European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse 24, 1962 the stars and stripes tag 3 a on u2 flights in 1955 reported former Dwight d. Eisenhower serious misgivings about fit u i n g it2 reconnaissance Over the soviet Union a five years before Francis were was downed. Look of these planes is shot Down this is going to be on my head look quoted or. Eisen Hower As saying in 1955 while be ing briefed on the then new u2 program. To going to catch Hel the world will be in a a Story the secret history of the. U2," by Washington newsmen David Wise and Thomas b. Ross said that he often expressed doubts after he continued to approve the flights because military advisers told him that the United state needed the information the High flying planes were bringing Back the Magazine said. Military men also assured him that the russians would have to suppress any incident involving the plane because they could not face the humiliation o t revealing that their air space had been repeatedly violated it added. The article said that several years after the 1955 briefing or. Eisenhower told his news Secre i 1 u Bow to swedish freighter Silona Aafje it the Biff ship was beached at the month of the Elbe River on the German North sea coast during the big storm nearly february. Topi photo children die l Raton. Fla a 3 boy and a year old girl at Bethesda memorial in nearby Boynton Beach night were victims of poisoning author Here. Were Deborah Ann and ill children of or. Andert j. Drummond Boca victim of the Poison n Baucon 36, a maid at Thead residence was reported factory condition in the s three had taken drinks Tram substance similar in spate to milk it was 1 a Container in a. Refrigeri Home. Stainer was one of 12 milk in the refrigerator chief Hugh Brown said j of the lethal mixture was Dally said the mixture was to Fri laboratories in for analysis. Reports said two children drank the mixture saturday after complained to he i r t they did t like it i afterwards they both be Kintly in and were taken at 7 45 p.m., Deborah have two other Lynn and drink any of girls in trunk die in fiery car mashup san Mateo Calif. A two mexican girls Riding in the trunk of a car because there were eight people Riding in front were killed in a flaming freeway collision. Officers said Patricia de la Garza,14, and Guadalupe Bello. 12, both of Mexico City were trapped when their car was struck from behind spun out of control and burst int flame. Seven other persons were injured in the crash. The Highway patrol said the girls and eight relatives were vacationing in California in a 1959 patrol said the Auto driven by Carlos Andrade 23, of Mexico City was in the right hand Lane preparing to turn. Off Bayshore freeway when it was struck fro behind by a car driven by Guy be. Blum 53, of Burlingame. Blum was Given a blood alcohol test Andrade and Alfonso Elzondo father of Guadalupe and Uncle of Patricia tried to pry open the twisted jammed trunk lid but were forced Back after suffering Burns on their hands and faces a leather Case containing 52,800 in Cash the group s vacation Money was either burned or lost most seriously injured was Bea Trice Andrade 27, wife of the Driver. Elizondo s wife Nellie and their other children Alfonso 15, Jorge 14 Aurora 17, and Alfonso,17, were treated for minor injuries and released. Blum suffered a concussion. The Coroner s office said the girls apparently died of head injuries Burns and Carbon monoxide. Polish kids run for gum from american guests Poznan Poland boy Sand girls in both communist rus Sia and Poland have a great Hun Ger for chewing gun touring american Farmers report Julius f. Bishop of Athens ga., one of 57 Georgia Farmers visiting Eastern Europe was almost mobbed by polish children whence started handing out gum on a state farm outside this Centra polish City. It was the same in the soviet health insurance Battle of Ages goes on he s 109 Hamden Conn up the Friendly Battle to claim the oldest person in the nation with a Pri vate hospitalization plan continued with the announcement of a 109-year-old sheepherder from Prattsville Colo. D. A. Long general agent Here for Mutual of Omaha said he sold a policy to Henry Gooch when he was 108 last year. The Vermont Accident insurance co triggered the Competition with the announcement that mrs. Ellen e. Perry of White River Junction it made insurance his tory by taking out a policy just prior to her 102nd birthday. Connecticut Blue Cross " an swered that claim the next Day saying that Henry m. Baldwin of Milford now 105, had taken out policy when he was 103. Led 5 Hurt in head on Calif. Crash area collided with a Sedan on a curve on the Streich of desert Highway. " \ six persons in the stat in Wagon were killed and two of the four passengers to fhe Sedan died officers raid. 1$te five Aurvin yours were taken to a Hospital list Brawley where attendants said All were in critical condition. Patrolmen said the Sedan travel ing at an estimated 70 Miles a four veered across the Center line of the two Jane Highway and slammed into the oncoming station Wagon. Identities of the victims were not immediately known. Union last week. Several other georgians gave away All their chewing gum to kids who could t seem to get enough of the stick stuff one thing the russians could really use is a chewing gum fac tory remarked Jack Gilchrist Georgia state agriculture depart ment official from Decatur. We have been mobbed again and again by youngsters wanting gum. They would have traded us almost any thing they owned for Gilchrist reported polish farm ers seem far ahead of the russians in livestock Breeding. The Ameri can tourists had found the soviets raising dual purpose herds for Bot milk and meat. But the poles they said showed evidence of careful selective Breeding of both milk and beef cattle. Gilchrist said also the polish Farmers have done an excellent Job of Spring blowing and land preparation Poland which has a High percentage of private land ownership had a High crop yield last year and was Able to Export meat and poultry. The soviet re Gime has been expressing concern Over boosting production from its collect sized agricultural the russian people were very Friendly Gilchrist said we could t help but feel an even stronger Bond of Friendship wit the during a lavish easter feast Given them by polish Farmers several georgians told of the Large num Ber of americans of polish ances try and of several Georgia cities with streets named after poles such As Pulaski. Phone profanity Bill oed Jackson miss a the Mississippi House has passed a Bill to raise the penalty Lor using pro Fane and indecent language Over the Telephone to a Fine ranging from $10 to $10,000 and imprison ment from 30 Days to five years. The Law was changed to make such actions felonies rather than misdemeanours. Tary James Hagerty about the u2 and that he had often asked the Central intelligence Agency Cia what happens if you re caught it has t happened yet was thecia response. Look said. The Story also said that for Mercia director Allen a Dulles after examining psychological test Given Powers the morning before he began his flight Saidl that if he had Boen on the scene he have sent Powers on the flight that Day. Dulles did not reveal the specific reasons for his reservations about Powers the article said. But it added that Dulles knew that some u2 pilots were worried about system to destroy the u2. In the event of trouble Over Russia pilots were told that the system would destroy the u2 after the Pilot had balled out. But Many pilots were worried about the system destroying t h Craft before they get out or going off if the plane were hit by enemy fire the Magazine said. As Powers began his flight Over Russia he was aware of increased activity by the soviet air defense command which had stepped up efforts to halt the u2 flights look said. Powers also had been suffering from headaches and earache traced to the breathing apparatus he had to use while on his missions which took from eight to nine hours it added. When he be Areca the site of a suspected new soviet missile base under construction the article added Powers automatic p i to t began acting up. He decided to take a radio Compass bearing to help him Fly 4he exact course that would take his Long winged Craft Over antiaircraft batteries near Sverdlovsk the article added. The Story did not say How Powers u2 was brought Down or the Altitude at which be was gang but it said that shortly before us flight cameras aboard another j2 brought Back pictures of soviet fighters climbing to the attack Only to fall out of control before reaching the u2fs Altitude. Red herring Back in swim Collinsville in unix there was something fishy about he argument Between City coun Cilman Norman Weber and or. Robert j. Greaves City health offi cer. Weber accused Greaves of acting Only if a stinking dead herring was shoved under his nose. Greaves said Weber s criticism was aimed at drawing attention away from the City s neglect i licensing trailer Camps the old political Dodge of dragging a re herring a Oss the said Greaves better dead thanked. Herring that customer bugs out on big Burger order Wichita a to the car hop at a drive in Here it looked As. If some Good Man had gone to Thea id of a party. But when she returned with the 99 hamburgers he had ordered he drove off without them and with out taking care of the 529.70 plus tax Bill. They la probably name the score1 Madison was. Cd Tai the Philadelphia symphony Ore he tra plans to do a Little swinging when it play � May 10" concert orchestra has a�fce4 the uneven Titor of Wisconsin Stradea newspaper the daily con buil to and a fraternity it Trail to play the
