European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 6, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes ii a de onion of new Mexico politic before Washington newsmen bring a forceful band gesture from sen. Denoted Njal United of turn International photo Kennedy has rocking chair seat at big air Force show in Florida Eglin air Force base Fla a president Kennedy watched from a rocking chair while the air Force saluted him with a tremendous display of Aerial might climaxed by a simulated nuclear bomb drop Only 1,500 feet fro the reviewing stand. There was also a fire bomb napalm drop in the same area and the president could feel thereat from where he was sitting. Another feature of the firepower demonstration at Eglin air Force base in Western Florida Whethe launching of a Gam 77 hound dog air to surface missile from ab52h Strat fortress above the r viewing stand. The hound dog which is Ca Pable of carrying a nuclear War head impacted in the target Are about 22 Miles from St. Peters Burg in the Gulf of Mexico handsome 650 Miles from Eglin. I Don t think anyone could watch the flying we have seen Here today and not leave a goo Deal happier the president said just before boarding a Jet line for Palm Beach. The demonstration of flashing Jet bombers fast fighters and missiles was staged at Range 52 be reply to Pacific shots 1/.s. On Alert for new Russ a tests Washington Cap . De have been alerted be on the Lookout for a newbies of soviet nuclear explosions. Administration officials said they Capate wow soviet test at any moment. It is expected most of the shots will be in atmosphere and that some Ofat least will be fired Pri Rily for political purposes. Word has gone out from the Ilot dead West weft air Force base the wreckage of Aje fighter plane has been on a Woodlands Hillside about Miles from this air base. Police said the Pilot maj Wilb. Howell a n. Live of Arden was dead he is survived by widow Saraband two children rho live at the air base and his of Arden an air Force helicopter spotted he downed f102 de to Dagger Jet Orttie of route 9 in Holland area a clue we Amherst and Belchertown. The $1 million plane crashed Burdsay nigh while on a routine Mission air fore officials said they lost Alyi the Craft a Contact 3s . Officials said the supersonic ail Craft attached to the 76th Iier interceptor so crashed trying to land. Al vet is top in 5th of Kyo Oil a Veteran of h Ogoc Jinjr in thes Barma Iodia theater has named the 5ti air farce Sig airman of use year mis m set Leon a Nichols Ficu Wco i charge base sufi Cly to nearby Yokota if 1 i of vice commander maj John a Sutherland in an selection and had charged Patricia s parents Vir. And mrs. Charles Kremer of Toms River with contributing to the delinquency of a minor begins to Sobion s father began to sob. He asked permission to never wanted to bring any Harges against my son. T Only wanted to get his custody to it him away from surroundings a school. He is a Fine boy and i d like to w 11 h j r a w any charge against he said. Ion got to his feel. If it s pos sible i would like to withdraw the charge against my Stepmother he declared. The prosecutor refused and in magistrate continued the hearing to May 18. Ion left the courtroom with disarm about his Stepmother s shout Der. Outside a offered Hiss Han to his father. Then they embraced. Ion brought Patricia Over and his father hugged her. Classes saturday to make up for it and High school bands along the route played Hall to the on arrival at Range 52 the pres ident was escorted to a Small Box atop the reviewing stand where rocking chair awaited him. With or. Kennedy were Vic president Lyndon b. Johnson air Force chief of staff Gen Curti Lemay Secretary of the air Force Eugene Zuckert and Florida Bryant. Watching from the stands were an estimated 75 generals Diplo Matic representatives from Virtu ally All the nations of the free world and a number of Congress men. The president started things go ing. He pushed a Button Klaxon sounded and eight b52 bombers on to an Airstrip and at two second in aloft wheeled streaked Vervals. Six 1,000-Miie-an-hour voodoo fighters followed at five second intervals. The jets spurted away on Amock Alert that would be the real thing in wartime. The entire military High com Mand of the United states joined or. Kennedy in viewing the show from Field bleachers. See x15 planer. Kennedy also took a look at a motor procession displaying 35various kinds of air Force combat planes and missiles plus the x15which just Sef an Altitude record of 246,700 feet the Pilot maj Robert White saluted. And behind closed curtains of climatic Laboratory the president had a look it a u2 High Altitude plane of the Type used by Pilot Francis Gary Powers. A 15-mile drive took or. Ken Nedy to another Section of the base to View a demonstration of air Force firepower with air to air and air to ground missiles. The targets were obsolete plan Sand mock buildings set out on a Field of grass sprinkled with scrub Oak. Or. Kennedy flew to Eglin from new Orleans where he made a for eign Trade policy speech. On the Way into Eglin an aide pointed out a thousand school children stand ing on the Gulf Shore spelling out Welcome Jack. It. Walton Beach,fla." Welcome sign and on the Way to the firing Range he saw a homemade Sig that told him our South Wel comes our Yankee the president already has seethe army and Navy demonstrate their Power and skill. So it waste air Force s turn a noisy one it was particularly the demonstrations of firepower As fighters raced overhead and re eased missiles that found targets Raveling beyond the Speed of sound. Eight More planes followed up with a Dave bombing attack that Eft nothing where a mock Block House had stood a moment or. Kennedy watcher from a reviewing stand seated on an up per deck behind a strip of red White and Blue Bunting strafing planes. Heft ancient aircraft on the round in a mass of flaming Smoky wreckage. 3 workers injured in Oklahoma Atlas silo fire Russell okla. Api three construction workers were injured when fire swept an Atlas missile silo under construction at a strategic air come base. An air Force spokesman said when u.8. Officials decided th4 the fire had been brought under the soviets bad a number of unsolved treble a from their exper control and that All others work ing in the deep Hole escaped in jury. The three men taken to a hos Pital at Mangum okla., were treated for smoke fire broke out after a line ruptured in the Hydraulic door con Trot at the top of the silo. The silo a one of several ring ing Altus air Force base 160 Miles Southwest of Oklahoma City. There Are no missiles in place. The Hospital at Mangum identified those treated As Gerald Floyd Clyde Jones and Alan Fortune All of Mangum. They reportedly were in the Bot Tom of the Hole when the fire broke out. Others apparently scrambled to safety before the thick smoke engulfed them
