20, Weckerle believes he was the youngest Ever to qualify. After earning a commission at officer candidate school in 1952, Weckerle left the army to attend College barnstorm and Fly As crop duster during the next three sum mers. He still holds a Reserve first lieutenant s commission. Back injury in 1956 he re enlisted in the army As a Corporal but an old Back injury prevented him from returning to jump status. Since then he has worked As an instrument flight instructor and Para Chute rigger. How did he get the idea of Fol lowing in the tracks of Lindy Weckerle explains when i was in North Carolina As a crop duster i bought a half interest in a Waco 10 which Lind Bergh supposedly flew before he crossed the Atlantic in the spirit of St. Louis. It was then that i decided that one Day i would at tempt his flight in  assigned to Devreux Fauville air base last october Weckerle keeps in trim by teaching americans How to Fly during his off duty time at a French civilian Airport near the base. He has a class of 10 students from the army and air Force. His biggest problem now he says is to find the right air plane for his Atlantic flight. He would like it to be a replica of the spirit of St. Louis. But Hoy Are not at i he end of their experiments. Technicians Are currently putting the finishing touches on a big simulator which will duplicate re entry conditions experienced by satellites return ing to Earth from orbit. When the big simulator gets working whole new vistas will open up to scientists. For instance h. Julian Allen chief of Ames High Speed research division wants to mix some gases in proportions that would occur in the atmospheres of other planets like Mars and Venus and see what happens when a nose Cone conies in at a typical Speed and Angle. The More we know about Mars atmosphere and materials reaction to it the safer the future visitor to Mars will he. Most of Ames re entry work at present is directed at materials testing for More or loss Earth hound vehicles such As satellites designed to return intact and mis Siles made to deliver payloads from Point to Point on Earth. Preparation takes hours a typical re entry exercise supervised by Allen was witnessed by this writer. The preparations for it took hours. The shot itself. Took three one thousandths of a second and from the viewpoint of a casual observer the most notable thing about it was the loud bang that accompanied the  to fire. But the results satisfied Allen and his colleagues by firing a three Quarter Inch nose Cone Sec Tion about go feel Clown a Tunnel containing a partial vacuum they duplicated what would happen to a similar shape 5 feet in diameter i coming into the atmosphere from i 30 Miles up. L when they retrieved it out of a Catcher made of sponge rubber the nose Cone material looked something like a meteor slightly pitted on its surface but otherwise apparently undamaged. Under a Microscope it looked something like pictures of the Moon s sur face. Classified material when it came to describing the stuff he had been testing Allen said its exact nature is classified. It was obviously a noncombustible plastic of which a number of formulations and Thule Nanu s Are on the Market. Abating plastics meaning sub stances that dissipate nose Cone re entry heat by wearing them selves away Little by Little clue to frictional heat Are the materials used on army built Jupiter. Heat sinks meaning metallic materials usually Copper that dispose of re entry heat by radiating it away Are used on atlases and Thors the air Force icbms and intermediate Range ballistic missiles respectively. There is much to be said for both types of heat dissipating de vices the experts say. Right now however a lot of the spacemen s Effort is being put into discovering ill they can about plastic nose Cones which look especially Good for manned re entry capsules. Torrejon challenged on mail room first1 Kaka Goza Spain special Zaragozo. Air base disputes the claim of Torrejon that the lat Ter was the first overseas base to establish a consolidated mail  a system eliminating sep Arate unit mail rooms and pro Viding locked mail Boves for each individual was opened at Ara go a on nov. 17, 1058, according to 1st it b. J. Priewe postal officer Here. Even we were not the first As Moron air base opened the system about a month earlier Priewe said. Torrejon was there fore a badly running last in the16th air Force