European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday september 16, 1967 Rock n Roll to help enrol negroes in guard Washington a the Pentagon has ordered a crash advertising Campaign Complete with Rock n Roll radio commercials and full color billboards Inan Effort to Pep up a program to recruit More negroes into the National guard. The 90-Day advertising Blitz will Zero in on negro neighbor hoods in new Jersey. That state was selected As the testing ground for what May become nationwide drive to increase negro membership in the guard a move recommended recently by a presidential  negroes have been accepted and another 134 have applied in the month since the Pentagon slashed red tape an granted the 14,000-member new Jersey guard 700 new slots re served for negroes. A few other states also have asked for Over strength authorization so they can step up recruiting of negroes. But the Pentagon is withholding action on these requests until the new Jersey project can be evaluated probably in mid december. President Johnson s National advisory commission on civil disorders created to investigate this summer s big City riots reported aug. 10 that only1.15 per cent of the nation s 404,996 army guardsmen Are negroes. The air guard figure is even lower0.6 per cent of77,078 men. This deficiency must be corrected As soon As possible the commission declared in a report to the president. Johnson immediately relayed the recommendation to Secretary of de sense Robert s. Mcnamara terming it a matter of highest  new Jersey drive is going very Well in certain areas but not very Well in other areas maj. Gen. James , head of the state s guard said in an , who commanded guard activities in the Newark riot said he is receiving Excel Lent cooperation from new Jer sey negro leaders but other officers said negro youths the have tried to recruit seem suspicious of their  boys always ask what s the gimmick " one Recruiter said. They re just hanging Back waiting an watching to see what s going to  officers Hope the advertising Campaign will breakdown this resistance. In two or three weeks when this and Campaign comes into being it s going to give us the boost we need said maj. Peterr. Abondio project officer from his Trenton n.j., head quarters. Once the floodgates open up we re going to be in Good  the Pentagon a National guard Bureau spokesman con firmed that a Detroit Advertis ing Agency Zimmer Keller & Model police Scotland Yard has allowed its policewomen to shorten the skirts a bit on their new uniforms and London policewomen Pamela northing left and Heather Richard display the results. The new skirts Are no minis but they re about three inches Shorter than those on the old uniforms. A Surveyor five tilted inside Moon Crater Pasadena Calif. Up Surveyor 5 is perched at a 20 degree Angle near the top of Amoon Crater 5 feet deep and 30 feet wide scientists disclose thursday. We re sitting on the i sidewall of this Crater fairly near the top of it said a spokesman for the California Institute of technology s j e t propulsion Laboratory. Scientists said they still were trying to figure out whether Surveyor 5 moved and How much when rocket engines attached to its three spider like legs were ignited to see if the exhaust would stir up lunar  data and photo graphs of the tuesday night Experiment Are being studied by scientists in an Effort to confirm their suspicion that the space Craft did move  astronauts who May be blasting off from the Moon in the1970s on return flights to Earth had requested the Experiment. Gaulle relaxes ruling on flights Paris up preside Tcharles de Gaulle s government has decided to Grant the unite states air Force permission to Fly Over French territory again on an annual rather than on a monthly basis government sources said Friday. The French move was considered As a gesture of appreciation for the rapid evacuation . Military bases following France s withdrawal from the North Atlantic treaty Organiza Tion nato officials  new system of annual authorization that prevailed before the nato 22,000 to receive draft Calls in november Washington a november draft Call for 22,000 men was announced tuesday bythe department of defense. November s draftees will All Goto the army. The figure for the month is up 5,000 from the october draft Call but is 7,000 fewer than August and 3,000fewer than september. Problems caused by the French withdrawal will go into effect Jan. 1, 1968.similar annual permission will be granted All Allied  the overwhelming majority of flights 100,000 flights each year were by the . Air  Gaulle s decision was viewed by some observers As a attempt to improve relations Between French and Allied nato authorities. . Orchestra leaves for concert tour new York a the Losangeles philharmonic orchestra 108-Strong, left Here wednesday for Brussels to begin a round the world concert tour under the auspices of the state depart  orchestra is scheduled to give 41 concerts in 14 countries in Europe the Middle East and South Asia in the two Mont tour. Andre Watts pianist will appear As soloist. Yanks meet heavy fire in Delta drive Saigon up guerrilla Friday battered an 800-Man . Army Force As the soldiers stormed ashore in the Mekong Delta As part of operation Coro Nado drive to flush a group of 500 guerrillas. American spokesmen  battalion of the . Army s 9th inf div was raked by machine gun and recoilless Rifle fire As the americans came ashore about 45 Miles South of Saigon. There were no immediate Esti mates of casualties. American commanders rushed in two More battalions to reinforce the 800 men on the Bankson the rach a River. The Battle raged throughout the Day .spokesmen said. Threat smashed on the Northern Border of South Vietnam . Command ers said they had smashed Amajor North vietnamese invasion threat. They said a massive sea and air Blitz thwarted plans by 35,000 North vietnamese troops to Knock out . Marine forts guarding the area. During the past three Days the 9th div Force has killed 134 Viet Cong and suffered nine me killed and 21 wounded in operation Coronado drive. The guerrillas caught the battalion Friday As the americans were charging onto the Banks from assault Craft protected by gunboats mod Eledon the american civil War Mississippi River Craft. B52s attack almost 500 Miles North on the North South vietnamese Border the . Air Force sent b52sagainst the three divisions Hanoi reportedly mustered on and inthe demilitarized zone. Smaller Jet fighter bombers cleared the Way for the attack by wiping out three North vietnamese sur face to air missile launchers threatening the b52s, spokesmen said. The air assault . Artillery and naval fire aimed at crippling the North vietnamese units which had been threatening to drive against the string of anti invasion forts manned by 5,500 marines. My believed hit run victim Kriegsfeld. Germany is a 558th my co Soldier stationed at this palatinate Tow was killed before Dawn wednes Day apparently by a hit and run Driver and his body was run Over a second time by a Manfrom the same unit an army spokesman said . Hector i. Morris Orengo 24, was pronounced dead of internal injuries at 2 15 . Wednesday at the 189th med de dispensary at Kirch Helmbo Landen the spokesman  spokesman said that spec. 4 Aurty e. Davis 619th Ord co duty Driver saw Morris Orengo lying in the Middle of a Roa Between Kriegsfeld and Kirch  Davis could drag the apparently lifeless body off the Road spec. 4 Raymond e. Jones also of the 558th my co drove by and not seeing the body also struck it. Calvert inc., has been instructed to map out the 90-Day Adver Tising Campaign. The Sam Agency handles the guard s Reg ular advertising program under an annual contract. Maj. James Elliot head of the guard Bureau s information of fice said he had Given the de troit Agency authority to Start work on the Campaign although no Price has been negotiated  funds will be supplied by the Bureau and Elliot said he has set a maximum in my own Little mind on the amount to be spent. He refused however to divulge  i say i m going to spend so much in new Jersey then might be forced to try to spend that much in every state Elliot told a newsman. A query to the defens department brought this reply costs will depend on the length of time required and the volume of advertising which May be necessary to accomplish the of  Detroit advertising Agency executive Bob Fitzgibbons would say Only that we re working out the costs  advertisements will stress the advantages of the National guard Fitzgibbons said and will be directed atthe negro Market and use the negro  officer Abondio put it More bluntly. We re going to stay out of the White communities he  spot radio commercials will hit the airways next  will begin with a Rock n role tune you be got to get the audience s attention one official explained and feature an authoritative negro voice Barking commands against background of military music. The 300 negroes presently inthe new Jersey guard Are play ing a role in the recruiting Effort. We re using the buddy system Abondio said. We re prevailing upon the negroes Al ready in the guard to bring i their Brothers friends and  approves of this approach. They re the Best peo ple to look any negro in the Eye and say i can assure you that you will get fair treatment " he  by the recruiting drive Cantwell said is a list of7,700 men waiting to get into state guard  on the waiting list will be used to fill vacancies in the guard s regular strength. Negroes from the pre Campaign waiting list Are being assigned to the 700 slots opened up by the Over strength authorization. Brazil bus crash kills 13 Belo Horizone Brazil a thirteen people were re ported killed wednesday in a bus Accident near this Interior brazilian City. Weather h l 78 44 77 4679 59 74 6480 59 59 47 70 62 79 50 65 44 75 66 85 52 81 50 72 41 69 65 69 60 71 56 85 64 64 36 82 70 88 76 84 62 82 67 68 64 90 68 83 68 . 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