European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 21, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse 1964 the stars and stripes Pentagon to propose raise of guard Rolls Washington up the defense department will seek i unlimited authority to permit the National guard to exceed Iii manpower Selling during the first year Othi scheduled merger Ullh the army it was guard said the author if j would approved by permit them to offer Muster Rolls to above the scheduled cell Leaden also we watch guard inn closely the defense depart ments plans to increase the pay of recruits during their first two years of service in the regular this would be a step to Ward students at the univer sity of Southern California at los Angeles participate in the new Campus a Uman team loin a Volkswagen 100 feel then jumps la rare hark to the Starll Nic associated press photo Only three of seven ready for space flight ranks of first astronauts thinned injuries and retirement have Cut sharply into the ranks of Ameri Cas seven original leaving Only three ready for a Strong possibility exists that three of the cmdr Alan cmdr Scott car Penter and Donald will never make another space col John Glenn left the pro cram Anc will retire next year to become a bottling company of the three remaining Astro two maj Virgil gris som and cmdr Walter Are training for the first manned gemini flight next the maj Gordon is described by his Doc Tor healthy As a the manned spacecraft Cen ters physician in charge of the spacemen health said he didst know if any of the three ailing astronauts Ever would Fly into space there Are said Charles especially in Ati Shepard he still has some loss of Al though there Hast been any More episodes of Shepard is suffering from an inner ear which he apparently contracted from a virus it is the same Type of ailment that Glenn suffered when he fell in his bathroom last feb although he has been we cant say when a will be Berry or even i i will get we just Doni Carpenter is recovering ram injuries suffered in a motor cooler Accident in Bermuda lust he can rotate his left Arm a Itolle bit Berry we dont look for any permanent in carpenters left Arm was Shat ered in a collision with a Brick Wall and Hast responded to Cut mint As quickly As it should Berry while the second astronaut to orbit the Earth was Given a six month assign ment in october As special assistant to Robert manned spacecraft Center Alrec do pcs slay tons Case Hast there is nothing new in ills Berry ills heart condition is no different no no a heart murmur was detected by physicians shortly after the Wisconsin native was picked to be the second american to orbit the he was grounded and Carpenter made the since then Slayton has remained an astronaut with almost no Hope of flying in Al though he still insists he will gel a flight one of these i think a decision was made about Deke a Long Lime Berry asked what it he you dont see him on any Crew assignments do you but if it were left up to slay Berry he would be on the next Slayton resigned his air Force commission to become the civil Ian head of the full kit Crew Divi Sion at the space he and Berry make recommendations to Gilruth us to whom should be chosen for space flights among the 2r both Slayton and Shepard Are on dual flight Berry which Means they cant Fly they have to be with someone else or Lake an the first american to be bracketed into Heads the astronaut acting us coordinator Between astronauts and the the tincture of the great healer of All wounds and Berry said Philosophi int much help to these time is working against especially if they expect to make a space Shepard is Slayton and Carpenter equivalent rank and position to ii Nuisl nil of the whose civilian units Are to he dissolved or transferred to the guard beginning july behind the move a Lillef that the now men Short of h 400 000mun author i izod will non need nil the reserves and new recruits it can get to maintain the Man expanded strength 10 be As signed to heavy turnover the turnover in the National to Inird has been running at men a it presumably will Rise to or annually under the new strength author Transfer of the reserves will solve the problem of replace ments Only for the first year or there will still he a limited number of High ranking commissioned and noncommissioned officers who will be unable to find equivalent posts in the reorganized As Well As some who will be left out because there Are no guard units these involuntary separations from civilian Drill pay guard leaders will result from a reduction of to in the number of civilian ground units rather than from Lack of the pay in the supplied by the Federal i based on the rules in the regular army and often amounts to less Fyan an hour for Lime spent by civilian recruit i in weekend the guard lenders said most of their recruits Are Young men either Thor married or planning to Curry and eager to pick up extra Money hut shul the Drill rates Are now so Low that Many find they run make More by moonlighting on civilian manpower spaces in the army also below authorized now have men on Drill pay of Are former draftees who were assigned to Reserve units to fill out oneyear Drill obligations and Are not expected to join the if m per cent of the remaining paid reservists were to choose to join the guard and were added to the guards present strength guards pheasant plays Chicken with planes at Airport Upilo files across the get ids Field officials at Reynolds wonder what to do about a pheasant that races air planes Down a runway on the cock pheasant has built a nest along runway when a plane tables to the the pheasant comes out of the Bruns beside the Asphalt As the plane starts Down the the pheasant runs along running faster As the plane gathers both Are airborne about the same the danger pheasant wont hold it inches closer and closer to the plane and Ting us close As possible to the Robert president of Skyway told of his experiences with the he put an a demonstration for a reporter and photographer from the Jackson citizen the Donna wrote that the Bird didst mind having us picture taken but refused to although it did run alongside the Airport officials dont know what to they dont want to kill the but theres danger it might Fly into a prop or hit a senator acts to let Sec Juk film Washington a Eorge ibs drafted a Resolution to make it possible for the american pub Lic to View a film prepared As u memorial to John the Resolution would make it the sense of the Congress that the United Stales information Agency which prepared the should make arrange ments to distribute it through educational nonprofit organizations and commercial television for viewing within the United under its any proceeds collected by such groups would be contributed to the John Fitzgerald Kennedy memorial Library at years of lightning the entitled John Kennedy years of Day of was prepared for showing around the world As part of Sias informational Campaign the Usia has no authority to Recluse us films for Public show ing in the United states because its appropriations Are voted sole in for activities 1 the film coven Kennedy administration from the Day of his inauguration until the Day of the 1 Day on which he was i Mcgovern told a reporter he has been in Contact with some 30 members of Congress who have expressed interest in cosponsor ing the continuing inspiration the who served under Kennedy As first director of the Kooff Orphace said the former presidents life is continuing inspiration to Ameri cans All across our it would be unfortunate if the american people were to to denied the Opportunity of viewing this magnificent he culling it a message of inspiration directed to All Peoples of the perhaps especially to the american the prohibition against domes tic showing of Usia prepared films was waived a few years ago for a film based on John Kennedy visit to India and Pakistan while she was first this Domestic through commercial was based on a Senate close shave actor Robert Preston lathers up and shaves his Bead for his role As Ben Franklin in the Broadway musical Ben Franklin in the close shave is required by toe we Preston wears in portraying photo noted Dies up George Radford Mayfield a nationally known died Here after an extended 0 he was
