European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 11, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday july 11, 1959 Ike overruled aide in asking Carrier funds Washington a Testi Mony just made Public has Dis closed that president Eisenhowe overruled his budget director in asking Congress for $260 million for the Navy to build another Large aircraft  Senate preparedness sub committee headed by sen. Lyndon. Johnson a Tex made Public a censored version of testimony Given at closed door sessions by budget director Maurice h. , under Sharp questioning by Johnson and other senators emphatically denied time and again that the budget Bureau fixes Dollar ceilings on the defense budget sent to the Congress by the president. Some d e m o c r a to c critics have made that  do not make the decisions a transcript of stans May 20.testimony said. The president makes the decisions. One cog we Are a fact finding and re commending staff for him Stan said. We Are one cog in a pro Cess of presidential staffing. Weare not the exclusive cog on which he can . Leverett Saltonstall r Mas suggested the Budge Bureau was really acting As the eyes and ears of the president Tosee if the Secretary of defense and his department Are doing a  stans agreed and cited As a example disagreement he said existed among top presidential advisers Over building another big aircraft  suggested to the president that the Carrier May have a Lowe priority than a number of other programs but the Navy Felt that it was a very important adjunct to their Force stans testified. Ike decision he said that whenever the budget Bureau and the Secretary of defense could not reach agree in ent the president made the final decision. Or. Eisenhower in recommend ing this year s $40 billion defense budget included funds for the big aircraft Carrier stans noted. The House in passing the big Money Bill subsequently knocked out the Carrier funds. The Senate appropriations committee not Only restored them but added $120 Mil maximum rate boosted from 4 v4 % to vets build Hopes for Home Loans on interest hike Washington up veterans prospects for getting Home Loans have brightened since a new piece of housing legislation has begun to take  Bill signed by president Eisenhower june 30, authorized higher interest rate on Loans guaranteed by the veterans administration and gave the Agency $100 million for direct Home  Boss Sumner g. Whittker exercising the Bill s authority on july 2 lifted the maximum allow Able interest rate from 4-% percent tp�514 per cent. It was expected that this would make i Loans More attractive to lenders and hence make it easier for Home buying veterans to get them. Locked in at. 4% per cent and faced with Competition from Loans paying 5vt per cent and More the i mortgages were simply unpopular. The guaranty program dried up. In 1955 it accounted for 30 per cent of a record number of new houses. By the first four months of 1959 it accounted for 8 per cent. With the 5vi per cent interest rate discounts Are expected to shrink. Both builders and Home buyers should  observers pointed out that the higher interest rate did no Deal with what May be a major problem later this year Loo Muc Competition for housing funds from other sectors of the  pointed out that the rate boost does not affect mortgages already in Force. For Many for Mer servicemen about to buy a House however it meant an end to stalling by lenders who wanted to close the loan at the higher rate. Putting the world Back in focus lion More to provide a nuclear Power Plant for the Craft at a total Cost of $380 million. The Senate has not yet acted. Johnson asked stans if the presi Dent actually made Many decisions of the defense  would say he makes quite a Lew stans replied. The confusing upside Down image on the ground Glass viewer of a press camera gives pause to 2-Ycar-old Julie Beckley in an Indianapolis Park left. Finally taking a logical approach she straddles the camera making things Clear by turn ing herself upside Down. Up photo 5 dead 7 injured in head on car crash Gillette Wyo. A five persons Riding in a Nebraska licensed car were killed instantly and seven others were injured in a grinding head on collision 100 mile East of Gillette. Sheriff Ted Haldeman said identification of the dead persons was not immediately available. The1957 car in which the five victims were Riding bore License plates indicating they were from Kimball county. . Life Span May hit 100 years if trend continues Chautauqua . Up the life expectancy of americans May climb close to 100 years if the trend of the past half Century continues a specialist in geriatrics said. In a lecture at the Chautauqua institution or. Edward l. Bortz of Lankenau Hospital Philadelphia noted that Between 1900 and 1950 the number of . Citizens over45 has nearly tripled. Bortz said proper diet and exer Cise figure prominently in the Well being of the aging. After All if he did t eat new Britain Conn. Up City lawyers studied whether the City should pay the claim of fire Man Angelo Ciamella who said his Hospital treatment Cost $8 when his Finger was injured in the line of duty cutting an Orange pee during lunch. Bored by Bare boards., he paints Fence murals Costa Mesa Calif. Up Harold Smith a 60-year-old laundry truck Driver who says he feels 40, got tired of looking at the neat Plain Board of his Fence. Now he has 100 feet of Jungle and wild life scenes painted on them. They re murals he i got started on them because i was bored with looking at nothing but Bare boards around my House. I be never done any painting before so i warmed up by doing two murals inside the House. Then moved outside. I be got about another 890 to 900 feet to go on  Smith said his mural project has two main purposes he wants to jazz up those Bare boards and he wanted to show his neighbors that they too could paint murals on their fences without any previous training or  Block them out he said Connecticut wants the Boot from new York Albany . Up new Yor state and Connecticut Are kicking about what s going to happen to Benedict Arnold s Boot. The sculptured Boot with Laurel Wreath around the top now stands at the Saratoga Springs,., National Battlefield. But Norwich Conn., Birthplace of the revolutionary War general turned traitor has made claim tothe Boot. Norwich says it would out a planned fill sized Statuette general. ,�.,. ,j. Norwich has requested the National Park service to order the Transfer of the Boot to that City. But state sen. Ernest i. Hatfield of Poughkeepsie ., called nor wich to Heel. He said he can t imagine the Park service ordering removal of the Boot to Connecticut. Deputy Commerce commissioner Ronald Peterson said new York will put up a fight for its right to keep the Saratoga Springs Battle Field Well shod. The Commerce department spokesman Here brushed off Arnold s alleged traitorous action saying that if he had been killed in action at the Battle of Bemus Heights he would have become one of the nation s greatest heroes.,the Boot he says commemorates Arnold s heroic services to the nation before he became a traitor. We certainly want to keep Teleg Peterson said adding that Connecticut is Welcome to Theresa of his memory standing by a painting of a Tiger which is about ready to pounce Ron a tree backed by dense Foli age. Usually i use National Geo graphic Magazine pictures. I trans Fer the squares from the picture of the Fence and do a mural on Square at a time. Anyone can do it i began last summer and spend about 20 or 30 minutes a Day at  his neighbors like the six foot High pictures he said. The Only real criticism he s had came fro members of the nearby Laguna Beach Art Colony. Some of them came up and. Really gave me a lecture he said. It was t so much on the Art but Only telling everyone How easy it was to use a picture As the Basi Ifor a mural. That s supposed to be a Trade secret they told me you re giving it away another  his. Murals show wild animal sin their native habitats. He Trie to keep his colors reasonably subdued in the scenes which Range from Jungle to North Woods backgrounds. These veterans presumably got their Loans. But they also will be paying More in monthly charges. For a Veteran buying a Home with a 25-year, $15,000 mortgage monthly costs will go up $6.25 by virtue of the half Point interest rate hike. The $100 million for the direct loan program is expected to help the a whittle Down a backlog of 55,000 applications. The Loans Are available Only to persons living in Rural and farm areas where it i especially difficult to get private financing. Unit approves Bill for . Exhibit at fair Washington up the House space committee has approved a Bill authorizing a Federal outlay of $12.5 million for a government exhibit on a 21-acre sit eat the Century 21 exposition at Seattle wash., in 1961-62. The Bill altered by several min or clarifying amendments docs not carry the Cash but merely author Zed the outlay. A separate appropriation Bill will be needed to put up the Money. Executive agencies including Thomm Croc department have endorsed the plan to construct a fed eral scientific exhibit at the inter National exposition. The exposition is being sponsored by the City of Seattle and the state of Washington. The Fairgrounds Are to be located on a 74-Acrc tract within 1.5 Miles of downtown  number of foreign countries Are expected to Send exhibits Lothe fair. It was disclosed during the House committee hearings that the special Commerce department commission set up to do the and Vance planning for the . Government exhibit had been Dis solved at the end of the fiscal year june 30.acting chairman George p. Mil Ler a Calif sharply criticized Commerce department witnesses for failing to disclose the fact the commission had been  Commerce spokesman explained the commission merely was deactivated due to a Lack Oil funds at the end of the fiscal year. Banker bugles key left in armoured car Winston Salem . Up a. T. Sprinkle locked the key inside his Wells Fargo  . T. Fain jr., manager of a Branch Bank burgled it out for him with a piece of chewing gum on the end of a wire coat Hanger inserted through one of the truck s gun ports. Safety devices on cars urged Washington a an Engi Neering professor has advocated Federal Law to require certain safety devices on  listed seat belts Hydraulic Shock absorbing bumpers retract Able steering wheel and recessed dash and seat  legislative action is needed James j. Ryan professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota told Ahouse Commerce subcommittee holding hearings on various proposals to combat traffic accidents. Ryan said the changes in car scan be made without Cost or Altera Tion to style. Church Bell peeled in fatal worship Call .east.haddam, Conn. Up in Riverview cemetery this inscription appears on the Tomb Stone of a Young Man of 20 who died in 1798 ". Who received a mortal wound on his head. By the falling of a weight fro the Bell As he was about to enter the Church to attend divine