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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday june 11, 1963 the stars and stripes Page 3 no matter what that its pack is still a weary Load by Dar Rutx  up the army is doing its Best to reduce the pack of the foods logging of dlr but Progress uni been Ilow the defense or port men t report. The fully armed infantryman now carries total of 90 pounds i clothing weapon and Park. This compares with Juit Over 100 pounds when the i surged Over the beaches on deny in world War ii. And with 03 pounds he carried in the frigid raid of Korea. Scientific studies have known that ideally the infantryman should not carry More than 50 pounds preferable hand car Rynsor shoulder carrying not More than 40 pounds. So there still is a Long a to go. According to the Independent army Navy air Force journal de sense Secretary Robert s. Mcna Mara has asked for a study of the weight of the Soldier s Hick. The publication sold the study was included on a list of projects no yet made Public. But the journal noted that Ever previous defence secretory has asked for similar studies wit Little noticeable result. The army said the world War ii and Korea packs were almost the same except that the latter was lightened by using a bed Roll instead of  somewhat lighter  and thinner Cartridge cases have helped trim off another 2 Pound since the korean War. This current distribution of the Soldier s Welgh lond was Given clothing including a 9-Pound a Mored vent 23 pounds. Buttle Load including a Rifle grenades ammunition and so forth31 pounds. The puck Cut Ltd he existence and Comfort lond and including bed Roll. In mask toilet articles rations and such. 36  vary there Are variations because of geography and to. For re ample the weight of the uniform for the Arctic i 47 pounds White for the desert u May be As Little As 22h pounds with most of the difference in foot  for reducing the land have included issuing Only on shaving kit per sound rather than one per Man lightening the weigh of ammunition and bringing the Supply system in closer so that less food would have to be carried. The department commented also that a Soldier May juggle items in i sex Uffre and Comfort Load which usually Means deciding to do without some of those in the Comfort category. Angler saved Aher Drifting in bait Box tort Myers Fla. A a45-year-old Pennsylvania Fisherman Drift in a 39-Lnch-Aquare bait Box or six Days without food or water Wai rescued from the Gulf of Wilco. Doctor Bald Russell c. Swift Wai in surprisingly Good condition but Wai sunburned and  had not eaten for six Days and his last drink of water came from a rainstorm hut tuesday. Swift of West Springfield told the coast guard his 30-foot snapper boat the Java was on its inaugural run when it Sank june 3. Since then he said he bobbed in the Gulf often within sight of boats. Swift said he could Noil wave to fishermen for fear his bait Box would overturn so he  coast guard amphibian plane notified that Swift was two Day overdue spotted the Box 90 Miles Outh weat of Here and after several posies the plane verified a Man waa  shrimp boat the Coral King picked Swift from the water while m coast guard helicopter from  was dispatched to bring him to land. He was hospitalized  guardsmen said Swift was Calm and Jovial despite obvious exhaustion from his six Day Cak Tornino the baby Way a Secretary at the . Cronuar Iclal Center in Frankfurt Ketches the popular German cartoon characters Max and morals with a new electronic data plotter which automatically to ulfers data stored on punched card into a Al Lual Art form. Ketone Russ policy shirt hinted by Brandt new York up mayor Willy Brandt of West Berlin believes the soviet Union has Modi fied Iti policies to accept As of actin Allied presence in West Berlin. Brandt said the r  1 a n apparently had made what represents a certain change of policy in that they have come to accept the fact the West will remain in  West Berlin mayor arrived by plane for what he termed very Short  he was to address a meeting monday of the Council on foreign relations an then attend a dinner Given tip Adial Stevenson. V3. Ambassador to the United nations. He then travels to St. Louis to address of rotary International convention wednesday and then to Boston to receive an honorary degree at har Vard University thursday. When president Kennedy visits Berlin in two weeks Brandt said he will show or. Kennedy the two faces of Berlin the Wall of shame and the City of free Berlin the Way it is expanding industrially and  civil War Cannon 45 Turt a Florida cafeteria blast jt118iires, q Hurt fort Walton Beach. Fla. Mrs. Hopkins 44. Was listed As to our Rescue. We had plenty of us wat Ruby run pin., rows. Nop Kini  i Wei a a boiler exploded Here in i the most Serl outly injured of those . Bias Battle called tragic Kingston . Up Secre tary of Bute Dean Rusk has de scribed the current civil rights a niggle in the United states a a tragedy of history that under mines the nation a position of leadership in the world. We cannot relax at this  Georgia born Rusk said in his address at the University of Rhode Island s nth commencement. Peo ple abroad Are going to judge America by what we do Here at Home 1ha told the 783 graduates that America s racial trouble Embar Rass our friends abroad and make our enemies  s address was in the spirit of those of president Kennedy Vic president Lyndon b. Johnson and top presidential aide Mcgeorge Bundy All of whom stressed civil rights in speeches in new eng land and  was one of eight persons to receive honorary degrees from the state University. 27 charges i new York a a 22-year-old Bronx Motorist was arrested of 27 Char to of traffic and other violations which took police More to Fol Sevon hours to  a. Dalle Arce was arrested alter Huth Speed car cd through his neighbourhood in the Bronx and charged with ruling 14 red lights going the at a. Ceremony Culpepper a up a civil War Cannon misfired during Centennial Celebration Here. In Juring three men and marring ceremonies marking the 100th anniversary of the largest cavalry Battle of the civil War. Author mid the misfire apparently won caused by some gun powder left in the muzzle of the antique weapon after an initial shot. The three were injured a they rammed Home a second charge in the weapon. Igniting the waste powder and ejecting the  250 to 300 persons witnessed the mishap. The injured the injured men Cost mod a Confederate Jolders were James hurdling 38, of Vienna a. Roger Zook 22, of my Ranger my. And Bernard Mitchell. 41, of Falls Church a. Harding suffered a fractured hand powder Burns and injuries to his right Arm and a possible Eye injury. He was taken to Washington d.c., Hospital Center. Zook and Mitchell suffered minor in juries and were listed in satisfactory condition at Culpepper me Morial Hospital. It Brake on by Recklau driving falling to keep to the right falling to obey a policeman s order being an unlicensed operator operating an unregistered vehicle operating a uninsured vehicle evading three warrants charging prior violation involving unlicensed operator and unregistered uninsured vehicle and misappropriating License plates. A crowded shopping Center cafe Teria injuring about 43 persons. No deaths were reported. A portion of the roof and one Wall of the cafeteria opened for business about six weeks ago were blown out. Trays food Wall tile and other debris was hurled at about 100 persons seated at Tobies and wait ing in line. Several persons were buried under the  25-hed fort Walton Bench Hospital said about 40 persons had been received. Five others we retaken to the Eglon air farce base  Walton Beach is in North West Florida on the Gulf of Mexico. We were talking to reverend Wade Hopkins and his family Tilting next to a wild Melvln l. Hagler. All a a sudden boy Al hell broke Louse. The Walls blew in und blew out  Ald his wife Edwynn. And son Melvln or. 8, were thrown to the floor and buried under debris Hagler t. Daughters Becky 16, and de narc 12, Leal. Her condition was Given As  was reached at the hos Pital while his wife and son herein surgery. The place was filling up there us a big line Walling to come in. To was about 12 49," Hagler said we had been eating about five minutes when it went off. I we real proud of the Way people come Murrow Calls an education Greenville. . Tupi Edward r. Murrow director of . Information Agency told More than 1,000 emm Carolina College graduates that the largest educational machine in the world is the Berlin Wall. A is 27 Miles Long. It is Strung with barbed wire it teaches lessons in the meaning of democracy an communism of Freedom and tyranny of humanity and inhumanity. Its no me is Wall Murrow said and it signifies deadly repression and repressed  in the United states the former newsman said one of the educational machines l a lunch counter. It is some 50 feet Long. It is lined with almost deserted seats but it a fringed with a great crowd. Over the shoulder of that great crowd stands another whole Host of onlookers. Through picture and print and film and text a veritable legion across this country an around the Globe watches what let sons in democracy and Freedom and humanity emerge from this there were no flames at All. But there was a lot of water Fromback in the boiler room. What bothered me most was that i noticed All the electric wires hanging from the Selling. I Wai afraid some one could a electrocuted. A really surprised me there Wasno screaming no Walling. But a few people went into Shock about15 minutes later. In a very Chart time ambulances were  Berlin Wall Nal machine teaching  the native Worth carolinian said. The lunch counter Murrow suggested Means Lively Progress and expressed  he said he hoped the graduates had developed that most important faculty of All criticism to go with sensitivity to the complexity and difficulty of their world. All of us Murrow said Are afloat on a vast sea of ignorance. You have been better prepared than most to sail that sea. If you founder your excuse will come with the poorest Grace of All. London and reaching for oddball buyer London  
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