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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 6, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thur Day tin stars and stripes top senators cite budget need Bond setting try urged Washington up two Republican senators have called for stepped up efforts to sell government Bonds As an anti inflation move that also would help balance the Federal budget sen. John j. Williams a Dela member of the Senate finance committee told the Senate that series e and series h Bonds must be made a More attractive invest ment he said a greater Effort should be made to finance a larger percentage of our National debt through savings Bonds sold to the  Fth Jacob k javits  another speech called for an All out drive to sell a special $25 Bill huh is iu6 of peace a dds As a a Jive. To re est Abush the Federal Govier rement s ability to sell Long Jcj Rev Ponds. Javits a member of. The House Senate economic committee also called for increasing for two years the present 4% per cent interest rate ceiling on Federal Bonds and a crackdown on appropriations which represent  Williams ripped into some of his colleagues for voting bigger spend ing programs while opposing any tax increases and in some cases he said proposing tax cuts. The Delaware Republican . Bonds Are not Selling in the private Market because investors question the value of the Dollar with which they will be  Williams said Congress should immediately repeal the present Ceil ing on interest rates for Long term government Bonds Congress hit for loopholes in spending Washington up a the Council of state Chambers of com Merce said Congress has created multimillion Dollar budget Loop Hole by enacting Back door Federal spending measures. A special report by the Council research director Eugene f. Rinta estimated the loophole has cost$69.6 billion since world War ii. So called Back door Federal spending is the description Given spending authorized in other than appropriation Bills. The study said that kind of spending makes appropriation com Mittee nothing but rubber stamp mechanisms which provide funds to liquidate obligations already incurred. Rinta s report stressed the Nee for full annual control of spend ing authorizations through the appropriations  Jiff � divorces to quiz Star Delaware Ohio up  g. Mccutchen was granted a divorce Here from Richard Mccutchen of Columbus former Marine Captain who won $64,000on a television quiz program for his knowledge of cooking. The couple formerly resided i Delaware county near Here. Mrs. Mccutchen now living with he parents in new Orleans was granted custody of their t h r . The court granted $349.99 monthly Alimony and child support. Monthly payments included $100 i Alimony and $83.33 for each of the  was a travelling sales Man after his discharge from the marines shortly after winning the top to quiz prize in 1956. He contemplated starting a restaurant Ora food firm but decided to sell imported autos at nearby Columbus. Old doctor wins 20,000.to-l bet Springfield mass. Up Baltimore doctor has won a 20,000 to-1 bet against death. The Massachusetts Mutual life insurance co. Said or. William n. Pannebaker 96, has lived to receive the proceeds of his own life insurance policy. Massachusetts Mutual said head less than one Chance in 20,000 of reaching 96 when he bought tho$2,000 Ordinary life policy in 1920 when he was 57. Proof of need anyway new York up the nation Al Audubon society has complained to Washington that a volume of congressional testimony on the use of poisons in insect control sent to them things was full of Jive palm1 Beach a to i t a 4 a i a i it " Obe Boss does a Zany balancing act on the hand of fellow Clown diver John Mccurdy As they cavort on a trampoline fat the steel pier in Atlantic City . Boss and Mccurdy students at the University of Iowa Are members of a diving team of six members five of whom Are College men earning tuition by performing at the pier during the summer. United press International photo Titan contract let for nose Cone that nullifies defences Washington up the air Force has announced the award of a $73,360,000 contract for the development of a High Speed Titan missile nose Cone designed to nullify missile  the nose Cone is the part of the missile which plummets Back to Earth through the atmosphere. It is capable of carrying a Hydrogen bomb to enemy targets. The contract was awarded to Avo corp s re search and advanced development division. The company had been working on the project under an informal letter contract arrangement. In announcing that the program was now on a formal contract basis the air Force said the new Titan nose Cone con tract will include designing a Dif Ferent aerodynamic shape that will permit faster atmospheric re entry to nullify missile  second in Bathe Titan is. America s second intercontinental ballistic missile and is a two stage weapon de signed to Fly at least 5,500 Miles and to reach a Speed of More than15,000 Mph. Successful in All its tests to Date the 100-ton missile will remounted in underground launching Sites to afford As much protections possible against enemy attack. The first site will be built a Lowry air Force base Colo. The Avo contract Calls for development of materials that Are Able to withstand the intense heat generated when a nose Cone re enters the atmosphere and also improved reliability of the re entry vehicle the air Force said Avo became the prime contractor for development of the first Titan nose Cones four years ago. Successful test the first Titan missile was successfully tested from Cape can averal fla., last feb. 6. Since that time there have been three More successful test flights including one in which the first and second stages were separated in flight. The defense department also announced contracts for construction of missile facilities at four air Force bases. It announced that the army engineers corps has awarded contracts to George Azm Rutherford inc., Albuquerque n.m., $1,657,000 for construction of a Nike Hercules missile facility at Force base Roswell antiaircraft Walker . Montgomery Ross and Fisher los Angeles $2,456,792 for construction of a Bomarc antiaircraft missile facility at Vandenberg air Force base  m. Drake Portland ore., 52,496,709 for construction of Bomarc facility at Adair air Force base near  h. Sellen construction co., Seattle Wash. $2,512,495 for construction of a Bomarc facility at Paine air Force base . Hypocrites Las vegas up when police arrested Malcolm j. Clark 26, in connection with a string of supermarket robberies they found in his pocket a letter they had liven him when Clark was cleared of an earlier charge. The Letterhead in part May you be Success Ful in any venture which you  Canyon survivor 15, returns Home As hero Savannah a. Up fifteen year old John Manson Owens Iii who survived six Days in the wilds of Arizona s grand Canyon came Home to the cheers of his school mates the kisses of pretty girl Sand an eight course meal. John was nearly mobbed by cheering crowd of More than  Well wishers at the Airport. The mayor had to fight his Way through swarms of adoring teen age girls and John s husky football teammates to present the youth with a key to the  was Given up for dead in the scorching heat of the Canyon where his two companions on a Western trip the Rev Eugene Gavigan 30, and Walter Mahany,16, perished. John son of a Tele phone company supervisor was spotted and rescued by a search helicopter Crew. John sat Down at Home at a feast featuring Turkey Fried Chicken and Ham. At the Airport a group of pretty teen agers took turns kissing him 3 fall to death 110 feet As scaffold snaps Buffalo . A three workmen fell 110 feet to their deaths from the highest Point fan elevated Highway being built along Buffalo s  wooden flooring on. The steel girders gave Way under trailer carrying construction machinery. Another Man slipped through the Hole and landed on a steel beam just below the break in the floor ing. A fellow Workman pulled him to safety. About 100 workmen grim an silent quit work for the Day after the Accident. The dead were Romeo Lancia 45,of Buffalo Joseph Barreca 38, of Silver Creek and Charles Aronica,24, of Buffalo. 2 painters Avert death in plunge from Steeple Logansport ind. Up two painters saved themselves from Al most certain death by clinging tothe sloping roof of a Church 100 feet above the ground after a scaffold broke and sent them plunging 30 feet from a Steeple. Patrick Rose 35, and John , 44, were painting the Steeple atop St. Vincent s Roma Catholic Church when the scaffold staging collapsed. They fell to thereof. The men clutched the roof an managed to keep from rolling off to the Earth in a second  rushed Aerial ladders to the scene and carried the pair Down to a waiting ambulance. They were taken to St. Joseph Hospital. Attendants said both suffered s Erious injuries. Crippled plane lands safely Cincinnati a a twin engined air Force cargo plane with one engine damaged landed safely at the greater Cincinnati Airport in the Wake of reports it had crashed near Portsmouth Ohio. It carried a Crew of three and one Marine passenger. Col Harry c. Morrison an Roth instructor at Rutgers University and Pilot of the plane said Oil trouble caused an internal failure of the engine Over York Ohio. Near Portsmouth he Cut the engine and jettisoned gasoline into the Ohio River to relieve some of the plane s  this led he said to belief the plane was afire and had crashed. Morrison said he turned the engine Back on for the Landing Here. The c47 was in route from me Guire Field ., to Oklahoma City. Raf Crew fires Thor Vandenberg air Force base Calif. Up a Royal air Force Crew successfully fired Athor intermediate Range ballistic missile As a training exercise. The seven Man Raf Crew that fire missile was trained Here  
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