European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 02, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday May 2, 1968 the stars and stripes Page 7 costs delays in . Buying questioned Washington a  Patman said tuesday Federal procurement agencies apparently Are allowing sup pliers to overcharge the govern ment and delay delivery Dales. The Texas Democrat chair Man of the House banking com Mittee said the committee has received conflicting testimony on this from department of Commerce officials and from vice adm. Hyman o. Rick Over Deputy commander of he naval ship systems  told a closed hearing that he found it especially difficult to have the Commerce department enforce priorities for defense materials. But com Merce spokesmen told the com Mittee there have been nose rious complications in administering the program. Rickover said a new submarine project for the Navy was delayed More than five month because general electric rejected a rated order a priority order for main propulsion equipment and the depart ment of Commerce rejected our request for a  Patman quoted Rickover assaying that the Commerce and defense departments appear unwilling or unable to use the authority provided them in the defense production  Rickover said that in som cases the Commerce depart ment agreed to delivery Date Slater than the supplier was will ing to provide before the depart ment entered the negotiations. It is not Clear to me whether the department of Commerce represents Industry to the government or the government to Industry in these matters Rickover testified. Patman said Rickover also said profits on defense contracts have increased by about 25 percent in recent years. The committee which is considering a Bill to extend the de sense production act received recommendation from Rickover to consider assigning to som Agency other than the com Merce department responsibility for administering the act. Businessmen urged to Foster Equality Washington up hous ing Secretary Robert c. Weaver has asked american business men to contribute their hearts and emotions As Well As their wealth to the quest for racial Equality and  said in an address to the . C h a m be r of Commerce that it is not enough for businessmen to dedicate resources to the task  he said they must also provide personal involvement in society for those now alienated  something missing there Are no Hemisfar crowds in this View of san Antonio s sponsor. So to the disappointment of its ing Man the management is eliminate More local jobs and planning interest in the big to arouse fair. A 6oo at Academy were 111 Hemisfar food May have felled of cadets lean hungry for visitors air Force Academy Colo. A contaminate food May have triggered the epidemic of Strep infection that struck about 600 cadets at . Air Force Academy or. Roy Cleere director of the Colo Rado health department said tuesday. Meanwhile Antibiotic shot were ordered for the unaffected members of the 3,100-Man Cade twing to prevent further spread of the infection which doctor said attained serious proportions before apparently starting to Wane tuesday. Classes remained suspended for the third Day wednesday on and near the Academy grounds providing a Holiday for about 3,650 school Chil Dren and 188 teachers. The continued suspension is a pre cautionary measure an facade my spokesman said. Or. Cleere said in Denver it May take three or four Days for epidemiologists to identify the source of the streptococcus infection. But he said they arc suspicious it was the food be cause the Academy has a com Mon mess and the ailment struck hundreds of cadets Al most at once. The Academy spokesmen note the infection which started showing up sunday morning struck Only cadets. Other personnel at the Academy were not affected nor were residents of nearby communities. Cultures were ordered for food handlers in the Cadet Din ing Hall to see if they have Orare carrying the infection the spokesman said. The tests Are being made by . Public health service doctors and technician with the National communicable disease Center Tea from fort Collins Colo. Or. Cleere said it is conceivable someone recovering from a Strep infection could have infected the food passing the infection to cadets who ate  said he is not expecting any widespread outbreak of the infection which he said does not appear to be dangerous. More than 100 cadets have been hospitalized since the out break ing. About 40 remain in Hospital and a makeshift Ward in the gymnasium. None was in serious condition. Nearly All of the affected Ca dets complained of sore throats. Many also had fever accompanied by vomiting and diarrhoea. Satchel Paige pitching politics Jefferson City. Map Leroy Satchel Paige the ageless baseball Pitcher fro Kansas City filed tuesday for the democratic nomination Forstate representative. The fabulous Pitcher who hurled in negro leagues for years before he got to the majors and the world series in 1948 with the Cleveland indians said he had pitched every year for 42 years. But he said he had been unable to get a Job As a pitching coach this  i decided to look for protest is lengthy Spokane Wash. A Helen Hall 70-year-old Philadel phia widow dressed in Overall Sand pushing her shopping cart arrived in Spokane monday16,000 Miles from where she  her it s a kind of National protest March which so far has Cost 10 pairs of shoes and six shopping carts. Wherever she stops mrs. Hall Heads for the nearest police Sta Tion or sheriff s office for som food a place to stay and Proba Bly a badge or  s found jail cells inexpensive but those jail mattresses Are too Lumpy for  she s not easily missed push ing her Market Basket along the Roadside. If that in t enough her overalls Are covered with police badges and shoulder patches she s collected along the . Hall started her Mara Thon walk almost three year Sago. She says As a protest against the Philadelphia Wel fare department. They wanted to Cut off my welfare she said so i told pm to go  since then she s been walking most of the Way across 29 states and even into British  arrived Here from Vancou ver b.c., and then headed for Lewiston Idaho but not before talking with local police an picking up a shoulder Patch. After a Brief Stop in  widow said she will leave for Reno . Hall started the walk on july 8, 1965. Next month she says she will be 71 and the Only thing that bothers her is a touch of arthritis. Otherwise she i says "1 feel  something else said old Satch. Whose age is listed As 62. Paige helped pitch Cleveland to the american league pen Nant in 1948, winning six games and losing Only one As a Relief hurler. He stayed the next year with Cleveland and then went to the old St. Louis Browns for three years. When the St. Louis club was transferred to Balti More Paige went to Miami in the International league. Paige has continued pitching with various barnstorming clubs. Two years ago he signed with Charley Finley s Kansas City athletics and pitched two innings without giving up a run in a regular league game. San Antonio Tex. A the backers of san Antonio s Hemisfar lopped off 200 jobs developed sunday morn tuesday to take up the fiscal the Cadet s ack caused by sagging attend Ance figures and Laid plans for a Campaign to get the Home Folk out to the 92.6-acre world s fair. James Gaines. Chief executive officer called Ilem Sfair lean and  the leanness came from the firing of 200 from the 2,200-person staff around for Hemisfar s opening. The hunger is for More spectators especially from san Antonio. Less than expected Hemisfar opened april g. The Clay after or. Martin Luther King or. Was killed. Attendance was less than expected opening weekend and has remained Small along. A Hemisfar projection of at Tendance As banked on passing the million Mark tuesday. At Tendance through monday was 033,746. I Don t think any of us Are kidding ourselves Gaines said Gate income has not been unto  store praised Hemisfar president mar shall Steves complained to the executive committee meeting that downtown san Antonio does t look like the heart of a City hosting a world s fair. He singled out a Large department store just off the Fairgrounds for Praise of its fluttering display of Hemisfar flags but said the rest of downtown is just too Little and too late. Hemisfar s timing was dictated by an agreement with Mexico that the fair would end before the oct. 12 opening of the olympic games in Mexico. The opening of the fair seemed to be j a Large part of the attendance problem. Some officials complained that Hemisfar opened i too far ahead of the summer vacation season. The weather has been less i than Good. Surgery scheduled for mrs. Humphrey Washington a  h. Humphrey wife of the vice president will undergo previously planned routine elec Tive Pelvic surgery in Bethesda naval medical Center thursday  operation described As one to cored a nonmalignant Dis order is to be performed by capt. Walter m. Lonergan Beth Esda s chief of obstetrics and gynaecology