European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse � the stars and t1pts Detroit Mich. A the Dies Are cast planning is Complete ads Are set and production lines Are ready to hum. The new Small cars of the big three of . Auto manufacturers general motors Ford and Chrys Ler Are on their Way. The Corvair Falcon and valiant Are Detroit s versions of what i Hopes the american Public has been waiting for. Pitched to Atheme of foreigner Economy combined with american big car ride pm Ford Long charges 4stab in Back by legislators new Orleans Cap a cough ing perspiration soaked gov. Erik Long charged his special session legislature knifed him in the Back. You have just seen a legislature refuse to act on behalf of the peo ple Long roared hoarsely in the Balmy summer air. He spoke at downtown Stree Corner rally of 3,000. On monday Long had accepted stoically the legislature s stunning vote to disband within an hour after it met for a 12-Day special session. But on the stump the 63-year-old governor cast his stoicism to the. Winds. If you will elect representative Sand senators that won t Stab me in the Back Long bellowed we can accomplish was at various times applauded heckled and booed. Russ German ships collide Kiel Germany a a soviet destroyer and a German coastal freighter collided in the Wester Baltic near Here and the German vessel was badly damaged in the Accident. The destroyer was believed to depart of a group of three soviet naval units prowling the Are where nato s naval exercise fresh water is under Way. The German 300-ton freighter Christel sent out distress signals shortly after colliding with the destroyer within 20 Miles of the danish lightship Geyser. A Bow crushed the Christel s Bow was crushed in the Accident. While its unharmed Crew of six feverishly plugged the Hole and stemmed the Waters pouring in the soviet destroyer stood by with its engines stopped. A spokesman for the freighter owner said the soviet destroyer had immediately offered help tothe German Captain. Only after he told the russians that his ship and Crew we a in no danger did the destroyer continue. Rescue tugs from West and East German ports raced to the Acci Dent scene. The West German tug Weser later escorted the Christel on its Way to a German Harbor. And handling they represent multimillion Dollar switch in think ing by the major Auto american motors Gamble everything on compact v Ramblers and Studebaker Packard cast i Slot with the Little Lark general motors Ford and Chrysler had shied from the Small Domestic autos., for the record they said they weren t interested in building them in America until the Market a proday a ust 14, cars on toe year that Point bottled by a wkly Feack and found Volkswagen Reti tilt ram Bier and Lark slicing it tip neatly with assorted other production figures would suggest that during the newyear there will be More than one million compact cars built in . Among the imports some 80 per cent or at least 400,000 cars fall into the compact class miss Taylor declared Here there was no truth to the rumours which started in Paris wednesday after she boarded a plane for Barcelona wearing a Brown sack like Nob often worn in France Fly expect ant mothers. It is completely ridiculous she said. I m not expecting. I m Here to do a she dismissed the idea that ther mors May have been started by her costume in Paris As and her husband Are staying at the Edstal de la Gay a on the Mediterranean in Sagaro North of Barcelona. One version of Road hog is demonstrated by this photographer in Nashville tenn., who makes an Ordinary Volkswagen look like some Man eating monster out of a horror movie. Jupi photo pucks Alimony worries for 3 months divorced father takes to Woods Camp drum co Dies Camp drum . Up col William l. Nash 46. Post com Mander of Camp drum died of coronary occlusion. Pontiac Mich a Bern Ard j. Blechars divorced and be Hind in his Alimony payments was troubled and fearful that police were looking for him. He went into the Woods to think. He stayed there three months. Police found him along a High Way in fashionable suburban Bloomfield Hills. The 32-year-old Detroit shipping clerk s clothe were in rags. His hair and Beard were matted with dirt 80 pounds he weighed 80 pounds. He was a husky 175 when he began his self imposed exile from society May 9. I m divorced Blechars mum bled to incredulous officers. I was behind in my Alimony. I thought the police must be looking for me. I found this place. It looked like pretty Good place to apples and berries for three months Blechars said he ate apples and berries drank water with his hands from Muddy Creek and covered himself at night with a piece of plywood. I did t do anything he Saidof his ordeal. I just he gave no reason for leaving the Woods. Police said they had no warrant for his arrest. The place in which he lived Isa swampy secluded spot within i shouting distance of several houses belonging to the wealthy resident sin the suburb. He could hear traffic roaring by on a Busy Avenue nearby Blechar s sex wife Nancy 24, re ported him missing the Day he said he entered the Woods. He had quit his Job As a shipping clerk at a Detroit manufacturing fir about a week before. The ble chars parents of a 4-year-old child,.were divorced in july 1958. Relatives and neighbors Sai Blechars had been acting strangely since the divorce. Physicians said Blechars a vet eran of Marine service in the Pacific in world War ii was suf Fering from malnutrition and loss of weight but otherwise showed no ill effects from his experience. Now resting at St. Joseph hos Pital in Pontiac he is to be transferred to the veterans administration Hospital at Dearborn Mich., for observation. Californian killed As Jet rams barn Pilot Safe Skipjack in us on 4-Day visit Portland England up America s newest nuclear sub Marine has arrived Here for work and play four Day visit. . Navy officials said the Stopover was planned As a pause in its Shakedown Royal Navy men an officer and two Petty officers Are aboard the 252-foot, snub nosed attack submarine. They Are being trained by the . Navy for serv ice aboard Britain s first nuclear powered submarine the dread naught which is now under construction. Among the 93 american Nav men aboard the Skipjack was cmdr w. W. Behrens jr., skipper of Harrisburg a. The Skipjack was commissioned april 15 at Gro ton Conn. Oakdale Calif. A an air Force f10q Jet fighter abandoned by its Pilot plunged into a bar near Here. Flying debris killed a Man in a nearby House and injured his daughter. The Pilot had balled out at 18,000feet after Radi oing hat his controls had failed. He landed near polio strikes 4 after Mother refused shots Uxbridge mass up four children whose Mother refused free Salk vaccine for them Al though every other child in town was inoculated have become this Community s first polio cases. Health officials disclosed that the disease which struck four a augster of mrs. Marie Plant Majeau 87. Last week had been diagnosed As non paralytic polyp. Anjel 3. Shea chairman of the local health Board said the Wom an s six children were the Only ones of More than 3,000 children in the Community not to receive the have urged her on numerous occasions during the past our years to have the children inoculated Shea said the shots were free for preschool children and pregnant mothers he added or to anyone who could not pay$1.50asrot. A one of the stricken youngsters David Plante 5, was hit. For second time. He was the town s Only polio victim during the 1955epidemic, others hospitalized All in Satis factory condition were Kenneth Plante 8, his sister Donna 7, and their Stepbrother Michael Majeau,3, under close observation were theother two youngsters Randolph Plante 6, and Steven 1. Keystone in the Sierra Foothills,10 Miles East of Here and walked unharmed into a Highway maintenance station. He was identified As 1st it . Swenson of the 343d tactical flying so Myrtle Beach , his Hometown is Strafford to. The Jet apparently struck the barn in a shallow Glide. Its Landing gear ripped into the House killing Kyle Landerson 68, a mail car Rier and seriously injuring his 21 year old daughter Leona of liver More Calif. Of Jet crashes kills 4 libyans wheelus Libya is anf100 fighter crashed about five Miles Southeast of the air base Here killing four libyans and in Juring three others an air Force spokesman announced. The Pilot was uninjured. He said the plane assigned to the36th Wing at Pitburg Germany crashed into an area occupied by Nomad Encampment. The Pilot identified As capt Dalton w. Mccullar bailed out. 296 polio cases in Montreal Montreal up City health authorities reported there Are 22new cases of polio. They have a sued for Iron lungs from the Ca. Nadian government As the polio situation nears epidemic proper. Jons. The new cases swelled the total stricken to 886. Fragrant omission outrages state senator Union . Up there was outrage when state sen. Johnd. Long discovered the . Department of agriculture had omitted the state Flower of South Carolina from its published list of state Flowers Long called the omission to the attention of the department s in formation division. A new fist was printed. Then Long fumed Taftt the Washington bureaucrats had spelled yellow jessamine As Jas mine
