European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes. To Keiday Audi if 25, 1959 g 1/f i la Marc to inv stay in 24fh ply Komi y drive Stuttgart Germany special the 7th army contributed a record $164,928.95 to this year s army emergency army Relief society Campaign officials announced Here. The total topped the $150,000 fair share goal by 10 per  last year s figures of $143,326 by .15 per  army cult Gen f. W. 3tarrell said the 1959 contributions were the largest in 7th army history. Charity awards Are ars Charity awards went to 40 units. They averaged individual contributions of $1.05, or higher. Leading the Field was the 10thtrans up whose average was $1.80, followed by the 6th pm up $1.55,and the 521st engr up $1.33. Seventh army Campaign chair Man was col g. L. Eatman. Avsec gives $6,412 to Relief Campaign Verdun France special this year s joint drive of the army emergency Relief society and the army Relief society in Advance Section topped last year s total by$579.26, is was announced Here. This year s total was $6,412.61. The Campaign was directed by maj John l. Stripling of the Avsec personnel  provides assistance when financial emergencies arise which cannot be handle directly by the army. The ars was created especially to help the needy widows and orphans of regular army personnel the breakdown by areas in this year s drive Metz and verdun52,814.35 Nancy and toul$2, 225.41 trois Fontaines and vitry$1,372.85. Farnborough eyes record Farnborough England is the annual flying display and exhibition Here sponsored by the society of British aircraft construction promises to be the big Gest in its history. Number of exhibitors has in creased to 376 and Public attend Ance during sept. 11-13 is expected to exceed 250,000. Three new airliners the Light Ning All weather fighter capable of exceeding Mach 2 and the hovercraft flying Saucer Are expected to be leading crowd attractions. Of the new airliners the Van guard is the largest. This Turbo prop aircraft is capable of carry ing 139 passengers Over Short an medium routes at fares according to British officials which could slash existing Levels by up to 50per cent. The Argosy also powered by Turboprop engines is designed for uses As a freighter or passenger aircraft or in mixed configuration. It has been ordered by Riddle airlines of the . And the British government has announced its adoption As a Royal air Force tactical freighter. Of readers in us top . Average South Ruislip England Spe Cial whether the climate just keeps folks indoors or the dearth of to channels stimulates other pastimes the fact is Usan fam Ilies in Britain read More than four times As Many Library Broksas the average american in the according to statistics released by 3d air Force he Here airmen and their dependents in England borrow Library books at the rate of 15.29 a year while the annual National average in the states is3.37 books. To g possible said John Jolly,3d air Force librarian that our people Are following the example and outdoing their British neighbors who read almost twice $8 Many books As  21st Iii marksmen toasted by Bob Fleming so writer Monica is nato s Sharp est sharpshooters the . Army team from the 21st info 1st battled a came Home to a conqueror s reception loaded with  members of the 24-Man team were promoted on the  to the 24th inf div for the second consecutive year came the Bronze Leclerc trophy symbolic of supremacy in the annual nato Battle firing Competition among seven nations. The . Has Woititz five out of nine times. The 21st Vanl team carried on for last year s Lecler c Champ the 24th div s 1st Battle up 34th inf. Only Guy who had a hand in both Vic tories was pfc Ronald Way a machine gun Ace from North Bend Ore at their Home Cavern the Victor passed through a double line of Battle group comrades. They rated b58 makes first landing1 a Brand new b58 bomber the supersonic Hust Ler gets an assist in making its first Landing As it comes off the Assembly line at the con Vair Plant at fac worthy Tex. Hydraulic jacks gently lower the big plane from the 9-foot-High Assembly line to the floor. Up photo 28th inf gangster gets radio spot by Henry b. Kraft staff writer Munich is life is Justine great big laugh after another for pfc Ronald a. Monica. And if you tune in on the Ron Nie Martin five minute show on the american forces network wednesday at 8 55 pm you la know Why. Monica has been using Martinas his stage name for the last decade or so. He comes from Newyork City and was once a professional master of ceremonies. He s with the 28th inf now. When i entered the service the doctor asked me if i Felt badly about giving up show business to go into the army said Monica. I told him not. At All. Many of the boys Are trying to beat the army Bysa Ying they have bad Teeth bad hearing and so on. I told the Doc Tor to forget the test just give me a gun Send me overseas and give everybody a Day off. I la dig 46th inf combo aids orphanage fund Frankfurt special the Alpha company band of the 46th inf staged a three hour show and came up with a big take a truck Ful of donations for a marburg orphanage. The five Man rockette played at the no club in Friedberg in the first of three local performances for the Friedens Hutten orphanage fund. Some Cash was donated but the bulk of the gifts was clothing and canned goods donated by 3d army Piv soldiers As the Price of  trenches and i la kill All the enemy. The Doc said y o u n g Man you re  i replied write it Down Doc write it Down " Monica personnel clerk in his outfit also writes his own script while his buddies Don t actually expect him to be funny when he is with them Monica said the think they have to be funny. And so they Tell Hie jokes. Fac Ronald a. Monica i. Good humor Man imagine i m supposed to be  Monica is a philosopher. Life is too Short to be sad he reflected. Make people Happy and be Happy yourself. Show me a Man who has lost All of his Money and can still laugh and i la show Youan  but Don t get him wrong. Mon Ica loves Germany. I went to Berchtesgaden and asked the hotel clerk for a room. He told me it was 20 Marks anal i said it was too much and asked if he had anything cheaper. " of course " he said " but you la have to make your own bed " Okay i la do it i replied. Some handed me some boards nails and a  a Salute from everyone from the commander on Down. In addition to the bust of French marshal Leclerc the 21st inf team brought Home the general Gale trophy which is awarded to the top Light machine gun team and individual Leclerc plaques an medallions for each Man. Other individual awards went to sp4 Norman f. Briggs runner pin the individual pistol Competition 1st it Stanley Skaife third inthe Rifle contest and the machine gun team of sp4s Kenneth d. Gar rett and Donald t. Rhea another third place Winner. Consistency was the key to the americans Victory. The yanks captured the machine gun event trailed Canada by two Points in the Rifle match and shot Only two Points less than Germany in the pistol contest. The Canadian team a Strong contender through the pistol and Rifle phases. Collapsed when it machine gunners tumbled to sixth place. Britain and Germany swept past the canadians into second an third places in the Overall scoring. The . Scored 2,957, Britain 2,826,Germany 2,820, and Canada 2,776. It was a grand finale for the21st inf team which almost did t make it past the first round. The team Captain 1st it Thomas n. Grif Fen pointed out that the team was Only second Best in both the24th div and Vii corps preliminaries and had to come from be Hind to win the Usa eur finals. It was a team Victory All the Way he said. Lifelong friends it col Lawrence g. Mathews roof the 21st inf thought the great est value was the Friendship an sportsmanship among the nato countries. The Gimlet team Mem Bers have made lifelong friends. Leclerc is a great program and should be More heavily pm  Happy Guy was maj Gen Ralph c. Cooper cd of the 24th div. Cooper recalled that army Secretary Wilber m. Brucker watched the 21st inf practice i february and asked to be informed of the results of the nato  am Happy that we can report that the trophy stays with the 24th infantry division he  also noted that the sportsmanship was Superb and the match extremely Well  it was hosted by the German infantry school at  the shooting stopped the americans swapped uniform cups regimental crests and Blue infantry cords with other nato team members. Hottest item was the Canadian soldiers red berets. Brit ish Green berets were next in demand. Navy Day theme Washington is ".Navy global peace through to bile sea Power has been approved As the theme for use in observances of Navy Day on oct. 27. Singers Aid Church turnout w e t h e r s f i e l a England is attendance has increased 50 per cent at the protestant evening services Here during the past month. The reason according to Chap lain maj Theodore r. Smith is six men. They Call themselves the stripes of glory and their special to is negro spirituals and gospel songs. Organized five months ago bya/1c Jodie Holmes Lead voice the group has made several appearances in British communities including performances at an orphanage and Home for the  formerly led the gospel flyers a prize winning singing group stationed at Mcguire air Force base , other members Are a/2c Eugene Long first tenora/2cirving Johnson bassa/3c James Strickland bassa/3c Owen kill Man baritone and a/1c Howard Sherman second Tenor we sing because we enjoy it said Long. We think it helps others and eases some of their burdens and worries. Like the Blind audience we Sang for the songs seemed to lift their  arrangements the songs we sing Are the songs we be heard All our lives. We fix our own arrangements to suit  group practices about six hours each  said that the name the stripes of glory was selected by Holmes in Honor of the . Flag