European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday february 25, 1959 the stars and stripes Page 23 guiding device for solid fuel missiles found Washington a a major scientific breakthrough in the development of the Polaris and other solid fuel ballistic missiles has been achieved the Navy said. The new rocket refinement called a Milestone by the Navy is a movable steering nozzle made of molybdenum that allows precise control of the rocket s direction in spite of the intense blast heat. The Navy announcement was re ported by the Washington Post which quoted engineers working on the development As saying the molybdenum nozzle will give the Polaris and minuteman solid fuel missiles greater Range and reliability and will allow use of even More powerful fuels in the future. The solid fuel missiles which Are ready to fire at any time and need no countdown Are considered the next step in missile weapons after delicate liquid fuel rockets like Thea Las Titan Jupiter and Redstone. The tremendous heat of the solid fuel engine blast the Post Story said May Burn up the pres ent cast nozzle of the Polaris making it inaccurate. The new device is designed to prevent this. Fuel Plant explosion shakes up Kansas area Lawrence Kan. A a explosion at the gallery chemical co. Plant two Miles North of her Shook the surrounding area. Company employees told sheriff deputies that damage was minor. One Man was shaken up but re turned to work after being exam ined at a Hospital. The officers were told the blast was in a classified area. No other details were disclosed. Tho Plant manufactures Boron fuel for Navy jets and missiles. Three chemical engineers were killed dec. 8, 1958, in an explosion of an unauthorized experimental rocket at the Plant. Miss Finland to work with . On Craft with closing Fen Wongsuk Renews Swallow Jet project London a Britain . Help has renewed official backing for the Jet age Swallow a futuristic aircraft with wings that snap Back like a closing is the brain child of or. Barnes Wallis famed British in Ventor who designed the Welling ton bomber the bouncing bomb used to breach the Hoehne dam in which Sank the world War i piercing bomb in allow incorporates n pivoting system allowing the wings to be varied to the Best positions for Low or High speeds. At Landing rid Takeoff they Are almost at right angles to tie fuselage an get maximum lift. At supersonic and the Armor speeds they Are partly retracted Hammer sickle posters Puzzle West germans Tarja Nurmi of Turku has been elected miss Finland of 1959" at Beauty contest held i Helsinki. Keystone photo Canada Jet cancellation saved $745 million Ottawa up replacement of the Arrow Jet interceptor with Bomarc missiles saved the Cana Dian government $745 million de sense minister George Pearkes said. In review of the Arrow Story Pearkes told the House of com Mons that the latest estimate was that 100 floss would have Cost the Treasury $781 million. Under he Bomarc agreement with the ., on the other hand Canad Awill pay Only one third of the total $113.8 million Cost or $36.9 million he said. . Town invites 6good neighbors c5 Bloomfield . Up two Hundred residents Here have signed a statement welcoming Allgood neighbors regardless of race religion or National origin. The Bloomfield better human relations Council sponsored the project As part of the Observance of brotherhood week this week. The statement condemns act which have taken place in various areas of our country to deprive negroes and others of their Rig Tsas americans in the Public school program in voting registration Andin Public about 1,000 of Bloomfield s 55,000population Are negro. Frankfurt up ten thou Sand giant West German propaganda posters decorating major West German cities have become a Puzzle and also a source of worry to Many who can t understand their posters which were printed by a Frankfurt firm show a Pic Ture of East German communist party Boss Walter Ulbricht against red background. Also on the pos Ter is a Hammer and sickle an the text Ulbricht All Germany shall those germans who remember posters in 1932 which said. All Germany shall be National socialist Are wondering just what this latest piece of propaganda is a labout. A spokesman for the Frankfurt firm which printed the posters said they were ordered by a West ber Lin group called the Assn. For Liberal , the posters Are a warning to West germans of communist Aims. But coming at the present time of crisis in Berlin some people Are worried that there May be truth in what the posters Are reports that the Post ers Cost $49,000 to print and that some West germans not under standing the meaning of the Post ers assaulted workmen pasting them up and ripped the poster Down again. These reports could not be con firmed. One illustrated Magazine reported it asked All Bonn ministries and the Federal press office for com ment on the posters. Queries remained unanswered the Magazine none Illus Trieste said. Just who runs the Assn. For lib eral politics and whore it obtains its Money remains a association is not listed any Telephone directory. In . Bridge team gaining Santa Monica Calif. Up an american Bridge team of West Ern All stars boosted its Lead to19-4 Over the italian world Cham pions at the end of 16 hands in an80-Board contest. Cologne fair signs firms of 14 nations Cologne Germany up More than 1,500 firms from 14 countries will be showing their goods at the International House hold goods and hardware fair Here this week. The fair which opens feb. 27and runs through March 2, will see a record 1,550 firms figure represents a 45 per cent increase in exhibitors since 1954.of the 244 foreign firms taking part in the fair biggest National representations Are from France with 76 exhibitors Sweden 33, the Netherlands 22, Belgium 21, and Italy and Switzerland 16 each. Search pressed for doctors lost on mercy flight Concord . Up Powell conferred with state department Heads to step up the intensive search for two d a r t Mouth College doctors missing with their plane. The doctors disappeared while on a mercy was decided to concentrate tuesday s air search from North of Claremont South to the Massachusetts line on both sides of the Connecticut River which splits new Hampshire and Vermont. Rescuers pinned their Hopes on cold weather survival techniques devel oped by the Pilot or. Ralph e. Miller 60, during Arctic expeditions in which he has piloted Dartmouth the four seater Piper Comanche with Miller was his Dartmouth medical school col league or. Robert e. Quinn 32, Providence College and Yale med ical school graduate from Larch Mont . 4 die As private plane crashes into Mountain into the fuselage giving the air Craft a Dart like shape. Supply minister Aubrey Jones said study of the Swallow s revolutionary flight principles would be carried out under a joint. Anglo . Research program. There i Lively military interest in the possibilities of variable geometry Jones told the House of commons. Variable geometry is the official jargon for the pivoting Wizir con British government shelved the Swallow project 18 months ago after pouring an estimated 1.5 Mil lion pounds $4.2 million into re search. Fiery 70-year-old Wallis promptly threatened to emigrate to the . If he could not continue his work Liere. Movie bused on Vorakit is not the first time his imagination has placed him at logger Heads with the authorities. The official change of heart appeared Mohave been partly influenced by the War record of the scientist whose career was dramatized in the popu Lar movie the dam Swallow is envisaged As a military or civil aircraft capable of nearly 2,000 Mph. Jones said tests and engineering studies would be carried out by the British Vickers aircraft co.,the British Royal aircraft establishment and partly with Amer ican government research facile British government will pick up the Check for half the Cost of Vickers work. Us plans destroyers armed with rockets London Cap the British Navy Lias asked parliament for 370 million pounds $1.037,260,000 i appropriations for the next fiscal year including funds for a new Typo of rocket firing destroyer. The total asked is 31.3 million pounds $87.6 million More than the appropriation for the current fiscal year ending in april. Four destroyers to be armed with guided missiles Are planned. In a memorandum accompanying the appropriation request the Earl of Selkirk first lord of the admiralty said two of the vessels will be Laid Down soon and a third before the end of the year. They will have entirely novel propulsion machinery combining steam and Gas turbines he will enable a ship lying in wednesday american forces network 6600 news0605 hillbilly reveille 0630 request show 8700 newq7i5 today s the Day 1730 tips and to Mimor Newt 0805 Forward march0815 Marvin Miller 0830 Don mcneil0900 news 0905 turn Bachtol clock 0930 couple next door945 Andy Reynolds Imo new1006 merely music Moo news1105 Bert Park bandstand1200 news sports 1215 request show1245 just entertainment1255 let Paul 1300 news1305 Melody Mart 1330 matinee1400 new 1405 outpost concert1500 news 1505 1530 Robert q. 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A four Patterson ., residents two of them teen agers were killed when a private plane crashed and burned after a terrific Roar and explosion on wooded Pine Mountain. The bodies of the victims were found strapped to their seats in the plane wreckage by a Rescue party. State police said the Pilot was Eugene Brandon an employee of the Danbury school of passengers who were flying to new York s la Guardia Airport to meet a Friend were identified As Emerson Smith about 40, a self employed Carpenter and father of four children his about 14, and his Sprague about 15. Wiesbaden Germany special the Vienna Raimund theater i scheduled to give performances of Franz Lehar s operetta the coun try of smile at Wiesbaden s Rhein main Halle at 8 pm March 2 and 3.the Hesse state theater this week presents the following sched Uler feb. 35"nitbucco," opera by Verdi 7 30 . 26"the merry Willow operetta by Lehar 7 30 . 27"th Valkyrie opera by Wagner q30 pm. Harbor to get under Way instantly using Gas turbines Only or if steaming at sea to double he available horsepower at a moment s said the ships will fire a missile known As sea slug now under development by the Navy. Son Joseph Cousin David French say 846 rebels knocked out in week Algiers up the French army claims 846 nationalist rebels were killed or captured in Algeri Alast week. French troops have seized 337firearms including one heavy and two Light machine guns. Thirty French troops were killed the com Munique said. Drive less stolen truck runs on rail tracks ties up trains feb. 28"the ideally Winkler 7 30 Piu. March i Seefried 6 30 2"die Fleder maus Strauss 7 30 pm. Sweetheart operetta by Wagner Perotta by Viera new Haven Conn. Up speeding Oil truck stolen by three teen agers and then abandoned while it was. Still rolling jumped onto new Haven Railroad track Sand wheeled along for a mile knocking Over signals which stopped approaching trains. The truck finally got stuck Ina switch and stopped two blocks from the local station. Its wheels had locked onto the rails. Two northbound passenger trains one bound for Springfield mass., and the other for Boston were delayed less than half an hour. They halted some distance from the scene when the signals were activated. A Railroad spokesman referring to the practice of trucks being carried on Flat cars called it a piggyback without the
