European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 5, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Tesa 1pn " " Tine loan distribution the administration a said distribute july 2 to its Olf Loes $75 million for direct Purchase Loans to former represent the first in-$269.5 million of direct of planned for the 1963 fiscal estimated the 575 Mil Toh would finance Between 7,000 Hafl 7,500 Loans carrying an interest & it  makes the Loans to in Rural areas and Small her conventional Home re not readily available. Pipe this Paul Rogers registers Surprise at a pipe smoking snowman in a mount Lebanon pa., Yard. Associated Prew photo Kibosh for ol9 red caboose ij3b1cago up the old red the railroader s Home away a is going the Way of thet locomotive. Aluc the Steamer whose re Djam ugent by diesels was mourned Tammen and train fanciers a Jyce the creaking Wood Shantys Een slowly going out in favor Petal cars. It s been going on the 1320s with Little notice. New cars Are More Eom and efficient but much off railroading will Dos Ului the red caboose. Box like shelter called the is almost As old As rail a self. It gave Crews a to bunk Between runs had facilities old tablets carved Fyffe the initials of Long gone train and a pot bellied , though Are not tie Vurry to see the caboose go.4 onion on the new York Central a abroad recently threatened to Tyrik unless their old caboose fixed up or replaced j. Kenefick Union general of lines cast described As draft windows Don t fit be Are poor there Are no elec Tryc lights matter of fact they resemble cattle curs More than anything  Crews on the Burlington fut Troad on the other hand Are reluctant to port with the old cars Welch they often use Between a Lvi tonal runs in an age of fast freight and tight schedules the Burlington hitches its new Metal cars to through trains. It drives the retiring Crew at each division Point to a nearby hotel while the newfangled caboose goes on with a new outfit. Sister in Law Hopes Jackie will see Wall Washington up Jac Queline Kennedy s world travelling Slater in Law has expressed the Hope that the first lady would Stop off in Berlin to see the Wall on her trip this month to India and  an interview Ethel Kennedy wife of atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy said it would be terrific if she Jacqueline Kennedy Ever saw the Wall. The vivacious Ethel Kennedy and her husband returned last wee from a trip around the world that took in Japan Indonesia. Thailand Hong Kong Italy Germany and other european countries. Jacqueline Kennedy is scheduled to make a Semi official tour of Only two countries in Asia India and Pakistan. She also will spend a few Days in Rome and London the attorney general and his wife had dinner at the White House with president and mrs Kennedy to give them a fill in on their Goodwill trip. That wabbit a toddler Torlea out the Rabbit Bole me of tiie Many feature of tile children zoo in new York Gerawl Park United press International photo today s caboose in vastly Dif Ferent from its forebears. Bay win Dows have replaced the cupola for observation Points. They have Auto Matic Heaters electric lights refrigerators Pullman Type chairs and radio telephones. Some of the new cabooses Are not even red. The Burlingto paints them a Bright Silver while the Milwaukee Road cars Are Orange. The passing of the old shanty has touched off a scramble among rail fans for the lost survivors. One Road official hesitated to re veal that his line has two wooden cars left for fear that they willbe snapped up. A top Chicago businessman uses a caboose As addressing room beside his swimming Pool. Railroad historians Trace the Ca Boose to the sailing vessels of the Early 1800s. Seamen used to build a fireplace or stove on the ship deck sheltering the fire with a Box. These were called Kabul  a freight conductor on the a Burn & Syracuse Railroad May have introduced the caboose to railroading. In the Isoa Nat Wil Liams came up with the idea of sit Ting on the last car of a freight to direct operations. The first caboose cupola is attributed to t. B. Watson a conductor on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. Watson is said to have used a Small Hole in the roof of a Box car As a Vantage Point in 1863. He later recommended that a Box be put around the Hole with a window for  windows began replacing the cupola in 1923 an the Akron Canton & Youngstown Railroad. After Honolulu Cap an air Force plane caught a parachuted capsule Over the Pacific after it had orbited the Earth s poles four Days attached to a discoverer satellite on a secret Mission. It was the eighth such catch by the air Force of a discoverer capsule fired from Vandenberg air Force base Calif. The successful c139 Hercules which snagged the to Pule s Parachute with a trapeze like device was commanded by capt Jack Wilson. It was Wilson s second recovery. In addition to the eight catches air Force frogman have recovered four others from the Ocean. The four Day orbit of the Gold plated capsule before ejection and recovery was the longest in the 3-year-old discoverer  Vandenberg the air Force said the discoverer 38th in the series had orbited the Earth 65 times a record for the series. The previous High was 64 by discoverer 36, the latest satellite was launched tuesday by a Thor Agena b rocket. The 12 capsules now recovered represent about 409 Polar orbits covering an estimated 11 million Miles at space travel scientific data prime objective of the program has been refinement and develop ment of a reliable satellite. A big second objective has been collection of scientific data. Vandenberg s spokesman said the capsule just recovered contained As have some others samples of Silicon Iron Bismuth Gold magnesium Nickel titanium Lead and other metals. Radiation effects on these will be studied. Instruments also were carried to measure the Earth s magnetic  of controlling satellites Are among subjects being studied. Coin toss leads to exhaust death Cincinnati the toss of a Coin evidently resulted in the death of William Allen 26, of fort Wayne intl., police  was overcome by fumes while sleeping in his car in front of the Home of his Cousin Robert Allen Here. Police said Allen und his two Brothers Charles 36, and Harold 22, came to Cincinnati to visit their Cousin but there was room for Only Ono of them to sleep in the  won the toss of the Coin and the other two slept in the car. William and Charles were Over ome by fumes and taken to a hos Plutul Charles wus listed in critical condition still a problem in Jet age Washington up the air lines Are trying to do something about their angriest customer or. A web. Or. Paob stands for  Senger arriving without baggage and As any airline employee or official will Tell you hell hath no fury like a passenger arriving Witte out baggage. The Trade Magazine air travel recently surveyed the mishandled baggage situation and came up with these statistics the , scheduled airline mishandle Only 0.6 of 1 per cent of the 70.8 million pieces of lug Gage they carry each year. But this still adds up to 500,000 bag that go astray. They also permanently lose one out of every 35,000 bags handled. It costs the airlines about to to retrieve each piece of lost lug Gage and about $200 for a permanently lost bag which adds unto an annual Bill of $5 million for mishandled Luggage and $400, 000 in claims for bags never re covered. Passengers sometime wrong the airlines Are not always a fault. Sometimes passengers them selves Are responsible such As pick ing up the wrong Luggage in a hotel lobby before departing for the Airport or claiming the wrong bag at destination. The air transport association at which represents the scheduled carriers says the most com Mon airline goof is failure to trans Fer baggage to a connecting flight particularly when the connections Are close. Ata estimates that about half the Luggage mishandling stems from this. Other factors include of Labet ing baggage tags with wrong flights or wrong destinations inadvertently removing Luggage at intermediate stops or leaving bag Gage tagged for an intermediate Stop on the plane. Collegians demonstrating political awareness student pickets out to Wake . By ii try keys Washington up world War ii turned us into a nation of acceptors. To Spaak up was to be in american so you shut  thus does 20-Yenr-old Betty Cal Karrol. Of Washington s american University explain the indifference of american College students to great political issues until the late 1950s. But she disputes that it is Only recently As some publications have reported that the nation s students have begun to picket and March in protest against nuclear tests segregation and other political questions. She has been picketing and demonstrating for seven years. The biggest Post War student demonstration she says wits april 18, 1958, when 10,000 students converged on Washington backing integration in the nation s schools Betty cola and students like her Ore direct action Sta because they believe that simple dramatic things like picketing the White House Are about the Only Means students can adopt to Wake people up they dismiss As frivolous California rep. Chet Hollfield s criticism of student demonstrators that somebody hns filled pm full of baloney. You try to talk to them and they just repent what they Veblen  in fact they say they Are not much interested in congressmen. They want to get their message across to the Ordinary people who will get it across to congressmen a Way of the ballot Box. To get a glimpse of what is Mak ing american students politically aware these Days it is Worth Alt Ting in on a session with Betty cola and fellow students at american University Mike Beard 21, of South Ohio and Albert Pierce 19, Oblong Island . Picketing is very effective says Betty Chia. You get to reach people who Haven t stopped to think. It is interesting that the kids who picketed the White House the other Day were sent out cof fee. There s strength in numbers. But fierce does not hold with picketing because it looks like Weare following Young student revolutionaries in other countries he believes there axe better ways like organizing letter writing  Beard disagrees students around the world can and do express their political opinions but in the United states student demonstrations Are somehow disgrace Ful. But even though the news papers try to write us off As beat Niks and so on the publicity is useful. It Points up to people. That the students Are awake to the world around them and Are not prepared to accept the Type of world that is going to be handed Over to them without trying to do something about