European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 08, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday May 8, Ariit Rod safety Bolt steel beams will shield sides of cars Detroit a general motors corp. Said monday that Many of its 1969 cars will be equipped with a virtual armoured safety Belt running along the in Side of All car doors As an extra safety said the heavy steel beams would tend to Cut Dow the hazards of Side impacts one of the biggest hazards in Auto collisions. Carl Cheden general director of engineering at pm s Fisher body division which developed the new feature said. This Side Impact bar will increase the passengers safety by Prev enting the impacting car from penetrating the impacted car and it will cause the imparted car to be pushed aside by the impacting Side Impact bar is eight inches High two inches deep and in four door sedans will weigh about 41 pounds plus eight pounds of complementary Structure change for the mos part strengthened door latches and hinge disclosed no probable costs on the newest safety item but outside sources estimated it would Cost about $10 per was no indication How much if any of the Cost would be reflected in Price increases on the pm spokesman said that since the beams require styling and a whole now they will be installed Ong cars in the next one to a Tom 211. The beams will not protrude into the cars he said and 2 a careful observer will be note the slightly ��-.-. Bowing of the door five congressmen assail Hershey Washington up five Republican congressmen Mon Day accused selective service director Lewis b. Hershey of outrageous attempts to thwart All efforts to Reform an outdated ineffective and inequitable draft they introduced a Bill Intlehouse requiring seven changes in the draft system including one which would make it mandatory to draft 19-year-Oldsbefore older men Are called up. Satellite Aims at forecasts weeks ahead Cape Kennedy up the space Agency plans to put its heaviest weather watching Satel Lite into orbit next week to test revolutionary instruments that May Lead to reliable forecasts two weeks ahead. The 1,260-Pound spacecraft named Nimbus 3, is scheduled to i be rocketed into a North South orbit 690 Miles High from Van Denberg air Force base calif., it will be the first satellite equipped to Chart a three dimensional picture of the Earth s atmospheric conditions on a global basis. It also will try out a new nuclear Power Plant and act As a space relay for reports from automated sensors. To gather three dimensional data on Earth s weather Nimbus 3 is equipped with a new device designed to measure the Atmos phere s vertical temperature water vapor Content and Ozone Butterfly shaped satellite also carries instruments to take infrared pictures of Earth and its Cloud cover in darkness and a television camera to photograph daytime Cloud must know the condition of the atmosphere around the world on a regular periodic basis to understand an be Able to predict weather Phenomena beyond a Day or 3 s planned orbit will enable it to observe weather around the world twice a Day. The congressmen accuse president Johnson of scuttling reforms proposed by prestigious commission he appointed to study draft by former assistant atty. Gen. Burke Marshall the commission recommended a youngest first draft. In passing an Extension of the draft act last year Congress permitted the president to authorize a 19-year-old first callup system but did no require him to put the system into effect. The sponsors of the new Bill said Congress assumed he would change the order of Call when it passed the Bill. The legislation was introduced by reps. Robert t. Stafford vt., Richard s. Schweiker w. Whalen jr., Ohio All members of the armed services committee and Frank Horton ., and Garner , Kan. It was not Likely to receive congressional consideration Dur ing the current session. Rep. Rivers d-s.c., chair Man of the armed service committee said previously he has no intention of holding hearings on the draft this year. Appointed by lbs the Republican congressmen said Hershey had refused to make available to the Congress and the Public copies of a task Force report written by representatives of the selective service the department of defense and the budget Bureau rejecting changes in the Struc Ture of the draft system recommended by the marshal commission. The task Force of which Hershey was a member was appointed by president Johnson. A document of S.C. importance to everyone interested inthe draft especially those who must go to fight our wars should not and cannot be kept from the Public the Congress men said. It is simply unacceptable that S.C. a report which condemns All Reform recommended by a commission highly praised by president Johnson i merely filed away without explanation Aid on Way Marianne Baratta 16, of Gra Nada Hills calif., who has suffered progressive kidney failure since age 5, thinks this could Bethe most wonderful year of my her Mother mrs. Joseph d. Baralto below plans to donate a kidney for a transplant operation. A $5,000 artificial kidney dialysis machine has been Given to Marianne by Clyde Trent of Brook Lyn San Fernando Valley residents gave $28,000 to teen agers who conducted u door to door Campaign. Above Marianne holds a Jar of Jelly Beans donated by California gov. Ronald Reagan to help raise funds during in auction to defray her expenses. A up photos fire both death sex klan Leader ordered to trial Hattiesburg miss. Up a onetime Kun flux klan chief Tain was ordered monday Rostand trial Here May 14 on an arson charge in the 1966 fire bomb death of negro Leader Vernon Dah Raer near Here. Circuit judge Stanton Hall Settle trial Date for Sam Holloway Bowers jr., a Dapper Laurel ending machine company operator the Fri has identified a longtime Imperial wizard of the White knights of the Kkt. Bowers will be the third of 13white men indicted in the Case to be tried on the state All White jury March 15 convicted Cecil Victor Sessum of Ellisville of murder and Hall sentenced him to life in prison. Week later a biracial jury was unable to agree on a verdict inthe murder trial of Henry de Boxtel of Roy Pitts of Laurel a White Knight turned Fri informer pleaded guilty to murder and arson and was awaiting sentencing. He was expected to testify for the state in Bowers trial Ashe did in both previous trials. Dahmer a voter registration Leader died of seared lungs Jan. 10, 1966, a few hours after night riders hurled firebombs into his Home and grocery near hero. Pitts testified in both previous murder trials that Bowers told a secret klan meeting in a swam near Laurel that something had to be done about Dahmer be cause of his voter registration work. A Houk Kliff would not two polls see Nixon As nominee new York a 7 polls published this week Snoj Richard m. Nixon with enough prospective Delegate ,1.,win the Republican Posidento i nomination at thai party S.C. a political Mirage could put new York f a Jason a. Rockefeller Mio the lean said Newsweek Maga me. The new York times saw Nixon had committed � towards him 725 of inc ,333 be sons expected to be dec Gat Newsweek said it Luwin with 891. To win 667 votes Ai e times crafted hot Keg Ler with 408 votes and i a orm gov. Ronald Reagan wit i we Newsweek gave those two and 102 respectively
