European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Post 6 the stars and stripes Thun Doy july 35, 1hi As simple As 92-58-92 is. 36-23-36 will the . Budge an Inch on its rules Washington up when was talking in terms of Ontl Mph Switzerland visited this Cap ital a while Buck she gave he measurements As 92-5892. It developed however that Heyoung women Donna Tanner was using the metric system As any owls lass Nnttie Antly would. She far out of step the United states with the most of the Reft of the world. The metric system was invented mathematicians of the French Senate bares lobby activity for Portugal Washington Cap try Iory of a Boston not Nancy wild $400 n week by a Public  uni to lobby with con Grots and thes Litte department was disclosed in testimony released by the Senate foreign relations  3r3-parc Frmic Elpi of test Many taken in secret session showed thnh Relange & Lee of new York financed creation of the portuguese american committee on foreign affairs As a front for its client the overseas companies of Portu with a $500.000 annual budget. In new York. Selvage & Lee aboard chairman James Cope said that his firm s work for the Over seas companies has been Good for the people of the United state Sas Well As for our  he added we expect to continue inthe same  the firm picked As chairman of the portuguese american commit tee the Boston attorney Portu Guseie born Martin Thomas Cama Cho 59. Camacho testified that when in Washington he used the office of rep. Thomai p. O Neill or. D-mass., whom he called tip and o Neill s staff the some As if 1 were in my own office he o Neill will Tell you that Camacho said o Neill furnished907 franked envelopes for the postage free mailing of a pro portuguese speech o Neill made in the House last october with Sel Vage it Lee paying for the re prints. There was no immediate com ment from o Neill Camacho said other speakers on the october occasion devoted to Friendly relations Between the United slate and Portugal were speaker John w. Mccormack a Maui former speaker Joseph w. Martin a mass. Reps. Philip , ., f. Bradford Morse Rma will am h. Bates. R-mass., Silvio o. Conte. Edward p. Boland ., James a. Burke d-mas., Hasting Keith. R-misi., Arm Suad l Selden jr., a Ala Ralph f. Beerman. R-neb., Bob Wilson. R-callf., and Stanley. Tupper. A Milne. Other documents said Selvas Lee prepared material for 90speeches for this occasion but it we not disclosed whether theyer delivered. Called English system of measure-1 based on multiple or fractions of Merit. But it does illustrate How 10. The Basic length unit in the 8on-Ttttw Dies Oyster Bay . Api  Derby son in Law of presi Dent Theodore Roosevelt died Athis summer Home in Proctorville it. U was Learned Here. He we 82. In Liz s footsteps Eddie Fisher mum Tea a Confidence to Ger Man Model Renato Breek with whom be Baa been romantically linked. The two were in la Verna they went Friend before Eddie s wife Elisabeth Taylor we dating Lebard Burton a photo curfew rings out for kids under 16 in mass. Town North Adams mass. Up children under 16 were banned from the streets of this Western Massachusetts City after 10 . Acting police chief William h. Garner with the approval of the City Council enforced the curfew Law because a certain segment four parents cannot keep their Chil Dren under control. Our merchants have been plagued by children who Han around main Street using abusive language blocking doors and Dis play windows and refusing to move when asked by store owners or policemen he said. The last time the City had a curfew was 30 years ago. The kids Don t like it but Iowa Good enough for their fathers and their grandfathers and it willbe Good for them. There is no reason Why anyone under 16 should be loitering on Street Corners after10 pan.," Garner said. Mother objects court orders transfusion youth improves Meridian. Mass. Up the teen age son of a minister of the Jehovah s witness sect was re ported improving after being Given court ordered blood transfusion Over his Mother s objections. Michael Looper 13, was seriously injured near Here in a traffic Accident which killed his father the Rev. Marvin h. Looper of Lake Jackson Tex. His Mother and 12 Greer old sister were  following the Accident which occurred u the Looper were re turning from a Jehovah s witness convention in Neu York. The youth physicians said needed a transfusion because of internal bleeding but his Mother protested on religious grounds. The sect preaches that blood trans fusions Are sinful. Last year. Bill Faulkner a 22-year-old Jehovah s witness from Here died in the tame Hospital after refusing a transfusion. The courts could not order a trans fusion in Faulkner s Case because he we a mentally competent dear Santa Clous get on the Ball this year please Chicago a the Chicago poet office has received its first1963 letter for Santa Claus some five months before Christ mrs. The letter postmarked grand rapids mich., minus a stamp and with no return address was addressed Santa clonus in rare of May mailman North pole h was written with red Crayon and rend dear Santa last yer i asked you for Adoll House. But you did t give u to me. Mommy says you did t give it to me be calf i Dent say please. So this Christmas please give me doll House or i won t write to you no  the letter signed  was followed by a drawing of a girl s face marked  car shoots Forward kills driving lesson Long Beach Calif. Up a was a bit embarrassing admitted mrs. In Loerinc Harryon 28. When asked about her driving lesson which ended in a dry flood Contro Channel with the remains of wooden Barrier and .16 feet of can in link fencing strewn out behind her. The car just shot Forward she lightning kills Milkman. Cow Mobile. Ala. A lightning struck a Dairy barn at a Hospital killing a Man and a cow he had just milked. Searcy Hospital a state institution at nearby it Vernon said the victim was Williec. Grace of Dothan. Meter which it supposed to a one 0-Mlllonth of the distance from the Equator to the pole. The English system which has Little rhyme or reason lust grew. King Hnry i of medieval England army drops Case against Calif. Reservist san Francisco up a 25 year old army reservist who criticized president Kennedy during last october s cuban crisis will be permitted to remain in the re serves until next March when his military obligation is completed. The decision was announced by it Gen John l. Ryan jr., cd of the 6th army in calling off a hearing scheduled for Friday to determine whether the reservist Thomas l. Clark should be discharged. Ryan said it is preferable that Clark be held to the completion of his military obligation rather than face an administrative Board which could recommend his  served in Germany Clark who works on a Nap county Calif., ranch will Complete his Reserve obligation March 11.1964. He was on Active duty As an enlisted Man in Germany from 1958to i960. Clark wrote a letter to his com manding officer last october advis ing him that he would refuse to participate in any possible invasion of Cuba. He never was called to Active duty. He said he was delighted Bryan s decision to Call off the hear. Defined a Yard As the distance be tween the tip of his nose and the tip of one of his fingers. The Inch As prescribed by an ancient Scot Tosh King was the average Width of the thumbnails of three men of different sizes Small medium and Lorge. . Scientists film manufacturers and drug makers use the met rec system. But most other americans use the Inch ounce quart Fahry Nhill system inherited from the English. The English meanwhile have  the fahrenheit tempera Ture stale for the centigrade or celsius sonic used everywhere except in the United states Canada a troll a and new zealand in the United kingdom and the Trent majority of other count rim water bolls at 100 degrees. In the United states it bolls at 213  United states on the other hand Long since abandoned the English monetary system in favor of one based on the Decimal. Still most of the English speaking world is at Odds. In measurement with everybody else. Including so let Russia. Nearly 90 per cent of the world uses the metric  visiting Europe must remember that a quart is om6 of a liter a Pound 0.453 of a kilogram an Inch 2.5 centimetre. A slug its of whiskey is 42.5 Grams. . Rucien tests machine tool milkers and some circles in the defense department would be Happy if the whole country abandoned the system of 85 different weight and measures in Dally Amerla use and settled Down with the aim pier metric  Limey Industry and manufacturers in general Are inclined d object to any abrupt change. Legislation 1 pending in con Gress to authorize a study of what a country wide change to the metric system would do to the us. Souvenir picture Book. More than 600 photographs on Sale at All stripes Newsstands