European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 20, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday october 20, 1964 Doir t junk the car junk All the junkyards by d cd West Washington up ideally a newspaper reporter is on objective observer. He relates the facts without getting person ally involved in the Story he is arc times however when we newsmen Are swept Upin the tide of events so that we become a part of the problem rather than apart from it. This happened to me the other Day when i covered the National conference on Auto Salvage sponsored by the Institute of scrap Iron & steel. I find that i can t get it off of my knowledge that Automo Biles arc lie Ink junked at the rate of 5 million a car and thut Noah Fly has any Clear idea a what to do with them has totally destroyed my sense of Well being. The junked cur tit Ulion seems to be falling into the pattern set by Beer cans. And we All know what that can Lead to. It can Lead to people driving by your House and throwing Beer cans on your front they have started getting rid of old cars that Way. Last year in new York ally alone More thin 1.1.000 cars were abandoned on the streets. In Phila Delphia it lakes 11 Tow trucks to keep the streets free of derelict vehicles. Since whoever is in charge seems unable to control the junked car population explosion it is up to us As individual Citi Zens to take the matter into our own hands. To get the Ball Roll ing i have several of All Here should be an educational Campaign. Something like Don t be a Lille Rug. Take your old Carlo the secondly there should be Campaign to improve the imags.1 of junkyards. For some strange reason most people regard junk a nerds As Eves orcs. They simply Are not found in the better neigh we Are to lick this problem we must reshape the think Pat Tern so that junk nerds will be acceptable. Even bigger and belter junk Yards arc at Best a Stopgap Mea sure. Genuine rehabilitation re quires that ways be found tomake practical use of discarded autos. In some coastal areas the have been used to build fishing reefs. Which is a step Forward but does t offer too much Relief Tor landlocked believe the solution could be found in a nationwide the following sentence in 25 words or less i would like to have a junked car of my own because. Here arc a couple of hints wrecked cars make Dandy Duck blinds and Bird Baths. But Don t let me influence your answer. Inthis contest originality counts for More than neatness. Children will prod adults to cast votes new York a a National Campaign using school children to prod adult to vote was announced Here. Culled the big a purpose is to have students form teams to canvass their neighbourhoods in the week before the nov. 3 election asking for pledges from adults that they will Vole. It is sponsored by the Ameri can heritage foundation the Parent teacher association an the National education association. The idea was suggested by cartoonist a Capp in letters to former presidents Harry s. Tru Man and Dwight d. Eisenhower. Capp wrote we teach our kids that americans have always been willing to travel anywhere on Earth to fight for our Freedom. It is tragic to have them learn As they do each election Day. That so Many adults arc unwilling to travel a couple of blocks to vote to protect that Richard e. Berlin president of the Hearst corp. Has been named Leader of a communications Industry Council being formed to inform students about the project. It s an unfortunate fact that Only 64 per cent of the american electorate turned out to vote in1060, compared with 70 per cent in the last general election he Din great Britain. As per cent in Denmark. 87 per cent in Ger Many and 63 per cent in Italy Berlin e teams will Wear no political insignia and they will Promise to make no mention of politics the announcement will be identified by big e paper Chest spokesman said the a in big a is for want this to be a big elec Tion turnout he said. Women on the run Here ire four of the fair sex who Are seeking congressional seals in next month1 elections. Left to right Genevieve blast Senate Candi Date from Pennsylvania mrs. Elly Peter son Senate candidate from Michigan palsy Mink House hopeful from Hawaii and mrs. Francis Mills seeking a House seat from Kentucky. Of the four is the Only Republican candidate. The three other women Are running on in democratic ticket. _ a photo space expert discusses manned Landing . Given 50-50 Chance at Moon food strike lockout ends in s. California los Angeles up the teamsters have ratified a three year contract with 56 wholesale grocery firms to end a month Long Southern California food Trike lockout. The food employers Council representing the wholesale companies approved the agreement earlier. Washington a a . I space expert said hero Eliut the Uusmann May be Able to make the first flight around the Moon using their present equipment but claimed the i filed state bus an even Chance of making the first manned Landing. I think we have at least a50-50 Chance of gelling to the Moor ahead of them said or. Edward Welsh acting director i and executive Secretary of the National aeronautics and space Council. I m talking about Landing on the Moon and taking off from the Moon and returning safely to Earth he added. I m not talk Aing about a circa lunar shot around the Moon which they might be Able to do even wit this present Welsh interviewed on r a d i press International s from he people program said the re cent soviet three Man Orbital demonstrates again that. Russians Are ahead in such i manned operations. There s not Only a possibility but. An extreme likelihood he talk the the rocket nod spacecraft used have Bee launched before in earlier unmanned said it is not Likely the spacecraft was very much heavier than other spacecraft "14.000. 15.000 or 10.000 pounds California girls Ouli hink boys san Francisco up girls Are smarter than boys. Every schoolgirl knows now there is some proof. A testing program on 750,000 Cali fornia pupils in the 5th, 8th and Lith grades showed that in Scholastic ability and All Basic skills the girls outshone the Only exception were Lith Grade boys. They were ahead of res in one " Overall the tests taken by750 000 Cal for la doll showed th7 averse California Sii?, cored hiter ihlani"u1 nallonsav"80 in spelling arithmetic and other bums but no. Parison was made with the National average on to or Scholas tic Abl ill in general. Pilot Dies on dc6 carrying 89 Las vegas Nev. A a airline Captain died in a four engine Airliner flying from la vegas to i is Angeles Calif. George Carroll 44, was pronounced dead when the Western air lines dc6b returned o la vegas. The Copilot was at the controls for the entire trip West Ern said. The cause of Carroll s death Bas not yet been determined. Flight 117 had covered one third of the 1 i hour trip when Carroll was stricken. The plane was Over Daggett Calif., at the time. There were 85 passenger aboard. The plane carries a Crew of four. Richard Dunkleman 32, the co Pilot swung the Airliner around and radioed Las vegas for an ambulance As stewardess Judy Raisin and second officer Lloyd v. Drain eased Carroll from his seat and administered oxygen. The second officer on Western flights is an Engineer who also is a Pilot. He and first officer Dunkleman landed the plane Atlas vegas. All the Crew members live in the los Angeles area. Carroll a Veteran Pilot leaves his widow Lou and four Chil Dren Catherine 15, Patrick 10,Michael, 6, and Caroline 2, and he doubled the Booster used would iwas Strong us the United states Saturn rocket. But i he fact that the Sovie cosmonauts did not Wear space suits is probably one of the most significant aspects of the whole Welsh continued. It shows that the soviets had Confidence in their spacecraft. That they had a Well tested Well proven spacecraft. He doubted the United stale would have this capability in the next couple of years. Not reckless Welsh said that contrary to some reports the russians Are very cautious and orderly in their space program an stated. I would categorically deny that they have been answering a question he also denied charges by sen. Barry old water the Republican presidential nominee that there had not been enough emphasis nonmilitary aspects of the space to always astonishes me How misinformed he is on some important mib Jurt. Wol a said. Last year for instance. 80per cent of All the spacecraft put into orbit by the United tales were put there by the department of defense and Only 20per cent by Nasa. Much he greatest percentage of Al he space activity is defense depart ment postmaster of the Vear bakery l l. Loil h it let was named.18" postmaster of the year by the d �. Mail advertising As ends 1st year new York a the Newyork world s fair has closed its first year with a Promise Ofa More or less new fair and bigger attendance in 1865. The fair lowered its estimate however on expected profile from Lite two year run dropping its estimate from the original ss3 million to approximately million. Riots blame the latter figure was set by Thomas j. Deegan jr., chairman of the fair corporation s executive committee who blamed the Harlem riots the hot summer and publicity about tight hotel space Early in the season. Some 200,000 attended the fan sunday a Bright sunny and pleasantly Cool closing Day but air officials had hoped for More last Chance visitors. The record Day s attendance set on a re cent sunday was More ihtn283,000. Since the april 22 open ing 33 million in runs have seethe fair. Some close Earl some pavilions boarded up their entrances even before the official Midnight closing and Numy of the thousands of Youn people from around the world who had manned the various pavilions already were on their Way Home. Those who stayed for the final hours were with a touch of sad Ness saying goodbye to summer time friends. One Section of the fair which will undergo drastic change next year Ilee Gaii said is the amusement area where a num Ber of admission shows close during the summer apparently because of free show Competition in other fair areas
