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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, July 1, 1959

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 1, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ii to in so. Re a Tux la 1 it july 1, 1959 the stars and stripes dresses up with pomp and glitter 0 Chicago a Brawny Chi Cago giant of Industry and Agri culture will burgeon out with pomp and glitter next monday As the City welcomes Queen Elizabeth. High society is shivering with anticipation. Workmen Are work ing overtime to ready streets . Protocol experts argue the rules and chefs mull the menus. There will be a 21-gun Salute marching band motorcade horsed escort a 600-Man Honor guard of naval Academy midshipmen and fireworks for the Royal party s 13-hour-visit. The idea that americans Haven interest in Royalty is for the Birds says Jack Reilly mayor Richard j. Daley s director of Spe Cial events who is in charge of preparations Only . City on tour a society figure one of the 1,000persons invited to dinner with the Queen put it differently this is the first time i Ever told my wife to go out and buy a new  Queen Elizabeth and her Hus band Prince Philip Are coming Here in Honor of. The dedication of the enlarged St. Lawrence Seaway which has added bigger business to the Chicago port. Chicago is. The Only America City on their tour of the Seaway and the great lakes. Their visit has touched off booming cleanup. For instance sunday a scorcher at 96 degrees workmen returned a median strip on a drive in the area where the Queen and Phillip will arrive after alighting from the Royal Barge in Lake Michigan. Bright pastel coloured wastebaskets have been placed along Down town streets. Hotels redecorating hotels Are redecorating and re furnishing room where the Queen will rest. Along the Chicago River where once were sagging wharves and refuse Flowers and grass  estimated 1% million persons Are expected to see the Royal couple. While some people worried about where they d stand quite a space monkeys get medals for flight Pensacola flu. A America s pioneering space Mon keys were honoured with medals one. Of them presented posthumously. Able a seven Pound Rhesus Monkey and Baker a one Pound Squirrel Monkey were in the nose Cone of a Jupiter rocket fired from Cape canaveral May 28. Able died under tin aesthetic at a fort Knox ky., Laboratory where veterinarians operated to remove electrodes placed beneath the skin for the historic  is living at the Pensa cola naval air station Monke Colony. The american society for the prevention of cruelty to animals presented the medals. Few others wondered who would be seated in the grandstand when the Queen  finally resolved it by announcing 720 representatives o civic fraternal social and neigh boyhood groups would get  still leaves Many groups without them. The society ladies were in dither of course especially about clothes for the dinner. The stat department solved one dilemma for Queen when it said the Queen prefer ladies to Wear gloves when they Are being  not All chicagoan were impressed with the Queen however. Speaking for what probably is minority was Saloon keeper City councilman Paddy Bauler. He received a coveted dinner ticket but declares he won t use  s the Queen mean to me he asked. Nothing i never get out of my  educators renew demand for massive . Aid to schools St. Louis a the National education Assn. Nea renewed its demand for a massive program of Federal Aid to education. It said failure to finance adequate schooling is a tragedy for the under educated a menace to the society and an incongruity in the world s  gop urged to use surplus for the needy Washington a sen. Mike Mansfield a mint has accused the Republican administration of callous indifference to accumulating food surpluses while count less millions do not get enough to  Mansfield assistant majority Leader of the Senate challenged president Eisenhower to come up with his own program to see that every needy american gets a share of the More than $10 billion in surplus food and fiber now i storage. In an address prepared for sen ate delivery Mansfield declared this administration appears Tobe More interested in proving some obscure theoretical Point about agriculture and the govern ment s role in it than it is in see ing to it that people who Are Hun Gry get a Little More to  he said the administration pastime and time again disapproved efforts by Congress to do some thing about getting More food to americans who need it including the food for peace legislation advanced by sen. Hubert h. Humphrey a Minn and a proposal by sen. George d. Aiken a it to liberalize the distribution of us pluses. Suggests program Mansfield asked the administration to come up with a program to 1"close the disgraceful Loop holes in present Law to curb the few get Rich Quick surplus millionaires who he said milk the american people of millions of Dol Lars in storage fees. 2channel surplus foods in heavier measure into Long Range programs for schools institutions hospitals the unemployed and the old age pensioners. 3cooperate, with other food surplus nations in working out a worldwide program for the unfortunate in other lands using our own surpluses in place of foreign Aid Dollar  66 in powder puff Derby Lawrence mass a sixty six planes Are entered in this year s 2,470-mile powder puff Derby. The race starts at 9 am on july 4 and goes from Here to Spokane Wash. Just a slip twixt Susan and ship actress Susan Hayward leans on the shoulder of her husband car dealer Eaton Chalkley of Carrollton ga., As he helps her step out of Petticoat that dropped off when a strap broke during christening ceremonies for a boat at Jonesboro a. A photo amnesia victim recovers his past in phone Book new Orleans la. Up Burly amnesia victim who was found roaming around at a train station Here two Days ago without his Wallet has recovered his pastry browsing through a Telephone directory. He had to read every name into the of until he remembered that he is Richard Henry Ohnemus 26,an electrical worker from Walt Ham mass. Ohnemus said  to go a statement issued by the education policies commission of the Nea and the american Assn. Of school administrators said ignorance an poverty go hand in hand. This is a National problem it said because ignorance and poverty cannot be quarantined. It said americans Are spending just Over $10.5 billion annually to operate Public schools. Quality Edu cation requires More than $18 Bil lion a year the statement said adding that the average expenditure per Pupil should be raise from the present $310 a year to a minimum of $540. Shortage untouched the $18 billion recommended the commission said does not include reducing the present shortage of school facilities and classrooms and takes no account of school enrolment which is increasing by 1 million pupils per year. Many states and the local communities Don t have the resources to finance adequate education the commission said. It said that Mississippi for in stance in 1955 spent Only $132 per Pupil. But that figure represented a greater Effort on the part of Mississippi than did new York s expenditure of $365 that year the commission said. It said the extra Money should go toward hiring More teachers and increasing teachers  salaries in Industry it said Are luring Many potential teach ers into other Fields. . Only Hope the commission said the Federal government is the Only tax collect ing Agency Able to raise the Money needed for Quality education. The commission concluded that the Choice now before the Ameri can people must be faced and resolutely made. The inadequacies of the schools financial base Are fully apparent. They must be  problem will not yield easily or simply. The decisions will be hard. But the times Are  the Nea earlier announced plans for a Long Range study of the nation s educational needs and prob lems. Ruth a. Stout Nea president said the study would Deal with every facet of education. There was no mention made of racial integration but it appears certain that integration must be included in a thorough Survey. The study is expected to take three or four years to Complete. To fort Worth tex., earlier this month to apply for a Job in an air Craft Plant he drove to Savannah,ga., then started on the train to fort Worth. Ohnemus lost his memory shortly after he arrived in new Orleans and did t know who he was until he looked through the Telephone Book. I must have looked through million pages in that phone Book before it came to me he said. Today it takes culture instead of Cadillac Philadelphia a Remer Ber that Bumpious fellow Back in1947 or so who wanted the Best Job the prettiest wife the biggest car and the ranch est House in town Well according to the folks atthe Federal Reserve Board Here he s All washed up. He being theold consumer. The new consumer is a vulture for culture sky High for i i and its not the girl he married but their kids that he s most concerned about a. Aff 50, Are the local experts on what the buyer will buy in the Philadelphia area. And they say twas the launching of sputnik by the russians which changed theold consumer to the new. Bunting and Aff s studies Indi Cate the average consumer s new sense of values will make a drastic change in the nation s living habits for years to come. According to Bunting and Aff the old consumer was a lot like Walter Mitty James Thurber s daydreaming hero he was a Plain Guy Bunting comments a Man with aspirations which May seem a Little crude to Day. But there he was and there Are still a lot of people with the same  butt mating says with continued i Obj parity and High taxes wealth began to lose out As the Symbol of Success for the status seeker. And when sputnik zoome skyward the old consumer had had it. Then came a guilt Complex explains Bunting the consumer was bombarded with evidence that America was lagging in its educational program particularly in  he began to feel that he had failed that he had not spent his Money and time for the More important things. And he began to develop different aspirations largely along the lines of culture and education he said. 5 As a result adds Bunting the new consumer is becoming More european the Continental Lookin clothing for instance because Europe is where the culture come from buyers take off with three buses Washington up the state department has disclosed  an american was fleeced out of three buses by prospective mexi can buyers. They asked to take the vehicles on a trial spin in Texas and promptly drove them South of the Border Hamish Turner president of the Carolina Scenic transport co., of Spartanburg s.c., took the air conditioned buses to Laredo tex., about three weeks ago to sell them. A group of mexicans made a Small Down payment on the vehicles then got permission to take a drive to test the air conditioners., they crossed the Border and Haven t been heard from since  
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