European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Mar Day August 31, 1959 the stars and stripes resting easy Selby d. Hussy operates the controls As a patient demonstrates a new Orth therapy motorized bed inside a Mobile Hospital showroom in . Patients can walk in and out of the hed located in a renovated bus which is on a nationwide  bus houses latest medical appliances. Up big enough to hold Iron lung family bus to help polio girl travel Ann Arbor Mich. Up seven year old Andrea Cappaert wanted to travel so her father went out and bought a second Han school bus and equipped it with an Iron lung. Andy is a polio victim and every night for the last five years a mechanical lung has done he breathing for her. Her father Leroy a personnel Counselor at Ann Arbor s Tappan Junior High school said an extensive trip probably to califor Nia in the converted bus i planned for sometime in the next couple of years. Andy kept talking about California he said but we did t know How we could travel an take an Iron lung  the used 48-passenger bus was bought for $250 to solve the prob Lem. Cappaert put another $150into furnishing the travelling Home and the March of. Dimes Respirator Center in Ann Arbor helped police Ponder tall women Tucson Ariz. A Tucson personnel d i r e c t o r David Fitz Gerald has a problem How tall is the average woman the question arose when police chief Bernard Garmire asked the personnel office to recruit Candi dates for policewomen specifying that they be above average in height. What s average Fitzgerald asked. No one seemed to  called the Public Library. He got this information the average woman is 5 feet 4vt inches in shoes.". What kind of shoes High heels Flats or Cowboy boots Fitzgerald asked. That was t in the  did a Little figuring on his own and came up with5 feet 4 inches As the minimum. New Booklet has title to get Teeth into Washington up the smithsonian institution has just released a Small Booklet with Abig title Early tertiary Phelis Cus and  As Panto Les Ltd  Plain language a study of the Teeth of prehistoric insect eat ing animals that once roamed the Western . Him install the breathing equip ment. Andy can breathe without Mech Anical help for just about two hours a  spite of this Cappaert said the spirited youngster has gone swimming horseback Riding and Sailboat no on trips to test thebus before taking it on the Long haul to the West  be put about 2,500 Miles on the bus since we be had it including several trips to traverse City Mich., grand Haven Mich end Toledo Ohio this summer Cap part said. And the Only trouble we a Hadis tires we be had a couple of Flats he said. Average Speed for the Highway Hospital Home is about 40 Mph Cappaert said. It gets 10-12 Miles to the gallon. Of Gas and does t use much Oil. 3 other children it costs about the same to travel in As a big station Wagon in rather poor condition the father  Cappaert s other three Chil Dren David 4, Tommy 2, and mar Lis 1, like the bus for travelling too. The whole family is please with the bus Cappaert said. The boys sleep in bunk Beds Marlisha a bed my wife and i sleep on burglars ransack Hollywood Home Hollywood a burglars ransacked the Home of actress Vir Ginia Mayo and her husband Michael o Shea. Missing Are jewelry and cloth ing including a White Mink jacket the couple s housekeeper told police. A foldaway bed and Andy has  the lung and a portable sys tem that Andy uses when in her wheel chair Are run by a 12-Volt Battery system. Cappaert said the family intends to keep on travelling As much As finances permit but will probably have to get a bigger bus in an other year or so because Andy i growing and will need a bigger Iron  Andy was a poster girl for the March of dimes in 1954 and 1955, and her Mother is writing a boo about the girl and her struggle against the disease. Meanwhile the Cappaert keep on travelling in the bus that has one More thing than Oil and Gas and tires to make it go. It s the spirit that Andy has herself Cappaert said. Philatelists fined for smuggling red China Stamps new York a Kurt Weis Haupt former president of the american stamp dealers  fined $5,000 after pleading guilty to a charge of smuggling$33,000 Worth of chinese communist Stamps into the .the sentence was pronounced in Brooklyn Federal court by judge Leo Rayfiel who gave Weishaupt until sept. 8 to pay the  s stamp firm Kurt Weishaupt co., inc., was fined $100in the same Case. The chinese communist stamp were routed to the . In a round about manner by Way of other countries the government said. Ammo Box night depository leads to arrest of Bank aide Detroit a conservatively dressed in a dark suit George Vichos 27, stood next to the night Deposit Chute of the Detroit Bank and Trust co. On a cart beside him was an old army ammunition Box painted Blue with a Hole punched in the top. The name of the Bank was Sten filed on the Side. When the Bank s first night Cus Tomer arrived Vichos told him the Deposit lock was  was asked to stay late and pick up the deposits Vichos told the Man. Your Mony will be  the customer a furniture store manager turned Over the Day s receipts $1,600 in Cash and similar amount in checks. Vichos dropped them into the Box. Later the customer had misgivings about the strange operation and called police. Vichos was still at the Bank when police arrived. I could have left after the first Deposit he said but i aids t want to Bea common  Ike s interest policy nets Money lenders billions Butler says Washington a Paul m. Butler democratic National chair Man said that administration High interest policy has resulted in More than $25 billion in subsidies to Money lenders. Butler made the statement i criticizing president Eisenhower s renewed plea to Congress Las tuesday to eliminate the 4vj. Per cent interest ceiling on Long Ter government Bonds. House speaker Sam Rayburn a Tex has said he sees Little Chance of such action this session and that the Senate would t approve it anyway. Sen. Harry  a a disputed this saying any Bill that reaches his Senate finance committee would get prompt consideration. Byrd favors removing the interest rate ceiling. Called artificial the present ceiling applies Only when the Treasury borrows Money for five years or More. Or. Eisenhower says it is a artificial limitation which forces the Treasury to rely on possible inflation producing Short term Bor rowing to finance the $290 billion National debt. The Republican administration Butler s statement said is irrevocably committed to a policy of High interest rates and tight Money. Democrats quite properly oppose this policy under which All Christmas caper Susan and Steve Wasserman get a laugh out of the More thana Little Early Christmas decorations at a Dallas shopping  purpose was to get Mer chants to place their Yule order Early. Up photo of the people Are increasingly exposed to what is really a new tax a tax not voted by the Congress and a tax which is payable not tothe government but to the Money lenders. The administration is so con fused about its fiscal objectives that the Secretary of the treas Ury put his foot in his Mouth this week by acknowledging that Noth ing shoots up interest rates a fast As the fear of inflation the act is that nothing adds Speed tothe inflationary spiral like in creased interest rates. The republicans still resist High wages for labor and insist upon excessively High wages of interest for Money. We Are proud of the Way the democratic 86thcongress has stood its ground against the arrogance of the administration in this  Khrushchev s claim denied Washington a the soviet Union will not pass the . In production by 1970, according to a report to the Senate. The report prepared by the corporation for economic and Indus trial research Cir noted that soviet prime minister Nikita  recently promised his people the world s highest stand Ard of living by 1970. Its own projections the corporation said show the soviet people can expect relatively Little Amelio ration of their Standard of  by 1970, it said the per capita Gross National product in the . Will be $3,600, while that of the user will be �1,600. Russia will be below the West european level of$2,100. The report noted a Factor behind the russian growth rate which is higher than that of the ., i that 27 per cent of Russia s Gross National product goes to capital accumulation As against 17 per cent in the . Father loses appendix with Stork s arrival los Angeles a a Young Sailor came Home on leave to bewitch his wife when she had their first baby. She s Home with the child but 21-year-old Lloyd Nilso stayed on at the Hospital. While mrs. Clarice Nilson was giving birth to a boy her husband became ill. Or. William a Wilkin son who attended the Mother wheeled the Young father into he room to see the baby then wheeled him into surgery and removed his appendix. Revenge ordered for Muskegon cop Muskegon Mich. Up Fruitport township  Stibitz figures somebody must be trying to got even for traffic ticket. Stibitz recently got phone Callisto verify that he had ordered five Yards of Concrete find out where to deliver a Load of Cement blocks make arrange ments for moving his House bring Over five Yards of Cement have his car picked up for re pairs and pick up a passenger for transportation to an airline terminal. He had ordered non of the services