European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 15, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes one Way to lick this Friday september 15, 1967 by Dick West Washington up i was talking the other Day with worried Democrat which the Way things have been going lately could be almost any particular Democrat was worried about Shirley Temple who is running for Congress As a Republican in Are we going to get people to vote against Shirley Temple he asked mournfully. It s like getting people to vote against the Flag or indoor plumbing or mom s Apple i try to maintain a nonpartisan viewpoint i can stand to see grown men cry. So i sought to Comfort , there old i said patting his head. It May not be As bad As All that. You democrats May be Able to capitalize on the Lollypop the Lollypop backlash he queried spirits brightening. What s that i explained to him that Back in the 1930s All of the Little girl who took dancing lessons were forever being compared Favora Bly or unfavourably to Shirley Temple. My wife for instance can Tell her left foot from her right unless she s wearing different coloured shoes. Yet her Mother used to say she was a regular Shirley in fact her Mother still says of Shirley Temple thousands of ungainly grades coolers were forced to prac Tice tap Steps when they would rather have been skipping rope playing Post office or engaging in other girlish pursuits. And once a year at the Spring recital they had to get their hair curled and trip out on the stage and hop step shuffle through a couple of choruses of the Good ship As a result thousands of Little girls grew up hating Shirley Temple. To this very Day the cringe at the mention of her name. That is what i mean by the Lollypop backlash i said. My democratic Friend How Ever was not entirely reassured. A backlash is always negative thing he said. We need a positive Factor candidate who can out Shirley Shirley. Ideally we should have a actress who would stir up by Collie nostalgia among older voters and is known to the younger generation through television. She should have a whole some image having played i family pictures that tugged the Heartstrings and left the audience with a warm glow. In private life she should be untouched by Hollywood scan dals he said. The Only actress i know who meets All of those qualifications is Lassie i know he said san fingers a never group of executives opens drive for Romney Reagan or vice versa to a eur rvs mar tit Vav Washington up a group of republicans wednesday opened a drive to run George Romney for president and Ronald Reagan for vice pres ident or vice Romney was winding up a Washington visit by conferring with Fri director j. Edgar Hoover a new Organiza Tion calling itself association executives for Romney an Reagan held a news Confer ence. It announced it will plug for support among Heads of the nation s 12,000 local state regional and National Trade and professional f. Miller chief executive of the National electrical manufacturers association in new York and first too much lock then too much Lack president of the group said Romney Reagan or Reagan Romney ticket is what the country and party he said it could heal the breach Between conservatives and moderates in the gop an attract enough independents and dissatisfied democrats to As sure a sweeping Republican Victory in 1968. Storm proof the Hurricane season is Here and St Peters Burg Fla Sailor Andy that s Olgh Andy Pedigo should by in the Eye of any storm in her foul weather hat and Slicker up Springfield Ohio a Joseph Apone 17-year-old High school Junior Cut his hair three times after his principal said it was too Apone was suspended from school after he showed up for classes Bald. Apone a Junior at Springfield North High school and his Mother Rosa Apone Peck appeared at a Board of education meeting tuesday night to plead his Case but to no Avail. No hair no school the boar ruled. Mrs. Peck said her son had his hair Cut before school started and again last week after principal Robert Lynch said it was too Long. But after the Sec Ond trip to the Barber Lynch contended that More hair had to come off. After a third haircut Over the weekend Apone showed up monday with what the principal described As an acceptable hair Cut. Then on tuesday he came to school sheared Down to the Pate we will not admit him unless in our opinion his hair has grown to a reasonable length Lynch said. Prep student with trash no that s our document Triumph of fuel tank foam stuns blasts Dayton Ohio up Theair Force wednesday took the wraps off a secret material which it said can be used to virtually eliminate explosions an fires in air plane fuel tanks. In a dramatic demonstrations aged for the Benefit of newsmen at Wright Patterson air Force base near Here researchers unveiled a new Typ of polyurethane foam. The Orange coloured synthetic which resembles an artificial sponge is stuffed into the fuel tanks filling the entire space inside but Only slightly reducing fuel capacity. The fuel flow through the foam. It eliminates the possibility of explosion when a fuel tank is hit by a Bullet or when a tank ruptures in a crash. Fuel could still leak out of a ruptured Tankin a crash and Burn outside the tank but it would not explode and burning fuel would not be sprayed violently out of a tank. Air Force spokesmen said the foam has been in use in Vietnam for about nine month set. Col. John Whiteside director of information at the aeronautical systems division of the air Force systems command said certain air Craft now have the product installed. The Only one he would identify was the hh3e Jolly Green giant helicopter use for rescuing downed pilots. As time goes by my guesses it will be in All our aircraft Whiteside said. He said the Federal aviation Agency was investigating the material for use in commercial aircraft. Whiteside said it could also be used in automobiles Andin other kinds of fuel systems. Detroit a with a stiff but still fuzzy upper lip Charles a. Murphy is going to , 16, won a temporary court order restraining Franklin High school in the Detroit suburb of Livonia from suspending him because his 2-year-old Mustache scrapes against a new school grooming code. Wayne county circuit judge James Montante issued the order and set a , clean looking students is what Livonia school Yates said he wants. He said mustaches and such detract from favourable learning conditions and Are a flaunting Murphy said i d feel funny without tenement collapses Hong Kong up a Young boy was killed and 155 person were left homeless when an anti a de tenement collapse wednesday during a heavy rain storm. A Xyz turf an 1 \ i in f Hap Tafee that tar. 1 \ rag tue Washington up a very important government document almost wound up in Street cleaner s trash truck tuesday instead of its Destina Tion the Bureau of employment Security. Of my yes we d been expecting it said mrs. Helen Davis when informed that the document had been found by a up staffer on a sidewalk. It was a regional memorandum which tells the states what s current and what s obsolete. It covers everything and from Here it goes to 11 regional offices. It is very from Here is the Bureau office of management services where mrs. Davis is in charge of document reproduction and distribution. The envelope Date sept. 12 and addressed to mrs. Davis came from the Bureau office of procedural coordination in another building she said. Blew off it probably blew off the de livery truck at the labor depart ment building mrs. Davis said. The Large carefully sealed envelope was spotted with Oil As though it had been run Over near the parking lot where it was picked up. At first mrs. Davis did know what the envelope contained. But when she was told its number bes 681371 she identified the contents right away and dispatched a Messen Ger to pick it up. She said such regional memos Are published every six months or so and that they frequently Deal with budgetary matters. Keystone Kop Dies Hollywood up funeral services were held wednesday for George g. Gray one of the Keystone kops of silent films Gray died last Friday from stroke he suffered while visiting a brother in Asheville hews 73
