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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, August 15, 1959

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday a fluff 15, the stars and stripes Page f Tiff ref of uvula 800 Jet litter Rolls off the line con Vair division of general dynamics corp. Adds a third 880 Jet transport in Middle to its test Fleet at san Diego Calif. Six months of test flights for the first two four engined swept Wing giants show the 880 to be the fastest commercial Airliner in the world according to a company spokesman. The plane can cruise at 615 Mph in level flight he said. United press International photo Admiral says . Sunk 2 of its own subs Denver a two . Sub marines were sunk with All hands and 31 other . Undersea Craft were strafed bombed or shelled your own forces during world War ii the former chief of the Navy specific submarine Fleet revealed. Vice adm Charles a. Lock Wood ret said 160 men were lost in the sinking of the submarine Dorado and sea Wolf. He said the Dorado was bombed in the Caribbean and the sea Wolf was destroyed North of new Guinea in a combined attack by a . Plane and a destroyer. These Wolf he said was bound for the Philippines with a group of civilians who were to join guerrilla forces there. Of the 31 other . Subs at tacked Lockwood said nine were so heavily damaged they were forced to return to port. The retired Admiral is a speaker at the fifth annual convention of submarine veterans of world War ii. He said submarine identification was and continues to be one of the Navy s greatest problems. We Are making great strides Inthis Field but we still have a Long Way to go he added. Nike smokes during Drill Shelton Conn. A smoke curled from a Nike Ajax missile during a Drill Here. Officers called an emergency Alert but said the missile could not have  Short circuit in the wiring of the missile caused the smoke said1st it Walter h. Kennett jr., of Brunswick me., commanding officer of Btry a 3d missile in. The missile which carries a War head filled with conventional explosives was quickly disarmed. Kennett said there was no Dan Ger to his men or their equipment. Deserted by husband destitute Georgia Mother of i of 1 i i 1gives up Light children. F _ &. Atlanta up a destitute Mother not knowing where to turn for help gave away several of her eight children and planned to give the others up for adoption police disclosed. Mrs. Opizo Quisenberry 28, is being held on suspicion of abandonment while authorities under take an investigation. I did t know what to do she said. Even if i got All my Chil stepping too far charged to guard in us incident London a the War office said a Buckingham Palace sentry accused of kicking an american tourist has served a sentence but not for the alleged booting. His 10-Day confinement to bar Racks was for irregular  the sentry was Victor footer 20,of the Coldstream guards. The War office got into the act when Laberite member of Parlia ment Marcus Lipton demanded to know the details of footer s sen tence. Four paces not one it is True said a War office letter to Lipton that guardsman footer was awarded 10-Days confinement to Barracks but not foray charge of assaulting an Amer ican  the War office said footer Wassail to have taken four paces for Ward instead of one thereby get Ting himself involved unnecessarily with members of the  at no time did the evidence of footer kicking anybody appear in connection with any of the charges said the War office. His com manding officer took into consideration that footer was probably provoked before awarding him 10 Days confinement to  negro girls in Kentucky Camp evacuated after phone threat Versailles by. A a Camp of negro girls has been evacuated after an adjoining farm resident received � Telephone threat saying the Camp would be wiped  Lancaster jr., said he receive the Call thursday he said he later fired one shot at a group of five or six White men approach ing the Camp on a Cliff Overlook the Kentucky  police detective Robert Moser said there was evidence themen tried to Burn Down a Cabin at the  27 girls ranging in age from 12 to 15, were evacuated by bus without  children use the Camp about two weeks of the year. White children use it the rest of the time. Dren Back i still could t take care of them. After All i Don t have any  authorities said they Learned mrs. Quisenberry gave up All of the children placing them with friends relatives and others who would take them after her Hus band left her about five week Sago. With her remaining funds she bought a bus ticket to Tampa fla., where she appealed to trav Eler s Aid. With the Agency s help she returned to Atlanta. A sister said she recovered three of the children but that she had been unable to locate three others. The sister said mrs. Quisenberry did not know the full name of on family which took one of the Chil Dren. She said the Mother signed some papers renouncing her rights to several of the children and had planned to sign adoption papers for several others. Statehood Date for Hawaii seen aug. 21 Honolulu a Hawaii  f. Quinn said on his re turn Home that he got assurances in Washington that the statehood proclamation would be issued on aug. 21. Quinn returned from a two wee trip which included a stay in Washington during which he an mrs. Quinn met with president Eisenhower. Concerning the president s proclamation which would make Hawaii the 50th state Quinn told newsmen target Date i was pretty Well assured it would be issued on aug. 21. We Are using that As a target  said he would be sworn into office within a few minutes after the proclamation is issued although it was possible formal in Ai Gural ceremonies would be delayed a week. He said the special session of the first state legislature will reconvened aug. 31 for 30 Days and can be extended longer if needed. Paper says space ferry being studied by 2 firms los Angeles a a space ferry is being developed by Hughes aircraft co. And Lockheed aircraftcorp., the los Angeles times re ports. Aviation editor Marvin Miles wrote that the vehicle May be available by 1965 to Supply space stations and investigate satellites. The newspaper said company spokesmen acknowledged the project informally and indicated the study phase nearing completion has been financed with company funds. Lockheed started preliminary design on the Airframe 10 months ago and Hughes has been working on control and guidance systems according to the Story. The vehicle reportedly will carry payload of seven Al tons and orbit 11-year-old Bandit makes $1 million haul Asbury Park . A no body really got excited when a million dollars was taken from the. A Newberry store. The loot was All play Money and the Bandit was an 11-year-old boy who was turned Over to juvenile authorities. At Heights up to 1,000  space ferry would be boosted into orbit by one of the Forth coming super Power rocket sys tems probably the Saturn with a clustered first stage rocket engine developing i1,-. Million pounds of  the vehicle would be used in the Assembly of space stations in orbit in ferrying Crews and supplies to such stations Andon reconnaissance missions to Check satellites. Bid for trim in steel prices said rejected Washington a the steel Industry it was reliably reported has rejected a suggestion that i Cut steel prices $10 a ton in lieu of granting a wage increase inthe current strike situation. The suggestion for a $10 pric Cut was made by rep. Chester a. Bowles a Conn in a letter to president Eisenhower who in turn had it referred directly to chair Man Roger Blough of the .steel corp. Blough is said to have turned Down the idea on the ground that in settling the present month Lon strike the steel companies Are go ing to have to give the strikers some sort of wage increase any Way. Deny report in Pittsburgh a spokesman . Steel corp. Said Blough has not received any communication regarding rep. Bowies suggestion. He added the objective of United state steel corp. Is the same As that of other companies in the negotiations and remains unchanged. It is to achieve a  so far the Industry s position i that it cannot in the Public in Terest increase steel labor Cost Sand thus Spur inflation. The strik ing steelworkers Union contend that this is an attempt to reverse traditional american economic pol icy that workers Are entitled to regular sharing in profits. Help econom Bowles told a reporter he Felt his steel Price Cut proposal has Merit. He said if the Industry went along he Felt sure the Steelwork ers Union would have to abandon its wage increase demands in the Public interest. Bowles was the government s world War ii Price administrator. I the effect of a steel Price Cut would help the entire Economy Bowles said. It would probably mean that prices of new 1960 Auto mobiles would have to be lower too. Unit to probe Vietnam Aid Washington a a sen ate foreign relations subcommittee has authorized its chairman to order an on the spot investigation of How american Aid to Vietnam has been spent. Chairman sen. Mike Mansfield a Mont said he was voted authority at his discretion to sen staff investigators into the South East asian country this fall. Mansfield also told reporters that some members of the committee likewise May visit Saigon to participate in the Field inquiry. The committee completed 30hours of testimony on charges made by Scripps Howard writer Albert m. Colegrove in a series of articles calling the Aid program in Vietnam an outrageous  teacher s one in million shot slays attacking 9-foot shark san Diego Calif. A a ski diving music teacher killed a nine foot Hammerhead shark. Don Ide 32, said he made the kill with a one shot in a million from his Spear gun after the shark had attacked him and another skin diver Joe Turner 24. He circled us about 20 minutes Ide said. First he would attack me then Joe. We held him off with our Spear guns. Finally he took the end of my Spear and i pulled the trigger. It was one shot in a  pulled the shark about a Quarter of a mile to  said he thought a halibut he had speared and was trailing in his Belt May have attracted the  incident was in generally the same area where a big tropical shark killed and presumably devoured another ski diver in , an elementary school music teacher in Corona Calif., has been ski diving three years for recreation  
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