European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday september 24, 1967 i v had better soft Petal the flowery words by Dick West Washington up i m not accusing sen. Everett of perfidy you under stand. Yet he gives Ever appearance of being a Man of wavering else can one interpret the fact that Dirksen this very week accepted an invitation to serve As grand marshal of the79th annual tournament of roses Parade in Pasadena calif.,next Jan. 1? the news of Dirksen s appointment hit the Capitol like a Thunderbolt. For he is know throughout this City and in much of the country at Large Ashe Marigold s Best Friend. For As Many years As mortal Man can remember the Mari Gold has been a candidate for National and in each of those years it was Dirkse who made the nominating speech. To fully appreciate the exquisite irony of the situation you must realize that the Marigold s chief rival has been the Rose. Indeed Many Public opinion polls show the Rose leading the Marigold. In the opinion of impartial observers Here Only Dirksen s considerable influence As Senate Republican Leader has prevented Congress from designating the Rose As the official National Floral Emblem. These observers Are no predicting that the Illinois senator s appearance As honorary Leader of the Rose bowl Parade will be enough to tip the Scales in the Rose s favor. Dirksen s action does t Meanie has turned his Back on the Marigold. Nevertheless it i obvious that his effectiveness As the Marigold s chief spokesman in Congress has been severely compromised. His sonorous senatorial trib utes to the Marigold Are heard by Only a few colleagues. But millions will see his splendid or Ous televised ride at the head of the Rose bowl Parade. And in living color yet few deliberately calculate developments could do More to undermine the cause of the Marigold. Needless to say this turn of events has left the Marigold lobby badly shaken. One Marigold partisan wit whom i discussed the matter voiced suspicions that Dirkse had been brainwashed with Rosewater. This is definitely an Escala Tion of the Flower War he commented bitterly. There is talk that his rid might retaliate by sponsoring yet another new year � Day football game called the Mari Gold whether Dirksen should be inthe Rose bowl Parade is open to argument. But demands that he withdraw Are useless. After All a commitment is a commitments a commitment. Wizard map device cuts 6-month Job to one Day it. Belvoir a. Ufi the army unveiled Friday a set of wizard electronic machine that can convert Aerial photo graphs into topographical map sin 24 hours compared to six months to two years the Job for Merly required. The machines have been use extensively to produce maps of court rules lie can Lead to annulment Frankfort by. Up Kentucky s highest court ruled Friday that if a woman falsely tells a Man she is pregnant to induce marriage it is ground for annulment. In a 6-1 decision the All male court of appeals reversed a ruling by a lower court which had refused to annul the marriage of a Kentucky appeals court said the couple had engaged in premarital relations and the woman said she was pregnant an threatened the Man with expulsion from College an court action if he did t marry being married a week the Man discovered the woman was not pregnant and charged she had represented her preg Nancy for the sole purpose of inducing marriage. Vietnam but until now have been kept under secrecy wraps. The army said the system designed at the Universal Auto Matic map copulation equip ment Una Mace " Cost $4 Mil lion to develop. Three Are now in operation one at it. Belvoir and two at the army map service in Washington. At the unveiling it. Gen. . Betts army chief of re search and development presented plaques to five experts who led in the were Edward r. Demeter recently transferred to the de sense intelligence Agency Kent t. Yoritomo John d. Mayer Edward f. Burzynski and mor ton Stromberg. Basically the system consists of an electronic Eye in one of the machines which scans each Aerial photograph 200,000 times and transfers the information Toa computer. The ultimate product is photographic map in which All horizontal distances Are Correct and the elevations can be read from the shadings that Range from pure White to deep Black. In addition to being phenomenally faster the system is about five times More accurate than the hand procedures otherwise used in making maps. The rang of error was Given As amount ing to Only one foot Over a Dis Tance of about two Miles. Smile of Success eighteen year old Harvey m. Friedman flashes the Sweet smile of Success after becoming the youngest person Ever to win a doctor s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of technology and the youngest appointed to a professorial Post at Stanford University in California. A photo senator says bomber lag imperils . Washington up a shortage of bombers endanger the National Security sen. Carl Curtis charged Friday. The defense department should authorize the air Force to build a new series or rework a existing series of the strategic air command s b52 bomber the Nebraska Republican said. This would extend the life of the b52 until the advanced manned strategic aircraft is developed and built he said. Deficiencies in both the air Force and Navy versions of the full fighter bomber and the in creasing fatigue of b52 bombers have placed the National Security in jeopardy Curtis said. Curtis challenged defense1 department claims that the fb-111, the air Force version of the ill can replace the b52d series now used for conventional bombing in Vietnam. The senator said Only on fighter plane used in Vietnam is still in production the f4 Phan Tom designed in 1955. Economist to head u. Of California los Angeles a the University of California Board of regents Friday unanimously named financial expert Charles j. Hitch As president of the University to succeed ousted Clark sign Painter Scordulis an artist Sils i front of the i Salvo gallery in new York. Gallery owner Irene Mitter had bought 35 of his paintings and told him to return to Paris and she would Send him the Money. He said that when he did t get paid he came Back to America and began a hunger strike in front of the gallery until he gets his paintings return Dor $20,000, the hunger strike is a necessity he says since he has no Money left. Up photo Kerr. The appointment is to take effect Jan. 1. Hitch 57, a former assistant to defense Secretary Robert s. Mcnamara who brought sys tems analysis techniques to the Pentagon has been vice presi Dent of the Multi Campus univer sity since 1965, when Kerr hired him away from the defense department. Hitch s most important qualifications were his record in bringing economies to the vast Pentagon bureaucracy and the absence of controversy Aroundhim. The regents fired Kerr a economist like hitch three weeks after Ronald Reagan too office As governor in january. The former actor who As on of the regents had a direct hand in the firing of Kerr and the Hir ing of hitch had severely Crit More teachers return in Mich. Detroit up two More settlements were reached thurs Day in Michigan s rash of teacher strikes sending 27,000 children Back to school after missing the first 11 Days. But 29,000 students were still out of classrooms because of teacher walkouts in six other districts All but one in the Detroit area. In some teachers defied Back to work court injunctions and resigned in Masse. Settlements were reached thursday in Dearborn a Detroit suburb and Bridgeport a suburb of Saginaw when teachers in both districts ratified contract providing Sharp increases in pay. Ici Zed Kerr during the election Campaign for governor blaming him in major part for a series of student demonstrations that rocked the Berkeley Campus Dur ing the last two years of Kerr i presidency. Eager scout saves lives by the Book san Antonio Tex. Up Kenny Hayes 10, who was dissatisfied with his cub scout training saved the life of a 5 year old boy thursday because he read More than he had to. Kenny the son of air Force maj. Robert k. Hayes said he was disappointed in the cub scout handbook because it did not include anything about life saving techniques. So he read the boy scout handbook instead because it did have a Section on he saw two Young boys Daniel Crowley 7, and his brother David 5, struggling in a ditch filled with water from the Rains of Hurricane Beulah. The older boy got out of the ditch but the Swift current in the ditch started to carry the younger boy away. Kenny jumped in and grabbed the younger Cro Ley. I lost my grip but managed to grab him again Kenny said. His head went under once during the struggle but i managed to get him up by placing my hand around his Chest like it says in
