European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Page reports of near misses climb with Pilot immunity Washington up the number of so called near miss collision reports Between air planes is running four times Greener than Normal under a plan that offers immunity to pilots reporting close brushes with other planes it was reported thursday. The Federal aviation administration Faa said that it received 554 reports of near misses in the first 2& months of 1968, or since the beginning of the new reporting procedure. Under the old reporting procedure which made pilots liable to punishment in som cases the Faa average annual near miss Colli Sions reported was 545. The reports Are running at a rate four times greater than last year an Faa spokesman new reporting proce Dure was started in january i response to criticism that the old reporting method led Pilot Sand others to try to cover up close in flight. Brushes betwee planes. Out of the 554 near collision reports filed As of March 18, 251 of them came from general aviation pilots. Airline pilots submitted 160, military pilots141, and air 2, the Faa said. Of those the Faa said 339occurred within Airport areas. The 6ther 215 occurred while the planes were Enro Ute to their destinations the Faa Faa said that 436 of the reports those filed in january and february broke Down this Way 250 represented no Hazard to either of the planes involved meaning there was no need for evasive action on the part of either Pilot 186 we reclassified As hazardous Situa those considered hazardous 117 occurred in Airport areas and69 were reported by planes in route to destinations. The tin you love to touch now it s curls without kinks for the straight hair crowd. And 17-year-old Debby Duenow of St. Louis Rolls up her hair in empty Orange juice cans a fad that May grow. Debbie Calls it an Art because the cans Jar Ebig and the Bobby pins slide All up photo defense items Rie Orer assails excess profits Washington a vice adm. Hyman g. Rickover has charged again in closed hear Ings before a House committee that Many corporations Doin defense contract work Are Mak ing excessive profits and that the defense department is both unwilling and unable to Stop it. He also charged that profit reported by defense contractors Are often substantially Lowe than the profits they make and that excessive profits Are hid Den by bookkeeping procedures. In the period 1884 to 1867,profits on defense contracts Rose by 25 per cent Over 1859-63,Rickover told the House Bank ing and currency committee on april 11. Although the committee voted this week to make Rickover s testimony Public it has not Bee published. Rickover testified that he had warned As Early As 1863 that he government needed additional Protection to prevent Industry from making excessive profits on complicated equip ment and from hiding profits a costs As an example of excess prof its Rickover cited the following Case in 1958 a contractor submit Tea Cost breakdowns on sever Al Muu million Dollar con tracts indicating a profit of 10 cent Rickover said. In 1862auditors found the profi actually been Between 45 St per cent Tea same year Navy held off payment to the contractor of $4 million to recover the excess. The contractor appealed Rickover said to the defense department s defense contract audit Agency which in a Preli Minary decision in 1965, upheld the Navy. Tho contractor appealed again and this Mont the defense contract Audi Agency completed a new auditor these 10-year-old orders. This new audit conclude that the contractor is entitled to be paid the excess profit he obtained despite his submittal of these breakdowns said Rick Over. Apparently it is proper to Tell the government 10 percent when you expect to make 45 to 60 per Chicago area school named in Bias suit Washington a the Justice department thursday filed its first school desegregation suit in the North charging a Cook county 111. School District with discriminating in faculty and staff assignments. Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clar charged in papers filed in . District court in Chicago that school District 151 of Cook county had assigned faculty an staff members on a racially segregated basis. He said that with few exceptions they have been assigned to schools attended solely or predominantly by members of their own race. Numerous court suits to Hal school segregation have been filed in the South affecting Bot faculty and students but thurs Day s suit is the first to apply Toa Northern school. The school District in a suburban Chicago area covers most of South Holland 111., All of the Village of Phoenix and part of Harvey. There Are six schools in the District four virtually All White and two Al most All negro. Clark said he had received written complaint from a Parent of negro children attending school in the District complain ing that they were being deprived of equal Protection of the Laws. School officials have been notified of the complaint but have failed to take adequate Steps to assure nondiscriminatory faculty assignments for the 1968-69school year the government said. Hippie cop giving a sign meaning i have pot is Miami patrolman Bill Riley who has just completed an assignment As an undercover agent mingling with hippie groups. A series of raids on psychedelic shops resulted from Riley s work. He is Agreen Beret Veteran of the Vietnam War. A photo Cave in victim plea am let boy Hie Garden Grove Calif a a 13-year-old boy kept alive by a machine three Days after he was buried in a Cave in died in a Hospital thursday ashis parents be seethed doctors not to prolong his life. Gop scoffs at Freer news flow claim Washington up abolition of the House Freedom of information subcommittee and distribution of its work among other groups will help produce a Freer flow of government news rep. Cornelius e. Gallag her d-n.j., contended members of the subcommittee s Parent govern ment operations committee scoffed at the claim. They Laid plans to overturn the reorganization ordered last week by committee chairman William l. Dawson d-i11. Some committee democrats were considering joining in the , arguing against any such Palace revolt said passage of a new Law designed to open most Public records to taxpayer inspection had placed upon the committee too big responsibility to be exercised by its information subcommittee alone. He aim of Dawson s in o n e a saving reorganization plan was to place on each of the committee s seven remaining subcommittees the responsibility for policing secrecy in those agencies it contended this would work better than the old system in preventing Unwar ranted withholding of inform 4the new Structure of the committee will Zero in on areas of responsibility and will make More information available tothe american people not less Gallagher said in a Issue in the controversy is the Fate of a subcommittee that for 13 years has done Battle against secrecy in the govern ment s executive Branch. Rep. John e. Moss d-calif., who has headed the subcommittee throughout its life has Bee offered another subcommittee chairmanship but has refused it. Dawson ordered the Moss subcommittee disbanded and its staff released As of june 1. He said he did so As part of a Gen eral reorganization made Neces sary by a reduction of the com Mittee s budget from $875,000 to$555,000 this year. The boy Robert Snyder suffered severe brain damage when he was buried monday under 300pounds of Earth after he and two friends dug a Tunnel that col lapsed. The other youths escaped unharmed but it took a half hour to free Robert. By then Lack of oxygen had damaged his brain. He never regained consciousness. While the oxygen machine pumped air into the boy s lungs in Palm Hospital his father pleaded with Hospital authorities to let Robert would be so much better if he were allowed to die Warre Snyder 46, told newsmen. Although Robert could have been kept alive in his comatose state More than six months doctor Cost of keeping life in his body would have the physician lad heart simply stopped beating thursday while oxygen was be ing administered to him. The youngster s father said softly it s As though they were pumping air through a
