European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 19, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse March 1966 the stars and stripes Page t medicare eligibility broadened March 17 a applications for Hospital benefits under medicare by per sons Over 72 years of age and not on social Security Rolls will be taken As their applications for the new monthly payments voted by a social Security administration spokesman said thursday the new Law contains provisions to this the new benefits Are to be paid for the first time about the first of to cover sep deduction required they Are to be paid to persons not covered by social but the Law requires deduction of any amounts received from a Public retirement state or persons on Public assistance or welfare Rolls must choose whether they want the new Benefit or want to continue As they the pensions of veterans Are regarded As Public retirement payments but compensation to veterans or dependents of Veter ans because of service con nested disability is late signers the spokesman pointed out that some people who Are Over 65 and thus eligible for Hospital coverage under medicare even though they have never covered by social Security or Railroad have not yet signed up for this the deadline for those who were 65 by 1 is March there is no Cost to the Benefice a simplified application form for both the Hospital coverage and the medical care coverage programs provided by medicare is now available it Post offices Over the in no time at in fact Back Home fast in Indiana March 17 up when its Daylight time in Indianapolis its Standard time in and Ray said the bus ride from one to the other takes about 60 so this country fellow went to the big City bus station and asked when the next one was the ticket agent told him As Madden related the Story at a meeting of the House rules committee what time does it get to Lebanon the prospective trav Eler the agent the customer ambled then sidled Back up to the coun what time did you say the bus left he asked the agent and when does it get there came the the Man edged off the agent called after you want to buy a ticket on that bus or dont you the fellow but if you dont mind i sure would Mue to stick around and watch take off on the strength of this and other testimony the House voted thursday legislation to Standard ize Daylight at least with in Harley chairman of the House com Merce committee and the conceded it solve All the be said some people were sure not to Ilka but he said it would at least make a Start toward relieving the current summertime clock according to it should make the bus driven army studying How Many More air Cav divisions to organize Slacks win the school Board at Saratoga told Sharon Ann dal Rymple she could nol Wear Slacks to she appealed her Case and a photo March 17 a the army is studying How Many More air cavalry Divi Sions should be officials said the 1st air Cav div has been in action in Viet Nam since last september and has convinced Pentagon authorities of the value of helicopter borne units against guerrilla Type enemies in Jungle and Mountain the new defense budget pro Vides funds to convert one More of the army 17 divisions into an air cavalry the current study apparently would go beyond these two Divi Sions into a possibly larger there has been no decision yet on what kind of a division will be converted into a second air cavalry the betting is that one of the airborne divisions May set the treat the officials Suid that score tary of the army Stanley Resor and Harold As Well As other top army Are behind the idea of org uni zing More air cavalry Johnson is the army chief of one Factor which would in fluence the Pace at which a Divi Sion might be converted is the rate of helicopter an air cavalry division incorporates 428 most of them uh1 Iroquois authority has been granted to increase helicopter production from 60 to Iso machines a month by next the air cavalry which substitutes helicopter firepower for conventional heavy artillery and much More expensive than regular infantry division or an airborne an airmobile division costs about million Ai against 1106 million for a paratrooper division and million for an infantry Farmer not cowed by state defence fort March 18 Farmer Virgil bar who put his cows out to Graze on an unused and disputed stretch of interstate was arrested by state police wednesday when he defiantly re built u Fenre which workers had torn the police handcuffed hauled him off in ripped three Michigan kids get 19 tons of toy grand March 17 a Jerry Bouman finally got his new toy Home for the but it want the toy is a 19ton army tank which Bouman bought from a Detroit tavern he Hopes to use it to give his wife and three children rides around their 11acre property in suburban in a Bug on tanks and my wife is almost As Bouman Bouman and the tank arrived Home tuesday after an Over night trip from the tank was hauled 148 Miles on a Flat bed truck at a Cost of about a third of the Price of the it also Cost Bouman a lot of the Kent county Road com Mission ruled the tank was too heavy for a Small so Bouman had to Detour six it took three hours of winching and up and Down several on hand to Welcome the tank were boumans and 5yearold daughter Sheri two and were at school under a former Navy Avia Tion works in an a glance factory and repairs and makes guns he said he got interested in tanks by Reading about so did his l probably have done it on my he but the More you read about tanks the More they Imprest this a world War Model t6 which sports two inoperative 37mm antiaircraft guns hurdle wait for her first but she thinks she probably will have because everybody brother Inlow and twin Cadillac is the first he has Bouman Hopes to As for she can new just Forward shows off his us visible la the Litton to tank he works to get u in shape for hauling wife and kids around his a photo Down his protest Fence a second time and herded his cattle off the controversial stretch of interstate a retired lutheran was charged with malicious trespass and damaging an interstate Highway in excess of he was released on his own recognizance by fort Wayne City judge Joseph right or wrong Way Harrold erected the barbed wire Fence monday in a dispute with the state Over land right of Indiana John Dillon directed Howard Whitecotton to see that the Barrier was Whitecotton and two Highway workers met Harrold near his farm wednesday White Cotton asked Harrold if he would i remove the re the Highway Tore it later in the Harrold re j built the i ill bring a Bull i with a Good set of horns out Here and also a German Shepherd Harrold id like to see them do something about if i pay taxes on the land i have the right to keep my cattle Whitecotton said Dillon told him that if the Fence was not Down by he would take it Down himself when he came to fort Wayne to five a is acres the dispute concerns is taken by the state As right of Way for the which has been completed but not yet opened for the property was then owned by John Harrold con tends he had exercised an option to buy the he says a court ruling against him in a erroneously paid Murchison and seven other persons for the Harrold Strung the in stalled feeders and water and turned 20 head of cattle onto the he warned Rodger Branigin in Advance that he was taking the action to Call attention to his Side of the Dja
