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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Augur 19, 1959 of stars and stripes it gtd air agencies Gran my 707s Washington updgovern1 ment air safety officials denied of report that they plan to ground Boeing 707 air planes because of accidents to the jets. Spokesmen for both the Lvi aeronautics Board cab which investigates air accidents and the Federal aviation Agency Faa which sets air safety rules termed the report  an american airlines 707 crashed on a training flight Satur Day in the first fatal Accident for the new Jet killing All five Crew members. Another 707 bound for South America turned Back Mon Day after an instrument warning device indicated loss of Hydraulic pressure in the plane s Landing gear system. Official quoted a London newspaper in a Washington dispatch quoted an unidentified cab official As saying it is Clear some fairly drastic action must be taken with the 707s.one of the top officials of the gab s Bureau of safety denied that any responsible Agency offi Cial could have made such a state ment. Nothing we have Learned thus far from the saturday training flight crash or from any of the other incidents involving 707s would indicate in any Way what Soever that this aircraft is not thoroughly tested and completely Safe transport he declared. An Faa official said Faa has already ordered closer inspection of 707 Landing. Gear including mandatory replacement or modification of the pumps controlling the Hydraulic fluid. Safety lauded the Landing gear incidents have not been real emergencies he said. They were n u i s a no e a and they should be corrected but they have nothing to do with the in Herent safety of this air plane which has passed every safety test known to modern  cab official said the Agency does not like to comment on any crash until it has All the  he did say that All available evidence showed that the training crash saturday apparently resulted from too slow an approach which caused the plane to stall. Now if it were a test of spiritual strength nuns at a picnic at St. Monica s Seminary near Dousman wis., watch As sister Sybilla tries to ring the Bell but not for a Cigar. The nuns participated in a variety of games including soft Ball Tennis Horseshoe pitching and fishing during the activities crammed Day. The nuns Are All Mem Bers of the school Sisters of notre Dame Oconomowoc wis. A photo India asks in to press. V for Bern on atom tests United. Nations . A India called on the in general Assembly to press once More for a ban on test explosions of nuclear weapons. Indian ambassador g. S. Jha for Mally requested that 4the nuclear test question replaced on the Agenda of the 14th Assembly open ing sept. 15. The aim of the Indian govern ment was apparently to Speed the negotiations now going on in Geneva by representatives of the ., Britain and the soviet Union. These talks have resulted in some Progress but key issues re main unresolved. India has been one of the Lead ing advocates in the in of an immediate ban on All nuclear and Marine Bride demoted 11 lose stripes in Case of general s stolen Flag san Diego Calif. A eleven marines lost a Stripe apiece for Spir iting away the general a Flag from the Marine corps recruit depot. Acting Cpl Ramon m. Lambert 20, and his Bride of one month pfc Lee Ann Lambert 18, were among those demoted. Each was reduced one rank Dur ing a nonjudicial process before col j. C. Brewer. The marines have the right of Appeal. Korean dog Days end As stray Stew stops Seoul a dogs and dog owners of South Korea Are breathing easier for tie 40 Days of Bok  ended Bok is the season when scores of restaurants advertise extra Energy soup their name for boiled dog meat highly spiced with garlic and hot Pepper. Legend says the dish washed Down with cups of Soju it Strong korean Rice wine provides extra Pep to beat the 00-degree Heafy hundreds of stray dogs Sunter end up in the Stew the Flag of Gen Randolph Mcc. Pate commandant of the Marine corps disappeared from its staff atop the d e pot administration building during a visit july 26 bythe general. A depot spokesman said the conspirators posted lookouts and hauled the Flag Down during the time colors normally Are lowered in the evening. Thus he added their actions aroused no suspicion. The Flag was found under a Rug in the. Home of Lambert and his wife. Other disciplined marines were identified As acting Cpl Marvin , 20 acting Cpl William f. Sus 23 acting Cpl Frank a wat ring jr., 23 acting. Cpl Milton w. To belies 24 acting Cpl Dennis e. Nye 21 Cpl Harvey j. Abels 24 Cpl Dennis l. Fisher 20 pfc Ray a. Heinisch 20, and pfc David . 1,000-Man pizza baked Toronto a a huge pizza pie enough to serve nearly 1,000 people is being prepared in a to Ronto hotel in Honor of Italy s Palermo soccer team which will play at varsity stadium. Hydrogen weapons test explosions. The reports of the Indian move became known shortly before Jha conferred with in Secretary Gen eral Dag Hammarskjold on this and other problems. These included the disarmament question which was Given new life recently by an agreement of the big four foreign ministers to establish a 10-nation committee to resume disarmament negotiations after a two year lapse. Minister defends Nehru takeover of red ruled Kerala new Delhi up anti communist Home minister Govind bal Labh Pant defended India s take Over of communist run Kerala state As the Only answer to the anti communist revolution there. Pant went before a lower House of parliament crammed to capacity to plead for House approval for the imposition of president s Rule on the Stormy state and the dissolution of the communist ministry. Pant told the House that the state government had interfere with the people s rights directed the magistrates to do certain things according to their whims and made the police work according to  As a result Pant said the people Rose up and revolted until communist party chief Ajoy Josh and communist chief minister e. M. S. Namboodri ipad admitted that the Central government should take  said the situation  have Arisen if the communists had not rejected Premier Jawahar Lal Nehru s suggestion of a mid term election. Jump goes Fine but plane trouble plagues cd Utiss Middletown a. A eighty two. Paratroopers who Wen through a successful jump at West Point n.y., Over the weekend were returning to their Home base in an air Force c124 Globe master transport when it developed trouble. It made a Safe emergency land ing Here and another Globe master was flown up from it. Campbell by. The paratroopers climbed aboard it. About 45 minutes later two of the transport s four engines started spurting fire. It too made an emergency Landing Here. The Crew of nine and the 82 paratroopers of the 101st an diva it. Campbell were put up Over night at Olmsted air Force base Here while mechanics repaired engines on the second Globe master. Rousing funeral cheers mourners troyes France a mourn ers Sang a rousing Marseillaise when m. Guissin a Veteran of world War i was buried in the Village of Van Lay near  there was a party at the dead Man s expense. Before dying he had told his friends a i Don t want a sad fun  it was t. Soviet ambassador received by Tito Belgrade a yugoslav president Tito has received Ivan a Alchevsky soviet ambassador to Yugoslavia at his secluded Vaca Tion Island of brioni the official news Agency Tan Jug reported. The Agency said that Zam Chev sky asked to be received. It is not said what was the reason for the visit. Ump cleared 7 sentenced in by. Violence Lexington by. A the United mine workers ump has been cleared of a criminal con tempt charge but its District 30was fined $5,000. Seven Union members pleaded guilty to contempt and receive sentences ranging from $1,000 and six months imprisonment to 60days and no Fine. An eighth Union member Luthe Francis of Hazard ky., was re leased on grounds of insufficient evidence. Four others Hod their cases continued after pleading in Nocent. The charges arose from alleged dynamite nos fires and other inter Ference with Louisville & Nashville Railroad operations in the Eastern Kentucky Coal strike area. . District attorney Henry j. Cook moved for dismissal against the ump on grounds of insufficient evidence. Convictions those sentenced were William Perkins a ump Field representative six months and $1,000 Fine Andy Feltner of Vicco ky.,three months and $500 Fine Albert Coots of Kodak ky., Eli Sumner of Vic co and Green Farler of Farler ky., each two months and no Fine Paul Herd of Vicco and Andy Wil Liams of Kodak three months and no Fine. The Federal restraining order was issued by judge h. Church Ford april 15 to the Louisville & Nashville Railroad which claim edits operations in the strike area were being  ump is striking in seven counties for a clause prohibiting handling of nonunion Coal and a $2 a Day pay raise to $24.25. Meanwhile four More suits seek ing $3,291,000 in alleged damages against the ump were filed in Federal court by nonunion companies. The suits contend the ump threatened and intimidated employ is and trespassed on their prop erty during the Eastern Kentucky strike. $24 million set for Laguardia new York up the port of new York authority announced that a reconstruction program now under Way at Laguardia Airport will be expanded at a Cost of $24 million. S. Sloan Colt port authority chairman said the principal Fea Ture of the revised program willbe a passenger terminal five times the size of the existing terminal. The work will not interfere with service at the Airport Colt said. He said the other features of the program include a two level Ter Minal Roadway a new 150-foot control Tower parking facilities and anew aircraft runway. The reconstruction at Laguardia began in 1957, shortly after the port authority and the six scheduled airlines using the Airport approved the plans. Flood wipes out 100 Homes Iraq Auto Mexico up flood Waters of the silo River wiped out an entire Central Mexico farm Community of 100 Adobe houses leaving 600 persons Home less. . Parade to Welcome dutch Princess to  New York a Youn Crown Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands will be greeted witha ticker tape Parade on lower Broadway upon arrival Here sept.11 for a 10-Day visit to the  She thus will be honoured in a Way Many important visitors and returning american heroes Are welcomed by new York City. But in announcing her program Here the Hudson Champlain Cele bration commission said the 21 year old Princess perhaps would be Able to visit the Empire state a More common pleasure that millions of americans and visitors before her have enjoyed. The Princess will attend the350th anniversary celebrations of Henry Hudson s arrival aboard the Hall Moon beginning sept. 17. One highlight of her visit willbe a luncheon meeting with pres ident Eisenhower in Washington sept. 14. In new York she will visit the United nations see the museum of primitive arms be the dinner guest of mrs. Franklin d. Roosevelt and for two Days Bethe House guest of new York nov and mrs. Nelson Rockefeller  
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