European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 10, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse The stats and stapes officers ladies included in fitness report Navy to see How wives shape up e Jet Washington the Navy is going to appraise the wives of its officers for social graces and diplomacy in a new fitness re port form. So far As is known this is the first time any of the military serv ices has put Down in printed for the question of How a wife As Well As her husband officer Meas ures an announcement on issuance of the new form to replace the present one used by senior officers la judging the qualifications of their juniors the Navy says that an officer May comment on the officer wife team As to their suit ability and desirability As representatives of their country and their the fitness report presents the question this Way considering the requirements for social and diplomatic Contact with the officials and people four own and foreign countries indicate your opinion of this officer wife team As representatives of their service and country. Do you consider them to be particularly suitable suitable not observed Ornot applicable Check off boxes Are provided for each with a Small space for com ment. If the poise and character of a officer s wife in any of the military services always has been import ant in Washington and military Post social life. But it has become particularly important in the Post War years As military missions and units have been deployed through out the world. Iriv How the officers and their win get along at formal parties a their and Sodal act Natt an. Watched closely by foreign hosts. In addition both the Pentagon and the state department Saint air courage dam erf can Fame Fleite mingle More to the everyday of the countries Tat which the stationed. The purpose u two Tufit friendliness beyond foreign Aid programs to present the image of the american which the foreigner often does not see in the fictional film and to versions of Amerl Capay House kills measure to increase seat total Washington the House a flood by voice vote a Bill to in its membership from 435 to the measure would have restore single seats to Pennsylvania Massachusetts and Missouri. It was submerged by a House voice vote that vent it Back to committee. Its supporters conceded later it is doomed the showdown came the measure was abandoned even by b70 drive in Congress adds steam Washington sen. Bar to Coldwater. A Artt said that president Kennedy who is Balking at accepting extra funds to pus development of the supersonic bomber b7d. Endorsed the program in speeches during his i960 Campaign for chairman Carl Vinson a a of the House armed sen ices com Mittee who is trying to Force the Pentagon to spend an extra $311union the committee voted for the to fired another Volley in his Battle. He issued a statement say ing failure to make the big bomber a full fledged weapon could con front the United states with nuclear holocaust when a punch in the jaw would have been enough. Goldwater told the Senate that during the 1960 Campaign or. Ken Nedy sharply criticized the Eisen Hower administration for holding up Money voted by Congress for development of the 2,000-Mue-an hour said he wanted to know whether the nation is now through the thwarting of Cong res atonal action by the administration to be left without a manned bomber on the drawing boards Are we going to live through another sput Nik experience the bid squabble boiled up into a full fledged dispute when Vinson asked Congress to direct the Pentagon to spend the extra $311 Mil lion his committee voted. This raised the total for developing the plane to 9&1 million for the next fiscal year starting july about the same time. Secre tary of defense Robert s. Huna Mara said in a speech he would go before other committees of con Gress to espouse his View that heavy spending on the to now would be unwise and wasteful. They relished Hie situation Dayton Ohio Dpi to was Only a few Hong apart in St Elisabeth Hospital when a daughter ims born to mrs. Colin offland son to mrs. Albert few Mot sent were Cool As wheat they posed for Watt their. Its chief Pilot speaker John of Massachusetts. He had steered it skilfully from near oblivion to what seemed earlier like virtually certain passage. In the end it appeared that the Rock which finally wrecked the Bill was the possibility that All representatives from All three of the states affected might have to run at Large this year. This would have forced them to the added expense labor and political Haz Ards of statewide campaigning in Stead of letting them fight it out on the familiar terrain of their own districts. Under the reapportionment of seats resulting from the 1960 Cen sus Pennsylvania now will lose three seats Massachusetts two and Missouri one. Thirteen other state which stand to lose one or More seats would not have been affected by the measure. The Bill s demise was sealed Byan amendment that would have forced the calling of special ses Sions of Legislatures in Pennsyl Vania Missouri and Massachusetts to redistrict their states. Failure to Call such sessions would have required All House candidates from those states to run on a statewide basis. This amendment was offered by rep. Francis e. Walter d-pa., and was adopted on a standing vote 128to54. On the Trail a Herd of Deer under a Bleak Walden Colo sky produces a picturesque horizon scene Colorado game and fishing officials Are concerned Over the Lack of food for the animals. Up photo charge by sex priest s wife disputed san Francisco up the separation of a former priest and his blonde wife was described by his attorney As a Case of two per sons who could t get along rather than interference by the roman Catholic Church. Mrs. Walter Ryan has filed a $2.3 million suit against the Church m new Vork charging that the Church broke up the marriage in 1955 with Force and by Means and Aid of intoxicating beverages the suit said that after Ryan re turned to her in 1956 the Church placed him in a monastery against his will. Attorney Thomas p. Obrien of san Francisco said that was t True. He said Ryan came to California in 1955 of his own desire and has been Here. Ever since. It was just a Case of not being a Leto get along he said a. Don t think he would Ever want to go Back to her o Brien said. The situation would t he said Ryan has offered to Send Money to help support mrs. Ryan and their four children but asked one condition. Woodward to get new Post Washington apr Robert f. Woodward assistant Secretary of state for inter american affairs sine last july will be Given a new assignment it was Learned. Edwin m. Martin a top state department economic experts is expected to succeed him in the latin american Post. He has asked her to turn Over the sacred vessels which he left behind to a Catholic Church o Brien said. He does t want them kicking around the o Brien said a suit was filed in san Francisco last year to compel Ryan to pay support for the Chil Dren but spending while at tempts Are made to work out solution. The suit filed by mrs. Alice Belskis Ryan contended that the Church new York archbishop Francis Cardinal Spelman and other Church officials conspired to take her husband away from her. She said they married secretly in Maryland on nov. 13, 1950, while he was assistant pastor of the Glen Cove Long Island Catholic Church she said he later left the Church and worked As a Salesman. O Brien said he does not know exactly where Ryan 57, is at the moment but expects to hear from him is definitely not in a Catho Lic institution o Brien said. They won t have him. He was a priest and he got married. He a out the window As far As the Church is Washington defense department military establish an had intelligence the new a Hool. To i fhe Washington Are. Ynif1 num emr Ohinen featuring a nine month will be primarily for licence officers and key i sixteen week courses i conducted for Prospect attaches at embassies at a directive signed by 1 Patric defense Secreta services four months to specific plans forthe program. A spokesman said the Inot affect combat level gence schools such As the i tamed by the army at Bird near Baltimore. He said the army s school at Monterey ably would be expanded to language instruction for military services. The air Force will for All air Inte training and for advanced graphic radar and some i training now to Given by the new intelligence absorb the army s Strati licence and the Navy s intelligence schools both ated in Washington. Mother Hel in Poison o bloomf1eld, Init. 35-year-old Mother was charges of giving rat Poison husband and 10 children. But the father. Edward under treatment in a vote ministration Hospital in oils for acute arsenic said i hold no bitterness anyone. Lane who works As a in Bloomington said he he arrange proper treatment wife Fay Ellen so he con right Back with tests showed arsenic la As in her husband an children aged 4 to 17. Them Are in Indianapolis he sergeant j. Joseph fee police detective said no Poison were found in or her brother whom also live with Thea four room House near to of Cincinnati. The water i the House was found to factory. Mrs. Lane who said blackouts was held for after her arrest. Surgeon Shorter Homes save $1 million Post of f ice signs doctored Washington a the Post office department says it is saving about is million a year on signs and dedication plaques for new buildings because among other reasons Kennedy is Shorter than is Shorter than a North Carolina surgeon was curious. The surgeon. Or. Roderick b. Ormandy of Duke University became curious about a billboard size sign advertising a new Post office last year at Durham . He wrote president Kennedy suggesting this was playing it a bit Loose with the taxpayers Money and his letter was referred to the Post office department. Department officials Learned that the signs some of them As big As 13 feet Cost an average of woo with one costing 1800. They were ordered by civilian building contractors on Post office projects who passed the costs to the . Construction of More than 244b new Posic buildings was started last year. The department decided to take Over designing and ordering the signs on a no ton basis. It came up with a Standard three color sign costing �39. Department officials then decided Ings could be effected on the Purchase of plaques. The old plaques were 22 by ordered individually by the contractors $45b8q to miss each. The new ones wet inches Abd Cost j7j5 each on mass a department spokesman said Ona smaller size is possible to that the Kennedy and postmaster general a which go on each plaque a both Are those of their predecessors Dwight a and Arthur i
