European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 11, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday july the stars and stripes Page s Illinois Short of Cash curbs construction Springfield 111. A face with a shortage of Revenue to meet proposed construction needs Testate will postpone All new Public works projects at least until next Jan. 1, gov. William a. Stratton has  re not going to Wake up and find ourselves not Able to meet payrolls he declared. The effect of the action is to freeze about $80 million Worth of new projects approved by the legis lature for the 1959-61 budget period. It will tie up construction at the University. Of Illinois Southern Illinois University and the four teachers universities Western Eastern Northern and Normal. It will postpone plans to buy anew state museum building a new prison and a mental institution Tobe located in Southern Illinois plus a Host of minor  told a news conference the freeze order might be revoked in certain cases after a few months if the financial picture changes if Revenue picks up and we re in for a business  he warned that continuing imbalance in the budget could push Extension of the freeze order into 1960. The freeze does not affect High Way construction which is assured by ear Mai ked income from Gas tax funds. The $80 million in new projects however depend upon non earmarked or general Revenue funds. Debate asked on a shelters new York up gov. Nelson Rockefeller said he will Call for Public discussion before he ask the legislature to require Home owners to build a bomb shelter sat their own expense. Rockefeller said in a radio interview he will make Public new information on survival under nuclear bombardment. The new in formation he said will be an Aid to the Public  governor said the new information was gathered by his taskforce for Protection from nuclear fallout. Rockefeller noted that civil de sense has been marked by apathy and frustration in the past. He said the work of i task Force can be expected to Spur Public  if the state would assume the Burden of paying for the nuclear bomb shelters the governor said that question will be answered after the discussion and studies have been made. . Cig Aret exports continue to increase Washington up Ameri can Cigar ets continue to be popu Lar abroad government figure showed. Nearly 5.9 billion . Cigar ets were exported in the first four months of 1959, up 8 per cent Over last year. Adm Rickover says influences him Washington up vice adm Hyman g. Rickover declined thursday to Tell House investigators publicly the names of High ranking retired military officers who May have tried to pressure him on government business. Rep. F. Edward Hebert a la chairman of a House armed serv ices subcommittee investigating possible influence peddling on de sense contracts promptly ordered him to Supply the names j in  Rickover declined to name name sin the open on grounds it might damage people not acting with any criminal  this would do injustice and bring Dishonour upon them he said. If you order me to do so then must Rickover told Hebert. He added however that no officer no retired officer no Mem Ber of Congress has Ever had an influence on  the statement brought loud applause and some laughter fro m the packed hearing room. Rickover said he did not thin kit was Wise to Point a Finger at individuals who might have Cometo him on Ordinary business or sought his support for project they thought were worthwhile to National defense. In any Case he said none of them had the slightest Impact on him. He said All of his decisions were made entirely on a  Hebert had put the question to Rickover because of testimony the Admiral gave to another House subcommittee in March. At the time Rickover said head been subjected to pressure in the past by retired top military men but that this was not now the Case because the word go around that i am obtuse in this Regar, he also said these same peo ple now go higher up and get pressure put on me that . Samuel s. Stratton . Cautioned against Hasty action to restrict retired officers in contract Competition. He said Congress could throwout the baby with the Bath by seeking to penalize the few who might have used improper influence to gain big contracts for big defense industries. Zero Gravity has them floating in air capt Leroy g. Cooper left one of the seven astronauts undergoing tests for space travel floats about Cabin of a g131 plane in a weightlessness say weightlessness is fun flight at Wright air development Center Dayton Ohio. With Cooper is a member of aeromedical Laboratory staff. Up photo astronauts enjoy space flight tests Langley a. A the Mer Cury astronauts after trying out for. A few seconds the weightless Ness of space travel say it really is a comfortable feeling in fact fun. The seven men who have Bee picked for pioneering space trips in satellites expressed their Opin ions after watching with a group of visiting newsmen a film of three of them undergoing Zero Gravity  occurred in the Cabin of an air plane flying part of an outside Loop to produce the weightless condition through centrifugal Force. The astronauts floated about the padded Cabin pushing themselves off ceilings and Walls and playfully shoving each other into the air i what seemed slow motion Tempo. Officials of the National aeronautics and space administration Nasa showed newsmen one of the Couch like devices in which the astronauts will ride in the capsule. Some but probably not All of the seven men will be Given preliminary test  i g h t s in a rocket launched capsule before the first trip around the Earth in orbit. Army Redstone rockets will be used to fire the Man carrying Cap sule High into space in these tests with a Landing in the Atlantic Sev eral Hundred Miles off Cape canaveral Fla. Social Security building Cornerstone set " j a Baltimore a a Cornerstone with a time capsule was Laid Here for a building which will House the work histories of 130 million americans. Arthur s. Flemming . Secretary of health education and welfare applied the mortar As the Large Block of polished Michigan Limestone was lowered into place in the massive social Security head Quai ters building on the Western outskirts of the City. Work was begun in 1957 on the 10-Story, $31-Mil-Llon building. When completed Early next year it will be the biggest Federal Structure in the country outside the Washington metropolitan area. The Stone was engraved in Gold Leaf with the names of president Eisenhower the . And the year 1957. Flemming called it a Cornerstone of the government s program to promote the economic Security of the  a stainless steel time capsule at the base of the Cornerstone contained microfilm records of historical documents tape recordings and a sound film of president Franklin d. Roosevelt delivering a Mes Sage to americans in August 1935, when he signed the original social Security act. Also in the capsule were microfilm still pictures of president Truman and president Eisenhower signing amendments to the Law and a microfilm description of the mechanized and electronic accounting methods used to keep the social Security records now scattered through a dozen buildings inthe City. Others will take off for Orbital flight aboard a capsule mounted on the air Force Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile. Also shown were models of an escape device intended for rescuing an astronaut if As has been happening with some missiles the launching device starts Burn ing on the pad or takes off to slowly. This is a rocket which will Pluck the capsule Clear of the mis Sile and carry it 2,000 feet High where an automatic Parachute will pull the Pilot out and Drift him Back to the surface. Nasa has ordered 26 Booster rockets for the project Mercury manned satellite program. Of these,10 Are Atlas missiles the Type to be used for manned satellite  Are Redstone rockets to be used both in Short flights by Astro nauts and in testing. Six others Are the specially designed Littlejoe boosters for 100-mile-High test shots of equipment. Two Are army Jupiter intermediate Range ballistic missiles. However it is probable Nasa will cancel plans for using the Jupiter. Nasa officials have estimated the boosters will Cost about $16million dollars. Capsules training devices tracking equipment another items will bring the Cost up to about $20 million.  Tennis clubs minority ban new York a the new York City commission on inter group relations set up to eliminate prejudice and discrimination has scheduled a hearing july 21 on charges that new York s Fame West Side Tennis club bars negroes and jews As members. The Forest Hills club site of the . Tennis championships and the Davis cup matches was criticized in Congress too for shutting its doors to Ralph Bunche a negro. Bunche under Secretary of the United nations and Winner of the Nobel peace prize for his work i mediating the Arab israeli conflict said Wilfred Burglund president of the club advised him the club s policy excludes both negroes an jews As members. Officials to be called Alfred j. Marrow chairman of the 15-member group created in1955 by Law with subpoena Powers asserted Burglund and other club officials would be called. Officials of the . Lawn ten Nis Assn. Usta also May be asked to attend he said. Although the club is a private organization the . Tennis championships an Davis cup Challenge matches Are played  find it unthinkable said marrow that major International athletic events for which the Gen eral Public pays admission should be conducted in this City on the grounds of an institution which discriminates in its membership  has been unavailable for comment. Meanwhile in Washington sen Jacob k. Javits  the Senate in a speech that the Tennis club s policy was an affront to All human , a jew said he would re quest the Usta to Transfer . Tennis chanpion ships and Davis cup matches from the Forest Hills club. He said later that Sens. Clifford Case  Doug Las d-i1u. Hubert h. Humphrey a Minn and Thomas Kuchel a Calif had joined him in the Tele Gram he sent to the association. $5, awarded victim of defective bar Stool Philadelphia a Penn Sylvania s Superior court ruled that tavern owners must keep their bar stools in Good operating condition. In an unanimous opinion the court upheld a $5,000 jury award to Ephrhim l. Cross of Rural Grindstone for injuries he received when he toppled off a defective bar Stool. Cross was injured nov. 19, 1954, in the Fay Ette county restaurant of Charles Labou and brought Sui against the owner. Judge g. Harold Watkins wrote that the Case clearly Falls within the Legal principle that care Mustbe taken by innkeepers to see that patrons Are protected from injury