European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 17, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday september 17, 1967 teens Brace yourselves for biting criticism by Dick or it in Ennic i t � a.-,i a Wes Washington up they arc All around me these Days the Metal Mouth  come swarming into the House with my sub Deb Daugh Ter and every last one of them has wired  Haven t seen such Grill work Ince i sold my  up a transistor set to one of their second bicuspid and on a Clear night you could bring in radio  it s raining i won t let them in the door. I figure Al that ungrounded Alloy is bound to attract thunderbolts. Disperse i shout. An when her classmates have gone i make my daughter stand on the roof to serve As a lightning Rod. How these pre-1 teenybopper scan tolerate All that filigree along the gum line is beyond  Back one of their lips and it s like looking at a saw  s a wonder they Don t All have perforated , however braces Don t Cut on the inside. Only people on the outside Are  last time my daughter kissed me goodnight i bled for will airlines have to hire plane Janes Washington up an organization of women has asked the government to prevent the airlines from making the Job of Cabin attendant one which could Only be filled by Glamor girls who might set men to daydream ing. The plea came from Bett Friedan spokesman for the National organization for women who testified tuesday before the equal employment opportunities commission. The airlines retorted that miss Friedan s group was t inter ested in men having the jobs but wanted the airlines to abolish age and marriage policies governing their stewardesses. Both groups were represent Dat the latest hearings in a Long fight Between the airlines and the stewardesses Over whether sex is a Bona fide occupational qualification in hiring Cabin attend ants. The fight began in 1965 and has dragged through a series of com Mission hearings and court Bat Les. Charges were filed with the commission alleging that the air lines discriminate on the basis of sex when they employ Cabin attendants. Much wide the Issue is in fact much wider. The stewardess unions want to Knock Down other requirements age limits an marriage bars they feel Dis Criminate against  Friedan argued that there was no need for a Cabin attendant to be a woman. The sex of the attendant does not influence prospective passenger to Fly an Airliner except perhaps for a Small minority of men who like to daydream about their per Sonal Impact on a stewardess he said. The airlines argued that the Job does take a woman s touch a spokesman for the air trans port association said the Job Calls for the characteristics  he said a stewardess was Ca Pable of doing her Job with warmth sympathy and graciousness something a male could not do. More than three  about every Junior High schooler i see these Days has a Mouthful of hardware i got to wondering if the human race is losing its ability to grow straight  could be of course that we had just As Many Buck toothed kids when i was a boy Only our parents could t afford the straighteners. Afford that s a laugh a third mortgage on the old Homestead May get you through one set of braces but if you Are unfortunate enough to have two children with wayward molars your Only recourse is to put in Bacall for Sargent Shriver. They say there is a shortage of orthodontists. I m not sur prised. The average orthodontist probably Only practices a few months. After that he take world cruises on his private yacht. I am paying my children Sara coworker on the monthly instalment plan which already As run for two years and has at least two More to , he probably would sail with the next tide. When the payments Are completed the total will fall just Short of what it Cost to Complete the e verrazano Nar rows Bridge. It is not that i mind the Money. Its just that there Are so Many More romantic ways of becoming impoverished. Like the Stock Market or Las vegas or lost Gold mines or lady  disasters like that at least provide some  when a lady Fortune Hunter approaches me i a forced to confess that i am already indentured to a  like that soon break a. Man s spirit. Prob aids i Washington a a sen ate investigator has accused the Agency for International development Aid of shipping use less construction equipment to South Vietnam in a mistake he said Cost the United states Mil Lions of dollars. Joseph Lippman told the sen ate subcommittee on foreign Aid expenditures thursday that the equipment obtained As surplus from the armed services sup Posedly had been put into work ing order by Aid contractors. But Lippman the panel s chief investigator said he found some 500 pieces of Aid equipment at a Saigon port holding area. The bulk of it was t working he said and army inspectors ruled some items beyond repair. Lippman displayed photo graphs of broken Down cranes bulldozers and other equipment which he said sat Idle and out of order at the port earlier this year while  ships backed up each costing the government $5,000 a Day. Pulls in its Chesty h. Rex Lee assistant Aid administrator said the civilian Agency had sent in equipment from other parts of Vietnam to help the army solve the prob Lem of unloading ships during the massive . Military buildup. He said the equipment Lipp Man discussed has now been moved out of Saigon and some of it is in use on civilian construction projects. Other items he acknowledged were irreparable and useless. Lee said Aid is moving to re form the program and also i investigating repair contracts at other installations including Antwerp Belgium and Frank Furt  said Aid also should examine the work of contract sat Rota Spain and in the United states. The Agency has not determine the full extent of overcharges for repair work not  Lippman noted that it had paid nearly $10 million for re pair of surplus equipment Dur ing the past four years. Marine unit collars an awol Albany . A Chesty the 1-year-old English Bull dog Mascot of a Marine corp Reserve unit Here really is in the Doghouse now with his rank gone his rations Cut and his face a wee bit More Wrin kled. # Chesty s troubles began last weekend when he went awol. He was found walking near an army National guard armory in this City. Being found near the army site came close to bringing a charge of desertion against the husky Mascot but Chesty received Only a reprimand an was returned to duty at h com Pany 25th Marine corps re serve. Second powder about a Day after he returned though Chesty again broke away Only to be picked up about an hour later walking along the Street. The second offence proved to much for Chesty s superiors however and a trial was or dered by inspector instructor maj. A. E. Andersen. Tuesday Chesty was found guilty of failure to report for duty direct disobedience of an order and improper uniform. In this Case the improper uniform charge came from Chesty s appearing in Public without dog tags. Chesty was Given 30 Days in in i Atin pm Civ. The Doghouse reduced in rank Dei Lai de Chesty pvt. Chesty looks through his eel bars from sergeant to private and after he was Lound guilty of going awol. A photo fined 10 dog biscuits \. Anguished parents hoped girl is i 11 alive Kansas City ap1 to _.,. M for two years the anguished parents of 9-year-old Denise Clinton have hoped and prayed that their daughter kidnapped by a Holdup an might be found alive thursday the Fri said it had identified Bones of the child found in a makeshift easter Wyoming grave. The Bones were found by two cowboys near Sundance Wyo. The girl daughter of or. An mrs. Russell Clinton of Independence mo., had not been seen since the Early morning hours of july 8, 1965, when she was carried off by a Bandit from a Motel in nearby Platte county. There was no Ransom demand and an intensive search failed to turn up any  Bones were found in a Pine Forest not far from a Blackrock column known As Devil s Tower. The Fri said identification was made through dental  the Bones were found Small fragments of a knitted garment a Section of rope tied into two loops and a child s wrist  mysterious kidnapping came shortly after 2 a. M. July8, 1965, when a Man entered the great Plains Motel on . 71,North of Here. He asked for a single room but when  Reynolds handed him a registration card he pulled pistol and demanded Money. She gave him $246. He then tie her and her husband with Adhe Sive tape. They freed themselves an then found that their grand daughter Denise was missing from her bed. She was spending the night with  a year after the Kidnap ing a Man who fit the description of the kidnapper Given by the Reynolds couple was taken int custody. He was arrested after a policeman in Oklahoma Cit recognized him from an Fri poster. The Man later was cleared of any connection with the Case. Postal savings holders come and get it Washington up . Post office has $52 million that it would like to return to themore than 600,000 holders of now defunct postal savings certificates. The deposits stopped drawing their 2 per cent interest last april 26. Since then about 60,000persons have cashed in certificates Worth $39.9  Post office said the in collected remaining funds Are mainly in the form of Small de nomination certificates Worth $1.$2 or $5. For sentimental reasons Many probably never will be turned in. One Holder for example has a $1 certificate Pur chased in 1939 by a brother who was killed in world War ii. The Holder refuses to part with  once popular postal Sav Ings system was established i january 1911, with interest rates set at a then High 2 per  interest remained constant until the system was abolished by Congress in 1966. Through the years people had stopped using the system when commercial Banks began paying interest As High As 4.5 and 5 per cent on savings. The system was started impart to accommodate Immi Grants from Europe who had been accustomed to saving at their local Post offices. The provided a convenient and familiar place open regular  1929, the year the great depression began deposits stood at $153 million. But As com Mercial Banks failed Deposit jumped to $1.2 billion during the 1930s. They jumped again in world War ii when Money was plentiful and goods scarce an reached an All time Peak of nearly $3.4 billion in 1947 wit More than 4 million depositors. When the savings system was ended last june 30, the Post of fice began a nationwide Campaign to advise depositors to Cash in their certificates