European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 2, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse August 2, 1968 the stars and stripes b Page s stars stale i Jii hts panel to probe household items Washington a Consumers watchdog committee announced a wide ranging invest in into More than. 200 House hold items to determine if they a thed National commission on product safety formed last no vember to help protect the american consumer from Haz Ards in everyday household equipment said the upcoming study is a first Ste commission s goal. Toward the each year hundreds of thou Sands of people arc seriously injured and some Are killed by accidents involving Ordinary household products commis Sion chairman Arnold said the seven member commission will report to con Gress and to the president at the same time making recommendations to assure More effective Protection to the con Sumer. Curbs on air Power frustrating Sharp says As Mccain takes Over Honolulu a . Grant Sharp or. Relinquished command of All . Forces inthe Pacific wednesday and said it was frustrating not to Beable to make full use of our tre Elkims j Mendouse air Power in the Viet Nam War. But he said american Mili tary forces received excellent results despite close restriction during his four year command. Sharp retiring after More than 45 years service was succeeded by adm. John s. Mccain or. During a ceremony aboard the Carrier Hancock a Pearl Harbor. Among the dignitaries at the ceremony were Gen. Earle g. Wheeler chairman of the join chiefs of staff who presented Sharp with the distinguished service medal and Gen. Wil Liam c. Westmoreland army chief of staff. Sharp who took Over Aspa civic commander shortly before the first Gulf of Tonkin incident said the free world position in Asia is substantially improved Over what it was four years ago. North Vietnam should now realize that a military Victory in South Vietnam is impossible he said adding that Hanoi Hopes for Victory by political and psychological Means. Sharp said the United state must hold firm for a satisfactory Hollywood director Hall Dies san Francisco a Alexander c. Hall who directed More Tonii 20 movies and worked with such stars As Shirley Temple Rifi Haworth and Lucille Ball is dead at 74.hall died tuesday after suffering a stroke at the University of California directed and handled Many films for Para m o u n t Columbia pictures. Among them were Little miss Marker Shirlev Temple in 1934, Here comes or. Jordan with Montgomery Down to Earth with Rita Hayworth and for Darling with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in 1956. And with Robert Ever moral count your Clini Ige Milwaukee wis. Up the change made at Mcc Abe s tavern was a bit i e t e r fran sen popped in last Friday for three cans of Beer and two cigars plopped Down a Check and left with $11.70 in change. After he was gone the bar tender discovered the social Security Check was $1,270.000 As he should officer instead of the $12.70originally thought. Fran sen s Chang have been $1,269. The social Security said tuesday it tracked Down he unsuspecting fran sen who was a very Happy Man the news Meache smore change for when told has som him. Chicago eruption predicted Chicago a a leading civil rights Leader urged mayor Richard j. Daley wednesday to remove All White policemen fire men and other City employees from negro communities to insure their personal request was made by the Rev. Jesse Jackson National director of operation breadbasket an economic Arm of the South Ern Christian leadership conference which is seeking More jobs for is on the Brink of a volcanic tin Rev. Jackson said in a letter to the mayor. Alarming cd increase new York up unofficial of the american so Cial health association Esti mates that 1 million Ameri cans a year arc being infected by venereal diseases an unprecedented . Willam l. Fleming said the medical profession an the general Public Are justifiably alarmed at the spread of these communicable diseases especially cited Fleming said the cd prob Lem was believed licked in the 1950s. Only 6,251 cases of infectious syphilis were reported in 1957. But Fleming said cd spiralled into a major health problem in the next decade with 23,250 cases re ported in 1965.Fleming said 216,476 cases of gonorrhoea cases were re ported in 1957. This jumped 375,606 cases last year. Good Leader Marine says of capt. Robb Kansas City. To. A president Johnson s son in Law is reported to be taking the Sam chances As any Marine in Viet Nam ducking enemy mortar fire trying to avoid ambushes and grabbing sleep when he can get it. He s a Good Leader trying Todo his Job like the rest of us and he s not looking for any Spe Cial Marine capt. Richard Cavagnol said of s. Robb. Cavagnol a 26-year-old offi cer has just returned from Viet Nam where he spent four Mont son a Hill outpost with the Hus band of the president s older daughter Lynda Bird. Robb married in the Whitehouse last dec. 9, leads India company of the 7th Marine regi ment s 3rd battalion. He arrived in april on Hill 65, situated some j11 Miles Southwest of Danang. Within a week after Rob came to the outpost. Cavagnol said an enemy 82mm mortar round landed about 15 feet from the Bunker where Lynda Bird husband was sitting. Cavagnol said that during recent sweep toward the Cam Bodian Border the truck Convoy which Rood s troops were guard ing was ambushed and although the marines suffered some casualties. Robb got the trucks through. Tuning in sen. Charles Percy of Illinois churns up the water of Biscayne Bay off Miami Beach and on one ski. No less. The Pilot s political affiliations Are unknown but Percy Isa Backer of new York gov. Nelson Rockefeller and has been mentioned As a vice presidential candidate. A photo to gov sex wife remarries famous actors form own troupe Cranor s Madison wis. Up the former mrs. Warren p. obtained a mexican divorce from the Wisconsin governor july 16, married a Milwaukee millionaire industrialist two Days later a source in the governor s office confirmed Camilla Guidry Mcgovern Knowles married Francis Sleeker of Milwaukee july 18 in new York City and the couple sailed for Genoa Italy aboard the . Raphael two Days after the wedding the source is seeking his third term in the november elections. new York a a group of eminent stage and film play ers wednesday announced plan for formation of a theatrical Ven Ture similar to the National com Pany of great Britain. Participants include Henry Fonda Robert Ryan Godfrey Cambridge Roddy Mcdowall John Mcgiver Paula Prentiss and Mildred Dunno. Martha Scott organizer of the project said the purpose was to provide interested stars wit Opportunity to appear in noted stage roles without committing themselves to extensive runs such As Are required by com Mercial productions. Home base will be Mineola a Long Island Community 20 Miles from new York. The group begins activities with Fonda starring in our town on sept. 24, followed Bryan two weeks later in the front another four wee season is planned next Spring. An operating fund of $120.000 has been provided by the theater society of Long Island. Alfred de Liagre Veteran Broadway producer is executive director. M 5 by Dick west5 Washington up my wife 5 ail l 1 have a wedding anniversary coming up and i Don t mind saying = i am under a terrific the trouble is that we seem to be z ideally mated. S after to these Many years i still regard her As a perfect wife Lover and = Mother of my children. She in turn continues to appreciate my Many = Sterling qualities which grow More numerous As the years Roll by. = in All of our married life there has Ever been a shot fired in Auger and = Seldom even a discouraging word. This difficult Cerebra is extremely one thing it makes it to plan a proper anniversary custom is to treat a wedding anniversary As a special occasion. The husband takes his wife out to dinner at a place he can t afford and that sort of our Case however just being to Gether makes every meal , there in t much Point in trying to gild the big frustration stems from the fact that the largest single Bod of humor in America seems to have pases f been built around marital Are forever coming up and telling me jokes of the Maggie and Jiggs Type. But since 1 am unable to relate them to my own experience i miss the punch have said i Don t get it so Many times that people have begun to re Gard me As a hopeless Square. Then there is the matter of part conversation which is based in Large measure on the Battle of the sexes.1 find myself unable to participate and As a consequence am rapidly becom ing a social Short i have started to wonder whether there is any longer a place in America for a Well adjusted couple. And the other evening i spoke to my wife about this. Sweetheart i said what s wrong with us anyway we have become total misfits. Our marriage has worked out so Well it s almost unbearable. "1 know she said being eve understanding. Every Day that passes without a quarrel makes it More difficult to hold the marriage apparently however we Are stuck with each other. My lawyer says it s impossible to obtain a divorce on grounds of compatibility
