European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ace Center Houston astronaut Walter m. A. Who commanded Amer first Apollo Mission in last october and thened from space flying will out of the space program1, it was Learned saturday be 45-year-old spaceman of the nation s original 6n Mercury astronauts also resign from Active duty As Lavy Captain on the same said Paul Haney chief Icsman at the manned Necraft Center Mey said Schirra wants tour private Industry but has selected a Job yet Hurra would like to find a Gerial Job that would us piloting skills and his knowl be of advanced aircraft and Necraft design Haney said. About the Only area he s Noti soldering is politics Haney id. Schurra s departure from the National aeronautics and space administration Nasa will leave Only three of the original seven Mercury spacemen in the astronaut corps. Only one of these Gordon Cooper is still eligible to Fly  other two astronaut chief Donald k. Dec Slayton and Alan Shepard America first Man in space Are grounded for medical reasons. Bot hold administrative posts in the spaceman corps. Snow piles on East new York a a coast battering storm dropped Snow throughout the East sunday an created a Snow emergency in new York  1 p.m., seven inches had dropped on the City the biggest snowfall this Winter and it continued to fall and Drift before heavy winds. Another three inches wag expected before Nightfall when the storm was to pass out of the area the weather Bureau said. The metropolitan Airport were out of action with Snow blanketing runways limiting visibility and making impossible incoming and outgoing flights. The heavy snowfall in the Middle Atlantic area was accompanied by winds ranging up to 45 Miles per hour the weather Bureau said. Gale warnings were out from the new England states to Cape May n.j., and Small Craft warnings South from there to Cape Hall eras . Tides were ranging two to three feet above Normal with flooding at High tide the Burea reported. The Northeast winds were raking the same coastal cont. On Page a col. V two other Mercury astronauts John Glenn and Scott Carpen Ter resigned from the space Agency and one Virgil Grissom was killed in the fire which burned the Apollo 1 spacecraft at Cape Kennedy 13 months ago. Schirra came into the Astro naut corps in 1959. He flew a one Man Mercury Mission in1962 and commanded the flight of gemini 6, with astronaut Thomas Stafford As Copilot in 1965. Shortly before the Apollo 7mission, which Schirra commanded in Earth orbit for 11days to give the Moo ship its first checkout with men aboard the Veteran astronaut said the october flight would be his last. I Don t think i be got the steam left to go through another two years of this he said. That s what it would take to get ready for another flight.". Reds to bar Bonn officials rom land route to West Berlin Bonn says step adds to tension Bonn a West Ger Many accused East German leaders sunday of injecting $. New element of tension into East West relations by restricting Access to Berlin. The United states Britain an France will Issue a statement monday it was stated Here Sun Day night. A draft was prepared in consultations Between representatives in Bonn of the three pow ers and the West German government in the Bonn group of Berlin experts. Allied sources said it will underscore the View that the new restrictions violate agreement with the soviet Union guarantee ing unhindered Access to the  the consultation Al lied officials made Clear that the reaction will be kept on a Low  German spokesman Guen cont on Page 4, ool. 3 unofficial newspaper of . Forces in Europe North Africa and the Middle East vol. 27, no. 296 monday february 10, 1969 if 21855 a5 Dally 10 sunday used yes sold As new Nader alleges Washington up Ralph Nader the consumer watchdog charged saturday that tens of thousands of used Volkswagen have been sold to americans anew cars by unauthorized vow  a letter to sen. Warren g Magnuson d-wash., chairman of the Senate Commerce commit tee Nader said the Volkswagen company was aware of the fraud but kept quiet out of fear that Public disclosure would cont. On Page Kool. 1 Mhz " it jute Ifju ire by Perry Tuppi Washington 88 w they stated Cuil font tee grow of persons author ache duty servicemen and be associate press photo Many said communist process ing of Drivers to and rom West Berlin 110 Miles inside East Ger Many was slower than usual. This had been going on since cont. On Page 2$, col. So no special Alert for Neucom unite Stuttgart up Neucom spokesman said sunday that american forces have not been placed on any intensified Alert be cause of the East German restrictions on West Ber Lin s Access routes. The spokesman said tothe Best of my knowledge no official notification or requests have been passed through the american Mili tary channels. This b still a political matter Between govern ments. I Don t know what will transpire in the Polit ical diplomatic Arena butt will be up to them to decide what actions we should