European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes wednesday August 26, 1959 new York electrical net called inadequate report blames firm new York a the Power network serving this huge Metropolis is inadequate and overloaded a City report charged in an aftermath to last seek s vast Midtown  investigation was ordered into the citywide  Armand d Angelo of the depart ment of water Supply Gas and electricity said the blame for the huge electric breakdown aug. 17 rests squarely wit Luthe consolidated Edison  that is the big private Utility firm which supplies Power to new  failure left a wide segment of Manhattan in which a half million persons reside in darkness for about 12  his report d Angelo said electric installations in the area Are inadequately designed and that the Utility firm overestimates its capacity. The company said it categorically denied an Inadequacy in our system and said that the d Angelo report was clearly  the Utility said the Power failure was due to circumstances that were entirely unforeseeable and added that the chances Ai e negligible that a similar situation might develop  City s findings were compiled by engineers on d Angelo s staff who contended that a Lack of feeder capacity on the West Side of Central Par caused an overload leading to the blackout. We believe that the system was strained eve before the beginning of a Chain reaction of feeder failures said Alexander Luikis chief Engineer forthe Bureau of Gas and electricity. The City since has also been hit by three other smaller Power failures two Friday night and one sunday affecting an estimated 20,000 persons. Train derails near Toledo injuring 13 Toledo. Ohio a seven cars of a nine car Baltimore & Ohio passenger train were derailed at a crossing in suburban perrys Burg injuring at least 13 persons. Hospital officials said none was Hurt seriously. Two cars were turned Over on their sides. The diner last car on the train was tilted at a 45-Degreeangle. Rescue workers broke open the dining car to let the Passen Gers out. Nearly 800 feet of track was torn up. The to said it will use the other Side of the double track to keep its traffic moving. Passengers were brought to downtown Toledo by bus and other arrangements were made to get them to their destinations. The train no. 54, the Cinci Natian was in route from Cincinnati to Detroit with 200 passengers. Railroad officials said they could give no immediate explanation for the derailment however the Engineer w. F. Fisher of Lima Ohio said it might have been cause when the brakeman heard a thumping noise while he was inthe club car and pulled the Emer gency Cord. The train was travelling about 30mph at the time Fisher said. Nixon tops opinion poll Boston up the Bosto Herald Sale that vice president Richard m. Nixon was the Over whelming Choice of new Hamp Shire republicans for the presidential nomination with new York gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller a  the Herald published the results of a poll conducted by opinion research corp. Of Princeton. N.j.,among 584 new Hampshire voters from 59 areas throughout Testate during the period from july 26-aug. 5. New Hampshire s presidential preference primary next March 8 is the first in the nation and i considered a key contest by Many backers of both Nixon and Rocke Feller. 74 pet. For Nixon the Survey showed that about74 per cent of the gop voters interviewed would prefer Nixon ins Republican primary and Only 11 per cent would vote for Rocke Feller the rest of the vote was scattered among in ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and for Mer presidential disarmament Aid Harold e. Stassen. The poll also said Independent voters surveyed preferred Nixon to of Rockefeller. Nixon garnered 54 percent of the vote Lodge polled 16 per cent and Rockefeller came i third with 13 per cent midwife husband does it a second time Hollywood up Robert Clark 28, and his 22-year-Oldwife lost a race with the Stork for the second time in 19  was Rushing his wife Nell to la Bra Hospital when time ran out and he had to Parka Short distance away and de liver their 6-Pound, a ounce daughter Tami. He delivered their first Daugh Ter at the family Home in nearby Venice 19 months ago. Both Mother and new daughter Are doing Fine. American legion fails to ease Rule on discrimination Minneapolis a a move to further wipe out racial restrictions in the american legion a unmaking subsidiary the 40 and 8, floundered in a convention com Mittee on a technicality. The 40 and 8 Constitution now permits Only White persons or indians to be members of the organization. Alaska legionnaires suggested to the constitutional amendments committee that this requirement be deleted from the  40 and 8 some time ago changed its Constitution to include members of the Indian race but attempts at several recent conventions to erase the color line  committee rejected the Alaska move on grounds it was Notin proper form. Committee Mem Bers said the Alaska proposal Casein the form of a suggestion rather than an amendment to the Constitution. The legion itself has no Coloreine and accepts members of All  Alaska delegation argued the 40 and 8 race restriction was i violation of the legion Constitution. Actress Irene Dunne grandmother 2d time Santa Monica Calif. Up actress Irene Dunne became grandmother for the second time when her daughter Mary France Shinnick gave birth to a daughter at St. John s Hospital. Mrs. Shinnick and her husband Richard also have a son Mark 22 months old. Youth accused in -n.y. Killing of teen Ager new York a the Leader of a Young gang Bent on vengeance was accused of killing a 15-year-old girl in the Climax of a Savage out break of violence in new York s lower East Side. Police said John Cruz 17, admitted firing the Volley of shots that killed Theresa gee As she Saton a Bench in front of a housing project. I did not know i was shooting girl sobbed Cruz to detectives. Police said she apparently was Only an accidental victim of the shots aimed at the sportsmen Gan by the Forsythe Street boys headed by Cruz. Four others shot Cruz was charged with homicide and with felonious assault in the shooting of two others. Four other persons were shot and a Man and two youths stabbed one critically during the out Breaks. The clashes exploded like a string of firecrackers. The outbreak ended a truce arranged three year Sago by an episcopal minister the Rev. C. Kilmer Myers. He an others have worked to keep Down trouble in the tenement  gee girl was a former Friend of Frank Boyd 17, who has Long been in trouble with the Law. Apparently this had nothing to do with her death. Steam explosion kills . Worker new Ark . Up a High pressure steam line exploded while under repair killing one worker and seriously injuring  blast at the american hair & Felt co. Killed John windus 54,a repairman. Leo Otlowski 45, of Hillside,., a sub Foreman in the maintenance Section suffered Burns on the face Chest Heck and arms and was hospitalized. He suffered some of the injuries pulling windus away from the steam police said. Sex congressman Dies new York a Eugene , 82, former democratic con Gressman lawyer and Amateur astrologer died of pneumonia at a nursing Home. Eying a jumpy subject Bill Boeder a new York Newspaperman goes to the source for a Story on mexican jumping Beans. He reports the Beans Are the biggest thing in Novelty sales for years. The Small Worms squirming around inside them cause the Beans to jump about. Up photo Commerce aide to seek Trade boost in 4 nations Washington up assistant Secretary of Commerce Henry Kearns will leave next week fora tour of four european nations to convince them they should open electronic plotter speeds analysing of satellite data Sunnyvale Calif. Up Lockheed has announced develop ment of a new High Speed digital plotter which has effected a spectacular reduction of work in Analuz ing radio data from Earth satellites. Lockheed missile and space division Here said the new electronic wonder can turn out charts an graphs containing scientific information 17 times faster than the method previously used. Or. George f. Taylor in charge of handling data received by radio from the discoverer and Polaris missile tests said data from a 24 hour orbiting period of the discoverer used to fill 15 volumes standing 39 inches High. With the new plotter he said the same amount of data is contained in single volume an Inch and a Quarter thick. The plotter a Maze of transistors and circuits eats up the magnetic tape on which information is received from the satellites. It has a Bank of 1,024 writing styluses which transcribe the charts and automation from the tape needed scientist says none Dies of old age Ojai Calif. Up a Pioneer stress psychologist says no one Dies of old age. It is always disease which causes  or. Hans Selye director of the Institute of experimental re search at Montreal Canada said he envisioned the Day Whenman s Normal life Span would be Joo years. Selye told the second annual inter professional seminar that Man s primary medical troubles now Are stress and cancer once solutions Are found to these problems he said Man can expect. A greatly increased lifespan. No one has Ever reached the limit of age Selye said. Headed that stress is what tires and makes a person nervous adaptability to life the ability to reduce stress is what determine the length of life he said. Stress is the rate of Wear and tear the Speed with which reuse up our vital Energy at one time Selye said. For study of the data by engineers their doors wider to american products. He will visit Yugoslavia Greece Austria and Italy. He told a news conference he would try to convince them it is in their Long Range interest to ease restrictions on . Products. If they want to participate in tire . Market they have to buy from the United states Kearns said. It is a two Way  besides discussing Trade relation with the european nations Kearns plans to talk Over . Participation in Trade fairs and . Travel abroad. He will make a similar swing through part of latin Amer Ica late next month and through the far East a month later. Expects bigger Shar Kearns said he expects the . To begin getting a bigger share of world business. He said there Are already s Gas that . Businessmen Are capturing More Busi Ness abroad. Kearns flatly rejected the theory that . Businessmen have set their prices too High to meet com petition from other industrialized nations. Many times when a . Firm has lost a contract to a for eign competitor he said the Amer ican firm has submitted a Lowe bid but has lost for some reason other than  Commerce department offi Cial cited a Case where an unidentified . Firm and the German Mercedes Benz company competed for a contract to sell buses to a unidentified Middle East nation. He said the . Company under Bithe German firm by $40,000 but failed to get the contract because Mercedes Benz offered to Send Mechanic along to give special service. Girl Dies in 150-foot fall Springer . A four teen year old Sally Miller of Dai Hart. Tex., lost her footing end fell 150 feet to her death while hiking along a Cliff in Cimarron Canyon Northwest it Springer