European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday september 13, 1967 the stars and stripes Beautiful Harmony the 50 girl sin the miss America contest at Atlan tic City n.j., voted for miss con geniality from their ranks. The result was a three Way tie. The congenial Rio from left in left photo Sheila Scott miss new Hampshire Sharon Evans miss Arkansas and Tia Tyler miss Colorado. The photo at right proves that Beauty can come from a Kan. Kansas of course. The 1968miss America Debra Barnes of Pitts Burg leftist joined by another Kan san miss America of 1966, Irene Bryant who Calls Overland Park her Home. A photos i loses leg. But considers himself Lucky a Washington up army spec. 4 Raymond f. Hulton looked about his crowded Hospi Tal Ward sunday and counted his lost his leg to a far away War the dreary Battle i South Vietnam. Once a leg meant life itself to the 21-year-old Orchard Park n.y., youth. Now he looks Forward to col lege and a new Start. I guess i m Lucky Hutto said. Some of the others Here at Walter Reed army Hospi Tal have lost both legs. Or both legs and an owes his life to the surgical skill of it. Cmdr. David , a Young doctor from co Lumbus Ohio. A slip of Taft Scalpel could have blown both men to and Taft 32, were the Central figures in an operating room drama of incredible ten Sion and suspense in a Nayfield Hospital at the american base in Danang South Viet Nam. The Story began on a firing Range where Hutton was prac timing with deadly rockets of the Type used against North Viet namese and Viet Cong troops inthe Northern provinces of South a one in a million Freak Accident a stray Bullet struck the Tail of a rocket on the lifer 81, appeals rape conviction Annapolis my. A the Maryland court of special appeals was asked monday to set aside the conviction of an 81-year-old Man for the attempted rape of a Somerset county schoolteacher last year. Defense attorney Walter told the court that his client Walter s. Waters was physically incapable of commit Ting the crime of rape and no Likely to have thought he could. Chief judge Robert c. Murphy suggested that perhaps the teacher had surprised a thief rather than a rapist in her Home that morning. The court took the Case under advisement. Waters had been sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime. Candidate Shirley mrs. Shirley tem ple Black is Busy these Days at Atherton addition to her usual household duties the former child movie Star is running for Congress. Shirley transacts a bit of family business while cuddling her pet cat and at right she s in a huddle with her election Campaign manager Bob Walker. Associated press photo rats take it easy no one is tailing you Chester a. A re member that rat Tail Hunt in Chester Well forget it. It Hunt was organized by mayor James h. Gorbey who offered a Bounty of 10 cents for each rat Tail collected. He Fig ured the City could eliminate 10,000 rats for $1,000.but in 29 Days of Hunting if the 63,000 residents of this Industrial City outside Philadel phia did any at All Only a dozen tails were turned Froggatt a 12-year-old, brought in eight in paper sack on the first Day. No one else showed up at the collecting station. An unidentified Man mailed in four tails told the City to use the 40 cents for something else the City did t stick around for the official Roundup. He flew to Europe last weekend on a Spe Cial state department visit Togoland and left the ratty prob Lem to his assistant Harold a. since i got the assign ment they be been calling me rat Macneilly he said. For that i needed politics Macneilly said the rat Hunt failed because either there Aren t enough rats which i doubt or it was t enough Money Orthe people Are just Plain anyway he grinned we aroused interest even if it was Only talk. And we heard from rat catchers All Over the coun ground. The rocket fired an crashed into Hutton s knee and impaled itself in his leg suchlike a toothpick stuck through an Olive. The rocket was 12 inches Long and almost three inches in diameter. By an equally freakish stroke of Good Fortune the explosive charge in the rocket s warhead failed to detonate. Buddies on the Range Rushe Hutton in excruciating pain to the Hospital and Taft a surgeon not Long out of medical school was Given the hazardous task of saving the life of the Youngen listed Man. Taft has been i Vietnam for almost a year but he had never faced such a Deli Cate operation. Issues orders issuing orders crisply Taf moved Hutton into the operating room and then cleared the Roo of everyone except the patient and his assistant corpsman Daniel b. Henry 32, of Bidderford an Anaesthesiologist i and Taft put on protective flak jackets but they knew the heavy arb would be practically use less if the rocket in Button s leg exploded. The operation began and twas Clear from the Start that Glutton s leg would have to be amputated. The Job took 25 min utes. We had to do it to save you life. " Taft told Hutton later. Last week Hutton was flown Back to the United states where therapists will show him How to walk with an artificial leg. He is expected to be moving around within a year. Hutton said he began scream ing when he overheard doctors at Danang say someone gave me an injection that made me drowsy and dizzy he said. "1 calmed down.1 was Given a spinal Block and was numb from the hips Hutton said he remained conscious throughout the operation
