European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 4, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              2 the stars and strikes december 1964 4 phantoms go 1 Max Miles in 18 hours of jets set endurance Mark flight of four air Force Jet fighters landed at Macdill air Force base ending a nonstop flight of almost the air Force claimed an unofficial endurance record of 18 hours for Jet the pre Vious record was Miles in 14 Duma was just beginning to set the at the Headquarters of the strike when the four lets touched Down under Cloudy leading Uit night of f4c Phan Toms was capt Arnold of Riding with him in the woman plane was capt Edward Kramer a night surgeon at flying the other planes were capt Don of capt Manfred Schalk of 1st it Howard of Kal 1st m Francis of capt Wayne of Billings and 1st it Maxcy Phil of the night had left Mac Iii at 11 the planes Are assigned to the Isth tac fighter Wing at Mac it is the first air Force unit to be supplied with the twin All weather fighters which can Fly at More than Miles per hour up to feet the air Force said the route of the endurance flight took the lets to puerto North to Bermuda West to am then across the nation to the West the planes then flew up the Pentagon orders freeze on new Dod employees Washington ski a freeze on new hiring of Blue col Lar workers and limitations on hiring of White Collar workers in the defense department has Boon ordered by Secretary of defense Robert the freeze was made by the Secretary As an initial step in assuring an offer of a of Opportunity to career employees of elected by base officials said the freeze was limited to 28 of next year because it will require Matey that length of time to Register employees Tor referral to other after this is a it was More selective restrictions Are expected to replace the initial general 14 Viets slain during sleep Saigon a fourteen government troops Wen slain i their when a Large Viet Cong Force wreaked into the District Headquarters Post of then glad Early official re ported officials Here had reported earlier that 14 defenders had been killed in the attack and 40 others but details were Lack there were Strong indications a traitor had let the Viet Cong into the the enemy apparently lost Only two the District chief was killed in his but the assistant District chief reportedly woke up in tune to take the posts mortar and hide it in a water filled the Viet Cong captured him and demanded that he Tell them where the Post radio he refused and the guerrillas slashed my to death with a i weather by United press International of Caralt cd mtg pm a Forth a Tami  Mflwc Lufty City Irish  pm Hatum tool us i u m cd met do m id t at Inonu util the freeze does not include in Terna such As the lining of vacancies by promotion from officials under the order of me Kumura restricted new hiring of Blue Collar wage Board personnel to temporary it was noted that to Secre Tarys memorandum to the serv ice secretaries and Agency i requires rom mum Effort to fill positions on a permanent basis with employees at bases be ing closed and with employees scheduled for separation by reductions in Force or failure to accompany transferred to visit in Mother action taken 20 to assure an aggressive employee placement Deputy Secretary of defense Cyrus Vance directed the service secretaries and director of the de sense Supply Agency to Send Headquarters officials to visit the installations announced for Clos ing and explain u employees the defense program for providing another Job Opportunity to those affected by ban Vance also ordered develop ment of detailed phaseout plans and statements of planned placement when the limited freeze of is is the defense department expects to have a com Puter program in operation which will greatly expedite the Effort to provide Job opportune tested on a Pilot basis in the six state Chicago civil service re ton Ken and wis Consin us computer program will be adapted for nationwide officials the defense department said approximately of the positions to be eliminated by 85 base closing actions announced by Mcnamara 19 Are filled by More than civilians Are hired annually in the United states by the defense department Darmstadt schedules film about Kennedy Germany s4s years of Day of the documentary film on the Kennedy administration issued in connection with the first acini Ersary of the presidents will be shown at 8 19 in the John Kennedy Haus the color in was prepared by the information and is Only being shown outside the United West coast to East across the South to birding and then Back the air Force said the fighters were refuelled several times by strategic air come kc139 Jet with two of the re fuel legs occurring at night the officers were met at the flight line by air Force it Gen Bruce Deputy com Mander of strike Hollo Way Shook hands with each of the and praised them for their record night this was an encouraging demonstration of what can be done in a he also on hand to Greet the re turning fliers were their families and about w other air Force Mck checkups the Etges men went directly to a nearby building for a physical checkup by flight surgeons and then met the press Tor a Short they said they were somewhat stiff from the Long but cure in Good i think i crud go the route Weber Weber said the planes refuelled seven times during the underestimated Kramer said the flight found out the capabilities of the and that ii was found these capabilities had been unde Resti everyone was in better shape than we Kramer said me said the men went on a special Low residue diet 72 hours before starting the flight the air Force said the flight was made to test the endurance of men and planes at sustained Ultra ions the longest previous of Miles in 14 was by three fido super sabres in hair reportedly from Napoleon sold Tor Saint France a a hair reportedly clipped from the head of the emperor Napoleon six hours after his death was sold at auction thursday for francs the relic was put up for Sale with other items from the Home of a frenchwoman who formerly ived on Birthplace of auction authorities said the hair was offered far Sale last july but failed to stir a single recent theories advanced in Scotland that examination of an other hair supposedly taken from the Imperial head showed traces of arsenic poisoning have stirred outrage in Napoleonic societies in France and Corsica and probably enhanced the value of the item sold at Saint auctioneers the purchaser was described As a Man in his fifties but was not further wee Dawn a freshman at Pasadena City has been elected Queen of Ike 76lh Ann nol Ulm men of she will reign Over new years Day festivities Pasadena climaxed by the annual Rose bowl Cpl released by turks to be in new York a Cpl Dale 31yearold Dornlan released from a turkish prison after citizens raised enough Money to pay a Fine of More than returned Here by plane with his italia born wife and five he vowed to reporters at the Airport that he would continue efforts to Clear my feels great to be Blank Rifle ammo found on Highway Frankfurt up two Chest of Blank Rifle am munition were found near Here on the Frankfurt Wiesbaden Auto a Short distance from the spot where two German children discovered a Chest of am munition the army area come in formation office thursday con Farmed that the latest find was Blank ammunition from its stores the army is seek ing to Trace the Blanks to the unit from which they As Well As the origin of the monday find of Tim he i  be More Happy ask the seven of i have been acquitted of four of the five charges against me and i dont just want to lie Down and die Mcculston was found guilty of exporting american dollars oat of Turkey through the army Post i Grauu served arrested in Turkey in and subsequently be served eight months in prison and would have served three years More if a Fine had not been asked How he Felt about the people of san Diego who helped raise the bulk of the he said with they Are the finest people in the world and i dont just mean those in that also mean those through out the otherwise i  be standing Here talking to he said he Hopes to visit Sao Diego to see hit and to thank the san Diego residents who helped i didst know there were people like he and his family were taken to Swiss woman injured As package explodes Zurich up a Zurich in two Zurich up a Zurich Louse life opened a package addressed to her husband and a web tearing off her Eft doctors said Carman blk was in critical condition at a Zurich Hospital where he underwent an emergency police said the package was one of the meanest and most malicious crimes Ever enc Oun ered when bled Mann opened the which had been mailed the Day before in he explosion Tore off her left broke fingers in her right hand and Cut her thighs and doctors feared her eyes May have been damaged a preliminary police investigation indicated the bomb was the work of an explosives expert but it was not immediately deter mined How much or what kind of explosives were it was addressed to ble Dermann who in a chief buyer Tor a Zurich depart ment after the explosion ble Durmann crawled out of the and neighbors including Jedi found her and called doctors and Zurich police appealed to the Public to notify the of ans Haj that might be connected with the officials noted that Ledermann is with cores of people Dally in his work and might have a number of Bic Dermann two Daugh age six months and three escaped one was in a baby Carriage in the Yard and the other was ving the one Whlon the explosion