European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 22, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday october 22, 1967 to consolidate communications new . Agency considered by Sterling f. Green Washington a for mation of a new Federal Agency to Deal with radio Telephone satellite and other Means of communication possibly a cab inet rank department of communications is under top level consideration. A High administration source says several plans have been advanced tentatively for consolidation of some of More than a dozen agencies now in the Field. The budget Bureau he indicated will need at least a year to come up with recommendations. Under orders from president Johnson the Bureau is charged with developing the proposal i cooperation with the 16-member president s task Force on communications policy. Johnson s aug. 14 message to Congress mentioned briefly creation of the task Force an said it would seek solutions for the multiplying International and Domestic conflicts and prob lems in the communications Field. In comment on Friday s re port Douglass Cater a special presidential assistant said i top level consideration Means the White House or Cabinet itis actually the study is in the hands of the budget Bureau. Johnson s message to Congress said i have asked the Bureau of the budget to make a Thor Ough study of the existing government organization in the Fieldon communications and to pro pose needed the realization has dawned belatedly on the agencies concerned that the White House is prepared to consider a major Agency shakeup if the task Force studies indicate this is needed. An official reported the proposals Range from creation of a 13th Cabinet department to clustering of some existing bureaus in an existing depart ment. Another proposal Calls for a new Independent Agency be Low Cabinet rank. One Sugges Tion is that the communication functions be merged into the youngest of the present depart ments to form a department of transportation and communications. The Only centralized authority now existing belongs to James d. O Connell who has a tin staff As director of telecommunications management in theoffice of emergency planning a White House unit. O Connel also is a special assistant to Johnson. The planning Effort reportedly caused some concern at the Federal communication commission the regulatory Agency in the Field. One Well posted official suggested that no serious tampering with the acc s regulatory and rate Mak ing Powers is Likely. The acc presumably would continue to operate he said in the Way that the interstate Commerce commission functions As a regulatory body sep Arate from the department of transportation. However an substantial reorganization would entail some action by Congress and this could open the door for a reshuffling of authority As Well. The state department is deep in communications policy making through its negotiations with other countries on dozens of questions ranging from radio frequencies to disputes Over shares of ownership in the58-nation consortium which owns the space segment of the Comsat satellite system. The defense department is a multimillion Dollar buyer of communications services As Well a owner and operator of communications systems. Some government communications operations compete for channels or frequencies with private car department of transportation already has set up an of fice of telecommunications As an outgrowth of its absorption of the Federal aviation Agency. The space Agency Nasa i deep in development of advanced communications equip ment and the Commerce department is doing Laboratory work in the Field. Pope backs trend women acquire voice in Vatican by Sheila Walsh Vatican City up women Are tiptoeing into the Vatican s corridors of Power. Five women now hold appointments to Vatican curia posts something that Wouldhave been considered impossible just a decade ago. The trend toward a greater voice for women in Catholic Church affairs was sharply emphasized at the International Congress of laymen which has just ended an eight Day session Here. A Congress Resolution called for the Complete Equality of rights Between the sexes in the Church the appointment of women to papal commission Sand a serious doctrinal study. Into the place of women in the sacramental order and within the Church. The Resolution and com ments by delegates made it Clear that the women Felt they still had a Long Way to go in affirming their status in the Church. Some Vatican prelates still wistfully like to quote St. Paul let women keep silence inthe churches for it is not permitted them to speak but let them be submissive As the Law but the Congress Resolution countered with another quote from St. Paul there is Nei ther jew nor greek there is neither slave nor Freeman therein neither male nor female for you Are All one in Christ the Vatican and the hierarch of the roman Catholic Church Are almost by definition bastions of male dominance. Church legislation bars women from entry into the Priesthood. But women s voices Are carrying into the highest forums of the Church. An Ameri can woman mrs. John Shields of Strong pa., addressed the Synod of Bishops thursday As a spokeswoman for a delegation of laymen. Pope Paul i made a Graceful gesture toward the women when he allowed three of them to join eight men in Reading parts of the prayers of the faithful in a mass he celebrated for the laymen s con Gress in St. Peter s Basilica oct 15. It was the first time women had played an Active role in a papal mass in the Basilica. It was Pope Paul who shattered 20 centuries of Church tradition in 1964 by admitting 15 women nuns and Lay womb Nas auditors at the third ses Sion of the ecumenical Council. Never before had women at tended a Council traditionally a gathering reserved for Cardi nals archbishops and Bishops. Belgium s Leo Cardinal us evens had urged the move the year before saying that women were not represented and if i am not mistaken they constitute half the population of the the next major breakthrough for women came in january 1967, with Pope Paul s appoint ment of Rosemary Goldie a diminutive australian who has dedicated most of her life to Church work As vice Secretary of the Council of the laity. She became the first woman to hold earlier this month the gave some representation to the Church s More than one million nuns by appointing four to the Vatican s congregation for the religious. The congregation deals with All problems concern ing nuns monks and friars. Devil with reds Marine Cpl. Paul Overton is a Devil with the North vietnamese according to his headgear. The Irving tex., i wears helmet decorated with a brightly painted Devil and bulls Eye. A i paints i nuclear picture Warsaw up nuclear rockets carrying men to nuclear powered colonies on the Moon and atom based food factories producing food for millions was the world of the future described thursday bythe head of the . Atomic Energy Power can Supply food and water chemicals an metals Power rockets con serve natural resources and halt garbage pollution in t h e world described by or. Glen Seaborg to Over 140 of the world s most eminent nuclear scientists. Was speaking at a symposium in Honor of Marie Sklodowska Curie discoverer of Radium. Describing a study to be published Early in 1968 by the Oak Ridge Laboratory Seaborg said huge agricultural Industrial complexes on coastal desert areas As food using inexpensive breeder re actors to take the Salt out of the sea the Complex would grow specially developed crops. At the same time the reactor would Supply the electrical Power for the made by Oak Ridge he said show that a re actor could be developed to produce one million kilowatts of electricity a Day while desalting 400 million Gallons of sea water and producing 2,000 tons of ammonia and 360 tons of phosphorus daily for fertilizer. On the basis of growing single High yield Grain crop it is projected that this comple could produce More than 1,000 million pounds of Grain annually enough to feed almost 2.5 million people at a caloric level of 2,400 calories per Day on a total of 200,000 acres he said. The Complex could Export enough fertilizer to other areas to cultivate 10 million More acres he said producing 15-45 thousand billion pounds of Grain. The Complex lying along the seacoast could develop a fish ing Industry where fish were preserved by irradiation and through nuclear generated electricity process Iron metallic ores and chemicals. The nuclear powered com plex would be of great Benefit to underdeveloped coastal coun tries for example India but non coastal countries could also use them to Supply water from underground sources he said. Nobel Cash Waits for Man of peace Oslo up the norwegian Nobel committee is this year sitting on the neat sum of$124,000 and May have difficulty deciding what to do with sum represents the Nobel peace prize awards for 1966 and1967, and according to the will of the late swedish dynamite King Alfred Nobel the Money shall be Given to the person who in the last year has done most to promote Friendship among the nations and worked for the abolishment and reduction of standing armies and for the establishment and arrange ment of peace if the committee followed the terms of the will there would be no problem and no peace prize As there apparently Are no qualifiers. Last Yea there was no award. In recent years however the peace prize has developed into a mixture of donations to humanitarian organizations such As the International red Cross and United nations refugee organizations and an award to outstanding humanitarians. The 1967 prize if there Isone will be Given on dec. 10. Tipped As beneficiaries this year Are italian humanitarian Danilo Dolci the International olympic committee and the United nations Relief an works Agency for Palestine ref candidates known to be on the list Are Pope Paul so Viet Premier Alexei Kosygin and former swedish foreign minister Oesten Unden. On the less serious Side Are heavyweight Champion of the world Mohammed Ali better known As Cassius Are several possibilities open to the committee they May award the peace prize for 1967 to the person who in the committee s View has made the greatest contribution to world peace during the Las year. Find two suitable candidate Sand distribute the prizes for 1966 and 1967 simultaneously. Award the prize or prizes to one or two humanitarian organizations because they Are unable to find a suitable per Sonal candidate. Decide to Reserve the Deci Sion to next year for one or both of the available peace prizes. Decide that the prize Money for one or both years shall be added to the peace prize fund. European edition col. James w. Campbell Usa editor in chief it. Col. F. S. Michael jr., Usan Deputy editor in chief Arnold Burnett managing editor Elmer d. Frank production manager Henry r. Epstein circulation manager an unofficial newspaper of and for the . Armed forces published by the commander Iii chief . European command and printed Dally at Darmstadt Germany. Military address the stars and stripes Apo 09175. International mail the stars and stripes Postrach 1034, 61-Darmstadt, Germany. Tel Griesheim c prefix 06155 2071 m Darmstadt air strip prefix 2376 741. New York office 641 Washington St., new York 10014, Tel area code 212 620-5771. Second Clas postage paid at new York . The appearance of display advertisements in this newspaper concerning commercial publications does not constitute an endorsement by the department of defense or any of its components. 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