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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, July 16, 1959

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 16, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Fog 6 the stars and stripes thursday july 16, 1959 9�" Nixon s tour snarled in russian red tape officials blamed for delay week before Takeoff Washington a vice pres ident Richard m. Nixon s proposed visit to Russia is snarled in soviet red tape Only a week before he is to take off for  two months of backstage negotiation soviet and american authorities have yet to agree on exactly what cities Nixon will visit How Long he will stay and How much Freedom his party will enjoy. But top officials Are confident these problems will be settled Intima for Nixon to leave by Jet air liner july 22 As scheduled. New York a Newsweek Magazine said that american secret service agents sent to Tho soviet Union to Check Over Vic president Richard m. Nixon s itinerary found at least one hotel room he was to have used contained a secret recording device. Prospects Are he will visit mos cow talk with Premier Nikita s. Khrushchev and then tour per haps seven other soviet cities in an unprecedented Good will visit last ing about two weeks. Most authorities blame the pres ent uncertainty on soviet Bureau cratic delay rather than on an Kremlin Effort to surround Nixon s stay with impossible  important Factor they said May be Moscow s desire tomake sure that Nixon As Well As the nearly 100 persons accompany ing him can be accompanied in first class style in some of the re Mote areas they Hope to visit. Despite this officials Are plainly growing impatient at the soviet delay in an severing some important questions Nixon has raised in connection with his trip. Questions raise will Nixon be allowed to tour some of the closed defense Are Ashe wants to visit instead of the usual tourist attractions offered most foreign visitors will the 70 newsmen accompany ing him be allowed to report his activities without soviet censor ship As Nixon insists will Nixon and his party be Al Lowed to use his american Jet planes during their travels inside Russia As Nixon has proposed Hope for solution authorities Are hoping the so diets will give Quick and salts factory answers to these questions perhaps within a few Days. The return to Moscow of Deputy pre Nier fro r. Kozlov after a War official Welcome during his Amer ican trip May hasten favourable Kremlin replies. The soviets have agreed to allow Jaxon to tour some of the areas he has in mind. But they appear to be Balking at allowing firsthand inspection of defense areas and installations usually out of Bounds to Western visitors. Serving minute steaks port Gibson miss. Up next door to the five minute cafe Ito Ere is a competitor known As the a rec minute cafe. I seem to have this Sailfish Raymond Streb of Raleigh n.c., has his hands expedition off the Carolina coast. The Sailfish full of Sailfish that he hooked during an Angling measured six feet in length. Topi photo cities using foreign cars to Cut costs by North american Newi paper Alliance Washington a new blow to the american automobile has Bee struck by those economical foreign cars says the International Cit manager s Assn. Municipal governments says the association Are saving substantial sums by turning to foreign cars for official  Richmond va., officials found that by driving foreign cars the could save 37 per cent Over the operating costs of the six Cylinder american cars. In addition the foreign cars Cost them less to  costs including All maintenance gasoline lubricants and routine service but not the Purchase Price depreciation an insurance. Saving s reported the detailed Cost data showed that 20 Small cars averaged 23.6miles per gallon operating at 1.7 cents a mile compared to stand Ard transmission . Cars which got Only 14.1 Miles to the gallon and operated at 2.7 cents a mile. Small cars including . Small cars Are now being tried by the state government in Oregon Aswell As the cities of Cincinnati and Hollywood fla. Several cities i Minnesota Are reported switching to smaller cars. One of the reasons cited by Cit officials for the change was the recent ending of direct factory Dis counts to states and localities. Sum Inerfield says Post office gains in War 011 smut Washington up Post Muster general Arthur e. Summer Field says tha Post office depart ment is making headway in its War against paddlers of porno graphic pictures and literature. Summerfield said that there were293 arrests for sending smut through the mails last year a 45per cent increase Over the 136 arrests in 1954. However he said the problem has grown to one that staggers the  he said the Post office got 70,000 complaints in the first six months of 1959 Summerfield complained that judges had been too lenient by levying Only Small fines against convicted pornographers. This simply Means the offend ers continue in business sum Inerfield said. What they need i severe jail sentences five to 10  postmaster general said he was Only enforcing the Law against obscene literature in the mail when he barred an unexpurgated edition of lady chattel Ley s  he said this was not censorship because it did not deny the right to read the Book Only Tomail it. Summerfield said he not Only agreed with the Law under which the a. H. Lawrence novel was barred from the mails but As a father and Grandfather Felt i should be  Ujj Wother missing for 37 years found on death edit. A for two Brothers sought a Slot third brother. They Fin Al found him a few hours before of Burns. Long search by the two hers from Oswego . Ended death bed of Howard Pecoy Manchester it. He died at memorial Hospital Here of when fire swept a Tori Efly just Niue his Brothers Francis 65, an James 47. The Brothers said they had not seen Howard since 1922 when he walked away from their Home after a family squabble vowing never to be heard from  until death and pain closed in on him did Howard beak that vow then he told police that he came originally from Oswego. Police of that Community were Noti fied and they located the Brotherston bring about reunion. To crash pad seen Boon to car safety Washington up they begot a crash pad now so absorbent it will Stop an egg travelling 55 Mph without cracking it. And the question was Why won t this pad do the same thing for our skulls it will said or. Horace e. Camp Bell who works on matters like this for the american medical Assn Ama. He said the Only problem is to get the Auto Industry to in stall the stuff on the instrument panels of All new cars. Campbell said the no. 1 health problem today counting both deaths and disabilities is no cancer or heart disease or polio. It is automobile accidents. Committee witness he was a witness before a House subcommittee which is seeking advice on a cure. Rep Abraham j. Multer d-. Said he  of cases where a wheel fell off a new car or the steering gear pulled out by the roots. His prescription was a launder which new cars could t be driven until Road tested 100 Miles. The subcommittee seemed to think Multer s Law might be hard to apply. Rep. Charles e. Bennett a fla said put governors on our cars so they can t go faster say than 80mph. The subcommittee said some of its members nearly got wrecked once in a test car equipped with a governor when they needed som Power and could t find it. Safety requirements rep. Kenneth a. Roberts d Alathe subcommittee chairman proposed to let the Bureau of standards set up Federal safety requirements for cars covering such things As seat belts an padded instrument panels. And that s the direction in which the subcommittee seemed to be driving. I regret to say that there is a suit grows on him. Buffalo . Up  was so impressed with the evidence presented in his damage suit against the Roen steamship co. Of Sturgeon Bay wis., he asked for and was granted permission to boost his claim from-$35,000 .to$7,51,000. The jury awarded him $65000. Certain air of indifference a so what attitude on the part of Many who should be concerned Robert said. Campbell who is vice chairman of the Ama s committee on deaths and injuries from Auto accidents said the Ama for years has been  Auto makers to build More safety into their cars. He said the recessed steering wheel Sand safety door latches of 1956 russians give Ike exhibit painting Washington a there s anew Oil painting hanging in the White House a gift of the rus Sian government to president Eisenhower. It s one of the paintings Whicher. Eisenhower admired when he toured the soviet Union s exhibition in new York City june 29. The president s Host on the tour was Frol r. Kozlov Russia s first Dep Uty Premier who had just arrive for a tour of the . Russian officials asked or. Eisen Hower an Amateur artist himself which of the paintings he liked est at the exposition. The president replied they Al were Lovely and that he found it difficult to make up his , he finally selected one showing a group of peasants Raveling aboard a raft. For an unexplained reason the soviet officials selected another painting As their gift to or. Eisen Hower. Helped a lot but that not much has been happening since. Campbell who comes from Den ver said Ama research shows that seat belts and safety padding incurs would prevent Many of the 38,000 deaths and 5 million in juries suffered each year. He held up a Small pad of some thing called ens Olite. He said he Laid some of this on the floor of the Colorado state Capitol and had state patrolman drop an egg from the dome. The egg did splatter or even break. It bounced. We think there might be an analogy Between the egg and the human head he testified. We think a human head travelling Ashe egg at 55 Miles an hour might with impunity strike an Auto sur face covered with  he said padded instrument panels and Sun visors ought to be Standard equipment on cars since head damage is involved in 70 per cent of the More serious  he brought in Here another telling parallel with the egg. Once you break it he said ahead is mighty hard to repair. Boys Brave Niagara to get Lucky pennies Niagara Falls . A police caught two boys wading into the water on the Brink of Niagara Falls to retrieve Good Luck pennies tossed by tourists. The boys whose names were withheld were turned Over to their parents. They had collected 34cents. Trio in Iowa Combine forces to save life of buried boy oat a per t at to  a to a to -. Carter Lake Iowa a a housewife postman and construction worker joined forces to save the life of a Small boy who was buried alive. Jason Emerson 5, and Gary Rob erts 6, were exploring a House excavation., when Sandy soil gave Way. Jason was buried but Gary struggled free and gave the alarm. A. Neighbor. Mrs. Joe mlchau4, 27, dashed out with i shovel. She hailed postman Howard e. Bird,42. Together they freed Tho boy. Construction worker Tommy Stevens 24, arrived and pried open Jason s clenched Teeth with a ruler scooped out stand with his Fin Ger and applied artificial respiration. Jason,.was reported in satisfactory condition later in a Hospital in neighbouring Omaha. S  
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