European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 18, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday july 18, 1959 Senate oks civil service medical plan Washington up the Senate has approved 81-4, a Bill to permit the civil service commis Sion to set up a health insurance program for Federal employees. Under the measure the Federal government would pay half the premiums on a variety of health insurance plans with employees paying the other half. The administration opposing the Cost of the Bill had recommended a program under which employees paid two thirds of the  Bill s annual Premium costs to the government agencies were estimated at about $145 million. I addition however the government would have to pay an annual Cost for premiums of retired employees which would eventually total $25 million. Social Security plan on medical care hit Washington up the american medical Assn. Ama has branded a proposal to provide free medical care for social Security pensioners As a form of National compulsory health insurance. The Ama charged that the plan lacked by organized labor but opposed by the Eisenhower administration would impose government regulation on both patients and doctors it also said the plan would Lead to overcrowded hospitals and in the end would result in poorer not better health care for older  Ama s views were represented to the House ways an Means committee by or. Frederick c. Swartz of Lansing mich., chair Man of the medical group s com Mittee on the aging and or. I Eonard Larson Bismarck n.d., Ama Board chairman. Plane part hits House Inglewood Calif. Up a piece of Metal from a Wing Flap on a 707 jetliner broke Loose and landed on the roof of an apart ment building Here. Continental airlines which re ported the incident said the plane landed without difficulty and the Crew was unaware of what happened. There was no danger to the plane or passengers the company spokesman said. The Metal was from the leading Edge of a Flap located Between two engine tabs according to the re port. It was described As about 4 to 5 feet Long and 13 inches wide. Mrs. Eleanora Rehor said she Meard a crash when the piece of Inetal hit the roof of her apart ment. Robert Hamilton assistant superintendent of operations at International Airport identified the Metal As a. Wing Flap but specific identification was not made until water. 30 drastically changed models planned by 1965 . Small cars Only first step in a Uto revolution Detroit up the introduction of Small cars by the big three Auto companies this fall will be the first visible evidence of a55 billion Gamble by the Industry. The Small cars that will be introduced by the big three this fall Are Only the first step in a revolution planned by the Industry. By the fall of 1965, or possibly a year earlier the Industry Hopes to havea total of about 30 cars on the Road which will be totally unlike anything rolling off the Assembly lines today. The Cost of the three Small cars general motors Ford and Chrysler will turn out this fall alone May reach As much As $700 million. In addition Chrysler corp. Is planning to introduce this year a 118-Inch-wheelbase Dodge which will be called the Dart. The Cost of bringing out the Dart will add somewhere in the neighbourhood of another $75 million. New smaller easels b u i c k a Oldsmobile a and possibly some others will add another $95 Millionth $100 million each next year. None of these cars except Possi Bly the Edsel will be merely a replacement for Standard cars no being produced. Ford is consider ing replacing the full sized Edsel with the smaller Model but cur rent improvements in the sales of the full sized models May change this picture. But even the full sized cars now in existence will not remain Static during the next few years. Cur  Call for redesigning and re engineering of these cars fro the Road up again adding to the investment needed by the Industry to Complete its Gamble. Revolutions Cost Money one Industry executive said. When you change nearly every damned tool in the business the figures Start to look like a major item in the National budget. The Industry will be Lucky if it gets by for less than $5  the changes planned by the Industry in the next five years will be More than just skin deep changes they have been made from one Model year to the next in the years past. It now has its Eye set on such drastic changes As aluminium engines elimination of the transmission Tunnel or at least drastic reduction of it unitized bodies in dependent rear wheel suspension and use of new metals in the body of the car. Heading for traffic Jam session is �&.&\\f4 heading for a summertime Jam session Hofstra College coed Pausteck finds the Hole in the roof of her French Sedan just right for transporting her Bulky Bass fiddle in Floral Park . Up photo Navy May place Charleston Tattoo Parlours off limits Charleston . Up Navy medical officers have  placing Charleston s Tattoo Parlours off limits to armed forces personnel because of health Haz Ards. A Navy inspection team reported it found unsanitary conditions and hazardous practices in the  them it said the process of getting tattooed could be danger Ous. It said there was a Lack of sterilization facilities for the tattooing Needles filthy stencils use to Trace the designs on skin use of dyes which could carry germs an inject disease and that few Parlours had soap towels or hot or cold running water. Navy officials said local health officials were unable to control tattooing conditions because of a Lac of state regulations., a cite slickers use car Corral v ,. To round up escaped Buffalo w or Providence . Up City slickers armed with pitchforks flashlights and apples managed to round up1 a mean looking 1,700 r Poun d Buffalo at Roger Williams Park. -?5 the Buffalo named pal had. Crashed out of his pen and escaped ,4 into a  a Steve Cahir 9, and his brother a Teddy 13, excitedly pointed out  it a Rode by in the family father drove to the $ still another manufacturer is displaying tubes of liquid steel which he says will permanently and Here to All metals and will Bond to Concrete fibreglass and Wood. And for the Man or woman who has everything one company is offering a hand size Battery pow ered mixer for stirring martinis and other drinks. Rep. Hosmer poetical on farm props Issue Washington up  Hosmer a Calif took just five words to set Forth in the congressional record his View tha tall farm Price supports should be abolished. Stop flops drop crop props he urged. Boy 9, drives self to juvenile court Pueblo Colo. A police Man j. C. Grace spotted a car rolling through traffic but the absence of a Driver puzzled him until he Drew nearer. A 9-year-old boy was at the wheel."., the officer yelled Stop " the boy shouted Back he did know How. After running a red Light and almost crashing into another car the boy found the brakes an stopped when the officer Drew his gun and threatened to shoo the tires. The boy was held in jail Over night at the request of his parents and will report to juvenile court. He said he Learned to drive by watching his Mother