European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Johnson gives Congress medicare plan Washington a presi Dent Johnson sent to Congress wednesday a Vul program in improve the health of nil Ameri ii coupled Hospital insurance for the aged under social Security with an fallout attack on the three great heart cancer and the attack also would be launched against other major Dis eases with the As John ton phrased to turn other hollow Laboratory triumphs into health it would be entered in a is billion system of 3 regional med ical centers to be built Over the next five moving to redeem a Campaign the in his first special legislative message to the nth listed As his first recommendation that the social Security system be broadened to finance the Cost of Basic health services for the this is the Long Sodahl program for Hospital insurance for the children included the president at the other end of the age for the Federal government to pay part of costs of medical and Den la care for children in needy families this program would Cost More than the health enter he also proposed that the government pick up part of the Check for operating medical and dental schools so they can sex their enrolments and improve the Quality of their educational he asked for Tufly to set tip a of scholarships for medical and dental students who would not other Wise be Able to enter or Complete such Johnson said Hall of last years medical school graduates came from families with annual incomes of More than and urged that the profession must not be closed to Able youths from Lowe income tuition  to the he is needed to keep some of them from he said tuition and Feea paid by medical and dental students actually defray less than half the Cost of their Educa we mum face the he that High operating and shortages of operating funds Are jeopardizing our health professions educational the bulk of the message was devoted to proposals related to the direct health care of but Johnson also told con Gress that it owl of research Gilo disease is necessary and the my budget includes 10 per cent increase in fed eral expenditures for such re search and related to begin an automated system for processing the tremendous volume of information on drugs and other chemicals related to he also called for a five year with added of us program for helping universities and other nonprofit organizations acquire research a that in effect for eight has Era Rcd million into such it is due to expire june president Johnson told con Gress his purpose was to Fine the obtainable horizons of a greater a confident and prudent people can begin to build for the firm year costs of the Many sided package would be relatively administration officials estimated that million of spending authority would he needed to get the programs started in the fiscal which begins july that figure would they to 1800 million in the following the presidents plan to wage War on heart cancer and stroke reflected recommendations made to him last month by cont or pane cot it stateside Static if 21855 a army Navy air Force unofficial of tit armc4 in Africa Tutt rho Salt new Yoke of Midtown restaurant fond a new sign la the cloakroom Reading to help alleviate us Coin the Hal Check girl b willing to accept Dollar january 196s cuts in of reportedly due under 65 budget Washington up president Johnsons new Mil itary budget totals billion representing a slight Cut from last year and reduces the current strength of the armed forces by it has been the air Force will be reduced men and the army from today while the Navy and Harlnea Hlll gain the defense plan for the year starting next uly 1 also cuts one Wing ailing  King Sand of saudi Arabia is Showa u be stepped off a plane la Vleada with his entourage of he made the trip far medical he now May have to surgery for a kidney press photo sergeant sentenced to die o for Gellhausen slaying Frankfurt its sgt Arthur Gilmer who shot and uld another 3rd army div sol Dier upon being roasted from bed a Dawn in a Gellhausen bar Racks last was sentenced to death Here thursday by a Gen eral married and the father of five was found guilty of the premeditated murder of sgt Frederick and the attempted murder of sgt Harry Colt by a division tribunal on the court reconvened this week to decide the Youngs was shot once in the head and three times in the body at close Range with Art my according to 3rd army div offi Gilmer was angered by being awakened at 5 on a sunday to move out for Maneu vers at after shooting who had Salinger at Switzerland Pierre press Secretary to the late president John Kennedy and former senator ram joined in open ing ceremonies Here for the John it Kennedy memorial weather with him unto Allt my the rarity ick tit 4i Munich Clit a 01 0 cd m m Utonn 01 44 41 a hmm nmn Bijj liar a wife and iting Yot child u ivling in Roch Gilmer tired three More rounds from the Rifle at then walked to military police Headquarters at Coleman Cavern and All three soldiers were Bers of he 1st 33rd a Gilmer has since been con fined to the Usa eur stockade at a division spokesman said the record and which also Calls for forfeiture of All pay and first will be reviewed by the Headquarters staff judge advocate and then by Mai Gen 3rd army div after Spives review of Thi he will either approve the or u lesser penalty and Issue a general courts mar la following which the transcript of the Case will go to the judge advocate general o the army for further in instances where a com manding general approves a death sentence and the army re View upholds the spokesman the Case is automatically reviewed by the court o military before a death sentence can be carried it mus be approved by the 5 the Egic air comes present 630 plane b52 bomber it Unks the remaining Fleck of 225 Overne b47 that will leave is Clu Illing m supersonic in Johnson will submit the budget to Congress later this the unofficial but author native journal of the armed forces reported details and in Ormid sources supplied Addi clonal Sac to gel sr7i while the bs3 Force will be Cut a move Likely to stir some controversy the Pentagon will put the sr71 reconnaissance plane into production for there will be Reward on engines and electronics for a pos sible future but no development of the plane the possibility of a bomber version of the fill formerly taxi Fluhler will and research will Start on a new Bombe Carrier the by decl reportedly will re veal that defense spending in the present which ends june is falling Short of earlier is ii originally had been expected to reach billion but congressional cuts and administration economizing reduced the estimate in recon weeks to the lat St Mac now is that the new budget will show a Cul of jus 1200 million in Accord in to the of the Moil arresting de of conf of col to of to abolish 55 recovery Reserve units Washington up the air Force announced thursday hat it will abolish 112 recovery squadrons and recovery troups in a move affecting Teser Vasli in 44 Stales and Wash the move will be completed by March recovery units Are groups of reservists who would help handle military planes landed at civilian airports after an air attack on the United they also would help with the do St Sal of air planes from Mili tary to civilian airports in times of As was done Dur ing the 1003 Cuba Pentagon notes Sav lags the Pentagon said it now Wai Tell that the recovery units could be disposed of without unduly impairing air Force combat effectiveness and with accompany inc Cost the recovery program began in at its Peak it encompassed air reservists in it Ijiri summer 131 unit were deactivated to realign the pro Gram More closely with the operational requirement of the Active air reservist whose unit Are abolished will have a Chance to train at individuals or to Transfer to othe units to the extent that jobs ind grades ranks Are the announcement Viet reds reportedly launch major net attack Saigon Strong Viet Cong Force was reported thurs Day to have launched another major offensive in the Binh Gla area South of a spokesman said Viet namese bombers and fighter planes were ordered to attack the lie said intelligence reports in i cheated the guerrilla numbers May be As High As the communists were sued to be on the move in heavy Jungle about 35 Miles Southeast of Sai gon and Only five Miles North of Binh ii scene last week of the longest Buttle of the Iho government press Agency said the rebels had been ordered to launch a three front offensive around a military spokesman said wednesday that there were Indi cations the Viet Cong was shift ing to a big Battle the government Agency quoted authoritative sources As saying captured red documents called for offensives in by sub version and on the it said the instructions were distributed at a meeting of communist agents in of agita Tion and propaganda in the Sai gon also reliable source said South Vietnam 20day constitutional deadlock stowed 111 first signs of breaking ambassador Maxwell Taylor and his Alexis discussed the situation i m Page col u