European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 18, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday july 18, 1959 the stars and stripes Page 9 6deathray? Are awarded facts North american air Force has let conj�actsv#6r#- the develop Rrt Erit of a death Ray gun which would kill men at a distance and Knock planes out of the sky. A spokesman confirmed that experiments on the Buck Rogers Tojie weapon Are under Way. F. The Ray gun if developed successfully would focus and intensify. A radar like emission so that atoms in a target would become agitated and heated to a High temperature. A sufficiently Strong Ray could disintegrate a missile or kill a Man at considerable distance. Six contractors were listed by an officer at the air research and development come at Andrews air Force base my. Other contractors were not named. The spokesman termed the pro Gram radiation Energy  he said the  of the show included p e r f o r m a n c is by self propelled howitzers with alumni Marmor plate capable bib amphibious travel and Vother i lightweight a transportable howitzers. Koa vice president Washington apy it col James a. Girard us army re. Serve now station d in Paris Isth new vice president of the european theater "for1 the Reserve officers association. Girard was chosen at Roa s National Conven Tion in Denver  said the rays Are generated electronically and Are now being produced experimentally in Labora tories. The army is working independently on similar weapons he stated. Automatic display system set for use in 1/,s. Air defense Washington special anew plotting system that represents the first major improvement since world War ii in Large scale display of air traffic information will be installed at Headquarters of North american air defense omd Colorado Springs Colo. The new system known As Ico Norma will do away with present manual methods used in Norad combat operations Center for plotting arid tracking aircraft Over or approaching Continental air space. Both Norad and the strategic air come have signed lease con tracts for installation. And maintenance of the radically new sys tem that will allow observers to see almost instantaneously the positions of aircraft thousands of Miles away. Initial benefits from the con tracts will be realized late this year when the first phase of the installation work is completed. When the new system is in operation air surveillance information from Norad s Early warning and detection network will be received at air defense Headquarters of j chaplain aids Spanish by Thurston Maccauley staff writer Madrid is in the Madrid suburb of Valleca not far from Torrejon air base there s an unusual memorial to chaplain col Alphonse b. Slivinski of Saginaw mich., who has just left for Barksdale air Force base after three years As staff chaplain for the 16th air Force. J the memorial is a school first the town has Ever had and it built entirely of packing Case lumber. On the school building you can still be such Stencil Mark Ings As transportation officer Brooklyn  they Haven t painted out the Stencilling. The people like to see it. It reminds them of the Day the padre Yanqui brought them the Wood from Torrejon so they could build their first school. It also re Calls that once the school was up further help came from Spanish authorities. Chaplain Slivinski left behind him a Host of Spanish friends head made for himself the 16th air Force and his country in general. Another Community where theroman Catholic chaplain is grate fully remembered is Cassille about 50 Miles West of Madrid. A place with a population of around400, chaplain Slivinski went there by Chance soon after coming to Spain in july 1956. I adopted the Village the chaplain said. The people Are really poor. As soon As possible i chaplain col a. B. Slivinski Navy records safest year in service s flying history Washington is the Navy chalked up its safest flying year on record in the 12 month ended june 30, with just Over two plus aircraft accidents for every10,000 hours spent aloft it was announced  the fiscal year from july 1958 to june 1959, the Navy said Overall flight operations were 7.2 per cent safer than in the previous fiscal year when an All time Low Acci Dent rate had been  fiscal 1959 record marked the seventh consecutive fiscal year Rhine main base beats attackers Rhine main Germany Spe Cial this air base was Success fully defended against Saboteur infiltration in a training drama fixation of special air police instruction Given Here. Defense tactics Learned in thesis months course were1 applied by the defenders members of the 7310th air police so. Given the training name of Mobile strike flight and led byh sgt. Arthur Sassi of Suffolk mass., the men used  Ini Chine guns automatic rifles and slow firing rifles As Well As training Gre Nades and trip  aggressors other air to linemen used Surprise guerrilla tactics. The 24-hour exercise was objectively i impaired and of nah scored in favor of the strike Force defenders. The Navy has lowered its Accident rate officials pointed out. The year saw fewer injuries fewer aircraft destroyed and fewer Carrier and Carrier Landing  1959 record is particularly impressive in that it included in Tensive Carrier and other Fleet operations As the result of the Leb anon and formosan crises a spokesman pointed out. It was also the second year of extensive car Rier operation of the Navy s new High performance Jet aircraft. Many other factors influenced the prevention of accidents involving the Navy s blimps helicopters seaplanes and Jet Carrier aircraft the Navy said specifically cite was the increased installation and use of the Airfield runway arrest ing gear which alone accounted for 340 reported  aver a g e Cost of each major Accident has increased from$225,000 to $340,000 since fiscal 1957 the Navy said. Iranian Drivers win . Safety awards Tehran Iran special col Carl m. Sciple . Army. District Engineer at Gulf Engineer he has awarded certificates of Merit to iranian Drivers who Rhaye compiled a two year Accident free  of the Drivers had attended the Gulf engineers traffic school which features the showing of traffic safety films. More than 2,200 Drivers for iranian government agencies have seen the films. Went Back with outdated rations from Torrejon. The rations Cost Noone anything but did a world of Good in building Good will in Spain for the 16th air Force and the ." chaplain Slivinski went Back to Cassille every Christmas with rations for its people. At first it had been intended to let Caritas the Charity organization distribute the rations but the chaplain and other staff officers at Torrejon decided that if they were Given directly Hymen in the Blue uniforms of the air Force the people would know better who was the donor. This policy is still being follow Dat Torrejon Zaragoza and other .  my 17 years in the service i have been stationed at Many bases at home1 and overseas but my three year tour in Spain was by far the most interesting have Ever had the chaplain said. Of course we had to Start from scratch and the Spanish found Many things unusual at our bases such As Catholic protestant and jewish chaplains All working to Gether in the same  chaplain Slivinski said during his three years about 300 men inthe 16th air Force had married Spanish  rate just now is increasing too he added. Practically All the marriages have turned out very Happy ones  Between our men and the Spanish people Are generally excellent especially in the smaller places where the spaniards really go All out to make us  . Sailor cited for rescuing japanese Yokosuka Japan up a . Sailor has received a commendation from mayor Tsutomu Tagana of Nagasaki for rescuing an 11-year-old japanese boy from drowning the Navy has announced. Joseph g. Pruett Kotlerman 3/g from Anniston ala., received the commendation for saving Yoshiba Kiichi who was playing baseball near where Pruett s ship was berthed when he apparently tripped Over a rope and fell into the water. And then transmitted automatically to Sac he at Omaha neb., with a delay of Only seconds. In action air commanders will watch on a two dimensional screen the progressive tracks of Bot Friendly and potential enemy forces in All areas covered by defensive radar networks such As the Dis Tant Early warning line. Tracks of the various aircraft Are depicted by individual coloured vec tors projected onto the display sur face. Impulses for the display Are relayed for Long distances Over existing teletype lines eliminating the Cost of installing expensive transmission facilities. The system also produces a Dollar savings by doing away with the requirement for human plotters now used inthe manual system. Time lag  eliminates the Lime lags of present systems in which High Speed aircraft Are tracked by radar the position reports relayed and positions plotted manually on a huge Board. It also increase traffic handling capacity by some 400 per cent according to it cold. E. Barr who is in charge of Norad s icon Rama project. Icon Rama will work with the Semi automatic ground Environ ment system and can plot All the traffic information sent Forward toy Sage. The idea for using this automatic display system in air defense was generated about a year and a half ago at the Headquarters of the air Force s 33d air div at Oklahoma City okla. A recent Tost placing the two systems in Competition showed that an icon Rama projector that can be held in the hand can do the work of six people at the manual plotting Board. Raf marshal to give talk a Woodbridge England is Royal air Force marshal sir John , one of the world s fore most military strategists will speak on the defense of Freedom at the base theater Here july 21 during world War ii he established himself As one of Thoraf s great leaders and his Auto biography the Central  the Rise of Airpower his books Are required Reading at Thoraf air University. Slessor s military career began in 1915. He was appointed com Mander in chief of coastal com Din 1943 and served As chief of the air staff from 1950-53. His talk is the first of six monthly lectures by British officials con ducted under the auspices of the education Center Here. Free tickets Are available at libraries service clubs and education centers her and at Ben Waters air base. Air Force sergeant organizes scout troop for English boys by Paul Spiers staff writer upper h e y f o re England is a . Air Force sergeant is King of the kids in Deddington. Four months ago there was nobody scout troop in the Village located about seven Miles from this base. M sgt John d. Riddell a Veteran of 20 years in the scouting pro Gram changed  july 23, four important things will happen in the Village the troop organized by Riddell will receive its charter 20 British youngsters will  in the Tenderfoot rank the Union Jack and troop Flag will be dedicated by the vicar and Riddell will receive his warrant As group scout master of Britain Riddell who works As first ser Geant of the 3918th installation Seq is planning to Lead the All British troop on at least one Camp out this summer. He previously was associated with scouting programs in Japan Alaska Massachusetts and Ohio. He plans to organize cub and senior scouting program s in the Vil Lage. Riddell lives on base with his wife Clara and son John 12. The youngster is a second class scout in the base