European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 31, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              M the stars and stripes december 1964 Landon Dot plane flown Dallas up tin pc 14ja made in Maiden vertical Takeoff find Hov Crid five fort off tin1 ground for several the big transport which ctn Inke off like a helicopter find Fly til of More than 430 Miles i Mode its first flight lit i h e ii lung in Dallas to Emliy with its till a Liiv Ingles and propellers Axil lid tin plane it fied into Chi air Anil hovered several minutes my Raili the is a de fleeced Slipstream air plane which performs vertical flight by tilling or Wink and engines upward while the fuselage remains level when the desired Altitude is the Wing mid engines Are tilted Forward and the air plane Forward Speed to operate like a conventional plane Ullh Iii the Plani can Rush to a Remote use Small clearings for Landing and Takeoff operations and Dellver troops and Tupp Lei where the Are needed rather than where facilities not practical or profitable to rebuild Congo kill 30 Whites flood final blow to town n i and ills la if Sinen of this Small lumbering in it ravaged by flood in 1955 find again last week say their Lawn is in the throes of they stand and talk in Small groups on hillsides overlooking the sea of Silt that buries most of them agree that it int practical or profitable to re build the tempestuous Iel River wiped nut went i in ims at Eva ill tins Amr ill Ali of year mom of twin who lost Ezcry Ichini in tin1 current disaster were losers mm1 year mrs a i n e i i Phis counts against 6 in dismissed Pimp ii  to ii i Teil Lackey As saying Sims mid Myers spoiled a car with u Ian bearing negroes Piid followed it and that both Myers and Sims fired tuns into the negroes huh new evidence in Mizhi Helppi deaths a a Federal grand jury reconvening Here 11 will gel new Evl Denic if ii again in sex watched her Home final Down the limits main Street Ami Settle on the a nit of the Sequoia in the  area there Are 34 Homes 11 Busi Nesses destroyed or missing and two motels the bar Ber shop is the Post office leans against the bus Sta the towns main Street called the Avenue of is partially on Imlah sides of the Roadway Are idols of Sill that suck like Wells boo residents Are pessimistic Ahful starting loud in charge of re muting the the Situa Tion right now is i have no no Only a few lumber trucks Are Avail Hotdog owner of the local rebuilt his Busi Ness with Concrete blocks after the 1955 he warned neigh Irons they must do the same if they were to survive another hotting harrys building with stood the floor Luaders last week when the eel swelled Over its hut when the Waters re a Mountain of Silt and giant Redwood Ings crushed the roof of the we were beaten in 1855 and were beaten a Weott resident Nulph said removing the Silt was like trying to pick up Sand Wilh chop people stand around and watch the they watch for More 1 they Ratcli fur helicopters and their Only Means of  in the outside hut of them Are too entranced with the hopelessness of their own plight to they Dent want to give a resident none of them offer an argument when the businessmen talk of the town homeless families digging out after billion Dollar Western floods ers on the town of m mlle seventeen of those killed Thul morning were belgian a Leili Wum bits roman Cash Nellc Joseph was the first to survivors from res cued tuesday by a h Man column of Lough Willie mercenary told How nearly 100 Lisl Narles and other hostages were kidnapped by the rebels Over the lust mercenaries made an Over night dash across country to res Cue them wednesday at Mung about m Miles no head of Mung tre was the scene of the massacre of 10 belgian women and children who were bound with wire and thrown alive into the River to survivors from Wamba said All the kidnapped hostages taken to Mun Bert had been found one unidentified Mission Ary who Wai wounded there was flown to the remainder have been taken to Paulis and will be flown out the survivors they said Mcchesney and the British missionary were killed about two weeks the Slaughter at Wamba brings the death loll of while hostages to nearly to in the past two the murder of the last american believed to have been still in rebel brings the number of american Mission Aries killed in the northeastern Congo to six since the end of Finni Pic water problems have ended and no persons Are known to be the Yakima River in Central Washington posed a potential threat because of two huge ice one n mile and the other three Miles in Many passes in the Cascade mountains Vietnam crisis easing Rusk tells president but american leaders in Sist that there must he Unity to produce Victory in the Battle against the communist Viet Rusk also was reported to have Given the president some optimistic words about the continuing crisis in the govern ment sources said the United states was encouraged by Moder ate voices being raised in Africa and a Resolution before the United nations Security Council recognizing territorial integrity Darnstadt apartment fire damage f Germany a fire in the Lincoln housing area quarters of t sgt Wilbur Savage of the Milih Security Wing Here caused an estimated damage and destroyed or damaged most of inc family the Blaze started in a Back bedroom of the four bed room Savage and four children were at Home Alfred slags gel me to the Church at the time but were not injured of time As my fair lady opens la the replaces unusual for russian fair lady a Ruilian As remained closed by Snow Washington estimated its dam age As in Idaho and Snow or cold weather pre1 ing flood those Rivers neared nor Mal Idaho estimated damage at 19 Nevada officials Ven tured no Dullar estimate of dam in Oregon and California ref Ugee As one county official put the people were who going in help us were destitute weve lost our Moscow operetta the russian version of the Broadway smash was greeted warmly and will play an extended photo begin the red Cross and the office of emergency planning sep announced they have begun Fly overs of the disaster areas to determine Long Range recovery All branches of the military worked beside civilian workers for an extended Airlift of livestock mail and Oiler sup the 50soinc helicopters which evacuated 600 persons in hum Boldt county and Oregon have begun to Supply full time except for unexpected emergency medical evac disaster workers say that towns remain isolated because of demolished so Many roads Are said Tom a red Cross spokes that the emergency stage will last longer than probably Well have to locate temporary housing in Many eligible for Aid the red Cross announced that inc estimated homeless families in Oregon and Northern California would he eligible for red Cross financial Aid in re building i hair were having inc same difficulty that everyone else is hav ing getting into the urea and determining the said Richard Western area disaster director for the red Charles Northern Cali fornia disaster director for the estimated that workers were assisting in Relief work in California and and about workers in Washington and the sep estimated damage at to observing Western state weather forecasts ranging from showers to prayed that pro Christmas torrential Rains had ended for these Airlift said a arc All dependent upon weather weve been plagued by Hull and even ice flows in the Rivers of these conditions make it very