European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday april is 1963 the stars and stripes Page 3 it s Caracas to As scribe blazes junket Trail by Dick West i Caracas Venezuela up Marcos Perez Jimenez. Venezuela in rocked dictator May not have been everyone s idea of a Model statesman but 1 will say one thing Tor him. He knew How to think big. Shortly before his constituents decided it was time for a change Perez Jimenez erected near thai City two of the world s most spectacular hotels give or take the Wagon Yard hotel at Merkel tex., my old Home town. One hotel the Humboldt he put on a Mountaintop and the other the Maputo tin built by the sea. They were architectural triumphs and had everything that a luxury resort needs with one minor exception. The missing element was paying customer. In order to reach the Humboldt a guest Hod to ride a Cable car up the Mountainside Scalp a Pricr Fulce that would intimidate sir Edmund Hillary or bring his own helicopter. The were condition i that the average tourist was unwilling to meet and the Humboldt after catering for a time to empty rooms had to close. This was More than could be said for the Maputo which was completed in 1058 at a Cost estimated from $.10 million to $45 million and then did t open at year in an Effort to bring the Turkey to life the venezuelan undo n Deal with n . Hotel cd Man the Sheraton corp., to to pc Over the management of the Maputo Rind now it is having its formal opening or Cincu nution us inc Mncutt Sheraton. To commemorate the event thesher tons have imported so vent plan Load of Yankee celebrities and run of the Mill freeloaders which explain the presence Here of or h met crr Send no i came Down from washington.d.c., to investigate conditions that members of the . Congress must endure when they go on overseas junkets it Nezu Cla is a popular stopping place for congressional traveler and presumably some will be slaying at this hotel in the fun 8 tens a hotel opening i like i Shakedown cruise of a new ship. Thong of us now installed in the Mcculo Sheraton provide with a Chance to break in the staff and work out any bugs in the service before the paying Kleuls arrive. To that extent we Are Pioneer and we feel a kinship with Christo Pher Columbus who nailed up Venezuela s Orinoco River on his to the american. Pioneering of course Brines cer Tain privation.1. Just this morning i heard Rod Sor Ulnic of television s Twilight zone my that the lob Ster therm id or he ordered last Naff it was rold when it reached Bistable. But Serling the stiff upper lip that in typical of our group. Standing on the Banks of one of the hotel s four swimming pools he waved towards the mountains and the sea and sold it takes Buch a Little bit to make a Man that i run Only add army increase Battle brewing in Pentagon Washington up Contro Veny is brewing in the defense department Over whether the Rainy needs two More combat division Tot it role under president Kennedy s conventional warfare plans. Tha department already is artwork on defense Secretary Robert a Mcnamara s fiscal 1965 military budget which goes to Congress not january. Expansion of the army is a big Issue. Authorities said that adding two More combat divisions to the pres ent 16 would require expanding army manpower by 75,000 to a total of 1.050,000. That would Bethe highest level since 1955 except for the 1951-62 Berlin crisis period when reservists were called up. Such an expansion could add about $800 million to the army s budget in the fiscal year starting july 1, 1064. A year when Mcna Mara will be under pressure to trim rather than expand spending. So far there la no suggestion that Mcnamara and his budget expert. Assistant defence Secretary Charles j. Hitch Are persuaded that an 18 division army la needed. Butt in certain influential military quarters that is regarded As a Nec Eazary Force for the president non nuclear warfare Plant. Thuv tie u certain to be joined in coming month a the budget squeeze tightens authorities sold. The army now a five divisions in Europe three in the far East and eight in the United believe there should be at least one More in the far East close to potential disturbances. In the budget for the year Start ing july 1, this year Mcnamara authorized the army to create a test air assault division which will make extensive use of helicopter Sand Light air planes. Rocket car ried in helicopters will replace us Ual artillery. But Mcnamara has allowed just 15,000 men for the test by no Means what a full fledged division with logistic support would need. In some rank there 1 a conviction that the army should have two or three of the air assault outfit in a total 18-Dlvislon Force. Tet of the experimental Divi Sion the Lith air assault div now forming at fort Benning ga., will run to next october or possibly a late a december. Joint tests would follow with the air Forcen the us. Strike come. An organization embodying .-Baedarmy division and tactical air command unit. It i an evident army Hope that the Lith air a Ault div will be come a regular army unit youth booked for slaying of girl skier Reno nov. A a lanky 18 year old High school youth whole gun firing police on a Brief foot Chase during i investigation has been booked for the slaying Here of skier Sonja Mcca Klc. Dut atty. William j. Raggoo said Thomas bean admitted the slaying and gave rape As the motive. Raggoo talk bean told him head not known miss Mckaskle. The District attorney relaying bean s Story to reporters said bean entered the 24-year-old Secretary s duplex apartment about half a mile from bean s Home about Midnight april 4. He carried with him a piece of rope and a Butcher knife. Raggoo said bean told him he woke up mls Mckaskle who was asleep in her bed strangled herewith the rope raped her and stabbed her with his knife. Betook the body to the living room and Cut it up. Choked to death officials have said cause of deat Hwai strangulation. Bean was linked to the Cas through a camera belonging to flu Mckaskle which had be found in a pawnshop. Checking Ltd to the pickup of bean at his Home. Officers Aik Dhim to come to the station to Dis cuss the agreed at the station to be Finger and foot hated. It was the footprint ing bean told Raggoo that caused him to make his break from officers leading him from the identification room to a he Detector room As bean bunt out the station door Between 15 and 20 officers including Raggoo took up Chase. Three officers fired a total of Fly shots As bean led them up an Alley across a Street and Between two houses where he was captured. Afterwards bean asked of police who was shooting at me i wish they d killed said bean willingly Reen acted the slaying while a sound motion picture to made. Raggoo said bean went through the motions with no Trace of Emo Tion reluctance or indication or remorse. Raggoo said bean was a student i the new Wooster High school near the Airport in Southeast Reno. He Laid he knew Only that bean lived with his father and a brother Jim 17. Raggio said bean told him he had been committed at Lime to the state Industrial training school at Elko. Raggoo calling miss my casket a Hance victim raid bean had prowled her neighbourhood a wee before she a found dead on Fri Day april 5. Bean he said told him he had taken women s under clothing from backyard clothe Tinei in the had been prowling the neighbourhood spotted a pair of the victim s undergarments on clothesline in her backyard and entered the duplex through an unlocked rear his confession. Bean said it found Mew Mcca Elf asleep Sha awoke with a Start the youth told tha police and he strangled her. Vacation Daze milk drier University of Hartford Coon indent of Texes Hla Bleep w he wean it bathing wait from tit Nln etim Day for and Marta coeds und Brett left and Carol to Nadeo both from the University of Michl fan at Ann Arbor. The three War part of Tea Hundred of student at Dayton Beach via for the Kemter Holiday. A photo Grover Cleveland grandson marries new York up Crover Cleveland amen grandson ofor Ealden Grover Cleveland a married Here to mrs Barbara Sosoon Lyons amen a writer is the son of the late John Harlan amen one time assistant new York attorney general and Marion Cleveland Bride is the daughter of or. And mrs. William e. Sassoon of Tyron. No and a descendant of the famous Sassoon banking family of Bombay and London. Foiled London Model Joy Helpa Showa the length to which aluminium foil can be put a Ahe do play a costume made of the material. Occasion waa London Metal How. Key alone in then roped her Raggoo said. After dismembering Tho Young woman. Bean went outside the House got in her Small foreign Porth cur and went for a Joy ride he District attorney said. He re turned later parked the car out Ilde the apartment and went Home. The murder was discovered when a women who was babysitting Force victim s one year old son tried aunty to Telephone her. Police were notified and officer Mort Ammer Man was sent to the duplex where miss Mckaskle lived. Flandi foot in Blanket he entered the House through a rear door and went to the living room flicked on the lights and picked up a crumpled Blanket from he floor. A foot covered with Lood tumbled out of the Blanket Ammerman next noticed a human Eart lying on the floor a few feet from the front door. He went to the bedroom an lifted the lid of the Hope Chest where he found Mist Mckaskle Soro headless with Siree Kitchen knives protruding from the Back. At the Bottom of the Chest he found her head wrapped in a Tablecloth. Police questioned dozens of pos Sable suspects during the past week. At least 10 men who were part of miss Mcca Klc s Complex social life were cleared by lie de Tector tests. They included Oneman who was named in a paternity suit involving one of the divorce victim s three children. Competed in Winter olympic miss Mckaskle who competed for great Britain in the i960 win Ter olympics at Squaw Valley qua Secretary for a meat packing firm in nearby Sparks and a week end skiing instructor. She Wai born in Scotland but came Here with her Mother when of was youngest child 10-Monthf old Kim was the subject of a paternity suit the 24-year-old Muf Mcca a o filed recently in District court. The suit named David Cconrad 24, a graduate assistant and part time instructor in eng Lish at the univ realty of had denied being the father of the child but the suit has not been decided. Staler will adopt baby miss Mcca Skles married sister hat taken charge of the baby. Mesa Mckaskle s Mother mrs. Dorothy Mckaskle of Tahoe City Calif has said the sister. Identified Only As Jennifer would adopt the baby. Miss Mckaskle also left two other Small children born during her marriage to Jeff Schmidt. 31, a physical education student at Chaco state College in were divorced. Vow sales in . Up 18% for first Quarter new York up Volkswagen Ulm in the United Sutra in the Flat Quarter of 1963 showed i 18per cent increase Over a year ago with total of 61551 year Volkswagen sold 223, 000, More than halt the total imported car volume in the us. Thl year vow Hopes to make it 250.000.the or Woi 11 r t marketed in 1949. The Only major change in thl year s Model the introduction of a fresh air Heater the air does not Pau through Tho engine anymore and All possibility of odor has been eliminated a spokesman predicted Volkswagen would introduce its larger Model the 1500 on the american Market within year Ai soon As enough production is available and a reasonable dealer network assured
