European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday july 10, 1959 the stars and stripes log s Senate tells army to gut Nike bases Washington a a new directive to the Pentagon to close out older army missile Sites that ring in Iny cities and Industrial  has come to Light in the Senate. It was included in the formal report filed by sen. Dennis Chavez . On the defense Money Bill carrying More than $40 billion for military agencies in the fiscal year that started july 1. The sen a e. Appropriations committee approved the Bill. Although the committee accepted most of the proposals in the new Continental air defense plan it questioned continued operation of Short Range army Nike Ajax batteries. / these Are the army missiles that have been installed since 1953 around Many Urban areas As de lenses against possible enemy air Craft attacks. Locations secret although the exact Sites and their defense capabilities still Are shrouded with some military secrecy it is known the missiles have a Range of about 25 Miles and were installed at some 90 different spots. Secretary of defense Neil h. My Elroy under Senate pressure has ordered a cutback in planned Sites for both the army Nike Hercules missiles a longer Range successor to the Nike Ajax As Well As Theair Force s Bomarc antiaircraft missiles. The Hercules is reported to have a Range up to 80 Miles while the Bomarc is planned for ranges from 200 to 500 Miles. Both can use nuclear warheads which the older Nike Ajax cannot. S1h1 in use the committee report noted that even after the new air defense pro Gram is completed a considerable number of Nike Ajax batteries will continue in  it said competent experts Testi fied this Short Range weapon has virtually outlived its usefulness and then added the committee is of the firm opinion that the Secretary of de sense should begin an immediate retrenchment and orderly phase out of the entire Nike Ajax pro  normally such recommendation from congressional committees to a government department have Smuch weight As direct legislation. Their Days were numbered Milwaukee a Complex electronic computers destroyed in the recent Pentagon fire rest on a capital dump. The computer for of rushed to replace Pentagon casualty Washington a a new electronic computing system to re place the one destroyed in last week s Pentagon fire will be in operation july 13, according to col Marshall r. Gray director of Statis tical services for the air Force. The remaining equipment will be delivered to the air Force by july 17, he said. It usually requires 12 months or More to deliver the big ," Gray said the full co operation of other government agencies and private Industry has Cut the time to 15  on schedule meanwhile air Force statistical operations Are proceeding on sched ule through the use of borrowed  the Best of my knowledge no one has been seriously inconvenienced by the weekend interruption in service the colonel Suid. Within 24 hours we were Book ing extra shift time on other ism International business machines computers in this  funeral wreaths Are paper Rolls on which the machines used to Jot their secret thoughts. Up 8,500 at girl scout conference visited by 20,000 in Colorado there Are 8,500 girl scouts at tending a Roundup in Colorado Springs colo., but deckle Law rence 16, of Kansas City knows How to get herself some privacy. She merely grabs her Sheet music and her Bugle and blows Man blows associated press photo Colorado a the Springs  scout senior Roundup took on a carnival air Asan estimated 20,000 visitors surged into the Prairie campsite where8,500 girl scouts Are swapping smiles souvenirs and  visitors Many of them parents of the scouts will be treated to a special program commemorating Colorado s Rush to the Rockies  bands and groups of indians and riders will perform Ina natural Amphitheater adjoining the Avenue of flags where Fly the banners of the 49 states the . Territories and the 27 foreign nations represented. Among the speakers will be mrs. Charles Culmer National girl scout president. Pikes Peak Lias paled each Darby comparison with the 1,200-acre site where 6,000 tents have Mush roomed. The girls Madcap swapping exchanging souvenirs has produced a welter of processions like those of african tribal Kings with gaily plumed hats Bobbing atop Sun burned faces. Spectators stall marines at Milwaukee Beach the marines have landed in  1,500-Man amphibious assault Force supported by tanks and Heli copters stormed ashore at a Clown town Beach and was stopped col for about 10 minutes by a human traffic Jam. The unexpected development Cli maxed the Navy s operation in land seas demonstration. Some 20,-000 of the 200,000 plus spectators broke through restraining Lin Sand surged onto the Beach the marines were supposed to capture. And capture it they did but not Airliner crash Laid to Pilot Washington up the civil aeronautics Board cab has blamed the crash of a Northwest air lines plane at Minneapolis last aug. 28 on the Pilot s failure to pay full attention to his flight instruments. There were no fatalities in the Takeoff crash but a number of the 62 persons aboard were injured seriously. The plane burned shortly after the passengers were  plane had climbed to Only about 100 feet when it nosed Over and crashed. The cab said sky conditions vere Clear although patches of fog reduced visibility at the Airport to less than a  Board believes that the Pilot while trying to retain Contact in reduced visibility allowed the nose of the aircraft to drop when flaps were retracted because of in attention to flight  bubbling Market new York up americans popped the corks on 16 million bottles of Champagne last year compared with 72 million bottles in France. Until Small vessels Laden with the tanks artillery and rocket launch ers bobbed about offshore while military and civilian police coaxed the crowd Back to the West Side of Lincoln memorial drive. President oks farm Bill with limited props Washington up presi Dent Eisenhower signed a $4,686,-600,000 farm spending Bill designed to limit Price support benefits tobit Farmers for the first time. The president favored some sup port limits. However critics of the Bill finally drafted by a House Senate conference committee said it contained so Many escape hatches that it would have Little or no effect in holding Down support payments. The Bill provided funds to run the agriculture department audits programs in the current fiscal year and to pick up the Tab for past Price support payments. Or. Eisenhower signed the Bill without comment although it contained $110,002,863 f less than he originally asked. The Bill sets a $50,000 per crop limit with exceptions on the amount of Price support benefits any Farmer can receive next year on any one crop. The limits apply Only to crops that agriculture Secretary Ezra t. Benson declares to be in surplus Supply. One exception to the ceiling would let any grower obtain a Price support loan on any crop i excess of $50,000, provided he guaranteed to repay the excess within12 months. The Secretary of Agri culture would have authority to extend the 12-month period. The other exception would re move the Dollar limit on Price supports for any Farmer who agreed to Cut production of his crop by an amount ranging up to 20 per cent. The Bill authorizes the agriculture Secretary to set the exact percentage Cut. President denies charge of government by veto Washington a presiden t Eisenhower has insisted to is no trying to govern by veto. He said his rejection of the housing Bill offered no grounds for any such thought. Or. Eisenhower told his news conference he has not used the veto lightly. He said he does t enjoy saying any legislation is bad and then having to explain to the people Why he thinks it. Is bad. But the president said he is determined to have legislation that will keep the . Solvent. He vetoed the $1,375,000,000 hous ing Bill charging it was inflation Ary. A reporter suggested that the president was dominating the con Gressional program whereas there had been predictions that the democratic Congress would wag the White  there is no Validity or. Eisen Hower said in the charge that heis conducting government by veto. He said he is part of the Legisla Tive process and As a Man elected by All the people he has a special responsibility to look out for the interests of the country. In response to other questions i Eisenhower said that because he cannot run again he above a Lothers should be interested in the Public Good. Some democrats Are urging that Congress attempt to override the housing veto a move that would require a two thirds majority in each chamber. Even  failed these democrats reasoned it would put them forcibly on record As fax Oring expansion of Federal housing programs. The housing Bill was Cut Dow from larger programs passed separately by the House and  most of the Cut was accomplished by limiting it to two years leaving the annual spending rate much higher than or. Eisenhower had asked. Ambulances late for booming Birtho Granby mass. Up a sonic Boom and three ambulances accompanied the birth of a son to mrs. George Roberts. The Boom was apparently caused by a Jet bomber flying Over As or. Roberts called for the town ambulance. It was t available so everybody pitched in to locate a substitute. They were so successful that three ambulances rushed to the Roberts Home. By that time the baby had already been born. Senator warns of 2,000 potential saboteurs Washington up rep. Gor Don h. Scherer a Ohio warned that there Are at least 2,000 Poten tial saboteurs now working in . Defense  is a member of the House committee on in american activities. The group recently heard testimony in Pittsburgh concerning alleged communist infiltration of unions whose members Are engaged in work on secret defense projects. Scherer told a reporter he obtained his information in off the record statements from the de sense department which received the data from Federal Security agencies. Scherer said because of a recent supreme court decision the government is powerless to prevent known communist or potential Saboteur working in a defense Plant from gaining