European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse June 22, 1968 the stars and stripes Page 7 Ibe sought m16 Rifle Kur ement Jiin ton up their which submitted the proposal to manufactureim16 rifles for the army Beress thursday it did5 a protest when it was Over because we must to do business with the Thomasian vice presi the Maremont corp., of sine. Said his firm could reduced the rifles widely i Vietnam for $36.5 Mil it the army awarded the facts to a general motors Fary for $56.2 million and a risen & Richardson for trillion. Army contends it had Confidence in general mood Harrison & Richar sonet accelerated production lies than it did in Mare but it also said Maremont Illy qualified to produce thens on time and that it was qualified because of any War learning that we were qualified to handle this pro Lent and in View of the difference Between that of general motors Pis dered the possibility of Ial protest. Protest dropped Ter careful reflection How land in consideration of the Pat we must continue tops Ness with the army Weed to drop the matter Lasian told the Senate services committee. Remont has been producing 160 machine gun for the for this week rep. Richard d-mo., of the House. Services committee a the army of outrageous id judgment in the Deal. Al. Edmund Muskie a Maine for a full inquiry by the i. Army agreed to buy 240-116 a the Type widely used be Vietnam War from Thea Matic division of general is. Even though the Firmin the weapons making Ness. It agreed to pay Hydra $56.2 million for the rifles first deliveries schedule Din 1969. Also signed a negotiate edit with Harrington and Ardson of Worcester mass.,another 240,000 weapons at tace of $41.6 million. Army bypassed Maremont. And the Cadillac Gage co. Fan in mich., in final awardee production contracts Al both said they could the weapons cheaper Fremont said it was pre-1 to make the rifles for million and Cadillac Sai Puld make them for $36.8 Mil new machine separates them for melting Silver quarters in bad mint condition Philadelphia a the life of an old style Silver Quarter in t Worth two bits since a new electronic separator went into it s Click Click Click and off to the melting similar Fate awaits Silver dimes and half the Root of it All is a dwindling Silver Supply. The govern ment for some time has wanted to melt Down its nearly pure Sil ver coins to convert them into Silver bars for commercial coins were ready and waiting thousands of bags of them had piled up in inventory in Uncle Sam s vaults. But the were a mixed lot with the old silvers dumped in with the newer Sandwich Clad coins. And there was no easy Way of separating the old from the new. Then along came the electronic separator. Here s How it works dump a bag of quarters into a Large pot at the top. The coins Fly Down an electronic magnetic track at lightning Speed. The Sil ver ones Are pulled into one Channel the Clad ones into an other at the rate of about 500 per minute. They shoot through tubes into huge barrels. The Clad coins later Are setback into circulation. The old silvers get a one Way ticket to the smelters. Furnaces at the nation s three mints at Philadelphia Denver wrong on Vietnam loser in cities Rocky Calls Nixon false Prophet Chicago a gov. Nel son a. Rockefeller launched a two front attack thursday on Richard m. Nixon calling him a false Prophet on the War in Vietnam and a losing candidate in the big cities of the first time in his Campaign Rockefeller mentioned Nixon by a rally in downtown Chica go Rockefeller said or. Nixon persists in his belligerent prophecies on this tragic War and he goes on to say we have to Stop it with Victory or it will Start All Over again in a few years the governor also referred to Nixon s saying in a Magazine interview that there is no alter native to the War going were some cheers for what he said some Boos whence mentioned Nixon s name but the response of the crowd of10,000 was generally not Over whelming for the speech. Second attack this was the second consecutive Day that Rockefeller lashed out at Nixon in his attempts to overtake the former vice presi Dent s Lead in their race for the Republican presidential Nomina might As Well get this thing out in the open he told reporter. The gloves Are Rockefeller cited Nixon s elec Tion records with special refer ence to the big cities in Cleve land at a meeting of Cuya hoga county republicans earlier of Nixon s defeat for the presidency in 1960, the governor said Dick did Well in the big states until he got to the big cities. He did Well in Missouri unti he got to St. Louis in Pennsylvania until he got to Philadel phia in Michigan until he got t
