European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Montey a Giitl 10, the stars and stripes a Dot pow. And gave her backers a first class clean up Job. Up photos weird aircraft descend on air hot Rod meeting Rockford 111. A some weird air planes born of the do it yourself impulse have dropped from the sky on this City. They Are air planes built in barns basements and garages by people with time and Money to spend and an urge to put some thing different in the sky. There Are darn few things her that look and act like real air planes one observer said. One has four wings another is powered with an automobile in 4 die in Alley plane crash Lompoc Calif. Up two twin Brothers and their wives were killed when their private plane crashed in an Alley after narrowly missing Homes in a new residential Section. Police said it appeared the Pilot of the four place plane which left Lompoc Airport 18 minutes before the crash had been trying to re turn because of poor visibility. The dead were Carl Gene Curtis 30 his wife Billie Jean 27 James Lee Curtis 30, and his wife Zylpha Jane 24. The crash occurred eight blocks West of the Airport. It damaged an unoccupied House. Former opera Star Dies new York a italian born Pasquale Ferrara 62, for Many years a noted opera Singer die Dat his new York Home of heart disease. Gine. One tiny biplane the Flea is 15 feet Long. A Detroit Man flew his creation Halfway Here and drove the rest of the distance on the Highway. The strange things began flying and driving in Here for the annual convention of the experimental aircraft assn., whose 50,000 Mem Bers must rebuild conventional aircraft or Start from scratch to qualify for membership. Just for pleasure. Most build air planes for the same reason others build boats i basements or put dual carburettors on stripped Down cars the pleasure of creating something new and different. But some like w. J. Bryan of Detroit owner of an aircraft he says can do several Hundred Miles an hour in the air and 52 Mph on the Highway claim significant breakthroughs in aeronautical engineering. Bryan says his rot Obil which he can Fly or drive after eight minutes of rearranging various parts Are the pioneering answer to the needs of dual transportation All in one flying and building air planes can be a time consuming expensive Hobby. Russian born Igor Benson of Raleigh n.c., who favors Auto gyros which Rise like helicopters and Fly level like conventional air places says he has spent As Many As 1,000 Man hours and $15,000 on his plane. When the convention ends these hot Rodgers of aviation will fold up their planes and put them Oscar trailers steal off Down the highways or even Fly Home. Exhibit in . Ends run 1,5 million saw $3 million show new York up Russia was to close uie doors monday on its big 42-Day exhibition a glittering and expert slice of soviet science technology culture politics and propaganda that has been an Eye opener to Many a bore to few a pleasure to most visitors. An estimated 1.5 million americans grouped past its 10,060 exhibits. The six acres of displays mounted at a Cost of about $3 million will be packed carefully and shipped Back to the soviet Union. A Check of opinion among spectators leaving the new York coliseum indicates a popular admiration of the show with a wish that it had leaned less heavily on bewildering technology and More on consumer durables. Show officials will take Back to the ail Union Magyar Falls after trying to Cut Russ Flag new York a a Young hungarian refugee who tried to Cut Down a huge soviet Flag at the russian cultural exhibit fell nearly four floors from a window in the new York coliseum. He told police he wanted to protest the visit to the . Next month of soviet Premier Nikita . _ Andrew Ludanyi 19, who came Here with his parents from communist dominated Hungary 10 years ago said from his Hospital bed that he acted for All the enslaved people behind the he hid in the coliseum until it closed. After everyone was gone he tried to Cut the wires holding the Flag with a knife. Injures spine his efforts failed however and he turned to the problem of getting out of the locked building. He found a rope and started to lower himself from a fourth floor window. But something went wrong and he plunged to the ground injuring his spine. He was charged with unlawful entry and kept under police guard at Roosevelt Hospital. Meanwhile the hungarian free Dom fighters federation announced that out of respect for the sincere peace efforts of presi Dent Eisenhower it would refrain from any demonstration during Khrushchev s visit. Cop s body found 2 Miles from Cave in Philadelphia a the body of a Philadelphia policeman caught in a Street Cave in has been found in a sewer two Miles from the spot where he disappeared seven Days before. Patrolman Joseph Reiss was sent to investigate a report of a Street Cave in. As he approached the Hole another portion of the paving suddenly gave Way and Reiss was buried 40 feet below Street level. Rescue efforts failed to locate him and the danger of further collapses handicapped workmen. The body was found at a sewer intersection. Union army artillery Shell unearthed civil War s last shot unfred Washington up it May be that the last shot of the civil War has t been fired yet. Francis Den outer a Highway construction superintendent found a 7-Inch-Long artillery Shell on the site of grading for a freeway. Den outer called police who called the army which sent a bomb disposal squad from it Mcnair Here. The Shell was identified by the army with the help of historians As a Hotchkiss projectile manufactured for the Union army during the civil historians also supplied the information that the freeway is going through near the site of a Union Arsenal used during the War Between the states. Despite its age the disposal experts took no chances with the Shell. They carted it to Andrews air Force base in Maryland where it will be detonated if found to be live. Chamber of Commerce of the user sponsors of the exhibition a Book of comment from distinguished visitors ranging from vice president Rich Ard m. Nixon s a splendid exhibition to Gary Cooper a an american who has watched the show closely during its run says this the More highly educated people among the spectators Are impressed. They see this show very clearly As almost the syndrome of a nation with which we must Deal. The other almost the mass View is to wish it out of Alexei n. Manz Hulo exhibition director said he believed the most popular exhibit has been the medical display at which the most watched sections feature transplanting of organs and a sewing machine for suturing blood vessels. . Fair in Moscow hits million Mark in 2d week Moscow a the american National exhibition in Moscow rounded out its second cull week. Nearly a million persons Are believed to have seen the displays so far. Howard Messmore Deputy director said he thought about 65,000 persons have seen the show daily. He could have sold twice that Many tickets he said but sales Are kept to 50,000 daily to insure control of the crowds. Another 15,000 Are thought to be getting organization or factory passes to the exhibition daily. From the first moment when the visitors clutch for souvenir Lapel buttons to the instant they plunge into the mail order Cata logs on display the crowds Are avid for information and eager for first hand Contact with everything. Handouts accepted crowds Are still lining up for the big attractions at the exhibition and they Are carrying away armload of literature about cars and other products. The display of american news papers which is under Glass draws Many viewers although the papers Lap Over each other in most cases and the exhibit fails to show the scope of Page one and the advertising and news articles inside. But the arrangers of the exhibit have opened the classified Adver Tising sections of the papers show ing Model Homes Selling for $12,000 and up to prove that what the folks Are seeing on the exhibition grounds is not a Mirage. Senate receives food for peace Export proposal Washington up the Senate foreign relations commit tee has sent to the Senate a food for peace Bill designed to increase uses of . Food surpluses abroad. The Bill a watered Down version of the original food for peace plan sponsored by sen. Hubert h. Humphrey a min would extend the Public Law 480 program Cor three years and authorize $2billion Worth of surplus crop sales abroad each year in return for local currencies. Another provision would author ize Grants up to $250 million a year for three years in . Crops for famine and disaster Relief abroad. The Bill also would set up a peace food administrator in the agriculture department to coordinate All overseas programs dealing with surplus farm commodities. Little approach to big question a research Engineer at the Republic aviation Plant in farming Dale ., sorts spinach and turnip sends that will be sent in a Nav balloon to altitudes up to 100,000 feet and exposed to cosmic rays. The seeds will then be planted find studied for possible abnormalities in growth. United press International photo
