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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes More soldiers will May 12, t continued from Page i percentage of Young inexperienced soldiers while lieutenants have taken Over companies and batteries he said. To make up for the with drawn skills and experience commanders in Europe had to restructure their training and re Vert to fundamentals so that these Young officers and men could learn together As they pro Gressed through the various phases of unit training John son said. What these Young officers an men have lacked in experience they have made up for with their inquisitive aggressive attitude a they tackled jobs normally As signed to More senior  with Little service have had to do their Best to be come As qualified and As resourceful As seasoned captains privates first class. And specialists fourth class have had to step into the shoes of staff sergeant Sand sergeants first class. If a Soldier wanted More responsibility his officers gave him As much As he could handle. " i i am proud of the initiative and the performance of. Our officers and men in eur be especially since the contribution they Kennedy asks drastic tax changes Washington a  f. Kennedy d-n.y., out lined saturday a Broad economic policy aimed at stemming inflation maintaining full employ ment and raising every Ameri can above the poverty level largely through some drastic tax changes and selective spending cuts. In a major economic state ment Kennedy said major tax reforms Are needed including review of the 27 � per cent Oil depletion allowance to spread the tax Burden More equitably and help raise the Money to meet the challenges which confront America.1" a candidate for the democratic presidential nomination Ken Nedy called for an immediate minimum tax on Rich people who now avoid paying taxes plus spending cuts in the space supersonic transport Public works and Highway  economic policy must reflect _ our social goals the Prosperity we build must be shared by All americans Sai Kennedy. He opposed any spending Cutsin education. Health housing Urban development and Job pro Grams looked for an eventual Federal tax sharing plan with localities and called again for an end to the Vietnam  addition to review of the Oil depletion allowance his tax Reform measure would also in clude re examination of the la which permits an exemption from income taxes of the inter est on state and local Bonds. As part of his program to re Duce the. International Dollar Drain Kennedy called for reassessment of . Troop strength throughout the world and possible Mutual action with the soviet Union to reduce troop commitments in Europe. Emergency legislation hit in Bonn. Continued from Page v lament delay consideration of the emergency legislation scheduled to begin May 15.other speakers including Karl Dietrich Wolff of the socialist German students federation called for a general strike by Industrial workers and students on May 15 if the bundestag Start sits deliberations As scheduled. Fearful of a repetition of easter weekend violence most Bonn citizens stayed Home. The Busi Ness Section was abandoned to the demonstrators who began arriving by train bus private car and River Cruiser at 8  cordoned off the govern ment Quarter and Only those with special passes entered. The trades Union federation which had refused to take part in the March on Bonn held it sown rally in Dortmund to pro test the legislation and several Hundred of the 15,000 who took part drove to Bonn later infuses. Fire. Continued from Page 1 them serious the officials said and they feared that the death toll might mount. They said flames from the ceremonial tent leaped to other tents inside the enclosure. The fire started panic and most of those killed were women handsome children trampled in the Stampede for the  fire engine sped from Vijaya Wada but its Crew was unable tonight the fire because gop Ivari Gulden is Short of water. 110 arrive Early for poor March Washington up the Vanguard of the poor people s March 110 elderly persons an children needing medical Atten Tion arrived saturday a Day ahead of schedule As washing ton waited with sympathetic hospitality and some apprehend Sioa to Bear their  first group of about 500 Lim. Continued from Page 1 of Justice and Harmony in our american cities. I am very sure there is no thinking american in any walk of life who wants to sow More seeds of despair and frustration by cutting off the very pro Grams that Are so vital to human Well being All through  r when asked earlier last week whether Johnson would veto tax increase if it were linked to a $6 billion spending Cut pres Secretary George Christian re plied i Don t  in urging the businessmen s help in holding Down inflation Johnson said i do not advocate any system of mandatory direct controls on prices or wages. We must not stifle the Market system we must perfect  novelist Seager Diemann Arbor Mich. Up novelist and Short Story writer Allan Seager 62, died of cancer Friday at St. Joseph mercy hos Pital. Seager whose works included novels such As Equinox Amos Barry and death of anger was a professor of eng Lish at the University of Mich Igan. Person which left Marks,miss., by bus last wednesday had been expected to reach the capital of mid afternoon Sun Day. But 110 of to Fem considered unfit physically to continue the slow journey were put on special buses in Atlanta and sped to Washington. ". They were taken1 of our lady Queen of peace Church i suburban Arlington  for examination by doctors from the medical committee for human rights a Volunteer  suppose that the poor peo ple s Campaign is really urn Deway particularly from a health standpoint said or. Sidney Wolfe the committee s co chair Man " a " v v the Early arrivals will be joined by thousands of other demanding massive new govern ment Aid programs for the 30million americans who live in poverty the full Mississippi contingent was expected in Washington Intima to take part in a Mother s Day Anarch for welfare right sled by mrs Martin Luther King or. ". Yes Frankfurt store1 " " Hsc lists summer hours fr4nkfurt is Eric Schick manager of the main pm Heye has announced new sum Mer operating hours effective immediately. V the retail store excluding the Beauty shop Flower shop another Small adjoining conces Sions will be open from noon until 8 . E a c h thursday. Woodland the Shorette and the snack bar1 Are open until 9 . Daily and until 5 pm sunday soviet rocket Burns up Over . Cape Kennedy up Parton a rocket used to launch a russian spaceship made a Fier reentry into the Earth s Atmos phere Over America s space port saturday putting on a spectacular display for area Resi dents. The space junk first Appe Aredas a fireball in t h e predawn skies and apparently broke int pieces during searing reentry. Police switchboards receive Many Calls from people wonder ing about the incident. It looked like the pieces ? herein formation said police ser Geant Bruce Gordon one of three officers who reported seeing the fireball. It was the weirdest thing i be Ever seen in my life an official at America s space enter said it was just a happenstance that the junk came Down Over the Cape Kennedy  s nothing unusual at All about this a spokesman  soviet object came in Over the Caribbean and Atlantic last month and that also was spectacular the National aeronautics an space administration said the rocket body that fell to Earth saturday was from the Molnia 1 communication satellite spaceport and was launched from the soviet space Center at Yurat Mapril 21. Gordon and officer Bill Wol Ford were on patrol when they first saw the fireball Streak ing northeastward acres the heavens. He said the 27 per cent Oil depletion allowance v and the tax free interest on state and 10"cai Bonds permit some Ameri cans to escape their fair share of tote tax Burden. The depletion allowance Cost the Treasury $2 billion yearly Kennedy said while state an local Bonds Are held primarily by. Persons in the top one percent of the nations taxpayers and Cost the nation another $1.8bilfion a  he suggested also a 20 percent minimum tax on All per sons who earn More than $50,000a year. V _ Texas storm floods move toward East Corsicana Frex up the f most widespread Spring storm to hit Texas in 10 years Iti eyed eastward Friday flooding parts of Corsicana and trigger ing deluge along the Louisiana Border and the Gulf coast. Floodwaters from up to two feet of rain began receding a Midland and Corpus Christi but hundreds of Homes in both cities were still  of Corpus Christi rhe nieces River was o u t of its Banks flooding Farmland. At least four persons were dead twp adolescents were swept into & storm sewer in Corpus Christi. A Man drowned in Midland when his car a a s swept x of a  and woman was killed in an Auto Mobile crash in Wichita Falls during a heavy Izairi tornadoes sighted funnel Clouds popped out of darkened skies along the upper Gulf coast Friday two Torna does Yere sighted Early in the Day North of Houston and one South of the City. T .0 r n a do alerts went lip throughout the heavily populated coastal area of Hub Stan Gale Ston Beaumont and port Arthur another Tornado in the Corpus Christi area where 20 funnel Clouds have been sighted since tuesday a roofed two Cabanas at a Motel and damaged an Auto Mobile at the town of  10 inches of rain fell in Corsicana in a 24-hour period ending Friday afternoon. Two creeks overflowed sending water flowing into about three dozen Homes baseball National orc qq01000w-r,t 4 0 Chicago  3 9 Beaver Prisella 8 an4 a wrote hands 3-2 and Hundley. Ftp Seaver 1-3. A Santo 6th. ,. Philadelphia at Pittsburgh postponed rain amerlean Keaau Detroit 004 021 212 j2 j5 0 Washington Lqqqolooo-2 4 1sparma2-3. And Sii Behan Bertalot huge  5kfl91�f tev Hunphreys 8 and Caa Anoya vijk4 Ilei a a. 1-2. Has a Greehan 6thhorton 6thwert 3rdboston j 0000000000 7 0new Yorac 000 000 lox-r-1 5 0 Santiago 4-1. And Chi san Stottlemyre 4-3 and Gibbs. He White 2nd. Cleveland 0201000014 9 Baltimore 0100000203 8 \ Mcdowell 4-j and Sims Brabender dra Bowsley 5watt 8 and Etchebarren. Ftp Watt 0-2. A Harper Duce personnel turbulent i army today and solve Smyj Ture problems As Well. Prid is expansion of the relatively few no candid schools to allow cos at least months to a Long tour before returning to Vietnam other is a Post graduate Cou to prepare non coms for Garri duty. Eccl candidate school much like the officer Cand schools that have been of the army s emergency Lea ship training for More than a Century began last year forts Benning Sill and courses run 21 weeks. A dates Are promoted to e4entry-and to e5 when they co a plete the school phase. Up to per cent can also go to e6 Althe end of the school and another 8 per cent at the end of the prac ucal training phase. Johnson said similar school were established last month a the Engineer signal intelligent and ordnance schools. This program s output will much toward improving o posture in the Middle Leader Stu ranks of our no Structure Johnson said. By expanding we p Lopose to train numbers of cos of the charms and other branches _ some 60 military occupation specialities requiring forma school  meeting  to no replacements for vie tithe general believes the. Gram should help the army first term reenlistment rate. Look area Dan order to profit by ,1 lessons of the korean War Jolson looked ahead to the army s Structure when the fighting ending Vietnam and said a pos1 graduate no course in peacetime training and administrative duties will begin. He did not  said the course Wil run about one month at con Aranco academies recently appointed Ngos returning from Vietnam who Rayfl received Accel i ated promotion will attend and. Be per for assignments in a non-coenviir6nment f � Johnson said this will give us an of Portum to improve their usefulness Ana win give. Them a ,develop their Confidence in. Theft ability Ftp perform Garrison leafljership.duties.? some improvements i career development of Avia should begin in about a a when the results of today m creased training rate for Pujare  involuntary tows for pilots will continue however into the next year Johnson minted out because of the Sion in army aviation. Career programs in schools and non aviation do army pilots below the Grade lieutenant colonel  suspended because of wet Huing need for aviators Bylthe fiscal year Whick Lylall an pension in recent years. Fewer than 80 pilots we retrained each month but a oflus �%3warmy will be turning out Zymonth. By june 1wo the w Pilot output will bes Morem-7,300, almost a me ii crease Over fiscal if in Osithe army now has 16, p almost double the number two years ago  
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