European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes saturday Kennedy asks Bills to prohibit bilking of the Washington Orpi presi Dent Kennedy has proposed sweep ing new Federal controls to protect the consumer s health and pocket Book in the Purchase of food drugs and cosmetics. A a special message to Congress or. Kennedy urged passage of Bills to provide the government with a tight Check on misleading Advertis ing packaging sales and other practices aimed at bilking the buyer. The presidential message is the first of its kind to Deal directly with the interests and needs of the consumer. Fulfilling a Campaign Promise or. Kennedy directed the creation of a Consumers advisory Council to keep the Council of economic advisers posted on the needs of purchasers of goods and services. He also ordered the head of each applicable Federal Agency to pick an assistant to keep him advised on consumer interests. Pilot project ordered he directed the postmaster general to set up a Pilot project by displaying in some 100 Post offices samples of publications useful to Consumers. The housewife is called upon to be an Amateur electrician Mechanic chemist Lexicology is dietician and  or. Kennedy said but she is rarely furnished the information she needs to perform these tasks  or. Kennedy said the Cost of his consumer proposals would be modest officials estimated the Cost would run about $10 million for the added staff and programs. Strongly stressed in the message was a proposal to require that new drugs and therapeutic devices such As Back braces and trusses be effective As Well As Safe before they Are put on the Market. Mississippi police slay escaped lion Brookhaven. Miss. A two Highway patrolmen shot and killed an 18-month-old, 220-Pound lion after an unsuccessful attempt to subdue the escaped beast with a tranquil Izer gun. Patrolmen Ivo h. Lee and Alvin Malone shot the lion owned by e. B. Tredeaux after the Needle of the tranquil Izer gun apparently broke off and the lion charged. The lion named Cleo escaped from a stall in Tredeaux barn at tacked a Colt wrestled with a Chimpanzee and then fled. Daughter gets bulk of conductor s estate los Angeles Jose Gonzalez Perez 22 Eujenio Villa Hernandez 30, and Erasmus a i Pica Medina 23, All presently living in Miami. E. J. Marshall agent in charge i because Field was under construction. He is now director of warehouses at the Memphis tenn., general depot. The colonel testifying before the committee investigating the air Field construction said i was riot swayed by any consideration but the Best interest of the unite states. Dawson opened the hearings to the Public after two Days of secret sessions because the matter was of such widespread Public interest and  ignored Stop. Order the committee chairman released the testimony of Hyman Baras comptroller general s office investigator who charged that rank ing officers at it. Lee proceeded with the construction of the air Field after they were told to Stop. Baras told the committee that the original Price tag on the air Field was $141,000 but that about $586,000 was spent before construction was halted. The $25,000 ceiling applied to operation and maintenance funds Only. Baras working on the basis of an earlier comptroller general s office report told the committee that materials costing approximately $87,000 were acquired with operations and maintenance funds although there was a statutory $25,000 ceiling on such funds. That materials for the Airfield acquired above the $25,000 were charged to other projects including one which did not  that army officials trying to stay within the $25,000 limit tried to Pawn off a hangar for the air Field As a storage building for other purposes. That several key army officers realized from the beginning that it would be difficult if not impossible to build the Airfield for less than $25,000. That construction continued Al though higher authorities ordered a halt because numerous structural obstacles precluded instrument approaches. That the officers failed to Sway higher authorities to change their decision and tried to keep the order from the corps of engineers they feared the engineers yep k. In Miami said All five cubans had been in this country less than two years and Rodriguez had been Here Only two weeks. 5 injured in blasts in 2 Ohio houses Canton Ohio up five persons were injured two seriously when two separate explosions destroyed two houses in the Lake Cable area about seven Miles Northwest of Here. Seriously injured were mrs. Marjorie Cartiea and her son Gregory 15. Also admitted to Ault Man Hospital Here in fair condition was a daughter Loretta. The Hus band Roscoe Cartiea and mrs. George Bowser were treated for Burns and abrasions. Save that Alligator Jackson. Miss. Up Spon sors of a Bill approved by the state Senate making it illegal to catch or kill alligators said the state s Alligator population is declining and the reptiles could become extinct would not continue. That on learning the govern ment accounting office was due to make an inspection the officers destroyed certain records in attempt to withhold embarrassing in formation from the government inspectors. Wreckers injured passersby Comfort Workman the collapse of Buu Dinc Beta rated in Savannah ga., who worker la led from the wreckage. Six men were trapped the rubble three of Fhima suffering injuries. Cab says defense failed to prevent Washington up the civil aeronautics Board cab for the first time has blamed air defense radar for failing to prevent the crash of a commercial Airliner. The cab said radar was track ing a Pacific Northern airlines Constellation just before it crashed into an alaskan Mountain Peak june 14, 1960, but did not warn either the Crew or the nearest Federal air traffic control Center that the plane was off course. The cab said the Accident in which All nine passengers and five Crew members died was caused 4 die in no. Blaze As boy 2, tries to set the cat on fire9 Elizabeth . Up a 2-year-old boy trying to set fire to the family cat with a piece of burning paper touched off a Blaze that claimed four lives. Police said the fire started in the ground floor apartment of or. And mrs. Ronald Jones in a two Story Frame building. Firemen said the three Small Jones children were watching television while their Mother prepared breakfast. The 2-year-old, Curtis had a habit of sticking paper into a kerosene Heater and trying to set the cat on fire Deputy fire chief Harold j. Gernandt said. He said when the Boji tried it this time he dropped the paper on a chair which burst into flames. Mrs. Jones said she threw water on the chair but could not halt the Blaze. She got her family safely out of the building but All four Mem Bers of the family in the apartment above died of Burns and asphyxia Tion firemen said. The victims were identified As mrs. Jean Vance 30, her children Paul 12, and Donna 4,.and her Mother mrs. Alma Brown 49. Primarily by the pilots use All available navigate ii the Board said if such been used the plane have wandered off course. But the cab added to Bat Tributino Factor was they la of air defense radar we been tracking the notify either Artic traffic control Center Crew that the aircraft feeding on a dangerous the Constellation was to an assigned Altitude feet when it rammed into. Bert a 9,646-foot Peak 28 the right of the flight s course. The plane had Cordova Alaska and for Anchorage. 3 men die in on Maryland i Laurel my. Up 1 were fatally injured it car ran off Maryland three Miles East of a a ditch and then a state police identified the victims As Clarence