European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse 1962 the stars and stripes pog.5 due Robert Frost Dean of american poets has re covered completely after a recent hospitalization and plans to leave in about 10 Days for his Home in he North. Frost 87, was Hospital Zed feb. 6 with a lung congestion be maintains Homes at Miami Cambridge mass. And Ripton it it s a whodunit Shreveport booms sonically and Glassill Shreveport. La a this is the prettiest sight i be overseen chortled a plate Glass com Pany official As he surveyed nearly 55,000 in damage to windows caused by a mystery sonic Boom. I never remember being the mid afternoon sonic boo caught hundreds of people on downtown streets in this Northwest Louisiana City. Many narrowly escaped flying splinters of Glass. The Only casualty reported Wasa Cut Finger by James Lowery of the United service organization Uso. Lowery was in his office when the crash occurred. The Uso build ing is on Texas Street the Down town Section s main thoroughfare. Sex Church official gets 1-10 years Rock Island. 111. Up a former Church treasurer was sentenced to one to 10 years in the state Penitentiary for embezzling$13,098 n Church funds to pay his poker debts. Willis p. Massingill 53, of Rock Island pleaded guilty to a charge he embezzled from the first Baptist Church of Moline. A non Frunker Massingill said he started playing poker in Back rooms at Moline and Davenport Iowa and could t Stop. He never won he said. It became a sick Ness with me the Church treasurer said. A Large window in the front of the building was smashed. I looked up and saw the top half of the window just slide to Ward the Bottom said Lowery then the Glass started breaking in the Lowery said he fell Over Back wards in his chair trying to get out of the Way. But if you think i was moving fast you should have seen two women on the sidewalk. They ran right out into the Middle of Texas Street nearby Barksdale air Force base said none of its planes was responsible for the sonic authorities made an inquiry at other air Force installation but were unable to determine the source of the plane. Merchants and businessmen Esti mated damage at More than $5,000.the most severely damaged was an Auto Agency which lost two Large plate Glass windows and suffered some building damage. Two new cars in the showroom were also damaged. My Secretary will never be the same said a businessman whose windows were broken. Senate speedup asked Washington up sen. Jacob k. Javits r-n.y., has objected to the leisurely Pace of the Senate and called on president Kennedy to assert More leadership Over the democratic led Congress. Things ought to be humming right now Javita said in a Senate speech. I Ocer will sell House to help boy injured in store 5ianapolis Dpi grocer s. Gibson is preparing to a has House to pay medical Bills Little toy injured while help. Out in Bis store Days ago Johnny con 9, led Tome meat into a or of cult Gibson was t look 1 boy s Finger were " " by the grinder s Blades. 57, said he told a real estate agent to put his House up for Sale. He said the Money willbe held by a lawyer to pay Johnny s doctor Bills and buy him an artificial hand. Gibson who is a widower and his son will move into an apart ment when the Home is is All i can do Gibson said. I talked to the boy s father and he realized i did t have Johnny s father John constant sr., said the news that Gibson was going to sell his House to help the boy came As a Surprise to him. I did t threaten to sue did t even think about it constant said. We be been close friends for years. Our families knew each constant said he knew his son was working for Gibson but i did t know he was Messing around with a grinder i thought he was stacking potatoes picking up bottles and things like that Johnny who did t know about the grocers decision to sell his Home was recovering in a Hospital. Marion county prosecutor Phil lip l. Bayte said he was investigating to see if there had been any violation of the state child labor Law. Weaknesses now Rule chit move Mcnamara says Washington up it appears now that no amount of Money can make possible an absolute defense of this country against the intercontinental ballistic missiles defense Secretary Robert s. Mcnamara said. For that reason he said and be cause of serious weaknesses in the system itself defense officials can not at this time recommend that the Nike zeus antimissile missile be put in production. We will be spending in fiscal year 1963 Over $300 million on the development of such technology Mcnamara said but we can see no reasonable Prospect for Success fully developing that shortcomings not listed discussing this and other subjects in a radio television interview1 with sen. Kenneth a Keating r-n.y., the Secretary did not spell out the Nike zeus these objections have been raised against the system which still is in the development stage there is evidence that it could be saturated subjected to such a barrage of attacking missiles that it would prove Only fractionally effective. There is no proof that its radar is spoof proof capable of distinguishing Between a warhead Anda Decoy. Mcnamara said that while officials consider the Nike zeus to Bevery advanced the weaknesses still exist and we know of no Bette solution to the b70 controversy the Secretary also fired another round in the administration s Bat the with congressional leaders Over the b70 bomber a weapon still very much in the experimental said that in View of the grow ing Force of bs2s and Bess to number about 700 in All by 1967. It seems unnecessary and undesirable to undertake production of the boat this on still another subject Mcna said that although this coun try s conventional forces have been built up considerably there has been no percentage shift away from nuclear weapons. Seven meningitis cases at it. It. Dix . Up a Preven Tive program to curb an outbreak of meningitis Lias been started Hereford All military and civilian personnel. The. Base Hospital reported seven cases of meningitis since the first of the year. It emphasized that the number was not unusual for a Hospital serving 80,000 per sons. The families of All patients have been notified of the illnesses. All personnel Are to receive an anti bacterial drug As a precautionary measure. Worst thing that con happen happens Bloomfield no. Police said u we a
