European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 3, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              December 1964 the stars and stripes Page 5 save armory fight enters new stage Boston updo Union off Ciul said the Springfield armory has developed a rapid fire Cannon thut in better Thun the Ger Man Kun the defense department was reported planning to buy under a 150 million Kenneth president of the National association of government in Massa Mude the charge in an other of a series of moves in a Battle to save the de sense Secretary Robert me Kumura has ordered the armory cloned by Lyons said recent tests of the German made 20mm gun showed it to be extremely faulty in its when it was tested at the Aberdeen proving ground two weeks ago we knew it had kinks in it but i found out that it actually blew Lyons said Superior to reds he said he Cannon developed at the Springfield armory was Superior to t h e russian made 14mm weapon of similar the Springfield made weapon was presented to the defense department he Lyons said if this contract was Given to it would Gen Erate full employment on product lion lines for three to four years Springfield mayor Ryan also criticized the i is impossible for our people to understand the Ingle of b decision which causes them to lose their jobs in an Areu of High Unzem when at the same time a million contract is placed with a country that has an econ omy in Strong that there is no Ryan Edward d said later the defense department will not con tract this fiscal year for the weapons Purchase from Ger he made this statement after conferring with assistant Secre tary of defense Charles hitch and House appropriations com Muttee Boland said he confirmed ther is no Money in the budget for the fiscal year ending next july 3 for the Purchase of he weapons hitch Boland tha the department would take n action to procure or develop in West German weapon this Al san without prior approval o the House defense appropriation the muss Chusett chamber Commerce Mcnamara i review his we urgently request that to review your decision to close the Spring fled armory at a urn when world Especial in Asia and warns of the need of the work which Spring Field can do Mith chamber said in a message wind up dominance of National its governors urged Washington lican governors meeting in Den ver this week were urged to shake off domination by the re publican National committee and become a real third Force for their weakened the including a blast no the former gop National William were mud by the Rlynn u research group of mod  tile society charged that in 1963 Miller blocked Liaison in tween the newly organized governors and congressional re pub Miller was Barry Goldwater running mate this we believe that a Strong re publican governors association with an increased voice in the leadership of the National party big Welcome Hugo draft of holds us newly adopted son Vang after the boy arrived in 8vn the boys american name is the drafts also have adapted a photo is Assenti in of i jul to the recovery and health of the Republican the Ripon report we urge that All necessary Steps toward that end be taken there appeared to be Little feel Pinch of strike san Francisco own merchants Are feeling the Inch of a labor dispute that has kept two thirds of san fran discos movie houses closed for nearly three the theater shutdown has sharply reduced the number of people visiting cutting he revenues of Book Cigar stands and merchants who depend on movie patrons for a healthy por Tion of their Trade report business drop offs of up to m per the economic effects of the dispute can be seen most clearly on Market the cites Gar so main thoroughfare where hot dog stands and Small shops Nestle n the shadows of darkened Thea Ter the throngs usually present on the Street until the Early hours of each Day have thinned since the shutdown took effect says Salvatore a bar tender at the heres How tavern on Market Street the streets dead at business is off at least 25 per maybe the str Kei hurling Clarence executive vice president of the Golden Gate restaurant which null was most of the Small Market Street restaurants among its estimates the strike o stay open after Midnight to catch the after movie Trade Are closing in a walkout by projectionists at he Coronet theater on 13 triggered the the  were protesting allure of the theater owners to present a new the old contract expired last the san Francisco theater owners representing 40 of the cites 59 re Aliu Ted the next Day by closing formal negotiations Between he owners and the International Yllance of theatrical and state employees have finally has caused a 50 per cent Cut in our people Are hurting theres no doubt about when people dont Rome downtown to see the they just dont eat several store owners who used the shutdown has had Little or no effect on the big retail say spokesmen for the retail dry goods association of san fran but parking lot operators Are among those feeling the its been real Tough on the Small Guys like says Mario who runs a parking lot adjacent to a Large also feeling the Pinch arc firms that Supply Popcorn to the Thea says Arthur whose firm supplies most of the movie houses were wiling about bags a week less than its Johnson offers a Job to times says new York a president Johnson has asked Lam Duck Kenneth Tol if he would accept a lob in the the new York Tomci said the acting through two invited keat ing to suggest the areas of government in which he might be willing to serve by the times 82nd Christmas Tiro York a a full m fool Norway Spruce was erected in Rockefeller the s3nd Christmas tree to stand last gemini unmanned flight set next week Cape Kennedy Federal Agency Laid it plans to Send its woman gemini spaceship on its final unmanned lest flight next week to Clear the Way for the first woman night Early next project successor to the successful Mercury designed to keep two men in orbit for As Long As two weeks to practice for Apollo Moon flights expected by a space Agency spokesman said the Date for next weeks unmanned gemini launching will depend on the results of a mock flight test originally set for wed however it has been Learned that undisclosed prob lems have forced postponement of this lest until later in the the two stage Titan rocket will hurl the gemini capsule about Miles to an Atlantic recovery area to prove the spacecrafts reentry and re covery the 10mlnute suborbital shot will put the Craft through the same launching recovery stresses thut astronauts Virgil Grossom and John Young will encounter on their planned three orbit mis Sion in curly shot will be the first test of geminis ability to withstand scaring reentry heal produced by its plunge from the vacuum of space into earths thick Tamou plans cull for the capsule to separate from its titun2 second suite about six minutes after launching to an Altitude of about 100 a few seconds later Retro rockets will Start the Cap sule on its dive Bucklo after its descent is slowed by the spacecraft Wil hit the Atlantic several Hundred Miles East of the Leeward is the aircraft Currier in to cold and two destroyers Wil be at the scene to recover the the White declined comment on the Keating who lost his hid for reelection told u reporter in Wash Murlun no of purporting to Foi he administration has said any hint to me in tiny Shoatie n form about a presidential up a Keating aide told the Ai Ukiu cd press that the Penalo lad not been approached and the history was pure the times said it Learned from reliable sources thut John son commissioned a leading new York Democrat to ascertain Kea Ings interest in a Federal the it was said broached the subject to a close Republican associate of Kealm the associate put Hie question t but no reply has Bee prepared for submission loth while House the times Kali ii Bumch canc fort Worth quarantine fort a an outbreak of rabies has cause the City health department place two areas in South of Worth under 60day quarantine it quarantined the first Seculo after u dog bit a Man and the animal was found to be Rabii the next Day a Rabid Skunk b an 11ycurold out the governors mute move that Robert Smylie of the governors chair said he expects a new broadened mechanism of party Ude ship to emerge from the he has urged the re accent of National chairman Eun a Goldwater the Ripon located in and with Nam bars in More than 30 proposed that the governors As of Luton set up its own full time Rofes Sinai name its own find its own n d communicate directly Ith Republican members of the society said it was during fillers regime that the gov nors agreed to accept National committee financing and let the committee treasurer serve As Clr they also could cat with republicans in con Ress Only through the Ripon report also urged lat the governors cooperate regularly with congressional readers in forming legislative policy and speak out on fed ral state creation of the governors roup came at a conference in i final in july Between that conference and the him meeting n the report much of the governors Progress was How much was aused by political design or Thor factors the report would of say but it the net effect was to say the for the Goldwater Strate the report said that at a Ember 1063 luncheon Miller made it perfectly Clear to a group of leaders that their Rouse conference Al Eady would not be come at an upcoming Denver governors meeting Miller was it indicated attendance of another Louse member would be embarrassing All so no one was bound to committee then the governors adopted niches of association drafted by chairman Miller the staff of the National the report the it Burd the new association to the Republican a annul the Ripon group ame the debacle of this years Cleveland governors con Terence when a gop Summit meeting faded to come the top governors suffered from poor dissension and discouragement the report the report now in the postelection with the Republican National committee under 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