European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse January 1965 the stars and stripes 3 purple heart Winner writes Shes frightened Baltimore a every thing Here is the Navy nurse in Saigon wrote you cant imagine the it we cant drink the water in leu been All the that House Are the nurse is it Barbara Wooster of wounded in a terrorist bomb explosion on Christmas she and two other nurses have been awarded the purple they an the american women so honoured in it Roger House of disclosed portions of her letters and said he was very worried about his anything could happen said my Carold employee of a firm which and i think she doing More duty and service to the country in she Laid it wat the least she could do for her it waa about on Christ eve that the bomb exploded on the ground floor of the seven Story Brink hotel in used officers struck by Glass fragments and thrown to the the nurses refused medical help until All wounded servicemen had been the War is becoming full blown Here for the first in a Little she on Christmas they bombed our boy Bachelor officers quarters and left in of us i was very Lucky in that i got Only a few cuts and oth ers were not to there were 74 wounded and two Many of our Thongt were but i managed to Salvage most of my valuables How were living in a Little two your room with nothing but a bed i Haven much time As we Are All working Dou ble shifts due to All the wounded at the it Wooster entered the Navy in june of wat commissioned and served in until she wat tent to the naval Hospital in then got orders to Saigon Latt she was a hit upset House she had settled Down in Bainbridge and then hid to sell everything in a it wat born near and trained at Franklin Square Hospital in bal she worked there for two at a Hosp Al for five years and in Prince Georges county for another year before joining the she expect quite a bit out of House she it full of doing going Navy who were wounded by a bomb Are the first american women to receive purple heard in from they Are us Barbara Wooster of Ruth Mason of and Ann Reynolds of also Eli Gible is it Crumpton of who is at Clark air Force base la the Philippines where she is undergoing treatment for ear photo Pentagon spells out policy on Bias in state units Washington a Secre a tary of defense Robert me Tro Namara has spelled out the procedures under which inc Pinta 1 May Cut Oft Federal fund state nulls because of per la sent racial Unlue that could be affected include state National guard or the civil air patrol and several civil defense pro the Pentagon disclosed that Mcnamara issued a 16page directive on in designed to carry out provisions of the 1w4 again Leek voluntary comply if after All these Volun Ary compliance still cannot be the department a process leading to cutting off or la pc hoi foot trouble civil rights the directive reinforces the pentagons policy that no per Ion shall be discriminated against on ground of color or National origin in any program to which the department of de sense provides financial assist the National guard Bureau Laid recently hot All 90 state organizations have now been Al least on a Token president Johnson hat Ttrester that Token integration it not the Mcnamara directive re to the Secretary of de sense Al authority to approve any decision to Cut off or deny funds on grounds of racial Dos it sett up a procedure stress ing to obtain voluntary compliance from steles and under detente off m dais will v seek voluntary is usually in from All re a plants of that they v flu refrain from a 1 require showing continuing review the to de Termine receive and investigate complaints of alleged where there an to be a failure to comply denying Federal funds May be the process includes a hearing before an or responsible department offi an initial Dedton by an then a final the notional guard it supported almost wholly by Federal the government pays n per cent of the Cost in financing equipment and Drill statement for press Washington up being an assistant Secretary at he White House can be pretty harrowing at but Malcolm Killduff has found out can sometimes follow him last the Day of presi Dent Johnsons state of the Union turned out to be not what i would Call one of my better Days for the 1 Man in the White House press there were headaches enough on the what with the Tele promoters that Johnson was to read his speech from breaking Down and other mor Corliss usual but workaday prob were a drop in the bucket compared to what happened be fore he arrived at work and after he went Home late that the at recounted by columnist Bili Gold in the Washington Post had dropped hit car off for minor repairs before spending the Christmas holidays on Johnsons Texas he picked it up on the Way to work the Bill was getting to bed late that he heard the crunch of a hit run Driver crashing into his newly repaired leaped from bed to Rush to the stubbed his toe not Worth the trouble up the solicitor office hat dropped plans to prosecute How Ard Wheeler on gambling charges when it Learned the amount involved in an alleged crap game at a service station was Only 10 and ripped off the Kilduf grabbed hit overcoat and Rushe into the on the Way of the front door he caught the coat pocket on the Doorknob and Tore it beyond leaped into his car am pursued the Cully Only to watch the hit run cart tall lights disappear around a Comer he Park i on the wrong Side of the Stree so he have to Wall across the Road he reached the front door Only to find he didst have a and had to break a window pane t net Hack next Day he forked Ove w to fix the and Foum out the repairs to his car would Cost his car ticketed of parking on the wrong Side of Thi 6 new demo senators get Choice posts Washington a Senate have completed their to legislative com awarding each of their in freshmen a Choice this followed the practice in titled when president Johnson was Senate democratic be won agreement in that each would be Given a major com Mittee assignment before any Ither democratic member could Lave in addition to the freshman As there was a consid Erable reshuffling of democratic senators with some Pell seated Choice went to Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania and Claiborne Pell of Rhode is assigned to foreign rela and Ralph w of to Robert d the former attorney Gen wat Given the place he re Quested on the labor the late president John had served on that another Edward Al so is a Robert Kennedy also was As signed to government opera for which he used to work As a subcommittee and to the District of Columbia com a Post he the other assignments of freshmen announced by the democratic steering committee were Joseph to Dongi of Maryland aeronautical and space and District of Host of agriculture and Fred Harris of okla homa government operations and Public Joseph Montoya of new pub Lic works and Small Walter Mondale of min and space and banking and cur the plan is for membership on the foreign relations committee to be increased from 13 demo and 5 to 11 democrats and i thu would Clear the Way for the top to nut another member on the Clark and Pell Are both re carded and Strong Luddo Teri of administration for eign including the for eign Aid no serious objections to base closings reported Washington up the director of the Effort to help communities hit by the doling of military Laid he Bai encountered no Seroun opposition to defense Secretary Robert Mcnamara latest such action last the Donald Bradford of the economic adjustment of conceded be received no invitation to Aid the Brooklyn area affected by the doling of the new York naval he noted at a news conference that his program is purely vol Bradford said he hat visited five of the affected communities most and and has taken actions to Aid a total of u eighty Domestic bases were ordered closed by Mcnamara decision announced Bradford Laid communities which had been aided were near the following bases old Delown air Materiel Larson Hunter Glasgow Cottonwood Idaho Greenville sense Industrial Plant equipment Turre Stead Portsmouth naval Naselle Schilling Lincoln it Mobile air Materiel and Truax no serious opposition to the closings was encountered in any of the or correspond Bradford interest in the economic adjustment pro Gram and a desire to cooperate with sea office of economic adjustment were evident office was set up in seme communities which have been helped in attracting new Industry have been Able to provide More private than were eliminated by base
