European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 29, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday june 29, 198 i the news is. Vhf ithe reaction in t by Dick West Washington up disaster usually strikes with terrible Swift Sud Denness. One minute the Sun is Smil ing the Birds Are singing and therein peace in the Valley. The next min Ute was a Telephone Call that shattered the serenity of my life Tore the stars Down from the sky and stripped the petals from the was snugly ensconced in my four poster enjoying my favorite Book the five Little peppers and How they grew when it rang. And when Pale and shaken i re turned the receiver to its Cradle a couple of minutes later the world had turned upside Down. I had become Grandfather. I cannot truly say that the news came As a Complete Surprise. My daughter in Law had warned me Sev eral months ago that i was an expectant grandparent. But i refused to face you be Only got a mild Case i s serious she replied. Listen i said there s an organization called the life Extension society which believes that people can be safely Frozen and kept in cold Stor age. Maybe we could get them to freeze you for about 20 years. By that time i la be so old i won t mind be ing a she refused to go along with the idea. At times my daughter in Law can be very unreasonable. And that goes for her husband too. Nevertheless the human brain is a marvelous insulator. We can Tell our selves that something like this Only happens to other people. And we can make ourselves believe it. But if it does happen the brain is of no help at All. After the Call came informing me that i had been plunged into grand fatherhood. I slumped to the floor an tried to fight off panic. U keep Calm i kept saying to can think of a. My first impulse was to run of somewhere and change my name if i grow a Beard buy myself some turtlenecks and a Nehru jacket and learn to dance the Bugaboo maybe ican build a new life i thought but deep Down i knew i was Only deluding myself. Sooner or later my past would catch up with me and i would be exposed. Once one becomes Grandfather there is no place to hide. Helping hands rescuers reach Down to Pluck Dennis Jones from his precarious Perch on the George Washington Bridge in new York. His wife and priests pleaded with him for More thana hour before he allowed himself to be rescued. Up photo space program on skids Nobel Winner declares san Antonio Tex. Up a Nobel prizewinning scientist said thursday congressional indifference was killing off the space program and its supporters would have to fight like mad to save Are Many problems in this country and not Al problems Are to be solved by technology and the ghetto is on of them or. Willard f. Libby because you have social problems is no reason for killing off science and , the 1960 Nobel prize Winner in chemistry and chair Man of the Urcla chemistry department also said the War in Vietnam was Imp riling the have to ask ourselves How did we get into a fix wherein order to fight in Vietnam we have to give up space exploration he concern several other members of Apanel at the 4th International symposium on Bio astronautics and the exploration of space also expressed concern Over the . Future in is big enough Strong enough Rich enough to take advantage of the opportunities of space exploration or. Harold p. Klein said but it i just not smart Klein is assistant director for life sciences at the space Agency s Ames research Cen Ter in have one 1969 flight to May military spending sets record Washington a Mili tary spending during May Rose to its highest monthly level since world War ii the treas Ury department reported thurs Day. In its monthly statement of in come and outgo the department listed military spending for May at slightly lower than $6.9 Bil lion up from the $6.83 billion for april. May s total boosted military spending for the first 11 months of the current fiscal year which ends on sunday to $70.08 billion indicating spending for the entire year should come close to the administration s estimates. Wagner is sworn in Washington a Rob Ert f. Wagner the former mayor of new York City has been sworn in As . Ambassador to Spain succeeding Angier Biddle Duke now chief of protocol. Last january military spend ing for the current year was estimated at $73.7 billion but pres ident Johnson added another$2.5 billion in the Spring raising the total to 76.2 billion. Of that roughly $27 billion is figured As the Cost of the Viet Nam War. For the next fiscal year begin Ning july 1, the administration has estimated military spending at More than $79 billion including $28.4 billion for Vietnam. For the first 11 months of the current fiscal year the treas Ury estimated the budget deficit at $19.8 billion but this is expected to jump to almost $25 billion by the end of june. Mars and that s it. We have moderate amount of lunar exploration and that s it he said. Klein said America must Stoke up the program before the momentum is he said the soviet Union is carrying on a much More vigorous program. A leading aerospace Industry scientist and rocket Pioneer Ehricke said there was purposefulness and consistency in the soviet Union s space program in contrast with the blowing hot and blowing cold of America s Effort. He said America is afraid Toplan far enough in the future and needs to find a balance Between the scientific exploration of space and practical use of what is Learned. Or. Fritz Zwicky of California Institute of technology s mount Wilson and Palomar observatories said neither Congress Northe president nor the scientists nor the Public really know what is Best suited for space alone. If a Guy in Washington turndown a really big project three times. He should As gentleman resign Zwicky said. Famed science fiction write Arthur c. Clarke said in another session the plane Jupiter is the Best place for life in the solar system better even than Earth. The discovery that Jupiter is quite warm and has precisely the Type atmosphere in which life is believed to have Arisen on Earth May be the prelude tothe most significant biological findings in this Century Clarke said. There is really Only on planet that matters and that planet is not Earth but is what the exploration of space is really All about he said. 600 kansans flee Poison Gas Gey ser Scandia Kan. Up twelve thousand Gallons of poisonous Gas under pressure shot half a mile High in a mushroom Cloud thursday to hover Over this Northern Kansas Community and Force evacuation of its 600residents for a Brief interval. There were no serious injuries. Burl Thomas an official of the Home Oil co., said the Gas shooting from a broken line looked just like an it went up like a White mushroom Cloud one half mile High he said. The state Highway patrol said investigation showed there was no explosion and thus no Hazard to nearby tanks of anhydrous said Stroud manager of company suffered loaded with anhydrous ammonia slipped off a scale breaking Atwo Inch Elbow in a line from a tank. A safety valve failed to function and the poisonous Gas shot the Oil chemical Burns around the eyes. He was taken to Republic county Hospital at Belleville and released after said lie could have been choked to death i concentration of Gas Hadi we great enough. The Gas which flammable cuts off the of be Supply from its victims. Reassurance to came from a spa Man for the Phillips Petroleum company s fertilize ment who said the Gas Settle Down.1 to g o
