European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A. I ,,_ Friday july 31 1959 the stars and stripes p00 firm accused As lobby paid by taxpayer Washington up the Aero space industries Assn. Was de scribed As a lobby paid for with taxpayers dollars and ordered to produce lists of cocktail part guests. Chairman p. Edward Hebert cd la of the House armed services investigations subcommittee said member companies dues and assessments ranging up to $75,000 a year Are chargeable As expenses against government contracts and deductible for income tax purposes. So he told air Force Gen Orval r. Cook re president of the organization of aircraft and missile manufacturers the taxpayer is paying for a fight against , a former Neucom Deputy commander a chief disagreed. He said the association has registered under the lobbying act even though it was advised it might not be strictly required to do so. Mainly technical Cook said the organization has sought unsuccessfully some changes in Laws relating to profits on government contracts. But he said he considers its work mainly technical. I Don t think there should be a prohibition on these people making known their views on the renegotiation act or anything else he went on. He added that dues to the association should be considered Normal expense of doing business. We would t dream of buying any influence of any  Cook testified the association took in $1,419,115 in dues and assessments last year. Among expenses he listed $20,198 for entertainment which prompted Hebert to ask whether the association has Given any cocktail parties for con Gress members or defense officials. Cook replied the association a such has not but that some of its employees May have entertained such officials. 7 cons flee 3 recaptured Newport by. A three of seven escaped prisoners were re captured within hours after they sawed their Way out of the new port jail. Recaptured were Joseph Dinardo,24, of Newark n.j., a Federal prisoner and two men held on state charges Carl h. Webb 20, of Newport and Harry Lee King 19,of Cincinnati. Four Federal prisoners including convicted Bank robbers Howard d. Glenn 28, of Birmingham ala., and Demphus Lewis 37, of Camden Ohio were still at Large. The others were Lawrence Adams 26,of Cincinnati and Elbert Wellman 30, of Logan . Authorities said the men threat ening other cell Block inmates with injury if they informed sawed through the bars of their cell Block window for three Days. They then sawed out an outer window and lowered themselves into the Street. Smog now interfering with higher education Boulder Colo. A every thing s going up these Days in cluding1 smog and Maze. The tiny dust and dirt particles have reached 29 Miles High inthe Colorado rookies in sufficient numbers to pollute the Mountain air for research. A University of Colorado spokesman said pollution is be ginning to interfere with work at the University s t High Altitude Observatory near Climax Colo. To said it is possible the Observatory May to moved else where say Hawaii in another �5 years or so. The old Man and the sea England s sir Winston Churchill enjoys the Solitude and the sea from the Stern of a yacht anchored at Capri. Other guests on the cruise aboard the Yatch of greek shipping tycoon Aris Totle Onassis included mrs. Churchill and opera Singer Maria Meneghini Callas. Topi photo . Rocket May launch British satellite in 1961 London up work on Brit Ain s first space satellite will begin in six months and it will be placed in orbit at the end of two years. Announcement of the plans forthe first British sputnik were announced Here by sir Edward Bui lard chairman of the steering group on space research following a statement in the House of lords by Viscount Hailsham that a team of British scientists has had Valu Able and fruitful discussions i America with the National aeronautics and space  the British satellite will be fired into space by the american three stage solid fuel rocket scout which has yet to be built. Cost to be share Britain will spend Between $280, 000 and $560,000 a year on its part of the plan while the . Will pay for the rocket launching costs and general  the satellite is expected to have a payload of about 150 pounds an to go into a 300-mile orbit. Sir Edward said the size would be about 20 inches each Way and the shape would depend on the requirements of the carrying vehicle. The scout he said is intended Tobe a relatively heavy vehicle for putting up a moderate sized Satel Lite and that a satellite of the size now in mind would carry a very useful amount of  others planned at least five satellites will be built by private firms on contract when design studies Are  will be used in vibration tests another is to be flown in the sky Lark in australian tests and More than one will be provided for the final Experiment. Sir Edward said the agreement with America gave this country the Chance of getting a satellite up As Early As it could be ready for the attempt and at very Little Cost. Pacific Jet service started san Francisco a com Mercial Jet service Over the Pacific has been inaugurated. A Qantas airways Boeing 707 brought 84 passengers from Sydney to san francisco7,650 Miles in 14 hours 44,minutes. That halved the usual time it enables us to get out feet wet at no great Cost to ourselves and enables us to consider in a less urgent manner if and when we want to use our own vehicle sir Edward added. Flight Crews join protest on alcohol aboard airliners Washington up airline pilots stewards and stewardesses appealed to Congress to outlaw Sale or consumption of drinks on Domestic flights to spare them from playing nursemaid to inebriated  but a spokesman for Continental air lines said such a ban would turn the clock Back to prohibition Days and place unwarranted restrictions on the personal Liberty of the air  their testimony was presented at a House Commerce subcommittee hearing on numerous Bills seeking to prohibit airlines from Selling observing liquor. Associations protest the ail line stewards and stewardesses Assn. Said serving of drinks on commercial lines precipitates incidents from social disturbances to potentially danger Ous  John a. Smith special assistant for Continental air lines which serves both cocktails and complimentary Champagne said this practice had not affected safety inane  he said the Bills would not con tribute to safety and might have the opposite effect. Smith said pro posed Federal aviation Agency regulations on drinking aloft would cover the  a act praises employment Law passed in Ohio Columbus Ohio up it has became illegal in Ohio to refuse to hire a person because of the color of his skin the place of his birth or the Church he attends. The state s new fair employment practices Law has been described by the National Assn. For the advancement of coloured people a act As the toughest in the nation with one big  if enough Money is provided miss Serena Davis Field Secretary of the a act said when the legislature passed the Bill it willbe the toughest yet passed by any  the lawmakers appropriated$100,000 a year for the next two years. But Richard e. Guggenheim a Cincinnati attorney and chairman of the commission created by the Law said it was a rather  Tyrone s estate payments pared los Angeles a a judge has made Sharp cuts in the family allowances being paid from the estate of actor Tyrone Power be cause of warnings on the condition of the estate. The cuts were ordered after the executors informed Superior court Back income taxes totalling $294,000 and creditors claims of $450,000 Are pending against the estate of the late Acton the executors estimate the value of the estate at $800,000. Judge Burdette j. Daniels or dered payments to the widow mrs. Deborah Power 27, and her 6 month old son Tyrone William Cut from $1,500 a month to $1,000. Allowances for Power s two daughter by his second wife Linda Chris Tian were Cut from $500 a Mont to $250 for each girl. Court halts arrest Binge on Blue Laws Philadelphia a Pennsyl Vania s supreme court ordered a Bucks county Justice of the peace to Slop arresting and fining per sons who work on sunday pending determination of the legality of his actions. Chief Justice Charles Alvin Jones acted against Earl b. Dougherty of Bristol township. A prohibition writ accused Dougherty with act ing erroneously under this  Justice Jones ordered a hearing aug. 17. Dougherty has made 225 on sight arrests of persons he found work ing on sunday in alleged violation of Pennsylvania s sunday Blu Laws. These included toll collectors for the Pennsylvania Turnpike com Mission newsstand operators a stage actress and maintenance employees in Industrial plants. Many persons have paid $4 Fin Sand $9 court costs. 1794 state Law Dougherty said a 1794 state Law forbid any wordly employment on sunday the Christian Sabbath. He said he was determined to prove How ludicrous the statute was. Norvin Nathan an attorney filed the writ with the state s highest tribunal on behalf of Jan Boylan a cashier at the Bristol playhouse. Miss Boylan was Given one of Dougherty s mimeographed no Tice of conviction last sunday. " actress rebel she handed a similar notice to actress Peggy Cass who was Star ring in the playhouse production of born  miss Cass appearing on a nationwide television show tuesday night announced she would t pay the Fine or the costs. She told Jack Paar the to Host she would exile herself from Pennsylvania rather than spend six Days in jail the alternative to the Fine. Nathan told the court in his petition that Dougherty was subjecting the sunday Laws to pub Lic  . Doubles Aid to Nasser Cairo up the . Has nearly doubled its economic Aid to the United Arab Republic car. American officials signed an agreement to sell president Gamal Abdel Nasser s nation $57 million in wheat and return half the pay ments in economic Aid. . Aid to the car in 1959 was about $60 million before the cur rent signing. Terms of the new agreement called for the car to buy 800,000 tons of american wheat and wheat flour with payments in local cur Rency. The . Must return nearly $29 million to Nasser s government in the form of Loans to finance irrigation and Rural improvement projects. Many Happy returns Jackson miss. Up gubernatorial candidate Robert f. Mason listed $75 Worth of Campaign expenses in a report filed with the state. Mason reported the Money went for gadding about eating drinking fiddling and  of reveals a bombs on jets in Florida hops Miami up air Force officials have revealed that atomic bombs Are stored at Homestead air Force base and Are carried Over the South Florida area by Jet bombers on practice missions. The information came out Dur ing a meeting of air Force and Dade county police and fire officials to set up plans in Case a emergency arises. We re not just sitting Here said maj Carl Harris Homestead fab disaster control officer. " we have a Job to do and our aircraft Are flying around with them atomic bombs " Harris however emphasized that the possibility of an atomic bomb being dropped accidentally on South Florida would be  he added that no nuclear explosion would occur anyway. When we Fly with them the bombs Are not in strike configuration or ready to use As nuclear weapons Harris said