European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 25, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday october 25, 1967 Tough Campaign for Marine command in Vietnam Chin up while you tear Down that pinup by Richard v. Oliver a Nang up the . Marine command in Vietnam has embarked on one of the most ambitious and difficult campaigns of the War convincing the leathernecks to Tea Down their pinups. Almost to a Man the leathernecks have resisted. The com Mand recently escalated the Effort by using one of its heavy weapons a sunday Sermon bythe chaplain. But the men have held their ground. Some units have even devised ingenious ways to hid their pinup pictures from the eyes of Marine help the morale said Lance Cpl. Ernest Johnson,20, of Eugene Ore. If you Don t look at anything for along As i be been Here you for get what the real girls Lance Cpl. Bobby Whitt 19,of big Stone Gap va., put it this Way if you Don t have pinups you la forget what the girls Back Home look being Over Here a while said pfc. James Shuler,21, of Pittsburgh pa., these vietnamese girls Start looking Good. But you take a look at a pinup and you know what you re missing Back in the . Gen. Bonn j. Robertson and maj. Gen. Bruno a. Hoch Muth commanders of the 1st and 3rd Marine divisions launched the Campaign recently by telling their officers that the . Marine corps disapproves of , the pinups were Lull a Marine rests on artillery piece at con Thien and catches up on events Back Home through Pacific stars and stripes. The artillery Crew is taking advantage of a Lull in the artillery Duel with the North vietnamese across the demilitarized zone. Attacks from the North have lessened recently from barrages earlier in the month. Associated press photo Clear air turbulence preys on jets science tackles a mean cat by Robert Buckhorn Washington up Sci ence is closing in on a weather phantom of the sky whose Trade Mark is violence without warn ing. A Freak of nature the phenomenon is known to scientists As cat Clear air turbulence and its prey has been the High flying jetliner. Technically cat is Bornton the wind Shear produced when two fast moving currents of air with different tempera Tures collide. But unlike storm caused turbulence cat gives no warning. This invisibility is the source of its greatest threat to the Airliner. Earlier this month a British built bac111 jetliner owned by Lacsa the Costa rican airline was caught in the gusts hurled it up and Down four times through 11,000feet of airspace. Inside the Cabin two unbelted passenger were battered to death in the 2 i minutes it took the Pilot to escape from the turbulence. In March a United air line jetliner flying in Clear weather at 37,000 feet Over Wyoming was forced into a Steep dive. One Man was tossed to the roof and died from what a Coroner later ruled was a heart attack. Safety investigators have never specifically named cat As the cause of a crash. But Survey of five airlines in 1964 showed a total of 141 injuries traceable to cat. Between 1963 and 1965, the armed Force blamed the phenomenon for an estimated $30 million in dam Ages. Scientists have been Able to piece together enough clues on cat to Start them on the path to a solution. For example they know that the strongest forms of cat usually occur near or around Jet streams the fast moving currents of air found in the High altitudes used by jets. It can occur in patches with a horizontal dimension ranging froma few Miles to one Hundred Miles. Vertically it has been known to stretch from 500 feet to 15, 000 feet. But scientists say it i usually less than 10 Miles in diameter less than 3,000 fee thick and usually lasts about an hour. But one Block of cat can dissipate Only to re form again in the same general area. It seems to favor altitudes Between 20,000 and 40,000 feet although it i found at any Altitude. It also occurs most often Dur ing the Winter months then less ens in the summer. This sea Sonal variation is associated wit the stronger Jet streams that occur More frequently during the Winter meteorologists believe. But since the exact nature of cat remains basically a mys Tery a system of detection rather than forecasting is Given the highest priority. Banned from the Walls of office Sand other work areas. But in the places where marines make their Homes away from Homes it has been another matter. Inthe Barracks tents and bunk ers of Vietnam to pin up or notto pin up was left to the in came the sunday ser Mon. It was entitled disrespectful pinups and was delivered by chaplain John e e 1 e a a roman Catholic priest from disrespectful pinup father Keeley said May be de scribed As any picture or draw ing usually portraying a Beautiful woman with generous pro portions and cleverly posed but nevertheless a picture or drawing which you would no feel free to hang or pin up in your Home where your loved ones Are then holding a photograph of miss october from play boy Magazine father Keele told the congregation from the pulpit Here is a picture which is neither dirty nor untruthful. It is in a Way Beautiful. But it just does not conforming our culture to the standards of respect which we to feminine form common to our Moth ers our wives Sisters and real sweethearts. The flaunting of the feminine form in our Cul Ture is tantamount to dire a duct later in the Sermon father Keeley said pinups Are both sad and dangerous. These pinups Are sad because they set a Standard of feminine Beauty to which the average girl or woman be it your Mother sister wife or sweetheart just cannot the priest continued these pinups Are dangerous. Why because the people who hang them seem completely unaware or they just do not car about the terrific struggle that the Ordinary Man undergoes to maintain moral standards and behaviour patterns of our Good Gen. Robertson Settle example for the division by letting his command know that he did not approve of them. And still does t. Yet he Hopes the consciences of responsible peo ple will guide dislikes to tamper in the slightest with individual free Dom especially since we Are Here in South Vietnam engage Din a War to protect the responsible freedoms of the father Keeley advised the congregation to take Down their pinups right after this for the pinups of others he told the congregation to look atthe pinups with the following thought in mind the woman portrayed there is one of god s european edition col. James w. Campbell Usa. Editor in chief it. Col. F. 8. Michael jr., u6af Deputy editor in chief Elmer d. Frank production manager Henry r. Epstein circulation manager an unofficial newspaper of and for the . Armed Force published by the commander in chief . European command and printed daily at Darmstadt Germany. Military address the stars and stripes Apo 06176. International mail the stars and stripes Postrach 1034, 61-Darmstadt, Germany. Tel Gale Shell c prefix 0615s 2071 m Darmstadt air strip prefix 2376 741. 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