European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 3, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Vit off we. Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday july 3, 1959 holds Back technical Progress Khrushchev says red tape m. Moscow up Premier Nikita s. Khrushchev has told the nation s party leaders the Only thing holding Back technical Progress in Russia is bureaucratic reel tape. In our country some bureaucrats Are used to the old rut and cling to it with might and main Khrushchev told a plenary session of the party s Central committee. The soviet Premier s speech was carried by the official soviet news Agency Tass. Khrushchev delivered the address before the plenary session. The speech has just been released. The russian Leader told the session the country s ambitious seven year plan aimed at surpass ing the West s Standard of living has achieved Good results so far. Tass said Khrushchev stressed that All branches of soviet National Economy were on the up swing and. That several economic areas were ahead of their schedule in the seven year plan. The soviet Leader also called for increased agricultural output with emphasis on better management and a St Pup in the nation s Grain output. Khrushchev noted that capitalists Are not always interested in further technical Progress Tass said. Therefore there Are no obstacles in front of the soviet Union except bureaucratic red tape he said. Khrushchev said the party was considering switching some experienced agriculturists to lagging collective and state farms and was recommending that Virgin lands in the far East portions of the coun try be utilized. Stressing the need for speedier replacement of obsolete machinery Khrushchev said we have launched a rocket into space How is it that we Are unable to eliminate quickly our shortcomings in the engineering Industry Khrushchev criticized outdated machine tools and mechanism still produced by. Some russian plants and recommended that the newly established state committee for automation and engineering draft plans for renovation of the out dated equipment. The soviet Union he said is now in a position to develop the production of consumer goods without hampering the nation s heavy Industrial output. Gov. Long announces plan to adopt Hospital 14 poker with in Galveston Tex. One of four Covington la. A gov. Earl k. Long announced plans to adopt a 14-year-old boy he played the Hospital at doctors treating Long disclosed the Louisiana governor s heart is now failing slightly. Or. Victor Lief of Tulane University medical school said there was nothing to indicate a coronary attack but that doctors were concerned Over the 63-year-old Long s condition. In announcing plans to adopt David Rankin. Long said he got to Likin me and i got to Likin . I be always wanted a son. Well i be wanted a daughter too but i can t Chaperon one under the present he said Rankin s parents had agreed but in Texas City Tex., across the Bay from Galveston the parents denied agreeing to the adoption. It s True that David and gov. Long got to be Good friends at the Hospital David s father. F. H. Van Natta greeted at Usa eur he Heidelberg Gen Thomas f. Van Natta new Usa eur assistant chief of staff g2, was welcomed at Usa eur Headquarters thursday with a Spe Cial ceremony. Van Natta had commanded the 3d army spearhead div since january 1958. During the korean War Van Natta was 8th army g2. On re turn to the . He was name Continental army come g2 and then became army attache to Mexico. He was assistant com Mander of the 1st army div at it. Polk la., prior to taking Over the3d army div. Alaska statehood medals new York up about 3,000 Bronze medallions weighing half a Pound each were flown from new York to. The 49th state for1 use in alaskan statehood Cere monies july 4. Rankin said. David had certain privileges that the governor did not have at the Hospital and was Able to do certain acts of Rankin said Long called David at hi., Home the boy was hospitalized with High blood pressure and since has been released and invited to visit Long in Louisi Ana. He said the boy is considering the invitation and will make own decision. But As for any adoption the family has no such intent and neither does David said Rankin. The father is a supervisor at a chemical company Plant. Rome court rules in Grid Rossellini Are still married Rome up a Rome court of appeals has ruled that Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini Are still Man and wife. The court reversed an earlier annulment of the couple s mexican marriage by a lower court. The reversal of the annulment meant that miss Bergman s new marriage to swedish impresario Lars Schmidt was null and void in the eyes of italian Law. It added further complications to a Legal tangle involving three marriages and custody of three children. Two rebel chiefs shot in Algeria Algiers a two algerian rebel chiefs died before a French firing squad at Dawn after their Pardon was turned Down by French president Charles de Gaulle. It was one of the few executions of algerian nationalists since last year s right Wing revolt on May 13 when the French army adopted a policy of clemency towards the rebels. The two were identified As Are ski Meghdadi former chief of the rebel political and terrorist network in Oran in Western Algeria and aide Moulay m Hamed. This la Kilt pm russian performers in the Moscow state circus now touring eng land Are awed by scottish Kilts at a London fashion show especially arranged for them. The male Model is showing off Kilts lace cuffs Check ered stockings and cromwellian shoes. The russians showed particular interest in More orthodox attire such As Beach skirts for women and raincoats. photo agent says . Teamster sold narcotics in 1956 Washington a a Federal agent has linked officials of a new York teamster Union local with narcotics peddling. Ivan Wurms a government narcotics investigator told the Senate rackets committee he new army chief a Soldier 39 years by United press International i an officer who looks a Little like f Douglas Macarthur and who be came a. Paratrooper at the age of 50 is the new army chief of staff. Gen Lyman i Lemnitzer who a 60 years old next month so has. Been serving since july 1957 As second in command to Gen Max-5. Taylor whom he succeeds. Lemnitzer was. Born aug. 29,in Honesdale pa., and was l graduated from West Point in. Was commissioned a second in the coast artillery England during worlds commander of the 34th a a Brig. He led that outfit through the tunisian Campaign. Later he became first Deputy chief of staff and then chief of staff for the Mediterranean Thea Ter com Lemnitzer accompanied Gen Mark a Clark on a secret submarine Mission to North Africa for discussions with the French concerning the african invasion. After serving As special assistant on foreign military affairs for the defense department Lemnitzer took the Basic airborne course for paratroopers at it Benning ga., in 1050, this enabled to take command of the Lith an div stationed at it. Campbell by. During the korean War he commanded the 7th inf div in Korea. Later he was transferred to Washington to become Deputy chief of staff for plans and re search. Lemnitzer went to the far East again in 1955 As commander of the 8th army. Three months later he was named commander in chief for tie far East. Lemnitzer is married and has two children capt William Lem Nitzer assigned to West Point Mil itary Academy and. Mrs. Lois Simpson wife of a lieutenant at it. Sill okla bought $2,400 Worth of cocaine from Bernard Blaustein a business agent of local 805. This happened in february 1956, Wurms said while he was build ing a Case against Blaustein. The Union business agent later was Given a three year jail term on narcotics charges and now is out on a conditional release Wurm said. The Federal agent testified that by Cimstein used the local s office on Broadway As a base for narcotic operations. Knows of contacts Wurms also swore he knows of frequent contacts Between purveyors of narcotics and Abe Gor Don and Milton Holt top officials of the same new York local. Gordon is administrator of local 805 s welfare fund. The committee was told that $8,019 of the welfare fund s Money found its Way into Gordon s personal Bank account. As for Holt committee investigator George Kopecki testified about rather devious deals. In defies court shuts schools 1 Farmville a. Up a Prince Edward county officially ended Public education in the South s sternest s t a n a. Against. Federal court integration orders. ,.- the county s 21 Public schools stand locked and abandoned in definitely. The approximately 1,300 White students and most of their teachers will switch to private segregated classes in makeshift facilities next september financed by private donations. No plans have been made to educate the More than 1,600 negro children. The supervisors voted on june 2 to close the schools by adopting a new budget which included no Money for education in Defiance of an integration order handed Down by the 4th . Circuit court of appeals. The Board Cut county taxes More than 50 per cent and refused to appropriate Money even to main Tain the school buildings equip ment and buses valued at about$2.5 million. The new budget has just become effective. Judge orders Houston to plan integration Houston Tex. A fed eral judge Ben c. Connally has ordered the Houston school Board to submit by aug. 17 a plan for integration of Public schools. The 170-000-student system is the largest segregated system in the nation. Connally ordered the Board Tofile its program if it has in 1957 Connally ordered the system to integrate with All de liberate Speed but did not set deadline. Parents of two negro children last month asked Connally to re open the Case and set a deadline. Attorneys said they hoped to obtain an order that would integrate the schools at the opening of the fall term in september. The parents filed their suit originally in 1956. The two negro children had been unsuccessful in attempts to enter schools for Whites. Defecting Russ arrives in . Travis air Force base Calif. A a defecting soviet Diplomat seeking political Asylum in the . Was flown through this air Force base in secrecy. Alexander Kan Acheen who abruptly quit As information officer of the soviet embassy in Rangoon Burma arrived on a special air Force plane from Hawaii and left again. The state department claimed it knew nothing of whereabouts. Wiley see an Accident is the surest Way to wreck your precious Holiday. Sajt sub fatal accidents it mtr. As of june 201050 t 1068 son army or. Pc k. Asphyxiation weapons k tit it of psf itt err total i 148 114 of
