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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Of Stu Odoy August 20, the stars and strip British airline not cancelling 707 Jet order London a Britain s big Gest airline has announced it is certainly not cancelling its order for 15 Boeing 707 Jet airliners. With spare parts the order is Worth $123.2 million a spokesman Tot British overseas airways corp. Reported. The Boac announcement Fol Lowed speculation in the British press that recent trouble with the 707 May persuade the state owned airline to cancel its big order. We have no reason to cancel the order the spokesman said. The Boeing we Are getting is not the version in the present  the new Type the first of which is scheduled to be delivered in december will be powered by Brit ish Rolls Royce engines. Lawmaker again asks grounding of 707s Washington a a Mem Ber of the House of representatives has demanded a second time that the Boeing 707 Jet transport be grounded As a safety measure. For the second time the Federal aviation Agency said it considered the plane Safe and had no plans to ground it. Rep. Steven Deroyian . Sent a Telegram to Faa adminis Trator e. R. Queseda saying in part i must insist that the 707s be grounded pending full invest  Deroyian also said he was ask ing the safety subcommittee of the House Commerce committee to investigate the fatal crash of a 707 at Calverton n.y., aug. 15, when five crewmen were killed on. A test flight and on other reports of difficulties with the big transport. An Faa spokesman said the Agency had found no safety violations and at present had no intention of grounding the 707s. 707s will land at Frankfurt Frankfurt up West Germany s Lufthansa airline will Fly its new Boeing 707 Jet aircraft into Only Frankfurt Airport the Only Airport in the country equipped to take Jet aircraft on regular basis. Lufthansa s transatlantic flights also go from Dusseldorf Hamburg and Munich airports with regular Piston engine planes. None of these airports has the lengthy runway required for a Boeing 707. President Eisenhower s special Boeing 707 will land at Bonn s air port next week. However the air port is not considered Large enough for regular landings by the big jets. Lufthansa will begin using 707 Early next year. Driver says Jet intake lifted tipped car Hamburg Germany Werner Huene is looking for Ajet Pilot to sue. The 48-year-old Hamburg sales Man filed a complaint with Testate prosecutor. He was driving1 quietly Longan autobahn when a Jet plane flew Over less than 90 tee above the four Lane Highway. The intake from the jets to said listed his car off the ground and overturned it. He and a companion were badly injured. Hitting the Beach by the numbers racists lose cruelty count against cops Little Rock Ark. A the ittle Rock City Board of directors has rejected segregationist charges that police were brutal an violated the constitutional right of peaceful Assembly in putting Down an anti integration Demon stration at Central High Scholast wednesday. The Board does not believe therein any basis for these charges the seven City directors said in a state ment. It is our belief that the thousands of bathers throng the Beach at Atlan tic City n.j., to seek refreshing Relief from the heat As the Mercury climbs to a sweltering 90-degree Mark. United press International photo Back handed attack Bottom of her trouble London a a magistrate ruled it is All right for a woman to take # crack with her shoe at Aman who has just Kafoed her Hus band in a fist fight. But when she hits the fellow hard enough to draw blood she goes too far. This assessment of British la was handed Down by judge Cecil Campion after hearing the Case of mrs. Patricia Jones 21, accused of assaulting Frederick a. Lawrence and thereby causing him bodily harm. The prosecutor said mrs. Jones husband and Lawrence got into a argument about a motorcycle. Lawrence let Loose a punch which knocked Jones unconscious. Aghast at what he had done Lawrence Bent Over Jones to see whether he could help resuscitate the victim. Whacks with shoe at this Point mrs. Jones re moved one of her shoes and belted Lawrence across the most obvious Point of attack. Or. Lawrence said prosecutor. W. Weston suffered two cuts on his buttocks which  an arresting policeman quote mrs. Jones As explaining i hit him with my shoe. I had to do it i thought he was going mrs. Opdycke Dies actress producer Norwalk Conn. Up mrs. Theresa Helburn Opdycke 72, actress drama critic producer play Wright and director died Here. A founder of the theater Guild in 1918, she discovered Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Some of the plays she produced with Lawrence Langner included Philadelphia Story Oklahoma picnic Jacobowsky and the colonel Carousel the iceman cometh come Back Little Sheba and Venus  a 1924 mrs. Opdycke cast Lunt and Fontanne in the guards Man Over objections of the play s owners and agents thus starting one of the most famous teams in the american theater. Together with Langner she Wasco executive of the theater Guild from 1919 to 1932. Since 1933 Shehad been executive director of the Guild. To strike my husband  i Don t blame you for what you did the judge assured mrs. Jones. The trouble is you went too far. If you had merely taken of your shoe and smacked him on the backside with it i would have said Jolly Good idea but you made some cuts and you Are brought Here on a charge which is  Campion dismissed sentencing mrs. Jones based on a Promise not to do anything of the sort  assessed her 20 shillings $2.80 court costs. A charge of assault by Lawrence against Jones was adjourned until sept. 4 25. Lawrence spent the entire court session in a standing position. Bird freeloaders overload wires Cut Power Supply Webster mass. A Pigeon caused a 15-minute Power failure in the business Section Here. Police said a woman employee Ofa store Here feeds bread crumbs every Day to an army of starlings and sparrows. The woman began a two wee vacation but no one told the Birds. Fifty Birds gathered As usual for their daily handout. No one fed them and they retreated to nearby Utility wires. A second shift of 50 More pigeons arrived and they too flew to the  lines sagged from the weight of the  line snapped hit a live wire and Short circuited Power. Mit professor Falls to death Boston a a Man who toppled to his death from the roof of a Boston hotel was identified As William Rupert Mclurin 52, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of technology. 36 us collegians ride into Moscow on double Decker x Moscow up thirty five travel weary Oxford students Andone girl from Bristol rumbled into Moscow after a Cross continent ride aboard their red London double Decker bus. The students boarded the 20-year-old bus at Hanover Germany and then drove into Moscow via Berlin Warsaw Minsk and Smolensk. The students represent the Oxford conservative Assn. The group s adventures in the soviet Union began at the Brest Litovsky Border station where so Viet guards obligingly took apart a user Border sign spanning the Road to make Way for the bus High roof. Uneventful trip the rest of the trip into Moscow was relatively uneventful except for the crowds of russians who surrounded the bus to ask questions at every Stop. The group s bus was bought i London where it will probably be resold after the students Complete their roughly 3,600-mile London Moscow London trip. The group plans to use the 20-year-old vehicle for sight seeing in Moscow. They toured Moscow University where they Are being put up for a stay expected to last at least 10days. City acquires problem along with new District new Haven Conn. Up at Torney Serafino Ginnetti was coun Sel for the new Haven Annex in its fight to remain a separate tax ing District of the City but the legislature adopted a Bill allowing the City to absorb the Annex Ginnetti sent a Bill for $3,000 tothe new Haven Board of finance his fee for representing the annexing the losing fight. He claimed that because the City absorbed All the obligations of the Annex that in Cluj so his Bill too. Another Story on Page 5 police department acted in a completely Legal manner in maintain ing order and protecting life  the Board then asked the  department As the prop r authority to probe alleged Vio lations of civil rights to make a Complete investigation of the Cen trial High incident. 2 complainant the Justice department already has rejected a similar request from Dewey j. Coffman a segregationist Leader. Justice department official were not immediately available for comment on the Board  to the City Board were made by mrs. Margaret Jack son president of the m o t h e is league of Central High and mrs. Dale Alford wife of rep. Dale Al Ford dark. Police used clubs and fire hoses to repulse a segregationist Marchon Central High on opening Day. Twenty four of the demonstrator were arrested. Nike Asp fails at 2d Clou lift Wallops Island a. Up scientists failed in an Effort to place a second glowing artificial Cloud into the skies above the East coast. The Nike Asp rocket for the Experiment to test wind velocities in the near vacuum of space was launched according to plan at8 34 pm from the National aeronautics and space administration Nasa station Here. But v the 27-foot rocket which placed an artificial sodium Cloud inthe skies tuesday apparently failed to reach the height necessary for its chemical payload to spew outland reflect sunlight Nasa said. Nasa said the trouble apparently was a malfunction of the Sec Ond stage of the two stage rocket. But the scientists had no immedi ate details. Tracking stations from Dover del., to Norfolk va., had been alerted to watch for and photograph the  first Experiment treated Resi dents along the East coast to an eerie and Brilliant display resembling a Comet. Most popular Book even in Russia new York a new bibles Are being sent to supplement the collection on display at the Amee ican National exhibit in Moscow. The american Bible society said it is providing a new Supply to the . Information Agency since re ports that some bibles on display at the exhibit have Beer removed or damaged by tremendous Wear by the throng of visitors. Austria offers to admit 4 homeless stowaways Vienna a tiny Austria offered to accept four yugoslav stowaways aboard the danish freighter Olaf Bjarke who have been denied disembarkation by various countries. Austrian Interior minister Josefa f r i t s c h announced he would order that fast work be done and Rod tape Cut to give the refugees new Home Here. The danish freighter reportedly was in route to Iceland and woman among the refugees was said to be pregnant. We Hope that this woman can give birth to the baby under a firm roof in Austria Fritsch said. Austrian authorities said the measure should be regarded As a austrian contribution to the world refugee  however with a population of Only 7 Mil lion Austria has been a first Haven for hundreds of thousands of refugees from East Europe and still harbours 88,000 of them  
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