European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday february 25, 1959 the stars and stripes Page 9 slates entertainment finals april 18 Frankfurt special the Northern area come finals of the 1959 All army entertainment con test will be held april 18, the Naco special services entertain ment Branch has announced. According to officials the live contest semifinals will be held throughout the command Between april 1-9. The recording contest entries will be forwarded to the Naco he not later than March 13, they said. Time limit nonmilitary personnel May participate in the following recorded classes dramatic group Small chorus Large chorus or group sing  time allowed for live entries is four minutes. Recorded entries should last from four to six minutes and dramatic entries not less than four minutes and not longer than 10 minutes. Seven categories there Are seven categories in the live contest vocal soloist Iris tru mental soloist individual speciality vocal group two to five member instrumental group two to five members specially group musical two or three member Sand the specially group no musical two to three members categories in the recorded con test Are classical vocal soloist classical instrumental soloist coun try and Western group not More than seven member vocal group unaccompanied not More than five Singer vocal group accompanied not More than five sing ers dramatic group two or More person Small chorus 12 to 20 Singer Sand Large chorus More than 20 singers. Missile race boosts military brain Power by William hine8north american newspaper Alliance Washington the missile race has brought Forth a new Breed of military Man. Young and finely educated the accent is on brain As Well As on boldness. He is not Only officer and gentleman but also gentleman and  there have always been such men in the services. An example is or. Of science Jimmy Doolittle now chairman of the Board of space technology laboratories inc. But now there Are literally hundreds of them and tomorrow there will be thousands. These men Are Brilliant and to a High degree selfless. Yet one can not find agreement among them on what is Best for the country s defense. Perhaps the reason is that there is no single categorical answer to that question. Bickering and interservice Petti  have Only a minor place in missile land. If such things loomed As Large out Here As they appear to loom in Washington missiles would be harder than Ever to get off the ground. At every turn one finds co operation the watchword. The at lactic missile Range at Cape can averal fla., is operated by the air Force but tests air Force army Navy and space Agency missiles with Fine impartiality. At White Sands n.m., the Boss is an army major general who works for All services with an even hand. The Pacific missile Range based on Vandenberg air Force base. Calif., will be monitored by the Navy from near by Point Mug and no one is worried about favouritism. Complaints about topside Are few in the Field and faintly voiced. But it develops that much time is spent fret fully in waiting for decisions from Washington and much More in seeing to it that he decisions once made Are stuck to. Four of a kind is High senator asks new i Bill Washington up sen. John Sparkman a Ala said his Bill to Grant i benefits to peace time veterans would encourage Young men to enlist in the armed forces. Sparkman said the measure also would repay servicemen for the time they lost from school and work. The senator has introduced a Bill which would extend i Bene fits to any Veteran who served 90 Days in the military forces and received an honorable discharge. It would expire in 19g3. Only vet Erans who served during wartime now Are eligible for the benefits. Four f104 Jet Start Giters of the . Tactical air come form a sleek quartet As they zoom through the sky. Lockheed aircraft corp., manufacturer of the Huies says they can climb to 91,243 feet at the fringe of the Earth s atmosphere and hit 1,500 Mali. Associated press photo scout honoured by Church Stuttgart Germany special Star scout Benjamin Mclnnis Iii of troop 3, Robinson Barracks has received the pro Doe it Patria award from the lutheran com Mittee on scouting. Unit wins Praise ?6r record of flying safety Devreux France special col Tarleton h. Watkins Deputy com Mander of the 322d air div praised the unit s flying safety record for last year in a talk to division personnel which launched the 1959 flying safety program. The division s record of 3.4 accidents per 100,000 flying hours he said matched the military air transport service rate for the same period and helped to reduce the Overall Safe Accident rate to 19.0 for the year. The official asserted that a continued aggressive Anli Accident Campaign could reduce the rate still further. Leaves artistic Trail during tour in Germany Canadian pipers now have something More to blow about Soest Germany special a quartet of pipers from the 4thcanadian inf Brig proved they could hold their own with the world s Best when they invaded the land of the bagpipes to com Pete in the annual indoor scottish pipe band Assn. Competitions i Edinburgh. The Canadian guards foursome of the 2d in won critical acclaim and were asked to return for band competitions later this  quartet s performance marked the first time a Canadia group had taken part in the Scot Tish pipe  quartet was composed of Archie m. Cairns of. Hamilton oat William Stirling of Peta Wawa ont. Cyril b. Aucoin of new Waterford n.s., and Karl l Walford of Sudbury  the contest judges were not allowed to see any of the quartets play. They could Only Hearthe music. Of the 33 outfits taking part inthe competitions the canadians were the Only regular army ban to enter a quartet. According to Hugh Macpherson a spokesman for the association the Canadian quartet played excellently and have a standing invitation to come again.". The winning quartet was the world championship band of the shots and Dyke head Caledonia pipe band. Bad Kreuz Nach Germany special sp4 James Popichak be Ives in leaving a tangible record of his service with the 20th trans  Popichak goes the credit of designing the battalion s official rest. His Crest with a combat mobility theme won a contest sponsored by the battalion. But that was More than a year ago. Since then the Soldier artist has Given the battalion More am ple samples of his Talent. One of his Oil paintings hangs in battalion Headquarters a work depicting the combat Mission of his unit in an atomic Battlefield. When the battalion published its unit history the painting was re produced on the cover. Won poster contest Popichak has also won a Divi Sion re enlistment poster contest. The poster and its message must have had a powerful effect on me says Popichak because i re enlisted to fill my own vacancy in the  Popichak has just finished supervising the decoration of his company mess Hall resulting in co a winning the division con  entering the army Popi Chak studied Art in Philadelphia where he. Came in Contact with 4 italian Drivers cited Verona Italy special font of the Southern european task Force s italian Drivers Jive Bee cited by maj Gen John p. Daley setae cd for their Safe driving records. He famous Illustrator Norman Lockwell. Following Rockwell s advice he lans to concentrate on design did commercial Art when he leaves he service. Stuttgart boy wins science award some rest Veness is Felt too on the working level Over the fact that time schedule demands Are sometimes less than realistic. The Normal Span for designing tooling up and producing a modern bowl ing plane is from six to 10 years. Much tighter schedules arc sought for vastly More complicated missile weapons systems. This is. Perhaps partly the fault of the military Industry teams. Their own Success in All likelihood is coming Back to plague them. Because the Thor was Able to go from drawing Board to Assembly line in California in a year and a half it seems reasonable to As Simein Washington that 18 months is the Normal Lead time. But the equivalent of Many years Sparl work on Thor had Al ready been done on Atlas to is no disrespect for a great missile to say that Thor was hastily thrown together from spare Atlas parts to meet a National emergency. It could not be done again. Even so Lead times in Missi Lery Are far Shorter than in conventional aircraft construction. This is due largely to the fact that Early in the game. It. Was obvious new business methods wore needed. Enviable Marks each service approached the problem differently and among them the air Force probably brought n e w management concepts to their finest flowering. But All services have set enviable production records and have won the respect of industrialists who serve As their teammates. On other Levels the military and Industry alike look to government scientists. An outstanding example is the Jet propulsion Laboratory of Calic Chat. Pasadena Calif. A captive lab of to. Federal gov i Ament it was recently trans erred from army to space Agency control. Its 2,300-Man staff headed  or. William h. Pickering is universally respected in aeronautic my astronautics circles. Some of the finest scientific brains in the country work for or consult with Tel. Finally there Are the men who Are closest to the firing line the men who will Fly quasi spaceships like x15 or venture into space in the nosecone of a missile. Some of these men undoubtedly will die yet they will keep coming self Lessly for what not for pay certainly. The air Force s Iven Kincheloe was making Only $10,000 a year the space Agency s Joe Walker draws $15,000 the highest paid test Pilot in the government. Why do they do it because it b a Job it has to be clone. This attitude plus the imagination that abounds in missile land May yet be the thing that saves the nation. Stuttgart Germany special William Van Buskirk senior at the american High school Here has been named Winner of the Bausch and lomb honorary Sci ence award medal. The medal is Given annually to the senior with the highest Scho Lastic standing in science subjects winners Are eligible to compete for University of Rochester science scholarships offered by the Bausch and lomb optical co. Sidi Slimane unit cited Sidi Slimane Morocco Spe Cial capt Bevis h. Wilkinson commander 3906 food service so received a distinguished service award for his unit from col Joe r. Williams base commander. The award was for the Squadron s out standing work in the Federal serv ices overseas fund Campaign held at Sidi Slimane air base during october. Promotion puts of Apt on equal rank with wife Zaragoza Spain is capt Vernon g. To Muir of their base Here does t have to say sir to his wife any More. Of course that does t in the slightest change the facts of life us propounded by Oliver Wendell Holmes Man bus his will hut woman has her  s wife Ann has been an air Force Captain since october 195g. The 30-year-old Boner has been a first lieutenant since sep tember 1954. He received equal military status with his wife Early tills  says he s taken a lot of ribbing about the lieutenant Captain relationship since they married in december 195g