European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 8, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse I " a wednesday july 8, 1959 the stars and stripes Flag smacks of idolatry a 9 collision deaths by dim Boom in american boating. -. -. I maybe 2-year-old Joun Kofoed does t know much about Art but she knows what she likes. She plants a kiss on the nose of a pre inca god adorning the lobby of a Miami hotel. Up photo for new state dept. Building $275,000 sculptures bargain for taxpayer Washington a Congress has the word of an expert that the taxpayers Are getting a bargain in paying $275,000 for two pieces of sculpture for the new state department building. Members of a House appropriations subcommittee thought the sum a bit High for adorning just one Entrance of the $52 million building which takes up four Square blocks. But Leonard Hunter an official of the general services administration which handles construction for various government agencies tried to set them straight. As the Cost of sculpturing goes he said at a recent hearing $275, 000 Ife cheap. Nude Man Only one of the Art works has been made Public so far. It is nude Man of heroic proportions kneeling on a Globe holding a planet in each hand. It is to be the Centrepiece of a Pool in a Courtat the South Entrance to the building and the Price tag on it is $100,000. Sculptor Marshall Fredericks of Royal Oak Mich., has entitled the work creation of the universe.""1 quotes him As saying the Man s figure symbolizes the Force of creation and represents no deity Fredericks fee for the statue is $35,000, with $65,000 going into the stand used hour Cost Over $5,000 Washington a the plat form built for last week s brie Cornerstone laying ceremonies for the East Capitol Extension is headed for the Salvage pile. A horseback guess by one of the engineers in charge was that the stand Cost the taxpayers be tween $5,000 and $10,000, a Large part of it for the ceremonies with president Eisenhower in the leading role lasted less than an hour. Casting of the sculpture in Bronze and its installation. No details have been Given about he other piece of sculpture other than that the artist s fee will be and casting and installation will Cost $125,000. It will stand at the entrants to the courtyard con fining Fredericks sculpture. The state department building now nearing completion will be he largest office building in the District of Columbia the Only government building larger is the Pentagon across the Potomac River n Virginia. By the associated press at least 60 deaths in boat Acci dents during the nation s fourth of july weekend underlined the perils of boating s popularity Boom. Several of the. Accidents involved 6 die As cars collide Burn in Illinois fog Metropolis Iii. A two cars crashed and burned in Earl morning fog killing six persons a four member family returning from a Holiday and a father and his son. _ Coroner j. Herbert Goyert identified the dead in one car As Robert Stanford his wife Dorothy 28, an their children Nancy 1, and Rob Bie 3. They lived in Joliet killed in car was Earl u. Jetton 26, of Chicago. His son Dale 6, died later in a nearby Paducah ky., Hospital after being pulled from burning wreckage bypassing it of the Stanford family was made from Mississippi License plates on their car. Stanford moved from Nettleton miss., to Joliet where he was employed by a chemical firm. Mrs. Stanford was expecting a child in about five months Goyert which covered Highway 145 was blamed by state police for the crash 10 Miles Northeast of Metropolis. 3 sailors 2 Waves killed in car crash Camden . Up three Navy boiler men and two Waves were killed when their automobile sideswiped a tank truck careened across a Highway and sheared off a Utility five of the victims were stationed at the Philadelphia naval base. Fiey were Clyden. Phillips 23, Boilerman 1/c Kenneth Evans 22, Ajo ariz., Boilerman 3/c Hubert Lee Parrish 25 Augusta ga., Boilerman 3/c Imo Gene Green 25, Longview Tex. Personnel Man 2/c and Patricia sue Toms 19, Jenks okla., Seaman truck Driver Clifford e May 28, was unhurt. More than 6ne most costly in life was collision of an Auto ferry and a Cabin Cruiser in Lake Michigan off Muskegon Mich. Six occupants of he smaller Craft drowned. Heat overcomes 17 at lumberyard fire Greensboro . A seventeen persons were treated for heat and smoke exhaustion while fighting a lumberyard fire in of degree temperature. Fifteen of the 17 were firemen and two were volunteers. An estimated $100,000 damage was done at the new Home build ing Supply co the fire leaped across a Railroad track and ignited the Charles d. Roberts co. Damage there was about $8,000. Octane ratings of Auto fuels reach Neil highs Washington up the Bureau of mines said the octane ratings of the three grades of Gaso line used in automobiles have reached new average highs. This is a continuation of the up Ard trend the Bureau said. Of 5,777 samples collected from service stations the regular Grad of had an average octane rat ing of 90.� the Premium Grade showed 98.9, and the super Grade 101.8. These figures represented gains of four tenths of a Point for the regular and super grades Over the summer of 1958, and an increase of one half Point for Premium Grade ten years ago the average regu Lar Grade gasoline had an octane rating of 80.5. Premium fuels Hada rating of 86.5. There were no super grades available to Motorist then. Passport refusal upheld Washington a the . Court of appeals has upheld Testate department s refusal to per Mit Waldo Frank new York lec Turer and author to visit communist China. A Home to putt Putter around in in other fatalities the boats involved were smaller several of them homemade and collisions were died in Efner Lake near Corinth n.y., when a homemade boat capsized throwing eight into the water. Six were children two of whom tiled. Two men and a 4-year-old boy. Drowned in Indiana s White River near Bedford after Rowboat carrying six persons was swamped by the Bow Jive of a passing House boat. A rickety 12-foot Flat Bottom boat was swamped in Pushaw Lake Maine. A father and his two Daugh ters died. Another occupant of the boat was rescued by fishermen. The girls weren t wearing life jackets. An outboard Motorboat capsized in the Oswegatchie River in county n.y., drowning two boys and a Man. Upsets and capsizing weren t la causes of All deaths. Two died and three were Hurt in Tennessee when boat was shattered by explosion and fire. Despite the tragic Holiday Lolland an upsurge in boating activity during recent years annual fatality experience in boat mishaps has been close to the 1958 level of 1,287deaths for the last 10 years. The government office of Vita statistics reported 1,243 deaths it boating accidents in 1949. But. Boating activity has mushroomed during the same period. The out Board boating club of America says the number of boats of All classes has jumped from 2,244,000in 1949 to 7,330,000 this year. The Survey of boating accidents included reports on apparent causes of the deaths. In a majority of instances facts indicated that clowning careless Ness and ignorance of the boat its limits and its characteristic were victims were thrown out of their boats by unexpected lurches. Sharp turns at High speeds dumped occupants and up it Craft. In one instance a Manas drowned when he shut off the Ower of his Over weighted Craft suddenly capsizing critical injury cases re ulsted from propellor cuts. A steer no Cable broke and a Man Wash own from his circling boat in Capitol Lake near Olympia left leg was nearly cer Vered when the Craft overran 5-year-old girl sitting in Shalow water at the Edge of Mission Bay in san Diego received leg and thigh cuts when a boat driven by a 13-year-old boy went out of control and struck her. Or. And mrs Poindexter Galloway a Honey mooning in Florida using the trailer attached to the motorcycle As their cottage Galloway who built the trailer figures it will Nave Money. A Fri arrests top fugitive Washington a George Edward Cole one of the Fri s 10 most wanted fugitives was air rested in Des Moines Iowa. He was wanted in the slaying of a police officer during the robbery of m san Francisco tavern. The 32-year-old Cole surrendered quietly to Fri agents who drove into the service station where he had been working for the past two years asked that the tank refilled up and then arrested Cole. J. Edgar Hoover director of the Fri said Cole was added to theist of the 10 most wanted Fugi Tives feb. 25, 1957. He was sought for unlawful interstate flight to avoid prosecution in the slaying of a police officer dec 30, 1955, Whilo the officer tried to disarm him after a Holdup. Hoover said Cole denied his Iden Tity until fingerprinted. Then he told Fri agents he was expecting arrest sooner or Cole a unarmed when arrested
