European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday August,24, 1959 the stars and stripes Page 0 tighter Check " defense funds Washington up rep. Georfe a. Mahon a Tex has called for closer screening of new mint re Prog Arns to avoid  of Tige sums on in exc Tia by 6ad  tote Texas Democrat chairman of let House defense. A propel Ati Ofidis. Subcommittee said the individual armed services have been permitted too much latitude i initiating expensive new programs. He said there should be tighter control by both defense Secretary Neil h. Mcelroy and the. Joint chiefs of staff to provide a greater degree of guidance to the services. Seaplane cancelled Mahon spoke out in an inter View in the Wake of the Navy s cancellation of its High Speed Jet seaplane program. It spent $400 million on the program and received Only nine pm sea masters. It said both technical trouble with the plane and the need for Economy forced the cutback. A week ago the air Force an Navy after spending $200 million abandoned a search for so called zip fuel to Power War planes. Both the seaplane and fuel pro Grams were jettisoned under my Elroy s rugged decision orders. He has directed that All marginal projects be eliminated to help keep defense spending within the total spent in the past fiscal year. Right number wrong Day Steubenville Ohio a two men held up the Community savings Bank at Yorkville getting away with nearly $39,000. It was the first Day that special police thinking they were victims of a prank had dropped their guard. A week ago a woman s voice on the Telephone predicted there would be a Holdup at 10 30  was t any that Day but the special officers watched the ban Day after Day concluding it was a practical joke the Bank dropped its special precautions today. Irene Castle knocks the Rock new York a dancer Irene Castle can do without Rock n Roll even if it makes her sound like a Gay 90s  she and her late husband Vernon Castle originated the , a ballroom dance style before world War i. Miss Castle now in her 60s, re turned aboard the liner liberte after a three week visit in London. Asked her opinion of modern danc ing she said i Don t like the Rock n1 Roll they re doing. I Don t think it s pretty. To Many. I know i might sound like a c a 90s grouch but i still Don t like  lawyers give bust of Lincoln bum s Rush los angst leg in the corridor of the new los angled county courthouse there stood a heroic oust of Abraham Lincoln brooding in  this meticulously folded Monument to Lincoln the lawyer is  lawyers kicked it out the 300-Pound bust is the creation of  Seletz a Beverly Hills brain surgeon who has done portrait sculpture about 20years, his work has won five first prizes in West coast Art shows. When the $24-million courthouse was built the bust was installed in the train corridor. But before Long the log Angeles bar  because i or Seletz occasionally testified in injury cases involving his patients. On several Occa Sions he has been identified in court As  of the Lincoln bust. Some attorneys Felt this identification might affect the Deci Sions of juries. They thought the doctor said that if the jury knew i made the Lincoln they would think me More capable in my Field of  Grant Cooper a vice president of the bar association said there had been complaints from members of the association and judges. Complaints had come on both sides of  Cooper said attorneys had asked the doctor embarrassing questions like was he a doctor or a sculptor the association asked the county Board of supervisors to remove the bust. And Lincoln was carted away to the doctor s . Seletz who was born 48 years ago on Lincoln s birthday did not respond with in difference. His comment this head i spent four Long years work ing on it. ,1 thought it was fitting for the courthouse because it was Lincoln the lawyer. I did not ask them to put my name on the big Marble base. They did that  Seletz said he suggested his name be re moved but it did no Good. Just Why a few attorneys became so violently upset he said i do not know. The Only thing i can figure is that it s a reprisal against me from someone who lost a Cas because i reported in court the degree of injury suffered by one of my  but Cooper said no personalities were involved. It s just one of those things that interfered with the administration of Justice. As a matter of fact some jurors commented. I know there were complaints from  it has been suggested that the bust replaced in another Public building maybe the county Hospital. But Seletz won t buy  made Lincoln the lawyer for a court House he said. That s where he  on the eve of the bust s removal Selet said sadly it distresses me to see a second assassination of  air Force orders screeching halt doves fouling up rocket sled tests Alamogordo . A doves perched on the rails of the 35,000-foot High Speed captive mis Sile test track at this  research Center Are fouling up operations. They May weigh almost nothing but they pack a terrific punch when a rocket test sled hits them. The water filled Concrete Troug Between the rails used to Brake test sleds to a Stop apparently draws the Birds from the sur rounding desert. They Perch on the rails and Knock holes in Quarter Inch thick steel As sleds hurtle Down on them at supersonic Speed. Records of the air Force missile development Center Tell of several instances such As last june 25, a 212 Pound sledging 3,000 Mph ended its run with a jagged 10-Inch Hole torn right through its Quarter Inch steel plated nose Cone this is a phenomenon of High velocity  s one of the zanies least expected problems we be Ever faced said it col Donald Vlcek test track chief. The Birds never even hear our faster than sound  r. C. Rethmel one of the test track s supervisors said a suitable solution is being sought. We obviously could t electro cute them As they perched on a single rail he said. We though Poison might do but that s Messy and rather uncontrollable. We tried a Hawk whistle but that did t railroads ask Federal panel to probe Feather bedding Washington a the rail Road Industry has asked president Eisenhower to set up a special commission to study featherbed Ding. It said make work operating rules Are costing the rail carriers$500 million a year inflating prices and ten eat ening jobs. The Assn. Of american railroads car in announcing the move said it follows failure of efforts to obtain Union cooperation in arranging for an unbiased study and newsprint consumption sets 1959 High in july new York up newsprint consumption continued to Rise in july setting a record High forthe first seven months of 1959, the american newspaper publishers Assn. Ana reported. The Ana said newspapers re porting to the association consumed 400,102 tons of newsprint in july a 9,8 per cent increase Over the same month last year when 364,487 tons were consumed. Demos passing the. Hat but gop hands stay put los Angeles a democrats want republicans to help finance the i960 democratic National convention in los Angeles. The idea got a Cool reception from a Republican  Navy Secretary Dan Kimball who Heads a new Conven Tion finance committee said that republicans will be asked to contribute As a civic  National committeeman de Shattuck commented there is no longer any reason for the citizens generally an republicans in particular to join in the financial support. It is now their the democrats affair and a partisan political one at  organized a new finance committee to raise at least $350,000 after a squabble with their National chairman Paul Butler Ove convention tickets recommendations for any needed changes. It said that Effort has Bee going on since february culminating in an unsuccessful conference of Union and management spokes men recently in the office of Secretary of labor James p. Mitchell says unions refuse in View of the Union leaders refusal to open up the featherbed Ding problem to Independent fair and objective appraisal in the pub Lic interest management has no alternative other than to proceed on its own with All possible Meas ures to eliminate this Price inflating Job destroying blight car president Daniel p. Loomis  reported the decision by the carriers to ask on thei rown for creation of a White House study commission and concluded we believe Only this course holds real Hope of leading to Deci Sions that can head off labor management discord and work stoppages help Check inflationary Price pressures stabilize Job Levels and strengthen the Railroad system which is so vital to the nation i peace and  Boyington s wife files counter suit los Angeles a the wife of Gregory Pappy Boyington world War ii flying Ace has an swered his divorce suit by suing him for separate maintenance. She alleged that Boyington had inflicted extreme cruelty and men Tal suffering. She said she is with out funds and asked reasonable , 56, now a Beer sales Man charged mental cruelty in his  couple married in 1946 and separated last july 2. They have no children. Work too Well because of time delays before the Birds got into the air. Something new we be come up with is the idea of animal or Bir cries or Sharp loud noises or other so und effects wired into our loud speaker system. Just recently we be ordered two special recordings on of machine gun blasts the other of Thunder  la soon be  Vlcek said we be written to an ornithologist at Cornell  understand he has one particular record that simulates Hawk coming in for a kill wild screech and the victim s squawks and everything. We be heard that sort of sound amplified along the track might scare away every Bir for  army unveils new satellite it. Monmouth . A the army signal corps has unveiled its latest communications satellite the 475-Pound courier atan exhibition of new communications and electronic  army said it plans to Send courier into orbit in  research and development Center at this army communications Center developed the 150-Pound payload for the satellite which relayed president Eisen Hower s voice from outer space last december. Abc executive Dies Hollywood up Earl h. Hudson 67, vice president of Amer ican broadcasting co. And a former Newspaperman died at  Hospital Here of a blood disease. Admit tapping Bank till mrs. Weldon Conner 84, left and mrs. Vola Renfro 59, leave the Federal building at Tyler tex., after admitting they took$130,516 from a Jacksonville tex., Bank while working there. They will be sentenced aug. 81. Associated press photo