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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday aug Tiff 15, 1959 the stars and stripes worlds fair Washington Apt the nation s capital got into open com petition with new i Fork and los Angeles for a world s fair. If plans Are accepted by the government and an International Bureau that deals with such expositions the Washington fair would be a privately financed six month venture in 1964 calling for an investment of $300 million or More. Robert e. Mclaughlin president of Washington s Board of commissioners said buildings would be permanent and the Fairground de signed to become a lasting inter National Trade Center. No site has been  was asked to author ize president Eisenhower to in Vite foreign nations to participate in a new York fair also in 1864. Los Angeles interests have Bee talking of a fair in 1963. A Washington officials de scribed the possibilities Only one City will succeed. They said that without tit of Foval of the International Bureau of expositions none of that organization s 22-member countries c6uld take part. The . Does not belong now and the state department would have to apply for membership before the Bureau would Sanction any City for a King sized event such As Newyork produced in 1930. Mclaughlin announced a group of washingtonians has been artwork for 15 months on preliminary plans and formed a corporation Las year to develop the project. Schools to get Money saving buying guide Washington up educational leaders have announced publication of a comprehensive Purchase guide designed to help . Schools equip modern science mathematics and language Labora tories at the lowest possible Cost. Lawrence g. Derthick . Com missioner of education told a news conference that the guide first of its kind in american education will be of tremendous value to school officials in getting the most out of educational  the Council of chief state school officers sponsored the preparation of the guide. Edgar Fuller its executive Secretary predicted the guide will enable schools to save up to $150 million Over the next three years by buying the right kind of lab oratory supplies instead of wast ing funds on costly gadgets. 3 in family drown in Bay Petoskey Mich. A two Brothers and their sister apparently snatched by an undertow drowned in Little traverse v Bay while wading. The victims were Connie 9,Wayne, 7, and Gary three of the four children of William Page of Keg Omic a Bayside Community two Miles North of Here. Judy Clark 11, said she saw the three children go under simultaneously and ran for help. When she returned the three were nowhere in sight. Connie s body was recovered. Sheriff s deputies coast guards men and state police aided by ski divers continued the search for the Brothers. Divers reported a Strong under Tow in wading area. 3 fishermen drowns boat bams jetty Wilmington Del. A three fishermen drowned in the Delaware River when their 14-foot Motorboat hit a submerged jetty near Bayview Beach. A fourth member of the party managed to cling to the Side of the overturned Craft for four hours before he was rescued by two other fishermen. The Accident occurred an  the group set off from augus Tine Beach 20 Miles South of Here. Bayview is another five Miles Down River from Wilmington. The dead All of Wilmington were Clarence Cooper 54, a grocer Gus Davis 50, and Robert Hender son 45, both Barbers the survivor is Rev. Addison d. Wilder 49, pastor of it. Zidori Baptist Church. � the eyes1 have it 10 to 0 the fiv6 boy children try out i thelta new Sun glasses after undergoing corrective Eye surgery for an hereditary malfunction 6f the optic Muscles. Left to Raghib Are Roger 12, Anita 11, Dorothy 10, Linda 9, and Marilyn 7, All children of or. And mrs. Bay noid boy of Holyoke mass. Before the glasses the children had to Wear bandages. Associated press photo in nursing Home abuses Evansville ind. A the married operators of an Evansville nursing Home have been arrested after a grand jury reported abuse including pulling out the toenails of fractious elderly patients. Engineer killed As trains collide in Missouri town Hardin to. Up the Engineer of a Santa be mail train was killed and a fireman injured when the train collided head on with a maintenance locomotive. The body of Ray staubus 66, was pinned in the wreckage for More than an hour. Clyde Koch 47, fireman on the mail train suffered Burns and abrasions. A diesel unit and one mail car burst into flames after the crash. Firemen extinguished the Blaze. Authorities said there were 25mail clerks on the 17-car train. None was injured. The work engine was hauling two tankers use to Spray weeds along the tracks. The collision which occurred two blocks from the Railroad de pot ripped up 100 Yards of  and blocked both main lines of the Santa be and the Wabash railroads. The mail train was Enro Ute from Chicago to los Angeles. Senator s plan National debt Washington a sen. Wallace of Bennett a Utah is offering a plan to pay off the National debt Over the next 115 years at the rate of $2.5 billion a year. He introduced a Bill that would fix a goal of a $2.5 billion surplus would pay off Over 115 years in the Federal budget each year to be applied to debt retirement. If the goal is not met for a Given year a special one year increase in individual and corporation income taxes would be required to make up the difference. Bond was set at 1,5.00 for har old Barnes on charges of assault rid Battery and of operating a nursing Home without a. License. Viola Barnes who told newsmen she is both a registered nurse and a minister of the gospel was charged Only with lacking a License for the Home. The institution is called the Comfort Nurs ing  the grand jury report said abuses included pouring disinfectant upon parts of the bodies of bed wetting patients. Prosecutor o. H. Roberts jr., said the Home with an undisclosed number of patients is still operating although its stale License expired july 1 for Lack of a renewal application. The application has since been filed. No glue factory for old no. 93 Philadelphia a nothing is too Good for no. 93 at the near by West Point laboratories of Merck Sharp and dohme. Double sized living quarters Mineral supplement Iron com pounds regular haemoglobin Check  the pharmaceutical manufacturer provides them All. No. 93 is an 11-year-old former plow horse. Since 1953 the Mare has produce Dall the serum needed by the firm to manufacture Antitoxin for Black widow spider bites. Train mishap kills boy Chester a. Up Robert Allen Killpatrick 8, was killed when he was hurled from a 65-foot High Railroad trestle into the Chester River by a train engine polish couple parted 20 years faces 2d Goodby Buffalo . A the Bride and Groom waited 20 years to get married and now must wait another year and a half be fore they can Settle Clown to mar ried life. The 59-year-old bridegroom mar Ian Jednorog served in the polish army was captured escaped and made his Way first to London then to Buffalo after world War ii ended. Meanwhile his Bride Stephanie Gladski 51, left the Village of Dela ten Poland where she and Jednorog had met and went to Kra Kow. Jednorog located her through friends in Poland and wrote to her after the War. Last May they were married by proxy. Mrs. Jednorog obtained a two month visa and they were married in a religious ceremony in Buffalo aug. 4. But mrs. Jednorog s visa expires in another month. The decl Noros future happiness will have to wait until Jednorog becomes a . Citi zen in 1961 and can bring his wife Back to Buffalo to stay. I be waited 20 years says Jednorog a foundry employee. I sup pose i can wait another year and a  Senate votes youth corps o conservation Washington a the sen ate ignored the threat of & presidential veto and passed legislation to establish a youth conservation corps like the depression born civilian conservation corps. It overrode Republican protest that youth corps amounted to a deceptive Boondoggle and would Cost a minimum of $4 billion in 10 years with the sky As a  the Roll Call vote for passage was 47-45. Margin of passage the votes of two republicans Milton r. Young of North Dakota and Alex rider Wiley of Wisconsin furnished the margin for passage. All other republicans voted against it. Before the debate sen. Everett m. Dirksen r-i11.the minority floor Leader said he expects pres ident Eisenhower to veto the measure if it reaches the White House. The House has yet to Acton it. The corps would provide outdoor work for boys from 16 to 21 years of age on conservation projects in the nation s forests Parks and wildlife refuges As Well Asok Rivers and Public lands. 4 sagas dc7 belly lands Atlantic City . Up an Eastern airlines dc7b with four crewmen aboard made a successful belly Landing on a foam covered runway after circling for about four hours with a fault Landing gear. None of the Crew was injured. The Airliner skidded for about 1,500 feet along the runway be fore coming to a halt. The plane had circled Over Newark Airport for a time but it was decided that the area was to congested to try a Landing there. The plane then headed for the Airfield of the National aviation facilities experimental Center in Pomona. The Field is 12 Miles Northwest of  Arthur v. Appleget of Cranbury ., the. Pilot decide Don a belly Landing after efforts failed to Power the jammed left Landing gear. The right gear was functioning normally. The plane was on a Pilot proficiency test and was in route Back from Newark when Appleget discovered the Landing gear would  circling Newark Appleget headed for the Airport in  others aboard the plane were Harry Kirk of Newark the flight Engineer and t. L. Connoly of Cedar knolls ., and William b. Zeng of Ringoes . Georgia s last steam train Atlanta a. Up Georgia s last steam powered passenger train will chug into history next month. Midland Railroad co., recently acquired by the Seaboard air line Railroad will run an excursion train pulled by two steam Loco motives Over a route from Athena to Gainesville a Curtiss Wright to manufacture wheelless 4air car this year new York a Curtiss Wright corp. Announced it will produce cars which travel on  company spokesman said production at its South Bend ind., Plant would Start in november but the rate has not been set. He said the cars would not be sold to the general Public at first but would be offered to industries. The company s air car travels on a Cushion of Low pressure Low velocity compressed air. It is a 300-hp, two engine vehicle which. Carries four passengers. The 8 by 21 foot car reaches a maximum Speed of 60 Miles an hour. It has no wheels transmission or clutches. The company said the car would move Over unpaved land water or swamps or any unobstructed Ter rain 6 to 13 inches off the ground  
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