European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday september 29, 1967 the stars and stripes Page 3 pretty picture a proud and smiling Mother Britain s Princess Margaret is photo graphed with her children in the Garden of thei London Home Kensington Palace. The children Are lady Sarah Armstrong Jones 3, and vis count Linley 5. But it was t lord Snowdon the Princess s husband and a former society photographer who snapped this charming Pic Ture. The credit this time goes to Norman Parkinson. United press International photo reserves pact dead. Dod told Washington up the department of defense Dod was told wednesday that an understanding with Congress under which Reserve forces could fall Short of specified strengths no longer . John c. Stennis d-miss., acting chairman of the Senate armed services committee told army Secretary Stanley r. Re Sor that times i Don t know How this was interpreted years ago Stennis said. I Don t think we can re Ferback now to prior agreements and understandings with the army Secretary said that under the understanding it was not required to reach re serve strengths specified in the annual appropriations Bills if i meant using and keeping men who did not meet standards or beefing up some units to compensate for shortages in safeguards Are essential in order to maintain the Quality of Reserve units at the required level Resor testified before the com Mittee on House passed Legisla Tion designed to strengthen the reserves. He said the defense depart ment and Congress share a com Mon objective with regard to the Reserve forces to maximize their contribution to the National then he proceeded to pick apart Many sections of the House Bill. Resor said the Pentagon strongly objected to setting per manent minimum strengths forthe Reserve components. He said it would impose what he called a managerial Resor also argued against the Bill s provision that would specify average annual said it would mean the Pentagon would have to Over pro Gram by 2.5 per cent. Copter plane collision kills sex army Pilot Baden Baden Germany is an american civilian helicopter instructor and his lib trainee were killed near Here tuesday when their Craft crashed after colliding with an f84 Jet piloted by a norwegian. The Jet from the nato airbase at Lahr Germany also crashed but the Pilot ejected an was not injured. The dead american was identified wednesday As James Pren Deville. Army sources said Pren Deville until very recently was a warrant officer Pilot assigned to Heidelberg Airfield. He often piloted Gen. James h. Polk Theu Sarteur commander in chief. The sources said Prendeville resigned from the army and presumably went to work for commercial flying company in Baden Baden. Baden Baden police said the planes fell in open Fields a mile and a half Southwest of the said both aircraft were at an Altitude of 600 to 800 feet atthe time of the collision. The cause of the collision asunder investigation police said. France to begin own color to Paris a color television with a distinctly red Hue will be Gin in France next sunday. One of the first faces to appear on French color screens will be a top russian Diplomat Valerian Zorin ambassador to reason is that the soviet television network also starts its color transmissions on sunday using the French scam system. Most Western Europe countries have adopted the German phase alternating line pal in France no More than a thousand people will watch Orin on their own sets because the High Cost of color television sets is going to sharply limit the number of viewers. Color to sets in France made to special standards Are expensive about $1,000 each and to firms do not expect to sell More than a thousand be fore oct. 1. The inaugural Day of the 12-hour-a-week color program will Start with a speech by French information minister Georges gorse following by variety shows a film and a live report on local Parachute Champion ships. Zorin is scheduled to present a soviet documentary. 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He blamed economic difficulties in Britain and Germany for the tighter pocketbooks. J As for the americans Dumas said they were apparently being attracted instead to Canada s International exposition at Montre Al. Also the Middle East crisis caused the cancellation of Many Tours which would have passe through France he said. Bonn Post filled Bonn a Russel Fessen Den a . Foreign service offi cer since 1954, has taken Oye duties As Deputy chief of Mission at the american embassy inborn the embassy announced , 51, replaces Martin j. Hillenbrand who has been appointed ambassador to Hungary. Fessenden a native of Roches Ter n.y., came to the Bonn Post from Brussels where he Servidas Deputy chief of the . Mis Sion to the european communities since 1961. He holds the per Sonal rank of minister. Circus in Berlin Hans o. Rombach clowns through scene with Ingrid Burmester in the Emmerich Kalman costume operetta the circus Princess in Berlin s theater of the operetta is a feature of Berlin festival week. A photo Prince who slew Rasputin Dies in Paris Paris up Prince Felix Eliovich Youss Upoff the rus Sian Nobleman who killed the mad Monk Rasputin in 1916, died at his Paris Villa in the Auteuil District wednesday night after a Long illness. He was 80. Youss Upoff exiled since the1917 russian revolution lived in s everal countries before settling in Paris in 1939. Princess Irina Alexandrova a Cousin of rus Sia s last Czar Nicholas ii whom Youss Upoff married feb. 9,1914, was at his bedside. Alarmed by Rasputin s grow ing influence Over the czarina Alix Youss Upoff and his Friend grand Duke Dimitri of Russia lured the Monk to the you Sou Poff Palace. Poison failed when Poison that they had administered failed to kill Rasputin Youss Upoff shot the bearded Monk at Point Blank Range. Mor tally wounded he staggered fro the Palace cellar into a court Yard where he was shot Down by another of the conspirators. His body was immediately thrown under the ice of a canal. Youss Upoff was taken prisoner by the bolsheviks after the revolution in october 1917. In1918, after his liberation by the Allied forces Youss Upoff Cameto France where he was Succes sively a fashion manager a restaurateur and writer. Youss Upoff was born march11, 1887, in St. Petersburg now Leningrad then capital of the russian Empire. Rocket unc rates Virginia Beach a. Up a Small air to ground rocket blasted out of its packing crate at Oceana naval air station wednesday ripped through two buildings and hit two Jet aircraft before coming to rest. The rocket was unarmed an damage was minor the Navy said. Spokesman Tom Duncan said there were no injuries. The mini mite rocket was be ing transported on a pickup truck when it ignited. Duncan said mini mite rockets Are used to practice assaults on bombing ranges at Tangier Island va., inthe Chesapeake Bay and at dare county . Duncan said the rocket blasted out of its crate through the truck s tailgate into the Jet engine repair shop bounced off an f4 phantom Jet plane parked outside went through the Southwall of a hangar and came to rest after hitting another Phan Tom in the hangar. Damage to the aircraft appeared minor Duncan said. The three foot Long 2.75 Inch in diameter rocket made a three Inch Hole when it entered the South Wall of the Jet engine re pair shop started wobbling handmade a six foot Hole in exiting
