European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 28, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday july 28, 1959 the stars and stripes Page i new Mexico Village left waterless by broken pipes dry spell has cow town tongues hanging out a. So a _z7 of by pm. -._. _ Roy . A if a fire Breaks out we just better get All the marshmallows and winners out of town and enjoy  s How one Street Corner Bard summed up the fire and water situation in this thirsty Northern new Mexico cow town. The Village s water Mains Are broken and there a . No Community water suppl for several Days there Are a few Wells in town and the owners Are supplying water to anyone who ask for it. The situation arose when the town s 14  water main made from a Low Grade wartime pipe with a life expectancy of eight years sprang leaks and lost As much As 20 per cent of the water it carried. The pumps on the town s two Wells seven Miles North were so old and battered they could t get up enough pressure to Force water through the Leaky pipe. The result the Village s water storage tank is Bone  has Money but because of a state Law regarding an earmarked budget i cannot Transfer funds from surplus accounts into the water works account to pay for new pipe pumps or the drilling of Wells closer to  state can t help either at this stage the Community borrowed $68,500 to install the wartime water main 14 years., ago. It has t paid off the debt and can borrow to m6re. Another source of funds for Village emergencies turned out to be for unincorporated villages Only Roy is  water shortage forced the town s two cafes to close. There was no water for drinking Coffee or dishes. I had to drive 48 Miles to Springer for a cup of Coffee this morning Milton Pate one of the 750 residents of Roy said. I moved my wife and three children from our Home Here to stay with friends Over on a Colfax county ranch where there is  the Mesa hotel named for the High Flat Type of country where the Little cow town is located closed because it could give patrons any water for bathing. Mrs. Annie Dikeman the town clerk said she drove to Springer the closest town of any size just to do her laundry. The Village obtained a water truck froma Highway contractor to use in hauling water from the Wells where water flowed freely but would t go Thi Ough the Leaky pipe to the town s storage tank. But townspeople were pitching in. They were hauling water in almost every conceivable Container buckets jugs Wash tubs. The objective was to get water Back to town no matter How it was done. The chief of the Roy Volunteer fire department de Seickel said his department could handle pretty near anything that comes up. We be got two fire trucks already loaded with water and that will take care of an f thing but a real bad  Keirsey the mayor held out Hope for his nearly waterless populace we be got a new pump coming in and we plan to. Install it today or  Hope it will Force enough water through the pipe to put some water in the storage tank. Everybody s getting along but it s pretty inconvenient. It s something we have to  v Pill costs at of 2 babies. San Antonio Tex. A an error in medication claimed the lives of two premature babies at Robert b. Green Hospital Here said administrator William b. For Ster. Four other babies Given the same medication in their milk Mother Dies in Rescue try Gary ind. Up a heroic Mother drowned with the Young girl she was trying to save while her own four children watched from the Beach. Mrs. Louis Szabo 30, of Gary and Suzanne Ford 11, of Chicago drowned when t h e y apparently stepped off a Sand bar into Deepwater while mrs. Szabo was trying to Calm the Young girl. Authorities said mrs. Szabo left her own children aged 1 to 7, to help Suzanne and an unidentified boy floundering in Waist deep water about 250 feet off the unguarded Beach. Mrs. Szabo the wife of a Gary schoolteacher helped the boy re gain his footing but drowned moments later while helping Suzanne. Were saved by prompt action when nurses in the paediatric Ward noticed the babies turning Blue and called doctors Forster said. All six of the premature babies received sodium nitrite by mis take a medication normally Given to heart patients Forster said. The medication causes a condition that prevents the Hemo Globin in the blood from picking up oxygen from the person s lungs he said. Forster said the babies should have been Given Vitamin c tablets. The sodium nitrite tablets we retaken from a bottle which should have contained the Vitamin tablets Forster said. Forster said he had not been Able to find out where the error occurred but presumed the Vitamin c bottle was filled by mistake with sodium nitrite tablets. The bottle was refilled at the Hospital he  nitrite and Vitamin c tablets Are the same color an look alike. Cigar Burns Black eyes Tell of four Day torture a seaplane Job awarded Martin Baltimore my. Up the Martin co. Has announced receipt of a $127,000 Navy contract to con duct research on Airframe designs for a nuclear powered Antisubmarine seaplane. The contract is part of a Navy program outlined to Congress Las april by. Vice adm John t. Hay Ward assistant chief of naval operations for research and develop ment. Hayward told Congress the program was aimed at putting a nuclear seaplane in the air by 1964. W. G. Street propulsion depart ment manager in Martin s nuclear division said the Cje sign studies would Center on aircraft using Turboprop engines Milkman s customers left in trance Syracuse , up. A. Milkman has admitted hypnotizing a Mother and her two daughters in nearby baldwins Ville and then stealing a kiss from one of the girls a 17-year old the Onondaga county Sher Iff s department reported. Although the Mother complained to deputies about the kissing deputies said they could not arrest the Milkman because three Nasa to build eight Story High rocket test stand Azusa Calif. A the free world s biggest rocket test stand an eight Story Tower capable of holding a Cluster of rocket engines generating 6 million pounds of thrust will be built at Edwards air Force base starting late this year. Aero Jet general corp. Announced it has been Given a contract to design the Structure. Initial plans Call for a test stand that can handle two ims million Pound thrust liquid rocket engines now under development for the National aeronautics and space administration Nasa. Later the stand will be expanded to support four of these engines. Joseph Noah 39, is charged in Buffalo ., with second degree assault after mrs. Renate Helb Ling so Bingly told police he repeatedly beat her during a four Day period with a Blackjack and burned her and her two Chil Dren Avith a Cigar. A photos Aerial inspection teams lose Altitude 800nudists Brave open skies plan girl 12, ends 7th year in coma Yonkers . Up twelve year old Beverly Nilsson has completed her seventh year in . Beverly has been unconscious since she was injured in an Auto Mobile Accident in Keller a. She has been fed intravenously at St. Joseph s Hospital since she was brought Here. Doctors said the child has grown normally but there has been nosing of a break in her coma. High flying housewives ,._ Roanoke a. Up a state wide Honie econ tonic conference in Weir have be session by it Jweid How to rain Wjk in remake is Devore Calif up an Esti mated 800 nudists of All shapes sizes and Ages and wearing Only suntan lotion braved snooping helicopters and temperatures of More than 100 As they wound up a three Day convention. Most nudists Are evenly tanned said Mel Hocker manager of the nudists Oakdale ranch. They Don t have to worry about being  Western sunbathing Assn. Meeting is an annual affair. This year Marks the 30th anniversary of the nudist movement in the  said the members Are sheltered from the curious since a private half mile Long Road Sepa rates the ranch from the , Hocker said he expected continued Aerial snooping by Forest Story liberates pc s stray dogs Kansas City a the Kan Sas City Star published a poignant front Page Story on hundreds of homeless dogs awaiting death at the municipal animal shelter be cause no one wants them. Two Days later a sympathetic unobserved intruder snipped two Large holes in the Pound s wire enclosure setting the strays free. Attendants spent the Day Roii irid rangers and Edwards air Force base pilots in their helicopters. They come Over the Canyon and always seem to lose Altitude Over us Hocker said. But we re not upset. If we were it would mean we re inhibited and if we were inhibited we would t be nudists. Six came Over the other Day i think one was a forestry plane and the others from Edwards air Force  most of the activities during the meeting were on the athletic Side diving contests volleyball tour  and shuffleboard. No clothing is worn during any games Hocker  who wears clothes is considered an oddball Hocker said. One girl put on a Bikini and startled a few people. We have a different Way of looking at things. Two Guys saw two girls at the Pool the other Day and one said to the other gee i la bet they d look Good in bathing suits Hocker also disclosed that. The 10 per cent of the nudist who visit conventional beaches and thus Are not completely tanned Are known As Pink  some bachelors and single girls have met and married under nudist  believe people who sleep in the raw Are potential nudists. Dies during investiture Stamford Conn. A the it Rev. Msgr. Francis m. Hladasz died Here moments after he had been vested with the purple Robes of a monsignor. He was 74. Dawn Sheds tragic Light on mysterious night noises Branson to. A or. And mrs. H. E. Plummer were awakened by a noise about 1 am. They thought there had been an automobile Accident on . Highway 160, which runs near their Southwest Missouri farm Home. They did t see any cars on the  turned on a Light in the Back Yard but still found nothing amiss. They went Back to  Daybreak the plumbers discovered that a Small plane had struck a work shed 150 feet from their House killing the Pilot Carol Floyd Church 35, of protein  Izill