European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 1, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse European edition army Navy air Force unofficial publication of the . Armed forces in Europe North Africa and the Middle East volume 18, number 105 5 cents Dally 10 cents sunday saturday August 1, 1959 Nixon gives to talk to Russ tonight Moscow a vice president Richard m. Nixon returned Friday from a Fly ing siberian ural trip arid promised to answer hecklers in a nationally televised speech to the russian people saturday night. Nixon probably will give nationwide television report to the american people also after he stops off in Poland for a two Day visit. The Nixon speech is to be beamed from a station in Moscow Over a network linking these cities Kalinin Vladimir Ryazan Tula Kostroma Yaroslavl and Smolensk All in Moscow s Central zone. Nixon aides understand that later a film of the speech is to be Tele Vised Over stations in Leningrad Kiev Tbilisi Riga and other cities he called off All appointments at the american embassy Friday night As Well As most of saturday at the Moscow Airport Nixon in effect urged the russians to hear and see his unprecedented into the microphone of a russian newsman he said when i speak tomorrow night Coni on Page it col. 3 13 missile Sites approved Washington up the de sense department Friday approved construction of Nike Hercules anti aircraft missile Sites at nine strategic air come Sac bases and Bomarc guided missile facilities a four other air bases. The department also cancel earlier plans to install Nike her clues missiles at six. Air bases. Sac bases nine Sac bases to get Nike Hercules missiles Are Barksdale air Force base Shreveport la. Dyess fab Abi Lene Tex. Bergstrom fab aus tin Tex. Walker fab Roswell . Offutt fab Omaha neb. Schilling fab Salivia Kan. Robins fab Macon a. Lincoln fab neb., and Turner fab Albany a. Bomarc missiles will be installed1 at Camp Adair Corvallis ore., Paine fab Everett Wash. Van Denberg fab Calif., and Travis fab Fairfield Calif. Bases cancelled bases where plans for Nike Hercules facilities were cancelled Are Little Rock fab Ark. Clinton Sherman fab Foss okla. Ama Rillo fab Tex. Sheppard fab Wichita Falls Tex. Columbus fab miss., and Whiteman fab Sedalia to. Closing stocks nj5w York a the Stock Market Rose slightly Friday to another record High. Trading was Light. Aircraft and rails led the Advance. Weather forecast Cloudy with morning showers Clear ing in the afternoon High 05, Low 65. Air weather service visitor to siberian mine vice president Richard m. Nixon dons a Miner s coat and helmet to visit the Copper mines near Sverdlovsk in Central Siberia. Nixon returned to Moscow Friday. Up telephoto West says forlorn Hope keeps Geneva talks going Geneva a an american spokesman said following another fruitless session of East West talks Friday the Western Powers Are continuing to negotiate with the soviet Union because there is air ways a forlorn Hope that the atom gun crushes German to death Wuerzburg Germany a a 280-mm, 85-ton . Army atomic Cannon ran Over German cyclist Stefan Neubauer 87. Neubauer was crushed to death the atomic gun following him had to make a Sharp right turn to avoid colliding with an oncoming truck. Neubauer fell from his bicycle in front of the gun s wheels. Soviets May change their position on Berlin. Secretary of state Christian a. Herter and his allies sat with rus Sia s foreign minister Andrei a. Gromyko for 2% hours at Gro Myko s Villa. Assistant Secretary of state Andrewsh. Berding reported their talk on the Berlin crisis went Over the same ground As before without soviet officials asserted that some slight Progress was made and hinted to newsmen that Gro Myko might come up with a new cont. On Page 2j/., col. 1 african rioters kill 4 port Elizabeth South Africa up african National Congress rioters murdered four members Ina flare up of internal feuding Here. Armed forces Washington up Senate House conferees reached agreement on a Compromise Bill to provide just under $40 billion for the nation s armed forces this fiscal year. Included were $35 million to begin building another big nuclear Carrier for the Navy extra millions to modernize the army and funds to provide new Jet aircraft for the air Force. A minor dispute Over language raising manpower ceilings for the Marine Cor Sand the army s Reserve and National guard delayed final approval. We should be Able to Iron out this one last Point at a conference said sen. Dennis Chavez d-.chairman of the Senate said the Compromise re Quiring final House and Senate approval carries just about the total in president Eisenhower s budget. This was $39 4 billion in new funds plus Transfer aut Writy of More than $400 million previously voted by Congress. Breakdown by services the Bill now carries $17.5 billion for the air Force $11 billion for the Navy slightly less than $9.5billion for the army and More than $1 billion for interservice conferees were forced to drop most of the $380 million voted by the Senate to build a second nuclear powered Carrier. This item was disapproved by the House. Instead the Compromise carries front. On Page 2. Col. 5 India ousts red regime at Kerala new Delhi a prime min ister Jawaharlal Nehru s govern ment ousted the communist government of Kerala state Friday on the ground it was unable to Rule in accordance with India s Constitution. The world s Only legally elected communist government was re moved from office by proclamation which placed the South Indian state under the Rule of the Central government in new Delhi. New elections this action will Lead to new elections demanded by groups which have been agitating against the Kerala regime for seven weeks. The new Delhi decision was reached As violent clashes Gre Between Kerala police and the state government opponents i Trivandrum tropical capital of Kerala at the Southwest tip of India. Wind Thunder storm sweeps Mojave desert Lancaster Calif. A a wind rain and Thunder storm struck the Mojave desert with such fierceness that it toppled 51telephone poles in a i of. No one was injured. Eisenhower gets military building Bill Washington up con Gress swiftly passed a Compromise $1,225,475,150 military construction Bill providing for a new congressional double Check on growing . Outlays for missiles plan Sand warships. The Bill now goes to president Eisenhower. In addition to the new weapons Check the measure endorsed the defense department s new master air defense was designed to Settle a army air Force Row Over the Nike Hercules and Bomarc antiaircraft missiles. The Bill was Cut almost 10 percent below the $1,356,290,000 presi Dent Eisenhower originally re Quested for military construction in the current fiscal year. I compared with $1,252,608,000 Origi Nally voted by the House and $1,-211,480,000 by the Senate. Spending authority it would require the armed serv ices beginning in Calendar 1961, to get specific authority from con Gress for their spending on mis Siles planes and warships. The effect is to give the House and Senate armed services committees a Chance to review the spending plans before the actual Money requests go to the appropriations committees of the two houses. Chairman Carl Vinson a a of the House armed services com Mittee told the House that $10 billion a year in military buying would be affected by the new double Check procedure. Vinson called the action thoroughly justified in a period when the armed forces Are spending As much As $12 million each for b58bombers and $873,000 for a single Bomarc missile. . Mediators report no Progress on steel new York up neither Side in the steel strike has budged and chances of an Early settlement of the walkout of 500,000 steel workers seems r e m of e. Another Story Page it Federal mediators met with the steelworkers Union for 2 hours and 15 minutes but apparently made no headway youth found alive after 6 Days in Canyon grand Canyon Ariz. A a Georgia youth missing six Days and Given up for dead in the rugged grand Canyon was found alive and in Good condition Fri Day. John Manson Owens 16, of Savannah whose two companions died on the ill fated trek into the Gorge was flown by an army helicopter Canyon a re sort Community on the Canyon s South rim where he was hospitalized for observation. It s a Miracle the kid is alive said a. Lynn coffin chief of the National Park rangers. He is much thinner than when he started but he is not a Park service spokesman Saida helicopter Crew spotted the youth from the air about nine Miles Down the Colorado River from the area in which the bodies of his friends were found. Owens was found at the Edge of the River in the Southeastern end of the can Yon the boy apparently drank River water during his hike the spokesman said. He also mentioned something about eating cac Tus pulp. He did t have any food when he was when he got out of the Heli copter the spokesman said he turned to the Crew and said Well i sure thank you for picking me up Owens hiked into the Canyon last Friday with the Rev. Eugene a Gavigan 30, and. Walter j. Mai Hany jr., 16, both of Savannah. The search began saturday when tourists heard cries for help from deep within the Canyon. Mahany s body was found Sun Day. His death was attributed to exposure to the searing heat. The body of father Gavigan who apparently fell from a 200-foot Cliff was found monday. Only a few hours before Owens was found searchers gave up Hope for his survival
