European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse Apr to 3 mtg ? .1. Is 5. F i the stars and stripes pag7 Fry 1/.s. Flight training standards c a ,. Astronaut wheel Temte a o i e t Cosnow German Rotov is pretty american standards of Fence r a 4forcer Decimer Luthis relative inexpert Ito May have Reade him i during his flight and con strongly to the slight Casein sickness Hea reported.? id flame eat wis. A Tore has i apologized tosi.1 for l-juwj.49 a two pc a collect Telephone Calby to or the couple that to Weir son had 9i"j-"- by an Rill Hess iat a couple received a letter Majth a month from an air. _., in which he said of both outraged and Hull learn of Lite incident i Ross Aid the received aug Call from Idow air Torce near Bangor Maine ont 28, and thinking a was her Leo jr., 20, she accepted theg Eljit was not her son taut Pone on the base calling to Tell was seriously ill. A second Call two h ours later told at her son s condition had series and urged her to Fly toborrowed7 funds a truck Driver for the Vilas Highway Depa Rupent an borrowed $400 and mrs. W the next Day to the before her a p r 11 t 5 the couple two daughters received informing them an autopsy ised their san died of Unla " of Libers in this car Northern a Sib comm Mayv hearing Orect phone Calls contacted Ider Wiley a is. And Vin o Ken ski a wis of meander its plies next they heard was a letter 7 from col pm Kurland the need local unit athe wrote As both outraged and humid learn that a member of our. Jon contrary to All exist Slycles and procedures relative Catlon of next Jot in a you of your son s recently a illness by Means of a collect hone Call. U first i lust Oul Dri t believe anyone Worling for me could Rich an apparently Ca Loiis Andie Urik thing especially a senior i with Many years of expert proved however Lal we exactly ,what3. Apologies cannot undo. Already do he but you Havett sincere apology for this along Washin the spokesman a col Johni a Powers Public information officer of the Mercury program volunteered these views Washington up govern ment auditors said Here the army has fire trucks to Burn. They Cost 570,000each exclusive of. Certain extras like workable last As the trucks can be rounded up from the Fields and old storehouses where they tend to be parked new brakes Are being installed at a parts Cost of $1,700plus labor of $1,000 per truck. And even with brakes the Gen eral accounting office Gao said in a report to Congress nobody wants them. One National guard outfit that asked for a fire fighting jeep got one of these monsters in Stead. It is making do with a City owned pickup truck. It is not that fires have gone out of style. Fact is the military is out shopping for More trucks. But the Gao said it has failed to persuade anybody that the $9.4 million Worth of this particular class 1500 truck which the army bought and now does t want can be profit ably used instead of others still to repurchased. The army designed the trucks and ordered135 of them about 10years ago. They were to fight mis Sile fires. They throw a lot or foam at a very High pressure. They weigh 18 tons. Crew of five is needed to Man one. Unfortunately Gao t o id con Gress before the first of the Goliath was delivered the army made some More tests and concluded that missile fires can t Besought at least not until they have cooled of a army thought of cancelling its order Gao said but decided a land resold for $493,000 Washington Cupi a report released Here tells How a nationally known min ing company sold a Nevada town site for $493,000 after obtaining title to it As Federal government grazing land valued at $80, the report was released by it Pawson d-i1l, chair Man of the government operation committee it said Kennicott cop per corp. Got the Tow site new Ruth a ,1957 land Exchange a Lii the government. Hardly 12. Months after the Bureau of land management blk permitted the Exchange the report said Kennicott sol new Ruth to a National real estate is senior ,.class play,1 came of a playful Stinys on for fee dinner because Heidi his leg ands is confined to cast m Schobl play Doug wag helping Load some stage props when a truck rolled i overfill left leg and broke it his doctor agreed that the show must go on and Dexter -24 hours in the Hospital Doug was Dif missed in time for his perform Ance encased in a plaster Cost from ankle to hip. Firm John w. Galbreath & co.,Columbus, Ohio for $493,000," Galbreath in turn the report added sold most of the property later for about s550.000. The report was based on a sub committee study headed by rep John a Moss a Calif. It said Kennicott gave the government ij681 acres of grazing land for1,090 acres of Public land including the new Ruth Tow site. New Ruth is located near the Utah Border about 160 Miles East of Reno and the same distance North of Las vegas government appraisers put Avalue of $3,520 on the Public land the report said adding that the calculation in effect found the half Milhon Dollar town of new Ruth to be blk appraisers ignored the town covering about 200 acres and consisting of some 180 houses apartment houses,1 stores and office buildings and valued the land0nly for grazing the report Saidon this basis the appraiser considered the portion of the pub Lic land on which the Tow site was located to be Worth Only $80. The town itself was a company town built by Kennicott for its employees on land to which it had filed mining claims even though the committee said the claim were invalid. Thus it said Kenne Cott actually was trespassing on government transaction was cited As a Case study bearing out the com Mittee s Contention that appraisal practices of the blk Are badly indeed of overhaul. The committee s democratic majority said the Kennedy administration had moved vigorously to Correct the situation. They paid that chaotic conditions in land appraisal practices were the result of years of administrative foot dragging before adoption of new policies under Interior. Secretary Stewart l. Udall four Republican members of the committee contested a majority claim that the Interior department had grossly undervalued Public land in three Arizona said land exchanges in Mohave county could not be shown to have resulted in a loss to the government. As a matter of fact the minority said land acquired by the government in Exchange near Lake Mohave and like Mead was now in great demand an Selling for up to $400 an acre. The republicans said there was no evidence of improvements made by the administration. Against it on grounds a settlement with the contractor would cast about three fourths As much As the trucks. The last truck was delivered injure 1960. By then it had been discovered that although the acceleration was Good the brakes were not. Pending their replacement Ait order was put in effect for a Whit that the trucks were not to a driven faster than 10 Miles an hour. Meantime the army has been unloading the vehicles on Likely looking aviation units on the theory that anybody who needs a truck to fight aircraft fires cause one designed to handle a mis Sile eruption. At Frankfort. Ky., where the National guard air maintenance unit had wanted a jeep the investigators found the big new truck unused and stored in the open. They were advised that in event of crash the City Airport probably would have to Send Over its pickup personnel at the Springfield Iii. National guard depot had not eve asked for a truck. They got one anyway and found h too big to get into their firehouse. So it was drained and parked while an old1951 two ton pumper was continued in use. 81 extra. Menthe fire marshal at it. Rucker ala., who got 19 of tins truck to help protect outlying airfields said he would need 81 to a with them. So Gao said most Rotthe trucks were practically Una t the Arispy was As sorry As any body about what had happened. It blamed development failure an said that if the Navy which plans to buy some new $50.000trucks of its own wants these it can have them dirt Navy said no and the air Force said that even for nothing they would t a cheap. It said converting the army fire trucks to fight air Force fires would coat$40,000 per truck
