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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 9, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday August 9, 1959 the stars and stripes Page 7 Navy awards citation to comic Hope Seattle up Bob Hope wholesaler in laughs turned solemn Long enough to blink Back a tear and accept the Navy meritorious Public service Cita Tion. Then the quizmaster i m part Hani. In fact i sleep on a Hook at night slipped into the practice that has carried him 1.5 million Miles to entertain 10 million servicemen and won him the citation presented by Secretary of the Navy William b. Frantke before 2,000 men on the flight deck of the car Rier Yorktown. Hope beamed then peered into the Small jewelry Box containing the citation medal and frowned. I know it s not the size of the tiling it s the thought equipped but you know How the Navy is always thinking of  i am from a Navy family he went on. You know the fellow who said i have not yet begun to fight Well that was my grand father and he never did you re member him Admiral tuna Chicken of the  Hope began enter tailing servicemen on the Day the first draft number was pulled from the hat in the pre world War ii conscription. His travels have taken him to every state of the Union the aleutians Greenland Iceland North Africa Italy Scotland ire land England France Germany Spain Japan Korea and Australia. Light plane Falls kills 3 Logansport ind. A or real w. Marsh 48, president of the Marsh food liner inc., store Chain in four states was killed along with two other persons when his twin engine plane plummeted into a barnyard five Miles Southeast of Here. Also killed in the crash were Spencer e. Deal 53, treasurer of the firm and Deal s 18-year-6"fddaughter, Jean. All three lived in Muncie ind., where Marsh food liners has its Headquarters in the suburb of Yorktown. Company officials said Marsh was flying Deal and his daughter to Chicago for a Farewell party for Deal s son Spencer jr., who was scheduled to be shipped to Korea by the army. Witnesses said the company owned plane with Marsh apparently at the controls plunged into the ground at a Steep Angle about 400 feet from the farmhouse. The Impact of the crash dug a Hole three feet deep scattered bits of wreckage Over a wide area and left the bodies of the three victims angled. Whitney daughter divorces Gooding Ida. A mrs. Gall Whitney Cowell a daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt Sonny Whitney of new York has been granted a divorce from Richard Cox Cowell on grounds of mental cruelty. Genius hard to come by and Tough to Tell new York up is your child Genius or. Phyllis Greenacre of the department of psychiatry at Cornell University medical Center sums it up it is difficult if not impossible to Tell potentially talented infants from less gifted ones. Heredity is overemphasized in the assess ment of a child s Talent so Don to expect too much of a child just because Mothey or fathers outstanding. Genius is More a gift of. The  some Don t show Genius until adolescence or Young adulthood some seem like clods in Early life conversely some child prodigies develop into hum drum adults. As the psychologists see it there Are three types of child prodigies those in whom precocious development comes spontaneously and naturally. Those in whom remarkable performance Isa result of demands of adults who push the child using him As an Extension of them selves to realize some ambition in which they have Felt frustrated. This is seen most often in sports it can Start with Little leagues. Butt is seen too in artistic and intellectual in Deavors. Those in whom remarkable performance is a result of neurotic conflict with the develop ment of special achievement usually on a somewhat compulsive basis As part of an Effort to overcome or counter act the conflict but Finius is More than the result of being pushed by nature by parents or by a neurotic drive. The general View holds that Genius always asserts itself and that it will not remain hid Den. Repressed it will find its Way Back to expression just As surely As water finds it level. Police carry off berserk gunman of p a 4  a bound into a Stretcher a wounded gunman is carried from his Home in Philadelphia by police after his capture. Kyrlo Czupirczuk 41, went berserk and killed two residents of a Home for the aged and wounded four others then retreated to his own House nearby. A teen segregationists toil cd c5 " to reopen private school Little Rock Ark. A teen age segregationists hauled out a tiny Confederate Flag an took to car washing in their fight to reopen their own All White Pri vate school. They were 28 students of Raney High school recently closed for Lack of Money. H. J. Raney the school s founder says it will take $400,000 to run it and even then he s not sure. Sure or not the teen agers rolled up their sleeves and went to work in two Back Yards my three filling stations. It would be almost impossible for me to go to school with negroes their 15-year-old Leader Sharon Morris said. Sharon said the students weren t trying to raise All the Money they wanted to Start a fund in Hopes it would grow big enough to enable Raney to reopen. The students had been promised gov. Orval e. Faubus private car but discovered mis. Faubus had it. Raney was Oney of three private schools started last fall after Fau bus closed Public High schools to Stop integration. Faubus has been stripped by Federal court of the Law he used to close the schools. The school Board is prepared to reopen the schools to Token integration wednesday under a Pupil place ment Law. Gale Umholtz 17, sized up the students attitude by saying none will attend an integrated High school. God segregated the races he said. And i do not believe it is in accordance with the will of god that i sit in a Public school with  flies Boston to Munich despite grounding spa ignores . Solos Atlantic Arlington a a a Northern Virginia flier said he May have a Little trouble with the fed eral aviation Agency Faa Over a Little matter of a flight across the Atlantic. Army sp5 Roberts Tyler 34, of Arlington re turned from Europe after delivering a Cessna 175j o its owner in Munich. Tyler wedged into the cockpit Between three extra Gas tanks soloed the Light plane from Boston to Munich. Prior to the flight the Faa had grounded Tyler s plane. They thought the flight might be impossible because of the added weight of the extra Gas. Tyler ignored the warning. I did t care for anybody s opinion he said on his return Here i make my own  he said he talked with the Faa and thought he May have a Little trouble because of the unauthorized flight. The flight originated at the Falls Church air Park in Fairfax county about two weeks ago. Tyler flew first to Boston and then to the azores a 2,200 mile hop thence to Bordeaux France and Munich. Tyler said he was  during the flight by an alarm clock which rang every 10 minutes it Cost me Money but it was the greatest thrill of my life he told a reporter. It was just a matter of going out and doing  Schriever urges speedup in warning satellite work Allentown a. Up it Gen Bernard a. Schiever has called for urgent development of observation and communications satellites to deter missile attacks. Schriever commander of the air Force research and development come said the nation must have Early warning devices in space which can Tell almost instantly when a big missile assault is starting. The possibility of the sudden and massive ballistic missile Salvo of the annihilating sneak attack that could extinguish virtually a whole population he said will conviction upheld of Marine private who blasted corps Washington up the . Court of military appeals has affirmed the conviction of former Marine pvt Peter h. Green of Evanston 111., who publicly criticized the Marine corps for refusing to allow his claim of being a conscientious objector. Green was convicted by court martial of an unauthorized absence and the wrongful and malicious publication of two separate state ments disparaging the corps. He was sentenced to six months at hard labor and will receive a bad conduct discharge. Green a methodist enlisted Onset. 11, 1956, in Chicago. He was 17. Six months later while at Cam Pendleton calif., he informed his commanding officer that he had conscientious objections to bearing arms. It was while he was fighting for noncombatant status that he made the critical statements. In one of them he said there is More than one kind of brutality in the Marine corps there Isth assault on the free mind and conscience of  the three member appeals court did not take up the merits of Green s claim of conscience but Only tile question of whether the execution of his bad conduct Dis charge was Legal. The discharge became effective at Green s own request before he filed his Appeal. Hot Highway mix kills Motorist Xenia Ohio up Gordon , 41, of Kettering Ohio was burned fatally when steaming Blacktop Highway mix poured through the Windshield and buried him after a truck overturned and landed on the Hood of his  s wife was in poor condition in Greene memorial hos Pital with Burns. Their two Chil Dren David 10, and Cynthia 6,suffered Arm and face Burns. They were in Good  Driver Virgil Neanover 20, of Sabina Ohio told the state Highway patrol he applied his brakes when he saw two stopped cars ahead but his left front Brake locked tipping the truck Over onto Andrew s oncoming  truck s Load of steaming hot mix was dumped through the Windshield of Andrew s Auto. Nean Over was burned slightly panel oks science awards Washington a the House space committee has approved a Bill that would authorize the president to award a medal a Dup to $10,000 to each of 20 scientists a year. Soon be one of the military facts of  therefore Schriever said this nation must have Advance warning satellites and space communications vehicles that can provide the precious minutes of warning we would need to hurl our own retaliatory missile  Schriever said that the ballistic missile must be linked inseparably with advanced and Early warning and communications  the general who formerly directed the air Force ballistic mis Sile program said that the Mili tary role in space research and development must be pushed with the same urgency that characterized the missile program. Schriever also said the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile will be operational at Vandenberg air Force base calif., Well before the end of 1959." the operational unit at Vanden Berg has been delayed for about two months because of a series of alias test failures earlier this year. Otherwise the missiles would have been operational at Vanden Berg by july 1. Carbo agrees to extradition Camden . Up Frankie Carbo reputed underworld boxing Czar has agreed to extradition to new York to face charges affixing fights. Detectives will return Carbo Tonew York. Angelo d. Malandra attorney for the 54-year-old Carbo said his client is ill and requires hos pit Ali action. Malandra said he and counsel Joseph Tomaselli persuaded Carbo on a visit to his cell that he should drop his fight against extradition. Carbo had appeared destined to remain in the Camden county prison for several More months pending a hearing on his Appeal before the new Jersey Superior court. He has been in prison with out bail since june following his arrest in Audubon May 30 As a fugitive from new York. Better go get his Money Back Memphis a for two hours Elmer Nevils 39, sat in his front Yard and noisily quacked away on his new Duck  ducks came but police did. They arrested Nevils on a charge of Public drunkenness and disturbing the peace  
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