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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, March 23, 1962

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Clarke visits Vii corps to say Goodby a William Dunev bib Munich Bureau Stuttgart Germany is 6n Bruce c. Clarke who said he s retiring from the army next month with very Fine feeling was honoured at Vii corps he thursday and then returned to the 4th army div to begin two Days of Farewell visit. An Honor guard of Vii corps special troops commanded by 1st it Orville Butts and backed bythe 82nd army band saluted the Usa eur commander in chief at Kelley Barracks where he met with it Gen John c. Oakes Vii corps cd who was named wednesday As the new 7th army cd. Clarke told n a group of Vii corps officers and senior cos. It is not easy to go around and say Goodby to people who have Brenas close to you As you in Vii corps. I have observed what you Haw been doing with a great Deal of admiration. Beat 1 Imit the two Best posts in the army Clarke snid Are the one you just left and the one to which you ale going. I leave the army with a Fine feeling. The reason for this is that i am leaving the army at the Peak of its peacetime capability. Commenting on the ainu s officer and noncommissioned officers corps Clarkes Iid that never i history has their been the Cap ability and Talent piled up in the army As to have today. Compared with 1940. The difference is really  Clarke also noted that the Soldier today is better educated and trained with better leadership and a better relationship with  new Heights i deplore people who get up be fore a committee in Congress and disparagingly talk about the Soldier. They Don t know much about the  commenting on  appoint ment As 7th army cd Clarke told the Vii corps officers and cos you re very fortunate and 7th army s very fortunate to have a Man of his ability. I am Surshell raise 7th army to new Heights of achievement my work to pay Monte Carlo a Academy award winning actress Grace Kelly Princess Grace of Monaco said thursday she won t keep a cent of the Money for the movie she plans to make in Hollywood next summer. Her salary will go a children s Charity she said. The blonde wife of Monaco ruler Prince Rainier announced monday that she will make a film under the direction of Alfred Hitchcock during a . Vacation. Since then there has been speculation in the press As to her motive for stepping off her Royal Pedestal for the lights of Holly Wood. Some papers even suggested that Money might be the reason the Princess issued a statement through the official Palace press Secretary saying that she was surprised at some of the comments in  because of these comments she said she wanted to set the record straight with the journalists. Longer training urged in engineering Columbia. To. Aii a told is Ric Dolo 01  i of i i a. Today the Easterly flow Over Southern and Central France and Southern Germany will continue and in causing partly Cloudy Sklon wit i morning Haze. Northern Germany and the Benelux countries will be under the influence of a weak Low pressure system with Cloudy Skie and Light precipitation Over the Netherlands and flu Northwestern portions of Germany. Northern Indiee will have partly Cloudy to Cloudy skies with morning Haze. . Temperatures United 1 Resst  his lot Atlanta Baltimore 84�f Button Buffalo Chie Aio Cincinnati High Low 71 m 48 41 o 27 41 47 31 39 u s3 41 Cleveland Denver Ostroll in i City Dunvill Laniel 91 30 43 m s3 36 5fi ii 63 47 Mimp Hli Miami Bateh Minneapolis Nathelle my Erliani new Vork okla a to huh Lew $5 $1 80 72 40 23 51 42 u m 4s 38 61 41 Halih Low Phenix 64 47 Pitt Nur a 44 49 Portland. To. 41 30 san francium s4 ii sail lain City 43 32 so Allt 42 33 Wuhan ton 49 45 Hott til my to the . 90 at it Palm Beach. Fla. Eol Doit oot at bom Idil. Kin. Cash Rains on berliners for fun in free world berlins a mailman have begun distributing gift checks Otaling $41,250,000 to West Ber liners who will spend i he Money this summer on vacations in the free world. The West Berlin Senate voted harness maker Marks 101st birthday in wis. Richland Center  Charles ii. Starr celebrated his 101st birthday anniversary at a reception at the Rich and count Home. Starr a retired harness maker who begun his work at Boa in 1883. Has lived at the Home since last july. Smallpox scare closing off 106th inf div rites in Belgium Heidelberg is Dedica Tion of a 106th inf div memorial to world War ii heroes scheduled for sunday at St. Vith. Belgium will be closed to the Public due to a smallpox scare in nearby Germa Narena. The Public had been invited to attend the ceremonies at which a Bruce c. Clarke. Susareu commander in chief will deliver a dedication address honouring american soldiers who fell in Theattle of the bulge. The belgian ministry of health Usa eur he spokesman said has prohibited any Large scale Gath ering so close to a German area where there have been recent out Breaks of smallpox. Plans for a firing squad and band from the 4th logistics come to take part in the dedication also have been cancelled. Clarke How Ever will keep the engagement to avoid disappointment be cause so Vith officials will not be Able to permit a crowd to gather former members of the 106th div now in Europe Are advised not to come to the ceremony the spokes Man said. The program last year after conferences with officials of the West German government which subsidized it. Every citizen of West Berlin More than 18 years old is being Given a Check for 100 Marks $25. Tii Ose younger Are receiving 50marks $12.50. The Money is to help with expenses of vacation trips. West Ber minors Are hemmed in by communist barriers and Are unable to get out of town on Short trips. We Call it our Zitter Preemie when Means trembling prize " said one recipient. It is a Premium we get for living in a place where one does t  distribution of the checks will be completed in two weeks. Al though residents Are urged to use the Mon y for vacations they May spend it in any Way they desire. Citizens who can afford vacations without government Aid Are asked to endorse their checks to a Wel fare fund. Odds arc 11 to 1 he will like it new York a this is heaven said Thomas Mulhall As he received the keys to his new apartment. Mulhall. A retired 75-year-old Bachelor is the Only male occupant of a building remodeler As housing for the elderly by the City housing authority. The 11 other tenants All Are widows ranging in age from 64 to 78. Beer coaster blurs vision of Munich coed by Bob hover surfs Stuttgart Bureau Munich is doctors have informed a University of Maryland Munich Campus coed that a Cornea injury she suffered when struck by a thrown Beer coaster will leave her with permanently blurred vis Ion in her left Eye. It was just one of those unlucky  said Joanne Walker. 18, while discussing the Freak in jury from her bed at the army Hospital in Munich. My peripheral vision is nil  i can t see an object when i look at it straight on. Thus Means i will have to do All my Reading with the Good Eye she said. Miss Walker a second semester freshman was sitting in a German Gasthaus outside the Mcgraw Ca sern Home of the Munich Campus with More than 100 other students when the Accident occurred. Stu dents had entered the Gasthaus during skip Day on March 9. Campus tradition skip Day was described by Sev eral students As a Munich Campus tradition the Day in which All students Cut classes. Resident Dean or. John f. Paar had banned the Day. Students were singing and there were a lot of coasters flying around and i got hit by one miss Waiker said. I was scared at the time because my Eye was full of blood but i had no idea that my vision would be permanently  miss Walker is the daughter of col William l. Walker air attache at the . Embassy in Berne. Switzerland. An attractive Brown haired girl she seemed to be Tak ing her injury philosophically i think the doctors will let me out of Here  she said. I Hope so because i have a lot of study ing to  polio poster boy ends grim Battle Salt Lake City a Debbie dins. Struck Down by polio when he was 4 months old fought the paralysis for 12 hard years. In 1954 he was the poster boy for the National polio foundation. He was 4 years old  the past year he had to rave four major operations to continue his Battle. But he died Here in Salt Lake general Hospital. Debbie s Given name was Delbert Ray. He was one of six children of or. And  Ervin Gooding Idaho. Dins of , Jacki Wasbin Giesaman eminent a and cameraman and the other making a movie i Kennedy s Stan and India rep. Elford a mich., said de director of the Agency Usia film is being Nuu contract and that also will pay Morrow gave to response to an Inis a member of privations Sut handles Usia a cer Terberg said that mrs. Kennedy a t adequately covered european and As photographers Radoi i correspondents. If a documentary of official trip is Felt Usia i would the pfc be plenty of footage Mereial films which aes bled by the even if this to not believe the salaries the cameramen and make this documentary  . Aid Viet Offei Pearl Harbor if Evi Secretary of defense Rob it Namara said american helped South Viet Nam offensive throughout the in the War against cd guerrillas Mcnamara Adduci we i of course expect i night a War of this time. However there 19 that the government and South Viet Nam have the ithe rapacity with our us  the Secretary issued statement after another with military leaders on Nam War. He left for Cisco where he was rodent Kennedy Friday. He described the talk most encouraging we have i far. I am pleased to learn armed forces of Viet Nam ing the offensive Thi country carrying the Viet Cong inflicting Gigli to rates and capturing weapons and supplies a  Mcnamara praised Hement shown by South soldiers under american advisers. The Impact of incr acan training Aid and Logist port to the vietnamese now beginning to be Felt More so in the months be said. Efforts to end political in Argentina reach Imp Buenos Aires a efforts o solve the Argentine political crisis appeared to have reached an passe thursday. There were no Clear signs of an eminent solution to a problem born at the polls where pro Peron St forces scored a dramatic vie Ory sunday. Negotiations hobbled along at government House amid increasing on fusion As to the True state of affairs in the troubled adding to this was a a press office communique said consultations were to select a new Cabinet that while no portfolios1offered, As of the mor new ministers and be sworn in  w o u 1 d and new Cabinet sunday the Nique said  
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