European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 7, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and stripes Friday August 7, Crews control Timber Brush fires in West by the associated press fire fighters held the upper hand thursday in Battles with a rash of big Timber and Brush blazes in Western situation California san Bernardino mountains fire 80 per cent contained after burning 11,200 acres. Control expected Friday. Idaho three fires that burned Between 13,000 and 15,000 acres contained or controlled. Three fire fighters reported missing found Safe. Oregon a 35,000-acre Range fire near Vale in the Eastern part of the state under control. Warm ing and drying trend makes fire danger very High. Montana twelve new Small fires in Western Montana. The Gates Park fire in the Bob mar shall wilderness area is being army of men and equipment made Good Hea Dway against the san Bernardino mountains Blaze 75 Miles East of los Angeles after a four Day struggle. There were 1,800 men 100 fire trucks eight Tanker planes and five helicopters in the Man died of a heart attack As he fought the flames seven suffered Burns one a broken Legand one was overcome by smoke. Battle Cost $177,000 the . Forest service Esti mated Cost of fighting the fire at $177,000. Including everything from Beans for the men to borate fire extinguishing solution for the planes to drop. The Cost by expected control time will Rise to$350,000. A fire was controlled in North Ern California after destroying 4 million Board feet of Timber on 1,150 acres in Plumas National Forest about 130 Miles Northeast of Sacramento. Two Hundred of the 800 men who overcame the Nelson Cove fire after it burned to within four Miles of California s Yosemite National Park were released. Sex minister says Kerala ballot will bring Back reds new Delhi up e. M. Namboodri ipad former chief min ister of the communist state of Kerala said thursday his party will sweep to Power in the next general elections in Kerala despite the government s recent intervention. I the communists were stripped of Power in Kerala of the Indian Federal government after a series of anti communist disturbances an heavy loss of life. Namboodri ipad was in new Delhi for a communist meeting no program change he also made these Points 1there will be no change in the communist party program As a result of Kerala events. 2if the party returns to Power in Kerala it will follow the same Overall policy. 3the communist party will contest All seats in the general election and has a Good Chance of winning in other states besides Kerala. State stiffens sunday Laws i Raf Lisburg a. A Penn Sylvania s House of representatives overwhelmingly approved an administration plan to impose stiff penalties for sunday retail sales violations. The measure already phased by the state Senate would increase the Fine for sunday Viola tons from $4 to $100 for the first offence. Incoming us aft chief reets staff Gen Frederic h. Smith jr., greets staff officers at Wiesbaden after arriving to take Over a commander in chief of Safe from Gen f. F. Everest left. Smith will take command aug 12 two Days after assuming Everest s command of 4th Allied tactical air Force. Is by Grandy Herter says talks nipped Berlin threat continued from Page 1 his Western partners had sought so persistently in nearly three months of Geneva talks. But the state department was Santiago Chile up . Secretary of state Christian a. Herter will address the inaugural session of the Ameri can foreign ministers Confer ence opening Here aug. 12, it was announced thursday. Convinced High american sources said that Russia has postponed any plans it May once have had for unilateral action Over Berlin. In this View there would be no such action As Long As negotiations Are under Way and the Khrushchev Eisenhower Exchange is expected to be Only one More step in a continuing round of such negotiations. Herter s View was backed up in Washington by sen. Mike mans Field a Mon who said the Geneva foreign ministers conference May have prevented a serious new Berlin blockade. Mansfield the assistant Senate democratic Leader also credited the Geneva sessions with paving the Way for the dazzling new developments of the Eisenhower Khrushchev visits and vice presi Dent Richard m. Nixon s soviet polish tour. Early . West shown in Munich Munich up the american wild West has come to Bavaria the land of lederhosen Short leather trousers. An exhibition of the wild West during the late 18th Century was opened Here this week and will run continuously until sept. 6. The exhibition includes periods of the old West. Motorboat Puls 3 kids Como Italy a a High Speed Motorboat slowed through a boastful of persons watching a fireworks spectacle three Chil Dren from 8 to 12 years old were killed. Five adults in the boat escaped injury. Ike Nixon ask Courtesy -.,. For Khrushchev on tour continued from Page i and members of the National Security Council at its regular 9 am meeting thursday. The session As is usual was held behind closed doors of the White House Cabine room. Meanwhile Khrushchev has told the president the deepest and most sincere desire of the soviet Union is to end the cold War radio Moscow reported. The broadcast said the soviet Premier sent a message to , stressing that an improvement of relations Between Toiven in Florida will invite Russ citizen for visit Stuart Fla. Up this Florida town of 5,000 will invite a russian citizen to live among its people so he can learn the truth about Ralph Hartman president of the Stuart rotary club said the invitation would be extended to some respected russian citizen through president Eisenhower s people to people program. We simply want to do our Small part to acquaint the people of one russian Community with americans we really Are Hartman said. Many people have volunteered to keep our guests for one week each. He will live with us in our Homes eat with us at our tables join with us at our churches wit Ness our City and county commis Sion meetings go with us As we shop for the week s groceries enjoy our sports and see our town the Typ countries would strengthen peace and remove Mankind s fear for its the message was sent in connection with the Amer ican National exhibition in mos cow. Back in Washington Republican senators Rose and applauded thursday when sen. Everett m. Dirksen of Illinois gop minority Leader welcomed the vice presi Dent Home. Dirksen praised him for a great Nixon was in the presiding officer s chair when Dirksen Rose and told him we Are delighted you Are that High government officials appeared to have adopted a policy line of avoiding harsh statements about Khrushchev was indicated in an address by Secretary of the army Wilber m. Brucker to the Assn. Of the . Army. In deliver ing the speech Brucker deleted Harp words about Khrushchev that were in a prepared text circulated to in the original version of the address Brucker struck at Khrushchev for blatant soviet threats of nuclear devastation and for re cent Tough talk to american visitors to Moscow. Another army official it Gen Arthurg Trudeau also made a change in the text of an address prepared for delivery at Storrs Conn. Trudeau chief of research and development requested deletion of a Section in the prepared text quoting Khrushchev As saying last year of course we must recognize that we cannot coexist Exter Nally. One of us must go to the grave. We must push them to their tactical Mace missile today Washington a the air Force said thursday it will unveil its newest operational tactical mis Sile to be deployed in the front line of North Atlantic treaty organization nato defences the mar Tift Mace 1h West Gek Jianyi . The air Force s 587th tactical missile up will show the sleek new weapon publicly at an open House at its base in Sembach Germany. V other groups. Other missile groups at Hahn and Pitburg a in West Germany Al spa soon will receive , efficient Mace As a replacement for the earlier Matador. The Matador has been deployed for some years with . Squad Rons in Germany. The. Jet powered Mace capable of carrying a nuclear warhead flies just below the Speed of sound and has a Range of More than 750 Miles. Guidance system it has a map Matching guidance system that is Independent of., transmitted signals and thus is virtually. Impossible to Jam the Martin co., of Baltimore is developing an improved version of the Mace with a Range of More than 1,380 Debre flies to Algeria Paris a French Premier Michel Debre flew to Algeria thursday for a Jook at the military and political situation before the algerian rebellion comes up for discussion at next month s United nations general Assembly. Debre who was scheduled to Dine with algerian deputies thurs Day night will Brave the blistering August heat in a round of meet Ings and inspections starting Fri Day. He will wind up his trip with a helicopter flight Over the grand Kabyle Battle area where the French have been strongly attack ing nationalist rebels for the past two weeks. Debre willbe followed on aug 27 by president Charles de Gaulle unless president Eisenhower comes to Paris on that Date. Group recognized this sudden activity by the top French leaders emphasizes the importance France attaches to its Al Gerian problem at this delicate period. Algeria has been set on the Agenda for the fall session of Theun Assembly the importance was indicated by action in Monrovia,.liberia, where the algerian provisional govern ment was admitted As a full Mem Ber to the pan african conference. Its Flag of the fed Crescent and Star was hoisted atop the Monrovia Capitol building to take its place alongside those of the nine inde pendent african states which also have sent delegates. Freeway a hitches family. Caravan los Angeles a for 3,000 Miles from new York to los an Geles Dorothy Mead had been Fol lowing her husband s car with nary a hitch. But she lost him the other Day on the sprawling los Angeles freeway. She told officers her husband army capt Chester r. Mead was driving a Small car with one of the couple s sons. Mrs Mead was following in a Sedan with another son and two Daugh ters. The couple was heading for san Francisco. Mead had been transferred there from West Ger Many. Don t you think we should get a map mrs Mead suggested be fore they reached the freeway. Just follow me her husband replied when they reached a Cloverlea interchange mrs Mead became confused by the welter of signs then she realized her husband s car was missing. She got off the freeway and notified police. An All Points Bulle tin was issued for her husband. He was found late at i ight acc Altaic 40 Miles Northeast of los Angeles. ,. Police gave mrs. Mead careful directions to Castaic then As a safety measure they escorted her past the puzzling of Overleaf
