European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday May 10, 1963 the stars and stripes Page 3 Senate oks $6 billion Money Bill Washington a the sen ate hits passed $6,069.466.250money Bill carrying extra funds its sponsors said would prevent an cuts in postal sen ice m the com ing year. The Bill first appropriation measure for fiscal 1964 considered by the Senate this Kosslon in Cludus funds for the Post office department Treasury while House and several executive agencies. The Senate allowed 572,440,20 More than the House voted. But was $77,375,750 unde Kennedy a budget re its total president quests for the Virlous agencies. Republicans made an Effort to chop $115 million off the total beholding Treasury spending to Levels of the current financial  was Ben ton go to 23. The Senate restoration of House cuts included $35.250.000 for the Post office department from Ahouse reduction of $92 million. Of thin $50 million was put in to the Agency s vital operations fund out of a $69 million slash. Sen a. Willis Robertson d-va.,floor manager for the Bill said he was confident this would mean that no service Cut would be needed in Tho year starting july 1.postmaster general j. Edward Day had told Robertson s appropriations subcommittee that without a substantial restoration it might be necessary o halt saturday mall deliveries and deny service to new residential areas and new office buildings. The $50 million restoration still has to Clear a Senate House con Ference however. May envoy Anderson become Washington a a do George w. Anderson has accepted pres Den t Kennedy s offer to been ambassador when his tenure As chief of naval operations exp resin August informed sources said Here. Speculation about Anderson s future abounded in the capital of terms. Kennedy told a news con Ference the Admiral had agree to continue to serve the United states government in a position of High  or Kennedy deferred any announcement of what that position will be until an appropriate time this  said of Anderson i think he will be a great addition to the government m this new position which requires a Good Deal of Dedi cation and to which i would appoint somebody for whom i had Only it High  most speculation1 entered on an ambassador ship in Western Europe for Anderson. But while some sources Teald privately an Ambas Sado ship has been accepted they would not say  number of retired admirals have served As diplomats in the past general dynamics Boss says his tfx Best Washington a Roger Lewis president of general dynamics corf., swore a a company s disputed contract to build the new tfx warplane promises the bes product to the least Cost. Lewis made the statement be fore the Senate investigations sub committee which exploring whether a rival design by the Boeing co. Promised a Superior an less costly version. I have Complete Confidence Lewis sold that we can and will deliver to the users Iho air Force and Navy a tfx weapon system that will give the United states tactical air capability second to  i believe he continued that the design we have chosen represents the Best and most straight Forward approach to the tfx requirement and that it can be built for the least total program Cost the subcommittee is investigating among other things whether favouritism might have figured in the award. But no on mentioned this As Lewis began his company s first presentation of its Side of the Story in Tho hearings. Lewig opposed As delaying wasteful and inconclusive a proposal that each company build prototype tfx planes from its de sign for a testing Duel in the skies to show which is better. Lewis said it would be up to the 34-hour flight set tuesday astronaut packs ditty bag Cape canaveral a ast Bonaut Gordon Cooper has his ditty bag packed and the Mer Cury travel Agency has ticketed him for the most extensive round the world tour Ever planned for a american. Next tuesday if the present schedule holds Cooper will rocket into Pace on an intended 22-orbit Mission lasting 34 hours 19 minutes. His Only Luggage will Bea lunch Box of bite size Titbit and dehydrated food and the ditty bag astronaut Gordon Cooper to simulated space Capitule. A photo a packet for storing cameras an miscellaneous item. A glance at the flight plan reveal these highlights Cooper s Faith 7 spacecraft will travel nearly 600,000 Miles and cover More than 1 million Square Miles of the Earth s surface at altitudes ranging from 100 to 170 Miles. As Cooper circles the Globe he will traverse All areas between32.5 degrees North and 32.5 degrees South latitudes which in the Wes Tern hemisphere extends roughly from Charleston s.c., to Santiago. Chile and in the Eastern Hemi sphere from Shanghai China to Sydney Australia. He will pass Over parts of five continents North and South Amer Ica Asia Africa and Australia Africa and South America will be crossed frequently. Cooper will be the first . Astronaut to Fly Over communist China spending a total of about 45 minutes Over the communist notion on posses lasting from four to eight minutes during orbits no.7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 22. Should on emergency Force a Landing in Chi a America could be faced with a diplomatic headache. If it s a Clear any Cooper Wilt be the first american space Pilot to peek behind the Iron  he crosses above Afghanistan on the 10th and Luh orbits he briefly will be within a couple Hundred mites of the Southern Russler Bor Der within easy viewing distance from his sky High Vantage  s Crossings of the United states will be confined to the extreme Southern area on orbits no. 1, 2, 3. 13, 16. 17 and in. Near the end of 1, 3, 16, and 18 he will he practically Over his present Home in Houston. If it were pos sible he probably would wave to his wife Trudy and two teen age daughters waiting anxiously be Low. As the astronaut zips above Texas he might get a look at his birth place Shawnce okla. She s 67 and nicest girl in town Omaha grandmother Momoi year new York up mrs. Olga Pearson Engdahl a 67-year-old grandmother of Omaha neb., has been named the american Mother of 1963. My Engdahl. A merry Blue eyed woman with Grey hair said i May be Calm on the turf acc but i m certainly excited  think it s wonderful. She s Worth it said her husband Johns. Engdahl 73, Omaha businessman. I used to say she was the nicest girl in town and she Stilt is he suld. The couple have been married47 years have one daughter and six sons and 14 . Engdohl k selection was announced by the Amer Lynn Mother committee inc. Which sponsors an Nual state and National competitions for selecting an outstanding Mother and wife. Wartime stand in for Britain s Monty Dies London up an actor whose biggest role May have helped win world our ii has  Edward Clifton James stood in for Field marshal Bernard now Viscount Montgomery at critical Point just before world War ii and. In a masterpiece of wartime impersonation. Is believed to have hoodwinked the germans into thinking the a Day invasion had been , James death at 65, come on the 18th anniversary of be  the time of his double act Tho australian born James was Apay corps lieutenant in the British army and Montgomery was com Mander of the 21st army. An intelligence major spotted the like Ness Between the two  few Days before deny. June 6, 1944, Jami was seen off in style to the Mediterranean by senior members of the Imperial general staff. None of his own officer realized he was not Montgomery As he flew to North Africa for a tour. Back in Britain. Montgomer continued preparations for the a Day Landing in Normandy. But German intelligence agents Are known to have told their Headquarters that Montgomery was in North Africa and no Normandy invasion could be imminent. On june 0, the allies attacked an the germans were caught off guard. To impersonate Monty James studied the Field marshal s voice speech gesture walk and Salute. After the War he wrote a Book. I was Monty s double and later went on the stage. But none of his roles Ever matched his real life wartime impersonation. She is the third notional Mother from no Brnson. Thy other two were mrs. Curl Gray of Omaha named in 1937 when selections were made by the Golden Hul Eind Idon from which the Ami can mothers committee him grown and mrs. George Abel of Lincoln selected in 1937.she is married to the founder and president of the Engdohl top and body co., an automobile purls concern. Three Bonn Are officers in their father s firm one i physician one an executive with the Omaha Nat Long Bank and on with Northwestern Bill Telephone co. The daughter is marred to Scottsbluff neb., Lumberman. Mrs. Engdahl is a charter Mem Ber of Trinity lutheran Church a hero she has served As  school teacher and presi Dent of the women s auxiliary. She has Long been Active in other Church and civic activities. Her Rule for bringing up children she said. Is love your children and Leithem know you love them but Don t spoil  i Seldom spanked she said. Defense department to order  test but he opposed it. We believe that to interfere with the momentum of the exist ing program would be wasteful of the work already accomplished in would delay significantly the operational Date for the tfx Lewis said. Addressing subcommittee chair Man John l. Mcclellan dark. Who had advanced the  Addis. Later senator i do believe the ques Tion Here is one of the value of the total weapon system which is i air plane the fire control the Wolne the whole Ivy non system which can be determined Only by he construction of the Complete Venzon system and the thorough testing of that  Lewis said competitive tents of either four or two prototypes of he Boeing and general dynamics is Long which Mcc Iellen had , would not demonstrate in our judgment the Worth of either system As a weapon system. It simply in t enough testing for  Lewis defended his company record As a defense contractor and he record of Grumman aircraft engineering co., its chief tfx sub contractor in the past decade he said general dynamics has developed and produced. File major weapons  they embraced he said Atlas intercontinental Bah Lahi missiles nuclear submarines and nuclear Kalll Stylc missile submarines b58bombers, f102 and f10c fighter air can t. Terrier and tartar air de sense missile systems. Aviation daily raps decision Washington up aviation ally Long an aviation Industry Elble said there was growing be Lief that defense Secretary Robert s. Mcnamara s tfx air plane decision can t be justified on Cost or technical  open press Lon of that belief was growing in Washington the Dally said in a lengthy criticism of Mcnamara g selection of Gen eral dynamics corp., instead of the Boeing co. To build the controversial tfx fighter. The Trade publication ran an analysis which it said was base Don interviews with a High pro Gram  the source was apparently familiar with details of the Long Effort to design a single fighter Tinne suited to both air Force and Navy use. If you be lived with this pro Gram really seen the technical decisions and evaluation at  the Dally quoted us source it s difficult to see How any competent evaluator could do other Wise than conclude the decision was not the Best  Mcnamara May have compel Ling reasons for his decision but in our View he will have a difficult time justifying it on either Cost or a technical basis the daily s source said. 3 a test blasts planned in Nevada Washington a the atomic Energy commission has announced it plans three sub Llo ton detonations at its Nevada test Slu this month As part of a de sense department research pro Gram. Sub Kiloton is something less than he equivalent of 1.000 tons of int. Two of the blasts will involve nuclear devices and another will employ chemical High explosives with a Short life radioactive tracer the dec said. The other nuclear device will be detonated in shallow underground emplacement