European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday August 23, 1959 the stars and stripes Artiman plans new memoirs history Book. Independence to. Up former president Truman has announced plans to write two books one on his experiences and candid opinions since leaving the White House and the other an american history Book for readers 10 to 16 years old. The first Book will be titled or. Citizen and is scheduled for publication in March 1960. The second will come the following year. No title has been selected. It will be the third and fourth times for Book length authorship by the former chief executive Ata Chipper age of 75. He previously published his memoirs in two volumes years of decisions and years of trial and  or. Truman told a press con Ference that probably one of his deepest disappointments since leaving the White House was his not being called upon officially to serve the country in some manner. In Reading again of the lives of those former presidents who survived their terms of office i found that some have fared on Good Fortune others in hardship some in esteem and some i neglect. Hoover recalled but in too Many instances the nation was deprived of their unique experiences when they might have been called upon for special service to the country. If you remember i recalled one of my predecessors and he did wonderful  or. Truman referred to his appointment of former president Hoover to an economic fact finding Mission in Europe and the Hoover commission to investigate govern ment processes. Asked if he could have used his experiences to help the . In his Post Washington Days or. Truman snapped ask the Man who should have asked  it was a reference to his Suc Cessor president Eisenhower. Destruction starts Church rebuilding the 75-foot Steeple of St. John lutheran Church in Niles iii., begins to fall As wire ropes of a wrecking Crew dislodge it. It was decided to rebuild the Church after a fire damaged it extensively. A Union Calls of aide strike breaker Houston a striking machinists at Mission manufacturing co. Have protested to presi Dent Eisenhower that air Force under Secretary Dudley c. Sharp sr., acted As a strike breaker vat the Houston Plant. The letter also said Sharp is opposed to lab Runions. A Mission executive denied the charges. Sharp a major stockholder was vice chairman of the Oil and Industrial tool firm until he returned to Washington Early this month. He earlier had served As assistant air Force Secretary for Materiel. Local 12 of the International Assn. Of machinists struck the Plant july 13. Five members of the local s negotiating committee signed the 1,100 lbs. Of marijuana seized on . Farms Raleigh . Up state and Federal agents raided farms in tobacco Rich Eastern North Caro Lina and smashed a multimillion Dollar marijuana growing opera Tion. Officers seized and burned 1,100 pounds of the narcotic Weed which made into Reefer Cigar ets and sold by pushers in Eastern metropolitan centers was Worth up to $1,500 per Pound. The Mari Juana was grown on farms in the North Carolina coastal Plain which produces most of the world Sci Garet Type flue cured tobacco currently Selling at auction markets for about 57 cents per Pound. Most of the marijuana seized had been harvested was Cut and piled in barns ready for the illegal Market. State Bureau of investigation chief Walter Anderson and a 1,000-Pound Harvest was Cut and stored on the farm of Alan Hubert Hub Johnson near Fayetteville. Agents investigating the flow of marijuana from North Carolina to new York Philadelphia Balti More Pittsburgh and Washington for the past five months arrested 11 persons. Letter to or. Eisenhower which read under Secretary Sharp had himself and other executives photographed operating the machines normally operated by our members and had these pictures published in a brochure for customers cleverly designed to impress upon the customers the com Pany is producing on schedule the letter said. " we do not believe it is your policy or the policy of your administration to have officials designated by you perform As strike Breakers while our members Are on  Bedford Sharp Mission Board chairman answered for his brother nobody in this company is anti Union he said. But there is a limit to the amount of infringe ment on our management rights we will  sea master program ended by Navy with 9 of 24 planes built Washington a the Navy ended its $441 million sea master Jet seaplane production program deciding that Only the nine planes no built will be used. The contract with the Martin co. Originally called for delivery of 24planes, Fred a. Balz under Secretary of the Navy said the original idea for the big Jet powered planes was Good but has been overtaken by unforeseen technical  the High Speed sea based planes had been designed for Long Gangemi delaying and reconnaissance mis Sions. The Navy had planned after an earlier cutback in the program to form a Squadron using the planes already built. But in its statement the Navy said the ultimate disposition of the accepted aircraft asunder  the announcement also said the overriding urgency and import Ance of other Navy programs made the additional expenditure of funds for the seaplane evaluation project unjustified. Other projects the ending of. The plane production program also Means dropping of two related projects the conver Sion of a Landing ship for use in servicing the big seaplanes and for construction of ramps and hangar for the planes at Harvey Point . The Navy already had spent $11.5 million dollars for the Harvey Point facility and $1.4 million for con version of the Landing ship. These figures Are in addition to the Over All $441 million program for production of the plane known in the Navy As the pm. More than $470 million had been earmarked in the sea master pro Gram. The termination the Navy said will mean recovery of about$72 million of this total. Reserve facility the Navy said it expects to save about $18 million on the Landing ship conversion contract but expects no recovery of Money in the Harvey Point project which will be placed in Reserve status. The first of the four eng incl 600 Mph sea masters was flown injury 1955. While a plane was undergoing one of its flight tests it ripped apart killing All four per sons aboard a second sea master also crashed during tests but the Crew escaped by Parachute. The first six of the nine sea masters powered with Allison j71jet engines Cost $175.6 million. A second contract with Martin was for $221.9 million to produce eight More planes with Pratt & Whitney j79 engines. Three of the planes under that contract now ended were produced. 2 ambassadors resign Washington up presi Dent Eisenhower has accepted the resignations of John Clifford Fol Ger As . Ambassador to Belgium and Walter c. Ploeser As ambassador to Paraguay. The White housemaid both resigned for personal reasons. No effective Date was Setin either Case. Mississippi sit Down ended by governor 150 cons strike after inmate killed parch Man miss. A More than 150 prisoners at Mississippi state Penitentiary staged a Day Long sit Down strike Over the killing of an escaping prisoner. Gov. J. P. Coleman and prison superintendent Bill Harpole put 42 rebellious prisoners in solitary confinement and ordered the others Back to work Coleman said Harpole notified him of the rebellion because trusty guard r. A Hall killed William Jenkins jr., of Oxon Hill my. Hall reported Jenkins was trying to escape. The governor ordered out 50 National guardsmen fearing trouble. But he arrived at the prison before the guardsmen and addressed the prisoners. Coleman said he Lold them they must obey the orders of the prison officials and return to  after some rebellion they came out of their quarters and everything is under control the governor said. Coleman said the louder 1