European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 07, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday february 7, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 5 scuttling time put at 2lfe hours Pueblo s conversion hampered engineering officer testifies Coronado Calif. A the chief engineering officer of the Pueblo said wednesday that he was denied item s he deemed necessary for its conversion into an intelligence ship. He cited watertight hatches Good communication system damage control plating and a collision alarm. Two Gene h. Lacy in Testi Mony before a Navy court of in Quiry agreed with the skipper that it would have taken 2 hours to scuttle the Craft Cap tured a year ago by the North koreans. Of the capture Lacy said there were a thousand to 1,100 holes in the ship none below the water line but she was pretty Well shot up. The Shipways completely riddled with Small Caliper machine gun  supported much of the earlier testimony of the Captai cmdr. Lloyd m. Bucher and other officers of the , thin with a full Shock of hair and Bushy eyebrows told the court the Crew was More interested in keeping the Pueblo float rather than scuttling  when the ship was change from an army coastal freighter into a Navy intelligence ship atthe Bremerton Wash., naval shipyard he said there were no plans for the conversion and they were made up As work Wen along. Our main concern was dam age control Lacy said refer ring to the likelihood that the Pueblo might be rammed during harassment by communist ves Sels. Very Little damage control was built into the design of the ship. He said. We asked for watertight hatches for the Crew s berthing and office spaces. But it was not accomplished. They promised it would be do neat the next regular overhaul in 1969."by letter we made a request for damage control books an damage control plates. And stars Slu the army gives the army takes it. Lewis Wash. A when the army noticed that pvt. David Mckibben Gratiot,wis., had a Bare Patch of Scalp he was sent to the dermatology clinic at nearby Madigan Gener Al  said the baldness was the result of a scalding suffered As a child. The clinic tried transplant Sand in a few weeks Mckibben sported a full head of  the army sheared it to conform with Short military style. Washington a  Kissinger National secur Ity adviser to president Nixon will head an Advance party Leav ing for Europe this weekend to prepare for the president s Cora Jet diverted by bomb threat Atlanta a a bomb threat by a woman who said she was not afraid to die forced an Eastern air lines Jet to make an unscheduled return to Atlanta wednesday night an Eastern spokes Man said. The spokesman said a search of the aircraft and the Luggage i carried produced nothing. The Airport patrol said the Fri was questioning the woman who allegedly told a stewardess that the plane contained a bomb. Kissinger to head Advance party ing visit with Allied leaders in formed sources said wednesday. He is due to meet with authorities in Belgium France England West Germany and Italy the informants said. Winchell quitting column Scottsdale Ariz. A Walter Winchell shaken by his son suicide said wednesday he is giving up his Broadway column after 49 years. We be had a lot of heartaches and this is the time for me to step Down Winchell said it s too much of a Load to pick up  Walter or. Shot himself at Bis Home in Santa Ana Calif., on Christmas Day. Castro not wooing hijackers department has made specific proposals which he did not de Tail to Castro on the hijacking problem. We Are encouraged by recent indications that the cuban government regards the hijacking problem As serious and that it neither encourages nor condone hijacking he said. Bell unveils pieturephone9 Pittsburgh a the Bell Telephone co. Unveiled wednes Day a new Model picture phone designed to fit into existing facilities. It was demonstrated at the Westinghouse electric corp. Head quarters. Forty experimental models will be tested Over the next six months in Westinghouse offices in Pittsburgh and new York. The set looks like a very Small portable television and has zoom Lens device and can swivel around the room. It has four push Button controls that enable the user to Initiator answer a picture or voice Call to see the picture he is sending to prevent his picture from being transmitted and to end the Call. Dock settlement reported near Washington up con Gress was told wednesday that Fidel Castro does nothing to woo airline hijackers to Cuba and might be willing to help ease the threat. Deputy assistant Secretary of state Frank Loy told the House interstate and foreign com Merce committee that the state new York up negotiators were reported close wednes Day to a settlement of the East and Gulf coast Dock strike. Tentative agreement have been reached in new York new Orleans and some South Atlantic ports still outstanding Are such key ports As Philadelphia bos ton Galveston and Baltimore. It was denied so we made  Lacy said another Telephone system was denied at first but later the equipment was provided on the condition that the Pueblo crewmen install it them selves. They were in the final stages of installation when the ship was seized he said. We did t have a collision alarm Lacy said. It was Dis approved and never  scuttle the Pueblo required removing 20 to 25 bolts from 15-Inch pipes into the engine room and letting the water Rise in the engine room Lacy said. The Best estimate was i would have taken 2va hours to pal slain 13-year-old boy faces electric chair in killing Orlando Fla. A Button nosed 13-year-old with Bangs went on trial for his life Here wednesday charged with the first degree murder of playmate after what the prosecutor called an argument Over cigarette. Robert Everett Curtis listened wide eyed As the prosecutor told the jury that Curtis threatened to kill his Friend 15-year-old James Thompson then got a .22caliber Rifle and shot Thompson fatally in an Eye last sept. 9. The death had once been listed As accidental and until wednesday police had not re Nixon Choice mrs. Rit Hauser of new York has been named by president Nixon Tobe . Representative on the human rights commission of the . Economic and social Council. She specializes in International Law. A photo sealed their  Schoolboy on trial look ing uncomfortable in his suit White shirt and tie was so Small courtroom spectators could not see his head above the Back of his  convicted without a jury re commendation of mercy Curtis would face an automatic sen tence of death in the electric chair. Prison officials said wednesday if convicted he would be the youngest person Ever committed to a Florida Penitentiary. The circuit court jury of seven women and five men was selected  his opening argument. State atty. Robert Eagan told the jury Curtis and the victim had been playing in the Curtis family apartment with two other youngsters one of them cur tis brother Allan. Cigarette Quarre Leagan said Curtis and Thompson got into an argumenti Over a cigarette. Ill kill you Curtis said Toj Thompson according to Eagan. Then Curtis left the  Thompson and the other playmate began to leave they met Young Curtis in the Hall Way. He held a .22 Rifle Eaga said. Don t Point that gun at us Thompson said according to  pulled the trigger sending a Bullet crashing int Thompson s Eye Eagan said. Thompson crumbled into cheap his pack of cigarettes hid Den under the  Taylor a nurse who lives next to the Curtis apart ment and first witness in the trial said Curtis ran outside screaming i shot him i shot him i killed him he s dead scuttle the ship Lacy  also said he Felt Bucher could not have resisted seizure by North korean gunboats. An attorney for Bucher told Lacy i now am going to ask you for your personal opinion based on your experience and what you saw immediately prior to the time of the capture. In your opinion did the commanding officer or the ship any longer have the Power to resist the boarding and the ultimate Sei Zure no said  court has warned Bucher that he is suspected of breaking Navy regulations against surren Der of a command As Long As the commanding officer has the Power to , the ship s freckle faced 21-year-old Supply officer Testi fied that Bucher is an outstand ing Leader. I d follow him  Timothy l. Harris gave this assessment in reply to a ques Tion from the court s  adm. Edward Grimm asked him what he thought of surrendering the  i did t like it said Harris but i feel the Captain s Deci Sion was Correct under the  a witness tuesday said me with fire axes smashed electronic gear into tangled Metal an others tossed secret papers into blazing waste baskets wit smoke All but unbearable after the Pueblo was attacked. University researchers plan strike new York a research ers at three major american universities plan a one Day work stoppage March 4 to protest what they claim is government mis use of science and technology it was announced  said professors and students engaged in research work at Mit Yale and Cornell universities will take  the items the protes tors oppose is the government planned deployment of a thin anti ballistic missile system directed against possible communist chinese attack. Wayne takes spill breaking 2 ribs Hollywood a actor John Wayne slipped on the tile floor of a restaurant in Duran up Mexico and fractured two ribs a spokesman Here reported wednesday. Wayne won t be Able to work for at least a week the spokes Man  actor is in Mexico to Start production on a film. Xb70 becomes a museum piece Edwards fab Calif. Up the $500-million xb70, the larg est aircraft Ever to Fly at three times the Speed of sound has become just another museum piece never having realized the future envisioned for  giant plane was once the . Military s Hope for a super sonic bomber. Instead its controversial career ended with leisurely subsonic flight from this Southern California experimental air base to Wright Pat Terson air Force base at Day ton Ohio where it will be re tired and placed on exhibit at the air Force  two of the planes were built for the air Force by North american Rockwell. The other was lost in a collision with anf104 june 8, 1966, on its 46th flight. Two famous pilots were killed in the Accident including Joe Walker then Holder of the world Speed and Altitude records for winged  were made to convince former defense Secretary Roberts. Mcnamara that the United states needed a Fleet of super sonic strategic bombers. But Mcnamara favored a Strong intercontinental ballistic missile capability and the xb70 program was dropped leaving the two prototype models to Fin ish their careers developing an testing systems for proposed supersonic  fatal crash of the com Panion ship occurred during publicity flight being filmed for general electric maker of the Jet s six engines. An f104 fighter piloted by Walker collided inflight with the xb70, killing Walker and the bomber s co Pilot air Force maj. Carls Gross