European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 2, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday August 2, 1959 the stars and stripes Page 3 Sno plow holds the curves playing it Cool at Central Park in new York Are Cathleen Lyons and David Hlavsa a High school senior from Parma Ohio. The Snow was imported to demonstrate the Sno plow and the Model was imported for obvious reasons. The machine built by David Vas the top Winner in the Industrial arts exhibition for students sponsored by the Ford motor co. As an annual event. Up Auto Industry booms in face of handicaps Detroit up the Auto Industry recorded the third Best july in its history this year despite the steel strike and an Early beginning of the Model changeover says Ward s automotive reports. The statistical Agency said Model changeovers Cut a Little deeper into the Industry s output this week cutting it from 124,446 last week to 122,147 this week the Industry turned out 62,846 cars in the same week a year ago. But the Industry still built 551,200 cars and 112,228 trucks Dur ing july Ward s said. At the rate the Industry produced during the first seven months of the year it will turn out 6,135,000 cars and trucks during 1959. Trucks slower truck production clipped evermore sharply than car output. Ward s estimated this week s truck output at 20,704, compared with 25,119 last week. In the same week a year ago output was 16,276. The combined car truck output of 142,865 for the week compared with 149,565 last week and 79,122 in the same week a year ago pushed the Industry s total for the year to 4,610,777, compared with 3,091, 557 at the same time a year ago. A arms plans hit in France Paris a thirty top French scientists appealed to the govern ment and to the Public against manufacture of French nuclear weapons. The scientists asked that France do nothing to impede the current Geneva nuclear disarmament talks. On the contrary they said our country must contribute with All its weight to achieve nuclear Dis armament with a controlled ban on fabrication stockpiling and usage of nuclear weapons. France is known to be building its own atom bomb and will test it at a Sahara desert testing site. The government has announced that the test will come soon but has fixed no Date. Parents pledge schooling court frees 77 children Nelson Canada a a judge has freed 77 children from a Dormi tory in which they have been held in some cases for five years be cause their Pai ends would not Send them to school. Five years was top much said one of the mothers. We prayed to god and thoughts came into our  the parents 60 of them sat in silence As magistrate William Evans told them their children Are scheduled to be released sunday from the dormitory. The parents have come before the court in he last three Day Sand taken a traditional oath of bread water and Salt an oath connected with Christ s last supper that they will Send the children to Public  the children Are not sent to school and kept there until the Yare 15, they will go Back to the wire fenced dormitory. The dormitory was established by the provincial government in1953 to House children whose fre edomite parents did not sen them to school. Royal Canadian govt. Seeks canned peaches Washington up the agriculture department has offered to buy canned peaches packed in 1959, for use in the National school lunch program. Purchases will be made with funds appropriated under the National school lunch act and will depend on quantities and prices offered. Mounted police rounded the Young sters up. The sons of Freedom Soukho Bors who Ai e pacifists objected to Public schools because they feared their children would learn of War. Police said Only a minority of the sect however had kept their Chil Dren at Home. Aid to South Vietnam must be continued envoy tells Congress Washington a substantial . Aid to maintain Vietnam s military Security will have to be continued for the indefinite future Congress was  Eldbridge Durbrow and High foreign Aid officials gave this estimate to a Senate foreign relations subcommittee investigating charges of waste in the Aid program. Under questioning by committee chairman Mike Mansfield d Mon Durbrow said South Viet Nam must have a deterrent Force of 150,000 troops to guard against encroachments by communists backed by red China. I see no phasing out of . Military Aid in the immediate future Durbrow said. Accusations denied j. Graham Parsons assistant Secretary of state for the far East told the subcommittee we will be glad to leave to the judgment of those who hear and read the testimony whether our program in Vietnam has been a fiasco or a properly administered and vital contribution to the free Dom of a Gallant  another witness was Leonard j. Saccio Deputy director of the International cooperation administration Ica who said the charges Stem from reckless and misleading reporting. Saccio was referring to a series of six articles by Scripps Howa staff writer Albert Colegrove which precipitated the inquiry quoting from one of the articles which said the . Has accomplished its main Mission by keep ing Vietnam from communist on quest and economic collapse Saccio said to have run a rat Hole opera Tion As charged by or. Cole govt and still have succeeded m  come under the heading of the neatest trick of the decade ship collision inquiry opened by coast guard new York up two vet eran Harbor pilots used radar and fog whistles but one or both still misjudged the positions of the line Queen Elizabeth and the freighter american Hunter before their collision a coast guard inquiry was  Herbert c. Egan with 27 years taking ships in and out of new York Harbor said he could t believe it when the 80, 000-ton Elizabeth loomed up from the fog in front of the freighter s Bow wednesday. Captain Edward Weiler who has been piloting the Queen ships since1949, said he had reached the Point of no return when he first saw the 10,000-ton freighter ahead. Both pilots Are  was bringing the freighter through the narrow Channel to port and Weiler was piloting the liner to sea when the Hunter s Bow struck the Forward Side of the liner. Both ships suffered Only minor damage. Egan said that As radar showed the Elizabeth bearing Down on him he first thought it was Well to his left and would pass on the port Side. He put the ship in reverse but then ordered full Speed ahead and turned sharply to the right attempting to move entirely out of the 3,000-foot Channel. Weiler thought the America freighter was off to his right an was attempting to pass on the starboard. He had gone half Spee Castern shortly before the collision the Elizabeth never change course he said and he was afraid to order full Speed astern lest Heloise control of the 1,000-foot-Long vessel. Reporter takes Ike at word Calls Mamie Washington a Marie Smith took president Eisenhower at his  or. Eisenhower was asked by a reporter at a news conference about the president s plans after he leaves the White House he said a decision about any apartment i Washington would be up to the first  president suggested you had better get some of your lady reporter friends to go and talk to her about  so miss Smith a Washington Post reporter decided to do just  a front Page Story miss Smith wrote i dialled National 8-1414 and asked to speak to mrs.  pleasant voiced operator asked who s calling mrs. Eisen Hower i replied just As pleasantly Marie Smith she said just a minute an for a split second i was sure i was going to speak directly to the first lady of the land. The operator came Back on the line. You re with the Post Aren t you i admitted the truth. Then she said just a minute again and before my Hopes of talking voice to voice with mrs. Eisenhower had a Chance to Start sinking another voice came on the line. " yes Marie can i help you?1 it was the Crisp but Friendly voice omary Jane Mccaffree mrs. Eisen Hower s social Secretary. I told her i wanted to speak to mrs. Isenho ver. The president suggested that i ask her if the planning to take an apartment Here when they move out of the White House in 1961. " of he did t mean for you to do it directly she said beginning to laugh. I laughed too and replies that i thought that was what to was saying. " Well the answer is that so does t have any plans where she s going to live then she said. So that s it or. President.  Europe polio shows decline Salk credited London a a general decline in polio cases has been re ported Over most of Europe. Health authorities in Many countries cred Ted the Salk vaccine developed in the . Of nine West european coun Ries. Only two reported an in reuse in polio Over 1958. France is one of Thorn with 713 cases registered up to mid Luly compared with 689 in the same period a year ago. West Germany recorded an in crease of 24 cases Over 1958 with289 cases. Polio in Italy is Clown sharply from last year when the rate was the highest in recent years. Health authorities in Italy did not say whether this year s lower polio rate is due to widespread vaccination but British health officials frankly credit the Salk anti polio vaccine with being a major Factor in hold ing Down the disease. In Denmark All school children have received four shots of the Salk vaccine and a danish health service officer reported there Are virtually no polio cases in Den Mark this  50 cases in Switzerland similar reports came from swe Den where health officials have recorded Only 20 cases of polio All of them mild since the begin Ning of the  Switzerland 50 cases of polio has been recorded this year and officials there say the Salk vaccine appears to be taking full effect after several years of mass vac  in the Netherlands said the anti polio vaccine probably is responsible for a Sharp drop in Holland s polio rate since 1957.in Belgium 26 cases have been recorded since the Start of the year compared with 82 in the same period last year. Surplus plan raises doubts Washington up president Eisenhower advised Congress there was Little evidence that the government program to dispose of surplus farm products abroad would meet the problem of in creasing supplies. He did so in a semiannual re port prepared by the inter Agency committee on agricultural surplus  showed that during the first six months of 1959, $803,500,000 Worth of surplus commodities had been diverted overseas. Car washing washed out Petersburg. A. Up car washing is illegal Here because there s been too much rain. Heavy Rains washed out a canal from the Appomattox River the City s main water Supply and Public works director Whitworth Cotton imposed a ban on car washing and Lawn sprinkling until repairs Are made