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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, September 16, 1964

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page o the stars and stripes wednesday september 16, 1964 fasten your safety Belt and Saddle up Podner by Dick West Washington up it used to be that when a Cowboy Sang of the great Roundup in the sky you could assume that hews thinking of heaven. But no  if now a possibility that he will be referring to a Job of punching cattle for trans world  fact is old paint that regularly scheduled commercial flights to move veal calves from the United states to Europe have just been started. I guess this about does it As far As the old West is  Herd on horseback is go ing to seem like pretty Pale stuff compared to wrangling doggies by Jet  expect that in a few years a whole new category of folklore will Spring up partly Early if a Range War Breaks out Between Twa and pan am. It in t Loo fur Fri ref o fancy that some Day a movie studio will remake High noon at36,000 feet. This will be followed by a Cluster of television pro Grams based on the adventures of airborne cowpokes. Instead of westerns we will bewitching Ozone a. The Chisholm Trail will be replaced by thereat Circle route. The cast will carry parachutes instead of Saddle bags. As the hero of these Aeria horse operas i foresee someone like Tex altimeter a Foreman at the pan am spread who is regarded As the fastest draw Castor the Kennedy International air port. The big scene comes one nigh when they Are moving 200 head from new York to Milan Italy. A thunderstorm develops and 1looks As if they might have a Stampede on their  Only that there is a gang of rustlers Back in the tall compartment a tribe of indians is on the Warpath in the rest room and the Pilot is really an escaped convict who is trying Roget across the mexican Border. To run pc is or worse a ornery no Good Skunk to whom Tex had Given a second chances trying to Force his attentions on the  when ii appears that All is lost Tex whips out his Trust guitar and sings of give me air lots of Airin the starry skies above Don t Fence me  me ride through the wide Blue yonder that i  t Fence me  in the  of time there  on the horizon a Fleet of air planes with red White an Blue insignia. H 13 a posse of att i Ruffic control lower operator from the Federal aviation meanwhile Back at the Twa terminal. Veteran bottle shop to become shrine old Alabama in state of retirement Mobile. Ala. A the battleship Alabama has completed its last  j5,000-ton world War ii vessel was eased into a temper Mcnamara sub for la j at legion Dallas up the american legion has lined up defense Secretary Robert s. Mcnama Raas a substitute speaker for presi Dent Johnson at its annual convention. The legion has received con fun Natlyn from Washington that Mcnamara will address the convention next tuesday a spokes Man  presidential Candi Date Barry Goldwater will appear before the convention the Fol lowing Day.  expected the convention expected to attract Between 19,000 and 20,000legionnaires to Dallas will be held sept 21-21. President Johnson said Las saturday that he would not attend. The legion had Bee banking on him to appear in this election year. Legion adjutant Emit a. Black More of Indianapolis said the legion was shocked and disappointed that or. Johnson would not attend. Mcnamara will be the key note speaker and legion officials said they expected him to de liver a major  Goldwater was reported plan rung to make his appearance be or Thule of Nuon one of the highlights of us Campaign. Old Winchester Plant soon to be Tom Dow new Haven Conn. Up _ a Winchester arms Plant that produced rifles for Annie Oakley Buffalo Bill and Theodore Roose velt soon will fall to the wreck a Ball tace original Winchester build  in 1870, is one of 1j structures to be torn Down Ina Plant modernization program of the Winchester Western Devi Jon of Olin hath Leson chemical corp you can t shoot Arrow into Cook county Ai Chicago a the latest Advance of  la Coo county Chicago has local out doormen quivering with India nation the county Board has outlawed Hunting with Bow an Darrow. Said Board president sey Mour Simon who proposed he ordinance Bow and arro hauling wll Nln a county of More than s million resident would probably bag More peo pie than Deer 1 Ary berth in a new Channel after completing a 5,800-mile Tow from the Mothball Licet at Bremerton Wash. The new Channel is being dredged to a she alongside the Mobile Bay causeway where the battleship will be enshrined As a War  arrival in Mobile Bay climaxed a save the Alabama drive that started More than three years ago when a group Mobile business and professions men Learned that the Nav planned to sell the vessel for  of Small Craft Grec Tec the Gray battleship As it move Dup the Bay. Hundreds of persons jammed the official reviewing stand and watched As tugs ease the ship from the regular ship route into the temporary Chan  180 foot Battle Wagon grounded briefly on mud Flats Asit made the turn but Busy tugs quickly treed  Navy band from Pensacola fla., naval air station played in car Falls apart9 in 65-m.p.h. Crash Driver scratched Vernon Calif. Up my station Wagon literally fell apart. The body of the Wagon turn Dover and before i knew it there was a Young woman whom 1had never seen before Crylla hysterically by my Side. Me 1just had a few scratches. Then someone helped me out of the Wagon and i knew i was All right. It was As simple As  was How John Robert Byrnes 12, of Long Beach Calif.,described his near miraculous escape when his station Wagon going 5 Miles an hour struck a Guardrail on the Long Beac freeway and almost  investigators said pieces of the vehicle were strewn 100 feet along the Highway and the engine dropped onto a Street 90 feet be Low the freeway. Byrnes said he lost control of his Wagon when he braked be cause the car in front of him was going too slow. Uncle Sam holds top sweeps ticket Portsmouth . A the internal Revenue department intruded on the jubilation of them2 winners of some 11.4 Mil Ion in saturday s running of the new Hampshire sweepstakes. District director Charlesw Inlet said prize winners Are table for taxes ranging from 128or the 1200 winners to w5.000 for a single person winning the to Money of $100,000. There were 18 big Money win ners six each in the three top categories 1100,000, 190,000, and29,000. The Bright Sunshine a simulate Confederate Battery fired us brass guns and jets and other aircraft roared overhead. The battleship was launch Dat the Norfolk a Navy Yard in 1942. It Cost approximately$200 million to build. The vessel fought in nine major engage ments in the Pacific including bombardments of the japanese main islands. 2 trainmen die in fiery Texas crash Clifton. Tex. A the fireman and Engineer were killed and a truck Driver was burned when the Santa be s Texas chief and a gasoline truck collided Inthis Central Texas town. Kirby r. Vaughn 71, of tem ple the Engineer and fireman Leslie b. Humme Lelch 38, of Cleburne burned to death in the flaming cab of their i Csc Loco motive. Audrey Butler 41, of Hubbard Fly the truck Driver was taken to a Hospital  s truck was loaded with 000 Gallons of  said the truck was carried along the tracks about100 Yards burning gasoline spew ing from its ruptured tanks. Passengers kept aboard trainmen kept the 81 Passen Gers aboard the train after some of the cars stopped amid the burning gasoline. Railroad officials said it appeared some were shaken up. Clifton residents said the explosion sounded like a sonic Boom. About 1 4 hours were require to get the bodies of Vaughn and Himmelreich out of the  northbound chief in route from Galveston to fort wort hand Chicago was delayed about three hours. Burning gasoline spewed Long the right of Way and Des troyed Telephone lines. The collision was at a crossing on a farm to Market Road just North of the Clifton depot. Von bran to speak Buffalo . Up space expert or. Wernher von Braun Hai accepted an invitation i speak oct. 7 at the annual presi Dent s dinner of the Buffalo acad Emy of Medicine. Teachers Leader  Koontz who has taught for 24 years in negro schools at Salisbury n.c., is the first of her race to be chosen president of the National education association s depart ment of teachers. A photo . Drinkers conceal binges dry Leader says Rochester . Up americans Are spending j1.4m, 018 an hour on liquor wine an Beer says the treasurer of the women s Christian Temperance Union. The treasurer. Mrs. H. F. Tow-el., cited the figure at the open ing of the organization s five Day annual convention. Americans arc nightly indulging in the greatest drinking bouts rtriss.0ry i he m then a drinking Public sees Little of the drinking because it is concealed in a tavern or in Homes. Were the drunks that state cruder the cloak of Early Morsing darkness to emerge in Daylight an aroused Public would demand a return to prohibition at once � negro colonel gets 6th army surgeon Post san Francisco a a  in w/bejb5?i  Bate new heroism in the Korea Waris the new 6th army surgeon. He is col Jotun f. Harris ofw4 r tulips a the first Olgr a named to the position Harris recently completed fou Yssis Sou h Vietnam i medical adviser to the Vilna Mese surgeon general " forget polls Truman tells Humphrey Kansas City a former president Harry s. Truman held a rather sentimental news con Ference Here with sen. Hubert h. Humphrey asking the questions. The democratic vice presiden tial nominee brought or. Truman Down to a hotel conference Roo to meet the press before Humphrey spoke at the Muni pal auditorium kicking off a parly s Missouri . Truman is 80, not so Spry As when he made his famous walks around the White House but he still was in a give Ethell mood. Humphrey asked the former president How the democrats will do in , i Don t i Don t think we re going to win by More than250,000." that gut a big laugh. Humphrey told the former president he was going to Teu the crowd about the nation s for eign policy and sen. Barry 1c. Ool dealer s attacks on i Humphrey said or. Truman had been one of the architects of bipartisan foreign policy. I Don t want to see it throwaway by a Fella who does t know anything about it the for Mer president said. Approves of Campaign Truman approved the Way president Johnson and Humphrey have been currying on their Cam  the Battle to them Truman exhorted. Don t Ever apologize for  Humphrey recalled the in selection when or. Truman went to bed counted As a Defeated candidate but awakened to tint himself an upset  told or. Truman be lad cautioned democrats Springfield. Mo., against complacency because of polls in eating a democratic Victory. Or. Truman nodding declared Don t pay any attention to polls. Pretend they Don t  for the South or. Truman said president Johnson has cans for serious concern. They will do a lot of talking but he added that when they to the polls they remember the daddies would turn in Thole Graves if they voted Republican after the Truman had dinner to private with Humphrey an8uhis wife or. Truman and a senator walked Side by Side to half Block to the municipal Andt Orlum. It was like old times for  Dent a of. California poll finds Johnson leads 62 to 33 san Francisco a the viewed around Ihn is. Afield California poll claimed first week in set Eniver i is 5jlldwas in 19m former hat president John inn Tan rec can it ._"i"wi.r. Elcid hip Mont outlet. To t-1. A. A the iced California poll claimed hat president Johnson leads  Goldwater 62 to 33 in state wide voter preference for the presidency. Marvin d. Field director of the poll said that was the result of a Survey just completed in which,209 potential voters were inter or. Johnson s present l resemble those sued now Field said was in 1952, when former president Dwight d. Eisenhower held a 23 percentage Point le1 Saver Adlai Stevenson. J Field said 25 per cent of re pub 1 lean registered voters Harj i  a Vul it. U h r 3T0."ed Over to or. Johnson. Al while Johnson. Received i per cent of democrats prefer ence   
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