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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday july 15, 1963 the stars and stripes Page 5 Navy fighting tooth and gum for Good recruiters __1 j. _ 1 1_j11_ � 1 l. A. A Washington a too Many Navy men chosen for recruiting duty need their Teeth fixed or have Money problems and this irks the Navy s Bureau of personnel. So it has notified All command ing officers to look at the regu lations again with a View toward More discriminate selection of individuals for recruiting  the Bureau reminded com Manders that the Navy ought tout its Best foot Forward. It said it this Way recruiting duty is Independent duty and quite often the individual so assigned is the Only naval representative in a Community. Because conduct and Persona land military bearing Are under constant scrutiny Only High Caliper Petty officers Are desired for this  Bureau blames ship and Shore commanders for not screen ing applicants carefully enough. It says a Large number of me transferred to this duty during the past year were not fully qualified. One officer said about 80 per cent of the Recruiter candidates fall Short of standards. The Bureau said they were considered below qualifications be cause dental work had not been completed at their Home stations some were having financial difficulties and some lacked a Navy Driver s License. Why the need for a License a Bureau spokesman explained that recruiters there Are 2,200 of them canvass Small towns and drive Navy cars in making their rounds. Did the Lack of dental work mean the Navy had a Bunch of snuggle toothed men out around the country repelling rather than attracting new men not at All said the spokesman. The trouble is that recruiters who Don t get their Teeth repaired while on a Navy ship or base must have the work done by civilian dentists since they Are living away from Navy stations. The result bigger dental Bills for the government. As for personal Money troubles a Bureau official said we Don t want any Man who can t handle his own affairs outdoing recruiting for the Navy. Asked whether the Navy image or recruiting had suffered the Bureau replied the Navy image has in no Way suffered As a result of these administrative errors nor have recruiting quotas  soviet romantic movies Arent Danny Kaye says new York up comedian Danny Kaye says the closest mos russian films get to a romantic line Are pictures involving a love affair Between two  Kaye just returned from a 10 Day visit to Moscow said most cur rent soviet films Are about War with a propaganda  he said however he had seen an extremely Well done documentary about the training of soviet space pilots. The comedian who was in rus Sia As an observer for the United nations children s emergency fund Unico said none of his films have been shown in Russia and he was Able to walk the Street virtually unnoticed. He said this gave me a much greater Opportunity to observe the people whom he found to Haven indefinable air of  there is scarcely any comment made about any of their political leaders or about the government. I had the feeling that they think twin Sisters 5, die As . Home Burns Pleasantville . Up five year old twin Sisters died in a fire that destroyed their Frame Home in this Northern  Community. The victims were Debra and Susan Coggeshall daughters of or and mrs. David Coggeshall of Woodland drive. Four times before they say any Hing. When i talked to adults i never got the impression they were saying what they were feel ing even in a joking  Kin of victims give Jet flier morale boost Willow Grove a. Up relatives of seven persons killed in a Jet fighter crash near the naval air station Here have offered to Tell the Pilot personally that they Don t hold him responsible the Navy announced. Capt a. C. Waldman jr., base commander said it has helped lift the spirits of capt John w. Butler boiling Springs pa., a Marine corps reservist who was Force to abandon his plane at the last minute when the controls refused to  Jet an fj4 fury hit the ground about one half mile from the runway and skidded into Bathhouse containing the victims. Waldman said the Pilot was Given a Strong boost in morale by the action of these bereaved Fame  have offered to talk to capt Butler and Tell him personally they do not hold him responsible Waldman said. Swan Lake these 3-Day-old Cygnet managed to stay afloat nicely thank you in their Maiden voyage on Gage Park in Topeka Kan. The parents Are named Philip and Elizabeth. How about Charles Anne and Andrew As names for the Little ones United press International photo 3 . Teens held in derailing of train Don t be a pig this Little Raccoon had lunch and this Little Raccoon had none at least not yet. But Margery Gould of Rich mond Maine will no doubt wait on him next. A Farmer Nell Bishop found them whimpering in a shed. He Hopes to keep  photo los Angeles a police say three teen agers wanting to do something big admit they tampered with a switch last march4 and sent a passenger train hurtling Down a siding toward a Ware House full of volatile chemicals the train derailed and Slid to a halt in the dirt just Short of the warehouse injuring 11 of 118  sengers  identified David t. Walk a frail sensitive youth As master mind of the plot. He s an electronic Genius of sorts said detective sergeant John Sublette. The Way they planned this thing would Send cold chills up your spine. It was Mali Cious and coldly  arrested with walk were George. Whitmore and James Paul mor Gan. Sublette said the Best explanation they could give him was we wanted some  Allare 15 and live in suburban Canyon Park. Jumped with Joy police said they Learned that one of the youths was so delighted with the derailment that he jumped up and Down with  detectives traced a boy through a Han print and jailed him and two companions on felony charges spering with Railroad equip  California penal code makes wrecking a train a capital oif Ense said police sergeant Joh Bruns. They could be tried As j adults and sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of  none of the boys has a records a troublemaker and police said they Are from Good families. They just did it As a Lark said Bruns. Some Lark. If some one had been killed they would Veall been charged with first degree  chemical Plant was stocked with enough methylene Gas to blow up the train and the Plant officers said. They said walk told them i be got this older brother he s such a big shot such a big Man and All i wanted to outdo  police gave this account of the wreck a seven car twin engine South Ern Pacific Streamliner was near ing the end of a san Francisco Losangeles run when the Engineer passed a warning Light in North Bridge which should have told him new blood donor rules filed in new Jersey Trenton. . Up new regulations designed to protect blood donors and patients receiving blood were filed by the new Jer sey Public health Council. Under the new rules which go into effect aug. 8, All blood Banks must be licensed by the state an will be subject to spot investigations. A switch ahead was open. It did t because one of the boys had care fully broken  the Engineer spotted the switch the Green All Clear Light was shining because walk had re wired the circuits inside. The switch was thrown heading the mile a minute train Down a Sid ing with a 20-mile-an-hour Speed limit. Metal Flag there is a Metal Flag on the switch which would Tell the Engineer if the lights were wrong. The boys had changed it too so it also gave an All  train went a Quarter of a mile Down the siding before i came to a jolting halt. Police questioned a juvenile seen loitering near the scene. A lie Detector test indicated he was in Nocent but that he knew some thing about the wreck. Police checked his friends until they got to walk whose  one taken from the tampered switch Bow. He implicate the other two. A court will Rule this week on whether the boys will be tried As juveniles or adults. Californium tops fit weighty contest Long Beach Calif. Up a woman who lost 143% pounds in a year and a Man who shed 78%pounds have been crowned Queen and King of the fat people at the annual tops National convention. Alta m. Baker of los Angeles and Glendon Garner of la Puente,Calif., were crowned King and Queen before More than 3,000 tops take off pounds sensibly Mem Bers at the Long Beach Arena. Mrs. Baker s doctors had warned her either to diet or  she dropped from 297 pounds to 1534within a year. Where she once wore a size 48 dress she now slips in and out of a 14 and sometimes even a 12. Garner whose Mother France was a runner up to the Queen last year now weighs 201v pounds  
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