European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              December 1964 the stars and stripes 7 after 50 no fuss or feathers Carl Vinson leaves Capitol Hill air Ang Washington up one  didst even have a sergeant to Way to get out of town without carry his bags through Union fuss or feathers after half a Cen station Tury in the Public Eye Here is to Vinson did not want any scary Cumb on a train Christmas goodbyes and in fact had craftily imm let word pass around he would be that the Way Uncle Carl Van j Fol Here until opening Day of the 89th son wanted it and that what he laser Iii heading for but want going to be where he will live alone on h  anything much doing next his Iacre w 1 decided i might As Well get except for a couple of news f my it on Back to the Uncle Carl nobody was on hand Vii Jum for the final leave taking of the a jul no Man who in his later years was t and has made a Home probably the most powerful we  i5f mrs Gle member of Congress Vinsons death 19 years n is been a Lasi help with in t is i2ls la ssh and  let matched Ai bbb anybody even m a  Sass so ass ssh he Snead on Home to sufi or than Elhat is would not is ssh with he h seek another House  Isis ass Sissil nobody was for 10 Vinson has Carl Vlasova around to observe gel Al 1c by Fred Washington a air Force recommendations on merging the air Reserve and the or National guard arc due it has been this is Only six Days before retirement of Gen Curtis Lemay As air Force chief of Lemay is reputed to favor combining the air 3uard into the air but there appears to be considerable High level sentiment to accomplish the merger in the other direction to eliminate he air Reserve and leave Only the air this was the pattern set for the army 11 when Secretary of defense Robert Mcnamara announced that the army National guard would crease to men by absorbing about half of the Ryan led army the army Reserve will except for a reinforcement sources said studies on unifying the air Reserve and the air guard still Are not the Reserve officers which is fighting Boll Treaon of the army Reserve and he air Force has contended that the administration s waiting for Lemay to retire before informed authorities Chalon ced saying that Lemay in self had informed top of class that it would be impossible to finish the Reserve Uard studies by 1 and that himself held to the 19 objective deadline assigned the sources said the studies were ordered five or six months ago and the deadline assigned at that at Lemars a Board which determines air Reserve Ulicy decided about a year ago hat the Reserve and the air 3uard should be combined and hat one organization should the Board did not take a position on whether the Reserve or the guard should officials who have been working on this problem said they had Jeen unable to detect from Lemay any leanings either so far As the Reserve and the guard Are the air National guard earned considerable Praise during the Berlin crisis when it sent 118 fighters and reconnaissance plus their supporting to France and Germany within a month of being called into Federal service in october Mcnamara so far As the guard and Reserve Ere is on Quick the air guard and the air Reserve Are in a somewhat different position from their army All air Reserve and guard units Are considered High priority outfits and Are equipped and staffed the army guard and Reserve have considerable numbers of men in Low priority units under present would not be ready for use in much less than a year after being mustered into Federal the entire air guard is drawing Drill pay and training Only air Force ready reservists Are in the same another Are in the ready Reserve but do not get Drill armed services committee and tit the naval affairs no Man had More to do with Iii country defences or played a bigger part in getting them and air Force for Yean have lumped when Vinson Laid be could have flown Home on the Plush est let in the air the if Given a would have ferried him at least Ai far As the deep water on anything in the Fleet the the Way As it Las a Agency fire than 10 minutes in its current annual report to the the Gao said if his and other commissaries Are o continue in the least Congress can do is quit putting up the or so the defense department spends every year justifying the need for each but that does not mean the Agency has abandoned its Flohl to close unjustified said Harold associate by Frank Saj Tyrh Washington up government Wartew a t c h e r s Are sharpening their Axel for the i user Mart that Sells citrate Gro Erlei to servicemen wives who must drive past one of the big half food to get a top official of the general accounting office Gao said his despite Back talk from which la its still Olds to its Contention that Many Uch comm mates should be it says they Cost tax pours i1h million a the Agency lays Many such stores operate in violation of a 991 Law limiting location of military commissaries in this country to areas where groceries Are not otherwise available at reasonable pita Goa Deales the defense department denies it Uyi Congress has looked at its commissaries and approved the fact seems o be that when Gao gave Congress Ita anti commissary recommendations last the affected committees paid Little Mendel who after 1 will be chairman of the House armed services Laid at that ii any commissary is closed it will be Over my battered none was and none seems about to be not even the Granddaddy of All the 169 commissaries in the Continental United located at Cameron in the immediate suburbs of the nations Cameron according to the does a 110 million an Nual and the taxpayers play Santa Claus to its customers to the extent of at least w million a that is for pay and Al Lowance of the hired Gao lays under accounting and other administrative at Cameron station also Are charged to appropriated Undi rather than figured into the to get to this biggest Domestic commissary the Gao most of its customers must drive past grand Union or food fair several other Well known Chain food stores Are no phone inventors Dies Washington up Elsie May Bell daughter of the inventor of the Telephone and the world Raveling wife of the chairman of the National geographic died at Grosvenor death was attributed to heart disease and old Alexander Graham Bell was confounding Queen Victoria in London in 1878 with his amazing Elsie May was born on May 8 during the she married Gilbert Grosvenor in 1900 Grosvenor became editor of the National geographic the journal of the National geographic society of which his versatile father in Law was besides her Grosvenor is survived by her Mellue Bell president and editor of the society and Magazine and five daughters Gertrude Hubbard Bryn Mabel Harla Kendyn Grosvenor Lilian and Elsie Alexandra Washington and Gloria Victoria Oftedal also surviving Are 11 grandchildren and great grand High flier put in jail Eddie Robison is in the Jackson parian to on charges of flying while authorities said mole a which cracked up whoe the a to belonged to the Aero club at Robins air Force base to a Clur a1c flew the plane from Robins to Jonesboro to visit nil family for Ramsey is with the 4mth bomb col Alan Public information officer at said Robson forgot to lower the Landing the plane nosed Over at the end of the Blacktop and spilled gasoline along the and auditing we Haven changed our position a Rubin told a we still think the is wrong and that something should be done to Correct the defense department says it runs commissaries in accordant e with specific directives of the main Back to 1993 and reenacted is that these subsidized food stores shall be operated Only where bread and other essentials Are not otherwise available at a reasonable distance and a reasonable Price to the military and civilian employees of the Navy and air 16 per cent cheaper the defense department says a 10 Pei cent Price Differentia is justification the a Points out that this exists Almos since Many of the Normal costs of running a grocery store Are not included in commissary Rivers apparently is ready to Back the d e i e n s e depart men View All the he takes the position that subsidized food 1 one of the fringe benefits that 1 considered in s e 1 1 1 n g service Menic Rivers likes to say he will Fligh for the right of servicemen 1 enjoy the same living Standard they fight to preserve for civil father of seven Grandfather at 32 a the father o has become a Grandfather at the age of Sharps Kyle Ray gave birth to daughter a plumbing and electrical said he was married at the age of mrs Sharp declined to give her a Man up several Sullivan county Farmers have complained their pigs were killed by Hunters lured by a false Rumor that wild boar abound in the conservation officer Charles Rice said Man Kec a a his i never doubted right from the Start that i was going to make Day said after arriving in Reno with bundles of Christmas presents for Megan and her fam he brought a Bracelet for Megan a Fountain pen for her Vern a Reno Bank or perfume for Waldo a record for sister and hair tonic and aftershave lotion for brother Day and Megan met on the Queen Elizabeth on the Way bad from Europe last Shi casually invited him to visit to Schot at he said he would there was a Little problem of Day didst think he should ask his col and Clayton Day of Arling for but if he could collect a dime from every Stu Dent at Yale his pitch was Frank my name is Clayton in trying to get a dime from every Guy a Yale so i con visit Ray a member of the Yale freshman football plans u visit until when hell Fly Home to Arlington for one Daj before returning to classes a new dimes he spent the first pan of his Christmas vacation in Day says Hes lot sure what All Megan has planned for Bis by she said earlier she wanted to show him around the Reno and Lake Tahoe areas and take him to san this is Days first trip a also planned to introduce him to her Hes a Good House says megans and we Are Happy to have him with Day said he was Happy to be yes sir Merck finn Gadsden As president up Henry Gadsden has been elected president of Merck to succeed John who was appointed Secretary of Commerce by president who Hai been executive vice president of the by pharmaceutical House since 1955 be the chief executive officer chairman Charles Arlam he will take Over the Dos when Connor fell in but there was a warm  glow around the Waldo House at 46 Raymond Yale freshman Clayton Day had arrived for his much publicized visit with Megan a 16yearold Reno High school Sophomore whom Day has described As just just just Day is the 18yearold prelaw student who took Beer Mug in hand and collected dimes to fulfil nil pledge to visit Megan Al