European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 1, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday August 1, 1959 the stars and stripes Page 9 areas to be judged on smartness Frankfurt special nor Thern area come posts will hold contests to,,.th most attract Ive areas As part of the Nacym beautification program it was announced Here. Each of the most attractive build Ings and surroundings in each housing area Cavern or building within a Cavern will be selected. Judging in the contest will be a Post level according to officials. The awards to be Given inthe contest will include plaques scrolls letters of commendation and similar types of recognition. Thousands participate since this year s program began thousands of servicemen and dependents have been engaged in improving their buildings an grounds by painting fences and bal conies planting Flowers Trees an shrubs Flower boxes and All of their areas. Great Progress has been made bythe posts according to figures released by t. C. Llewellyn chief of buildings a grounds. Over 35,000 Trees 4,000 Flower Beds and 3,000 Flower boxes have been planted since the Starof the current program Llewellyn said. Better than Miracle medicines Ausa convention plans for record 3,500 turnout Lemnitzer to be speaker Washington is a rec Ord turnout of some 3,500 is expected at the annual meeting of the Assn. Of the . Army to beheld Here aug. 3-5. Col Robert f. Cocklin chairman of the Ausa meeting committee said this year s attendance would far exceed 1958 s 2,600 and would be the highest in history for the,65,000-member organization. Gen Lyman l. Lemnitzer new Arney chief of staff will make Hollywood Star Yvonne Decarlo making a guest appearance for military patients at Walter heed army medical Center Between performances at a Washington b.c., night club poses on the diving Board for an eager Shutterbug at the famed Hospital s Pool scene of some of the capital s top swim events. 4-Upi photo experts picked Sto head Rifle tourney committee Winterthur Switzerland up the free Rifle and army Rifle european championships to be held Here aug. 23-26, will redirected by experts the shoot organizing committee announced. Kurt Hasler president of the european committee of the inter National shooting Union has been elected president of the committee which also includes the presidents of several local clubs and two top drawer marksmen former free Rifle world Champion Otto Corberand former free Rifle olympic Champion Emil Gruenig As technical directors. In View of the championship Rule for the army Rifle contest permit Ting the marksmen to choose be tween their own or the Rifle of another participating country officials have ordered 30 Swiss Tele scope sight Sharpshooter s carbines of 1931 Model. These Are the Only traditional rifles still produced in considerable numbers in Switzer land. Most Swiss army recruits no Ware equipped with the new storm file which is a sort of super and not suitable for International shooting Champion ships. The telescopic sights of the 1931irm will be taken off however and replaced with Ordinary sights probably including Dopter de vices which have been gradually accepted at International events since 1952,. Officials said. Norwegian at 66th Armor Grafe Woehr Germany Spe Cial col Erik Prydz co of the norwegian 1st Cav unit spent a week observing firing tactics of the66th Armor at this training Center Congress sanctions foreign decorations Washington up the Senate passed a House approve Bill authorizing three famed world War ii generals to obtain Possession of medals tendered totem by foreign governments. The decorations which have been held in escrow by the state department w e up awarded tokens George c. Marshall Douglas Macarthur and Omar n Bradley military offic Ujj Are not permitted to accept foreign decorations until they retirees file Star generals marshal Macar thur and Bradley technically can not re to org Ujj. This a a eclat of Congress was needed in thei Case. Reserve officers eligible to ask for Active duty Heidelberg Germany is personnel who hold Reserve com missions As company Grade officers Are now eligible to request Active duty during fiscal 1960. An adjutant general spokesman said the army will select a limited of such officers for voluntary re Call in All branches except judge advocate general s corps Chap Lains corps and the medical said these branches Are covered in separate program applies primarily to enlisted personnel and warrant officers on Active duty who hold army preserve commissions he pointed out. Applications should be sent through channels to usar eur he under or 135-210-1. Not eligible for recall under this program the spokesman noted remembers of usar control groups inactive of the standby Reserve and usar control groups retired of the retired Reserve. Was Survey shows drop in strength Washington is the ranks of the women in the air Force was numbered 6,932 i february of this year As compared with 7,886 two years earlier an few plan to make the air Force their career. These facts were revealed in the results of a special Sample Surveyor was personnel released Here. Some 75 per cent of was officers were interviewed and 20 per cent of the enlisted personnel. Almost three fourths of the was airmen Are on their first three year enlistment the Survey revealed and less than one fourth of the total 6,932 have definite plans of re enlisting. Forty nine per cent Are undecided. Vital statistics of the a showed that 75 per cent of the women were below 25 years old,13 per cent of them wer married the same percentage As Amon the officers and 96 per cent were High school what improvements they thought most needed in the serv Ive 24 per cent recommended bet Ter promotion opportunities and 17.7 per cent said that greater Opportunity for More travel would help the was. Marine cos to met for staff talks. Washington is to ranking non commissioned officers of the Marine corps will meet Atcherly Point n.c., aug. 10-14 for their fourth. Annual staff no in Randolph Mcc. Pate com mandant of the Marine corps willbe the principal speaker at a ban Quet scheduled for aug. 14. The symposium is expected to .draw"33delegates and their wives from 19 major Marine commands in the .topics on the Agenda will v in clude proficiency pay promotions training and retraining physical fitness and addition to Pate other generals scheduled to attend the no symposium Are maj Gen Arthur f. Binney 2d Marine airing cd maj Gen Donald m. Weller Marine corps assistant chief of staff Brig Gen August Larson Marine corps personnel director Brig Gen Ralph k. Rottet Marine corps air station cd at Cherry Point and Brig Gen Frank c. Tharin assist ant Wing commander 2d Marine air Wing. The keynote address Why need a modern army at the three Day Parley. Other speakers will include army Secretary Wil Ber m. Brucker plus leaders of the military educational and business world.,.,theme of the 1959 meeting will be what is a modern listed among the top ranking army officers scheduled to elaborate on this Are Gen George h. Decker vice chief of staff Gen Bruce , Continental army come cd and it Gen Lewis b. Hershey re director of selective serv ice. Equipment display some of the army s latest equip ment will be displayed in 122booths covering 17,000 Square feet of floor space in the lobby of the Sheraton Park hotel scene of this year s convention and exhibits will highlight Industrial and scientific developments in the Mili Ary Field. Prominent civilian speakers will clude sen. John j. Sparkman d a Courtney Johnson army Security Agency logistics or. Eli Minzberg director conservation of human resources Columbia univer Ity and or. Meredith p. Craw Ord George Washington universe Gen a. J. Drexel Biddle president of the Ausa will Wel Jome the delegates to the Conven Ion a National forum whose Aims to focus attention on the . Army its accomplishments and it requirements. Writers league anniversary Alexandria a. Special this summer Marks the fifth anniversary of the armed forces writers league a nonprofit organization dedicated to free Lance writing for military personnel and interested civilians Headquarters announced Here. Armed forces will present joint concert Washington is the de sense department will present it second annual . Armed forces joint symphony concert Here aug. 6.a colourful extravaganza the con Cert will be performed by an or Chestra composed of an equal num Ber of army Navy air Force and Marine musicians and will feature the Foremost musical artists in military Well known conductors representing each of the services will take turns on the podium they Are maj Hugh Curry of tin army it col Albert Schoepper othe Marine corps cmdr Charle Brendler of. The Navy and co George Howard of the air Force last year s concert Drew an estimated 10,000 persons the larges crowd Ever assembled at Washington s watergate Amphitheater o the Banks of the Potomac. Ramstein wins top mess title Ramstein Germany special the 7030th food service so has been named Best Yness Hall in Safe in the air Force wide Competition for the 1959 Hennessey trophy. The 7030th, which operates six mess Halls at Ramstein air base won the distinction for its exceptional achievements in conserva Tion and preparation of food served sanitation and personal Hygiene observed and its effective Ness of management and supervisory Squadron s outstanding achievement is considered doubly impressive in that the unit was competing against others in Safe which operate Only one or two mess Halls judges o f the con test 7030th with its 104 military and 155 civilian personnel serves for More than 2,000 persons an issues an average total of some 180,000 rations per month. Maj Bernard l. Ruefer of Davenport Iowa is Squadron co. Wins Model plane meet Etain France specials sgt James Dearie won first place in the Model air plane meet at Phal Bourg air base with a 12-Pound Model Ofa c-133 transport. / Alert cos quench fire at France depot Rochefort France special two Quick thinking sergeants Sexto anguished a Small fire in the pos Engineer repairs and utilities Yard Here before any damage was sgt Wilfred of Thiele and Sec Hobert d. Thompson carried watering buckets from a fire barrel to the old tent age where the fire started. The fire was but be fore the local Fife department arrived. Lindsey director was emperor s press officer Wiesbaden air base Spe Cial former american press officer for the emperor of Ethiopia has been appointed education director of Lindsey air station Cecil Headrick of Winfield kan., who succeeds e. C. Killan in the Wiesbaden position arrived hereafter six years As education advisor at Pitburg air base. Headrick started travelling in 1929 after receiving an Exchange scholarship Friori the Institute of International education. While working on his doctorate in sociology at the universities of Ber Lin and Frankfurt he covered 11countries on bicycle eventually ending up in Smolensk Russia where he sold his transportation for fare to Vladivostok. Headrick continued his travels which took him to the far East until 1933 when he went to Newyork University s Washington Square College As assistant professor of press and radio officer for the Imperial government of Ethi opia from 1952 to 1953, Headrick edited All the country s English language information including speeches for emperor Haile Selas Sie. Still an Active traveler the 55 year old educator and his son Daniel covered 6,000 Miles in 33days on their motor Scooter in 1957 when they went above the Arctic Circle to North Cape Norway in 1958, this time on motorcycle the father and son travel team spanned the . I 4 u of
