European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 8, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse The ands stripes unofficial newspaper of . Forces in Europe North Africa and the Middle East vol. 27, no. 112 if 21855 a 5 daily 10 sunday thursday August 8, 196850 ships to be deactivated by Marc hurts a Washington Bureau chief Washington is the defense department announced wednesday that it will deactivate50 Navy ships and eight naval air squadrons with about 100antisubmarine aircraft As a part of its Economy move to Cut the fiscal year 1969 defense budget. Most of the ships Are Small combat Type auxiliaries and amphibious ships of world War ii construction although the list also includes the guided missiles Light Cruiser Topeka built in 1944the support Carrier Randolph also built in world War ii an the nuclear powered submarine Triton whose keel was Laid in1956. The Topeka Randolph and Triton were All due for major overhauls. Seven of the 11 destroyers and five of the nine destroyer escorts involved will become naval re serve training ships and replace older smaller escort vessels inthe ready Reserve. The ships to be inactivated Are divided be tween the Atlantic and Pacific fleets 32 and 18, respectively. Nearly 1,000 officers and Al most 12,000 enlisted men will be rotated to other assignments but the net result of these deactivation will see the reduction of about 13,000 men in the Navy s strength. Fleet strength in support of military operations in Vietnam will not be reduced by these cont. On Page 2k, col. 1 Bethlehem Rolls Back Price boosts Pittsburgh up Bethle hem steel corp., the nation s no. 2 producer bowed under government pressure wednesday and rolled Back Price firm said its new rates would amount to a 2.4 per Cen increase instead of the 5 per cent boost i wednesday. The Rollback announced last came on the heels of an announcement by . Steel corp., the nation biggest steelmaker that it was boosting prices from $4.50 to $8a ton. . Steel said the increases if applied Industry wide would average about a per cent or $4.50 a ton on Al steel sales. In a t i a Tex. President Johnson hailed Price adjustments by steel producers which he said com. On Page 8.j, col. S i Manila disaster two girls alive in rubble Manila up two Small girls trapped 128 hours in the rubble of a House felled by killer earthquake Here last Fri Day were recovered alive wednesday. Pulled from a room on the ground floor of the Ruby towers apartment House in Manila downtown chinese District were the two girls Suzie Wong Chan,9, and her Cousin Shirley Wong Chan 11. Police believe almost400 persons lost their lives in the collapse of the girls were the first survivors found in the rubble since sunday. They were taken immediately to a Hospital. Another person found in the shattered room was , mayor Antonio Vil Legas directed police to arrest the owner designer Engineer contractor and inspector involve Din construction of the apartment building. He said they would be cops 9 woman shot in Chicago from a and up dispatches Chicago seven Noli canian at a Niv minnian Ven Gocemen sol Oman were shot tuesday youths stoned cars in sub Dixmoor then roamed vey another suburb three South of Chicago. Num sve of Tho Yuth. Whose number grew to 100, were a cordoned off a 12-Block rested. Nowen h the area n West Side enter area on a we windows in fires set to Haines officers answered a Call a Dixmoor Gas station that teen agers were growing abusive to passersby. The five officer dispersed the crowd of teen agers Haines said then turned to leave. A Shotgun blast Cut them youths moved into Harvey after stoning cars on sible Boulevard in Dixmoor. Before the area was cordoned off two Harvey officers Eugene Wojtowic and Charles severs were hit by a Shotgun blast in their patrol wounded officers were taken to Ingalls memorial Hospi cont. On Page i col by charged with homicide. An estimated 650 persons were sleeping in the apartment House when the earthquake struck shortly before Dawn Friday. The building tumbled into a grotesque Heap of Concrete and steel. Government officials set the confirmed death toll from the earthquake at 252. They said 242 of the dead had been taken from cont. On Page 23, col. 1 survivor doctors examine 9-year-old Suzy Wong Chan after she and her Cousin were rescued from the rubble of a quake destroyed building in Manila after being trapped five Days. A bulletin Miami Beach a Richard m. Nixon s solid first ballot strength shot past the needed 667 level in the associated press Survey wednesday Indi Cating he will win the Republican presiden tial nomination on the first round of balloting. From a and up dispatches Miami Beach Fla. Picking up important new strength Down the stretch Richard m. Nixon appeared headed wednesday night to Ward first ballot nomination As the Republican candidate for president. His chief challenger gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller of new York said the former vice pres ident could be stopped if the favorite son states did not panic. But Nixon evidently was Mak ing inroads within these delegations in the last hours before the balloting. Expressing Confidence Nixon passed the word that he would remain in his hotel command Post during the Day while Rockefeller and the third Man in the race gov. Ronald Reagan of California bustled among the delegations looking for votes. Nixon was reported fixing his cont. On Page 2k, col. 1 five shot to death in Calif. Hollywood a a hol Lywood hat manufacturer his wife and two daughters were shot to death wednesday presumably by the estranged Hus band of one of the daughters who took his own life police said. A 3-year-old child Jason Chegwin was found unharmed hiding under a bed. A woman believed to be the housekeeper fled to a neighbor s Home. It. William m. West jr., gave this account of the shooting Fred Chegwin 31, shoved his Way into the $100,000 Home of Phil Weinstein 46, about 8 . He shot Weinstein his wife Rosemary 38, and their Daugh ters Debbie 19, and Myra Chegwin 24. All died of multiple Chest wounds police said. Chegwin then apparently cont. On Payes to col. 3
