European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 06, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Military construction Frozen weather partly Cloudy with isolated shown. Increasing cloudiness saturday. Frankfurt Heidelberg High 60, Low 45. Temperatures recorded thursday get 44 44 am pm 63 84 Adana p 70 66 Athens r 63 66 Valano c 52 52 Berlin r 48 57 Frankfurt p 50 84 London Csc Clear a rain. Al Cloudy am pm 57 72 Madrid p 48 45 Munich p 48 59 Paris p 46 54 Prestwick p 66 75 Rome p 73 84 wheelus c a partly Cloudy 2nd weather Wing the s or and stripes unofficial newspaper of . Force in Europe North Africa and the Middle East vol. 26, no. 171 if 21855 a 5 daily 10 sunday Friday october 6, 1967 Clifton Williams 8th to die plane crash kills astronaut Tallahassee Fla. Up astronaut Clifton Williams who never got to make a space flight was killed thursday when his plane crashed and exploded near Here. Williams a 35-year-old Marin major was aboard a space Agency t38 aircraft when it hit the top of a wooded Hill. The National aeronautics an space administration announced several hours later that Williams who was aiming for an Apollo launching late next year washboard the plane. He was the eighth astronaut to die since the nation s space program reports that two persons had been aboard were Dis counted. Williams closest Brush wit space came last year when he was backup Pilot for the gemini10 Mission. He was one of the third group of astronauts selected by the space Agency in 1963. One of his specific responsibilities was Crew safety but he was specializing inthe handling of the lunar Landing Craft that is to take astronaut from their spaceship to the Moon. Thursday morning Williams was at Bethpage n.y., visiting the Grumman aircraft Engineer front. On Page Jet col. 5 red sox top cardinals 5-0 to even series from a and up dispatches Boston lanky Jim Lon Borg pitched a one hitter and Carl Yastrzemski hit two Home runs thursday leading the Boston red sox to a 5-0 Victory Over the St. Louis cardinals in the second game of the world series and tying the Best of seven classic at one game apiece. The series now moves to for the third game on , who pitched the american league Pennario win by the associated press second game St. Louis 000 000 0000 1 1 Boston 000 101 3005 9 0 Hughes Willis 6hoerner 7la Mabe 7 and Mccarver Lonborg and Howard. A Lonborg. A Hughes. Home runs Boston Yastrzemski 2. Ning game for Boston Las sunday came close to becoming the second Pitcher in history to hurl a no hitter in the series. Don Larsen of the new Yor Yankees did it in 1956 with a perfect s bid for a no hitter cont. On Page 23, col. S Boston fans Joseph p. Kennedy and sons Edward left and Robert follow the action in the first game of the world series at Boston be tween the red sox and St. Louis cardinals. Later the elder Kennedy suffered a fainting spell and was helped to a wheelchair by his sons. He was Given oxygen at the Park an then driven Home to Hyannis port Uncertain finances blamed Washington a Secretary of defense Robert s. Mcnamara ordered thurs Day a freeze on $350 million in proposed military construction contracts because of the Uncertain state of fed eral he signed the memorandum two Days after the House ways and Means committee vote overwhelmingly to Shelve at least temporarily further consideration of president John son s proposal for a 10 per cent surcharge on income taxes. Mcnamara s order said effective next monday no new invitations for bids shall be is sued except for those projects clearly associated with new weapons systems or in direct support of Southeast officials told news men the freeze will be in effect until the status of Federal finances can be Pentagon authority said the action probably will have Impact in All 50 states. Involved Are projects for building bar Racks family housing training facilities and other is included in Mcna Mara s order. The air Force planned to spend $21.4 million on major construction projects plus $13.9 Mil lion for housing at 20 european and Middle Eastern bases. That construction program also included streamlining the air Force s european communication system for about $4.5 million lbs opposes tax Bill delay Washington a presi Dent Johnson said thursday it is neither necessary Nowise for Congress to postpone action on his request for higher taxes until Federal spending cuts Are newsmen to his office for a question and answer session limited to the single topic of taxes is. Spending John son appeared to be responding directly to a vote tuesday by cont. On Page col. 2 $19, error. Whee Cash me if you can los Angeles a suburban housewife is accused of going on a spending spree with a $19,000 Check sent her be cause of a computer s error. Authorities said wednesday that a county computer which normally punched out her $15 a week child support Check sent mrs. Jaynee Shearer 37, a $19,065.15 Check on sept. 25. Police said mrs. Shearer of Montebello used some of the Money to Purchase a new Carand finance u Las vegas trip for herself and her $8,000 has been recovered police said. Mrs. Shearer authorities said apparently changed the $19,000 Check at a Bank for a$10,000 and a $5,000 cashier Check placing the remaining$4,065 in her checking account. She cashed the $10,000 Checkai another Bank and bought a car with the $5,000 Check police said. Then she and her husband went to Las , the county Audi Tor s office discovered the error and put out a Stop order on the Check notifying the District attorney s office. The car was confiscated by investigators with Only 28 Miles on it. Authorities said mrs. Shearer told them her husband had the remainder of the Money. But Shearer told police he did not know what had happened to the remainder of the Money. Arrested tuesday was jailed of suspicion of grand theft. E. Reds pressed to free 2 Yanhs Washington up Testate department thursday denounced the detention by East Germany of two americans As a blatant disregard of the rights of the department spokesman Robert j. Mccloskey particularly directed his attention to the Case of Ronald Wiedenhoeft. Mcclos key said that the state depart ment had Learned that he had been arrested in East Berlin on undetermined repeated the determination of the state depart ment to exert every Effort Itcan to obtain the release of Wiedenhoeft and Peter t. Fein Auer. Feinauer is reported to have been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in East Germany for allegedly spying on behalf of the Central intelligence state department last sat urday said it viewed Feinauer arrest and conviction As a most serious matter.". Officials asserted that neither Feinauer nor Wieden cont. On Page col. T
